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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2011 : Issue 174
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Norman Corwin's 100th Birthday        [ Larry Gassman <Lgsinger@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 6-12 Nove  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  11-6 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  11-7 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  George Ansbro, 1915-2011              [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 20:04:43 -0400
From: Larry Gassman <Lgsinger@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Norman Corwin's 100th Birthday

         Hi,
If you were not fortunate enough to be there in person, you will want
to listen to this on Monday evening.
Larry Gassman
The California Artists Radio Theatre presents

<[removed];Norman
Corwin's 100th Birthday Tribute

Starring

Jo Anne Worley, Marvin Kaplan, Ed Asner
Samantha Eggar, Shelley Long, Phil Proctor
Ian Abercrombie, Richard Herd, Paul Keith,
Tom Williams, Simon Templeman, Norman Lloyd
with Tributes by Carl Reiner and Hal Kanter
CART's Announcer John Harlan
and Host Leonard Maltin

Airing Monday, November 7th on SiriusXM Channel 80
8:40pm Eastern / 5:40pm Pacific

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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 20:05:16 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 6-12 November

 From Those Were The Days

11/7

1932   CBS presented the first broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th
Century. Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin played
Buck in the serial over the years (1932 1947).

1937   Dr. Christian debuted on CBS. Jean Hersholt played the part of
the kindly, elderly Dr. Christian who practiced on the air until 1954.
Laureen Tuttle, Kathleen Fitz, Helen Kleeb and Rosemary De Camp played
his nurse, Judy. The Dr. Christian theme song was Rainbow on the River.
Sponsors of the show included Vaseline (petroleum jelly, hair tonic and
lip ice).

1938   The first broadcast of This Day is Ours was heard on CBS. Eleanor
McDonald, played by Joan Banks and later by Templeton Fox, had all kinds
of problems. Her child was kidnapped, she lost her memory, helped a
friend find a killer, etc. The soap opera ran for two years.

11/9

1948   This is Your Life debuted on NBC. Ralph Edwards hosted the radio
show for two years before it moved to television.

11/10

1950   Monty Woolley starred as The Magnificent Montague, which debuted
on NBC.

11/12

1932   The National Broadcasting Company opened its new studios at Radio
City in New York City. They celebrated with a gala program at Radio City
Music Hall.

1938   Kate Smith sang God Bless America for the very first time. It
would later become her signature song. Irving Berlin penned the tune in
1917 but never released it until Miss Smith sang it for the first time
on her radio broadcast.

1940   The chant, "invovo legem magicarum," was heard for the first time
when Mandrake the Magician debuted on WOR in New York City.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 20:06:33 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-6 births/deaths

November 6th births

11-06-1854 - John Philps Sousa - Washington, [removed] - d. 3-6-1932
composer of marches: "John Philip Sousa Speaks"
11-06-1886 - Gus Kahn - Koblenz, Germany - d. 10-8-1941
lyricist: "Good News of 1938"
11-06-1887 - Walter Johnson - Humboldt, KS - d. 12-10-1946
baseball great: Play-by-Play Washington Senators
11-06-1892 - Ole Olsen - Wabash, IN - d. 1-26-1963
comedian: (Olsen and Johnson); "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Breakfast Club"
11-06-1896 - Frank Readick - Seattle, WA - d. xx-xx-1965
actor: (Father of Bob) Knobby Walsh "Joe Palooka"; Shadow "The Shadow"
11-06-1899 - Francis Lederer - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 5-25-2000
actor: Guest Armchair detective: Ellery Queen
11-06-1901 - Juanita Hall - d. 2-28-1968
actor: "Story of Ruby Valentine"
11-06-1904 - Selena Royle - NYC - d. 4-23-1983
actor: Hilda Hope "Hilda Hope, [removed]"; Kathy Marsh "Portia Faces Life"
11-06-1905 - Isabel Carothers - Mt. Pleasant, IA - d. 1-8-1937
actor: Lu "Clara, Lu and Em"
11-06-1910 - Donald Dickson - Clairton, PA - d. 9-21-1972
singer: "Sealtest Party"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
11-06-1916 - Ray Conniff - Attleboro, MA - d. 10-12-2002
arranger: Armed Forces Radio during World War II
11-06-1931 - Mike Nichols - Berlin, Germany
comedian: "Mike Nicholes and Elaine May"; "Monitor"
11-06-1935 - Judy Lewis - Venice, CA
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-06-1943 - Berlie Doherty - Liverpool, England
writer: "The Drowned Village"
11-06-1951 - Paul (Hugh) Carter - The Hague, Netherlands
writer: "Memory As Desire"

