Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #52
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 2/16/2005 12:54 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 52
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  2-16 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: A&A Related - "Calvin and the Co  [ "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@ea ]
  Murder At Midnight                    [ "William Vest III" <tsukasasan@hotm ]
  one meatball, the song                [ Jer51473@[removed] ]
  Our Miss Brooks Question              [ <cooldown3@[removed]; ]
  Addition to my recent posting         [ "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@ezlinknet ]
  GREAT GILDERSLEEVE knife              [ yoggy <yoggy@[removed]; ]
  Still ISO Olive Major                 [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  More Mysterious Traveler facts and m  [ Mike Thomas <calvetrecept@[removed] ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  Re: Air Force Museum                  [ Udmacon@[removed] ]
  WTIC's Golden Age of Radio            [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
  2-17 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:41:57 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-16 births/deaths

February births

02-16-1884 - Bert Kalmar - NYC - d. 9-18-1947
lyricist: "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood"
02-16-1893 - Katherine Cornell - Berlin, Germany - d. 6-8-1974
actress: "Tribute to Ethel Barrymore"; "Victory Clothing Collection"; "Kate
Smith Sings"
02-16-1896 - Alexander Brailowsky - Kiev, Ukriane, Russia - d. 4-25-1976
pianist: "Music America Loves Best"; "New York Philharmonic"
02-16-1900 - Albert Hackett - NYC - d. 3-16-1995
playwright: "Star Spangled Theatre"
02-16-1901 - Chester Morris - NYC - d. 9-11-1979
actor: Boston Blackie "Boston Blackie"; Great Merlini "Great Merlini"
02-16-1903 - Edgar Bergen - Chicago, IL - d. 9-30-1978
ventriloquist: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
02-16-1903 - Norman Shelley - d. 8-22-1980
actor: John H. Watson "Corner In Crime, Saturday Night Theatre"
02-16-1909 - Hugh Beaumont - Lawrence, KS - d. 5-14-1982
actor: Appeared on radio in 1931
02-16-1909 - Jeffrey Lynn - Auburn, MA - d. 11-24-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hallmark Playhouse:' "MGM Theatre of the Air"
02-16-1910 - Del Sharbutt - Ft. Worth, TX - d. 4-26-2002
announcer: "Hobby Lobby"; "Jack Benny Program"; "Victory Theatre"
02-16-1910 - Jerry Lester - Chicago, IL - d. 3-23-1995
actor: John Benson "Life of Mary Sothern"
02-16-1914 - Jimmy Wakely - Mineola, AR - d. 9-23-1982
country singer: "All-Star Western Theatre"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
02-16-1915 - Dorothy Lovett - Providence, RI - d. 4-28-1998
actress: Libby Collins "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-16-1918 - Patty Andrews - Minneapolis, MN
singer (Andrews Sisters) "Glenn Miller Orchestra"; "Andrews Sisters Revue"
02-16-1926 - Vera-Ellen - Cincinnati, OH - d. 8-30-1981
actress: "Martin and Lewis Show"; "Tony Awards"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
02-16-1932 - Gretchen Wyler - Bartlesville, OK
singer-actress: "Sounds of Freedom"

February 16th deaths

01-19-1932 - George Mann MacBeth - Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. 2-16-1992
poet, producer: BBC Radio
02-09-1912 - Bob Hannon - Chicago, IL - d. 2-16-1993
singer: "American Melody Hour"; "Waltz Time"
03-18-1911 - Smiley Burnette - Summum, IL - d. 2-16-1967
host, comedian: "Smiley Burnette Show"; "Hollywood Hotel"
04-12-1914 - Ken Williams - Canada - d. 2-16-1984
actor: Brian Wells "David Harum"
05-04-1909 - Howard Da Silva - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-16-1986
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Forecast"; "Suspense"
07-03-1920 - Louise Allbritton - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 2-16-1979
actress: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "This Is My Best"; "Cavalcade of America"
11-30-1915 - Brownie McGhee - Knoxville, TN - d. 2-16-1996
blues guitarist, singer: "New World A' Coming"; "This Is Jazz)
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:42:53 -0500
From: "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: A&A Related - "Calvin and the Colonel"

I found the following item at [removed]  This event might be of
interest to OTR fans in Southern California - at least, those who are fans of
Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll and want to learn more about their final
project:

"CALVIN AND THE COLONEL featured the exploits of two backwoods animals from
the south who had taken up residence in a large northern city. The series was
created, and the lead characters voiced, by Freeman Gosden and Charles
Correll, who patterned the cartoon after their long-running 'Amos 'n' Andy'
radio and television series. Gosden and Correll, two white men, had created
and played the parts of the two black leads in the radio version of 'Amos 'n'
Andy'. They felt that, by using animals as their principal characters, they
could avoid the touchy racial situation which 'Amos 'n' Andy' had become in
the early 1960's.  They were wrong.

