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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 172
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      6-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Bob Hastings                          [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
      Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Matters    [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]
      TOM MIX AND THE SUITCASE OF DOOM      [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      Collins vs. Conway                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Tom Mix/death                         [ Ed Kindred <kindred@[removed]; ]
      XM outside the car                    [ Paul Gough <paulgough@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 5-11 June  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Re: Virtual Oldtime Radio Convention  [ Jim Widner <widnerj@[removed]; ]
      6-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:00:36 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-3 births/deaths

    June 3rd births

    06-03-1901 - Maurice Evans - Dorchester, England - d. 3-12-1989
    actor: "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
    06-03-1904 - Jan Peerce - NYC - d. 12-15-1984
    singer: "Music Hall of the Air"; "A & P Gypsies"; "Golden Treasury of Song"
    06-03-1905 - Paulette Goddard - Whitestone Landing, Long Island, NY - d.
    3-23-1990
    actress: "Cresta Blanca Players"
    06-03-1906 - Brooke Temple - Niagra Falls, NY - d. 04-1982
    actor: Red Ryder "Red Ryder"
    06-03-1906 - Josephine Baker - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-12-1975
    singer: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    06-03-1911 - Ellen Corby - Racine, WI (Raised: Philadelphia, PA) - d. 4-14-1999
    actress: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    06-03-1914 - Roy Glenn - Pittsburg, KS - d. 3-12-1971
    actor: "The Beulah Show"
    06-03-1916 - Jack Manning - Cincinnati, OH
    actor: David Crawford "Young Dr. Malone"
    06-03-1917 - Leo Gorcey - NYC - d. 6-2-1969
    actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
    06-03-1924 - Colleen Dewhurst - Montreal, Canada (R:  Wauwatosa, WI) - d.
    8-22-1991
    actress: "Will Cather: A Look of Rememberance"
    06-03-1924 - Ted Mallie - d. 1-25-1999
    announcer: "The Shadow"
    06-03-1925 - Tony Curtis - NYC
    actor: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Stars in the Air"; "Suspense"

    June 3rd deaths

    01-06-1913 - Tom Brown - NYC - d. 6-3-1990
    actor: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-09-1909 - Patrick Peyton - Carracastle, Ireland - d. 6-3-1992
    preacher: (The Rosary Priest) "Family Theatre"
    01-11-1899 - Eva Le Gallienne - d. 6-3-1991
    actress: "Civic Repertory Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-20-1906 - Ozzie Nelson - Jersey City, NJ - d. 6-3-1975
    actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
    04-21-1915 - Anthony Quinn - Chihauha, Mexico - d. 6-3-2001
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Your Radio Theatre"
    05-26-1908 - Robert Morley - Semley, England - d. 6-3-1992
    actor: "[removed] Steel Hour"
    08-13-1905 - Olga Albani - Barcelona, Spain - d. 6-3-1940
    singer: "Coca-Cola Hour"; "Silken String"
    08-13-1910 - Skinnay Ennis - Salisbury, NC - d. 6-3-1963
    bandleader, singer: "Bob Hope Show"; "Abbott and Costello Show"
    08-24-1919 - Dennis James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 6-3-1997
    host, announcer: "Lawyer Q"; "Major Bows Original Amateur Hour"
    09-18-1910 - Joe "Curley" Bradley - Coalgate, OK - d. 6-3-1985
    actor, singer: Tom Mix "Tom Mix"; "Singing Marshall"
    10-20-1904 - Anna Neagle - Forest Gate, Essex, England - d. 6-3-1986
    actress: "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Kate Smith Hour"; "Radio Tribute to the Kind
    and Queen"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:44:20 -0400
    From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Bob Hastings

