Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #17
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Date: 1/25/2011 6:34 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 17
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      1-23 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      1-24 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Allen - Benny Film                    [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
      Update for Arthur                     [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      1-25 [removed]                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      The 118-year-old radio actress        [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
      Booth announcers                      [ "Andy Blatt" <asajb2000@[removed]; ]
      Westerns for History Club             [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      1-26 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:30:56 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-23 births/deaths

    January 23rd births

    01-23-1884 - George McManus - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1954
    "Bringing Up Father" based on his comic strip
    01-23-1892 - Eleanor Nash - d. 10-3-1969
    beauty and style consultant (Sister of Ogden Nash): "Ask Eleanor Nash"
    01-23-1893 - Franklin Pangborn - Newark, NJ - d. 7-20-1958
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-23-1894 - Clara Acuff Adams - d. 12-31-1950
    soprano: KOA Denver, Colorado
    01-23-1898 - Randolph Scott - Orange County, VA - d. 3-2-1987
    actor: "Academy Award Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    01-23-1899 - Jospeh Nathan Kane - NYC - d. 9-22-2002
    writer: "Break the Bank"
    01-23-1899 - Margaret Carreau - Bedford, PA - d. 4-4-1997
    accompanist to John Charles Thomas
    01-23-1907 - Dan Duryea - White Plains, NY - d. 6-7-1968
    actor: Lou Dana "Man from Homicide"
    01-23-1910 - Django Reinhardt - Belgium - d. 5-16-1953
    jazz artist: "Djanjo Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club France"
    01-23-1910 - Dorothy Arbuckle - Eldred, IL - d. 11-14-1982
    radio journalist
    01-23-1913 - Max Smith - Des Moines, IA - d. 7-23-1999
    singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
    01-23-1919 - Ernie Kovacs - Trenton, NJ - d. 1-12-1962
    announcer, panelist: Monitor, "Where Have You Been?"
    01-23-1919 - Millard Lampell - d. 10-3-1997
    co-founder of the Almanac Singers: "Treasury Star Parade"
    01-23-1920 - Jack Coleman - Denver, CO - d. 6-6-1985
    singer: (Avon Comedy Four) "Old Fashioned Revival Hour"
    01-23-1923 - Florence Halop - Jamaica Estates, NY - d. 7-15-1986
    actor: Hotbreath Houlihan "Jimmy Durante Show"; Miss Duffy "Duffy's
    Tavern"
    01-23-1925 - Bernice Wirsbitzke - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-14-2006
    singer: "Heinie and the Grenadiers"
    01-23-1926 - Lyn Osborn - Wichita Falls, TX - d. 8-30-1958
    actor: Cadet Happy "Space Patrol"
    01-23-1933 - Chita Rivera - Washington, [removed]
    singer: "WOR Diamond Jubilee"

