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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 56
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      2-29 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Radio drama session at MLA in San Fr  [ CBWeimer@[removed] ]
      Three Skeleton Key                    [ mikennancy2001@[removed] ]
      Re: Martin's Shorts in public         [ "Nevik" <nevik@[removed]; ]
      music for the muses                   [ fmazzar771@[removed] ]
      Ithaca, New York archive              [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Anthony voucher                       [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      Beyond Mozart                         [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      100 years ago in March                [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      3-1 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 2-8 March  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      John Rayburn                          [ JayHick@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:31:48 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-29 births/deaths

    February 29th births

    02-29-1888 - Tess Sheehan - Ann Arbor, MI - d. 10-29-1972
    actor: Dorrie Warren "Wendy Warren and the News"
    02-29-1896 - William A. Wellman - Brookline, MA - d. 12-9-1975
    film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    02-29-1904 - Jimmy Dorsey - Mahanoy, PA, - d. 6-12-1957
    bandleader: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Your Happy Birthday"
    02-29-1916 - Dinah Shore - Winchester, TN - d. 2-24-1994
    singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Dinah Shore Show"
    02-29-1920 - Arthur Franz - Perth Amboy, NJ - d. 6-16-2006
    actor: In radio following WWII
    02-29-1932 - Malcolm J. Ross-Macdonald - Chipping Sodbury, England
    writer: "Kristina's Winter"; "World from Rough Stones"

    February 29th deaths

    02-02-1909 - Frank Albertson - Fergus Falls, MN - d. 2-29-1964
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-30-1907 - Sidney Harmon - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 2-29-1988
    writer, director: "The Life of Riley"; "Honest Abe"
    07-14-1915 - Jerome Lawrence - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-29-2004
    cbs staff writer: "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Doris Day Show"; "Kate Smith
    Show"
    10-24-1903 - Melvin Purvis - Timmonsville, SC - d. 2-29-1960
    fbi agent, narrator: "Top Secrets of the FBI"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:32:18 -0500
    From: CBWeimer@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio drama session at MLA in San Francisco?
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    Greetings,

    This may seem a bit off-topic, but I was wondering if there are any
    academics on this list who might be interested in participating in a special  session
    on radio/audio drama and/or performance at the annual MLA convention in  San
    Francisco this December?  I'm trying to put together a special session
    proposal, but I need one more paper to fill it out.  Email me privately if  you might
    be interested, please!

    All best,

    Christopher Weimer
    Prof. of Foreign Languages
    Oklahoma State University

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    Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:32:43 -0500
    From: mikennancy2001@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Three Skeleton Key

    Unlurking for a query [removed]

    I have a cassette of the Escape episode "Three Skeleton Key" that I play for
    my high school students in our mass media history unit, but the cassette is
    wearing out rapidly.  Does anyone know exactly where I can buy a CD or .mp3
    copy of the episode?

    The one I want is the one with Elliott Reid and William Conrad -- NOT the one
    with Vincent Price.

    Thanks,

    Mike Messner
    Mountain View, CA

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    Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:33:19 -0500
    From: "Nevik" <nevik@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Martin's Shorts in public

>     Last year I hosted a film showing at the Cincinnati OTR Convention

    It was great fun.  I'm glad you are doing it again!

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    Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:33:42 -0500
    From: fmazzar771@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  music for the muses
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    Hi

    ???? Does anyone have any information on the OTR show Music and the Muse. I
    have several shows from 1949 and 1950. There is some poetry reading and some
    light symphonic music for an overall charming show. I'd like to know how many
    shows exist and who was involved in producing the show and for what network.

    Thank you

    Frank Thomas

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    Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:34:01 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ithaca, New York archive
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    There is an archive at Ithaca College Library in NY that I need some info
    from, and my schedule is preventing me any free time to go up there and look.
    If anyone in or near Ithaca wants to make some extra money, I'll reimburse and
    pay them for their time and trouble.  it is not a big task, and I can mail
    papers to them to work from.
    Drop me a line privately and we'll chat.
    Martin Grams Jr.
    mmargrajr@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:52:22 -0500
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Anthony voucher
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    Ted at  radioaz@[removed] asked:

>     Does anyone know if the "guests" on Anthony's advice show were real, or
>     actors hired to represent the people who wrote in to the show?

    Dunno.

    However,  the final gag of the Warner Bros. Daffy Duck/Porky Pig cartoon "Baby
    Bottleneck" involves a character calling John J. Anthony's radio show
    lamenting "Mr. Anthony, I have a [removed]" Said cartoon also has
    references to Bing Crosby, Eddie Cantor, the Dionne Quintuplets, and another
    character modeled on Phil Harris.