    Hi Everybody,

    I been ask to host interview with Bob Hastings at REPS convention in June.
    REPS would like to play a short spot of Bob radio work that does not come
    from Archie during the interview.  Does any one have such shows?  I think X.
    Minus One would be the easy one to check.  I understand Bob also did
    Cavalcade of America and I would love to find those shows.  We will be
    broadcasting live from the convention on Yesterday USA radio network live on
    both Friday June 24, and Saturday June 25.  I feel one of the highlights of
    this convention will be having Bob, Hal, and Rosemary performing in Archie.
    I feel that Archie Andrew SPERDVAC recreation back in 1991 is one of the
    program SPERDVAC every had for a convention.  Bob, Hal , and Shirley
    Mitchell  did a great job.  I will also being broadcasting from FOTR in
    October this year too.  If you never been to a convention go this year to
    either Seattle in June, or NJ in October.  Alot of changes are happening
    with the convention around the country and enjoy what we have right now
    don,t wait.  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:19:25 -0400
    From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Matters

    YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR is one of the many popular series of Old-Time
    Radio.

        There are some small mysteries about specific YTJD MATTERS, as Johnny's
    cases were generally called.   Here is some new information  on a couple of
    them.

    THE MATTER OF THE QUI CUI CHI QUE BONO MATTER

    The title of this multi-part YTJD shown is listed in various sources as:
    The Qui Bono Matter
    The Cui Bono Matter
    The Chi Bono Matter
    The Que Bono Matter

        I just received the cover pages for the 5 scripts for this multi-part
    YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR show.  The five scripts all agree; it is
    The Cui Bono Matter.

    THE SEVEN BECOMES SIX MATTER
    (About THE KRANESBURG MATTER)
        I have just started a series of six posts on The Nostalgia Pages YOURS
    TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR Phorum:
    [removed]

        These posts deal with the controversy surrounding THE KRANESBURG MATTER.
    Are there six or seven episodes to  this YTJD MATTER?

        These posts will answer the basic question of the number of episodes.
    They also address the subject of a Hoax relating to THE KRANESBURG MATTER.
    The specifics of the Hoax will be covered in Posts 5 & 6 which will appear
    on the YTJD Phorum next week on Thursday and Friday June 9 and 10, 2005.

        As this particular JOHNNY DOLLAR MATTER was part of the daily serialized
    run, I am going to have some fun with it and spread out this information
    over a total of six posts in six weekdays.

        This time, I have decided to try something a little different than just
    simple statement of facts.  After listening to so many YTJD episodes over
    the years,  I thought it would be fun to have some of the people associated
    with the show help me with the telling of the story.  I have even given a
    title to this series of posts:
    THE SEVEN BECOMES SIX MATTER.

    As Johnny Dollar might say as he gives the Teaser for his next MATTER:
    Tune in to The Nostalgia Pages YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR Phorum:
    [removed]
    for the start our new case -- involving a Myth, a Mystery and a Hoax.
    Join us, won't you?
    Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar."

        Hope you enjoy them.

    Signing off for now,

    Stewart Wright

    [removed]  Oh, by the way.  The Nostalgia Pages Phorums are provided by our own
    Charlie Summers.  :)
    The Nostalgia Pages Phorums
    [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 14:49:54 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  TOM MIX AND THE SUITCASE OF DOOM
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    In a message dated 6/3/2005 11:01:59 [removed] Eastern Daylight Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

>     The way  I heard it, Tom Mix was literally killed by a  suitcase.  When  his
>     Cord automobile suddenly stopped (whatever the reason),  his  suitcase, which
>     had been on the deck behind him, slid forward and struck  him  on the back
>     of the head killing him.

    ...and in that suitcase [removed] bars!
        He insisted the studios pay him that way due to the  unstable economy of
    that era.
        Irony? You bet.
        He was the highest paid cowboy star or even movie  star of his day. and
    his demands for the heavy metal would seem to have been a  weird player in his
    demise.
        I used to drive by his house at the corner of  Laurel Canyon and Kirkwood
    in Laurel Canyon in the 60s.  Just across the  road from Houdini's.
        It was a charred wreck at the time and had been  previously occupied by
    Frank Zappa before it caught fire and was almost totally  destroyed.
        I used to stop at the Country Store across the  street, get a cold soda
    and walk through the cinders and charred beams imagining  the rooms as they
    once were.
        No gold though.
        I wonder what's there now?
                        Michael  C. Gwynne

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    Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:44:57 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Collins vs. Conway

    I just read with interest an article in the April 2005 issue of the
    REPS newsletter. It is about "The Adventures of Frank Race" and in
    the article the author, who shall remain anonymous, stated that Tom
    Collins was the brother to George Sanders. Wasn't that Tom Conway?

