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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 151
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
9-17 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Remember WENN [ Bob <hrkeller@[removed]; ]
9-18 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
ADRIAN JOHN DOE [ Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed]; ]
SummersTime Premiere Episode now on [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
9-19 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:00:49 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 9-17 births/deaths
September 17th births
09-17-1890 - Gabriel Heatter - NYC - d. 3-30-1972
news, commentator: "News and Comment"; "We, the People"
09-17-1897 - Charles L. Bates - Villisca, IA - d. 8-5-1937
organized and accompanied the Rhythm Girls with Paul Whitemen
09-17-1902 - Esther Ralston - Bar Harbor, ME - d. 1-14-1994
actor: Martha Jackson "Woman of Courage"; Kathy Marsh "Portia Faces
Life"
09-17-1903 - Frank Barton - Chicago, IL - d. 1-11-1995
announcer: "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"; "One Man's Family"
09-17-1904 - Jerry Colonna - Boston, MA - d. 11-21-1986
comedian: "Bob Hope Show"
09-17-1905 - Dolores Costello - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-1-1979
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"; "Second Sunday"
09-17-1907 - Alice Yourman - South Dakota - d. 10-28-2000
actor: Mary Andrews "Archie Andrews"; [removed] Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
09-17-1907 - Warren Burger - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-25-1995
chief justice of the supreme court: "We Hold These Truths"
09-17-1910 - Roberta Semple Salter - Hong Kong - d. 1-25-2007
researcher: "Hobby Lobby"
09-17-1914 - Charles Isaacs - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 12-13-2002
witer: "Al Pearce and His Gang"; "The Texaco Star Theatre"
09-17-1914 - Lindsay Hardy - Victor Harbor, South Australia - d.
2-7-1994
writer: "26 Hours"
09-17-1915 - John Witty - Bristol, England - d. 1-14-1990
Began radio broadcasting for the BBC in 1944
09-17-1916 - Mary Stewart - Sunderland, Durham, England
author: "Nine Coaches Waiting"
09-17-1918 - Tom Moore - Meridian, MS - d. 3-31-2007
executive: President ABC Radio and Television
09-17-1923 - Hank Williams - Georgiana, AL - d. 1-1-1953
singer: "Louisiana Hayride"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Health and Happiness"
09-17-1925 - Art Baer - NYC - d. 9-17-2006
producer, director, creator: "The Funny Side Up"
09-17-1928 - Roddy McDowall - London, England - d. 10-3-1998
panelist: "Keep Up with the Kids"
09-17-1929 - Patricia Crowley - Olyphant, PA
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-17-1931 - Anne Bancroft - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-6-2005
actor: "Image Minorities"
09-17-1934 - David McRobbie - Glasgow, Scotland
writer: "Shops"
09-17-1934 - Robin Ray - North London, England - d. 11-29-1998
actor, musician: "Robin Ray's Record Review"
09-17-1941 - Robert Takeo Matsui - Sacremento, CA - d. 1-1-2005
congressman: Democratic response to President's radio address
09-17-1943 - Beverly Aadland - Hollywood, CA - d. 1-5-2010
actor: "Whatever Became of . . ."
September 17th deaths
01-16-1914 - Roger Wagner - Le Puy, France - d. 9-17-1992
chorale director: "It's Time for Johnny Mercer"; "America Sings"
01-25-1881 - Emil Judwig - Breslau, Selisia, Germany - d. 9-17-1948
writer: "Information Please"
02-03-1928 - Frankie Vaughan - Liverpool, England - d. 9-17-1999
singer: "Al Jolson Centenary"
02-13-1916 - James Griffith - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-17-1993
actor: "Gunsmoke"
02-14-1920 - Jack Lesberg - Boston, MA - d. 9-17-2005
jazz bassist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
02-16-1884 - Bert Kalmer - NYC - d. 9-17-1947
lyricist: "You Bet Your Life"
04-06-1887 - Max Montesole - London, England - d. 9-17-1942
author of several radio plays
04-07-1916 - Roy "Whitey" Grant - Shelby, NC - d. 9-17-2010
country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
04-23-1919 - Clifford Kendrick - d. 9-17-1996
drums: "Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets"
05-07-1915 - Win Elliot - Chelsea, MA - d. 9-17-1998
sportscaster, emcee: "Fish Pond"; "County Fair"; "Quick as a Flash"
05-12-1932 - Tom Aaker - d. 9-17-1999
newscaster: Rochester, Minnesota
05-29-1913 - Iris Adrian - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-17-1994
actor: Abbott and Costello Show"
06-21-1922 - Wade Denning - Albermarle, NC - d. 9-17-2007
composer, arranger: "Let's Go On With the Show"
06-28-1908 - John W. Harrington - NYC - d. 9-17-1974
announcer: "Just Plain Bill"
07-18-1913 - Red Skelton - Vincennes, IN - d. 9-17-1997
