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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 35
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      2-8 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Radio -- Tool Of The Devil?           [ "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser1@[removed]; ]
      Sam Spade rare episode                [ Chargous@[removed] ]
      2-9 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:49:29 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-8 births/deaths

    February 8th births

    02-08-1828 - Jules Verne - Nantes, France - d. 3-24-1905
    pioneering science fiction writer: "Mercury Theatre"; "This Is My Best"
    02-08-1868 - Evangeline Adams - d. 11-10-1932
    astrologist: "Horoscope Talks"
    02-08-1878 - Benicia Batione - d. 5-xx-1965
    spanish instructor of conversational spanish: KOA Denver, Colorado
    02-08-1886 - Charlie Ruggles - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-23-1970
    comedian: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Suspense"; "This Is My Best"
    02-08-1888 - Edith Evans - London, England - d. 10-14-1976
    actor: "Kaleidoscope"
    02-08-1890 - Irving Kaufman - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-3-1976
    singer: "Champion Sparkers"; "Broadway Vanities"
    02-08-1891 - Edward Bierstadt - d. 2-xx-1970
    writer: "The Shadow"; "Empire Builders"
    02-08-1892 - Will Aubrey - Lithuania - d. 1-3-1958
    actor: (The Bard of the Byways) "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    02-08-1893 - Ed Fitzgerald - Troy, NY - d. 3-22-1982
    host: "The Fitzgeralds"
    02-08-1894 - King Vidor - Galveston, TX - d. 11-1-1982
    film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood"
    02-08-1902 - Lyle Talbot - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-3-1996
    actor: "Your Hollywood Informer"; "Calling All Cars"; "The Unexpected"
    02-08-1904 - Charles Sears - Hoopeston, IL - d. 8-xx-1987
    tenor: "National Barn Dance"; "Musical Memories"
    02-08-1905 - Don Ball - Block Island, RI - d. 1-7-1974
    staff announcer for CBS during the 1930s.
    02-08-1905 - Henry King - d. 8-8-1974
    orchestra leader: "Burns and Allen"
    02-08-1905 - Truman Bradley - Sheldon, MO - d. 7-28-1974
    announcer: "Easy Aces"; "Red Skelton & Co."; "Drene Show"
    02-08-1907 - Phil Davis - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-xx-1985
    musician: "Avalon Time"; "Scramby Amby"
    02-08-1907 - Ray Middleton - Chicago, IL - d. 4-10-1984
    actor: Abraham Lincoln "Honest Abe"
    02-08-1908 - Myron McCormick - Albany, IN - d. 7-30-1962
    actor: Christopher Wells "Advs. of Christopher Wells"
    02-08-1911 - Judith Allen - NYC - d. 10-5-1996
    actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"
    02-08-1913 - Betty Field - Boston, MA - d. 9-13-1973
    actor: Mary Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
    02-08-1913 - Grant Taylor - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-24-1998
    newscaster: "Headline Edition"
    02-08-1914 - Margot Stevenson - NYC
    actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"
    02-08-1915 - George "Doc" Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 1-27-2005
    gardner, host: "The Green Thumb"
    02-08-1917 - Robert Dryden - d. 12-16-2003
    actor: Doctor West "We Love and Learn"; Sergeant Maggio "Call the
    Police"
    02-08-1920 - Lana Turner - Wallace, ID - d. 6-29-1995
    actor: "Abbott and Costello"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-08-1920 - Robert Garnett "Buddy" Blattner - St. Louis, MO
    announcer: Armed Forces Radio, Guam
    02-08-1925 - Jack Lemmon - Boston, MA - d. 6-27-2001
    actor: "Dimension X"; "X Minus One"; Dr. Brent "Road of Life"
    02-08-1931 - James Dean - Byron, IN - d. 9-30-1955
    actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"
    02-08-1941 - Martin Huston - Lexington, KY - d. 8-8-2001
    actor: Jeep Allison "My Son Jeep"
    02-08-1943 - Jan Needle - Portsmouth, England
    wrote radio plays in New Zealand, England and Australia