    January 23rd deaths

    01-16-1916 - Norval Taborn - d. 1-23-1990
    singer: (The Vagabonds) "The Breakfast Club"
    01-19-1887 - Alexander Woollcott - Phalanx, NJ - d. 1-23-1943
    commentator: "Early Bookworm"; "Town Crier"
    01-28-1937 - Ken Hill - Birmingham, England - d. 1-23-1995
    writer: "Night Season"
    02-06-1888 - Hugh Aspinwall - d. 1-23-1981
    tenor, chief announcer: WHT Chicago, Illinois
    02-09-1911 - Harry Kramer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-23-1996
    announcer: "Alfred Antonini Orchestra"; "Mike and Buff's Mailbag"
    03-26-1907 - Phil Rapp - d. 1-23-1996
    creator, writer, director: "The Bickersons"; "Baby Snooks"; "Old Gold
    Time"
    03-28-1924 - Freddie Bartholomew - London, England - d. 1-23-1992
    guest: "Anchors Aweigh"
    04-08-1919 - Virginia O'Brien - Los Angles, CA - d. 1-23-2001
    actor: "Blue Ribbon Town"
    04-09-1898 - Paul Robeson - Princeton, NJ - d. 1-23-1976
    singer: "Pursuit of Happiness"
    04-13-1918 - Brad Ansley - d. 1-23-1992
    sportscaster: WIOD Miami Florida
    05-20-1925 - Vic Ames - Malden, MA - d. 1-23-1978
    singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
    05-29-1932 - Rosalyn Borden - Hartford, CT - d. 1-23-2003
    singer: (Borden Twins) "The Kiddies Hour"
    05-30-1914 - Bob Sherwood - Indianapolis, IN - d. 1-23-1981
    music: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    07-07-1899 - George Cukor - NYC - d. 1-23-1983
    film director: "Marilyn Monroe: Fame is Fickle"; "Hollywood Calling"
    07-25-1918 - Louanne Hogan - St. Paul, MN - d. 1-23-2006
    singer: "One Night Stand"
    08-12-1919 - Peter Luke - St. Albans, England - d. 1-23-1995
    writer: "The Other Side of the Hill"
    08-17-1921 - Wayne Raney - Wolf Bayou, AR - d. 1-23-1993
    country music harmonica player: "Grand Ole Opry"
    09-11-1908 - Ray Beals - Missouri - d. 1-23-1983
    newscaster: KVGB Great Bend, Kansas
    09-16-1893 - Alexander Korda - Pusztaturpaszto, Hungary - d. 1-23-1956
    director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-16-1902 - Philip Reep - d. 1-23-1985
    singer: (Elm City Four) "The Gay Nineties Revue"
    09-29-1919 - Arthur Bernard - Gary, IN - d. 1-23-2001
    producer: "Turning Point"
    10-16-1920 - Gus Wayne - The Bronx, NY - d. 1-23-1998
    actor: Little Johnny for Phillip Morris
    10-23-1925 - Johnny Carson - Corning, IA - d. 1-23-2005
    announcer, disc jockey: "Johnny Carson Show"
    11-01-1933 - Art Stamper - nr. Hindman, Knott County, KY - d. 1-23-2005
    bluegrass fiddler: Performed with Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe's
    Bluegrass Boys
    11-04-1896 - Ian Wolfe - Canton, IL - d. 1-23-1992
    actor: "Suspense"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Escape"
    11-12-1903 - Jack Oakie - Sedalia, MO - d. 1-23-1978
    comedian: "Jack Oakie's College"
    11-26-1915 - Earl Wild - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-23-2010
    pianist: KDKA Pittsburgh; "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    12-18-1915 - Bill Zuckert - NYC - d. 1-23-1997
    actor: Detective. Lieutenant. Parker "Crime and Peter Chambers"
    12-25-1886 - Kid Ory - LaPlace. LA - d. 1-23-1973
    dixieland jazz trombonist: "This is Jazz";"Radio Almanac"; "Here's to
    Veterans"
    12-28-1929 - Brian Redhead - Newcastle-upon-Tyne - d. 1-23-1994
    presenter: "Today"; "A World in Edgeways"; "From Plato to Nato"

    Ron
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:31:07 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-24 births/deaths

    January 24th births

    01-24-1862 - Edith Wharton - NYC - d. 8-11-1937
    author: Many of her stories were adapted for radio.
    01-24-1881 - Earl Godwin - Washington, [removed] - d. 9-23-1956
    newsman: "Watch the World Go By"
    01-24-1883 - Estelle Winwood - Lee, Kent, England - d. 6-20-1984
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    01-24-1902 - Walter Kiernan - New Haven, CT - d. 1-8-1978
    commentator, emcee: "Sparring Partners"; "Weekend"
    01-24-1903 - Johnny Anz - d. 10-26-1987
    orchestra leader: WESG Elmira, New York
    01-24-1904 - Franklyn Baur - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-24-1950
    tenor: "Palmolive Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
    01-24-1909 - Ann Todd - Hartford, Cheshire, England - d. 5-6-1993
    actor: Amy Foster "Those We Love"
    01-24-1913 - Gwen Bagni - d. 5-13-2001
    writer: "Suspense"; "Family Theatre"; "Escape"
    01-24-1914 - David Gaines - d. 8-27-2006
    sound techncian: Mercury Theatre
    01-24-1915 - Evie Juster - d. 6-2-1988
    actor: "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"; "Our Gal Sunday"
    01-24-1916 - Jack Brickhouse - Peoria, IL - d. 8-6-1998
    sportscaster: Chicago
    01-24-1917 - Ernest Borgnine - Hamden, CT
    actor: "Midweek"
    01-24-1918 - Oral Roberts - near Ada, OK - d. 12-15-2009
    evengelist: "Healing Waters"
    01-24-1924 - Mavis Scott - Brisbane, Australia
    writer: "The King and the Hard-Boiled Eggs"
    01-24-1925 - Maria Tallchief - Fairfax, OK
    dancer: "Image Minorities"
    01-24-1925 - Robert M. Cawley - Columbus, OH
    child actor who had his own radio show 1934-1936
    01-24-1927 - Marvin Kaplin - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: Alfred "Meet Millie"
    01-24-1941 - Neil Diamond - Brooklyn, NY
    singer: "Voices of Vista"
    01-24-1949 - John Belushi - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1982
    comedian: "The National Lampoon Radio Hour"

