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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 117
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Radio Homemakers                      [ "Tom Bewley" <fords3137@[removed] ]
  Howard Hoffman, radio actor?          [ Ljk2476@[removed] ]
  Jailbait Janet - Plot of a Missing G  [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]
  ABS, ABC, WBNX, WNEW, and WMCA        [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
  Question about a Bob Hope Announcer   [ "Richard j Smith" <rjsmith608@chart ]
  4-15 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  March 2007 deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:48:48 -0400
From: "Tom Bewley" <fords3137@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio Homemakers
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I just finished reading "Neighboring on the Air", a  broadcast history of
station KMA Radio-960 , Shennandoah, Iowa. It celebrates "the longest-running
homemaker program in the history of radio." I know there were many such
"homemaker/cooking shows on radio , including the major networks. Can anyone
direct me to a source for recorded examples of shows of this genre?

Thanks

Tom Bewley

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:34:21 -0400
From: Ljk2476@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Howard Hoffman, radio actor?
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Hey, can any of you old-time radio experts help me out on the career of  
Chicago radio actor Howard Hoffman? If you look in most of the old-time radio  
reference books I've combed through, you'll find his appearances as "Chandu" on  
the WGN Chicago version of the show in 1935, but absolutely NOTHING else. I  
found a listing on the Internet Movie Database for a movie actor and producer  
Howard Hoffman who did some acting on I LOVE LUCY, HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL,  
produced BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK starring Spencer Tracy and did character parts  for 
producer William Castle in films like HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL. This Howard  
Hoffman was born in Ohio in 1893 and passed away - I think - in [removed] back in  
1969. It seems a fair bet that he might be the same actor who appeared as  
"Chandu" in Chicago back in 1935. Anybody know about this guy? - Lenny  Kohl

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:34:31 -0400
From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jailbait Janet - Plot of a Missing Gunsmoke
 Episode

The following is a plot summary of the third of the Missing GUNSMOKE
episodes.  I will provide plot summaries of the remaining two 1952 Missing
episodes at weekly intervals.

GUNSMOKE
Jailbait Janet
06/14/1952
Script by Les Crutchfield

EPISODE NOTES:
    The cover page of the script for this episode, which contains cast, crew
and production information, has the title, Jailbait Janet.

    The script for Jailbait Janet was reused for the 06/28/1959 broadcast as
a new production with a completely different guest cast.  There are many
dialog changes, between the two productions of the script.  A scene and a
character from the 1952 production were deleted in the 1959 production.

PLOT
    Chester hurries in to the Marshal's Office to tell Dillon that the train
was held up and $50,000 in twenty-dollar gold coins was taken.  After
mentioning the location of the robbery and that three bandits were involved,
Chester finally informs the Marshal  that the baggage car clerk was badly
wounded.

    Matt arrives at the depot.  Doc tells the him that the clerk is dying.
Before Matt can talk to the man, the officious J. L. Krocker, the agent for
the railroad and the bank, tries to take over the situation and demands
immediate action.  Dillon brusquely dismisses Krocker and talks briefly to
the clerk.

    With their horses loaded on the train, Matt and Chester go to the scene
of the crime so they can begin tracking the outlaws.  Once off the train,
the two ride until dark, when Matt spots a camp with a man and a young boy.
Dillon is immediately cautious and quickly determines that a third person is
in a nearby thicket with a gun trained on them.  He has found the train
robbers.  With Chester's help, Matt gets the drop on them.

    The robbers are Dan Everly and his teenage children:  son, Jerry and
daughter, Janet.  Dan tells Dillon that his children were just doing what he
told them to do.  The three admit to the robbery and won't tell Matt where
the money is hidden.  While they are remorseful for the death of the clerk,
Dan feels they deserve the money because sparks from a train burned their
wheat crop just prior to harvesting.

