------------------------------
The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 57
A Part of the [removed]!
[removed]
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
3-2 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Book by John Rayburn [ JayHick@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@cha ]
3-3 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:41:02 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-2 births/deaths
March 2nd births
03-02-1890 - Paul De Kruif - Zeeland, MI - d. 2-28-1971
writer: "Men Against Death" based on De Kruif's book
03-02-1900 - Kurt Weill - Dessau, Germany - d. 4-3-1950
composer: "Der Lindergflug"; "This Is War"
03-02-1902 - Flora Robson - Brighton, England - d. 7-7-1984
actor: BBC Radio "Streets of Pompeii"
03-02-1902 - Moe Berg - NYC - d. 5-29-1972
major league baseball player, world war 2 spy: "Information, Please"
03-02-1904 - Leonard Levinson - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-30-1974
writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"; "Jack Carson
Show"
03-02-1904 - Theodor "Dr. Suess" Geisel - Springfield, MA - d. 9-24-1991
children's book author: "American School On the Air"; "Columbia
Workshop"
03-02-1905 - Marc Blitzstein - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-22-1964
author: "Mercury Theatre On the Air"
03-02-1909 - Mel Ott - Gretna, LA - d. 11-21-1958
sportscaster: Play-by-Play Detroit Tigers; "Babe Ruth Show"
03-02-1909 - Narvin Kimball - d. 3-17-2006
vocal, banjo: (Preservation Hall Jazz Band) "Newport Jazz Festival"
03-02-1914 - Martin Ritt - NYC - d. 12-8-1990
film director, teacher: "Coming Home"
03-02-1917 - Desi Arnaz - Santiago, Cuba - d. 12-2-1986
actor, bandleader: Ricky Ricardo "I Love Lucy"; "Bob Hope Show"
03-02-1918 - Elmira Roessler - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-30-1975
actor, singer: Jennifer Davis "Backstage Wife"; Tweetsie Herringbone
"Ma Perkins"
03-02-1919 - Jennifer Jones - Tulsa, OK
actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
03-02-1923 - Jean Metcalfe - Reigate, England - d. 1-28-2000
announcer, presenter: "Two-Way Family Favourites"
03-02-1933 - Anthea Askey - Golders Green, London, England - d.
2-28-1999
actor: Violet Elizabeth Bott "Just William"
03-02-1949 - Randy Paar - Los Angeles, CA
disc jockey: (Daughter of Jack Paar) "The Jack Paar Show"
March 2nd deaths
01-23-1898 - Randolph Scott - Orange County, VA - d. 3-2-1987
actor: "Academy Award Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
01-29-1916 - Bill Lawrence - Lincoln, NE - d. 3-2-1972
newsman for the ABC network
02-06-1897 - Erna Sack - Spandau-Berlin, Germany - d. 3-2-1972
singer: (The German Nightingale) "General Motors Concerts"
02-12-1884 - Bessie McCammon - Cincinnati, OH - d. 3-2-1964
actor: Jessie King "Lone Journey"; Olivia McEvoy "Young Widder Brown"
02-14-1908 - Lonnie Glosson - Judsonia, AR - d. 3-2-2001
country music harmonica player: "Grand Ole Opry"
02-19-1915 - Fred Freiberger - NYC - d. 3-2-2003
writer: "Suspense"; "Family Theatre"
03-16-1916 - Mercedes McCambridge - Joliet, IL - d. 3-2-2004
actor: Sunny Richards "I Love A Mystery"; Martha Ellis Bryant
"Defense Attorney"
04-05-1911 - Martin Denny - NYC - d. 3-2-2005
orchestra leader: Live radio show for Alaskan Air Force Command Radio
06-04-1921 - Tom Bigler - Terentum, PA - d. 3-2-2007
disk jockey: WILK Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
07-24-1913 - Hollace (Vivien) Shaw - Fresno, CA - d. 3-2-1976
singer: "Blue Velvet"; "Vic Damone and Hollace Shaw Show"
08-20-1920 - Stefan Hatos - Aurora, IL - d. 3-2-1999
producer, writer, announcer: "Beulah"; "The Green Hornet"
10-16-1917 - Rowena Clark - Staten Island, NY - d. 3-2-2004
actor: "Gateway to Hollywood"
10-21-1913 - Jack McElroy - Kansas - d. 3-2-1959
announcer, host: "Bride and Groom"; "Breakfast at Sardi"s"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:45:27 -0500
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Book by John Rayburn
It should be noted that the book by John Rayburn is from McFarland. For
some reason that didn't appear. Jay
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 09:03:37 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi Friends,
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 Theatre," 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:
[removed]
=======================================
SAME TIME, SAME STATION
McALEER MEDOLISTS
Audition Show 1930