    January 24th deaths

    01-01-1908 - Bob Russell - Passaic, NJ - d. 1-24-1998
    singer, songwriter: Helped create " Name that Tune"
    01-10-1916 - Jack Halloran - Rock Rapids, IA - d. 1-24-1997
    singer: "The Breakfast Club with Don MacNeil"
    01-12-1923 - Ira Hayes - Gila River Indian Reservation, AZ - d.
    1-24-1955
    raiser of second flag on Iwo Jima:: "Interview programs"
    01-21-1897 - J. Carrol Naish - NYC - d. 1-24-1973
    actor: Luigi Basco "Life with Luigi"
    02-02-1911 - Everett Freeman - NYC - d. 1-24-1991
    writer: "The Baby Snooks Show"; "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    03-05-1913 - Dick Whittinghill - Montana - d. 1-24-2001
    disk jockey: "Did you Whittinghill This Morning?"
    03-12-1921 - Gordon MacRae - East Orange, NJ - d. 1-24-1986
    singer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Railroad Hour"
    03-13-1910 - Frank Gabrielson - New York - d. 1-24-1980
    writer: "The Cavalcade of America"
    03-13-1911 - L. Ron Hubbard - Tilden, NE - d. 1-24-1986
    science fiction writer: "Dimension X"
    04-22-1924 - Bill Simmons - d. 1-24-2005
    southern gospel musician: (Light Crust Doughboys)
    05-13-1909 - Ken Darby - Hebron, NE - d. 1-24-1992
    singer, choral conductor: (The King's Men) "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    06-10-1911 - Denes Agay - Kiskunfelegyhaza, Hungary - d. 1-24-2007
    composer/conductor: "Guest Star"
    06-24-1900 - Gene Austin - Gainesville, TX - d. 1-24-1972
    singer: "Gene Austin"; "Joe Penner Show"; "[removed] Musical Showroom"
    06-25-1903 - Earl Ebi - Hollister, CA - d. 1-24-1973
    director: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre";
    "Vic and Sade"
    07-13-1934 - Peter Gzowski - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-24-2002
    CBC Morningside host
    07-15-1903 - Walter D. Edmonds - Boonville, NY - d. 1-24-1998
    writer: "Information Please"
    08-18-1873 - Otto Harbach - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 1-24-1963
    songwriter: "Music for Millions"; "Railroad Hour"
    08-24-1927 - Jerry Damon - d. 1-24-1979
    announcer: "X Minus One"; "The Eternal Light"
    10-06-1897 - Jerome Cowan - NYC - d. 1-24-1972
    actor: "Best Plays"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"; "Suspense"
    10-10-1903 - Ronald Dawson - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 1-24-1984
    actor, writer: "Martin Kane, Private Eye"; "The Clock"
    10-12-1905- Gilbert Martyn - Colorado - d. 1-24-1959
    newscaster: "Kellogg's Home Edition"
    10-19-1910 - John C. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 1-24-1936
    singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"; "Bing Crosby
    Show"
    10-20-1914 - Fayard Nicholas - Mobile, AL - d. 1-24-2006
    dancer: (The Nicholas Brothers) "Big Broadcast of 1936"; "Ben Bernie
    Show"
    11-21-1891 - Edward Ellsberg - New Haven, CT - d. 1-24-1983
    writer: "The Mercury Theatre on the Air"
    11-30-1874 - Winston Churchill - Oxfordshire, England - d. 1-24-1965
    british prime minister: War time broadcasts
    12-01-1899 - Tom Shirley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-24-1962
    actor, announcer: Sam Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Advs. of the Thin Man"

    Ron
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:31:14 -0500
    From: Rentingnow@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Allen - Benny Film

    For those with Netflix the Benny - Allen film  "Its in the Bag" is
    available for streaming.

    Larry Moore

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:36:48 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Update for Arthur

    Craig and Bernadette Wichman spent the afternoon of Jan 24th with
    Arthur Anderson at the rehab center where he's recovering very well,
    diligently doing his therapy. He will have to continue this therapy
    at home as he is scheduled to be released on Wednesday the 26th.

