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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 241
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      Charles Flynn                         [ crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow) ]
      Out of Fibber's closet                [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      No rest for the Wiki                  [ Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      Flynn family                          [ "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@char ]
      Mike Wallace on The Lone Ranger       [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
      sports on OTR                         [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Homosexuality in OTR                  [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Hi-yo, Myron Wallace!                 [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Myron Wallace                         [ "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@earthli ]
      8-21 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:08:16 -0400
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

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    Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:08:44 -0400
    From: crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow)
    To: [removed]@[removed] (Old Time Radio Digest)
    Subject:  Charles Flynn

    Not the least of  Bess Flynn's accomplishments was her son, Charles Flynn.
    I was at a SPERDVAC Convention when Charles Flynn was honored for portraying
    Jack Armstrong for  much of its long run. I was glad Jack French noted Bess'
    writing skills.  Charles Flynn told me he was particularly proud  of his
    mother's contribution to early Chicago soap opera, and her scripting ability
    helped him with the "cadence" of the lines he read. When I saw him  he was
    exhausted, having driven from Poway to Los Angeles for the afternoon program,
    but still sparkled as a witty, articulate conversationist.  Flynn lived a
    long, productive life.

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:09:07 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Out of Fibber's closet

>     Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:19:40 -0400
>     From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];

>     I was a little surprised that a joke that traded on the idea that a
>     (male) interior decorator would be expected to have a high
>     (effeminate) voice made in on the air in 1939,

    I once heard it said (I forget by whom, unfortunately) that one
    standard for whether questionable material got on the air was whether
    it would stimulate kids to ask embarrassing questions.  If it was
    sufficiently over the heads of kids so that they wouldn't ask
    questions, it was OK.  Perhaps that was the criterion in this case.

    Here's a question, though, about "Fibber McGee and Company."  When
    Molly was gone from the show because of illness, how did they explain
    her absence in story terms?  Did they have her visit her mother?  Or
    was she ill in the story, too?

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:09:15 -0400
    From: Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  No rest for the Wiki

    As Wikipedia approaches the milestone of 2,000,000 separate entries,
    the number of OTR personalities profiled by Wikipedia has increased
    to more than 300:
    [removed]

    What is now needed is for knowledgable experts to look over these 300
    profiles (of varying lengths) and click on "edit this page" to insert
    corrections and additions.

    Bhob @ [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:09:28 -0400
    From: "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Flynn family
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    To add to Jack French's bio of Bess Flynn: She also made a milestone
    creative contribution by giving birth to Charles Flynn, the longest running
    actor in the role of "Jack Armstrong". - JIM HARMON (using Barbara's email
    domain)

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    Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:09:42 -0400
    From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mike Wallace on The Lone Ranger

    Dixon Hayes asked about Mike Wallace as the announcer on the Lone Ranger.
    Mike took one turn at the "mike" for the show.  It was Dec. 16, 1940, and
    the show was "The Deputy Faces Trouble".  He does a good job.  But obviously
    his talent lay in other areas.

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    Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:10:03 -0400
    From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  sports on OTR

    The recent discussion of sports on OTR has got me wondering.  I'm a huge
    college football fan, not just of my beloved Hokies and my adopted
    Midshipmen, but of the whole sport.  I would love to hear some OTR
    broadcasts of college games.

    Is there a source specializing in sports broadcasts that might have
    something like that?  I would love early Va Tech broadcasts, but I'd bet
    the rent money that OTR era recordings don't exist.  I wouldn't be
    surprised to learn, however, that recordings of Navy football games
    exist, probably AFRS discs.

    Any thoughts on a good place to look for college football games?

    Thanks,
    -chris holm

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    Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:10:27 -0400
    From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Homosexuality in OTR

    In digest 240, George Tirebiter recalls a bit of dialog from FM&M which
    included a joke about an interior decorator, with the implied
    homosexuality.

    This shook loose a couple of vague memories.  One was a Jack Benny
    program, which included a bit of dialog between Jack and what I believe
    was a make-up guy (movie or stage make-up).  If I remember correctly,
    the character was even called something like [removed] but that can't
    be right, can it?  It was a real over-the-top fey performance, that was
    pulled back at the end by line referencing the character's wife and
    kids.  I'm sure I remember hearing this, but it seems so crazy and
    obvious that I might be remembering it wrong.

    -chris holm

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    Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:10:52 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hi-yo, Myron Wallace!

    Dixon Hayes pensively writes:

>     I once heard Myron Wallace (a/k/a future "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike

    Wallace) was also an announcer on "The Lone Ranger."  Is that true and if
    so,
    when
    did he do that?  Was he a substitute announcer or did he do it for a period
    of time?