    February 8th deaths

    01-13-1903 - Charles Kullman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-8-1983
    singer: "The Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"
    01-14-1920 - George Herman - NYC - d. 2-8-2005
    newsman: CBS news writer
    02-17-1897 - Ben Alley - West Virginia - d. 2-8-1970
    singer: (the Golden Tenor) "Melody Lane"; "Sweethearts Of the Air"
    06-04-1917 - Helen Wood - Clarksville, TN - d. 2-8-1988
    actor: Elaine Dascomb "Those We Love"
    06-22-1916 - Johnny Jacobs - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-8-1982
    announcer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Frontier Gentleman";
    "Granby's Green Acres"
    07-18-1913 - Marvin Miller - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-8-1985
    actor: Ben Lyon "Jeff Regan, Investigator"; Gil Whitney "Romance of
    Helen Trent"
    09-10-1909 - Raymond Scott - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-8-1994
    conductor, composer: "Your Hit Parade"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    09-28-1887 - Tom Terriss - London, England - d. 2-8-1964
    actor/narrater: "Letters from Abroad"; "Vagabond Adverturer"
    10-05-1905 - Harriet MacGibbon - Chicago, IL - d. 2-8-1987
    actor: Lucy Kent "Home, Sweet Home"
    10-06-1905 - Clinton C. Balmer - d. 2-8-1988
    news commentator: WLVA Lynchberg, Virginia
    10-07-1898 - Alfred Wallenstein - Chicago, IL - d. 2-8-1983
    conductor: "Virtuosos"; "Voice of Firestone"
    10-25-1897 - Marek Weber - Vienna, Austria - d. 2-8-1964
    conductor/violinist: "Carnation Contented Hour"
    11-01-1919 - John Secondari - Rome, Italy - d. 2-8-1975
    novelist: "As Europe Sees the Marshall Plan"; "Prologue"
    12-08-1928 - Jimmy Smith - Norristown, PA - d. 2-8-2005
    jazz organist: Won a radio talent contest in Philadelphia at the age
    of 9
    12-22-1862 - Connie Mack - East Brookfield, MA - d. 2-8-1956
    baseball manager: "The Shell Show"; "A Tribute to Lou Gehrig"
    12-24-1913 - Myrtle 'Lulubelle' Wiseman - Boone, NC - d. 2-8-1999
    singer: (Lulubelle and Scotty) "The National Barn Dance"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:21:21 -0500
    From: "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio -- Tool Of The Devil?
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    Many years ago I heard a story that went something like this:

    "In the earliest days of radio, religious fundamentalists were appalled at
    the appearance of radio.  They declared it a 'tool of the devil.'  Then
    someone realized that they could make money with [removed]"

    Is there any basis in fact for this story?

    Paula Keiser

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    Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:53:10 -0500
    From: Chargous@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Sam Spade rare episode

    Does anyone have a lo-gen copy (reel) of Sam Spade "the Convertible
    Caper"?  I realize it's in poor sound - a poor transfer and a
    high-generation copy.  If I can get the lowest generation copy I can find,
    I can make it sound a little better, at least, and time-correct it.  Anyone
    know from whom this came originally?

    Anyway, if anyone has a halfway decent reel of it, I'd like to purchase it,
    so I can make the transfer myself.

    And, always looking for Charlie Chan and the Lanini mystery - quality
    copies.  Also, most any Radio Yesteryear reels, especially ones that might
    have different or obscure shows on it.

    Travis

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    Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 21:59:37 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-9 births/deaths

