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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 110
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Himan Brown died                      [ "Jim Byrd" <byrd@[removed]; ]
      6-18 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Virginia Payne: thanks Jim Cox        [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      Have you heard the Shadow's newspape  [ "bob@[removed]" <bstepno@mindsprin ]
      6-19 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 20-26 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      The McGee's                           [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
      Molly using fibbers name              [ eric hardy <latriv@[removed]; ]
      6-20 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Another early Sherlock Holmes broadc  [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:46:28 -0400
    From: "Jim Byrd" <byrd@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Himan Brown died
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    I just saw an obituary for him in the Boston Globe. See
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    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:46:34 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-18 births/deaths

    June 18th births

    06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-18-1893 - Gladys Gooding - Macon, MO - d. 11-18-1963
    organist, singer: organist at Madison Square Garden
    06-18-1895 - Castro Darazo - San Jose, Costa Rica - d. 12-28-1981
    conductor: "Strand Theatre Concert Orchestra" WSMB New Orleans,
    Louisiana
    06-18-1897 - Alan MacAteer - d. 6-26-1986
    actor: Pop, the stage doorman "Backstage Wife"
    06-18-1897 - Henry Wadsworth - Maysville, KY - d. 12-5-1974
    actor: Alabama Randall "Jane Arden"
    06-18-1898 - Carleton Hobbs - Farnborough, England - d. 7-31-1978
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Saturday Night Theatre, Children's Hour"
    06-18-1898 - Francis 'Dink' Trout - Beardstown, IL - d. 3-26-1950
    actor: Waldo Binney "Life of Riley"; Mr. Anderson "A Day in the Life
    of Dennis Day"
    06-18-1901 - Jimmy Dale - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-17-1982
    pianist, arranger: "Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra"
    06-18-1902 - Tom Breneman - Waynesboro, PA - d. 4-28-1948
    emcee: "Breakfast at Sardi's/in Hollywood"; "My Secret Ambition"
    06-18-1903 - Jeanette MacDonald - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1965
    singer: "Nobody's Children"; "Vicks Open House"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    06-18-1904 - Keye Luke - Canton, China - d. 1-12-1991
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Image Minorities"
    06-18-1906 - Kay Kyser - Rocky Mt., NC - d. 7-23-1985
    bandleader, emcee: (The Old Perfessor) "Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    06-18-1906 - Ray Bauduc - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-8-1988
    drummer, composer: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    06-18-1908 - Clayton "Bud" Collyer - NYC - d. 9-8-1969
    actor, announcer: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; "Cavalcade
    of America"
    06-18-1908 - Elmore Vincent - Amarillo, X - d. 3-27-2000
    actor: Phineas Peabody "Lum and Abner"
    06-18-1910 - Betty Mandeville - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-14-2001
    producer, director: "The FBI in Peace and War"; "Take It or Leave It"
    06-18-1910 - Dick Foran - Flemington, NJ - d. 8-10-1979
    singer: (The Singing Cowboy) "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
    06-18-1910 - Ray McKinley - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-7-1995
    bandleader, vocalist: Co-leader of the Glen Miller Band
    06-18-1910 - Russ Hodges - Dayton, TN - d. 4-19-1971
    sportscaster: "Giants win the pennant, Giants win the pennant, Giants
    win the pennant"
    06-18-1911 - Babe Russin - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-4-1984
    tenor sax: "The Ipana Troubadors"
    06-18-1913 - Harold Alberghini - d. 7-16-1993
    disk jockey and newscaster: Maine
    06-18-1913 - Johnnie Neblett - Mississippi - d. 9-15-1946
    announcer: "Bargain Counter"; "Tin Pan Alley"
    06-18-1913 - Sammy Cahn - NYC - d. 1-15-1993
    lyricist: "You Bet Your Life"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"; "Monitor"
    06-18-1914 - [removed] Marshall - Owatonna, MN - d. 8-25-1998
    narrator: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-18-1917 - Richard Boone - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-10-1981
    actor: "Dragnet"
    06-18-1917 - Ross Elliott - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-12-1999
    actor: "Mercury Theatre"
    06-18-1919 - Ed Simmons - d. 5-18-1998
    writer, director: "The Martin and Lewis Show"; "The Quiz Kids"
    06-18-1919 - Mel Brandt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-2008
    announcer: "Advs. of Frank Merriwell"
    06-18-1920 - Ian Carmichael - Hull, Yorkshire, England - d. 2-5-2010
    actor: Lord Peter Wimsey "Five Red Herrings" and other Sayers stories
    06-18-1922 - Buck Page - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-21-2006
    guitarist: (Riders of the Purple Sage) "The Roy Rogers Show"
    06-18-1925 - Bob Arthur - Aberdeen, WA - d. 10-1-2008
    actor: "The Bob Arthur Show"
    06-18-1938 - Don "Sugarcane" Harris - Pasadena, CA - d. 11-27-1999
    rock violinist: (Squires) "Stars for Defense"
    06-18-1942 - Paul McCartney - Liverpool, England
    singer: (The Beatles) "Here We Go Again"