comedian: "Avalon Time"; "Red Skelton Show"
08-09-1902 - Zino Francescatti - Marseilles, France - d. 9-17-1991
violinist: "Encores from the Bell Telephone Hour"; "Concert Hall
Program"
08-15-1909 - Hugo Winterhalter - d. 9-17-1973
pop-music conductor, arranger: "Johnny Desmond Program"; "Musical
Showcase"
08-31-1914 - Richard Basehart - Zanesville, OH - d. 9-17-1984
actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Preview"
09-06-1918 - Jay Stewart - Summitville, IN - d. 9-17-1989
announcer: "Great Gildersleeve"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"; "Spotlight on
Music"
09-13-1903 - Ken Trietsch - Arcadia, IN - d. 9-17-1987
musician-singer: (Hoosier Hot Shots) "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
09-16-1921 - Marilyn Cantor Baker - NYC - d. 9-17-2010
one of new york's first female disc jockeys (daughter of Eddie Cantor)
09-17-1925 - Art Baer - NYC - d. 9-17-2006
producer, director, creator: "The Funny Side Up"
10-29-1901 - Akim Tamiroff - Baku, Russia - d. 9-17-1972
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-12-1911 - Claudia Morgan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-17-1974
actor: Carolyn Allen Walker Kramer Nelson MacDonald; "Right to
Happiness"
11-14-1881 - Clayton Hamilton - NYC - d. 9-17-1946
writer: "Radio Guild"; "Great Plays"; "Brownstone Theatre"
11-19-1918 - Spiro Agnew - Towson, MD - d. 9-17-1996
[removed] vice president: "Meet the Press"
Ron
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:00:58 -0400
From: Bob <hrkeller@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Remember WENN
In Digest 150 Jan Bach wrote that Remember WENN was available on DVD.
Anyone have a release date or source?
I just checked Amazon and all they showed for sale were used VHS
copies.
That was an outstanding series!
Regards,
Bob Keller
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:01:12 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 9-18 births/deaths
September 18th births
09-18-1873 - Charles K. Field - Montpelier, VT - d. 9-1-1948
host: (Cherrio) "Cherrio"; "Arco Birthday Party"
09-18-1881 - Wythe Williams - Meadville, PA - d. 7-13-1956
newscaster: "As the Clock Strikes"
09-18-1886 - Powel Crosley, Jr. - Cincinnati, OH - d. 3-28-1961
owner of WLW radio station in Cincinnati
09-18-1894 - Willard Robison - Shelbina, MO - d. 6-24-1968
orchestra leader: (Evangelist of Rhythm) "Plantation Echoes"
09-18-1905 - Eddie Anderson - Oakland, CA - d. 2-28-1977
actor: Rochester Van Jones "Jack Benny Program"
09-18-1905 - Greta Garbo - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 4-15-1990
actor: "Conquest"
09-18-1908 - Blair Walliser - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1996
writer, director: "Romance of Helen Trent"; "Backstage Wife"
09-18-1910 - Joe "Curley" Bradley - Coalgate, OK - d. 6-3-1985
actor, singer: Tom Mix "Tom Mix"; "Singing Marshall"
09-18-1916 - Samuel Badillo - d. 9-27-1992
newscaster: WIAC San Juan, PR
09-18-1917 - June Foray - Springfield, MA
actor: Junie "Smile Time" "Stan Freberg Show"; "It's a Great Life"
09-18-1919 - Diana Lewis - Asbury, NJ - d. 1-18-1997
actor: "G. I. Journal"; "Radio's Reader Digest"
09-18-1920 - Jack Warden - Newark, NJ - d. 7-19-2006
actor: "Stagestruck"
09-18-1929 - Phyllis Kirk - Syracuse, NY - d. 10-20-2006
actor: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
09-18-1932 - Patricia Roe - NYC
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
09-18-1939 - Frankie Avalon, Philadelphia, PA
singer: "Frankie Avalon Show"
09-18-1948 - Ken Brett - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-18-2003
part of the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcast team
September 18th deaths
01-07-1888 - Myrtle Vail Damerel - Joilet, IL - d. 9-18-1978
actor: Myrtle Spear "Myrt and Marge"
01-17-1917 - Sam Locke - Peabody, MA - d. 9-18-1998
scriptwriter: "Grand Central Station"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
02-27-1905 - Franchot Tone - Niagara Falls, NY - d. 9-18-1968
actor: "Arch Oboler Plays"; "Free Company"; "Knickerbocker Playhouse"
03-03-1900 - Edna Best - Hove, East Sussex, England - d. 9-18-1974
director: "Sherlock Holmes"; "Silver Theatre"
05-15-1890 - Katherine Anne Porter - Indian Creek, TX - d. 9-18-1980
author: "NBC University Theatre"
05-31-1879 - Frances Alda - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 9-18-1952
soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"
06-01-1890 - Frank Morgan - NYC - d. 9-18-1949
actor: Thaddeus Q. Tweedy "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"
07-08-1917 - Pamela Brown - London, England - d. 9-18-1975
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Theatre On the Air"
07-14-1904 - Annabella - La Varenne Hilaire, Val-de-Marne, France - d.