"Simply because of Gosden and Correll's participation, the show has been
banned from distribution for 40 years. There is nothing racist about the
series. In fact, it's one of the funniest TV cartoons ever produced. The
series was produced for Kayro Productions by Bob Mosher and Joe Connelly,
whose credits include 'Leave it to Beaver', and 'The Munsters'.

"On Saturday afternoon February 26th at 3:00pm, ASIFA-Hollywood will present
a screening of several rare color episodes of the series, 16mm prints, some
with original network commercials. Special guests from the cast & crew will
attend and a Q & A after the screening will include voice actress June Foray
and animators Phil Roman, John Sparey and Frank Andrina. The screening takes
place on The American Film Institute campus, in the Ted Ashley-Warner Bros.
Screening Room, 2021 N. Westen Ave. in Hollywood, CA. It's a rare opportunity
to see these episodes and meet the people behind the scenes."

In researching the show, I wasn't surprised to find that Paul Frees was
[removed] but I WAS surprised to learn Virginia Gregg voiced one of the
regular [removed] Calvin's wife.

Michael

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:38:11 -0500
From: "William Vest III" <tsukasasan@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Murder At Midnight
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Hello friends!
I want to thank everyone who wrote to me and disclosed their favorite
scary/suspense shows for a play I will be producing. Just in case anyone
cares; my summer show will open with an episode from Murder At Midnight titled
The Creeper by Joseph Ruscall (sp?). Followed by Sorry, Wrong Number. And for
Halloween we will perform Three Skeleton Key followed by Arch Oboler's The
Dark (thank you Dr. Hand!!).
I'm still debating if I want to do a Christmas show. If I do I was thinking of
opening with a Spike Jones type number. The show itself will be a Command
Performance type. I would incorporate news worthy events of the time (relating
to the war). Also include a "game show segment" to give something to the
kids/audience for Christmas. The music should be quite fun. The Army band on
post here at Ft. Knox loves to do community theatre shows. Anything to play
something different (as I have heard them say). Costuming will all be in the
period.
But that is quite the event and as I would essentially have to write
everything/transcribe it from past shows myself, it may have to wait until
next Christmas.

Would anyone know where I could get a script of The Creeper? I can transcribe
it but anything to save time.

And finally, has anyone seen the TV movie The Night That Panicked America?
Fantastic! It is a movie featuring the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds
and what happened on the streets. It was mostly accurate. But well worth it.
My dad had recorded it off of TV years ago. I found only a couple of sites on
the net where you could get the VHS. Lots of not-yet-stars (such as Meredith
Baxter, Cliff De Young, Casey Kasem, Tom Bosley, John Ritter, etc.).

Wm. Vest III

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:38:29 -0500
From: Jer51473@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  one meatball, the song
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a poster earlier mentioned the song as being from spike jones. i dont
remember spike doing it, but it seems to me that louie pastor as well as the
andrew
sisters had big hits of one meatball. i think the andrews also recorded it
with
bing crosby.

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:53:49 -0500
From: <cooldown3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Our Miss Brooks Question

I am currently researching and trying to put together a collection of Our
Miss brooks and came across a copy of a pilot done by Shirley Booth. The
treatment of Boynton was as a throw-away character and the entire episode
had a quite different feel to it.

Can anyone  tell me if there were other auditions for this show besides this
one?

Thanks,
Patrick

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:09:31 -0500
From: "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Addition to my recent posting

In response to a few inquiries regarding the time zone. The times listed
below
are in the Eastern Time Zone. This was taken from the viewer's guide to
Turner Classic Movies for the month of March. The last movie Here We Go
Again is over at 4:30 PM EST.

These are being shown on Turner Classic Movies in sequence on Wednesday
March 16 beginning at 1:30 PM with Look Who's Laughing (1941) starring
Edgar Bergen, Jim & Marion Jordan, Lucille Ball. And at 3:00 PM they will
be showing Here We Go Again (1942) starring Edgar Bergen, Jim & Marion
Jordan.

Don Dean

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:10:06 -0500
From: yoggy <yoggy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  GREAT GILDERSLEEVE knife

I wonder if one of your knowledgable readers could help me?  A like new
knife was just discovered by an old friend of mine among his late mother's
kitchen posessions.  Enscribed on the blade in script is "Gildy's Blade".  He
thinks that it was perhaps a premium from Kraft when they sponsored THE GREAT
GILDERSLEEVE.   He dates it from about 1953 or 54.  Has anyone ever heard of
(or seen) such a premium and if so can you tell me approximately when it was
offered?   Many thanks,  Gary Yoggy

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:09:10 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Still ISO Olive Major
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Hi Gang;

The bad news is that I'm STILL looking for information on one-time "Eddie
Cantor Show"
girl-singer Olive Major. According to Brian Gari, Cantor's grandson and
archivist, Miss Major
seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, outcome and whereabouts
unknown.

