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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 151
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     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
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       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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