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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 156
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      10-2 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Other Names                           [ Larry Gassman <Lgsinger@[removed] ]
      The first CBS news "roundup"          [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      10-3 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Same actor, different name            [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]
      10-4 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:42:23 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-2 births/deaths

    October 2nd births

    10-02-1886 - Tony Burger - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-17-1964
    actor: "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch"; "Kate Smith"
    10-02-1890 - Groucho Marx - NYC - d. 8-19-1977
    comedian: "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel"; "Blue Ribbon Town"; "You
    Bet Your Life"
    10-02-1893 - Roy Shield - Waseca, MN - d. 1-9-1962
    conductor: "Design for Listening"; "RCA Victor Show"; "Eternal Light"
    10-02-1895 - Bud Abbott - Asbury Park, NJ - d. 4-24-1974
    comedian: "Abbott and Costello Show"
    10-02-1896 - Bob Burns - Van Buren, AR - d. 2-2-1956
    comedian: (The Arkansas Traveler) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Bob Burns Show"
    10-02-1897 - Jess Kirkpatrick - Illinois - d. 8-9-1976
    actor: Harry Henderson "Beulah"
    10-02-1898 - Baron Keyes - Greenwood, WI - d. 9-26-1976
    writer: "Air Castle"; "The Story Man"
    10-02-1900 - Barton Yarborough - Goldthwaite, TX - d. 12-19-1951
    actor: Ben Romero "Dragnet"; Doc Long "I Love A Mystery/Adventure"
    10-02-1900 - Cecil Roy - St. Paul, MN - d. 1-26-1995
    actor: (Girl of a Thousand Voices) Junior Fitz "Ma Perkins"
    10-02-1902 - Percy Crawford - Minnedosa, Canada - d. 10-31-1960
    evangelist: "Young People's Church of the Air"
    10-02-1904 - Godfrey Baseley - Alvechurch, England - d. 2-2-1997
    creator: "The Archers"
    10-02-1904 - Graham Greene - Berkhampstead, England - d. 4-3-1991
    writer: "Lives of Harry Lime"; "Studio One"; "NBC University Theatre"
    10-02-1905 - Mary Breckinridge - NYC - d. 12-11-2002
    correspondent: "CBS News of Europe"; "World News Today"
    10-02-1909 - Alexander Raymond - New Rochelle - d. 9-6-1956
    cartoonist: Created Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim
    10-02-1911 - Jack Finney - Milwaukee, WI - d. 11-14-1995
    writer: "Cloud Nine"
    10-02-1914 - Charles Drake - Bayside, NYC - d. 9-10-1994
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    10-02-1915 - Bonnie Kay - Iowa City, IA
    actor: "Barton Family"; "Mary Nobel, Backstage Wife"
    10-02-1915 - Chubby Wise - Lake City, FL - d. 1-6-1996
    musician: "Town and Country Time"
    10-02-1919 - Henry (Noel) Bentinck - Exton, England - d. 1-30-1997
    BBC talks producer
    10-02-1920 - Rosemarie Brancato - d. 6-18-1994
    operatic soprano: "Twin Sisters"
    10-02-1921 - Edmund Crispin - Chesterham Bois, England - d. 9-15-1978
    author: "The Moving Toyshop"
    10-02-1921 - Scott Crossfield - Berkely, CA - d. 4-19-2006
    test pilot: "Great Moments To Music"
    10-02-1928 - George 'Spanky' McFarland - Dallas, TX - d. 6-30-1993
    actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
    10-02-1934 - Peggy Joan Moylan - Sag Harbor, NY - d. xx-xx-2002
    singer: (The Moylan Sisters, Angels of the Airwaves) "Moylan Sisters"
    10-02-1937 - Jack Wilson - Bally Robert, County Down, Northern Ireland
    author: "A Day Like Tomorrow"