The good news is that there is a "clippings" file folder pertaining to Olive
housed at the New York
Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center--Billy Rose Theater
Collection (Third
Floor).

The bad news is there's only one item therein, from the March 20th, 1941
edition of the now-defunct
"New York World-Telegram."

The good news is: here it is:

Eddie Cantor's New Singing Discovery, 13,
Prefers Opera to Sightseeing Around City
____

Comedian Thinks Olive Major Will  Become Star
____

[no by-line given]

  Olive Major, a 13-year-old radio
singing discovery, today revealed
that her ambition in life is to sing
in the Metropolitan.
  Miss Major, a discovery of Eddie
Cantor's, has been appearing on
the comedian's radio programs
since last Christmas and her full,
dramatic soprano has won the ap-
plause of thousands of listeners.
  Miss Major's first request when
she arrived in town was to be
taken to the Metropolitan Opera
House and shown the stage en-
trance, Mr. Cantor said, compar-
ing it with the first request made
by another 13-year-old protege of
six years ago--Deanna Durbin.

           Ready for '43

  "The first things Deanna want-
ed," Mr. Cantor said, "were an
ice cream soda on Fifth Ave. and
a look at the city from the top of
the Empire State."
  Mr. Cantor is wildly enthusiastic
about the outlook for his newest
discovery, describing her in such
glowing terms as "angelic face,
lovely personality and glorious
voice," in predicting that she
would be the Deanna Durbin of
1942 or '43.
  Miss Major, an only child, was
born in Santa Barbara, her fam-
ily moving to Chicago when she
was six months old and again
moving to the West coast three
years ago, to Hollywood. Jimmy
McHugh, a son-in-law of Mr.
Cantor, heard her sing there and
asked the comedian to give her
an audition.

         On Every Week

  "I was so nervous I don't think
I could describe it," she said.
"But Mr. Cantor was wonderful.
He listened and I kept looking
at him out of the corner of my
eye, trying to find out what he
was thinking. And then when I
was all through he said he liked
it."
  The audition took place a year
ago and for six months Mr. Cantor
had her study voice in Hollywood.
He decided she was ready for
"limited" activity last Christmas
and put her on his program as a
"present." She's been on every
week since.
  Miss Major misses five feet by
a quarter of an inch and weighs
exactly 100 pounds. She likes to
read, collect records and is writ-
ing a book.
  "The book is very psychologi-
cal," she said. Asked in what
fashion the book was psychologi-
cal, Miss Major explained that it
was about a young man looking
for a job in London about 1825.
_________________________

Anybody wishing to see a photo of Olive Major, together with Eddie Cantor and
Dinah Shore, can click onto [removed]. This is the same
publicity
photo which  appears of the cover of the sheet music for "The Hut Sut Song: A
Swedish Serenade,'
which can be viewed at
[removed],hut_sut_song,[removed],
wher somebody is selling a copy.

Otherwise, I cannot find anything else about the elusive Olive Major? Somebody
call "Mr. Keen!"

Students?

Derek "Ether" Tague

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:20:50 -0500
From: Mike Thomas <calvetrecept@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  More Mysterious Traveler facts and more
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Hello,

The Mysterious Traveler radio program won 1 Edgar award and was also
nominated 2 other times. Murder By Experts won an Edgar Award as well.

Those two shows of course were either written and/or directed by  Robert
Arthur and  David Kogan. These guys were brilliant! It is obvious that they
were well received, respected and of course listened to by a huge audience to
win this prestigious award. Only "Dragnet" surpasses as far as Edgar awards
won (2).

By the way David Kogan can give far better detail and more history on The
Mysterious Traveler program. There will a book out next year with a dedicated
chapter to this highly acclaimed show. (if any person here has more than 70
of these shows, let me know offline). Oh yeah, where are all the Murder By
Experts Shows too???

The Mysterious Traveler pulp fiction magazine lasted only 5 issues 1951-52
and ended shortly before or at about the same time the MT radio program was
given up. The stories written in these 5 issues consisted of plenty Of Robert
Arthur stories and some written under pseudonyms. Other writers in the brief
MT pulp were famous as well.

After the slow decline of OTR (1960's), Robert Arthur moved to Hollywood and
went to work editing TV shows for Alfred Hitchcock and still wrote or
modified old Mysterious Traveler shows for "Suspense" and even took some of
his old pulp stories and modified some for shows like "Theater Five" in an
attempt to help keep otr alive

Robert Arthur also used scripts from a few of his otr shows and re-wrote them
as short stories in mystery antholgies (Also Alfred Hitchcock). A very
talented individual to say the least!