    Ron Sayles of Milwaukee Wis

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    Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:45:45 -0400
    From: Ed Kindred <kindred@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Tom Mix/death
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    Try this one from Arizona Central.   The piece is from a section
    called Oddball Arizona  It supports the suitcase story does not support
    that he was drunk but had been drinking. That was a wild road in the early

    40's. We occasionally drove from Phoenix to Tucson via Florence. It was
    two narrow lanes and had many dips. It was exciting for a five year old to
    sit in the back seat (no seat belts in those days) bouncing through those
    dips with his stomach in his throat. We had a rear wheel fly off our 36
    Chrysler
    and go bouncing across the desert while I was kneeling on the floor
    playing
    with cars on the back seat. I felt the bump and saw the wheel heading
    cross
    country. The thump awakened the passenger in semi behind us. They stopped
    and helped retrieve and reattach the wheel. Desert rats are friendly folks

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    This one is interesting also:

    [removed]

    There is more. I did a google on   tom mix death
    Ed Kindred

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    Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 21:34:04 -0400
    From: Paul Gough <paulgough@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  XM outside the car

    Irene Heinstein wrote:

>     Charlie, thanks for all the info on XM [removed]
>     I'm very impressed with the programming.  But I'm
>     rarely in my car.

    I have XM and love it too!. There are two alternative
    ways. I use the tiny $99 Roady that my son bought for
    me. It can also be used in the house with a home kit
    which consists of an antenna (with, I think a 25 foot
    lead) and an AC power cube. I think I paid $39 for it,
    so I use it in the house attached to some powered
    computer speakers.

    The second way is to get XM--or at least some
    channels--is over the internet, which is free with the
    other service. Works like a charm.

    Paul Gough

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    Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 21:34:17 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 5-11 June

     From Those Were The Days --

    6/6

    1938 - Stella Dallas was presented for the first time on the NBC Red
    network. The serial was "the true to life story of mother love and
    sacrifice." Stella Dallas continued to do this and so much more until 1955.

    1944 - CBS radio saluted America's war doctors with The Doctor Fights,
    presented for the first time this day.

    6/7

    1945 - The NBC program The Adventures of Topper was heard for the first
    time.

    1955 - NBC presented The Lux Radio Theatre for the final time. The
    program had aired for 21 years.

    6/8

    1942 - The comic soap opera Clara, Lu 'n Em was revived on CBS (the
    original show began in 1931 on NBC). Clara, Lu and Em were together
    again for just a short while before vanishing into radio oblivion.

    1947 - Lassie debuted on ABC. It was a 15-minute show about an
    extraordinary collie. Animal imitator, Earl Keen provided the whines and
    other dog noises. The announcer was Charles Lyon; Marvin Miller and
    Betty Arnold played Lassie's owners. The sponsor was Red Heart dog food.

    6/10

     From the [removed] --

    1909 - An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency
    when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.

     From Those Were The Days --

    1924 - The first political convention on radio was presented by NBC.
    Graham McNamee provided coverage of the Republican National Convention
    from Cleveland, OH.

    Joe

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    Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 21:37:32 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <widnerj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Virtual Oldtime Radio Convention June 9

    Bob Acosta wrote:

>     We hope that you will be able to participate in our Virtual
>     Convention "The oldtime Radio Symposium."  This Symposium will be
>     held at 5-9:30 Central Time  pm on Thursday June 9.  All you need is
>     a computer and a microphone in order to participate.

    Good to see this and will be curious to see how well it works.  I wrote about
    this very thing in the Metro Washington OTR Club newsletter, "Radio Recall"
    back in 2000 saying it was a way for OTR to go as one opportunity of the
    burgeoning Internet.

