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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2015 : Issue 41
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Ben Welden                        [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
      re: Royal Broadcasting System         [ Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:59:37 -0400
    From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Ben Welden
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    On Apr 27, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Anthony Tollin wrote:

    On Apr 27, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Gary asks:

>     2. There's IMDB ( Internet movie database) and IBDB (Internet Broadway
>     database) that is a resource for movie or Broadway shows; is there a database
>     for old time radio shows?

    The only one I can really suggest is David Goldin's [removed],
    which lists a few radio credits for Ben Welden including episodes of BOLD
    VENTURE, THIS IS YOUR FBI, FAMILY THEATRE and THE RAILROAD HOUR. --Anthony
    Tollin

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    Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:58:50 -0400
    From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  re: Royal Broadcasting System

    Jim Widner asked about "a 1931 World in Review broadcast from the 'Royal
    Broadcasting System?'  This is one of those 'March of Time' style news
    programs typical of the time and refers to itself as the 'newsreel of the
    air.'  I am thinking it is Canadian, but not sure."

    I have no information on the broadcast, except that it is not rare; a copy is
    listed on the RadioGoldIndex.  I can confirm that the "Royal Broadcasting
    System" was not Canadian, but New York based.  The following is excerpted
    from an article in the NY SUN from June 9, 1932, concerning a fund drive for
    the Democratic Party.  The party's prospective Presidential candidates used
    radio to appeal to the public:

    "Gov. Roosevelt and former Gov. Smith were heard from station WWJ in Detroit.
    Their addresses, which were made through the electrical transcription feature
    service of the Royal Broadcasting System of New York, were part of a
    concentrated drive to complete Michigan's $40,000 quota to the Democratic war
    chest."

    Michael J. Hayde

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    Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:58:56 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[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," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
    Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Big John and Steve's "Glowing Dial"
    and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in high-quality audio, on
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    THE THIRTEENTH JUROR
    Episode 1 4-23-49 "What Really Happened To John Wilkes Booth"
    Stars: Vincent Price
    NBC Sustained
    Stories of Unsolved Mysteries

    NBC LITTLE THEATER
    Episode 1 11-10-49 "One Brief Moment"
    Stars: Gerald Mohr, Betty Lou Gerson
    NBC Sustained
    THE ABE BURROWS SHOW
    5-22-48 "The Purple Phantom"
    Music: Milton DeLugg
    Announcer: Bob Lemond
    CBS Listerine

    BEST PLAYS
    Epiode 22 11-30-52 "Rope"
    Stars: Hurd Hatfield and Victor Jory
    Author: Patrick Hamilton
    =================================
    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    THE LONE RANGER
    (Synd.) 11/3/48 "The Flashing Light" conclusion from last week.

    NIGHTBEAT
    (NBC) 5/25/51 Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone in "Fear"

    THE ADV. OF SUPERMAN
    (WOR -NYC/Synd.) 4/27/40 The Yellow Mask demands Million Dollar Ransom.
    ===================================
    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    This is week 3 of a multi-week tribute to the late Stan Freberg.

    "Stan Freberg" Audition. Harmony Homestead
    1945. KXLA Pasadena. 9,45 to 10,15 AM.

    HERE'S TO VETERANS
    1967- - Stan Freberg.

    FORD SHOW
    from Australia. 1959 Farewell To Stan Freberg.
    Last show before returning home to America.

    "Same Time, Same Station" 11/10/1991 Guest Stan Freberg.
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    This Week's Classics & Curios Show:

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 166

    AL JOLSON AND THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL: LADIES OF SONG, PART TWO

    Here's Part Two of Al Jolson's guest Ladies of Song on the Kraft Music
    Hall on NBC. One show features Dinah Shore, the other Doris Day. The
    first show of Part Two with Dinah is from December 16, 1948. Dinah takes
    a break from the Eddie Cantor Show to sing "I'll Be Seeing You" and to
    join Al in duets to sing "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey" and "Kiss Me
    Once." Al does his energetic "Jolson" treatment on "Sittin' On Top of
    the World" and welcomes Dinah by singing "Dinah." Oscar Levant plays
    "Maleguena," and Al's "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" and "When Day Is
    Done" round out the show.

    Then on the KMH of December 30, 1948, Al's great lady of song guest is
    Doris Day. At the time Doris had been singing as a regular on the Bob
    Hope Show and Your Hit Parade and was fresh from her movie "Romance on
    the High Seas." Doris, whose voice was called "a voice of velvet,"
    performs her great hit from that film "It's Magic." She also does duets
    with Al on "Melancholy Baby" and "My Blue Heaven." Oscar Levant performs
    "Sabre Dance," and Al does his special upbeat rendition of "Smiles"
    followed by "It All Depends On You," "Who Cares." and "When You Were
    Sweet Sixteen." Band leader Lou Bring conducts the orchestra on this
    AFRS show.