    June 18th deaths

    01-18-1910 - Arthur Howard - London, England - d. 6-18-1995
    actor: "Whack-O!)
    02-03-1918 - Gene Baldridge - d. 6-18-1988
    disk jockey: WSIP Paintsville, Kentucky
    02-07-1949 - Susan Boyd - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 6-18-2004
    writer: "Another Day"
    03-19-1923 - Pamela Britton - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-18-1974
    actor: "Luncheon at Sardi's"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-23-1920 - Alfred Palca - Manhattan, NY - d. 6-18-1998
    writer: Wrote for NBC radio while still in college
    05-15-1923 - Doris Dowling - Detroit, MI - d. 6-18-2004
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-21-1920 - Bill Barber - Hornell, NY - d. 6-18-2007
    jazz tuba player: "Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra"
    05-27-1912 - John Cheever - Quincy, MA - d. 6-18-1982
    writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
    06-01-1922 - Joan Caulfield - East Orange, NJ - d. 6-18-1991
    actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"
    06-17-1894 - Harold Levey - NYC - d. 6-18-1967
    composer, conductor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
    06-19-1928 - Nancy Marchand - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-2000
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "A Private Space"
    06-25-1919 - Bill Manhoff - Newark, NJ - d. 6-18-1974
    writer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    07-10-1905 - Thomas Gomez - NYC - d. 6-18-1971
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-16-1906 - Vincent Sherman - Vienna, GA - d. 6-18-2006
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    08-08-1927 - Basil Kirchin - Blackpool, England - d. 6-18-2005
    drummer: "Harry Roy and His Orchestra"
    08-15-1879 - Ethel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-18-1959
    actor: Hattie Thompson "Miss Hattie"
    08-21-1924 - Jack Buck - Holyoke, MA - d. 6-18-2002
    baseball broadcaster: St. Louis Cardinals
    09-22-1870 - Arthur Pryor - St. Joseph, MO - d. 6-18-1942
    bandmaster, trombonist: "Cremo Military Band Program"; "Goodyear
    Program"
    09-25-1926 - John Ericson - Dusseldorf, Germany - d. 6-18-1972
    actor: "Stars On Parade"
    10-02-1920 - Rosemarie Brancato - d. 6-18-1994
    operatic soprano: "Twin Sisters"
    10-30-1926 - Charles Woolf - California - d. 6-18-1994
    actor: "Life of Riley"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-31-1915 - Chris Griffin - d. 6-18-2005
    trumpet: (Benny Goodman's Orchestra) "Camel Caravan"
    11-01-1908 - Felix Knight - Macon, GA - d. 6-18-1998
    singer: "Schaefer Revue"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    11-03-1902 - Milt Herth - Kenosha, WI - d. 6-18-1969
    organist: (Milt Herth Trio) "Hollywood News"; "Al Pearce"
    11-15-1907 - Bill Anson - Chicago, IL - d. 6-18-1983
    quizmaster: "The Hirsch Telephone Quiz"
    11-21-1907 - Charles Korvin - Postyen, Hungary - d. 6-18-1998
    actor: "Voice of the Army"
    12-01-1917 - William Tracy - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-18-1967
    actor: Roosty "Roosty of the AAF"
    12-05-1892 - Al Boasberg - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-1937
    writer: "Jack Benny Program"Ron

