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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 243
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Hornet in Nostalgia Digest            [ Bob <hrkeller@[removed]; ]
      Re: a question about ILAM             [ John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed]; ]
      Re: Like the Cinnamon Bear The Lone   [ joemartelle@[removed] ]
      12-17 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Sullivan's Travels                [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      Hallmark Hall of Fame - 4 Chaplains   [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
      Favorite funny Christmas Show         [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
      12-18 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:53:31 -0500
    From: Bob <hrkeller@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hornet in Nostalgia Digest

    As has been mentioned on the list, there is a new story about the Green
    Hornet in the new Nostalgia Digest.

    Week before last I picked up the new issue at a local hobby shop and was
    pleased to see it wasn't just a Hornet 101 - the story involved creation of
    the fictional Green Hornet character (not the reason why the radio character
    became the Hornet) and the fact that the prototype for the hornet pre-dated
    radio quite a bit. It is a good story, worth checking out.

    There is also a nice bit on Nero Wolfe which covers the US and Canadian radio
    series. I only recently picked up some of the Canadian shows from the 80s and
    was pretty impressed.

    Regards,

    Bob Keller
    Waukesha, Wisc.

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    Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:53:55 -0500
    From: John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: a question about ILAM

    pauljustmill<pauljustmill@[removed];  wrote:

>     A few months ago there was a mention of some of the old I love a Mystery
>     scripts being recorded.  I think It was mentioned that the first one would be
>     presented at the OTR convention in (Puget Sound?) Wash.  Is this a died issue
>     or is it still in the works?

    I'd like to know, as well.  It was supposed to be presented Sunday
    morning of the REPS Showcase convention in Seattle.  I remember being
    excited to hear what happened. After the Showcase weekend, I waited for
    someone to post a message here giving some update.  But nothing.  After
    waiting a month, I posted a request here, asking if anyone who is a
    member of this group had attended, and if so how the new version of ILAM
    sounded.  Still no response.

    Months later, I'm still curious.  Was it canceled.  Did it take place?
    How did it sound?  Did they use organ music (I hope) or instrumental
    music for the famous ILAM theme?  Is the plan to release recordings of
    the great old stories still going forward?  If there's a delay, what's
    the cause?  Copyright problems?  Talent issues?

    Inquiring minds want to know.  And I'm glad to see that I'm not the only
    one who is [removed]

    John

    --
    "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
         The wonderful old pulp mystery stories are all reviewed at:
                     [removed]~deshadow/

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    Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:54:41 -0500
    From: joemartelle@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Like the Cinnamon Bear The Lone Ranger gave
     us a long   musical intro too
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    Hi Charlie---hope you and your family are enjoying the Holidays! Merry
    Christmas!

    I had to laugh reading the pro's & con's of the long "theme" music at  the
    opening of the Cinnamon Bear!
    Last night, I was listening to a Christmas themed episode of The Lone
    Ranger and chuckled upon hearing the "long" theme at the opening---the
    transitional music in the middle during the commercial break (with my friend,
    Fred
    Foy's dulcet times announcing--"please permit us to pause for just a
    moment!" And the long closing theme at the conclusion of the program. I
    didn't
    time the musical bridges but would venture a guess and say it  must total
    around 6 minutes. It didn't bother me to hear it as a youngster, nor  does it
    bother me today! In fact, where would we be as fans of the masked-man  without
    the marvelous William Tell Overture.

    Merry Christmas one and all
    Joe Martelle

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    Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:54:47 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-17 births/deaths