    Article is here [removed]

    Jim Widner

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: I have always considered the Internet OTR Digest little more
    than a national OTR club or convention that meets every day, with one whole
    heckuva lot of attendees.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 09:56:25 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-4 births/deaths

    June 4th births

    06-04-1881 - Clara Blandick - Hong Kong (on a ship in harbor) - d. 4-15-1962
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    06-04-1891 - Erno Rapee - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-26-1945
    conductor: "Roxy's Gang"; "General Motors Concert"
    06-04-1900 - Dan Golenpaul - NYC - d. 2-13-1974
    producer: "Information, Please"
    06-04-1901 - Carlton E. Morse - Jennings, LA - d. 5-24-1993
    writer, producer, director: "One Man's Family"; "I Love A Mystery"
    06-04-1906 - Richard Whorf - Winthrop, MA - d. 12-14-1966
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Jack Benny Program"
    06-04-1906 - Vinton Haworth (Hayworth) - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-21-1970
    actor: Fred Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Michael Shayne "Michael Shayne"
    06-04-1907 - Rosalind Russell - Waterbury, CT - d. 11-28-1976
    actress: "Four-Star Playhouse"; "Silver Theatre"
    06-04-1917 - Charles Collingwood - Three Rivers, MI - d. 10-3-1985
    newscaster: CBS News UN Correspondent/White House Correspondent
    06-04-1917 - Helen Wood - Clarksville, TN - d. 2-8-1988
    actress: Elaine Dascomb "Those We Love"
    06-04-1918 - Howard Culver - Colorado - d. 8-5-1984
    actor: Steve Adams/Straight Arrow "Straight Arrow"; "Free lance"
    06-04-1919 - Robert Merrill - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-23-2004
    singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "Robert Merrill Show"
    06-04-1921 - Don Diamond - Brooklyn NY
    actor: "Confession"; "Gunsmoke"; "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"
    06-04-1924 - Dennis Weaver - Joplin, MO
    actor: Look Magazine Commercial "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    06-04-1940 - Lassie (Pal) - North Hollywood, CA - d. xx-xx-1958
    actor: "Lassie Show"

    June 4th deaths

    01-12-1902 - Joe E. Lewis - NYC - d. 6-4-1971
    comedian: "Midnight to Dawn in New York and London"; "Command Performance"
    01-19-1908 - Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) - Erie, PA - d. 6-4-1994
    comedian: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    03-11-1898 - Dorothy Gish - Massillon, OH - d. 6-4-1968
    actress: Texaco Star Playhouse"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-17-1902 - Jimmy Grier - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-4-1959
    orchestra leader: "Woodbury Soap Show"
    04-02-1919 - Tom Hubbard - d. 6-4-1974
    actor: Sergaent Cadet Stripes "Starr of Space
    05-15-1890 - Menasha Skulnik - Warsaw, Poland - d. 6-4-1970
    actor: Mr. Cohen "Abie's Irish Rose"; Uncle David "The Goldbergs"
    05-27-1919 - Ray Montgomery - d. 6-4-1998
    actor: Noel Chandler "Dear John"
    06-12-1916 - Ivan Tors - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-4-1983
    producer: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    07-15-1905 - Shirley Povich - Bar Harborm ME - d. 6-4-1998
    sports columnist: "World Series Preview"; "Sonny Liston vs. Cassius Clay"
    07-16-1911 - Sonny Tufts - Boston, MA - d. 6-4-1970
    actor: "Harold Lloyd's Comedy Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-25-1907 - Jack Gilford - NYC - d. 6-4-1990
    comedian: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-26-1901 - Serge Koussevitzky - Vyshni Volocheck, Russia - d. 6-4-1978
    symphony conductor: "Boston Symphony Orchestra"
    07-29-1913 - Stephen McNally - NYC - d. 6-4-1994
    actor: "Ford Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-16-1895 - Lucien Littlefield - San Antonio, TX - d. 6-4-1960
    actor: "Hollywood On the Air"
    09-09-1882 - Clem McCarthy - East Bloomfield, NY - d. 6-4-1962
    sportscaster: The Kentucky Derby
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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