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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 170
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Halloween and Welles                  [ James Yellen <jjyellen@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 28 Octobe  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Fwd: Elvis Presley 1954- 1955         [ Luca Fabris <plcpf@[removed]; ]
      10-27 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      10-26 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      10-28 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      SummersTime Haloween Special!         [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:10:42 -0400
    From: James Yellen <jjyellen@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Halloween and Welles

    It's that time of year again. Halloween is approaching as is the anniversary
    of Welles' famous broadcast.
    I invite all to go to my website of nostalgic tales of Old Time Radio
    captured for posterity in an on-line novel of warmth, reminiscense and
    riotous pleasure.
    Chapter One is an epic saga wherein our heroic protagonist, inspired by the
    Orson Welles radio prank, attempts his own Halloween alien invasion prank
    with unexpected results.
    Please visit and I hope you enjoy. Thank you for listening.
    Here's the [removed]
    [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:10:53 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 28 October to 3
     November

     From Those Were The Days

    10/28

    1922   WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game
    heard coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at
    Stagg Field in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines
    to New York City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21,
    Chicago 18.)

    1946   Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC for the first time.
    Sky King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy
    Engel, as Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky's niece Penny; Jack Bivens was
    Chipper and Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by
    Mars candy.

    10/30

    Orson Welles, known to radio audiences as The Shadow, presented his
    famous dramatization of [removed] Wells' The War of the Worlds on CBS's
    Mercury Theater at 8 [removed]

    10/31

    1942   One of the great wartime shows premiered. CBS debuted Thanks to
    the Yanks, starring Bob Hawk. It became one of the most popular of the
    wartime programs.

    11/1

    1937   The first broadcast of Hilltop House was aired on CBS; while on
    NBC, the comic strip character Terry and the Pirates debuted.

    11/2

    1931   Myrt and Marge was heard for the first time    on CBS. The
    program centered on two chorus girls who competed for the same parts and
    the same men. The creator and writer (Cliff Thomas wrote some) of the
    series, Myrtle Vail, also played the role of Myrt; and the original
    Marge was performed by Vail's daughter, Donna Fick. Three other
    performers played the part when Donna died giving birth. Myrt and Marge
    continued for 11 years.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:10:58 -0400
    From: Luca Fabris <plcpf@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fwd: Elvis Presley 1954- 1955
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    Dear Sirs,

    My name is Fabris [removed],46 years old,Italy. I'm an Elvis Presley
    researcher expecially on the early days. We are trying to document every
    single show Elvis did, and we have come fairly close. So I'm looking for
    photos,recordings from Louisiana Hayride (KWKH program transmitted also
    by KTHS) or Opry,Big D Jamboree or any live radio gig or interview ....
    ANYTHING IS WELCOME FROM THE 50s!!

    Would you like to help us?

    Do you know any other local historian that might help ? Your
    help,anyone's help is welcome!

    Write soon I hope this is not too much of an intrusion. Sincerely yours
    Luca Fabris Elvis researcher

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    Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:11:03 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-27 births/deaths

