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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 206
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@cha ]
      Re: Lone Ranger important question    [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      8-26 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Re: Earliest Radio Commercial         [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:54:08 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
    may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
    Radio Theatre," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The
    Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in
    high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    Larry Haines Memorial Tribute

    X MINUS ONE
    Episode 71    10-17-56   Soldier Boy
    Stars: Larry Haines, Ralph Bell, Alan Hewitt, Bob Hastings, Wendell
    Holmes and Kermit Murdock.
    NBC Sustaining
    Director: Daniel Sutter
    Announcer: Fred Collins
    Script: George Lefferts, Ernest Kinoy

    THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
    Episode 338   12-11-55    "A Cup Of Cold Water"
    ABC GOODYEAR Sundays 6:30 - 7:00 pm till 9-18-49
    Based on the book of the same name by Fulton Oursler, dramatizes
    events and stories in the Bible as told by Jesus Christ.
    STARS: Warren Parker as Jesus Christ
    DIRECTOR: Mark Loeb ASST.: Leonard Blair SCRIPTS: Henry Denker

    CBS RADIO WORKSHOP
    Episode 37    10-12-56    "A Writer At Work"
    Stars: Larry Haines
    An interview with Hector Chevieny: writer of "The Second Mrs. Burton"
    Stars Larry Haines, who was the only actor to play Lew Archer on "The
    Second Mrs. Burton" from 1946 till 1960
    CBS SUSTAINING
    Directors: Jack Johnstone & Dee Englebach
    Producers: William N. Robson & William Froug
    Announcer: William Conrad
    Music: Amerigo Moreno & Leith Stevens
    This is one of the all-time Great Ingenious Shows

    MURDER BY EXPERTS
    Episode 16    9-26-49   "The Unseeing Witness"
    Stars: Larry Haines and Ann Shepard
    Mutual Sustained Mondays 10:00 - 10:30 Pm
    Narrator: John Dickson Carr
    Directors/Producers: David Kogan And Robert A. Arthur
    Sound Effects: Mario Siletti
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    SPECIAL - "Radio Premiums"
    with Bill McMahon from the 1st Annual Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
    Sept. 2006.
    Bill tells the low-down on OTR premiums and plays clips of how they were
    "marketed" on children's shows.

    YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
    (CBS) 12/19/55 Chapter one of "The Nick Shurn Matter" - the concluding
    chapters will be heard in the next 4 weeks.
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    THE GLOWING DIAL

      Silver Theater - "Danger Lights"
    originally aired December 12, 1938 on CBS
    Starring: Clark Gable, Paula Winslow, John Conte announcing.
    Sponsor: International Silver Company

    Theatre of Romance - "Casanova Brown"
    originally aired November 13, 1945 on CBS
    Starring: Henry Fonda.
    Sponsors: Colgate, Halo Shampoo

    Encore Theater - "Green Light"
    originally aired June 25, 1946 on CBS
    Starring: Robert Young, Pedro de Cordova, Frank Graham announcing.
    Sponsor: Schenley Labs, Inc.

    Academy Award Theater - "Suspicion"
    originally aired October 30, 1946 on CBS
    Starring: Cary Grant, Ann Todd, Hugh Brundage announcing.
    Sponsor: E. R. Squibb & Sons

    Camel Screen Guild Theatre - "Call Northside 777"
    originally aired October 7, 1948 on NBC
    Starring: James Stewart, Pat O'Brien, Richard Conte, Michael Roy announcing.
    Sponsor: Camel Cigarettes
    ==================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

          Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
          The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
          Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
    the Net

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    Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:54:31 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Lone Ranger important question

       Frank McGurn asked --

>     I would assume that taking off his mask would be enough of a
>     disguise, because know body, except Tonto and his nephew, knows what he
>     looks like with out the mask Isn't that enough of a disguise?

       Maybe having pale skin where his mask covered his face would be
    enough.  Sort of like a raccoon in a negative.  :)
       Joe

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    Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:54:37 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-26 births/deaths

