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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 164
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Born 100 years ago in July            [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      7-1 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Truly, STEEL                          [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Propaganda based OTR                  [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Re: Benny on TV                       [ dixonhayes@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:38:49 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Born 100 years ago in July

    People born 100 years ago in July

    07-01-1908 - Alvino Rey - Oakland, CA - d. 2-24-2004
    bandleader: "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"
    07-03-1908 - Robert B. Meyner - Phillipsburg, NJ - d. 5-27-1990
    governor new jersey: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    07-04-1908 - Harold John Adonis - d. 7-xx-1981
    singer, announcer: New York City and Jersey City
    07-05-1908 - Don Dunphy - NYC - d. 7-22-1998
    boxing play-by-play broadcaster: "Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn
    6-18-1941"; "Navy Relief Program"
    07-07-1908 - Ben Brady - NYC - d. 3-20-2003
    host: "The Comedy Writers Show"
    07-08-1908 - Nelson Rockefeller - Bar Harbor, ME - d. 1-26-1979
    vice president: Helped fund "Hello Americans" with Orson Welles
    07-10-1908 - Harry Golder - Detroit, MI - d. 10-16-1968
    announcer: "The Lone Ranger"
    07-10-1908 - Hjerluf Provenson - Racine, WI
    announcer: "John's Other Wife"; "The Gulden Serenaders"
    07-12-1908 - Milton Berle - NYC - d. 3-27-2002
    comedian: "Milton Berle Show"; "Let Yourself Go"; "Three Ring Time"
    07-13-1908 - Tim Spencer - Webb City, MO - d. 4-26-1974
    singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
    07-15-1908 - Parke Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-8-1993
    creator, writer, director: "Joe Penner"; "My Friend Irma"
    07-16-1908 - Frank Singiser - Montevideo, MN - d. 5-28-1982
    newscaster: "Mutual News"
    07-17-1908 - Jack Douglas - d. 1-31-1989
    writer: "Jack Paar Show"; "The Martin and Lewis Show"
    07-18-1908 - Lupe Velez - San Luis Potosi, Mexico - d. 12-14-1944
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Speed Show"
    07-18-1908 - Martha Mears - Mexico, MO - d. 12-13-1986
    singer: "G. I. Laffs"
    07-20-1908 - Fritz Littlejohn - Paculet, SC - d. 11-25-2005
    news writer/supervisor for NBC radio (1945-1952)
    07-20-1908 - Jerry Desmonde - Middlesbrough, England - d. 2-11-1967
    actor: "Crime Classics"
    07-22-1908 - Amy Vanderbilt - Staten Island, NY - d. 12-27-1974
    etiquette expert: "Jack Benny Program"
    07-22-1908 - Shirley Howard - d. 1-13-1988
    singer: "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
    07-23-1908 - Ernest Dudley - Dudley, England - d. 2-1-2006
    writer: "Enter Sexton Blake"; "Dr. Morelle"
    07-23-1908 - Irving Mansfield - d. 8-25-1988
    producer: "It's Always Albert"; "The Morey Amsterdam Show"
    07-23-1908 - Karl Swenson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-8-1978
    actor: Lorenzo Jones "Lorenzo Jones"; Lord Henry Brinthrope "Our Gal
    Sunday"
    07-26-1908 - Professor Hale Sparks - d. 11-13-1997
    director of broadcast University of California: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie
    McCarthy"
    07-31-1908 - [removed] "Bill" Shadel - Milton, WI - d. 1-29-2005
    newscaster: Reported the D-Day landings for CBS

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:38:54 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-1 births/deaths

    July 1st births

    07-01-1881 - Josef Pasternack - Czenstachown, Poland - d. 4-29-1940
    conductor: "Atwater Kent Concert"; "Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-01-1894 - John Lair - Livingston, KY - d. 11-13-1985
    announcer, director: "National Barn Dance"; "Sunday Mornin' Gatherin'"
    07-01-1899 - Cavan O'Connor - Nottingham, England - d. 1-11-1997
    singer: "The Vagabond Lover"
    07-01-1899 - Charles Laughton - Scarborough, England - d. 12-15-1962
    actor: "Three Ring Time"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
    07-01-1901 - Irna Phillips - Chicago, IL - d. 12-23-1973
    actor, writer: Mother Moran "Today's Children"; "The Guiding Light";
    "Road of Life"
    07-01-1902 - William Wyler - Muhlhausen, Germany - d. 7-28-1981
    film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "Hollywood Fights Back"
    07-01-1907 - Bill Stern - Rochester, NY - d. 11-19-1971
    sportscaster: "Carnival of Champions"; "Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    07-01-1908 - Alvino Rey - Oakland, CA - d. 2-24-2004
    bandleader: "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"
    07-01-1909 - Gertrude Fass - d. 3-6-2005
    writer: "Suspense"; "The Whistler"
    07-01-1909 - Madge Evans - NYC - d. 4-26-1981
    panelist: "Leave It to the Girls"; "Who Said That?"
    07-01-1911 - Larry Berns - Belfast, Northern Ireland
    producer, director: "The Bill Goodwin Show"
    07-01-1912 - Murray Matheson - Casterto, Australia - d. 4-25-1985
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    07-01-1913 - Dolph Nelson - d. 12-7-1981
    actor, director: "Captain Midnight"; "Art Linkletter's House Party"
    07-01-1914 - Michael Wilson - McAlester, OK - d. 4-9-1978
    blacklisted screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-01-1916 - Olivia De Havilland - Tokyo, Japan
    actor: "Plays for Americans"; "Your Hollywood Parade"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    07-01-1920 - Ronnie Bonner - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-19-1991
    song writer: "Uncle Wip"
    07-01-1921 - Margarita Duparinova - Bulgaria - d. 11-3-2005
    actor: Starred in Bulgarian radio
    07-01-1925 - Farley Granger - San Jose, CA
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre", "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-01-1927 - Grady Bass - d. 7-24-1991
    sportscaster: KSFA Nacogdoches, Texas
    07-01-1931 - Leslie Caron - Boulogne, France
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-01-1934 - Jamie Farr - Toledo, OH
    actor: Armed Forces Radio
    07-01-1934 - Jean Marsh - London, England
    actor: "Earplay"

