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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 285
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Asbury Park Press Coverage of Will H [ seandd@[removed] ]
Website for newspaper column that Se [ garpboy@[removed] ]
Captain Midnight's TV Funding [ Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed] ]
10-6 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Re: Sitcom Vs. Serial [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
Help dating a Henry Morgan program [ "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@run ]
OTR shows with Stuart Canin [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
This week in radio history 7-13 Oct [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Clipper Craft Clothes [ JimBourg@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:24:45 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Asbury Park Press Coverage of Will Hutchins
Folks, Friends of Old Time Radio Convention, October 18-21 2007 at the
Holiday Inn North in Newark, [removed], guest Will Hutchins (TV's "Sugarfoot")
get the profile treatment from the Asbury Park Press' Mark Voger.
The article is here:
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My colleagues in the Trenton office couldn't find the story in the print
edition, so it might only be online at this point, but Garden State
FOTR-attendees please check around for it.
Enjoy,
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:25:15 -0400
From: garpboy@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Website for newspaper column that Sean Doughtery
cited
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It's a great column; I look forward to it every Friday on-line- - and it has
a link to past columns- - Gary Rothy
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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:46:17 -0400
From: Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Captain Midnight's TV Funding
On my differentiating between the Secret Squadron of the OTR show, and
the Captain Midnight TV show,
The Secret Squadron, in 1940, was an
organization funded by the [removed] government. The Secret Squadron of
the television program was a private organization.
A. Joseph Ross notes,
I don't recall that the TV show ever specified how the Secret
Squadron was funded. <snip> Perhaps, following the pattern of the
1950s, the Secret Squadron was funded by the government covertly
The TV program announced that the TV Secret Squadron was a private
organization. This is in contrast to the radio version, where it was
organized and run by the government. I probably erred in pointing out
that the radio Squadron was _funded_ by the government. In the radio
version, Major Steele was Captain Midnight's superior officer. He had no
such commander in any of the TV shows I ever saw. The Secret Squadron,
in the TV years, seemed, at least to me, to be an independent
organization.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:05:41 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 10-6 births/deaths
October 6th births
10-06-1866 - Dr. Reginald Fessenden - Milton, Canada - d. 6-22-1932
made world's first radio voice broadcast (Decmeber 24, 1906)
10-06-1887 - Maria Jeritza - Brunn, Austria-Hungary - d. 7-10-1982
singer: "General Motors Concerts"
10-06-1893 - Milton Ager - Chicago, IL - d. 5-6-1979
composer of many songs broadcast on radio
10-06-1897 - Jerome Cowan - NYC - d. 1-24-1972
actor: "Best Plays"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"; "Suspense"
10-06-1899 - Mitchell Leisen - Menominee, MI - d. 10-28-1972
director: Lux Radio Theatre
10-06-1901 - Leslie Arliss - London, England - d. 12-30-1987
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-06-1905 - Clinton C. Balmer - d. 2-8-1988
news commentator: WLVA Lynchberg, Virginia
10-06-1905 - Helen Wills Moody - Centerville, CA - d. 1-1-1998
tennis playeer: "Information Please"
10-06-1906 - Janet Gaynor - Philadelphia, PA, - d. 9-14-1984
hostess, actor: "Hollywood Showcase: Stars Over Hollywood"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
10-06-1907 - Owen Davis, Jr. - NYC - d. 5-21-1949
actor: Allen McCrea "Those We Love"
10-06-1908 - Carole Lombard - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 1-16-1942
actor: "The Circle"; "Hollywood Hotel"
10-06-1910 - Lawrence Langner - Swansea, South Wales - d. 4-2-2002
theatre guild supervisor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
10-06-1912 - Mel Dinelli - d. 11-28-1991
writer: "Advs. of Philip Marlowe"
10-06-1917 - Rosella Qualey - Donnelly, MN - d. 2-18-2007
home economist: KWLM-FM Willmar, Minnesota
10-06-1925 - Shana Alexander - NYC - d. 6-23-2005
writer and commentary
10-06-1937 - Dawn Bender - d. 8-xx-1975
actor: Margaret Herbert Murray "One Man's Family"; Suzie Sample
"Cousin Willie"
October 6th deaths
01-06-1917 - Dan Cubberly - Colorado - d. 10-6-1991
announcer: "Rocky Jordan"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
01-25-1916 - Les Crutchfield - d. 10-6-1966
writer: "Escape"; "Fort Laramie"; "Gunsmoke"
02-07-1924 - Hattie Jacques - Sandgate, Kent, England - d. 10-6-1980
actor: Sophie Tuckshop "It's That Man Again"; Agatha Dangelbody
"Educating Archie"
04-05-1908 - Bette Davis - Lowell, MA - d. 10-6-1989
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Prudential Family Hour of
Stars"
05-14-1910 - Bill Danch - Hammond, IN - d. 10-6-2004