    While at the rehab center, Craig and Bernadette joined Arthur and
    other patients for a gypsy jazz concert given by a combo, the Velvet
    Kings. Arthur sang along with the old standards, "The Sheik of Araby"
    and "Is You Is, or Is You Ain't My Baby?" and afterwards he chatted
    with the musicians about his guitar and ukulele history.

    To his friends in the OTR community, Arthur said "They can send
    cards, if they'd like to."

    Please keep Arthur in your thoughts and prayers, and Craig encourages
    us to not forget Alice, as this has been very tough sledding for her.

    For those Digesters who want to send Arthur cards or notes of
    support, send them to:

    Arthur Anderson
    c/o Charlie Summers
    211 Pauline Drive #525
    York, PA 17402-4637

    and he will forward anything received to Arthur.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:36:58 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-25 [removed]

    January 25th births

    01-25-1874 - Somerset Maughan - Paris, France - d. 12-16-1965
    writer: " Somerset Maughan Theatre"
    01-25-1878 - Ernst Alexanderson - Uppsala, Sweden - d. 5-14-1975
    engineer: Possibly first voice ever heard on radio Dec. 24, 1906
    01-25-1881 - Emil Judwig - Breslau, Selisia, Germany - d. 9-17-1948
    writer: "Information Please"
    01-25-1898 - Cecil Secrest - d. unknown
    actor: Fred Kent "Home Sweet Home"
    01-25-1901 - Mildred Dunnock - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-5-1991
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    01-25-1908 - Stephane Grapelli - Paris, France - d. 12-1-1997
    jazz violinist: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Jazz Alive"
    01-25-1910 - Portland Hoffa - Portland, OR - d. 12-25-1990
    comedian: (Wife of Fred Allen) "Fred Allen Show"
    01-25-1916 - Les Crutchfield - d. 10-6-1966
    writer: "Escape"; "Fort Laramie"; "Gunsmoke"
    01-25-1918 - Ernie Harwell - Washington, GA - d. 5-4-2010
    baseball broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers
    01-25-1919 - Edwin Newman - NYC - d. 8-13-2010
    news commentator: "Biography in Sound"; "What Christmas Means to Me"
    01-25-1920 - Fred Pinkard - d. 8-3-2004
    actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Hello, Sucker"
    01-25-1920 - Roy Rowan - Encino, CA - d. 5-10-1998
    announcer: "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "Rogers of the Gazette"; "Young Love"
    01-25-1922 - Raymond Baxter - Essex, England - d. 9-15-2006
    broadcaster for the BBC
    01-25-1923 - Rusty Draper - d. 3-28-2003
    country singer: "Dude Martin's Radio Ranch"
    01-25-1924 - Speedy West - Springfield, MO - d. 11-15-2003
    steel guitarist: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Tennessee Ernie FordShow"
    01-25-1958 - Linda Smith - Erith, England - d. 2-27-2006
    panelist: "Just a Minute"; "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", "The News Quiz"

