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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 95
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Joan Barkey on the Lone Ranger        [ Archie <y_know_archie@[removed]; ]
  Ray Bradbury and "Suspense"           [ SIrvinProd@[removed] ]
  Ray Bradbury                          [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
  6-9 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 10-16 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  6-10 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:34:26 -0400
From: Archie <y_know_archie@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Joan Barkey on the Lone Ranger
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My thanks to Jim Nixon for his reply in Digest 093 to my question about Joan
Barkley. I did find her to be a very interesting character and am sorry to
hear that "she" doesn't appear in any more episodes after the end of the iron
Spur story arc.

Jim wrote:
"If "Archie" has the time to listen to more and more Ranger episodes, he may
pick up on a particular "on-mike" fondness between Brace Beemer and some of
the ladies played by Elaine Alpert, who joins the cast in 1943"

I am continuing my listening past the iron Spur series. Currently, I am up to
October 1942 and have discs up to the end of the Dan Reid story line picked
out and in the "to listen" to pile. BAsed on Jim's advice, I will carry on
into 1943.

Archie Hunter

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:34:39 -0400
From: SIrvinProd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Ray Bradbury and "Suspense"
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Few people  know that the celebrated writer Ray Bradury (who, sadly, just
died at age 91)  got an early career boost from none other than Kay
Thompson.
In the  1940s, Kay Thompson was married to Bill Spier, the most successful
director-producer in radiob"whose two concurrent series, bSuspenseb and
b
The  Adventures of Sam Spade,b were among the highest-rated and most
influential  shows on the airwaves.
In an  interview I conducted for my book bKay Thompson: From Funny Face to
Eloiseb  (Simon & Schuster), Ray Bradbury recalled, bI was in love with
the
 bSuspenseb program. I was publishing stories in Weird Tales and various
other  pulp magazines, which gave me the courage to make up a package of
short stories  and mail them to Bill [removed]
In April  1946, Bradbury got a call to come for a meeting at the Spiersb
home in Bel  Air.
bWhen I  rang the doorbell,b Bradbury explained, bthe person who
answered
the door was an  explosion named Kay Thompson. She welcomed me like an old
friend because she had  read my short stories, too, and she thought they were
terrific. I was in love  instantly. She dragged me into the living room,
sat me down, and brought me a  glass of wine, so we were off to a great
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Ray knew  all about Kay Thompson. He was a fan. She had first come to his
attention in the  1930s when he heard her singing on the radio. Kay Thompson
co-founded "Hit  Parade" in 1935. She starred on several other major music
series as wellb"with  top conductors such as Fred Waring and Andre
Kostelanetz. By the 1940s, however,  MGM had hired Kay to be head of the
studio's vocal
department where she wrote  hundreds of groundbreaking arrangements,
conducted the massive choirs, and  coached all the big stars, including Frank
Sinatra, Lena Horne, and, of course,  Judy Garland, who named Kay the
godmother
of her first daughter Liza  Minnelli.
Now, a bit  star-struck, Ray found himself face-to-face with Kay Thompsonb"
in her lavishly  decorated living room. Before Kay's husband arrived for the
meeting, there was  time for a little chitchat.
Ray  recalled, bI knew that Kay was occasionally doing choreography for
Judy Garland  in bZiegfeld Follies,b which had just opened that month. We
discussed that just  a little bit but she mainly wanted to know about me,
which
was very nice. She  made me feel like Ibd been established for a lifetime.
That was part of her  character. She was always outsizedb"the grand gesture,
the overstatementb"but  sincere. It was not fake. Her enthusiasm was so
wonderful and it certainly  didnbt hurt because when her husband Bill Spier
finally joined us, he ended up  buying one story at that first [removed]
Of the  various stories Ray had submitted, Kaybs favorite was bAnd So Died
 Riabouchinska,b and she wouldnbt let him leave the house until her
husband  agreed to acquire it. Adapted into script form by Mel Dinelli for
b
Suspense,b  Bradburybs story was a chilling murder mystery about a
vaudeville
ventriloquist  (played by Wally Maher) and his dummy, an outspoken marionette
named  Riabouchinska. It aired on November 13, 1947.
bAnd So Died  Riabouchinskab eventually got published in its original
prose format in The  Saint Detective Magazine (June-July, 1953) and, as
adapted
by Bradbury himself,  was dramatized for television twice: First on bAlfred
Hitchcock Presentsb  (CBS-TV, September 27, 1959) starring Claude Rains and
Charles Bronson; and then  on bThe Ray Bradbury Theaterb (Showtime, May
28,
1988) starring Alan  Bates.
Subsequently, Bill Spier bought two more Bradbury stories for b[removed]
They were: bSummer Nightb with Ida Lupino (7/15/1948); and bThe
Screaming
Womanb  with Margaret ObBrien and Agnes Moorehead (11/25/1948).
This early  exposure helped launch Bradburybs prolific career in movies and
television.  Bradbury would go on to co-write the screenplay to bMoby
Dickb
 (Warner Brothers,  1956) with director John Huston, and numerous
productions would be based on his  celebrated bestselling books and short
stories,
including bFahrenheit 451b  (Universal, 1966), bThe Illustrated Manb
(Warner
Brothers, 1969), bSomething  Wicked This Way Comesb (Buena Vista, 1983),
and the TV mini-series bThe Martian  Chroniclesb (NBC-TV, 1980). His own
anthology series for television, bThe Ray  Bradbury Theaterb (Showtime,
1985-1991), hosted by the author himself, was a  direct descendant of his
seminal
radio favorite, b[removed]
For an  expanded essay on Ray Bradbury's association with Kay Thompson,
Bill Spier, and  bSuspense,b see pages 182-185 in the exclusive online
Endnotes for bKay  Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise,b posted free at
the
following  link:
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([removed])
Rest in  peace, Mr. Bradbury!
Sam  Irvin
Author of  "Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to  Eloise"

