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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 84
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
4-2 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Charles Osgood [ Ken Greenwald <kgradio@[removed]; ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
Thanks for Irene Tedrow [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
Dimension Malcolm X [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
4-3 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:53:11 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-2 births/deaths
April 2nd births
04-02-1840 - Emile Zola - Paris, France - d. 9-28-1902
author: Several of his works were adapted for radio
04-02-1864 - Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly - d. 12-20-1938
etymologist: Education talks on words; coach for CBS announcers
04-02-1878 - Leo Curley - NYC - d. 4-11-1960
actor: Ed Jackson "Backstage Wife"; Mike Shaw "Tom Mix"
04-02-1884 - Charles M. Courboin - Antwerp, Belgium - d. 4-13-1973
organ virtuoso: weekly half hour concert broadcast on NBC Red in 1940
04-02-1892 - Marjorie Child Husted - d. 12-23-1986
First radio voice of Betty Crocker
04-02-1907 - Luke Appling - High Point, NC - d. 1-3-1991
baseball great: "Tops in Sport"
04-02-1908 - Buddy Ebsen - Belleville, IL - d. 7-6-2003
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
04-02-1911 - Bill Days - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-6-2002
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
04-02-1913 - Fran Carlon - Indianapolis, IN - d. 10-4-1993
actor: Lorelei Kilbourne "Big Town"; Bunny Mitchell "Story of Mary
Marlin"
04-02-1914 - Alec Guinness - London, England - d. 8-5-2000
actor: "Kaleidoscope"
04-02-1917 - Gertrude Warner - Hartford, CT - d. 1-26-1986
actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"; Christy Allen "Against the Storm"
04-02-1919 - Charles Frederick Lindsley - Minnesota - d. 9-2-1990
judge: "Noah Webster Says"
04-02-1919 - Tom Hubbard - d. 6-4-1974
actor: Sergaent Cadet Stripes "Starr of Space
04-02-1920 - Jack Webb - Santa Monica, CA - d. 12-23-1982
actor: Joe Friday "Dragnet"; Pete Kelly "Pete Kelly's Blues"
04-02-1923 - Gloria Henry - New Orleans, LA
actor: "CBS Radio Workshop"
04-02-1928 - Rita Gam - Pittsburgh, PA
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
04-02-1934 - Brian Glover - Sheffield, England - d. 7-24-1997
actor: George Hackett "An American Werewolf in London";
"[removed]"
04-02-1950 - Rob George - Mannum, Australia
writer: Mainly for Australian radio
April 2nd deaths
01-03-1916 - Betty Furness - NYC - d. 4-2-1994
actor: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"
01-07-1906 - Betty Bolton - England - d. 4-2-2005
performed on British radio in the 1930s
03-09-1893 - Ara Gerald - Sydney, Australia - d. 4-2-1957
actor: Countess Florenza "Our Gal Sunday"
03-20-1922 - Jack Kruschen - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 4-2-2002
actor: Sergeant Muggowen " Broadway is My Beat"
04-01-1889 - Rev. Dr. Leslie Moss - Minneapolis, MN - d. 4-2-1949
preacher: "At Home in the World"; "This World of Ours"
05-23-1917 - Murray McLean - Chicago, IL - d. 4-2-1995
actor: Jimmy Allen "Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen"
06-12-1927 - Henry Slesar - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-2-2002
writer: "Voice of the Army"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-30-1917 - Buddy Rich - NYC - d. 4-2-1987
drummer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Tommy Dorsey and His
Orchestra"
08-27-1899 - C. S. Forester - Cairo, Egypt - d. 4-2-1966
poet, biographer, novelist: "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Words at War";
"Theatre Guild On the Air"
10-06-1910 - Lawrence Langner - Swansea, South Wales - d. 4-2-2002
theatre guild supervisor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
10-06-1921 - Cliff White - d. 4-2-1998
guitarist: (Mills Brothers) "Jubilee"; "Radio Hall of Fame", "Mail Call"
10-13-1889 - Douglass Dumbrille - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - d.