    January 25th deaths

    01-02-1913 - David Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-25-2000
    producer: " We the People"
    02-06-1878 - Walter B. Pitkin - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 1-25-1953
    author: "The Clearing House of Hope"; "We Americans"
    03-03-1921 - Diana Barrymore - NYC - d. 1-25-1960
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    03-05-1900 - Martin Magner - Stettin, Germany - d. 1-25-2002
    director: "Under Arrest"; "Wooden Fish"
    03-21-1918 - Cliff Norton - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
    actor: Connie the coolie "Terry and the Pirates"; "American Novels"
    03-24-1867 - Harry Neville - Launceston, Tasmania - d. 1-25-1945
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes"; "John's Other Wife"
    04-07-1893 - Irene Castle - New Rochelle, NY - d. 1-25-1969
    actor: Best Dressed Woman "Life of Irene Castle"; "Twenty Questions"
    04-13-1905 - Eddie Dooley - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-25-1982
    sports commentary: "Dooley's Football Forecast"
    04-17-1913 - Walter Ducloux - Lucerne, Switzerland - d. 1-25-1997
    conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    04-30-1916 - Robert Shaw - Red Bluff, CA - d. 1-25-1999
    choral director: "Radio Hall of Fame"; "American School of the Air"
    05-31-1904 - Jeanne Juvelier - NYC - d. 1-25-1981
    actor: Madame Babette "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"
    06-03-1924 - Ted Mallie - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-25-1999
    announcer: "I Love A Mystery"; "The Shadow"; "Bill Hickok"
    08-19-1902 - Colleen Moore - Port Huron, MI - d. 1-25-1988
    actor: "Whatever Became of . . . ."
    09-10-1898 - Adele Astaire - Omaha, NE - d. 1-25-1981
    dancer, actor: (Fred's Sister) "Magic Key"; "Savings Bond Campaign"
    09-17-1910 - Roberta Semple Salter - Hong Kong - d. 1-25-2007
    researcher: "Hobby Lobby"
    10-15-1921 - Robert Rockwell - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
    actor: Philip Boynton "Our Miss Brooks"
    10-30-1906 - Paul J. Smith - Calumet, MI - d. 1-25-1985
    music: "The Eddie Bracken Show"
    10-31-1915 - Jane Jarvis - Vincennes, IN - d. 1-25-2010
    organist: Staff organist for WTMJ Milwaukee; Organist for Milwaukee
    Braves
    12-03-1902 - Bill Slater - Parkersburg, WV - d. 1-25-1965
    emcee: ""Uncle Jim's Question Bee"; "Twenty Questions"; "Dunninger Show"
    12-24-1922 - Ava Gardner - Grabtown, NC - d. 1-25-1990
    actor: "So Proudly We Hail"; "Prudential Family Hour of Stars"

    Ron
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    Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:26:05 -0500
    From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The 118-year-old radio actress

    Re: a post seen recently in OTR Digest:

    01-22-1859 - Sondra Gair - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-31-1977
    actor: "Chicago Theatre On the Air"; "Meet Miss Sherlock"; "Suspense"

    I have the suspicion that this might be several obituaries that somehow got
    tangled up in each other. Ms. Gair actually died in 1994 and only made it to
    70.

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:26:15 -0500
    From: "Andy Blatt" <asajb2000@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Booth announcers
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

    Of course I meant when RCA Owned NBC, not when NBC owned NBC.

    -- Sent from my Palm Pre

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:26:34 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Westerns for History Club

    Keith Houdeshell asks about radio westerns, in addition to
    "Gunsmoke," that should be included in a presentation to his local
    history group.

    Obviously two that leap to mind would be "Fort Laramie" and "Frontier
    Gentleman." The skilled and knowledgeable quartette of John Meston,
    Kathleen Hite, Les Crutchfield, and John Dunkel, who produced
    historical accurate programs for "Gunsmoke" did the same for "Fort
    Laramie." Even actual historical personages and events turn up in
    their scripts. For background on "Fort Laramie" go to my article on
    the web at:

    <[removed]>

    "Frontier Gentleman" was also scrupulously accurate in terms of the
    period and the region. Tony Ellis, who wrote and directed the series,
    had a massive personal library of western history books from which to
    draw the facts of that era which he incorporated into his scripts.

    All three of these series should definitely be a part of Keith's
    presentation.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:26:59 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-26 births/deaths