writer: "Baby Snooks Show"; "Honest Harold"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
05-25-1918 - Henry Calvin - Dallas, TX - d. 10-6-1975
actor: Joshua Sharpe "Big Guy"
09-13-1897 - David Rubinoff - Grodno, Poland - d. 10-6-1986
violinist, conductor: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Rubinoff and His Violin"
09-19-1888 - Porter Hall - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-6-1953
actor: "March of Time"
09-22-1885 - George Gaul - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-6-1939
actor: Jeb Stuart "Roses and Drums"; "Grits and Gravy"
10-04-1894 - Cliff Hall - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-6-1972
comedian: Sharlie "Baron and the Bee, Jack Pearl Show"
10-23-1901 - Arthur Jacobson - NYC - d. 10-6-1993
actor: Kirk Harding "Woman in White"; Anthony J. Marleybone "Affairs
of Anthony"
11-05-1893 - Theodore von Eltz - New Haven, CT - d. 10-6-1964
actor: Inspector Fernak "The Saint"
12-01-1900 - Ted Hammerstein - d. 10-6-1973
emcee: "The Hammerstein Music Hall"
xx-xx-1914 - Walter Herlihy - Massachusetts - d. 10-6-1956
announcer: (Brother of Ed) "Dorothy Kilgallen's Dairy"; "Police Woman"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:20:13 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Sitcom Vs. Serial
On 10/5/07 6:18 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:
Elizabeth stated:
Although Correll and Gosden were the first performers to present character
comedy on radio, "Amos 'n' Andy" wasn't a sitcom in the sense that we
understand it today --as emphasized in my own book on the subject, it was
a primarily dramatic serial with humorous undertones.
Isn't that the definition of Sitcom ? Radio or television comedy series
that involves a continuing [removed] always thought Amos & Andy was very
funny with unreal situations. Dig out some episodes and listen to them
also Fibber McGee & Molly.
My reference was to the original "Amos 'n' Andy," the nightly 15 minute
serial aired between 1928-1943, which was extraordinarily different in
both format and tone from the later half-hour episodes. The later
half-hour shows certainly do qualify as a true "sitcom," in the sense
that we understand it today, but it wasn't until fifteen years after
Correll and Gosden began the program that format change was made. Correll
and Gosden themselves were careful to make this distinction -- titling
the half-hour episodes "The Amos 'n' Andy Show," to distinguish it from
the original series.
For a detailed analysis of the series based on my examination of over ten
thousand pages of original scripts, see my book, "The Original Amos 'n'
Andy -- Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, and the 1928-43 Radio Serial,"
published by McFarland in 2005.
Elizabeth
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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:22:03 -0400
From: "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Help dating a Henry Morgan program
Hello, can anyone tell a date for this particular Henry Morgan show? This
show is sponsored by Rayve shampoo, and I see that these appeared to be from
the first half of 1948, as well as I can tell from online logs. This
particular show has a skit called True Lies magazine, in which they read
stories from the current issue of their spoof magazine. At the beginning,
Henry says he'll go on a double date with two women and Gerard, and Gerard
comes up with all sorts of excuses to not go. I thought this could have been
from June 1950, where the description says that Henry sets Gerard up on a
blind date which doesn't go very well, but the skit isn't expanded beyond
the one scene, so it can't be that show. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:22:31 -0400
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OTR shows with Stuart Canin
Hi Everybody,
Stuart Canin was in Frank Bresee studio taping an interview about his career
including the time when he was on both Fred Allen and Jack Benny radio show.
You might recall Stuart was the 10 years old boy who started the feud
between Allen and Benny back in 1936, and 1937. We would like to add the
OTR shows to the interview. I understand he was on Jack show twice. I
have the show of 3-7-37, Does any one know the date of the other Benny
broadcast? Can any one help me find the copy of the Fred Allen show of
12-30-36 that started the feud? I would not be surprise that the Library
of Congress has a copy of that show. Take care,
Walden
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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:22:41 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 7-13 Oct
From Those Were The Days --
10/7
1922 - The first radio network -- of sorts -- debuted. It was a network
of just two stations. WJZ in Newark, NJ teamed with WGY in Schenectady,
NY to bring the World Series game direct from the Polo Grounds in New
York. Columnist Grantland Rice was behind the microphone for that broadcast.
1939 - Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy was heard for the first time on CBS
radio. Tom Hopkins, Kate's husband, was played by eventual Beat the
Clock host Clayton 'Bud' Collyer. The 15-minute radio drama was written
by Chester McCraken and Gertrude Berg (writer and Emmy Award-winning
actress of The Goldbergs, a popular radio and TV series in the 1940s &
1950s). The announcer for the four-year run of Angel of Mercy was Ralph
Edwards of future This is Your Life fame. And the sponsor was Maxwell
House of coffee fame.