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:34:51 -0400
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Ray Bradbury

We just lost one of the prime contributors
to radio.  Ray Bradbury wrote ideal short
stories for adaptation to radio.  I don't
have a list before me, but he was represented [removed]
    Dimension X, X-1
    Suspense, Escape
    ...and many other shows.

Thanks, Ray, for your imagination and your
creative story telling!  We will miss you.
    Ted

Ted Kneebone

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:34:58 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-9 births/deaths

June 9th births

06-09-1890 - Leslie Banks - West Derby, England - d. 4-21-1952
actor: "Theatre of Romance"
06-09-1891 - Cole Porter - Peru, IN - d. 10-15-1964
composer: Theme for "My Friend Irma"
06-09-1896 - Tonio Selwart - Wartonberg, Bavaria - d. 11-2-2002
actor: "Secret Missions"
06-09-1900 - Fred Waring - Tyrone, PA - d. 7-29-1984
conductor: "Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians"; "Pleasure Time/
Victory Tunes"
06-09-1903 - Marcia Davenport - NYC - d. 1-15-1996
auther: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-09-1905 - Martha Boswell - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-2-1958
singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "The Boswell Sisters"; "Woodbury Soap
Show"
06-09-1908 - Joe Biviano - d. 9-4-1992
accordionist: NBC Blue Network
06-09-1908 - Robert Cummings - Joplin, MO - d. 12-1-1990
actor: David Adair "Those We Love"; "Cavalcade of America"
06-09-1910 - George Bryan - NYC - d. 6-27-1969
announcer: "Helen Hayes Theatre"; "Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts"
06-09-1910 - Joseph Julian - St. Marys, PA - d. 3-11-1982
actor: Sandy Matson "Lorenzo Jones"; Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero
Wolfe"
06-09-1912 - Don Forbes - Camrose, Alberta, Canada - d. 11-28-1995
newscaster, announcer: "The Richfield Reporter"; Ten-Two-Four Ranch"
06-09-1912 - Ingolf Dahl - Hamburg, Germany - d. 8-7-1970
conductor, pianist
06-09-1915 - Les Paul - Waukesha, WI - d. 8-13-2009
guitarist: "Les Paul and Mary Ford Show"; "Rhubarb Red"
06-09-1922 - George Axelrod - NYC - d. 6-21-2003
writer: "Midnight in Manhattan"; "Grand Ole Opry"
06-09-1926 - Mona Freeman - Baltimore, MD
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
06-09-1929 - Louise Maheux-Forcier - Montreal, Canada
author: "Neiges et palmiers"
06-09-1929 - Nancy Ashbaugh - Rochester, NY
writer: "The Story of Bill Adams"
06-09-1934 - Dick Orkin - Williamsport, PA
comedian: "Chickenman"; "Tooth Fairy"