9-18-1996
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-08-1923 - Jimmy Witherspoon - Gurdon, AR - d. 9-18-1997
blues singer: (Jay McShann's Band) "Jubilee"
08-10-1902 - Franklyn Ferguson - Texas - d. 9-18-1969
announcer: "The Breakfast Club"; "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy"
08-10-1915 - Jack Lester - Oklahoma - d. 9-18-2004
actor: Sky King "Sky King"; ""Whistlin' Jimmy Steele"
08-14-1902 - Harriet Allyn - d. 9-18-1998
actor: Aggie Horn "In the Case of Aggie Horn"
08-23-1902 - Charles Paul - NYC - d. 9-18-1990
organist: "Kate Smith"; "As the Twig is Bent"
08-24-1896 - Cyril Armbrister - d. 9-18-1966
producer, director: "Chandu the Magician"; "Strange As It Seems";
"Terry and the Pirates"
09-04-1914 - Leonard Sterling - d. 9-18-1992
announcer: "The Brighter Day"; "We Are Always Young"
09-10-1917 - Jean Ruth Hay - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-18-2004
disc jockey: "Reveille with Beverly"
09-27-1893 - Phil Cook - Coldwater, MI - d. 9-18-1958
comedian: "Radio Chief"; "Quaker Oats Man"; "Morning Almanac"
12-15-1921 - Bea Lilly - Clear Creek, VA - d. 9-18-2005
guitar: "Old Farm Hour Show", "Molly O'Day"
Ron
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:18:14 -0400
From: Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: ADRIAN JOHN DOE
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Who was Adrian John Doe? He shows up as a writer on YTJD and some other
mystery shows. Could this be a real name?
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:20:15 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: SummersTime Premiere Episode now on the Podcast!
Folks;
Just a heads-up that the premeire episode of SummersTime, the
RadioOnceMore program hosted by your obedient servant and his daughter,
Katie, is now available on the Nostalgic Rumblings podcast at
[removed]
The podcast will be making the shows available for download to your
favorite MP3 player or for listening right on the webpage about two weeks
after they air on [removed] those of you who, like me, have problems
making "appointment radio" can listen to our shows on-demand.
In our first show, we play episodes of The Adventures of Archie Andrews,
The Minnesota School of the Air, Our Miss Brooks, and The Adventures of Harry
Lime, and we talk about the shows and the times. Future shows include Jack
Benny, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Academy Award Theater, and many many more.
Complete information, including schedules, program breakdowns, and a few
photos, is available at [removed] and you can hear
this week's program along with many more great OTR shows hosted by other
subscribers to the OTR Digest (winks to Terry) at [removed]
We hope you enjoy the [removed] with Kate around, how can you not? ;)
Charlie
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:41:23 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 9-19 births/deaths
September 19th births
09-19-1877 - T. Stuart Gurr - Bombay, India - d. 12-xx-1960
writer: "The Summons"
09-19-1879 - Louis Joseph Vance - NYC - d. 12-16-1933
writer: "The Lone Wolf"
09-19-1888 - John Henry Bodkin - Chicago, IL - d. unknown
director: Abundant Life Mixed Chorus "Operatic Night"
09-19-1888 - Porter Hall - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-6-1953
actor: "March of Time"
09-19-1892 - Fred E. Ahlert - NYC - d. 10-20-1953
composer/arranger: "When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the
Day"
09-19-1899 - Ricardo Cortez - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 4-28-1977
actor: "Shell Chateau"; "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Treasury Hour"
09-19-1904 - Dr. Bergen Evans - Franklin, OH - d. 2-4-1978
host: "Down You Go"; "Of Many Things"
09-19-1904 - Elvia Allman - Concord, NC - d. 3-6-1992
comedian: Tootsie Sagwell "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"; Cora
Dithers "Blondie"
09-19-1905 - Betty Garde - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-25-1989
actor: Peggy O'Neill "O'Neills"; Kate Mason "Maudie's Diary"
09-19-1908 - Sanford Barnett - East Orange, NJ - d. 4-14-1988