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:46:41 -0400
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Virginia Payne: thanks Jim Cox

    Thanks to Jim Cox for comments about the durable Virginia Payne, Ma Perkins.
    I never met her, but I could have.  She was a guest of WNAX radio for
    Midwest Farmer Days in 1944.  WNAX was one of those durable radio stations,
    too!  They have been on the air since 1922.  1944 was the year in which
    Brace Beemer (Lone Ranger) was a guest of WNAX, also.  What a year that was!

    Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.
    Old Time Radio: [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:46:51 -0400
    From: "bob@[removed]" <bstepno@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Have you heard the Shadow's newspaper pal?

    I've read somewhere that The Shadow's sometime agent, a newspaper reporter
    named Clive Burke, turns up in some radio episodes, not just pulp stories,
    but I've never run across any of those radio episodes. Have you?

    If it's true, I suspect someone on this list has heard Clive and can tell me
    where to listen, or point to a Shadow reference book or site with such
    details. If you can, please do!

    Meanwhile, thanks to those of you who provided information about Soldiers of
    the Press. My "short academic article" research into the portrayal of
    newspaper reporters in radio dramatic series (and dramatized non-fiction like
    SotP) has turned into quite the book-length iceberg. This is my second summer
    working on what I thought would be a "Christmas break" project, but I keep
    finding cool new -- to me, anyway -- stuff.

    regards,

    Bob Stepno
    Radford University
    Radford, Va.

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:47:00 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-19 births/deaths

    June 19th births

    06-19-1863 - William A. Brady - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-6-1950
    theatrical producer: heard twice weekly on CBS during 1934-1935
    06-19-1865 - May Whitty - Liverpool, England - d. 5-29-1948
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-19-1892 - Mishel Piastro - Kertz, Russia - d. 4-10-1970
    violinist, conductor: "Longines Symphonette"; "General Motors Concerts"
    06-19-1893 - Frank Banyard - d. 6-xx-1971
    baritone: WOR Newark, New Jersey
    06-19-1894 - Emil Coleman - Odessa, Russia - d. 1-26-1965
    orchestra leader: "Penthouse Party"; "Gulf Headliners"
    06-19-1897 - Moe Howard - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-4-1975
    original stooge: (Three Stooges) "Whatever Became of . . . .?"
    06-19-1899 - Francis Drake "Pat" Ballard - d. 10-26-1960
    writer of radio scripts in Troy, Pennsylvania
    06-19-1901 - Frederic Tozere - d. 8-5-1972
    actor: Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"
    06-19-1902 - Ed Thorgerson - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-22-1997
    announcer/sportscaster: "A&P Gypsies"; "The Elgin Football Revue"
    06-19-1902 - Guy Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 11-5-1977
    bandleader: (The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven) "Lombardoland USA"
    06-19-1903 - Lou Gehrig - NYC - d. 6-2-1941
    baseball iron man: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-19-1908 - Mildred Natwick - Baltimore, MD - d. 10-25-1994
    actor: "Starring Boris Karloff"; "Best Plays"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    06-19-1909 - Maurice Zimm - Waterloo, IA - d. 11-17-2005
    writer: "The Man Who Sang"
    06-19-1910 - Virginia Payne - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-10-1977
    actor: Ma Perkins "Ma Perkins"; Kerry Carter "Carters of Elm Street"
    06-19-1912 - Jerry Jerome - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-17-2001
    musician: "Eileen Barton Show"; "Mirth and Madness"
    06-19-1912 - Martin Gabel - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-22-1986
    actor: John Wayne "Big Sister"; Gregory Hood "Casebook of Gregory Hood"
    06-19-1915 - Pat Buttram - Addison, AL - d. 1-8-1994
    actor: (Sage of Winston County) "National Barn Dance"
    06-19-1917 - Robert Karnes - Kentucky - d. 12-4-1979
    announcer: Started his career in his native Kentucky
    06-19-1919 - E. S. Madden - Melbourne, Australia
    author: Wrote for radio in his native Australia
    06-19-1919 - Louis Jourdan - Marseilles, France
    actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "U. S. Steel Hour"
    06-19-1919 - Pauline Kael - Sonoma County, CA - d. 9-3-2001
    film critic: Broadcast for Pacifica radio station
    06-19-1920 - Johnny Douglas - London, England - d. 4-20-2003
    host: "In the Still of the Night"
    06-19-1921 - Buddy Brees - NYC - d. 10-30-1994
    singer: "Art Mooney and his Orchestra"; "Bob Chester and his Orchestra"
    06-19-1921 - Vernon Jarrett - Saulsbury, TN - d. 5-23-2004
    host: "The Vernon Jarrett Report"
    06-19-1922 - Gwen Davies - NYC
    actor: "Advs. of Helen and Mary"; "Let's Pretend"
    06-19-1923 - Estelle Levy - NYC
    actor, singer: "Grand Central Station"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
    06-19-1925 - Charlie Drake - South London, England - d. 12-24-2006
    comedian: "Jigsaw"
    06-19-1925 - Robert Barager - d. 4-17-2004
    disk jockey: WNBZ Saranac Lake, New York
    06-19-1928 - Barry Took - London, England - d. 3-31-2002
    writer, comedian: "Round the Horne"; "We're In Business"
    06-19-1928 - Nancy Marchand - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-2000
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "A Private Space"
    06-19-1932 - Pier Angeli - Cagliaru, Saradinia - d. 9-10-1971
    actor: "Louella Parsons Show"