    October 27th births

    10-27-1890 - Bob Becker - Terryville, SD - d. 8-10-1962
    commentator: "Fireside Chats About Dogs/Pet Parade"
    10-27-1896 - Eric Dressler - NYC - d. 8-12-1978
    actor: "Scattergood Baines"; "Young Widdr Brown"
    10-27-1898 - Kathryn Cravens - Burkett, TX - d. 8-29-1991
    newscaster: "News Through a Woman's Eye"
    10-27-1898 - Richard Carroll - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-11-1959
    writer: "Shorty Bell"
    10-27-1901 - David Stone - Savannah, GA - d. 8-31-1995
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    10-27-1907 - Mignon Schreiber - Chicago, IL - d. 4-18-1965
    actor: Jennie Fox "Foxes of Flatbush", Mrs. Kransky "Guiding Light"
    10-27-1908 - DeWitt "Snuffy" Jenkins - Harris, NC - d. 4-30-1990
    strings: (Jenkins String Band) "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
    10-27-1908 - Josephine Antoine - Boulder, CO - d. 10-30-1971
    singer: "Contented Hour"
    10-27-1910 - Jack Carson - Carmen, Canada - d. 1-2-1963
    comedian: "Jack Carson Show"; "New Sealtest Village Store"
    10-27-1911 - Charles R. Callender - Phrae, Thailand - d. 7-26-1987
    sang and played piano on radio
    10-27-1911 - Leif Erickson - Alameda, CA - d. 1-29-1986
    actor: Richard Rhinelander III "My Friend Irma"
    10-27-1914 - Dylan Thomas - Uplands, Swansea, Wales - d. 11-9-1953
    writer: "Life of the Modern Poet"; "Modern Muse"
    10-27-1915 - Albert Albinger - d. 11-29-1982
    newscaster: WKWK Wheeling, West Virginia
    10-27-1918 - Bill Ballance - Peoria, IL - d. 9-23-2004
    talk show host: "Feminine Forum"; "Bill Ballance Show"
    10-27-1918 - Teresa Wright - NYC - d. 3-6-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-27-1920 - Nanette Fabray - San Diego, CA
    singer, actor: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    10-27-1923 - Peter Bryant - London, England - d. 5-19-2006
    announcer, script editor for BBC Radio
    10-27-1924 - Bonnie Blue - Talawanda, IN
    Singer: "Midwestern Hayride"
    10-27-1924 - Ruby Dee - Cleveland, OH
    actor: "Story of Ruby Valentine"; "Story Hour"
    10-27-1927 - Charles Mullen - d. 4-14-2002
    actor: "The Blue Playhouse"; "Advs. of Archie Andrews"
    10-27-1933 - Floyd Cramer - Campti, LA - d. 12-31-1997
    country pianist: "Country Music Time"; "Country Style [removed]"
    10-27-1939 - John Cleese - Weston-Super-Mare, England
    comedian: Basil Fawlty "Fawlty Towers"

    October 27th deaths

    01-01-1900 - Xavier Cugat - Tirona, Spain - d. 10-27-1990
    bandleader: (King of the Rhumba) "Camel Caravan"
    01-12-1894 - Georges Carpentier - Lens, France - d. 10-27-1975
    boxer: Dempsey vs. Carpentier first boxing match broadcast
    02-13-1917 - Clara Antonetti - d. 10-27-1995
    broadcaster on WTSA Brattleboro, Vermont
    03-05-1900 - Sam Hearn - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-27-1964
    comedian: Schlepperman "Jack Benny Program, Glamour Manor"
    03-18-1932 - Frank Nagai - Tokyo, Japan - d. 10-27-2008
    singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"
    03-21-1919 - Lois Collier - Salley, SC - d. 10-27-1999
    actor: Carol Chandler "Dear John"
    04-22-1921 - Vivian Dandridge - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-27-1991
    writer: "The Beulah Show"
    05-11-1884 - Alma Gluck - Lasil, Romania - d. 10-27-1938
    opera singer: made one radio appearance in 1929
    05-26-1910 - Larry Rhine - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-2000
    writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
    05-29-1923 - Winifred Wolfe - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-1981
    writer: "Cloak and Dagger"
    06-08-1909 - Leland Frederick Cooley - Oakland, CA - d. 10-27-1998
    writer, emcee: "Andre Kostelanetz Program"; "The Shadow"
    06-10-1901 - Eric Maschwitz - King's Norton, England - d. 10-27-1969
    writer: "In Town Tonight"; "Good Night Vienna"
    08-26-1907 - Lester Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-27-2004
    bandleader: "Lester Lanin and His Orchestra"; "Here's to Veterans"
    09-20-1911 - Frank De Vol - Moundsville, WV - d. 10-27-1999
    conductor: "Rudy Vallee Drene Show"; "Sealtest Village Store"; "Dinah
    Shore Show"
    09-23-1910 - Elliott Roosevelt - NYC - d. 10-27-1990
    commentary for the Mutual Network (Son of FDR) "Information Please"
    09-24-1929 - Alfred Hudgins - d. 10-27-2004
    disc jockey: "Blues in the Night"
    10-25-1891 - Father Charles Coughlin - Hamilton, Canada - d. 10-27-1979
    commentator, preacher: (The Radio Priest)
    10-29-1910 - Lew Parker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-27-1972
    actor: John Bickerson "The Bickersons" "Mennen Shave Time with Lew
    Parker"
    11-30-1914 - Charles Hawtrey - Hounslow, Middlesex, England - d.
    10-27-1988
    actor, comedian: Hubert Lane "Just William"
    12-01-1886 - Rex Stout - Noblesville, IN - d. 10-27-1975
    author: (Creator of Nero Wolfe) Debunker of Axis Propaganda "Our
    Secret Weapon"
    12-01-1911 - Randy Merriman - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-27-2005
    actor: "Doctor [removed]"
    12-13-1912 - Herb Sheldon - Connecticut - d. 10-27-1964
    announcer, host: "Honeymoon in New York"; "Luncheon at the Latin
    Quarter"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:10:48 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-26 births/deaths