Robert Arthur was a popular an experienced pulp fiction writer who won an
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine award and even conceived  the Pocket Detective
Magazine. He wrote a ton of stories for dozens of pulp magazines including
The Shadow. He started out in writing and ended his career with the writing
of the the first  10-11 "Alfred Hitchcock And The Three Iinvestigators"
juvenile mystery series.

Have  a nice week everbody!

Mike And Ernestine Thomas

Fans of Old Time Radio.

And Forever Fans of the Three Investigators series

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:26:29 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over six years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!

Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!

For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:27:34 -0500
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Air Force Museum

I was stationed at the US Air Force Museum from 1971 to 1972. It was during
that tour that I found a collection of glass 78 dubs of NBC West Coast's
"Eyes Aloft," which now is in circulation.

It ran for two years and was broadcast to members of what was later to become
the Ground Observer Corps.

(Aside to Jim: I spent two tours at WPAFB and lived in Fairborn and Yellow
[removed])

BILL KNOWLTON: "Bluegrass Ramble," WCNY-FM ([removed]) Syracuse, WUNY ([removed])
Utica; WJNY ([removed]) Watertown NY. On the web: [removed]. Sundays: 9 pm to
midnight EST (since 1973)

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:28:36 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WTIC's Golden Age of Radio

The current "WTIC's Golden Age of Radio" programs
with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran, feature Don McNeil,
Mary Jane Higby, and radio premium collectors Lou
Holcombe and Bruce Murray.

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Program 16
July, 1971
Don McNeil, Host of the Breakfast Club and a pioneer
in Chicago radio.

We'll also hear about Radio premiums, treasures acquired
with a boxtop and a thin dime, as Dick and Ed talk to two
radio premium collectors, WTIC-TV3's own Lou Holcombe
and Bruce Murray.

Program 17
August, 1971
Mary Jane Higby, Network Radio Soap Actress, star of
"When a Girl Marries" and author of the book "Tune in
Tomorrow."

In the 1970's Dick Bertel created the program for
WTIC in Hartford, CT. The idea came to Dick
after he interviewed radio collector-historian Ed
Corcoran a few times. It was first broadcast in April,
1970; Ed was his co-host.

For the next seven years the program featured interviews
with radio actors, writers, producers, engineers and
musicians from radio's early days. In addition, each
show featured excerpts from Ed's collection.

Bob Scherago
Webmaster

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:40:30 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-17 births/deaths

February 17th births

02-17-1881 - Arthur Judson - d. 1-28-1975
executive: Founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System
02-17-1897 - Marian Anderson - South Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-8-1993
singer: "Ford Evening Sunday Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "New World A'
Coming"
02-17-1906 - Charlie Spivak - New Haven, CT - d. 3-1-1982
orchestra leader: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"
02-17-1907 - Larry "Buster" Crabbe - Oakland, CA - d. 4-23-1983
actor: "George Jessel Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
02-17-1908 - Staats Cotsworth - Oak Park, IL - d. 4-9-1979
actor: David Farrell "Front Page Farrell"; Mark Trail "Mark Trail"
02-17-1908 - Walter "Red" Barber - Columbus, MS - d. 10-22-1992
sportscaster: (The Old Redhead) "Schaefer Star Revue"
02-17-1914 - Arthur Kennedy - Worcester, MA - d. 1-5-1990
actor: "Best Plays"
02-17-1914 - Wayne Morris - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-14-1959
actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"; "NBC university Theatre of the Air";
"Lux Radio Theatre"
02-17-1919 - Kathleen Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-24-2001
actress: California Artists Radio Theatre"
02-17-1923 - Buddy DeFranco - Camden, NJ
bandleader: "Glenn Miller Orchestra"
02-17-1924 - Margaret Truman - Independence, MO
soprano: "The Big Show"
02-17-1925 - Hal Holbrook - Cleveland, OH
actor: Grayling Dennis "Brighter Day"
02-17-1929 - Patricia Routledge - Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
actress: "Saturday Play"
02-17-1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips - Philippines
actor: "Twilight Zone"

February 17th deaths

02-12-1904 - Joseph Kearns - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 2-17-1962
actor, host: Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"; Man in Black "Suspense"

03-13-1908 - Paul Stewart - NYC - d. 2-17-1986
actor: Gyp Mendoza "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Richard Rogue "Rogue's
Gallery"
03-17-1901 - Alfred Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-17-1970
composer, conductor: "Hollywood Star Time"; "Radio Hall of Fame";
"Silver Theatre"
06-17-1922 - Jerry Fielding - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-17-1980
conductor: "Hardy Family"; "Jack Paar Show"; "You Bet Your Life"
07-17-1905 - William Gargan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-17-1979
actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Eye"; Barrie Craig "Barrie
Craig, Private Investigator"
09-15-1876 - Bruno Walter - Berlin, Germany - d. 2-17-1962
conductor: "Salzburg Music Festival"; "Word from the People"; "New
York Philharmonic"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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