    October 2nd deaths

    02-10-1913 - James Monks - NYC - d. 10-2-1994
    actor: Jim Brandon "The Avenger" I. A. Moto "Mr. I. A. Moto"
    02-17-1921 - Ken Platt - Lancashire, England - d. 10-2-1998
    comedian: "Fanfare"; "Worker's Playtime"; "Hit the Road"
    02-26-1906 - Madeleine Carroll - West Bromwich, England - d. 10-2-1987
    actor: "The Circle"; "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Stage Door Canteen"
    03-01-1904 - Paul Hartman - d. 10-2-1973
    actor: "Tony Awards"
    03-28-1912 - Frank Lovejoy - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-2-1962
    actor: Randy 'Lucky' Stone "Nightbeat"; Bill Weigand "Mr. and Mrs.
    North"
    06-11-1920 - Hazel Scott - Port of Spain, Trinidad - d. 10-2-1981
    singer, pianist: "Free World Theatre"; "New World A-Coming"
    07-14-1912 - Woody Guthrie - Okemah, OK - d. 10-2-1967
    songwriter, singer: "Pursuit of Happiness"
    07-18-1909 - Harriet Nelson - Des Moines, IA - d. 10-2-1994
    actor: Daisy June "Red Skelton Show"; "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
    07-27-1933 - Nick Reynolds - San Diego, CA - d. 10-2-2008
    singer: (The Kingston Trio) "Guest Star"; "Guard Session"
    09-11-1926 - Lee Richardson - Chicago, IL - d. 10-2-1999
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    09-13-1910 - Raymond Raikes - London, England - d. 10-2-1998
    producer: "Dick Barton"; "The Foundling"; "National Theatre of the Air"
    09-14-1922 - Frances Bergen - Birmingham, AL - d. 10-2-2006
    actor: (Wife of Edgar, Mother of Candice) "New Edgar Bergen Hour"
    09-29-1907 - Gene Autry - Tioga, TX - d. 10-2-1998
    singer, actor: "National Barn Dance"; "Melody Ranch"
    11-17-1925 - Rock Hudson - Winnetka, IL - d. 10-2-1985
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-16-1913 - Verlye Mills - St. John, KS - d. 10-2-1983
    harpist: "The Hour of Charm"; "Your Hit Parade"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:49:58 -0400
    From: Larry Gassman <Lgsinger@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Other Names

    		Hi,
    I wish I had kept my list of "Other names"
    So Barbara, if you still have yours, please send it along.
    I also remember that Jeanne Bates was married to Lew Lansworth and
    she sometimes used her married name on shows like "Have Gun, will travel".
    I had forgotten about Parley's other alias.
    I know there were others but I never wrote them down so will have to
    go back and listen again to pick them out.
    Larry

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    Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:50:04 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The first CBS news "roundup"

    Folks;

       First off, thanks to everyone who responded to my post yesterday!

       I was sent a link to what appears to be, at least partially, the first CBS
    news "roundup" program on March 18, 1938. This file is NOT complete, but it
    does appear to be at least some of the [removed] have explained what I
    discovered more completely on the blog, where I've podcasted the file:

    [removed]

       You can listen to the show direcly on the blog, or download the show for
    your MP3 player to listen to later.

       Also, thank you to those who have joined Minus through the link I gave
    yesterday:

    [removed]

       If you haven't, and can take a minute to do so (they do not require
    personal information, which I _really_ like), it'll increase the amount of
    space I have to post OTR shows. I've added to my "dashboard" the Android APK
    for any of you with Android devices who prefer to sideload instead of using
    the Android Market, and there's a desk application you can download from
    their main pages. I'm still learning how to use it, though, so don't be
    surprised if I stumble a little while setting things up.

       I should be posting a link to 80+ OTR news programs a little later this
    week. Thanks again to everyone who responded!

             Charlie

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    Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:50:28 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-3 births/deaths