    October 26th births

    10-26-1876 - [removed] Warner - London, England - d. 12-21-1958
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-26-1877 - Dr. Max Mason - Madison, WI - d. 3-22-1961
    president university of chicago: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    10-26-1888 - Pat Barnes - Sharon, PA - d. 6-9-1969
    emcee: "The Pat Barnes and Barbara Show"
    10-26-1897 - Louis Castellucci - Italy - d. 4-21-1988
    trombonist, composer: "Dragnet"
    10-26-1899 - Rudolph Wickel - d. 3-14-1971
    contestant: "Truth or Consequences"
    10-26-1904 - Igor Gorin - Ukraine, Russia - d. 3-24-1982
    singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
    10-26-1907 - Tony Pastor - Middletown, CT - d. 10-31-1969
    bandleader: "Tony Pastor and His Orchestra"
    10-26-1910 - Clarence Hartzell - Huntington, WV - d. 3-5-1988
    actor: Uncle Fletcher "Vic and Sade"; Pappy Yokum "Li'l AAbner"; "Ben
    Withers "Lum and Abner"
    10-26-1911 - Mahalia Jackson - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-27-1972
    gospel singer: (The Angel of Peace) "Mahalia Jackson Show"
    10-26-1912 - Donald Siegel - Chicago, IL - d. 4-20-1991
    film director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    10-26-1912 - Ed Reimers - Moline, IL - d. 8-16-2009
    announcer/actor: "Dr. [removed]"; "This Changing World"
    10-26-1913 - Charlie Barnet - NYC - d. 9-4-1991
    bandleader: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Saturday Night Swing Session"
    10-26-1914 - Jackie Coogan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-1-1984
    actor: Ernest Botch "Forever Ernest"
    10-26-1917 - Buddy Christian - Nyack, NY - d. 4-5-2009
    drummer" "Dizzy Gillespie Band"
    10-26-1918 - Ivor Francis - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1986
    actor: "Secret Missions"; "The Chase"
    10-26-1923 - Jean Bartel(l) - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2011
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "The Kemtone Hour"; "Stars AboutTown"
    10-26-1929 - Neal Matthews - Nashville, TN - d. 4-21-2000
    singer: (Jordonaires) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Jim Reeves Show"
    10-26-1930 - John Arden - Bransley, Yorkshire, England - d. 3-28-2012
    writer: "The Life of Man"

