Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #202
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Date: 7/25/2006 8:36 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 202
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      7-25 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Pan Am's Stratoclippers               [ Jodie Peeler <raisingirl@mindspring ]
      RE: Radio fundraisers for Hollywood   [ "Russell W. Miller" <rwm@classical7 ]
      Jack Webb                             [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      The Spirit Moves Me                   [ "randy story" <hopharrigan@centuryt ]
      :Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Nig  [ "Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
      Charlie Chan - Why He Hastn' Been Ar  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      The Littlest Angel                    [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]
      7-26 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:27:22 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-25 births/deaths

    July 25th births

    07-25-1894 - Walter Brennan - Swampscott, MA - d. 9-21-1974
    actor: Grandpa Vanderhof "You Can't Take it with You"; Judge Roy Bean
    "Law West of the Pecos"
    07-25-1896 - Leo Russotto - d. 1-xx-1978
    musical coach and arranger: "Roxy and His Gang"
    07-25-1899 - Ralph Dumke - South Bend, IN - d. 1-4-1964
    actor: Willie Tompkins "We, the Abbotts"; Pat Plenty "Quality Twins"
    07-25-1900 - Al Pearce - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-2-1961
    comedian: Elmer Blurt "Here Comes Elmer"; "Al Pearce Show"
    07-25-1901 - Lila Lee - Union Hill, NJ - d. 11-13-1973
    actor: "Fleischman's Yeast Hour"
    07-25-1905 - Harold Peary - San Leandero, CA - d. 3-30-1985
    actor: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve , "Fibber McGee and Molly and The
    Great Gildersleeve"
    07-25-1906 - Johnny Hodges - Cambridge, MA - d. 5-11-1970
    alto saxophonist: "Esquire Jazz Concert"; "Duke Ellington and His
    Orchestra"
    07-25-1907 - Jack Gilford - NYC - d. 6-4-1990
    comedian: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-25-1910 - Ted Dale - d. 7-25-1975
    orchestra leader: :Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-25-1918 - Nan Grey - Houston, TX - d. 7-25-1993
    actor: Kathy Marshall "Those We Love"
    07-25-1922 - Earl Gillespie - d. 12-12-2003
    sportscaster: voice of the Milwaukee Braves
    07-25-1936 - Michael Chapin - Hollywood, CA
    actor: Andy 'Skipper' Barbour "One Man's Family"

    July 25th deaths

    01-12-1915 - Martin Agronsky - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-25-1999
    newscaster: "The ABC Morning News"
    03-23-1893 - Arnold Johnson - Chicago, IL - d. 7-25-1975
    bandleader: "The Majestic Theatre Hour"; "True Story Time"
    03-30-1893 - Dennis Hoey - London, England - d. 7-25-1960
    actor: Edward Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
    04-26-1905 - Cecilia Parker - Fort William, Ontario, Canada - d.
    7-25-1993
    actor: "Good News of 1939"; "Mail Call"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-26-1912 - John McGovern - d. 7-25-1985
    actor: Mike Gallagher "Highway Patrol"; Harold Wilkinson "The O'Neills"
    04-29-1912 - Ian Martin - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-25-1981
    actor: Horace Sutton "Young Dr. Malone"; Harry Archer "Meet Corliss
    Archer"
    05-31-1903 - Blanche Stewart - Pennsylvania - d. 7-25-1952
    actor: Brenda "Bob Hope Show"
    07-11-1928 - Hope Miller - d. 7-25-1992
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    07-25-1910 - Ted Dale - d. 7-25-1975
    orchestra leader: :Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-25-1918 - Nan Grey - Houston, TX - d. 7-25-1993
    actor: Kathy Marshall "Those We Love"
    08-16-1932 - Marianne Moylan - Southampten, NY - d. 7-25-1990
    singer: (The Moylan Sisters) (Angels of the Airwaves) "Moylan Sisters"
    10-07-1914 - Alfred Drake - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-25-1992
    singer: "Best Plays"; Broadway Matinee"; "Ford Festival of American
    Music"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of Cy Howard

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:02:17 -0400
    From: Jodie Peeler <raisingirl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Pan Am's Stratoclippers

    hello all --

    [removed] King shared:

> >     From September 15: Nejiko Suwa "arrived on a Pan American Airways

>     Stratoclipper [sic] from Japan yesterday"

    For those not in the know, the name "Stratoclipper" was what Pan Am's
    Boeing 377 Stratocruisers were sometimes called.  These were the big
    airliners (based on transports that were an outgrowth of Boeing's B-29
    program) that Pan Am used on the long trans-Pacific routes.