SYNDICATED McAleer Products
STARS: Scrappy Lambert and Ozzie Dunn
HOST/ANNOUNCER: Harry Von Zell
A VOICE IN THE NIGHT
Episode 7 6-14-46 "The Necklace"
MUTUAL SUSTAINING Fridays 8:30 - 9:00 pm
STARS Carl Brisson, Toni Wells
HOLLYWOOD TOUR
4-18-47 Guest: Dale Evans
ABC SUSTAINING
HOST: Cal York
FAULTLESS STARCH TIME
5-15-49
Ernie Lee & The Pleasant Valley Boys, Judy Perkins
THE CURTAIN OF TIME
4-28-49 "The War On Chicago"
The story of "Declaration of Independence of Lake Michigan"
STARS: Jeff Corey
WRITERS: Charles Crowder, Thurston Hoffman
EDUCATION IN THE NEWS
3-9-36 "Little Red Schoolhouse"
NBC Syndicated by The Department Of The Interior
Produced by "The Office Of Education" from Washington DC
MARMOLA ENTERTAINERS
1931
Marmola Reducing System
==================================
HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
NBC SHORT STORY
(NBC) 1/4/52
Features Ray Bradbury's "The Rocket"
PEOPLE ARE FUNNY
(NBC/AFRS) 1/6/52 with Art Linkletter. "Frog Hunter"
JUNGLE JIM
(Synd.) Pgm #29 5/16/36 Weekly radio drama of the Hearst Comics pages
feature.
====================================
THE GLOWING DIAL
Quiet Please - "Beezer's Cellar"
originally aired October 10, 1948 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Lotte Staviski, Warren Stevens, Charles Egelston.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.
Quiet Please - "Shadow Of The Wings"
originally aired April 17, 1949 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.
Quiet Please - "The Oldest Man In The World"
originally aired May 21, 1949 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Don Briggs, Nancy Sheridan.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.
Quiet Please - "And Jeannie Dreams Of Me"
originally aired October 17, 1948 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Murray Forbes, Ruth Last, Arthur Cole.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.
Quiet Please - "Good Ghost"
originally aired October 24, 1948 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Anna Maude Morath, Sarah Fussell, Claudia Morgan (Mrs. Ernest Chappell).
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.
==================================
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
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:17:54 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-3 births/deaths
March 3rd births
03-03-1885 - Marshall Bartholomew - Belleville, IL - d. 4-xx-1978
tenor on nbc, connected with the Yale Glee Club
03-03-1890 - Edmund Lowe - San Jose, CA - d. 4-21-1971
actor: Sergeant Quirt "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"
03-03-1896 - Willie Fung - Canton, China - d. 4-16-1945
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-03-1900 - Edna Best - Hove, East Sussex, England - d. 9-18-1974
director: "Sherlock Holmes"; "Silver Theatre"
03-03-1902 - Ruby Dandridge - Memphis, TN - d. 10-17-1987
actor: Mammy Brown "Gallant Heart"; Geranium "Judy Canova Show"
03-03-1906 - Kenny Sargent - Centralia, IL - d. 12-20-1969
vocalist/saxophonist: "The Camel Caravan"
03-03-1907 - Canada Lee - NYC - d. 5-9-1952
actor: "New World A' Coming"; "Lest We Forger"; "The Free Company"
03-03-1907 - Donald Novis - Hastings, England - d. 7-23-1966
actor: Matt Mulligan "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
03-03-1911 - Henry Gladstone - Boston, MA - d. 1-22-1995
announcer: "White Owl Reporter"
03-03-1911 - Jean Harlow - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-7-1937
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-03-1913 - Margaret Bonds - Chicago, IL - d. 4-26-1972
composer: "Chicago Women's Orchestra"
03-03-1914 - Donald Gray - Fort Beaufort, South Africa - d. 4-7-1978
BBC actor from 1947 to 1951
03-03-1915 - John Nelson - Spokane, WA - d. 11-3-1976
emcee: "Bride and Groom"; "Know Your NBC's"; "Live Like a Millionaire"
03-03-1919 - Enzo Stuarti - Rome, Italy - d. 12-16-2005
operatic singer: "Stars for Defense"
03-03-1920 - James Doohan - Vancouver, Canada - d. 7-20-2005
actor: "You Never Had It So Good"; "The Investigator"
03-03-1920 - Jimmy Edwards - Barns, Surrey, England - d. 7-7-1988
actor: Pa Glum "Take It from Here"
03-03-1921 - Diana Barrymore - NYC - d. 1-25-1960
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
03-03-1924 - Barbara Jean Wong - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-13-1999
actor: Judy Barton "Cinnamon Bear"
03-03-1924 - Cathy Downs - Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY - d.