    August 26th births

    08-26-1873 - Lee De Forest - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-30-1961
    inventor: Audion tube
    08-26-1891 - Frayne Baker - d. 8-15-1968
    newscaster: KFYR Bismarck, North Dakota
    08-26-1896 - Phil Baker - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-30-1963
    comedian, emcee: "Honolulu Bound"; "Take It or Leave It"
    08-26-1903 - Jimmy Rushing - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory - d.
    6-8-1972
    blues singer: "Count Basie and His Orchestra"; "Blue Ribbon Guest Night"
    08-26-1904 - Chirstopher Isherwood - High Lane, Cheshire, England -
    d. 1-4-1986
    writer: "NBC University Theatre"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    08-26-1905 - George F. Hicks - Tacoma, WA - d. 3-17-1965
    announcer: "Metropolitan Echoes"; "Death Valley Days"; "Seth Parker"
    08-26-1907 - Jack Berch - Sigel, IL - d. 12-10-1992
    singer: "Kitchen Pirate"; "Sweetheart Serenade"; "Jack Berch Show"
    08-26-1907 - Lester Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-27-2004
    bandleader: "Lester Lanin and His Orchestra"; "Here's to Veterans"
    08-26-1911 - Hal Gibney - Woodland, CA - d. 6-5-1973
    announcer: "Draget"; "The Six Shooter"; "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
    08-26-1911 - "Slim" Hall - Tennessee - d. 5-xx-1971
    guitar: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
    08-26-1912 - Chuck Foster - Jeanette, PA - d. 12-12-2001
    bandleader: "Treasury Bandstand"; "One Night Stand"
    08-26-1915 - Jim Davis - Edgereton, MO - d. 4-26-1981
    actor: "Dangerous Assignment"
    08-26-1918 - Dave Barry - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-16-2001
    comedian: "Major Bowes and the Original Amateur Hour"
    08-26-1919 - Frances Wayne - Boston, MA - d. 2-6-1978
    vocalist: "The Woody Herman Show"
    08-26-1921 - June Whitley - d. 5-25-2006
    actor: Margaret Anderson "Father Knows Best"
    08-26-1924 - Gloria Holliday - Billings, MT
    actor: Bessie "Great Gildersleeve"; Gloria "Honest Harold"
    08-26-1930 - Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.
    host: "Caribbean Music in the [removed]"
    08-26-1934 - Gordon Clough - Salford, England - d. 4-6-1996
    radio journalist: "The World at One"; "World This Weekend"; "PM"

    August 26th deaths

    01-07-1898 - Art Baker - NYC - d. 8-26-1966
    announcer, emcee: "People Are Funny"; "Dinah Shore Show"
    01-13-1903 - Kay Francis - Oklahoma City,  Oklahoma Territory - d.
    8-26-1968
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-17-1904 - Knox Manning - Worcester, MA - d. 8-26-1980
    announcer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; "Headlines on Parade"
    02-04-1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh - Detroit, MI - d. 8-26-1974
    aviator: CBS awards program
    03-10-1911 - Warner Anderson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-26-1976
    actor: Patrick Ryan "Terry and the Pirates"
    03-23-1899 - Peggy Paige - Ashville, NC - d. 8-26-1974
    actor: Sassy "Grits and Gravy"; Nancy "Main Street Sketches"
    04-13-1899 - Larry Keating - [removed], MN - d. 8-26-1963
    actor, emcee: "Murder Will Out"; "Scramby Amby"; "This Is Your FBI"
    04-26-1922 - Mike Kellin - Hartford, CT - d. 8-26-1983
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-02-1898 - Edmund Barclay - Gosford, Australia - d. 8-26-1961
    writer: "As Ye Sow"
    05-22-1898 - Charles Borrelli - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-26-1984
    pianist: "Italian Sunday"
    05-25-1891 - William McNeary - d. 8-26-1934
    juvenile radio programming pioneer: "Man in the Moon"
    06-21-1926 - Margaret Potter - Harrow, England - d. 8-26-1998
    writer: "Hindleford"; "The Waiting Game"
    07-14-1892 - Gene Rouse - Boulder, CO - d. 8-26-1956
    announcer/newscaster: "First Nighter"; "Grand Hotel"; "Vanity Fair"
    07-14-1903 - Irving Stone - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-26-1989
    author: "Cavalcade of America"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Arch Oboler's
    Plays"
    08-19-1917 - Muriel M. Bell - d. 8-26-1997
    woman's programming: WBOB Galax, Virginia
    08-28-1897 - Charles Boyer - Figeac, France - d. 8-26-1978
    actor: Michel "Presenting Charles Boyer"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
    09-21-1921 - Gail Russell - Chicago, IL - d. 8-26-1961
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    11-17-1931 - Wayne J. Andre - d. 8-26-2003
    trombonist: Benny Goodman Orchestra; Woody Herman Orchestra
    11-23-1916 - Julie Stevens - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-26-1984
    actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"; Kitty Foyle "Kitty Foyle"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:01:03 -0400
    From: <georgewagner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Earliest Radio Commercial

    The story I sort of grew up with here in Cincinnati is that the radio
    commercial was invented by Smilin' Ed McConnell when he worked for WLW.

         Ed had suggested to the owner of the drug store across from the station
    that he'd plug the store on the air for $[removed] dollars a week.

        The druggist said this was too expensive.

        McConnell then asked if he'd pay 10 cents for every customer who entered
    the store and said "Ed McConnell sent me." This was accepted.

        According to the tale McConnell's take was $[removed] the first week.

        I've never been especially sold on this yarn but I include it for
    whatever historical value it may have.

         Sincerely,

         George Wagner
         georgewagner@[removed]

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