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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 114
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      7-10 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      7-11 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:39:13 +0000
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-10 births/deaths

    July 10th births

    07-10-1877 - Caroline Crockett Ellis - d. 5-17-1963
    actor: Mary Ward "Travels of Mary Ward"; "Caroline's Golden Store"
    07-10-1888 - Graham McNamee - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-9-1942
    announcer: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Fire Chief"; "Treasury Hour"
    07-10-1889 - Noble Sissle - Indianapolis, IN - d. 12-17-1975
    songwriter, orchestra leader: "Freedom's People"
    07-10-1890 - Louis Katzman - Odessa, Russia - d. 11-13-1943
    musical director: "Fred Allen's Linit Bath Club"
    07-10-1894 - Jimmy McHugh - Boston, MA - d. 5-23-1969
    song writer: "Cavalcade of Music"; "It's Time to Smile"; "The Navy
    Sings"
    07-10-1896 - Slim Summerville - Albuquerque, NM - d. 1-5-1946
    actor: "Hollywood Star Time"
    07-10-1905 - Thomas Gomez - NYC - d. 6-18-1971
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-10-1908 - Harry Golder - Detroit, MI - d. 10-16-1968
    announcer: "The Lone Ranger"
    07-10-1908 - Hjerluf Provenson - Racine, WI - d. 5-14-1957
    announcer: "John's Other Wife"; "The Gulden Serenaders"
    07-10-1909 - Bernard Katz - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-22-1992
    pianist: (Cousin of Mel Blanc) "Katz on the Keys"
    07-10-1910 - Helen Pickens - Macon, GA
    singer: (Pickens Sisters) "The Pickens Sisters"; "The Magic Key"
    07-10-1910 - Hugh B. Cave - Chester, England - d. 6-27-2004
    writer: "Escape"; "Romance"
    07-10-1913 - Joan Marsh - Porterville, CA - d. 8-10-2000
    actor: "Calling All Cars"; "Good News of 1939"
    07-10-1914 - Joe Shuster - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - d. 7-30-1992
    co-creator (with Jerry Siegel): "Advs. of Superman"
    07-10-1916 - Dick Carey - Hartford, CT - d. 4-5-1994
    jazz pianist: "Louis Armstrong and the Original All-Stars"
    07-10-1917 - Don Herbert - Waconia, MN - d. 6-12-2007
    actor: "Captain Midnight"; Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy"
    07-10-1918 - Ernest Ricca - d. 10-10-1987
    director: "Lorenzo Jones"; "Valiant Lady"; "Stella Dallas"; "Romance
    of Helen Trent"
    07-10-1918 - John Easton - NYC - d. 4-10-1984
    announcer: "The Great Gildersleeve"; "Advs. of Maisie"
    07-10-1919 - Ian Wallace - London, England - d. 10-12-2009
    bass-baritone: "My Music"
    07-10-1920 - David Brinkley - Wilmington, NC - d. 6-11-2003
    newscaster: WRC Washington [removed]; "Nightline"
    07-10-1921 - Jeff Donnell - South Windham, ME - d. 4-13-1988
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-10-1923 - Earl Hamner, Jr. - Schuyler, VA
    writer: "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
    07-10-1923 - John Bradley - Antigo, WI - d. 1-11-1994
    raiser of second flag on Iwo Jima: "Interview programs"
    07-10-1926 - Carleton Carpenter - Bennington, VT
    actor: "NBC University Theatre"; "Stagestruck"
    07-10-1926 - Fred Gwynne - NYC - d. 7-2-1993
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    July 10th deaths

    01-17-1914 - Ann Loring - NYC - d. 7-10-2005
    actor: "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "X Minus One"
    02-18-1924 - Sam Rolfe - NYC - d. 7-10-1993
    writer, creator: "Suspense"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    02-xx-1881 - Edith Spencer - Omaha, NE - d. 7-10-1952
    actor: Aunt Jenny "Aunt Jenny"; Sarah "Main Street Sketches"
    05-30-1908 - Mel Blanc - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-10-1989
    actor: Professor Pierre La Blanc "Jack Benny Program"; August Moon
    "Point Sublime"
    06-17-1924 - Sir Edward Downes - Birmingham, England - d. 7-10-2009
    conductor: "BBC Philharmonic"; "Netherlands Radio Philharmonic"
    06-27-1875 - Reginald Mason - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-10-1962
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-29-1896 - William Ford Manley - d. 7-10-1954
    writer: "Snow Village Sketches"
    08-12-1917 - Ebba Haslund - Seattle, WA - d. 7-10-2009
    writer: "Himmelsk Dilemma"
    09-09-1931 - Barbara Lyon - Hollywood, CA - d. 7-10-1995
    actor: "Life  with the Lyons"
    09-10-1886 - Sam Taub - NYC - d. 7-10-1979
    sportscaster: "Madison Square Boxing Bouts"
    09-20-1885 - Jelly Roll Morton - Gulfport, MS - d. 7-10-1941
    jazz musician, songwriter: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin
    Street"; "Americana"
    10-06-1887 - Maria Jeritza - Brunn, Austria-Hungary - d. 7-10-1982
    singer: "General Motors Concerts"
    11-09-1921 - Pierrette Alarie - Montreal, Canada - d. 7-10-2011
    soprano: Metropolitan Opera
    11-22-1919 - H. Leslie Atlass, Jr. - d. 7-10-2003
    involved in Chicago radio
    12-17-1896 - Arthur Fiedler - South Boston, MA - d. 7-10-1979
    conductor: "Robert Merrill with the Boston Pops Orchestra"; "Boston
    Pops"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:39:25 +0000
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-11  births/deaths