    December 17th births

    12-17-1892 - T. Frederick Candlyn - England - d. 12-16-1964
    pianist: WGY Schenectady, New York
    12-17-1895 - Rudolph Anders - Germany - d. 3-27-1987
    actor: Dr. VanMeter "Space Patrol"
    12-17-1896 - Arthur Fiedler - South Boston, MA - d. 7-10-1979
    conductor: "Robert Merrill with the Boston Pops Orchestra"; "Boston
    Pops"
    12-17-1900 - Katina Paxinou - Piraeus, Greece - d. 2-22-1973
    actor: "Suspense"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    12-17-1900 - Norman Cloutier - Hartford, CT - d. 9-7-1962
    orchestra leader: "Cloutier Calling"; "Cosmopolitan Melodies"
    12-17-1902 - House Jameson - Austin, TX - d. 4-23-1971
    actor: Sam Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Inspector Douglas Renfrew
    "Renfrew of the Mounted"
    12-17-1903 - Erskine Caldwell - Morland, GA - d. 4-11-1987
    playwright: "Information, Please"; "Short Story"
    12-17-1905 - Stella Unger - NYC - d. 2-15-1970
    commentator: "Hecker's Information Bureau"; "Your Hollywood News Girl"
    12-17-1906 - Martin Skiles - d. 5-1-1981
    music: "Mr. Aladdin"
    12-17-1907 - Frank Gill - d. 7-11-1970
    writer, comedian: "Joe E. Brown's Post Toasties Show"
    12-17-1909 - Murray Brody - d. 6-16-2004
    producer: KOH Reno, Nevada
    12-17-1910 - Spade Cooley - Oklahoma Territory - d. 11-23-1969
    western singer: (Rider's of the Purple Sage) "Spade Cooley Show"
    12-17-1911 - Jennie Land - St. Louis, MO
    singer: "Dramas of Youth"; "Musical Grocery Store"
    12-17-1911 - Richard Sale - NYC - d. 3-4-1993
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-17-1913 - Herbert Nelson - Stillwater, MN - d. 7-19-1990
    actor: Ralph Fraser "Dan Harding's Wife"; George Lawlor "Romance of
    Helen Trent"
    12-17-1919 - Edward "Shrimp" Wragge - NYC - d. 12-22-1992
    actor: "Gold Spot Pal"
    12-17-1926 - Patricia Brooks - Chicago, IL
    announcer, scriptwriter: "Weekly Women's Magazine"
    12-17-1927 - Richard Long - Chicago, IL - d. 12-21-1974
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We Hail"
    12-17-1928 - Julia Meade - Boston, MA
    actor: 'Your Hit Parade"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    12-17-1929 - William Safire - NYC - 9-27-2009
    producer: "Tex McCrary Show"
    12-17-1930 - Bill Beutel - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-18-2006
    news reporter: "New York 1960"

    December 17th deaths

    01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
    actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
    03-01-1914 - Gil Doud - Minnesota - d. 12-17-1957
    writer, director: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "One out of Seven"; "Pat
    Novak for Hire"
    03-17-1914 - Sammy Baugh - Temple, TX - d. 12-17-2008
    football great: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    04-07-1942 - Joel Dorn - Yeadon, PA - d. 12-17-2007
    disk jockey: WHAT-FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    05-06-1914 - Arline Blackburn - NYC - d. 12-17-1994
    actor: Kitty Kelly "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; Eileen Turner "The O'Neills"
    06-13-1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers - Oxford, England - d. 12-17-1957
    writer: "He That Should Come: A Nativity Play"
    06-18-1901 - Jimmy Dale - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-17-1982
    pianist, arranger: "Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra"
    07-04-1895 - Irving Caesar - NYC - d. 12-17-1996
    lyricist: "Biography In Sound"; "Perspective"
    07-04-1915 - Timmie Rogers - Detroit, MI - d. 12-17-2006
    actor: "Jubilee"
    07-10-1889 - Noble Sissle - Indianapolis, IN - d. 12-17-1975
    songwriter, orchestra leader: "Freedom's People"
    07-11-1892 - Thomas Mitchell - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-17-1962
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-18-1910 - Wyn Sayre - Lakeview, IA - d. 12-17-2007
    singer: (Doring Sisters) "Contented Hour"
    08-28-1907 - Sam Levene - NYC - d. 12-17-1980
    comedian: "Fred Allen Show"
    11-14-1894 - James Van Dyk - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-17-1951
    actor: Clyde Houston "Lora Lawton"; Dick Phillips "Rosemary"
    12-29-1938 - Don Chevrier - Toronto, Canada - d. 12-17-2007
    sports announcer: "Cassius Clay vs. George Chauvalo"
    12-31-1921 - Rex Allen - Wilcox, AZ - d. 12-17-1999
    country/western singer: "Country Music Time"; "Country Hoedown"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:06:00 -0500
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Sullivan's Travels