1940 - Portia Faces Life debuted on the NBC Red network. This radio soap
opera centered around the life of Portia Blake Manning, an attorney and
a widow with a young son. Portia Faces Life was extremely popular, and
therefore, had many sponsors -- none of which were soap. The sponsors
included Post Toasties, Grape Nuts Flakes, Grape Nuts Wheat Meal,
Maxwell House coffee, Jell-O desserts and La France bleach.
10/8
1935 - The O'Neills debuted on CBS. The theme song, Londonderry Air,
opened the 15-minute soap opera. The O'Neills aired Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays at 7:30 [removed] In 1936 it moved to daytime where it stayed
until 1943 on NBC's Red and Blue networks and on CBS, too. One of
radio's original soaps, it was sponsored appropriately by Silver Dust,
Ivory soap and Ivory soap flakes.
1935 - Wedding bells pealed for a singer and a bandleader who tied the
knot, making radio history together. The bandleader was Ozzie Nelson and
the singer was Harriet Hilliard. They would make the history pages again
on this very day -- nine years later.
1944 - The first broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet was
heard on CBS.
10/9
1935 - Cavalcade of America was first broadcast this very day. The CBS
show featured some of Hollywood and Broadway's most famous stars in
leading roles in the half hour dramas. Thomas Chalmers narrated the
stories about obscure incidents and people in American history. The
orchestra was led by Donald Voorhees. The show aired from 1935 to 1953,
changing from CBS to NBC in 1939; with one sponsor for its entire
duration. The DuPont Company introduced its slogan on Cavalcade of
America ... "Better things for better living through [removed]"
1943 - ABC presented Land of the Lost. The opening phrase for the show
was, "In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the [removed]" This
children's adventure-fantasy serial took the audience underwater where
the main characters, Isabel and Jimmy, were guided by their friend, a
red fish named Red Lantern and played at first by Junius Matthews and
later, by Art Carney. Land of the Lost found a large audience and
remained on the air until 1948.
10/10
1932 - Two of radio's earliest efforts at soap operas were heard for the
first time. Judy and Jane, sponsored by Folger's Coffee, and Betty and
Bob, sponsored by General Mills, had listeners glued to their radios
into the early 1940s.
1933 - Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale. Ten years
later, Dreft was the sponsor of The Dreft Star Playhouse.
1937 - The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted Thirty Minutes in
Hollywood. Forty-eight sponsors shared the cost of the program that
aired in 72 cities nationwide. It was the first Mutual co-op radio show.
George Jessel and Norma Talmadge starred. Music was provided by the
Tommy Tucker Orchestra.
10/11
1936 - Professor Quiz aired for the first time. It was the first
national quiz show on radio and lasted until 1948. Guests asked
Professor Quiz (Dr. Craig Earl) questions. If they were able to stump
the prof, they collected a $25 prize. Professor Quiz announcers were
Robert Trout and Arthur Godfrey. Sponsors included Kelvinator
refrigerators, Teel Shampoo and Velvet pipe tobacco.
1948 - One of radio's last premiering soap operas, The Brighter Day,
happened this day in Three Rivers. The show centered around the Dennis'
and their extended family. It's interesting to take a look at the cast
and see which names are still recognizable, like Hal Holbrook and
William Redfield. Some of the sponsors are still around, too: Ivory Soap
flakes, Blue Cheer detergent and Hazel Bishop lipstick. The soap opera
lasted for six years on radio.
10/12
1937 - The longest-running detective show debuted. Mr. Keen, Tracer of
Lost Persons lasted until 1955. Three different actors played the title
role, Bennett Kilpack was Mr. Keen the longest, and Arthur Hughes saw
the final show. Phil Clark also played the part. There were many more
than three sponsors -- Anacin, Kolynos toothpaste, BiSoDol antacid
mints, Hill's cold tablets, Heet liniment, Dentyne, Aerowax, RCA Victor
and Chesterfield cigarettes. Some are long gone, some are still around,
some don't advertise on radio anymore, and some are not allowed to.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:23:46 -0400
From: JimBourg@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Clipper Craft Clothes
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In a message dated 10/5/2007 5:18:25 [removed] Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
Another mystery to me is what happened to Clipper Craft Clothes?
Don
Like most of the domestic tailored clothing manufacturers they have closed.
Now only a literal handful of domestic tailored clothing manufacturers
remain, the oldest being Hardwick Clothes of Cleveland, TN started in 1880. A few
of the old labels are still around, Botany 500, Kuppenheimer, but they are
being produced off shore by the current owners of the label. The companies
themselves are gone.
Jim
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