    After being on top of the entertainment world before and through the
    1920's and 1930's, Jolson and his popularity hit bottom with changing
    musical tastes until the 1946 movie on his life, "The Jolson Story,"
    opened new horizons on radio in the later 1940's. Once again, he was on
    top, but sadly, he passed away in 1950, just one month after returning
    to the [removed] after performing for our troops in South Korea and when he
    was scheduled for an appearance on Bing Crosby's radio show. And plans
    were in the works for his TV debut in grand style. Also, he was to
    costar with Dinah Shore in a movie to be called "Stars and Stripes
    Forever." Columbia was even considering another Jolson musical starring
    Al himself. It was to be called "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet" and would
    dramatize his tours of military bases. But the exertion in Korea took
    its toll, especially for a man with only one lung, and he succumbed to a
    heart attack at the age of 64.

    Jolson's activity and dedication to entertain our troops in World War II
    has been almost forgotten by older or perhaps overlooked by newer
    generations. Even before the USO began to set up a formal program
    overseas, the excitable Jolson was deluging War and Navy Department
    brass with phone calls and wires. He demanded permission to go anywhere
    in the world where there is an American serviceman who wouldn't mind
    listening to "Sonny Boy" or "Mammy." Early in 1942, Jolson became the
    first star to perform at a GI base in World War II He did as many as
    four shows a day in the jungle outposts of Central America and covered
    the string of [removed] Naval bases. He paid for part of the transportation
    out of his own pocket. While touring in the Pacific, Jolson contracted
    malaria and had to have his left lung surgically removed.

    On September 17, 1950, a dispatch from 8th Army Headquarters, Korea,
    announced, "Al Jolson, the first top-flight entertainer to reach the
    war-front, landed here today by plane from Los [removed] traveled
    to Korea at his own expense. And a lean, smiling Jolson drove himself
    without letup through 42 shows in 16 days."

    Alistair Cooke wrote, "He [Jolson] had one last hour of glory. He
    offered to fly to Korea and entertain the troops hemmed in on the United
    Nations precarious August bridgehead. The troops yelled for his
    appearance. He went down on his knee again and sang 'Mammy', and the
    troops wept and cheered. When he was asked what Korea was like he warmly
    answered, 'I am going to get back my income tax returns and see if I
    paid enough.'"

    After returning from a tour of overseas bases, the Regimental Hostess at
    one camp wrote to Jolson, "Allow me to say on behalf of all the soldiers
    of the 33rd Infantry that you coming here is quite the most wonderful
    thing that has ever happened to us, and we think you're tops, not only
    as a performer, but as a person. We unanimously elect you Public Morale
    Lifter No. 1 of the [removed] Army."

    Soon after Al's death Defense Secretary George Marshall presented the
    Medal for Merit to Jolson, "to whom this country owes a debt which
    cannot be repaid." The medal carried a citation noting that Jolson's
    "contribution to the [removed] action in Korea was made at the expense of his
    life" and was presented to Jolson's adopted son as Jolson's widow looked
    on. Another source sharing Jolson's faith commented, "Until Jolson died,
    heaven hadn't heard 'nothin' yet."

    Information and quotations gathered from Wikipedia and various online
    biographies

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    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Big John and Stu reach into their OTR grab bag!

    The Weird Circle - "The Murders In The Rue Morgue"
    originally aired Sunday, January 2, 1944 thru Ziv Syndication
    Starring: no cast information available, sorry.
    Sponsor: Ziv Syndication - sponsorship varied

    Lights Out! - "Vengeance And Mac Rogan"
    (aka "Until Dead" and "The Luck Of Mark Street")
    originally aired Tuesday, February 2, 1943 on CBS
    Starring: Frank Lovejoy, Arnold Moss, Paul Stewart, Mercedes McCambridge.
    Bob Stevenson announcing.
    Sponsor: Ironized Yeast

    Adventures Of Ozzie and Harriet - "Bing Crosby"
    originally aired Sunday, December 5, 1948 on NBC
    Starring: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Janet Waldo, Tommy Bernard,
    Henry Blair,
    Bing Crosby, Lindsay Crosby, John Brown.
    Verne Smith announcing.
    Sponsor: International Silver Company

    The Fred Allen Show - "One Long Pan Skit"
    Allen's Alley Question: Have You Been Victimized By Misrepresentation In
    Advertising?
    originally aired Sunday, April 11, 1948 on NBC
    Starring: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Parker Fennelly, Minerva Pious,
    Peter Donald,
    The DeMarco Sisters, Basil Rathbone, Al Goodman and His Orchestra, Kenny
    Delmar.
    Kenny Delmar announcing.
    Sponsor: Ford Motor Company

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