    Yours in the ether,

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:53:03 -0500
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Beyond Mozart
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    Although I'm admittedly not much of an authority on classical music composers,
    I did enjoy Larry Moore's recent posting here about [removed] reminds
    [removed] couple of years ago, I was recording with CBSRMT stock player Gordon
    Gould a rather dense and comprehensive biography of Beethoven for Talking
    Books.  'T'was a re-record of a standard two-volume biography by Thayer (first
    name escapes me).

    Thayer writes that Beethoven had a colleague and contemporary named Schindler,
    also a composer,  who wrote a quickie biography about his friend Ludwig
    shortly after Beethoven's death. WARNING: one reading this will undoubtedly
    see the punchline coming.

    My response: "Well, I've never read Schindler's Beethoven, but I have read
    Schindler's Liszt."

    That's about the size of it.

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:53:11 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  100 years ago in March

    People born 100 years ago in March

    03-04-1908 - Lee Allman - d. 10-8-1989
    actor: (Sister of James Jewell) Lenore 'Casey' Case "The Green Hornet"
    03-05-1908 - Rex Harrison - Huyton, England - d. 6-2-1990
    actor: Rex Saunders "Private Files of Rex Saunders"
    03-12-1908 - Eugene Conley - Lynn, MA - d. 12-18-1981
    operatic tenor: "NBC Presents Gene Conley"; "Voice of Firestone"
    03-12-1908 - William Lally - New York - d. 8-20-1956
    actor: "The NBC University Theatre"
    03-13-1908 - Paul Stewart - NYC - d. 2-17-1986
    actor: Gyp Mendoza "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Richard Rogue "Rogue's
    Gallery"
    03-15-1908 - Roland Varno (Varnoux) - Utrecht, Netherlands - d.
    5-24-1996
    character actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "You Were There"
    03-16-1908 - Robert Rossen - NYC - d. 2-18-1966
    film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    03-20-1908 - Frank Stanton - Muskegon, MI - d. 12-24-2006
    president of cbs 1946-1971
    03-20-1908 - Kermit Murdock - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-11-1981
    actor: Rod Buchanan "Whisper Men"
    03-20-1908 - Michael Redgrave - Bristol, England - d. 3-21-1985
    actor: Horatio Hornblower "Horatio Hornblower"
    03-20-1908 - Stuart Metz - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-5-1994
    announcer: "Pepper Young's Family"; "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons"
    03-21-1908 - Vincent Pelletier - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-25-1994
    actor: Victor Powell "This is Life"; Robin "Calling All Detectives"
    03-25-1908 - David Lean - Croydon, Surrey, England - d. 4-16-1991
    screenwriter, film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-25-1908 - Philip Reed - NYC - d. 12-21-1996
    actor: Ross Barrington "Society Girl"; Brian Wells "David Harum"
    03-26-1908 - Hank Sylvern - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-4-1964
    orchestra leader: "Beyond Tomorrow"
    03-29-1908 - Dennis O'Keefe - Fort Madison, IA - d. 8-31-1968
    actor: Treasure Agent Larsen "T-Man"
    03-31-1908 - Les Damon - Providence, RI - d. 7-20-1962
    actor: Nick Charles "Advs. of the Thin Man"; Michael Waring "The Falcon"
    03-31-1908 - Red Norvo - Beardstown, IL - d. 4-6-1999
    jazz vibraphonist: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Woody Herman Show"

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    Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:54:27 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-1 births/deaths