4-2-1974
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-13-1913 - Ethel Everett - NYC - d. 4-2-1973
actor: Elsie Anderson "David Harum"; Mayme Gordon "O'Neills"
11-21-1913 - Ted Straeter - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-2-1963
orchestra leader: "Jerry Wayne's Regent Show"; "Kate Smith Show"
xx-xx-1905 - Miff Campbell - Indianapolis, IN - d. 4-2-1995
singer: (The Ink Spots) "Four Ink Spots"; "Jubilee"; "Ink Spots"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 23:12:50 -0400
From: Ken Greenwald <kgradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood has been a CBS commentator for over 50 years --- and
still going strong.
I just received the recent issue of TV TECHNOLOGY dated April 2, 2008.
There is a page devoted to an interview with Osgood about his career.
What I found most interesting is his answer to one question posed to
him, as follows:
TV TECHNOLOGY: You've said for as long as anyone can remember on your
daily commentaries, "See you on the radio." Is the medium of radio
your first love?
OSGOOD: Yes, well, I think that's because the pictures are better!
[laughter] You have an opportunity to use that "theater of the mind."
People tend to see different "pictures" on the radio, depending
largely on their own experiences and their own backgrounds, on their
own lives, really. In that way, radio is a very powerful tool.
Charles Osgood can be heard daily on radio in "The Osgood File," and
on television as host of "CBS Sunday Morning."
Ken Greenwald
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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 02:12:01 -0400
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 nine 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, 2 Apr 2008 08:49:55 -0400
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Thanks for Irene Tedrow
Hello again --
Thanks to everyone (starting with my friend Ted Kneebone) who correctly
identified the lady with Jack Benny in the Groucho sketch as Irene Tedrow.
Elvia Allman for some reason came to my mind because I know she was
associated with the show (although apparently did not play one of the
switchboard operators as I had thought) and looked a lot like the lady who
accompanied Jack in that sketch. I have yet to find a good picture of Irene
Tedrow, but her name is certainly well known as an important actress during
the days of OTR.
I'm been constantly learning new things during my fifteen years with this
forum, not the least of which is the extent of my own stupidity and my
quickness to make assumptions! I'm happy there are such bright and
knowledgeable people contributing to this newsgroup who can correct me so
gently and politely!
Jan Bach
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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:55:45 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Dimension Malcolm X
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It's funny how and where references to OTR will manifest themselves. Orson
Welles and his 1938 WOTW broadcast came up in a book I was working on here at
Talking Books. It was a re-recording of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and
appears in Chapter Fourteen, pages 339-340 (paperback, Penguin Books edition).
I'd love to expand upon this but need to stop right here lest I spark a
political discussion, but let's just say that Malcolm X implied that some WOTW
listeners jumped out of windows in [removed] we all know that that aspect of
the WOTW mythos is an urban legend. Nobody defenestrated himself, no sir.
Yours in the ether,
Derek Tague
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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 22:27:11 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-3 births/deaths
April 3rd births
04-03-1783 - Washington Irving - NYC - d. 11-28-1859
author: Several of his words adapted for radio
04-03-1892 - Lt. Gen. Hubert R. Harmon - Chester, PA - d. 2-22-1957
[removed] air force general: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
04-03-1893 - Leslie Howard - London, England - d. 6-1-1943
actor: "Leslie Howard Theatre"; "Streamlined Shakespeare"
04-03-1894 - Dooley Wilson - Tyler, TX - d. 5-30-1953
actor: "Theatre of Romance"; "New World A-Coming"; "Jubilee"
04-03-1895 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Florence, Italy - d. 3-16-1968
composer: "Fourteen August"; God and Uranium Were On Our Side"
04-03-1895 - Zez Confrey - Peru, IL - d. 11-22-1971
pianist, composer: "The Hour Of St. Francis"
04-03-1898 - Bob Barron - Shell, WY - d. unknown
actor: "Tom Mix"; "Mary Marlin"; "Little Orphan Annie"
04-03-1898 - George Jessel - NYC - d. 5-24-1981
comedian, emcee: (Toastmaster General of the [removed]) "Hollywood Calling"
04-03-1904 - Peter Van Steeden - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - d.