    July 1st deaths

    01-15-1915 - Rod MacLeish - Bryn Mawr, PA - d. 7-1-2006
    writer: "Six By Corwin"
    01-19-1913 - Edward M. Asherman - d. 7-1-2005
    composer/guitarist/singer: Xavier Cugat Orchestra
    01-28-1921 - Alfred Marks - London, England - d. 7-1-1996
    actor: "Beginners Please"
    02-21-1938 - Wolfman Jack - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-1-1995
    disc jockey: Mexican Border Radio"
    02-27-1927 - Guy Mitchell - Detroit, MI - d. 7-1-1999
    singer: "Stars On Parade"; "1957 March of Dimes Galaxy of Stars"
    03-11-1921 - Eloise McElhone - d. 7-1-1974
    panelist: "Leave It to the Girls"
    03-21-1926 - Virginia Weidler - Eagle Rock, CA - d. 7-1-1968
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    04-03-1924 - Marlon Brando - Omaha, NE - d. 7-1-2004
    actor: "Streetcar Named Desire"; "As Easy as [removed]"
    04-04-1875 - Pierre Monteux - d. 7-1-1964
    conductor: "The NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    04-15-1928 - Jimmy Ogg - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-1-1986
    actor: "Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang"
    04-16-1930 - Herbie Mann - NYC - d. 7-1-2003
    jazz flutist: "Voices of Vista"; "Sounds of Freedom"
    06-07-1919 - Ray Scherer - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 7-1-2000
    nbc white house correspondent: "News of the World"; "Army-McCarthy
    Hearings"
    06-25-1897 - Wilkie Mahoney - d. 7-1-1976
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show:
    08-06-1917 - Robert Mitchum - Bridgeport, CT - d. 7-1-1997
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "So Proudly We Hail"
    08-08-1910 - Sylvia Sidney - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-1-1999
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Philip
    Morris Playhouse"
    08-10-1909 - Claude Thornhill - Terre Haute, IN - d. 7-1-1965
    bandleader: "The Judy 'N Jill 'N Johnny Show"
    09-04-1908 - Ed Dmytryk - Grand Forks, Canada - d. 7-1-1999
    film director"; "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"
    09-10-1916 - Dorothy Lowell - NYC - d. 7-1-1944
    actor: Sunday Brinthrope "Our Gal Sunday"; Linda Clark "Hilltop House"
    10-04-1910 - James Doyle - St. Paul, MN - d. 7-1-1980
    announcer: "The Great Gildersleeve"; "Rogue's Gallery"
    12-23-1913 - Anton M. Leader - Boston, MA - d. 7-1-1988
    director: "Eternal Light"; "Murder at Midnight"; "Suspense"; "Words
    at War"
    12-25-1918 - Maritta M. Wolff - Grass Lake, MI - d. 7-1-2002
    novelist: (Whistle Stop) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-26-1891 - Tony Wons - Menasha, WI - d. 7-1-1965
    host: "Tony Wons Scrapbook"; "House by the Side of the Road"; "Camel
    Quarter Hour"
    12-29-1915 - Robert Ruark - Wilmington, NC - d. 7-1-1965
    novelist: "Who Said That?"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:04:02 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Truly, STEEL

    Thanks for weighing in on the various DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES,  Michael.

    Yes, those postwar/last seasons of the SUPERMAN radio show sometimes have a
    very "adult" feel for a "kid's" show.

    And Jack Beck & Bud Collyer were pitch-perfect in delivering those  serious
    goods.

    Best,
    -Craig (always proudly a member of the "Supermen of America" club)  W.

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    Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:04:29 -0400
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Propaganda based OTR
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           Does anyone have any idea whether there were any broadcasts
    made on OTR by the individuals known as "Axis Sally" or "Tokyo Rose"
    during the days when radio was king?  BTW, who were they and did
    we (America) have our own version of them?  What name was given to
    her/them?

           Was "Tokyo Rose" ever given a Presidential pardon?

    As always,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:12:01 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:17:53 -0400
    From: dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Benny on TV
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>     So it seems that the only show which rotated with Jack Benny was "Private
>     Secretary.

     I seem to recall a more Benny-specific book suggesting the third show may
    have been "The George Gobel Show"?? Apparently they did alternate at some
    point, maybe near the end of Benny's alternate week days, before he went
    completely weekly.

    Dixon

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