    March 1st births

    03-01-1878 - Dr. Louis K. Anspacher - d. 5-10-1947
    lecturer, host: "True Ghost Stories"
    03-01-1885 - Lionel Atwill - Croydon, England - d. 4-22-1946
    singer: "Eveready Hour"
    03-01-1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos - Athens, Greece - d. 11-2-1960
    conductor: "The NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    03-01-1896 - George Frame Brown - d. 11-19-1979
    actor: Gus "Tony and Gus"
    03-01-1902 - Parker Bailey - d. xx-xx-1982
    pianist: WTAM Cleveland, Ohio
    03-01-1903 - Charlie Lyon - Detroit, MI - d. 5-11-1985
    announcer: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Lum and Abner"
    03-01-1904 - Glenn Miller - Clarinda, IA - d. 12-15-1944
    bandleader: "Moonlight Serenade"; "USO Matinee"
    03-01-1904 - Paul Hartman - d. 10-2-1973
    actor: "Tony Awards"
    03-01-1905 - Doris Hare - Bargoed, Monmouthshire, Wales - d. 5-30-2000
    actor, host: "Navy Mixture"
    03-01-1906 - Lester Grffith - Illinois - d. 11-20-1991
    announcer: "Dan Harding's Wife"; "Candid Microphone"
    03-01-1910 - David Niven - Kirriemuir, Scotland - d. 7-29-1983
    actor, panelist: "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Transatlantic Quiz"
    03-01-1914 - Barrett Deems - Springfield, IL - d. 9-15-1998
    jazz drummer: "Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra"; "Louis Armstrong's All Stars"
    03-01-1914 - Gil Doud - Minnesota - d. 12-17-1957
    writer, director: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "One out of Seven"; "Pat
    Novak for Hire"
    03-01-1915 - Cy Harrice - Chicago, IL - d. 2-14-2007
    announcer: "Big Story"; "Cavalcade of America"
    03-01-1917 - Cliffie Stone - Stockton, CA - d. 1-19-1998
    host: "Hollywood Barn Dance"; "The Cliffie Stone Show"
    03-01-1917 - David Dunhill - England - d. 3-20-2005
    announcer: "BBC Light Programme"; "Take It From Here"
    03-01-1920 - Anton Elles - England - d. 9-26-1967
    creator, writer, director: "Frontier Gentleman"
    03-01-1921 - Kenny Baker - Yorkshire, England - d. 12-7-1999
    trumpeter: "Let's Settle for Music"
    03-01-1923 - Andrew Faulds - Tanzania, East Africa - d. 5-31-2000
    actor: Jet Morgan "Journey Into Space"
    03-01-1923 - Peggy Chantier Dick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-20-2001
    writer: "Edgar Bergen Comedy Hour"
    03-01-1927 - Harry Belafonte - NYC
    singer, actor: "Imaage Minorities"; "Stagestruck"
    03-01-1929 - Eddie Jones - New Jersey - d. 5-31-1997
    jazz bassist in the Count Basie band
    03-01-1933 - Mary Linn Beller - d. 4-13-2000
    actor: Barbara (Babby) "The Brighter Day"
    03-01-1946 - Jim Crace - England
    writer: "Salateen"; "The Bird Has Flown"

    March 1st deaths

    01-20-1895 - Roscoe Ates - Grange, MS - d. 3-1-1962
    stuttering comedian: "Shell Chateau"; "Comedy Stars of Hollywood"
    02-17-1906 - Charlie Spivak - New Haven, CT - d. 3-1-1982
    orchestra leader: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    02-20-1907 - Nadine Conner - Compton, CA - d. 3-1-2003
    singer: "Show Boat"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
    03-15-1904 - Pat O'Malley - Burnley, Lancashire, England - d. 3-1-1985
    actor: "Cavalcade of America";"Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-27-1937 - Sandy Dennis - Hastings, NE - d. 3-1-1992
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-17-1907 - Jack Petruzzi - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-1-1967
    actor: "Ann Worth, Housewife"; "The Lone Ranger"; "Joe Palooka"
    05-27-1911 - Herb Meadow - d. 3-1-1995
    creator, writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    06-14-1915 - Kay Sutton - Irvington, NJ - d. 3-1-1988
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-16-1915 - Elaine Barrie - NYC - d. 3-1-2003
    actor: (Wife of John Barrymore) "Streamlined Shakespeare"
    07-22-1904 - Magdalen King-Hall - London, England - d. 3-1-1971
    children's author who also wrote radio plays
    08-12-1907 - Joe Besser - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-1-1988
    comedian: ("No so faaaast! . . . oh, you craaaaze you!) "Jack Benny
    Program"
    08-31-1917 - Burleigh Robbins Downey, Jr. - d. 3-1-2000
    news director: "You are the Jury"
    09-16-1911 - Dorian St. George - d. 3-1-2004
    announcer: "Advs. of Charlie Chan"; "Candid Microphone"
    09-17-1905 - Dolores Costello - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-1-1979
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"; "Second Sunday"
    10-04-1892 - Kathryn Card - Butte, MT - d. 3-1-1964
    actor: Grandmother Barton "The Bartons"; Mrs. Wiggins "Uncle Walter's
    Dog House"
    10-26-1914 - Jackie Coogan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-1-1984
    actor: Ernest Botch "Forever Ernest"
    11-03-1903 - John Sylvester - Mississippi - d. 3-1-1995
    actor, host: "Now Hear This"; "One Thousand Dollars Reward"
    11-29-1909 - Ann Corio - Hartford, CT - d. 3-1-1999
    burlesque queen: "G. I. Jive", "Advs. of Ellery Queen"
    12-09-1902 - Brace Beemer - Mount Carmel, IL - d. 3-1-1965
    actor: Lone Ranger "Lone Ranger"
    12-11-1920 - Eddie Firestone, Jr. - San Francisco, CA - d. 3-1-2007
    actor: Joey Brewster "That Brewster Boy"; William Herbert Murray "One
    Man's Family"
    12-12-1908 - Victor Babin - Moscow, Russia - d. 3-1-1972
    concert pianist with a career in radio
    12-26-1893 - Vladimir Golschmann - Paris, France - d. 3-1-1972
    conductor: New York Philharmonic
    xx-xx-xxxx - Edith Walton - d. 3-1-1975
    journalist: "Speaking of Books"; "Author Meets the Critics"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:18:50 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 2-8 March