    June 19th deaths

    01-18-1915 - Lesley Midgley - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 6-19-2002
    producer cbs news: "The Twentieth Century"
    02-12-1910 - Ken Roberts - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-19-2009
    actor, announcer: Commissioner Weston "The Shadow"; "Easy Aces"
    02-21-1917 - Al "Red" Benson - d. 6-19-1966
    quizmaster: "Take A Number"
    03-26-1894 - Will Wright - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-19-1962
    actor: Ed Kremer "Fibber McGee and Molly"; George Honeywell "My Little
    Margie"
    04-07-1918 - Peanuts Hucko - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-19-2003
    jazz clarinetist: "Swing Shift"; "I Sustain These Wings"; "Doctor Jazz"
    04-23-1893 - Frank Borzage - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 6-19-1962
    film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    05-09-1860 - James M. Barrie - Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland - d.
    6-19-1937
    author: Some of his works adapted for radio
    05-16-1886 - Norman Ross - Portland, OR - d. 6-19-1953
    06-05-1891 - Prosper Buranelli - d. 6-19-1960
    writer: Assistant to Lowell Thomas
    08-15-1933 - Bobby Helms - Bloomington, IN - d. 6-19-1997
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    09-26-1898 - Richard Lockridge - St. Joseph, MO - d. 6-19-1982
    writer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"
    10-17-1905 - Jean Arthur - NYC - d. 6-19-1991
    actor: "Ford Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-26-1920 - Eleanor Rella - d. 6-19-2003
    actor: Billie Devere "Myrt and Marge"
    10-29-1925 - Geraldine Brooks - NYC - d. 6-19-1977
    actor: "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Voice of the Army"
    11-09-1886 - Ed Wynn - Philadelphia, PA,  - d. 6-19-1966
    comedian: (The Perfect Fool) Fire Chief "Ed Wynn Show"; King Bubbles
    "Happy Island"
    12-24-1921 - Phillip Grenville Mann - Manly, Australia - d. 6-19-1990
    writer: "The Sergeant at Burralee"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:47:07 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 20-26 June

     From Those Were The Days -

    6/23

    1933   The Pepper Pot program welcomed a new host. Don McNeill took over
    the show and renamed it The Breakfast Club. The show, a huge success for
    the NBC Blue and later, ABC, became one of the longest running radio
    programs in history. The show aired with McNeill as host until December
    27, 1968. The Breakfast Club was a morning show that had its share of
    corny jokes, visiting celebrities and lots of audience participation.