    October 26th deaths

    01-24-1903 - Johnny Anz - d. 10-26-1987
    orchestra leader: WESG Elmira, New York
    02-18-1922 - Ruth Dean Rickaby - d. 10-26-1973
    actor: "The Lone Ranger"
    02-23-1909 - Anthony Ross - NYC - d. 10-26-1955
    actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"; Broadway Columnist "Mr.
    Broadway"
    03-08-1902 - Louise Beavers - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-26-1962
    actor: Beulah "Beulah"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    04-24-1910 - Albert Zugsmith - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 10-26-1993
    film producer/director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    04-28-1905 - Paul Rhymer - Fulton, IL - d. 10-26-1964
    writer: "Vic and Sade"
    05-03-1897 - Larry Puck - d. 10-26-1969
    producer: "Arthur Godfrey Time" Was one of Godfrey's many firings
    05-27-1924 - Eric Lander - Rugby, England - d. 10-26-1999
    actor: "Violent Shore"
    05-27-1925 - Tony Hillerman - Sacred Heart, OK - 10-26-2008
    writer: "The Zero Hour"
    06-10-1895 - Hattie McDaniel - Wichita, KS - d. 10-26-1952
    actor: Beulah "Beulah"; Mammy "Maxwell House Showboat"
    06-19-1899 - Francis Drake "Pat" Ballard - d. 10-26-1960
    writer of radio scripts in Troy, Pennsylvania
    07-20-1910 - Muriel Evans - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-26-2000
    four radio shows of her own in Washington [removed]
    09-01-1897 - Lucille Fenton - d. 10-26-1966
    actor: Paula Kirby "Myrt and Marge"
    09-01-1909 - Charles Bickford - d. 10-26-1988
    disk jockey: WOHS Shelby, North Carolina

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:11:09 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-28 births/deaths

    October 28th births

    10-28-1886 - Ruth Gates - Denton, TX - d. 5-23-1966
    actor: Mrs Lenord "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    10-28-1895 - Herb Butterfield - Rhode Island - d. 5-2-1957
    actor: Clarence Wellman "Halls of Ivy"; Hunter Glenn "One Man's Family"
    10-28-1895 - John Boles - Greenville, TX - d. 2-27-1969
    actor, singer: "Texaco Star Theatre"
    10-28-1896 - Howard Hanson - Wahoo, NE - d. 2-26-1981
    conductor, composer: "New York Philharmonic"; "ASCAP World's Fair
    Concert"
    10-28-1897 - Edith Head - San Bernardino, CA - d. 10-24-1981
    costume designer: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-28-1902 - Catherine Shepherd - Zimbabwe - d. 2-18-1976
    writer: "The Golden Cockerel"
    10-28-1902 - Elsa Lanchester - Lewisham, England - d. 12-26-1986
    actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Everyman's
    Theatre"
    10-28-1906 - Lou Bring - d. 7-15-1951
    orchestra leader: "The Al Jolson Show"; "The Gracie Fields Show"
    10-28-1908 - David LeWinter - NYC - d. 1-22-1976
    orchestra leader: Late night dance band remotes
    10-28-1910 - Arthur Altman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-18-1994
    CBS staff violinist and librarian
    10-28-1912 - Madaline Lee - Dallas, TX - d. 1-10-1974
    actor: Genevive Blue "Amos 'n' Andy"; Wendy Burton "Second Mrs. Burton"
    10-28-1913 - Ruth Peterson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 2-2-1985
    actor: Linda Carroll "Hawthorne House"
    10-28-1915 - Alwyn Kurts - Perth, Western Australia - d. 5-4-2000
    performer: "Raising a Husband"
    10-28-1915 - Dody Goodman - Columbus, OH - d. 6-22-2008
    actor: "Hopalong Cassidy"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    10-28-1917 - Ron Rawson - Iowa - d. 7-18-1994
    announcer: "Right to Happiness"; "Advs. of Topper"; "Advs. of the Thin
    Man"
    10-28-1934 - Cecil Blackwood - Ackereman, MS - d. 11-13-2000
    singer: (Blackwood Brothers Quartet) "Songs of the Gospel"
    10-28-1934 - Johnny Western - Two Harbors, MN
    singer, actor, songwriter: (Ballad of Paladin) Daily show on KFDI
    Wichita, KS