June 9th deaths

01-11-1910 - Betty Miles - Santa Monica, CA - d. 6-9-1992
actor: Millie Anderson "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"
02-06-1903 - Claudio Arrau - Chillans, Chile - d. 6-9-1991
classical pianist: "New York Philharmonic"; "Music America Loves Best"
02-07-1812 - Charles Dickens - Portsmouth, England - d. 6-9-1870
author: Many of his works adapted for radio
02-17-1912 - Clifford Evans - Senghenydd, Wales - d. 6-9-1985
Producer and director on Welsh radio
03-18-1905 - Robert Donat - Manchester, England - d. 6-9-1958
actor, poetry reader: "Justice"; "Monte Carlo"; "Reader of Poetry";
[removed] Steel Hour"
03-26-1911 - Hank Booream - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-9-2006
director: "March of Time"; "Burns and Allen"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
05-30-1888 - James Farley - Crassey Point, NY - d. 6-9-1976
post master general: "Information Please"
05-31-1931 - Barbara Whiting - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-9-2004
actor: Judy Graves "Junior Miss"; Mildred "Meet Corliss Archer"
06-06-1931 - Lloyd Lindroth - d. 6-9-1994
harpist: "Unites States Army Band"
06-08-1921 - Alexis Smith - Penticton, British Columbia, Canada - d.
6-9-1993
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars in the Air"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
06-13-1909 - Anna Sosenko - NYC - d. 6-9-2000
friend and agent to Hildegard
07-16-1902 - Andrew Stone - Oakland, CA - d. 6-9-1999
film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-08-1911 - Christine Johnson - Hopkinsville, KY - d. 6-9-2010
singer, actress: "The Squibb Show"
10-05-1918 - Allen Ludden - Mineral Point, WI - d. 6-9-1981
host: "Mind Your Manners"; "College Bowl"
10-26-1888 - Pat Barnes - Sharon, PA - d. 6-9-1969
emcee: "The Pat Barnes and Barbara Show"
12-12-1908 - Hank Ladd - Chicago, IL - d. 6-9-1982
actor: Beetle "Phil Baker Show"
12-27-1910 - Harry Saz - d. 6-9-1994
director: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"

Ron

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:35:04 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 10-16 June

6/10

 From [removed]

1909   An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency
when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.

 From Those Were The Days

1924   The first political convention on radio was presented.  Graham
McNamee provided coverage of the Republican National Convention from
Cleveland, OH.

6/12

1947   Sergeant Preston of The Yukon went national for the first time.
The show, with the Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King, continued
on the radio until 1955, beginning on WXYZ Detroit in 1938. Sgt. Preston
was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created The
Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

1955   The first network radio show to be produced with no script, The
University of Chicago Round Table, was heard for the final time on NBC.
The program was the first network radio program to win the coveted
George Foster Peabody Award.

1955   "This is Monitor, a weekend program service of NBC Radio," was
heard for the first time. Notables such as Bill Cullen, Ed McMahon, Hugh
Downs, and Dave Garroway recited this line. It was a network cue to NBC
radio stations across the nation who carried the long form news,
entertainment and variety broadcast from New York City. Stations and
listeners who were "on the Monitor beacon" were entertained for six
hours or more each Saturday and Sunday night for nearly two decades.
NBC's Monitor was one of the last live network radio programs on the air.

6/13

1944   The wire recorder was patented by Marvin Camras.

6/14

1922   A [removed] President was heard on the radio for the first time.
President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Francis Scott Key Memorial and
was heard on WEAR in Baltimore.

1950   Harold Peary played the leading role of The Great Gildersleeve
one final time. Willard Waterman took Peary's place in the role.

6/15

1936   Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler starred in Burlesque on the Lux Radio
Theatre.

6/17

1942   Suspense, known as radio's outstanding theatre of thrills,
debuted on CBS. The program kept millions of loyal listeners in suspense
for the next 20 years (and three months).

Joe

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:35:13 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-10 births/deaths