12-8-1976
actor: "Your Movietown Radio Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Mail Call"
03-03-1937 - Bobby Driscoll - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 3-20-1968 (body
found)
actor: "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"; "Family Theatre"
03-03-1939 - Sam Chu Lin - Mississippi - d. 3-5-2006
newscaster, actor: "Empire of the Air"
03-03-1948 - Byron MacGregor - Alberta, Canada - d. 1-3-1995
CKLW radio newsman, recorded narrative "The Americans"
March 3rd deaths
01-15-1923 - Ivor Cutler - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 3-3-2006
poet: BBC's Home Service
01-18-1913 - Danny Kaye - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-3-1987
comedian: "Danny Kaye Show"
01-31-1908 - Connie Desmond - Ohio - d. 3-3-1983
sportscaster: play-by-play for the Brooklyn Dodgers
02-08-1902 - Lyle Talbot - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-3-1996
actor: "Your Hollywood Informer"; "Calling All Cars"; "The Unexpected"
02-26-1887 - William Frawley - Burlington, IA - d. 3-3-1966
comedian: Fred Mertz "I Love Lucy", "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Hollywood
Hotel"
03-06-1906 - Lou Costello - Paterson, NJ - d. 3-3-1959
comedian: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Abbott and Costello Show"
03-13-1907 - Frank Wilcox - DeSoto, MO - d. 3-3-1974
actor: Father "Central City"
03-19-1889 - George L. "Doc" Rockwell - Providence, RI - d. 3-3-1978
comedian: "Camel Pleasure Hour"
04-04-1895 - Arthur Murray - NYC - d. 3-3-1991
dance master: "Natural Bridge Dancing Class"
04-05-1919 - Ted Liss - d. 3-3-1992
actor: "Destination Freedom"
09-03-1912 - Peter Capell - Berlin, Germany - d. 3-3-1986
actor:"Dimension X"; "Romance"; "Secret Missions"
09-07-1918 - Al Christy - Kansas City, KS - d. 3-3-1995
started his career in radio
10-09-1909 - Robert Beatty - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - d. 3-3-1992
announcer: BBC Radio Newsreel"; "London Column"
10-16-1917 - Alice Pearce - NYC - d. 3-3-1966
actor: Daphne "Henry Morgan Show"
10-30-1915 - Fred Friendly - NYC - d. 3-3-1998
writer, director: "Hear It Now"; "Who Said That?"; "Quick and the Dead"
12-02-1918 - Ezra Stone - New Bedford, MA - d. 3-3-1994
actor: Henry Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
12-12-1907 - Allen Massey - Midland, TX - d. 3-3-1983
singer: (Louise Massey and the Westerners) "National Barn Dance";
"Show Boat"
12-25-1912 - Tobe Reed - Seattle, WA - d. 3-3-1988
announcer: "The Bickersons"; "Burns and Allen"; "Frances Langford Show"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
--------------------------------
End of [removed] Digest V2008 Issue #57
********************************************
Copyright [removed] Communications, York, PA; All Rights Reserved,
including republication in any form.
If you enjoy this list, please consider financially supporting it:
[removed]
For Help: [removed]@[removed]
To Unsubscribe: [removed]@[removed]
To Subscribe: [removed]@[removed]
or see [removed]
For Help with the Archive Server, send the command ARCHIVE HELP
in the SUBJECT of a message to [removed]@[removed]
To contact the listmaster, mail to listmaster@[removed]
To Send Mail to the list, simply send to [removed]@[removed]