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Date: 12/3/2006 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 340
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      December births with no death dates   [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed] ]
      12-3 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Just like radio                       [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      Delicious! (yet, [removed])         [ Lon Cseplo or Joann Toth <joannandl ]

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    Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 01:27:05 -0500
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  December births with no death dates
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    Clark Dennis died November 9, 1992 in Estes Park, Colorado according to the
    Nov 15 1992 Chicago Tribune

      Mary Hunter died November 3, 2000 in Hamden, Connecticut according to the
    Nov. 26 2000 Washington Post

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    Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 01:28:54 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-3 births/deaths
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    December 3rd births

    12-03-1857 - Joseph Conrad - Kiev, Russian Empire - d. 8-3-1924
    author: "Escape"; "This Is My Best"
    12-03-1873 - Atwater Kent - Burlington, VT - d. 3-4-1949
    inventer and radio manufacturer: Maker of Atwater Kent radios
    12-03-1889 - Ferdinand Munier - San Diego, CA - d. 5-27-1945
    actor: Rene Michon "Count of Monte Cristo"
    12-03-1897 - George Riley - Rochester, NY - d. 5-30-1972
    comedian: "Furlough Fun"
    12-03-1900 - Lester Matthews - Nottingham, England - d. 6-6-1975
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-03-1902 - Bill Slater - Parkersburg, WV - d. 1-25-1965
    emcee: ""Uncle Jim's Question Bee"; "Twenty Questions"; "Dunninger Show"
    12-03-1907 - Connee Boswell - New Orleans, LA - d. 10-11-1976
    singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Chesterfield
    Supper Club"
    12-03-1908 - Anna Sten - Kiev, the Ukraine - d. 11-12-1993
    actor: "March of Time"; "Stagedoor Canteen"
    12-03-1909 - Dana Suesse - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-16-1987
    composer: "Good News of 1938"
    12-03-1914 - Mort Lawrence - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-xx-1967
    actor: "Boston Blackie"; "The Falcon"; "Under Arrest"
    12-03-1916 - Whitfield Connor - Rathdowney, Ireland - d. 7-16-1988
    actor: Harry Davis "When a Girl Marries"
    12-03-1917 - Kermit Slobb - d. 2-21-2004
    writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
    12-03-1927 - Lloyd Barry - NYC
    actor: "Big Town"; "The Shadow"; "When A Girl Marries"
    12-03-1943 - Jennifer Harmon - Pasadena, CA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    12-03-1944 - Malcolm Brodrick - NYC
    actor: Peter Marriott "The Marriage"

    December 3rd deaths

    03-13-1914 - Bob Haggart - NYC - d. 12-3-1998
    bass: "The Bob Crosby Show"; "Eddie Condon's Jaxx Concerts"
    03-17-1906 - Michael O'Shea - Hartford, CT - d. 12-3-1973
    actor: "Textron Theatre"; "Radio Reader's Digest"; "Philip Morris
    Playhouse"
    03-21-1915 - Hank D'Amico - Rochester, NY - d. 12-3-1965
    clairinetist: "Rumpus Room"; "Saturday Senior Swing"
    06-30-1913 - Harry Wismer - Port Huron, MI - d. 12-3-1967
    sportscaster: "Harry Wismer Sports Show"; "Champion Roll Call"
    07-08-1934 - Marty Feldman - East London, England - d. 12-3-1982
    comedian, writer: "Round the Horne"; "We're In Business"
    07-29-1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya - Tula, Russia - d. 12-3-1949
    actor: "Towards the Century of the Common Man"; "Treasury Star Parade"
    11-13-1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 12-3-1894
    author: "Mercury Theatre of the Air"; "This Is My Best"
    12-05-1918 - Ralph Blizard - Kingsport, TN - d. 12-3-2004
    fiddler: At age 12 formed "The Southern Ramblers"; Appeared on many
    Tri-cities radio stations

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 10:11:38 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Just like radio

    Saturday evening we were flipping through the TV channels and caught part of
    a PBS presentation called "Great Presentations" featuring two-plus-hours of
    "South Pacific."  It starred Reba McEntire, Alec Baldwin and others.  But it
    wasn't done the way we saw it in the movies or on stage.