    Matt and Chester take the Everlys' back to Dodge and put Dan and Jerry
in jail. Because there are no facilities for female prisoners at the jail,
the Marshal allows Kitty to take charge of Janet.  Krocker is livid because
Janet isn't in jail and the money has not been recovered.  When Krocker
intimates that Matt might be working with the Everlys', Dillon knocks him
out.

    Krocker offers a thousand dollar reward for the return of the money - no
questions asked and keeps implying that Dillon is quite taken with Janet and
has made some kind of deal with the Everlys'.  He is stirring up the
unsavory element in Dodge into a potential lynch mob.  Dillon confronts and
defuses the mob before they can act.

    The evening before Matt is to send the Everlys' to Hays City for trial,
Janet eludes Kitty and breaks her Dad and Jerry out of jail.  Matt and
Chester immediately head out after them.  At the Everlys' old campsite, they
realize that money had been buried under the campfire.  Dan shoots at the
Marshal and Chester.  Matt returns fire and fatally wounds Dan.

    When they hear the gunfire, Janet and Jerry return with the money and
give it to Dillon. Matt makes a decision and has Chester count out a
thousand dollars:  Krocker's no questions asked reward for the return of the
money.  He gives the money to Jerry and Janet for a fresh start in Wyoming.

Signing off for now,

Stewart

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:35:58 -0400
From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  ABS, ABC, WBNX, WNEW, and WMCA

I think I might have the solution to my pal Lee Munsick's dilemma about the
1935 FDR ABC microphone photo and the 1934 Morro Castle hearing photo of a
WMCA/ABS microphone.  I first set out to answer another point but I think
the details I give will help the other two things fall into place.  Andy
Blatt said " It was rumored later on that Ed Wynn had a hand in founding
1130 WNEW (Ed Wynn) (now WBBR) but that cannot be confirmed."

The reason why it can't be confirmed is because it is not true.  WBNX was on
1350 and had been formed in 1933 by Walter Whetstone, Sr. by combining WCDA
with two of the three stations it shared time with on that frequency, WMSG
and WBNX.  (The holdout was WAWZ of the Pillar of Fire Church in Zarapath,
NJ. which kept several hours a week.)  This WBNX became the flagship of the
shortlived Amalgamated Broadcasting System on Sept-Oct. 1933.  On the other
hand, WNEW was created in Newark, NJ in 1934 from combining two sharers on
1250, WAAM Newark and WODA Paterson.  Both WBNX and WNEW were separate
operations.  The rumors started in the 1960s with a caption in the second
edition of Ben Gross' wildly inaccurate book "I Looked and I Listened" where
he stated that the EW in the calls stood for Ed Wynn because it had been the
Amalgamated flagship.  But as we know, it wasn't.  Other confusion comes
from what happened after Ed Wynn's Amalgamated bit the dust.  George Storer
formed a similar network with some of the same stations the following year
in October 1934 calling it the American Broadcasting System and using WMCA
as the flagship. Donald Flamm very quickly wanted the independence of his
station back, and on January 13, 1935, Storer moved his network over to
WNEW, still in Newark, and renamed it the American Broadcasting Company.  A
recording of one morning's continuity announcements from WNEW as ABC exists
from the summer of 1935.  And, of course, the entire 4-hour inaugural
broadcast of the Amalgamated from Sept. 1933 also exists.

So WMCA was the flagship of the American Broadcasting System (ABS) from
October 1934 to January 13, 1935, the perfect time for the Morro Castle
hearing photo.  Then the network was renamed the American Broadcasting
Company (ABC) on Jan 13, 1935 and was in operation long enough for the April
1935 FDR picture.  By the way, Amalgamated was a little confused as to what
to call itself.  Although their logo included a mic with ABS on it, and it
was always called Amalgamated Broadcasting System in print, on the first
broadcast every fifteen minutes for four hours the announcer, John
Henderson, gives the system cue "This is the Amalgamated Broadcasting
Network."  The ONE time he says "System", there is another voice that is
heard in the background saying "Network, please."