    "Clipper," of course, was the radio callsign for Pan Am for many, many
    years, and almost every Pan Am aircraft was given an individual name
    that began with "Clipper."  Pan Am's style had huge nautical influences.

    Jodie Peeler
    (terminally obsessed with airplanes)

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    Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:30:31 -0400
    From: "Russell W. Miller" <rwm@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Radio fundraisers for Hollywood Bowl

    Dan Haefele asks for help on the spelling of some musicians' names.  One I'm
    sure of is Fabien Sevitzky, who conducted for some years in my home town of
    Indianapolis (although I do not quite go back to his days there!)  A Google
    search brings up some references to the Japanese violinist, and it appears
    that the correct spelling of her name is Nejiko Suwa.  Finally, on the
    website of Musicians Local 47, a reproduction of a printed program for the
    dedication of the union's new building in 1950 gives the name of its
    then-vice-president as John te Groen.  I'll give a link to that program, as
    it seems the first hour was broadcast by NBC, and the guests included Hope,
    Crosby, and Durante.

    [removed]

    Best,
    Russell

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:25:58 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Webb

>     Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:37:56 -0400
>     From: "[removed]" <asajb2000@[removed];

>     Jack Webb and his use of radio actors.  Those of us who are young
>     enough to know of Jack Webb first as a TV actor (Dragnet in several
>     different incarnations) and creator/writer/producer (Adam-12,
>     Emergency) noticed that Jack's delivery and acting style never
>     wavered, it was basically always the same.

    At least it was when Webb was on his own shows -- and also in a
    military training film I once saw about the code of conduct for
    prisoners of war.  But I have a video of him as a guest on the Buick-
    Berle Show, circa 1953, and he's actually SMILING!

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:26:40 -0400
    From: "randy story" <hopharrigan@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Spirit Moves Me
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    Hi, kids.
    Thanks to everyone who has aided me in my continuing search for OTR related
    music and scripts. Now a few other queries for this esteemed group.

    First, I have recently started reading reprints of a comic called "The Spirit"
    by Will Eisner and have become intrigued by both the character and its
    seemingly rich history. I stumbled across some data that tells me of a
    short-lived radio show based on the comic that appeared on, I think, WOR radio
    from New York in the 1940s. Anyone know of exisiting copies of this series
    that I could obtain?

    Along these lines, I am also looking for a good, relatively inexpensive source
    for comic books dating from the 1940-50s era(s), especially those featuring my
    favorite cowboy, Hopalong Cassidy(and those of that same ilk). I don't need
    actual copies from that time period and reprints or poor copies will be fne.
    My plan is to adapt the stories from the comics into radio scripts for
    classroom use. Any comic book junkies/ collectors on the digest?

    Thanks.

    Until next [removed]
    Yours Truly,
    Randy Story
    (who sometimes thinks the extreme heat here in Missouri is a plot by THE MAN
    to keep a brother down)  :)

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:11:11 -0400
    From: "Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  :Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand
     with the Big Bands"

    The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with Dick Bertel
    and Ed Corcoran, and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"
    with Arnold Dean can be heard at [removed].

    Each week we feature three complete shows in MP3 format
    for your listening pleasure or for downloading; two "Golden
    Age of Radios" and one "One Night Stand." We present new
    shows every week or so. The current three programs will be
    available on line at least until the morning of July 31, 2006.

    Program 62 - May, 1975 - Joan Fontaine

    This Golden Age program comes to us from the collection of
    Steve Lewis. The Academy Award-winning actress recalls her
    career in radio and films.