    Hello again --

    While there is a danger of getting too far off topic, I have to add
    something to Martin Grams' comments on "radio morals in the late 30s."
    The title for the movie that Joel McRae plans on making in "Sullivan's
    Travels" is "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," which was the title then
    intentionally used by the Coen brothers for their 2000 movie and, like its
    1930's prototype, is a picaresque comedy with vagrants, boxcars, a
    depression-era flavor, and even Clark Gable as channeled beautifully and
    hysterically by George Clooney. So the Coen brothers finished what Joel
    McRae -- and Preston Sturges -- had started.  And, of course, that movie
    wasn't dramatized for radio either. :-)

    Jan Bach

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    Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:06:12 -0500
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hallmark Hall of Fame - 4 Chaplains

    Does anyone know the correct date for the show about the famous four
    chaplains starring Frank Lovejoy and broadcast on the Hallmark Hall of Fame?

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    Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:06:35 -0500
    From: Rentingnow@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Favorite funny Christmas Show

    It might be worth bantering around member's favorite funny Christmas  show.

    I guess mine - subject to be changed without notice - is the Fibber Magee
    and Molly show concerning a Christmas Card from Elizabeth.  Nice surprise
    in the end but also gentle poking of fun at Fibber's vanity.  And finally
    the mayor get the best of both Fibber and Molly.  Gentle, fun,  characteristic
    for the time.

    1948-12-21 - Fibber McGee and Molly - Christmas Card From Elizabeth

    And for you newsgroupies  [removed]  has
    Hagel's Holiday Happening which is a collection of jillions of holiday
    programs for download.

    Larry Moore

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    Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:06:42 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-18 births/deaths

    December 18th births

    12-18-1864 - S. Parkes Cadman - Wellington, Shropshire, England - d.
    7-12-1936
    preacher: "National Radio Pulpit"
    12-18-1885 - J. Anthony Smythe - San Francisco, CA - d. 3-20-1966
    actor: "Carefree Carnival"; Henry Barbour "One Man's Family"
    12-18-1886 - Ty Cobb - Narrows, GA - d. 7-17-1961
    baseball great: "Coca Cola Top Notchers"; "Baseball: An Action History"
    12-18-1888 - Gladys Cooper - Lewisham, England - d. 11-17-1971
    actor: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    12-18-1890 - Edwin H. Armstrong - NYC - d. 1-31-1954
    inventor: FM radio
    12-18-1891 - Edward Reese - Baltimore, MD
    actor: Spencer Dean "Eno Crime Clues"; "Just Plain Bill"
    12-18-1895 - Harry Kogen - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1985
    violinist: "The Bobby Doyle Show"; "The Breakfast Club"
    12-18-1897 - Fletcher Henderson - Cuthbert, GA - d. 12-29-1952
    jazz orchestra leader: "Jubilee"; "Magic Carpet"
    12-18-1904 - Montana Slim - Guysborough, Novia Scotia - d. 12-5-1996
    singer: Had his own show on CBS
    12-18-1908 - Celia Johnson - Ellerker Gate, Richmond, England - d.
    4-26-1982
    actor: "Desert Island Disks"; Read poetry and short stories during WWII
    12-18-1909 - George Fisher - d. 12-9-1987
    hollywood reporter: "Hollywood Whispers"; "Hollywood Gossip"
    12-18-1910 - Abe Burrows - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1985
    writer: "Abe Burrows Show"; "Danny Kaye Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"
    12-18-1911 - Jerry Lawrence - Rochester, NY - d. 9-24-2005
    host, announcer: "laugh 'N' Swing Club"; "Tom Power's Life Stories"
    12-18-1913 - Alfred Bester - NYC - d. 9-30-1987
    writer: "Charlie Chan"; "Nick Carter, Master Detective"; "The Shadow"
    12-18-1913 - Lynn Bari - Roanoke,  VA - d. 11-20-1989
    actor: "Dan Carson"
    12-18-1915 - Bill Zuckert - NYC - d. 1-23-1997
    actor: Detective. Lieutenant. Parker "Crime and Peter Chambers"
    12-18-1916 - Betty Grable - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-2-1973
    actor: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "So You Want to
    Lead a Band"
    12-18-1916 - Bill McCord - Colville, WA - d. 1-17-2004
    announcer: "The Circle Arrow Show"; "Easy Money"
    12-18-1917 - Ossie Davis - Cogdell, GA - d. 2-4-2005
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Story Hour"
    12-18-1918 - Danny Simon - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-26-2005
    writer: (Brother of Neil)  "The Milton Berle Show"
    12-18-1918 - Hal Kanter - Savannah, GA
    writer: "The Beulah Show"
    12-18-1919 - Ralph Levy - Phildelphia, PA - d. 10-15-2001
    director: "Burns and Allen"
    12-18-1921 - Chili Williams - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-17-2003
    actor: "Mail Call"; "Truth or Consequences"
    12-18-1922 - Bob Dunnavant - Decatur, AL - d. 4-5-2008
    co-founder of the Athens Broadcasting Company
    12-18-1938 - Chas Chandler - Heaton, Newcastle, England - d. 7-17-1996
    rock musician: (The Animals) "Saturday Club"