1-3-1990
bandleader: "Town Hall Tonight"; "Mr. District Attorney"
04-03-1906 - Iron Eyes Cody - Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-4-1999
actor: "Straight Arrow Pow-Wow
04-03-1909 - Jerry Cooper - Bay Minette, AL
singer: "Krueger's Musical Toast"; "Vocal Varieties"
04-03-1913 - Mel Tolkin - Odessa, Russia - d. 11-26-2007
comedy writer: wrote jokes for Bob Hope
04-03-1918 - Sixten Ehrling - Malmo Skane Ian, Sweden - d. 2-13-2005
conductor: "Metropolitan Opera"
04-03-1920 - Stan Freeman - Waterbury, CT - d. 1-13-2001
pianist, composer: "Piano Playhouse"; "All Night on NBC"
04-03-1921 - George Bauer - d. 6-16-2004
announcer, newscaster: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
04-03-1921 - Jan Sterling - NYC - d. 3-26-2004
actor: "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
04-03-1921 - Leonard Sues - El Paso, TX - d. 10-24-1971
music: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
04-03-1923 - Elon Packard - d. 12-18-1977
writer: "The Bing Crosby Show"
04-03-1924 - Doris Day - Cincinnati, OH
singer, actor: "Your Hit Parade"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Doris Day Show"
04-03-1924 - Marlon Brando - Omaha, NE - d. 7-1-2004
actor: "Streetcar Named Desire"; "As Easy as [removed]"
04-03-1924 - Peter Hawkins - London, England - d. 7-8-2006
actor: Frankie Mouse "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
04-03-1925 - Jan Merlin - NYC
actor: Roger Manning "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
04-03-1926 - Andrew Keir - Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. 10-5-1997
actor: title role in "The Quartermass Memoirs"
04-03-1928 - Don Gibson - Shelby, NC - d. 11-17-2003
actor: "New World A' Coming"
04-03-1938 - Jeff Barry - Brooklyn, NY
actor: Himself "It's the Barrys"
04-03-1943 - Patricia Johnson - Sydney, Australia
writer: "Cat's Whisker to Transister"
April 3rd deaths
01-11-1905 - Manfred Lee - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-3-1971
writer: "Advs of Ellery Queen"; "Author, Author"
01-22-1893 - Conrad Veidt - Potsdam, Germany - d. 4-3-1943
actor: "Free World Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
02-18-1933 - Mary Ure - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 4-3-1975
actor: Won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award for Radio Drama acting in
1954.
02-20-1893 - Russel Crouse - Findlay, OH - d. 4-3-1966
panelist: "Information, Please"; "Transatlantic Quiz"
02-28-1907 - Milton Caniff - Hillsboro, OH - d. 4-3-1988
Creator of "Terry and the Pirates"
03-02-1900 - Kurt Weill - Dessau, Germany - d. 4-3-1950
composer: "Der Lindergflug"; "This Is War"
03-11-1862 - Frank Burt - NYC - d. 4-3-1964
writer: "The Six Shooter"; "The Unexpected"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"
03-27-1892 - Ferde Grofe - NYC - d. 4-3-1972
conductor, composer: (The Grand Canyon Suite) "Florsheim Frolic"
03-27-1924 - Sarah Vaughn - Newark, NJ - d. 4-3-1990
singer: "Guest Star"; "Your Rhythm Revue"
05-02-1907 - Pinky Lee - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-3-1993
comedian: "Hoagy Carmichel Show"; "Carefree Carnival"
06-28-1906 - Ann Leaf - Omaha, NE - d. 4-3-1995
organist: (Little Organ Annie) "Ann Leaf at the Organ"; "Lorenzo Jones"
07-21-1912 - Robert Sloane - NYC - d. 4-3-1955
writer: "The Fat Man"; "The Life of Riley"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
09-27-1923 - Mary McCarthy - Winfield, KS - d. 4-3-1980
actor: "MGM Musical Comey Theatre"
10-02-1904 - Graham Greene - Berkhampstead, England - d. 4-3-1991
writer: "Lives of Harry Lime"; "Studio One"; "NBC University Theatre"
10-10-1908 - Margaret Baker - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-3-1992
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-19-1883 - Ned Sparks - Guelph, Canada - d. 4-3-1957
actor: "The Grouch Club"; "The Texaco Star Theatre"
12-19-1907 - Ray Noble - Brighton, England - d. 4-3-1978
bandleader: "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"
12-25-1904 - Aline Berry - d. 4-3-1967
actor: Mrs. Dixon "Raising Junior"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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