    Joan Fontaine was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on
    October 22, 1917 in Tokyo. Her mother studied acting at the
    Royal London's Academy of Dramatic Arts and her father
    was a patent attorney. Her older sister, Olivia Mary, was
    born July 1, 1916. In 1919, due to the poor health of Joan
    and Olivia, their mother decided to move to the San
    Francisco Bay area of Northern California.

    The California climate agreed with Olivia, but Joan remained
    a sickly child and often had to stay in bed for extended periods
    of time. When tested at an early age, Joan's IQ score was 160.
    In 1932 she went to Japan to live with her father and attended
    The American School in Japan. Upon her return to the United
    States in September of 1934, Joan was introduced to actress
    May Robson and her career began with the stage production
    of KIND LADY. Soon followed a similar role in CALL IT A
    DAY. It was on opening night of this play at the Duffy Theatre
    in Hollywood that Joan was seen by Jesse Lasky, a prominent
    movie producer, who immediately signed her to a long-term
    contract.

    Program 63 - June, 1975 - Samm Sinclair Baker

    Samm Sinclair Baker was an author of mystery books, and, in
    later years was perhaps better known as the co-author of "The
    Complete Scarsdale Diet" and "The Stillman Diet," as well as
    books on gardening and fine art. But in the 1930's and 1940's
    he wrote many detective stories and network radio programs,
    including "Famous Jury Trials" and the master of the Spoonerism,
    "Colonel Stoopnagle," and this program will concentrate on this
    part of his career.

    A One Night Stand with the Big Bands with Arnold Dean

    Sy Oliver - February, 1973

    This is the third of three shows featuring Sy Oliver. Mr. Oliver
    was born on December 17, 1910. He was a jazz trumpeter,
    composer, and bandleader and one of the leading music arrangers
    of the 1930s and '40s.

    Melvin James" Sy" Oliver was from Battle Creek, Michigan. Both
    of his parents were music teachers in Ohio, where he grew up. He
    played the trumpet as a boy and at the age of 17 took a job with Zack
    Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels. He joined the Jimmie
    Lunceford orchestra in 1933. There he established a reputation for
    innovative arranging characterized by imaginative instrumentation
    and a full-bodied sound. He also developed a distinctive "growl"
    sound, in his own playing.

    In 1939 he joined the orchestra of Tommy Dorsey as a singer and
    arranger. He led a band while in the army during World War II and
    returned to Dorsey's orchestra after the war. From the late 1940s to
    the early '70s Oliver held a variety of jobs, including a decade as
    musical director of Decca Records.

    In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
    the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
    and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
    Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
    Big Bands."

    Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
    Ed Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
    and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
    with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
    from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
    Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970; Ed was
    Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
    of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
    Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

    Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
    era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
    the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
    When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
    of big band music. In 1971, encouraged by the success
    of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
    series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
    with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters,
    etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
    eras of music history.

    Bob Scherago
    Webmaster

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:07:42 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Charlie Chan - Why He Hastn' Been Around Much
     Lately

    This article is about Charlie Chan's adventures in the movies but references several actors who appeared in radio and raises issues that frequent the digest.

    It's about how political correctness is censoring Charlie Chan - and at Fox!

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    201-739-2541 (cell)
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:18:28 -0400
    From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Littlest Angel

    In digest 199, Ted asked about a reading by Loretta
    Young of "The Littlest Angel".  I have a copy of a
    Family Theater program titled "The Littlest Angel"
    with Loretta Young.  The date of the program is Dec
    21, 1949.  I'm just catching up on my digests so this
    may have already been answered.