    February 9th births

    02-09-1883 - Joseph King - Austin, TX - d. 4-11-1951
    announcer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"; "A Report to the Nation"
    02-09-1884 - Wilmer Walter - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-23-1941
    actor: David Harum "David Harum"; Andy Agnes "The Gumps"
    02-09-1891 - Ronald Colman - Richmond, Surrey, England - d. 5-19-1958
    actor: William Todhunter Hall "Halls of Ivy"; "Jack Benny Program"
    02-09-1892 - Frank W. Asper - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 11-8-1973
    organist: "Music and the Spoken Word"
    02-09-1892 - Peggy Wood - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-18-1978
    actor: "NBC Present Eugene O'Neill"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "
    02-09-1901 - Brian Donlevy - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-5-1972
    actor: Steve Mitchell "Dangerous Assignment"
    02-09-1901 - Walter Preston - Quincy, IL - d. 8-7-1982
    singer: "Philco Hour"
    02-09-1902 - Chester A. Lauck - Alleene, AR - d. 2-22-1980
    comedian: Columbus 'Lum' Edwards "Lum and Abner"
    02-09-1902 - Fred Harman, Sr. - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-2-1982
    cartoonist: Creator of Red Ryder
    02-09-1904 - Carmen Miranda - Lisbon, Portugal - d. 8-5-1955
    singer: "Hello Americans"
    02-09-1910 - Peanuts Holland - Norfold, VA - d. 2-7-1979
    jazz trumpeter, singer: "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"; "Yank Swing
    Session"
    02-09-1911 - Harry Kramer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-23-1996
    announcer: "Alfred Antonini Orchestra"; "Mike and Buff's Mailbag"
    02-09-1912 - Bob Armstrong - Buffalo, NY - d. 4-25-1994
    orchestra director: NBC 1942
    02-09-1912 - Bob Hannon - Chicago, IL - d. 2-16-1993
    singer: "American Melody Hour"; "Waltz Time"
    02-09-1913 - Erskine Butterfield - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-11-1961
    jazz musician: "Cats 'n' Jammers"
    02-09-1914 - Bob Hite - Decatur, IN - d. 2-18-2000
    announcer: "Challenge of the Yukon"; "Green Hornet"; "Casey, Crime
    Photographer"
    02-09-1914 - Ernest Tubb - Crisp, TX - d. 9-6-1984
    singer: (The Texas Troubador) "Grand Ole Opry"
    02-09-1914 - Ralph Hermann - Milwaukee, WI - d. 7-28-1994
    bandleader: "Herb Oscar Anderson Show"
    02-09-1915 - Charlotte Holland - d. 1-13-1997
    actor: Nita Bennett "Lone Journey"; Nora Drake "This is Nora Drake"
    02-09-1921 - Gene Lyons - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-8-1974
    actor: Freelance
    02-09-1922 - Kathryn Grayson - Winston-Salem, NC
    singer: "Mail Call"
    02-09-1923 - Milena Miller - d. 7-20-2001
    vocalist: "The Stu Erwin Show"
    02-09-1930 - Garner Ted Armstrong - Portland, OR - d. 9-15-2003
    preacher: (Son of Herbert W. Armstrong) "Plain Truth"; "The World
    Tomorrow"
    02-09-1937 - Clete Boyer - Cassville, MO - d. 6-4-2007
    baseball player: "Tops in Sports"
    02-09-1939 - Janet Suzman - Johannesburg, South Africa
    actor: "Guest Panelist "[removed]"
    02-09-1949 - Judith Light - Trenton, NJ
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    February 9th deaths

    01-13-1884 - Sophie Tucker - Russia - d. 2-9-1966
    singer: (The Last of the Red Hot Mammas) "Sophie Tucker and Her Show"
    01-30-1914 - David Wayne - Traverse City, MI - d. 2-9-1995
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre" ;" Eternal Light"; "Stars in the Air"
    04-01-1909 - Eddy Duchin - Cambridge, MA - d. 2-9-1951
    bandleader: (The Ten Magic Fingers of Radio) "Lasalle Style Show"
    04-07-1908 - Percy Faith - Toronto, Canada - d. 2-9-1976
    conductor: "Carnation Contented Hour"; "Pause That Refreshes on the Air"
    04-07-1934 - Ian Richardson - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 2-9-2007
    actor: Richard II and Bolingbroke "Richard II"
    04-09-1905 - James Fulbright - Summer, MO - d. 2-9-1995
    [removed] senator: "Information Please"
    04-30-1916 - Phil Brown - Cambridge, MA - d. 2-9-2006
    actor: "Arch Obolor's Playes"
    05-07-1885 - George "Gabby" Hayes - Wellsville, NY - d. 2-9-1969
    actor: "Andrews Sisters' Eight-to-the-Bar Ranch"; "Roy Rogers Show"
    06-26-1902 - Bruce Evans - d. 2-9-1978
    actor: Trapeze Artist "Circus Days"
    07-06-1925 - Bill Haley, Jr. - Highland Park, MI - d. 2-9-1981
    rocker: "Camel Rock and Roll Party"; "Stars for Defense"
    07-12-1919 - Vera Hruba Ralston - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 2-9-2003
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-31-1922 - Hank Bauer - East St. Louis, IL - d. 2-9-2007
    baseball great: "Tops in Sports"
    08-10-1896 - Louis Sobol - New Haven, CT - d. 2-9-1986
    columist: "Album of Manhattan"; "Voice of Broadway"; "Bright Lights
    of New York"
    08-30-1908 - Willie Bryant - New Orleans, LA - d. 2-9-1964
    host: "Night Life"
    10-12-1927 - Peggy Taylor - Inglewood, CA - d. 2-9-2002
    singer: "The Breakfast Club"; "The Stan Freeberg Show"
    11-23-1915 - Natalie Park Masters - San Francisco, CA - d. 2-9-1986
    actor: Candy Matson "Candy Matson
    12-23-1873 - Burns Mantle - Watertown, NY - d. 2-9-1948
    writer: "Best Plays" based on Mantle's theatrical yearbook

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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