    January 26th births

    01-26-1880 - Douglas MacArthur - Little Rock, AR - d. 4-5-1964
    general: "Special Broadcast from Tokyo"
    01-26-1885 - Hugh Barrett Dobbs - d. 2-20-1944
    actor: Captain Dobbsie "Ship of Joy"
    01-26-1892 - Guy Robertson - Denver, CO - d. unknown
    singing host: "Broadway Varieties"
    01-26-1899 - Wyllis Cooper - Pekin, IL - d. 6-22-1955
    producer, writer, director: "Lights Out"; "Quiet Please"
    01-26-1905 - Margaret Cousins - Munday, TX - d. 7-30-1996
    writer: "Holmes Radio Magazine"
    01-26-1905 - Maria von Trapp - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-28-1987
    singer: (Trapp Family Singers) "Christmas Seal Sale"
    01-26-1907 - Eddie Ballentine - Chicago, IL - d. 11-14-1995
    orchestra leader: "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club"
    01-26-1907 - Rita Ascot - d. 3-6-1988
    actor: "Fay "Ma Perkins"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    01-26-1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen - Syracuse, NY - d. 2-6-1990
    composer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Command Performance"
    01-26-1913 - William Prince - Nichols, NY - d. 10-8-1996
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"
    01-26-1914 - Jack de Manio - Hampstead, England - d. 10-28-1988
    announcer: "Today"; "Jack de Manio Precisely"; "Woman's Hour"
    01-26-1914 - Phoebe Ephron - NYC - d. 10-13-1971
    author: "Lux RadioTheatre"
    01-26-1918 - Vito Scotti - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-5-1996
    actor: "Romance"; "Broadway Is My Beat"
    01-26-1919 - Jan Bart - Poland - d. 8-12-1971
    traveled with Major Bowes for 7 years, had his own radio show
    01-26-1922 - Michael Bentine - Watford, Hertfordshie, England - d.
    11-26-1996
    comedian: "Goon Show"
    01-26-1922 - Page Cavanaugh - Cherokee, KS - d. 12-18-2008
    singer: (The Page Cavanaugh Trio) "The Jack Paar Show"
    01-26-1925 - Joan Leslie - Detroit, MI
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-26-1927 - Billy Redfield - NYC - d. 8-17-1976
    actor: Grayling Dennis "Brighter Day"; Willie Piper "Tales of Willie
    Piper"
    01-26-1927 - Ronnie Hilton - Hull, England - d. 2-21-2001
    singer: "Sounds of the Fifties"
    01-26-1935 - Bob Uecker - Milwaukee, WI
    baseball announcer: "Milwaukee Brewers"
    01-26-1937 - Alison Steele - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-27-1995
    disk jockey: "The Nightbird"
    01-26-1945 - Marti Caine - Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - d. 11-4-1995
    comedian: "The Marti Caine Show"

    January 26th deaths

    01-08-1909 - Jose Ferrer - Santurce, PR - d. 1-26-1992
    actor: Philo Vance "Advs. of Philo Vance"; Minister "We Love and Learn"
    02-14-1897 - Victor Lindlahr - d. 1-26-1969
    commentator: "Talks on Diet"
    04-02-1917 - Gertrude Warner - Hartford, CT - d. 1-26-1986
    actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"; Christy Allen "Against the Storm"
    04-26-1922 - Eric Sinclair - Burkburnett, TX - d. 1-26-2004
    actor: "Alias Jane Doe"
    04-28-1916 - Rena Craig Waxman - Denver, CO - d. 1-26-2003
    actor: "School of Charm"
    05-17-1897 - Fletcher Wiley - d. 1-26-1966
    commentator: "Your Home Front Reporter"
    06-05-1914 - J. Donald Wilson - d. 1-26-1984
    creator, writer, producer: "The Whistler"; "Advs. of Nero Wolfe";
    "Dark Venture"
    06-19-1894 - Emil Coleman - Odessa, Russia - d. 1-26-1965
    orchestra leader: "Penthouse Party"; "Gulf Headliners"
    07-08-1908 - Nelson Rockefeller - Bar Harbor, ME - d. 1-26-1979
    vice president: Helped fund "Hello Americans" with Orson Welles
    08-09-1905 - Leo Genn - London, England - d. 1-26-1978
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-24-1905 - Wilbur 'Bill' P. Bardo - d. 1-26-1975
    bandleader: "One Night Stand"
    10-02-1900 - Cecil Roy - St. Paul, MN - d. 1-26-1995
    actor: (Girl of a Thousand Voices) Junior Fitz "Ma Perkins"
    10-09-1899 - Goebel (Leon) Reeves - Sherman, TX - d. 1-26-1959
    singer, yodeler: "Rudy Vallee Show"
    10-17-1912 - Jack Owens - Tulsa, OK - d. 1-26-1982
    vocalist: Cruising Crooner "The Breakfast Club"; "Tin Pan Alley"
    11-06-1892 - Ole Olsen - Wabash, IN - d. 1-26-1963
    comedian: (Olsen and Johnson); "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Breakfast Club"
    12-05-1901 - Grace Moore - Jellico, TN - d. 1-26-1947
    opera singer: "General Motors Concerts"; "Speed Show"; "Vicks Open
    House"
    12-10-1913 - Jean Dickenson - Montreal, Canada - d. 1-26-2007
    singer: (Nightingale of the Airwaves) "American Album of Familiar Music"
    12-12-1893 - Edward G. Robinson - Bucharest, Romania - d. 1-26-1973
    actor: Steve Wilson "Big Town"
    12-15-1915 - Margaret Hayes - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-26-1977
    actor: "Silver Theatre"
    12-19-1888 - Mabel Brownell - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-26-1972
    actor: "Polly witha Past"

    Ron
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