    July 11th births

    07-11-1881 - Clarence Budington Kelland - Powers Park, MI - d. 2-19-1964
    writer: "Scattergood Baines"
    07-11-1884 - Howard Estabrook - Detroit, MI - d. 7-16-1978
    screen writer: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-11-1888 - Dr. Lyman Bryson - Valentine, NE - d. 11-24-1959
    moderator: "American School of the Air"; "Invitation to Learning";
    "People's Platform"
    07-11-1892 - Thomas Mitchell - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-17-1962
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-11-1894 - Walter Wanger - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-18-1968
    film producer: "Information, Please"; "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    07-11-1897 - Johnny Marvin - Butler, Oklahoma Territory - d. 12-20-1944
    country singer: Had his own show on NBC
    07-11-1906 - Fred Feibel - Union City, NJ - d. 5-16-1978
    organist: "Between the Bookends"; "Organ Reveille"
    07-11-1906 - Harry Von Zell - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-21-1981
    actor, announcer: Bill Smith "Smiths of Hollywood"; "George Burns and
    Gracie Allen Show"
    07-11-1909 - Irene Hervey - Venice, CA - d. 12-20-1998
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-11-1914 - Tommy Bartlett - Milwaukee, WI  - d. 9-6-1998
    emcee: "Welcome Travlers"
    07-11-1922 - Bernard Punsly - NYC - d. 1-20-2004
    actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
    07-11-1922 - Gene Evans - Holbrook, AZ - d. 4-1-1998
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    07-11-1928 - Hope Miller - d. 7-25-1992
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    07-11-1929 - Hermann Prey - Berlin, Germany - d. 7-22-1998
    operatic baritone: "Metropolitan Opera"
    07-11-1933 - Chuck Cassey - Chicago, IL
    composer, conductor: (Chuck Casey Singers) "Voices of Vista"
    07-11-1942 - Tommy Vance - Oxford, England - d. 3-6-2005
    presenter: Radio 1

    July 11th deaths

    01-18-1899 - Lucille Wall - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1986
    actor: Portia Blake "Portia Faces Life"; Belle Jones "Lorenzo Jones"
    01-27-1895 - B. G. De Sylva - NYC - d. 7-11-1950
    lyricist: "The Railroad Hour"
    02-03-1915 - Bill Miller - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-11-2006
    piano, conductor: "Frank Sinatra"; "Jim Hawthorne Show"
    02-09-1913 - Erskine Butterfield - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-11-1961
    jazz musician: "Cats 'n' Jammers"
    02-21-1909 - Ray Hedge - d. 7-11-1994
    actor: Clarence Tiffingtuffer "Myrt and Marge"
    03-24-1892 - Roy Harvey - Monroe County, WV - d. 7-11-1958
    guitarist: "Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers"
    03-29-1899 - Clifford Goldsmith - Aurora, NY - d. 7-11-1971
    writer: Created "The Aldrich Family"
    04-04-1914 - Frances Langford - Lakeland, FL - d. 7-11-2005
    singer, actor: Blanche Bickerson "Bickersons"; "Bob Hope Show"
    04-12-1918 - Helen Forrest - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 7-11-1999
    singer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Harry James and His Orchestra"
    04-17-1913 - Richard Travis - Carlsbad, NM - d. 7-11-1989
    announcer and sportscaster
    04-27-1923 - Peggy Knudsen - Duluth, MN - d. 7-11-1980
    actor: Karen Adams "Woman in White"; Lois "Bill Goodwin Show"
    05-06-1941 - Ghena Dimitrova - Sofia, Bulgaria - d. 7-11-2005
    operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    05-22-1907 - Laurence Olivier - Dorking, England - d. 7-11-1989
    actor: "Biography in Sound"; "Document A/777"; "Hour of Mystery"
    06-12-1893 - Evelyn Varden - Adair, Oklahoma Territory - d. 7-11-1958
    actor: Dorothy Stewart "This is Nora Drake"; Mother Malone "Young Dr.
    Malone"
    06-12-1914 - Herbert C. Kenny - d. 7-11-1992
    singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
    Nightclubbing"
    08-10-1910 - Roy Ringwald - d. 7-11-1995
    singer: "The Fred Waring Show"
    09-12-1892 - Malcolm LaPrade - d. 7-11-1974
    creator, producer: "The Collier Hour"
    09-15-1896 - Irene Arledge - d. 7-11-1977
    contralto: KFDM Beaumont, Texas
    09-26-1898 - George Gershwin - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-11-1937
    pianist, composer: "Music by Gershwin"
    09-27-1918 - James McCallion - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-11-1991
    actor: Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Sydney Lawrence "One Man's
    Family"
    11-11-1909 - Robert Ryan - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1973
    actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Suspense"
    12-10-1889 - Ray Collins - Sacramento, CA - d. 7-11-1965
    actor: Doc Will Hackett, "County Seat"; member of The Mercury Theatre
    12-17-1907 - Frank Gill - d. 7-11-1970
    writer, comedian: "Joe E. Brown's Post Toasties Show"
    12-20-1919 - Everett Greenbaum - Buffalo, NY - d. 7-11-1999
    writer: "Greenbaum's Gallery"
    12-22-1912 - Lady Bird Johnson - Karnack, TX - d. 7-11-2007
    first lady: owner of radio station KTBC Austin, Texas

    Ron

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