November 6th deaths
03-11-1918 - Grace McTernan - d. 11-6-1995
soprano: "Your America"
04-14-1914 - John Hubbard - East Chicago, IN - d. 11-6-1988
actor: Willie Faye "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"
05-07-1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - St. Petersburg, Russia - d.
11-6-1893
composer: Many of his compositions were used as themes
05-19-1895 - Harry Saxe - Montreal, Canada - d. 11-6-1947
actor: Daddy Warbucks "Little Orphan Annie"; Dr. Burr "Mryt and Marge
07-17-1904 - John B. Hughes - d. 11-6-1989
news commentator: "Hughes Reel"
07-21-1883 - Cecil Humphreys - Cheltenham, England - d. 11-6-1947
actor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
08-01-1911 - Fora Campbell - d. 11-6-1978
actor: Jean Forbes Lambert "Brave Tomorrow"; Janice King "Strange
Romance of Evelyn Winters"
08-15-1903 - Burke Bivens - Kirbyville, TX - d. 11-6-1967
saxophonist: Wayne King Orchestra
09-03-1925 - Hank Thompson - Waco, TX - d. 11-6-2007
singer/guitarist: "Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys"
11-17-1907 - L. Sprague de Camp - NYC - d. 11-6-2000
science fiction writer: "X-Minus One"; "Future Tense"
11-19-1863 - Billy Sunday - Ames, IA - d. 11-6-1935
preacher: "Back Home Hour"
11-20-1917 - Jim Hawthorne - Victor, CO - d. 11-6-2007
disk jockey: "The Hawthorne Thing"; "Hawthorne's Adventures"
11-20-1920 - Gene Tierney - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-6-1991
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "[removed]
Steel Hour"
12-19-1902 - Mary Michael - Denver, CO - d. 11-6-1980
actor: Ma Fogart "Big Sister"; Mrs. Kelly "Stepmother"

Ron

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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 20:06:38 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-7 births/deaths

November 7th births

11-07-1868 - Royal Copeland - Dexter, MI - d. 6-17-1938
commentator: "Health Talk"; "Fleischmann Hour"
11-07-1883 - Solomon Lightfoot Michaux - Newport News, VA - d.
10-20-1968
preacher: "Elder Michaux's Happiness Church Service"
11-07-1890 - Phil Spitalny - Odessa, Russia - d. 10-11-1970
conductor: "Nestles Chocolateers"; "Blue Coal Revue"; "Hour of Charm"
11-07-1893 - Margaret Leech - Newburgh, NY - d. 2-24-1974
author: "Information Please"
11-07-1895 - Jerry Belcher - Austin, TX - d. 6-3-1962
interviewer: "Vox Pop"; "Our Neighbors"
11-07-1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz - NYC - d. 3-5-1953
screenwriter, producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-07-1902 - Ed Dodd - Lafayette, GA - d. 5-27-1991
comic creator: "Mark Trail"
11-07-1903 - Dean Jagger - Lima, OH - d. 2-5-1991
actor: "Crisis in War Town"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Cavalcade of America"
11-07-1906 - Red Ingle - Toledo, OH - d. 9-7-1965
vocalist: (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) "The Spike Jones Show"
11-07-1907 - Tom Hanlon - Kansas - d. 9-29-1970
announcer: "Jane Endicott, Reporter"; "That's My Pop"; "Beulah Show"
11-07-1910 - Charles Carroll - Jackson, MI - d. 6-5-1978
actor: "Margo of Castlewood"; "Valiant Lady"
11-07-1911 - Dick Stark - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-12-1986
announcer: "It Pays to be Ignorant"; "Perry Mason"; "Walter Winchell's
Jergens Journal"
11-07-1913 - Margorie Anderson - London, England - d. 12-14-1999
disc jockey: "Forces Favourites"; "Woman's Hour"; "Home for the Day"
11-07-1916 - Joe Bushkin - NYC - d. 11-3-2004
jazz pianist: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
11-07-1917 - Johnnie Stewart - Tonbridge, England - d. 4-29-2005
sound effects for BBC radio in 1930s, then became a producer
11-07-1918 - Billy Graham - Charlotte, NC
preacher: "Hour of Decision"
11-07-1918 - Fred Cusick - Boston, MA - d. 9-15-2009
sportscaster "Irish Hour"
11-07-1921 - Virginia Kaye - d. 3-18-2005
actor: Rosemary Dawson "Rosemary"
11-07-1922 - Al Hirt - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-27-1999
dixieland trumpeter: "Voices of Vista"; "The Navy Swings"; "Here's to
Veterans"
11-07-1926 - Joan Sutherland - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-10-2010
soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
11-07-1945 - Ruthe Stein - Chicago, IL
journalist: "Sonya Live"; "All Things Considered"
11-07-1949 - Gary Marcuse - Ithaca, NY
host: "Songs and Stories of Canada"