    After earning a bachelor's from Michigan in 1939, Myron (Mike) Wallace was
    employed by a small Ann Arbor station; then he graduated to stations WASH
    and WOOD at Grand Rapids as a $20-a-week combined announcer, continuity
    writer and salesman.  The following year, 1940, he left for the more
    promising and prosperous WXYZ, Detroit.  That station produced several epic
    dramas beamed nationally, including The Challege of the Yukon, The Green
    Hornet and The Lone Ranger.  WXYZ offered Wallace his first network
    exposure.  In 1941 he made the gargantuan leap to Chicago where he was hired
    as the $150-a-week narrator of Road of Life.  The backgrounds of future
    stars included some things one might never have thought possible.
    Information adapated from hundreds of thousands of substantiated details
    appearing in "Radio Speakers," the new volume with explicit bio data on the
    lives of about 600 announcers, newscasters, sportscasters and lots more
    ([removed] or 800-253-2187).

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:11:01 -0400
    From: "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Myron Wallace

    I have heard that Myron was the announcer for the Green Hornet, but
    never the LR.

    Joe Salerno

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    Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:54:32 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-21 births/deaths

    August 21st births

    08-21-1882 - Helen Carew - Kansas - d. 3-7-1980
    actor: Vera Johnson "Stella Dallas"; "Mrs. Mitchell "Barry Cameron"
    08-21-1890 - Bill Henry - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-24-1970
    commentator: Chief CBS Correspondent
    08-21-1895 - Benny Davis - NYC - d. 12-20-1979
    lyricist: "Benny Davis Stardust"
    08-21-1896 - Marie Blake - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1978
    actor: (Sister of Janette MacDonald) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-21-1900 - Ken Carpenter - Avon, IL - d. 10-16-1984
    announcer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "One Man's Family"; "Edgar Bergen/
    Charlie McCarthy Show"
    08-21-1904 - William Allen "Count" Basie - Red Bank, NJ - d. 4-26-1994
    bandleader: "Command Performance"; "Jubilee"
    08-21-1907 - Carlton Kadell - Danville, IL - d. 3-14-1975
    announcer, actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Red Ryder "Red Ryder"
    08-21-1907 - Hy Zaret - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-29-2007
    composer: "Music for Millions"; "I Love You Joe"
    08-21-1908 - Bob Jellison - Des Moines, IA - d. 4-21-1980
    actor: Oswald Ching "Story of Mary Marlin"; Buster Gunn "Great Gunns"
    08-21-1908 - Tom Tully - Durango, CO - d. 4-27-1982
    actor: Charles Martin "Stella Dallas"
    08-21-1911 - Anthony Boucher - Oakland, CA - d. 4-29-1968
    writer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; "Advs. of Ellery Queen; "Gregory
    Hood"
    08-21-1913 - John Faulk - Austin, TX - d. 4-9-1990
    humorist, writer: "Forecast"; "Says Who?"; "Hootenanny"
    08-21-1916 - Consuelo Velazquez - Ciudad Guzman, Mexico - d. 1-22-2005
    songwriter: (Besame Mucho) Oversaw classical music programs for
    station XEQ
    08-21-1920 - Billy Idelson - Forest Park, IL
    actor: Rush Gook "Vic and Sade"; Henry Herbert Murray "One Man's Family"
    08-21-1923 - Chris Schenkel - Bippus, IN - d. 9-11-2005
    sportscaster: "Campy's Corner"; "11:30 Clubhouse"
    08-21-1924 - Jack Buck - Holyoke, MA - d. 6-18-2002
    baseball broadcaster: St. Louis Cardinals
    08-21-1927 - Barry Foster - Beeston, England - d. 2-11-2002
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
    08-21-1938 - Kenny Rogers - Houston, TX
    country/western singer: "Here's to Veterans"
    08-21-1940 - Jim Frank - Chicago, IL - d. 4-27-2007
    newscaster in Chicago, WBBM, WIND, WMAQ

    August 21st deaths

    01-02-1865 - William Lyon Phelps - d. 8-21-1943
    author, critic, scholar: "Information Please"
    04-09-1914 - Frank Bingham - Athens, OH - d. 8-21-1988
    announcer: "Straight Arrow"; "Phantom Pilot"
    04-30-1903 - Fulton Lewis, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-21-1966
    commentator: "News and Comments"
    05-01-1894 - Sam McGee - d. 8-21-1975
    guitarist: (Performed with the "Fruit Jar Drinkers") "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-14-1863 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Lawrence, MA - d. 8-21-1940
    author: "Favorite Story"
    08-14-1914 - Alyce King - Payson, UT - d. 8-21-1996
    singer: (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"; "Al
    Pearce and His Gang"
    10-08-1913 - Walter Schumann - NYC - d. 8-21-1958
    composer: "Dragnet"; "Junior Miss"; "Modern Advs. of Casanova"
    12-01-1904 - Jean Paul King - North Bend, NE - d. 8-21-1965
    annoucer: "Clara, Lu, and Em"; "Music of the Haydns"
    12-09-1918 - George Heinemann - d. 8-21-1996
    creator: "Faces in the Window"
    12-19-1909 - Ed Auxer - d. 8-21-2004
    disk jockey: WSBT South Bend, Indiana
    12-25-1915 - Richard Wilson - McKeesport, PA - d. 8-21-1991
    actor, writer, director: Co-founded The Mercury Theatre with Orson
    Welles

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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