And WNEW took those call letters because it was the NEW station in NEWark,
NJ.   There's an ad in Broadcasting magazine to that effect.  Broadcasting
reported on another interesting fact.  There had been a guessing game going
as to what the Amalgamated flagship's new call letters would be as they
bought up the three stations, WCDA, WBNX, and WMSG.  There were suggestions
of WMET, WYNN, and even WFDR!  The latter was suggested when FDR's
son-in-law Curtis Dahl was named Amalgamated's Chairman of the Board.  But
they settled on plain ole WBNX.

Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:36:13 -0400
From: "Richard j Smith" <rjsmith608@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Question about a Bob Hope Announcer
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I love watching MASH and there are some episodes produced by Hye Haverbach.
Now I know that Bob Hope had annoucer named Hye Haverbach.  Is this the same
guy? Also wondering his history.

Thanks,
Richard Smith

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:04:13 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-15 births/deaths

April 15th births

04-15-1900 - Eddie Garr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-3-1956
actor: (Father of Teri Garr) "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
04-15-1907 - Casper Reardon - Little Falls, NY - d. 3-9-1941
jazz harpist: "Camel Caravan"; "Kraft Music Hall"
04-15-1907 - Theodore Granick - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-21-1970
moderator: "American Forum of the Air"
04-15-1909 - Dave Driscoll - Maplewood, NJ - d. 5-xx-1981
news and sport commentator for the mutual network
04-15-1909 - Gordon Bambrick - d. 7-xx-1977
announcer: "Reading Is Fun"
04-15-1910 - Eddie Mayo - Holyoke, MA - d. 11-27-2006
major league baseball player: "World Series Preview"
04-15-1915 - Hans Conried - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-5-1982
actor: Professor Kropotkin "My Friend Irma"; Schultz "Life with Luigi"
04-15-1918 - John Baragrey - Haleyville, AL - d. 8-4-1975
actor: "X Minus One"; "There Is No Night"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
04-15-1928 - Jimmy Ogg - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-1-1986
actor: "Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang"
04-15-1931 - Florian Zabach - Chicago, IL
violinist: "Arthur Godfrey and His Talent Scouts"; "Here's to Veterans"
04-15-1933 - Roy Clark - Meherrin, VA
country/western singer: "Town and Country Time"

April 15th deaths

02-13-1912 - Margaretta Scott - London, England - d. 4-15-2005
actor: "The Merchant of Venice"
02-22-1926 - Kenneth Williams - Islington, England - d. 4-15-1988
actor:  the Snide "Hancock's Half Hour"
03-24-1910 - Richard Conte - Jersey City, NJ - d. 4-15-1975
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Hollywood
Star Playhouse"
04-01-1886 - Wallace Beery - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-15-1949
host: "Shell Chateau"
04-17-1918 - John Hess - Chicago, IL - d. 4-15-2004
writer: "The Human Adventure"
06-02-1909 - Martin Ashe - Bradford, IL - d. 4-15-1991
actor: "Grand Central Station"
06-04-1881 - Clara Blandick - Hong Kong (on a ship in harbor) - d.
4-15-1962
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
07-23-1920 - Christopher Lynch - County Limerick, Ireland - d. 4-15-1994
singer: "Voice of Firestone"
08-05-1882 - General Hugh S. Johnson - Ft. Scott, KS - d. 4-15-1942
militarist (Old Ironpants) 15 minute commentary thrice weekly on NBC
09-15-1909 - Frank Richards - NYC - d. 4-15-1992
actor: "I Love A Mystery"
09-18-1905 - Greta Garbo - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 4-15-1990
actor: "Conquest"
09-22-1915 - Arthur Lowe - Hayfield, Derbyshire, England - d. 4-15-1982
actor: Captain George Mainwaring "Dad's Army"
11-25-1871 - Kate McComb - Sacramento, CA - d. 4-15-1959
actor: Mrs. Kerrigan "The Goldbergs"; Nannie "Lora Lawton"
12-13-1939 - Moe Keale - Niihau, HI - d. 4-15-2002
local disc jockey
12-15-1926 - Rose Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 4-15-1998
country singer: "Faron Young Show"; "Country Hoedown"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:04:24 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  March 2007 deaths