    While there was a full orchestra behind them, the cast held scripts of the
    narrative, from which they read before a large throng dressed in formal wear
    in a concert hall.  The cast was sometimes so attired, too, while at other
    times various performers appeared on stage at their microphones in full
    costume regalia.  It was mind-boggling.  And when the familiar songs
    began -- "Some Enchanted Evening," "Bali Hai," "Gonna Wash Dat Man Right
    Outta My Hair," "This Nearly Was Mine," et al. -- the well trained vocalists
    in the cast did the honors.  The voices were so similar to the 1950s film
    that I could close my eyes and hear the original reflected.  Sometimes --
    between their lines -- performers would sit down in a chair onstage, then on
    cue get up and stand before a mic again, script in hand.

    At some point, my wife exclaimed, "It's just like radio!"  Shades of Lux
    Radio Theater came to my mind.  What a concept if we could only have fare
    like this regularly!

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 10:11:46 -0500
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,
    NOTE: Because of the many requests we've received, we are now making "Same
    Time, Same Station" available as a free Podcast through iTunes by going to
    our new website at: [removed]

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
    listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio
    Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
    Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in high-quality audio,
    on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    December 7th, 1941, a Date that will live in Infamy!

    COLUMBIA WORKSHOP
    Episode 42    12-7-46    "The Parade"
    Features: Ted Osborne, Bill Lipton and Joe DeSantis

    CBS RADIO WORKSHOP
    Episode 80    8-11-57    "MALIHINI MAGIC"
    Features: Sam Pierce, Lurene Tuttle, Lillian Buyeff, Virginia Gregg, Joe
    DeSantis, Jack Kruschen, Ben Wright
    Author: Sam Pierce

    FRONT PAGE DRAMA
    Episode 455    1-10-42    "The Black Dragons"
    Very Interesting History leading up to Japan's Pearl Harbor Attack

    THIS IS YOUR FBI
    Episode 36    12-7-45    "Pearl Harbor"
    Special program honoring the 4th anniversary of Pearl Harbor

    WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?
    Episode 2    4-9-42    "What Pearl Harbor Means To Me"
    CBS correspondent Lee White speaks at Camp Fort Meade, Maryland, on the
    events leading up to the Pearl Harbor attack

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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    STUDIO ONE
    (CBS)    2/17/48   "A Farewell To Arms"
    by Ernest Hemingway
    starring Madeline Carrol. Fletcher Markle is male lead and directs.

    FIBBER McGEE & MOLLY
    (NBC)   10/28/53
    The McGees arrive and leave Aunt Sara's speedily.

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    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Featuring: Alfred Hitchcock

    Forecast presents an audition for a proposed new series ...
    Suspense - "The Lodger"
    originally aired July 22, 1940 on CBS
    Starring: Herbert Marshall, Edmund Gwenn.
    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
    Sustained

    Information Please - "special guest Alfred Hitchcock"
    originally aired January 22, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Clifton Fadiman, Oscar Levant, John Kieran, Alfred Hitchcock.
    Sponsor: Lucky Strike

    The Screen Guild Players - "Rebecca"
    originally aired November 18, 1948 on NBC
    Starring: Loretta Young, John Lund, Verne Smith announcing.
    Sponsor: Camel Cigarettes

    Screen Director's Playhouse - "Spellbound"
    originally aired January 25, 1951 on NBC
    Starring: Joseph Cotton, Mercedes McCambridge, Herbert Butterfield, Bill
    Tracy, Jim Nusser, Howard McNear, Jimmy Wallington announcing.
    Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman performing on the Theremin.
    Sponsors: Anacin, RCA Victor

    ==================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

         Jerry Haendiges

         Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
         The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
         Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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    Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:29:25 -0500
    From: Lon Cseplo or Joann Toth <joannandlon@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Delicious! (yet, [removed])

    The recording can be found as the first track on the first disc of the
    two-CD collection entitled "Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection." Though
    the track listing inexplicably omits Backus's name, the liner notes include
    it, as well as the following background information:

    "Another veteran of screens big and small was JIM BACKUS, who was the voice
    of nearsighted 'toon Mr. Magoo and then played Thurston Howell III on
    _Gilligan's Island_. He too made a film with James Dean--he's Dean's dad in
    _Rebel Without a Cause_. Backus made only a handful of records, but
    'Delicious!' with his Magoo voice is definitely a keeper. Anyone know who
    the woman is? (It's not Phyllis Diller)."

    What, no mention of The Alan Young Show, The Bill Goodwin Show, Casey, Crime
    Photographer, The Great Gildersleeve, The Great Talent Hunt, The Man from
    Homicide, Matinee at Meadowbrook, The Penny Singleton Show, and The Sad
    Sack?

    Lon Cseplo

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