    October 28th deaths

    01-26-1914 - Jack de Manio - Hampstead, England - d. 10-28-1988
    announcer: "Today"; "Jack de Manio Precisely"; "Woman's Hour"
    02-22-1891 - George Jeske - Utah - d. 10-28-1951
    writer: "Truth or Consequences"
    02-27-1893 - Maurice Spitalny - Tetieff, Russia - d. 10-28-1986
    conductor: Music director for KDKA Pittsburgh
    03-04-1910 - Miriam Kressyn - Poland - d. 10-28-1996
    Was the most popular Yiddish artist on radio of her day
    03-16-1924 - Beryl Davis  Plymouth, England - d. 10-28-2011
    vocalist: "Your Hit Parade"; "Jubilee"
    03-24-1918 - Bill Aya - d. 10-28-1985
    sportscaster: KEVE Seattle, Washington
    04-01-1917 - Leon Janney - Ogden, UT - d. 10-28-1980
    actor: Danny Stratford "Life of Mary Sothern"; Richard Parker "Parker
    Family"
    07-27-1918 - Veola Vonn - NYC - d. 10-28-1995
    actor: Dimples Wilson "Blondie"; Princess Nadji "Chandu the Magician"
    08-12-1927 - Porter Wagoner - West Plains, MO - d. 10-28-2007
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-18-1917 - Mary Rolfe - Brooklyn NY - d. 10-28-1996
    actor: Mary Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"; Rose O'Brien "Rose of My
    Dreams"
    08-29-1913 - Sylvia Fine - NYC - d. 10-28-1991
    writer: (Wife of Danny Kaye) "Danny Kaye Show"; "Forecast"; "Bud's
    Bandwagon"
    09-15-1915 - Phil Brito - Boomer, WV - d. 10-28-2005
    narrator: "Moon River"
    09-16-1919 - Larry Dobkin - NYC - d. 10-28-2002
    actor: Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Ellery Queen "Advs. of
    Ellery Queen"
    09-17-1907 - Alice Yourman - South Dakota - d. 10-28-2000
    actor: Mary Andrews "Archie Andrews"; [removed] Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
    09-20-1917 - Red Auerbach - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-28-2006
    legendary baskeball coach: "The Inside Track"
    10-06-1899 - Mitchell Leisen - Menominee, MI - d. 10-28-1972
    director: Lux Radio Theatre
    11-02-1892 - Alice Brady - NYC - d. 10-28-1939
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    12-08-1937 - James MacArthur - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-28-2010
    actor: "Theatre Guild of the Air"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:51:48 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  SummersTime Haloween Special!

    Folks;

       Kate and I hope you'll join us for our Halloween special all this week on
    Radio Once More when we remote from the Nostalgialand Cemetary, where
    entertainment media of the past are buried! Kate picks an episode of "The
    Witch's Tale," I spook up the school with "Our Miss Brooks," she thinks
    "Father Knows Best" (boy, don't I wish!), and I close up the show with a
    creepy episode of "Quiet, Please!" Ghosts and goblins abound when our
    Halloween special premiers at 6:00pm EDT, 3:00pm PDT Monday evening; you can
    listen at [removed] and visit our website at
    [removed] for airtimes, episode descriptions and
    playlists, and even a few pictures of all of us involved in SummersTime!

       And for those who can't make appointment radio, our shows are available
    delayed by about two weeks at my blog at [removed] -
    subscribe to the RSS feed in your podcasting client or iTunes, and you can
    get the shows downloaded directly to your MP3 player or computer!

       (Sorry for the commercial, but we _really_ enjoy doing this show together,
    and we hope you enjoy it, too!)

             Charlie

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