writer: "Believe It or Not"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-19-1910 - Arthur Mullard - London, England - d. 12-11-1995
actor: Jack (Dad Porter) "Industrial Inaction"; "Brothers In Law"
09-19-1910 - Dresser Dahlstead - Springville, UT - d. 4-20-1998
announcer: "I Deal in Crime"; "Death Valley Days"; "I Love a Mystery"
09-19-1910 - Margaret Lindsay - Dubuque, IA - d. 5-8-1981
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"
09-19-1912 - Edmund Anderson - NYC - d. 6-29-2002
program writer and director for various network programs
09-19-1912 - William Abramchik - Illinois - d. 4-16-1998
newscaster: Chicago, Illinois
09-19-1913 - Frances Farmer - Seattle, WA - d. 8-1-1970
actor: "Pursuit of Happiness"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Suspense"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
09-19-1916 - Helen Ward - NYC - d. 4-21-1998
jazz singer: (Benny Goodman's Band) "Let's Dance"
09-19-1920 - Warde Q. Butler - d. 4-16-2004
hosted a music and interview program in Cincinnati, Ohio
09-19-1921 - Michael Noonan - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 3-5-2000
writer: "The Man Who Changed the Wind"
09-19-1922 - Willie Pep - Middletown, CT - d. 11-23-2006
boxer: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"
09-19-1924 - Bob Murphy - Oklahoma - d. 8-3-2004
sportscaster: teamed with Curt Gowdy to broadcast Red Sox Games
09-19-1926 - James Lipton - Detroit, MI
actor: Dick Grant "The Guiding Light"; Dan Reid "The Lone Ranger"
09-19-1926 - Ralph Luedtke - Milwaukee, WI
actor: Larry Teich "Billie the Brownie"
09-19-1927 - William Hickey - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-29-1997
performed in radio at the age of 9
09-19-1930 - Derek Nimmo - Liverpool, England - d. 2-25-1999
comic actor: "The Dales"
09-19-1931 - Ray Danton - NYC - d. 2-11-1992
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
September 19th deaths
02-03-1903 - Martin Block - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1967
announcer, disc jockey: "Make-Believe Ballroom"; "Chesterfield Supper
Club"
04-07-1899 - Robert Casadesus - Paris, France - d. 9-19-1972
pianist: "Telephone Hour"; "Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra"
04-23-1922 - Jack May - Henley-on-Thames, England - d. 9-19-1997
actor: "The Archers"; "Sherlock Holmes"
05-21-1901 - Fred Cole - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1964
writer: "Double or Nothing"
05-27-1909 - Dolores Hope - NYC - d. 9-19-2011
actor: (Wife of Bob Hope) "The Lifebuoy Shoe"; "Duffy's Tavern"
06-01-1900 - Werner Janssen - NYC - d. 9-19-1990
music: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
06-17-1897 - Vivian Duncan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1986
singer: (Topsy and Eva) "Wireless Vaudeville"
06-17-1910 - Red Foley - Blue Lick, KY - d. 9-19-1968
singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Red Foley Show"
07-18-1910 - Lou Bush - Louisville, KY - d. 9-19-1979
orchestra leader: "Guest Star"; "Stars for Defense"; "Here's to
Veterans"
07-28-1911 - Ann Doran - Amarillo, TX - d. 9-19-2000
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-06-1921 - Buddy Collette - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-2010
composer: "Uprising: Buddy Collette: Jazz Legend and Civil Rights
Activist"
08-16-1896 - Eddie Green - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-19-1950
actor: Eddie the Waiter "Duffy's Tavern"; Jerry "Uncle Charlie's Tent
Show"
09-07-1921 - Art Ferrante - NYC - d. 9-19-2009
pianist: (Ferrante and Teicher) "The Zero Hour"; "Hollywood Radio
Theatre"
10-14-1879 - Miles Franklin - Talbingo, Australia - d. 9-19-1954
wirter: "The Thorny Rose"
10-20-1895 - Rex Ingram - Cairo, IL - d. 9-19-1965
actor: "Free World Theatre"
11-14-1920 - Irving Ravetch - Newark, NJ - d. 9-19-2010
writer, adapter: "Escape"
12-22-1909 - Patricia Hayes - London, England - d. 9-19-1998
actor: Henry Bones, boy detective "Children's Hour"
12-30-1931 - Skeeter Davis - Dry Ridge, KY - d. 9-19-2004
country/western singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
Ron
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