    October 3rd births

    10-03-1873 - Emily Post - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-25-1960
    commentator: "Emily Post"; "Right Thing to Do"
    10-03-1881 - George Moran - Elwood, KS - d. 8-1-1949
    comedian: (Two Black Crows) "Majestic Theatre of the Air"; "Eveready
    Hour"
    10-03-1882 - Ulderico 'Rico' Marcelli - Rome, Italy - d. 8-17-1962
    bandleader: "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    10-03-1890 - Henry Hull - Louisville, KY - d. 3-8-1977
    actor: Honest Abe "Abraham Lincoln"; Nathan Hale "Roses and Drums"
    10-03-1897 - Vincent Sorey - Turin, Italy - d. 3-29-1977
    conductor/violinist: Musical director for WOR New York
    10-03-1898 - Leo McCarey - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-5-1969
    judge: "This Is My Story"
    10-03-1898 - Morgan Farley - Mamaroneck, NY - d. 10-11-1988
    actor: "Escape"
    10-03-1899 - Gertrude Berg - NYC - d. 9-14-1966
    actor: Molly Goldberg, "Goldbergs"
    10-03-1907 - Paul Nugent - Brooklyn, NY - d. unknown
    actor: Paul Strong "Mother O' Mine"; "Just Plain Bill"
    10-03-1908 - Johnny Burke - Antioch, CA - d. 2-25-1964
    composer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "The Big Show"
    10-03-1910 - Gwen Davenport - Colon, Canal Zone, Panama - d. 3-23-2002
    author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-03-1911 - Michael Hordern - Berkhamsted, England - d. 5-2-1995
    actor: Gandolf "The Lord of the Rings"
    10-03-1912 - Gabriel Julian - Newark, NJ - d. 9-29-2002
    piano: "Bobby Byrne Orchestra"; arranger: "Glenn Miller Orchestra"
    10-03-1913 - Mark Houston - Ohio - d. 5-11-1971
    announcer: "Queen for a Day"
    10-03-1916 - James Alfred "Alf" Wight - Sunderland, England - d.
    2-23-1995
    author: James Herriot Books
    10-03-1918 - Perry Lafferty - Davenport, IA - d. 8-25-2005
    producer: "Meet the Music"; "Columbia Workshop"
    10-03-1924 - Joe Allison - McKinney, TX - d. 8-2-2002
    songwriter: Began his career as a radio disk jockey

    October 3rd deaths

    01-23-1892 - Eleanor Nash - d. 10-3-1969
    beauty and style consultant (Sister of Ogden Nash): "Ask Eleanor Nash"
    01-23-1919 - Millard Lampell - d. 10-3-1997
    co-founder of the Almanac Singers: "Treasury Star Parade"
    02-24-1914 - Zachary Scott - Austin, TX - d. 10-3-1965
    actor: "Suspense"; "Encore Theatre"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    03-14-1891 - Dr. Dolphe Martin - Poland - d. 10-3-1974
    conductor: "Tydol Jubilee (Music on the Air)
    05-17-1903 - Artie Auerbach - NYC - d. 10-3-1957
    actor: Mr. Kitzel "Jack Benny Program"
    05-19-1919 - Louisa Vass - Greenville, SC - d. 10-3-2000
    singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phoenix Program"
    05-26-1915 - Vernon Alley - d. 10-3-2004
    musician, disk jockey: San Francisco area
    06-04-1917 - Charles Collingwood - Three Rivers, MI - d. 10-3-1985
    newscaster: CBS News UN Correspondent/White House Correspondent
    06-05-1897 - Woods O. Dreyfus - Wisconsin - d. 10-3-1965
    singer, announcer, program director WISN Milwaukee, WI
    06-13-1911 - Maurice Copeland - Rector, AR - d. 10-3-1985
    actor: Augustus Pendelton "Ma Perkins"; "Curtain Time"; "Hall of
    Fantasy"
    06-27-1920 - Betty Bryant - Bristol, England - d. 10-3-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-30-1893 - Virginia Beberus - Mercer, ME - d. 10-3-1964
    composer/author: conducted a radio program
    07-06-1927 - Janet Leigh - Merced, CA - d. 10-3-2004
    actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players" - Radio Debut
    07-17-1914 - Eleanor Steber - Wheeling, WV - d. 10-3-1990
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "[removed] Fox Trappers"
    07-24-1911 - Dudley McCarthy - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-3-1987
    auther of radio plays
    08-27-1900 - Gene Burdette - Chicago, IL - d. 10-3-1968
    producer, director: "Luck of the Irish"
    09-13-1903 - Dave Binder - London, England - d. 10-3-1992
    formed "Jingle Jem Co," to produce radio jingles
    09-17-1928 - Roddy McDowall - London, England - d. 10-3-1998
    panelist: "Keep Up with the Kids"
    09-20-1896 - Si Wills - Pennsylvania - d. 10-3-1977
    writer: (Husband of Joan Davis) "Joan Davis Time"
    09-25-1929 - Ronnie Barker - Bedford, England - d. 10-3-2005
    comedian: "The Floggits"
    10-07-1910 - Wayne Ackley - d. 10-3-1988
    newscaster: Des Moines, Iowa
    11-18-1907 - Gwen Meredith - Orange, Australia - d. 10-3-2006
    writer: "Blue Hills"; "The Lawsons"
    11-30-1913 - John K. M. McCaffrey - Moscow, ID - d. 10-3-1983
    newscaster: "Author Meets the Critics"; "What Makes You Tick?"
    12-22-1891 - Mc Kay Morris - Fort Sam Houston, TX - d. 10-3-1955
    actor: Abe Lincoln "The Abe Lincoln Story"; Gregory Ivanoff "Ma Perkins"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:50:34 -0400
    From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Same actor, different name