Deaths in March 2007

12-11-1920 - Eddie Firestone, Jr. - San Francisco, CA - d. 3-1-2007
actor: Joey Brewster "That Brewster Boy"; William Herbert Murray "One
Man's Family"
08-23-1908 - Natalie Bodanya - NYC - d. 3-4-2007
opera soparna: "The Metropolitan Opera"
02-26-1921 - Betty Hutton - Battle Creek, MI - d. 3-11-2007
singer: "Radio Almanac"; "Radio Hall of Fame"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
06-06-1922 - Carol Richards - Harvard, IL - d. 3-16-2007
singer: "New Edgar Bergen Hour"; "Bing Crosby Show"
08-06-1932 - Jerry Girard - Chicago, IL - d. 3-25-2007
disk jockey, record librarian, news writer, sportscaster
xx-xx-xxxx - Eddie Hubbard - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-26-2007
disk jockey: "Music Unlimited"
06-17-1921 - Tony Scott - Morristown, NJ - d. 3-28-2007
jazz clarinetist: American Armed Forces Radio
09-17-1918 - Tom Moore - Meridian, MS - d. 3-31-2007
executive: President ABC Radio and Television

Ron Sayles

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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:15:42 -0400
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: <[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
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

Baseball Is Back!

FAVORITE SPORTS STORIES OF GRANTLAND RICE
Episode 24    6-17-44 "Sandlot Phenom"
NBC SUSTAINING Saturdays 2:30 - 3:00 pm
STARS: Grantland Rice
Author: [removed] Ford.
Adaptor: Ben Kagan.
Stars: Jim Backus, Santos Ortega, Barry Hopkins, Bill Adams, Jay Wesley,
William Quinn, Cameron Prud'Homme, Leonard Sherer, Bill Lipton
PRODUCER: Garnett Garrison

COLUMBIA WORKSHOP
Episode 37    7-7-40    "The Cock-Eyed Wonder"
Stars: Ed (Archie) Gardner, William Bendix

THE TEX AND JINX SHOW
"NEW YORK CLOSEUP"
4-21-52 Guest: Laraine Day (Durocher)
Recorded live from the New York Polo Grounds during the Giants-Phillies
baseball game
NBC STARS: Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg
Tex is away and Jinx does the show alone.

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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

SUSPENSE
(CBS)    Peter Lorre & Wendy Barrie star in "A Moment of Darkness"

IT PAYS TO BE IGNORANT
(CBS)    Tom Howard and his zany panel welcome guest, Ralph Bellamy.

RADIO PREVIEWS THE MOVIES
Our continuing series
features: "Stars, Scenes & Songs" from Warner Brothers 1934 - "Dames"
starring Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler.

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THE GLOWING DIAL

   The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - "The April Fool's Day Adventure"
originally aired April 1, 1946 on MUTUAL
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell announcing.
Sponsor: Petri Wines

Bob Hope Show - "Eddie Cantor"
from El Monte High School in El Monte, California
originally aired April 1, 1947 on NBC
Starring: Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Barbara Jo Allen (Vera Vague), Trudy
Erwin, Desi Arnaz & His Orchestra, Eddie Cantor, Wendall Niles announcing.
Sponsor: Pepsodent

Boston Blackie - "The Wayward Bus Driver"
originally aired April 1, 1947 in SYNDICATION
Starring: Richard Kollmar.
Sponsor: varied according to market

My Favorite Husband - "April Fool's Day"
originally aired April 1, 1949 on CBS
Starring: Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Ruth Perrott, Gale Gordon, Gerald
Mohr, Jack Edwards, Jerry Hausner, Bob Lemond announcing.
Sponsor: Jell-O

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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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