    December 18th deaths

    01-14-1915 - Mark Goodson - Sacramento, CA - d. 12-18-1992
    producer, director: "Portia Faces Life"; "Stop the Music"
    01-26-1922 - Page Cavanaugh - Cherokee, KS - d. 12-18-2008
    singer: (The Page Cavanaugh Trio) "The Jack Paar Show"
    03-08-1919 - Mavor Moore - Toronto, Canada - d. 12-18-2006
    actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "The Crusoe Boys"
    03-12-1908 - Eugene Conley - Lynn, MA - d. 12-18-1981
    operatic tenor: "NBC Presents Gene Conley"; "Voice of Firestone"
    03-15-1910 - Nick Stewart - NYC - d. 12-18-2000
    actor: "Hollywood Newsreel of the Air"
    03-17-1902 - Bobby Jones - d. 12-18-1971
    renowned golfer, did a 15 minute show on golf
    04-03-1923 - Elon Packard - d. 12-18-1977
    writer: "The Bing Crosby Show"
    04-06-1913 - Don Fedderson - Beresford, SD - d. 12-18-1994
    a vice president of palo alto radio station
    04-24-1907 - John Frank Anders - Upward, NC - d. 12-18-1983
    composer, singer: live radio program in Knoxville, Tennessee
    05-09-1923 - Connie Russell - NYC - d. 12-18-1990
    vocalist: "The Dave Garroway Show"
    05-17-1883 - Ethel Intropidi - NYC - d. 12-18-1946
    actor: Phyllis Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
    06-14-1919 - Sam Wanamaker - Chicago, IL - d. 12-18-1993
    actor: Ellis Smith "The Guiding Light"; "Lone Journey"
    06-25-1903 - Anne Revere - NYC - d. 12-18-1990
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"
    08-30-1916 - Herman Klurfeld - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-18-2006
    ghostwriter for Walter Winchell
    10-01-1885 - Louis Untermeyer - NYC - d. 12-18-1977
    writer: "Information Please"
    10-04-1880 - Homer Rodeheaver - Union Furnace, OH - d. 12-18-1955
    singer/composer: "Come On. Let's Sing"
    10-07-1926 - Diana Lynn - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-18-1971
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    10-11-1897 - Leo Reisman - Boston, MA - d. 12-18-1961
    conductor: "Sheaffer Revue"; "Johnny Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"
    11-20-1937 - Jack Linkletter - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-18-2007
    commercial spokesman: ABC News
    12-01-1898 - Cyril Ritchard - Syndey, Australia - d. 12-18-1977
    actor: "Best Plays"; "United States Steel Hour"; "NBC Star Playhouse"
    12-07-1888 - Heywood Broun - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-18-1939
    theatre critic: "Author, Author"; "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Linda Sutter - Greenwich, CT - d. 12-18-1995
    producer: "Monitor"

    Ron

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