    "Our Gal Sunday" Barbara Watkins  commented about prominent OTR actors such
    as Vic Perrin or Parley Baerr sometimes plying their craft under assumed
    names. Might I add another name? The late Walker Edmiston was one of the key
    players on the latter-day programme "Adventures in Odyssey". produced by the
    much maligned Focus on the Family. Under the name "Ed Walker," Edmiston
    played Mayor Tom Riley and charlatan businessman Bart Rathbone. One storyline
    had these two characters facing each other in a mayoral debate and Edmiston
    was able to move easily back and forth in the two different voices as he was
    essentially debating himself.

    Yours in the ether,

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:50:38 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-4 births/deaths

    October 4th births

    10-04-1878 - Arthur Hopkins - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-22-1950
    producer: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"
    10-04-1880 - Homer Rodeheaver - Union Furnace, OH - d. 12-18-1955
    singer/composer: "Come On. Let's Sing"
    10-04-1880 - Nora Bayes - Joliet, IL - d. 3-19-1928
    singer: "General Motors Family Party"
    10-04-1884 - Damon Runyon - Manhattan, KS - d. 12-10-1946
    short story writer: "Good News of 1940"; "Damon Runyon Theatre"
    10-04-1892 - Kathryn Card - Butte, MT - d. 3-1-1964
    actor: Grandmother Barton "The Bartons"; Mrs. Wiggins "Uncle Walter's
    Dog House"
    10-04-1893 - Reverend Walter A. Maier - Boston, MA - d. 1-11-1950
    preacher: "Lutheran Hour"
    10-04-1894 - Cliff Hall - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-6-1972
    comedian: Sharlie "Baron and the Bee, Jack Pearl Show"
    10-04-1895 - Buster Keaton - Piqua, KS - d. 2-1-1966
    comedian: "Shell Chateau"; "Voices from the Hollywood Past"
    10-04-1895 - Lea Penman - Red Cloud, MN - d. 10-12-1962
    actor: Alice Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"
    10-04-1897 - Frederick Chase Taylor - Buffalo, NY - d. 5-29-1950
    comedian: Lemuel Q. Stoopnagel "Duffy's Tavern, Quixie Doodles,
    Stoopnagel and Budd"
    10-04-1900 - Robert Shayne - Yonkers, NY - d. 11-29-1992
    actor: Walter Manning "Portia Faces Life"
    10-04-1903 - Marcus Duffield - d. 1-11-1973
    columnist: "Information Please"
    10-04-1905 - Ruth Lyons - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-7-1988
    talk show host: "50-50 Club"
    10-04-1908 - Patricia Calvert - London, England
    actor: "Just Plain Bill"; "Our Gal Sunday"
    10-04-1909 - James Webb - Denver, CA - d. 9-27-1974
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-04-1910 - James Doyle - St. Paul, MN - d. 7-1-1980
    announcer: "The Great Gildersleeve"; "Rogue's Gallery"
    10-04-1910 - Stanley Farrar - d. 4-5-1974
    actor: (Brother of Danny Thomas) Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"
    10-04-1912 - Lynne "Angel" Harvey - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-3-2008
    producer: (Wife of Paul Harvey) "The Rest of the Story"
    10-04-1914 - John Larch - Salem, MA - d. 10-20-2005
    actor: (Married to Vivi Janiss) Rocky Starr "Starr ofSpace"
    10-04-1916 - George Sidney - Long Island City, NY - d. 5-5-2002
    film musical director: "Shell Chateau"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-04-1916 - Jan Murray - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-2-2006
    emcee: "Songs for Sale"; "Meet Your Match"
    10-04-1916 - Lenore Kingston - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-5-1993
    actor: Mercedes Colby "Don Winslow of the Navy"; Jane Daley "Affairs
    of Anthony"
    10-04-1924 - Charlton Heston - Evanston, IL - d. 4-5-2008
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Kaleidoscope"
    10-04-1925 - Francisco Aranzamendi - d. 10-xx-1983
    disk jockey: WAPA San Juan, Puerto Rico
    10-04-1929 - Scotty Beckett - Oakland, CA - d. 5-10-1968
    actor: Chester A. Riley, Jr. "Life of Riley"
    10-04-1932 - Edward Judd - Shanghai, China - d. 2-24-2009
    actor: "Drop Me Here, Darling"; "Philadelphia Moonshine"
    10-04-1932 - Felicia Farr - Westchester County, NY
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-04-1936 - Saburo Kitajima - Hiiriuchi-cho, Kamiiso-gu, Japan
    enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"