    1941   Front Page Farrell was heard for the first time on Mutual. In
    1942, the program moved to NBC and stayed on the air until 1954. Sally
    and David Farrell were the central characters.

    1947   Wendy Warren and the News debuted on CBS. The broadcasts
    continued until 1958. No, the program was not a newscast, in the
    traditional sense. It was a serial one of many of the time. The unique
    thing about this particular show, however, was that Wendy Warren and the
    News did utilize a real three minute newscast to open the show. The
    newscaster, delivering the news as part of the show, chose not to stay
    in the entertainment side of radio, but continued to be a true
    journalist and a legend at CBS. That newsman was Douglas Edwards.

    6/24

    1960   The Romance of Helen Trent was heard for the last time. Helen and
    her boy toy, Gil Whitney, were about to be married, but the loving
    couple never made it to the altar just in case the show would ever be
    renewed. Helen Trent and her romance aired for 27 years a total of 7,222
    episodes on the CBS.

    6/25

    1942   The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on WOR
    and the Mutual Broadcasting System.

    6/26

    1933   The Kraft Music Hall debuted.

    1949   Fred Allen had his final program, though he continued for several
    years to guest on other shows.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:47:15 -0400
    From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The McGee's

    Molly called Fibber "Dearie', "Himself" and McGee, but did anyone ever
    hear, or know, his name. The name that would have been on his birth
    certificate, his draft card, Social Security Card. or any legal
    document. I'm sure it wasn't Dearie????

    Frank McGurn

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:47:23 -0400
    From: eric hardy <latriv@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Molly using fibbers name
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    She may not have used Fibber. But she coined the phrase 'taint funny Mcgee.

    Eric

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:47:28 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-20 births/deaths

    June 20th births

    06-20-1876 - Raymond Ditmars - New Jersey - d. 5-12-1942
    curator bronx zoo: "Adventures in Reading"
    06-20-1890 - Effie Palmer - Albany, NY - d. 8-19-1942
    actor: Jean Evans "Lonely Woman"; Dodie Black "Scattergood Baines"
    06-20-1892 - Katherin Prescott Bemis - d. 5-xx-1974
    singer: KOA Denver, Colorado
    06-20-1893 - Edwin Wolfe - d. 9-23-1983
    actor: Curt Bradley "Pepper Young's Family"
    06-20-1897 - Bob Howard - W. Newton, MA - d. 12-4-1986
    pianist-singer: "Calsodent Presents Bob Howard"; "Sing It Again"
    06-20-1904 - Matt Crowley - New Haven, CT - d. 3-10-1983
    actor: Mark Trail "Mark Trail"; Buck Rogers "Buck Rogers"
    06-20-1905 - Lillian Hellman - New Orleans, LA - d. 6-30-1984
    author: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    06-20-1909 - Errol Flynn - Hobart, Tasmania - d. 10-14-1959
    actor: Christopher Casanova "Modern Adventures of Casanova"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    06-20-1911 - Edward Eager - Toledo, OH - d. 10-23-1964
    writer: "Jane Pickens Show"
    06-20-1911 - Gail Patrick - Birmingham, AL - d. 7-6-1980
    actor: "The Dreft Star Playhouse"
    06-20-1913 - Al Gallodoro - Birmingham, AL - d. 10-4-2008
    jazz saxophonist: "The Paul Whiteman Show"; "The Henry Morgan Show"
    06-20-1924 - Audie Murphy - Kingston, TX - d. 5-28-1971
    world war II hero, actor: "Cavalcade of America"
    06-20-1924 - Billie Lou Watt - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-7-2001
    actor: "Land of the Free"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-20-1924 - Chet Atkins - Luttrell, TN - d. 6-30-2001
    guitarist: "Boone County Neighbors"; "Grand Ole Opry"
    06-20-1931 - Martin Landau - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: "No Love Lost"
    06-20-1948 - Tess Brady - Adelaide, Australia
    writer: "Anthony"