    Anne

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:18:45 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-26 births/deaths

    July 26th births

    07-26-1856 - George Bernard Shaw - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-2-1950
    playwright: "Wisconsin College of the Air"; "George Bernard Shaw Speech"
    07-26-1883 - Walter Blaufuss - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-23-1945
    composer, conductor, pianist: "Breakfast Club"; "Viennese Ensemble"
    07-26-1894 - Aldous Huxley - Godalming, Surrey, England - d. 11-22-1963
    writer: "Columbia Workshop"
    07-26-1896 - Charles Butterworth - South Bend, IN - d. 6-13-1946
    comedian: "Fred Astaire Show"
    07-26-1897 - Paul Gallico - NYC - d. 7-15-1976
    writer: "Author's Playhouse"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Radio City Playhouse"
    07-26-1899 - Danton Walker - Marietta, GA - d. 8-8-1960
    broadway columnist: "Forty-Five Minutes on Broadway"; "Twin Views of
    the News"
    07-26-1901 - Serge Koussevitzky - Vyshni Volocheck, Russia - d. 6-4-1978
    symphony conductor: "Boston Symphony Orchestra"
    07-26-1902 - Gracie Allen - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-27-1964
    comedienne: "The Adventures of Gracie"; "The George Burns and Gracie
    Allen Show"
    07-26-1903 - Donald Voorhees - Allentown, PA - d. 1-10-1989
    conductor: "Show Boat"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Telephone Hour"
    07-26-1907 - Galen Drake - Kokomo, IN - d. 6-30-1989
    commentator: "Galen Drake"
    07-26-1909 - Vivian Vance - Cherryvale, KS - d. 8-17-1979
    actor: Ethel Mertz "I Love Lucy"
    07-26-1911 - Buddy Clark - Dorchester, MA - d. 10-1-1949
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"; "New Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-26-1914 - Erskine Hawkins - Birmingham, AL - d. 11-11-1992
    bandleader: "Apollo Concerts"; "Big Band Themes on the Air"
    07-26-1915 - Fred S. Fox - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-23-2005
    writer: "Freddie the Fox"
    07-26-1918 - Stacy Harris - Big Timber, Quebec, Canada - d. 3-13-1973
    actor: Jim Taylor "This is Your [removed]"; Carter Trent "Pepper Young's
    Family"
    07-26-1919 - Virginia Gilmore - El Monte, CA - d. 3-28-1986
    actor: "The Ford Theatre"
    07-26-1921 - Jean Shepherd - South Chicago, IL - d. 10-16-1999
    host: "The Jean Shepherd Show"
    07-26-1921 - John de Lancie, Sr. - Berkeley, CA - d. 5-17-2002
    principle oboist: "Phildelphia Symphony Orchestra"
    07-26-1922 - Blake Edwards - Tulsa, OK
    writer: "Lineup"; "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
    07-26-1935 - Walter Winchell, Jr. - NYC - d. 12-25-1967
    radio news writer

    July 26th deaths

    01-21-1921 - Manya Starr - NYC - d. 7-26-2000
    writer: Allegedly fired by Hummert asking about God, "Who's will play
    him?"
    03-18-1860 - William Jennings Bryan - Salem, IL - d. 7-26-1925
    lawyer: Scopes Monkey trial
    03-18-1889 - Gene Byrnes - NYC - d. 7-26-1974
    comic strip cartoonist: "Reg'lar Fellers" based on his comic strip
    03-20-1913 - Kenny Gardner - Lakeview, IA - d. 7-26-2002
    singer: "Guy Lombardo Show"; "Lombardoland [removed]"; "Your Hit Parade"
    05-04-1927 - Terry Scott - Watford, England - d. 7-26-1994
    actor: "Junior Choice"; "Great Scott, It's Maynard"; "Hugh and I"
    05-07-1919 - Eva Peron - Los Toldos, Argentina - d. 7-26-1952
    actor, hostess: "Radio Argentina"; "Radio Belgrano"
    07-24-1911 - Jane Hoffman - Seattle, WA - d. 7-26-2004
    actor: "The Author's Studio"
    09-09-1887 - Raymond Walburn - Plymouth, IN - d. 7-26-1969
    actor: "That's My Pop"
    11-18-1901 - Dr. George Gallup - Jefferson, IA - d. 7-26-1984
    statistician: "Living 1948"
    12-18-1918 - Danny Simon - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-26-2005
    writer: (Brother of Neil)  "The Milton Berle Show"
    xx-xx-1900 - Reed Brown, Jr. - Texas - d. 7-26-1962
    actor: Capt. Gordon Wright "Roses and Drums"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of Doris Hursley

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