    October 4th deaths

    01-08-1902 - Alexander Gray - Wrightvilles, PA - d. 10-4-1975
    baritone: "Chesterfield Quarter Hour"
    01-12-1911 - Lon Clark - Frost, MN - d. 10-4-1998
    actor: Nick Carter "Nick Carter, Master Detective"
    01-16-1917 - Buddy Lester - Chicago, IL - d. 10-4-2002
    comedian: (Brother of Jerry Lester) "Connee Boswell Show"
    02-06-1916 - Violet Koehler - Wilton, WI - d. 10-4-1973
    guitar: (Coon Creek Girls) "WLS National Barn Dance"; "Renfro Valley
    Barn Dance"
    02-22-1900 - Stuart V. Dawson - Springfield, IL - d. 10-4-1958
    announcer: "Backstage Wife"
    03-10-1900 - Sherman Billingsley - Enid, Oklahoma Territory - d.
    10-4-1966
    owner stork club: "Bing Crosby Show"
    04-02-1913 - Fran Carlon - Indianapolis, IN - d. 10-4-1993
    actor: Lorelei Kilbourne "Big Town"; Bunny Mitchell "Story of Mary
    Marlin"
    05-22-1891 - Parks Johnson - Sheffield, AL - d. 10-4-1970
    emcee, interviewer: "Vox Pox"
    05-31-1893 - Albert Mitchell - Elsberry, MO - d. 10-4-1954
    host: "Answer Man"
    06-06-1918 - William Cayton - Chevy Chase, MD - d. 10-4-2003
    copywriter: Radio and Television Packagers, Inc.
    06-13-1894 - Tay Garnett - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-4-1977
    film director: "Three Sheets to the Wind"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    06-20-1913 - Al Gallodoro - Birmingham, AL - d. 10-4-2008
    jazz saxophonist: "The Paul Whiteman Show"; "The Henry Morgan Show"
    09-02-1904 - Set Svanholm - Vasteras, Sweden - d. 10-4-1964
    tenor: "Drene Time"
    09-04-1913 - Jan Savitt - Petrograd, Russia - d. 10-4-1948
    bandleader: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Rhapsody in Rhythm"
    10-14-1922 - Claire Niesen - Phoenix, AZ - d. 10-4-1963
    actor: "Mary Noble "Backstage Wife"; Peggy O'Neill "The O'Neills"
    11-05-1919 - Earl Bennett - Kansas City, KS - d. 10-4-2007
    musician, comedian: Sir Fredrick Gas "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
    11-10-1912 - John L. Greene - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-4-1995
    writer: "Texaco Star Theatre"
    11-19-1890 - Charme Allen - Dayton, OH - d. 10-4-1980
    actor: Aunt Polly "David Harum"; Ma Owen "Into the Light"
    11-30-1900 - Geoffrey Household - Briston, England - d. 10-4-1988
    writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
    12-11-1898 - Shoji Taro - Akita, Japan - d. 10-4-1972
    enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"
    12-16-1921 - Grace Keagy - Youngstown, OH - d. 10-4-2009
    actor: "A Private Space"
    12-30-1873 - Al Smith - NYC - d. 10-4-1944
    governor: "Information Please"

    Ron

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