    June 21st deaths

    01-05-1882 - Herbert Bayard Swope - d. 6-20-1958
    editor, journalist: "Information Please"
    01-24-1883 - Estelle Winwood - Lee, Kent, England - d. 6-20-1984
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    02-25-1917 - Michael Morris - Russia - d. 6-20-2003
    writer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"; "Hollywood Story"
    03-04-1907 - Edgar Barrier - NYC - d. 6-20-1964
    actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"
    03-31-1903 - Ralph Atlass - d. 6-20-1979
    Chicaco radio pioneer
    04-05-1911 - Gordon Jones - Alden, IA - d. 6-20-1963
    actor: Pete Thompson "Meet Mr. McNutley"
    04-20-1898 - Sidney Lanfield - Chicago, IL - d. 6-20-1972
    film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    04-22-1916 - Maurice Webster - Gibbon, NE - d. 6-20-2001
    announcer: "Scattergood Baines"; "Meet the Missus"; "Surprise Party"
    05-12-1901 - Whitey "Duke" Ford - De Soto, MO - d. 6-20-1986
    comedian: (Duke of Paducah) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Plantation Party"
    05-15-1904 - Clifton Fadiman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-20-1999
    emcee: "Information, Please"; "Conversation"; "RCA Magic Key"
    05-30-1913 - Julian Blaustein - NYC - d. 6-20-1995
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"
    08-05-1912 - Lew Valentine - San Benito, TX - d. 6-20-1976
    quizmaster: Mennen Jury Trials"; "Dr. [removed], the Mental Banker"
    08-10-1902 - Louise Massey - Midland, TX - d. 6-20-1983
    singer: (Louise Massey and the Westerners) "National Barn Dance";
    "Show Boat"
    08-19-1870 - Bernard Baruch - Camden, SC - d. 6-20-1965
    guest: "Tex and Jinx"
    08-22-1906 - James Meighan - NYC - d. 6-20-1970
    actor: Michael Waring "The Falcon"; Peter Carver "Lora Lawton"
    09-03-1918 - Donna King - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 6-20-2007
    singer: (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"; "Al
    Pearce and His Gang"
    09-14-1914 - Robert McCloskey - Hamilton, OH - d. 6-20-2003
    author: "Books Bring Adventure"
    10-09-1897 - Robert Armbruster - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-20-1994
    conductor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Cousin Willie"
    10-15-1918 - Bobby Gimby - Cabri, Saskatchewan, Canada - d. 6-20-1998
    musician, songwriter: "Happy Gang"

    Ron

    ------------------------------

    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:50:03 -0400
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Another early Sherlock Holmes broadcast

    While browsing a database of vintage Australian newspapers -- at
    [removed] -- I came across a scheduled broadcast of
    William Gillette's play "Sherlock Holmes" over Station 2FC, Sydney, on the
    evening of April 18, 1928, in three parts, from 9:48 to [removed] (with breaks
    for incidental music and the late weather forecast). A cast list appears in
    The Brisbane Courier, April 17, 1928:

    *****
    H. W. Varna and Company will produce the play "Sherlock Holmes." Characters:
    Sherlock Holmes, H. W. Varna; Dr. Watson, William Hume; Forman (Holmes'
    man), Arthur Fisher; Lady Edward Leighton, Muriel Conner; Count Stalburg, F.
    M. Brewer; Professor Moriarty, Foster Dean; Jim Larrabee, Noel Robertson;
    Billy, Somerset Varna; Madge Larrabee, Cleo. Glover; Alice Faulkner, Felix
    Clark.
    *****

    Vanda was a theater veteran who broadcast quite a few plays over 2FC in the
    late 1920s. One that might be of interest to science fiction fans is "A
    Message from Mars," presumably the pseudo-science fiction fantasy by Richard
    Ganthony, which was scheduled for May 22, 1929.

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