June 10th births

06-10-1889 - Sessue Hayakawa - Chiba, Japan - d. 11-23-1973
actor: Freelance NHK Tokyo, Japan
06-10-1891 - Al Dubin - Zurich, Switzerland - d. 2-11-1945
lyricist: "Mutual-Don Lee Dedicatory Program"
06-10-1895 - Hattie McDaniel - Wichita, KS - d. 10-26-1952
actor: Beulah "Beulah"; Mammy "Maxwell House Showboat"
06-10-1897 - Boris Kroyt - d. 11-15-1969
violinist: (Member of the Budapest String Quaratet) "Library of
Congress Concert"
06-10-1898 - Dorothy Day - NYC - d. 7-24-1975
actor, writer: "The House Beside the Road"
06-10-1898 - Norman Brokenshire - Murcheson, Ontario, Canada - d.
5-4-1965
announcer: "Music That Satisfies"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
06-10-1901 - Fritz Loewe - Vienna, Austria - d. 2-14-1988
composer: "Mitch Miller Show"
06-10-1903 - Clyde Beatty - Bainbridge, OH - d. 7-19-1965
big game hunter: "The Clyde Beatty Show"
06-10-1903 - Ernest Chappell - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-4-1983
announcer: "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"; "Quiet Please"; "Big Story"
06-10-1909 - Larry LeSueur - NYC - d. 2-5-2003
CBS news correspondent: "This Week in Europe"; "The World Today"
06-10-1910 - Charles O'Connor - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-17-1942
announcer: "Johnny Presents"; "Breezing Along"
06-10-1910 - Julie Haydon - Oak Park, IL - d. 12-24-1994
actor: "Suspense"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
06-10-1911 - Denes Agay - Kiskunfelegyhaza, Hungary - d. 1-24-2007
composer/conductor: "Guest Star"
06-10-1911 - Mary Lansing - Louisiana - d. 9-30-1988
actor: Betty Crane "The Greatest of These"; Julie Collins "The Guiding
Light"
06-10-1916 - Bill Waddington - Lancashire, England - d. 9-9-2000
actor: "Ack-Ack, Beer Beer"
06-10-1917 - Meredith Edwards - Denbighshire, Wales - d. 2-8-1999
actor: "The Cruel Sea"
06-10-1918 - Barry Morse - London, England - d. 2-2-2008
actor: "Odyssey of Honor"; "George Orwell: A Radio Biography"
06-10-1919 - Hal Simms - Boston, MA - d. 7-2-2002
announcer: "The Steve Allen Show"; "Stop the Music!"
06-10-1920 - Anne Burr - Boston, MA - d. 2-1-2003
actor: Regina Rawlings "Backstage Wife"; "Nona Marsh "Wendy Warren and
the News"
06-10-1921 - Chuck Thompson - Palmer, MA - d. 3-6-2005
sportscaster: Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Colts
06-10-1922 - Judy Garland - Grand Rapids, MN - d. 6-22-1969
singer, actor: Romantic Interest "The Hardy Family"; "Good News of 1938"
06-10-1926 - June Haver - Rock Island, IL - d. 7-4-2005
vocalist: (Fio Rito Orchestra) "Hollywood Hotel"
06-10-1926 - Lionel Jeffries - London, England - d. 2-19-2010
actor: "The Box of Delights"
06-10-1931 - Hal "Harlan" Stone - Whitestone, Long Island, NY - d.
2-21-2007
actor, author: Jughead Jones "Archie Andrews"; "[removed], Archie! Re-
laxx!

June 10th deaths

01-07-1873 - Adolph Zukor - Ricse, Austria-Hungary - d. 6-10-1976
film executive: "Time Capsule"; "Flashback"; "Cavalcade of Stars"
03-09-1912 - Ned Le Fevre - Indiana - d. 6-10-1966
actor: Ned Holden "The Guiding Light"; Jonathan Kegg "A Life in Your
Hands"
04-05-1900 - Spencer Tracy - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-10-1967
actor: "Good News of 1938"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-25-1904 - Huey Long - Sealy Austin County, TX - d. 6-10-2009
jazz guitarist: The Ink Spots
05-06-1910 - Alice Reinheart - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-10-1993
actor: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"; Jean Abbott "Abbott
Mysteries"
05-17-1926 - Tenniel Evans - Nairobi, Kenya - d. 6-10-2009
actor: Leading Seaman Goldstein "The Navy Lark"
05-25-1919 - Lindsey Nelson - Campbellsville, TN - d. 6-10-1995
sportscaster: "Monitor Preview"; "Biography In Sound"
06-27-1925 - Chuck Balding - d. 6-10-2000
sportscaster: WOAY Oak Hill, West Virginia
06-30-1898 - George Chandler - Waukegan, IL - d. 6-10-1985
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-12-1863 - Herschel Mayall - Bowling Green, KY - d. 6-10-1941
actor: "The Lone Ranger"; "The March of Time"
07-14-1904 - Nadia Reisenberg - Vilna, Lithuania - d. 6-10-1983
pianist: "Benny Goodman Music Festival"
08-25-1909 - Michael Rennie - Bradford, Yorkshire, England - d.
6-10-1971
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-30-1910 - Elinor Herriot - Duluth, MN - d. 6-10-2000
actor: "Ruby Jones "Amos 'n' Andy"; Dorothy Wright "Couple Next Door"
09-09-1915 - Richard Webb - Bloomington, IL - d. 6-10-1993
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Crime Does Not Pay
09-25-1911 - Eldon Barrick - d. 6-10-1969
disk jockey: KTRM Modesto, California
10-20-1925 - Carolina Cotton - Cash, AR - d. 6-10-1997
singer, actress: "Hollywood Barn Dance"
11-12-1920 - Richard Quine - Detroit, MI - d. 6-10-1989
actor: "Doctor Christian"; "Mayor of the Town"; "Family Theatre"
12-28-1890 - Frank Butler - Oxford, England - d. 6-10-1967
actor: Dave Arnold "Mr. Chameleon"

Ron

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