     From Those Were The Days --

    3/2

    1945 - Mystery fans remember this day when they gathered around the
    radio set to listen to the Mutual Broadcasting System as Superman
    encountered Batman and Robin for the first time.

    1952 - Whispering Streets debuted on ABC, remaining on the air until 1960.

    3/4

    1877 -- Emile Berliner came up with a thing called the microphone.

    1925 - Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office in Washington DC. The
    presidential inauguration was broadcast on radio for the very first time.

    1930 - 'The Redhead', Red Barber, began his radio career this day.
    Barber broadcast on WRUF at the University of Florida in Gainsville. He
    soon became one of the best known sports voices in America.

    1942 - Shirley Temple had a starring role in Junior Miss on CBS. The
    show, heard for the first time, cost $12,000 a week to produce and
    stayed on the airwaves until 1954.

    1951 - Sir John Gielgud, starring as Hamlet, was heard on The [removed] Steel
    Hour on the NBC.

    1952 - President Harry Truman dedicated the Courier, the first seagoing
    radio broadcasting station, in ceremonies in Washington, DC.

    3/6

    1948 - Ralph Edwards created a quiz on Truth or Consequences called The
    Walking Man. After ten weeks of guesses by contestants playing the game,
    it was finally revealed that Jack Benny was The Walking Man.

    3/7

    1933 - CBS debuted Marie the Little French Princess which had a run of
    two years.

    1944 - Norman Corwin hosted a program titled, Columbia Presents Corwin
    on the CBS network this day.

    3/8

    1925 - Bernard McFadden was a physical culturist who had a radio show in
    New York City. But not for long. McFadden failed to show up for his
    daily morning program, causing a young, studio engineer, John Gambling,
    to ad-lib on the air for a solid hour. As a result, the station (WOR)
    decided to give Gambling the morning announcer's job. John Gambling
    stayed at WOR for many years, then turned the mike over to his son, who,
    finally, turned the program over to his son ... all named John. Mr.
    Gambling's Rambling with Gambling program attracted tri-state (New York,
    New Jersey, Connecticut) audiences in record numbers for over 70 years
    on the 50,000 watt talk-radio powerhouse at 710 AM on your radio dial
    from New York each morning.

    Joe

    --
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    Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 15:03:06 -0500
    From: JayHick@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  John Rayburn
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    Our friend John Rayburn has a new book out;   Details follow; Cat Whiskers
    and Talking Furniture
    A Memoir of Radio and Television Broadcasting
    John Rayburn
    ISBN 978-0-7864-3697-2
    photos, index
    256pp. softcover 2008
    $35
    Available for immediate shipment
    Description
    A long-time broadcaster, John Rayburn has covered major news and sporting
    events for more than 60 years on popular radio and television programs. Having
    been in the business for nearly two-thirds of official broadcasting history,
    Rayburn relies on his extensive experience to give this unique, first-hand
    account of several historic events and developments in broadcasting history.

    The story begins in the early days of radio, when most listeners relied on a
    primitive crystal-and-wire "cat whisker" radio and most broadcasters
    relied
    on cumbersome shellac transcription discs to record their programs. Rayburn
    gives a witty and warm-hearted account of historic developments in the next
    seven
    decades in broadcasting history, fondly recalling Edward R. Murrow's live
    broadcasts from London in World War II, the heyday of Little Orphan Annie and
    her
    secret decoder badges, and his own participation in the early days of
    full-time color television news broadcasts, among many other landmark
    broadcast
    events. Along with his personal memoir, the author includes conversations and
    interviews with many noted individuals, including Bill Stern, Ronald Reagan,
    Rin
    Tin Tin, Burl Ives, Milton Berle, and Jimmy Carter.

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