November 7th deaths

01-21-1915 - Alan Hewitt - NYC - d. 11-7-1986
actor: Ken Martinson "This is Nora Drake"; Karl Dorn "Romance of Helen
Trent"
01-21-1925 - Charles Aidman - Frankfort, IN - d. 11-7-1993
acotr: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
02-19-1902 - Eddie Peabody - Reading, MA - d. 11-7-70
banjoist: (The Banjo King) "National Barn Dance"
03-13-1892 - Janet Flanner - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-7-1978
reporter: "Listen, The Women"
03-14-1925 - Sonny Cohn - Chicago, IL - d. 11-7-2006
trumpeter: Count Basie Orchestra
03-24-1910 - John V. Ambrose - d. 11-7-1995
sportscaster: WTAG Worcester, Massachusetts
03-30-1914 - Stu Novins - Boston, MA - d. 11-7-1989
writer: "The City"
04-13-1919 - Howard Keel - Gillespie, IL - d. 11-7-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-14-1924 - Shorty Rogers - Great Barrington, MA - d. 11-7-1994
jazz trumpeter: "Army Bandstand"; "Here's to Veterans"
05-12-1909 - Margaret Harshaw - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-7-1997
opera singer: "Radio Hall of Fame"; "Sylvan Opera Condert"
05-17-1905 - John Patrick - Louisville, KY - d. 11-7-1995
writer, actor: Cecil "Cecil and Sally"
05-25-1898 - Gene Tunney - NYC - d. 11-7-1978
heavyweight boxing champion: "National Guard Show"; "The Navy is Fit
to Fight"
06-12-1924 - Howard E. Goldfuss - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-7-2007
judge: "Tell It to the Judge"
08-15-1903 - Jerry Cady - d. 11-7-1948
writer: "Major Hoople"
08-18-1879 - Gus Edwards - Hohensaliza, Germany - d. 11-7-1945
songwriter: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
08-25-1885 - Chick Sale - Huron, SD - d. 11-7-1936
humorist: "General Motors Family Party"; "RCA Victor Hour"
09-16-1927 - Jack Kelly - Astoria, NY - d. 11-7-1992
actor: "Suspense"
09-20-1918 - Peg Phillips - Everett, WA - d. 11-7-2002
actor: "Studio One"; "The Big Show"
10-04-1905 - Ruth Lyons - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-7-1988
talk show host: "50-50 Club"
10-10-1911 - George Mathews - NYC - d. 11-7-1984
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-11-1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt - NYC - d. 11-7-1962
commentator: "Eleanor Roosevelt Chats/It's a Woman's World/Talks by
Eleanor Roosevelt"
10-11-1914 - Buddy Twiss - St. Paul, MN - d. 11-7-1952
producer: "I Love A Mystery"; "One Man's Family"
10-16-1900 - Lloyd Corrigan - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-7-1969
actor: Judge Hunter "One Man's Family"
10-21-1905 - Carleton Young - NYC - d. 11-7-1994
actor: Dick Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"; Ellery Queen "Advs of Ellery
Queen"
11-05-1885 - Will Durant - North Adams, MA - d. 11-7-1981
historian: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
12-11-1883 - Victor McLaglen - Tunbridge Wells, England - d. 11-7-1959
actor: Captain Flagg "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"; Mountie Eric
Lewis "Red Trails"
12-14-1915 - Jerry Daniels - d. 11-7-1995
singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
Nightclubbing"
12-15-1891 - A. P. Carter - Poor Valley, VA - d. 11-7-1960
singer: (Carter Family) "Grand Ole Opry"

Ron

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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 20:15:45 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  George Ansbro, 1915-2011

Folks;

   Jay Hickerson sends the unhappy news that George Ansbro, radio and
television announcer, author, and great friend to the Friends of Old-Time
Radio Convention has died. I've posted some personal recolections about
George on my blog, [removed]

         Charlie

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