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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 288
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Eddie Carroll in The Boston Globe     [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Broadway's My Beat                    [ DanHaefele@[removed] ]
      Not Henry Aldrich, [removed]             [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      10-9 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      "Broadway Is My Beat" Series Name     [ Larry Groebe <lgroebe@genericradio. ]
      Captain Midnight's real name          [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      Mickey Rooney                         [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
      OTR in the News                       [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Pending FOTR Coverage - The Record (  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Shadow info                           [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      Mickey Rooney On radio                [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
      Mickey Rooney and OTR                 [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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    Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:19:46 -0400
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Eddie Carroll in The Boston Globe
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    That Eddie Carroll is working up a storm before he gets to the Friends of Old
    Time Radio Convention, October 18-21 at the Holiday Inn North in Newark, NJ,
    [removed].

    His Jack Benny impersonation show was profiled in The Boston Globe, here:

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]
    201-739-2541

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    Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:20:09 -0400
    From: DanHaefele@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Broadway's My Beat
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    I once wondered about the correctness of  the program title Broadway's My
    Beat (vs. Broadway is My Beat).  I went to  writer Mort Fine's home and looked at
    his scripts.  The solution:   Broadway's My Beat.  Some of the confusion
    might come from transcription  labels, but the authors didn't prepare them.  I'll
    go with the  scripts.

    Dan Haefele

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    Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 22:22:41 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Not Henry Aldrich, [removed]

>     From: "Wayne Johnson" _wayne_johnson@[removed]_

    (mailto:wayne_johnson@[removed])
    ...Mickey Rooney ... had 4 starts in Holloywood and one was
    for Radio  ... Can someone fill me in please?<

    ...that would be Andy Hardy, Wayne. And some Lux's, I think?

    -Craig W.

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    Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 22:22:53 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-9 births/deaths

    October 9th births

    10-09-1871 - Albert Edward Wiggam - Austin, IN - d. xx-xx-1957
    bioligist: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    10-09-1888 - Irving Cummings - NYC - d. 4-18-1959
    host: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-09-1897 - Robert Armbruster - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-20-1994
    conductor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Cousin Willie"
    10-09-1905 - Norman Gottschalk - Chicago, IL - d. 9-xx-1979
    actor: Joe Palooka "Joe Palooka": "Captain Midnight"
    10-09-1907 - Henry Hunter - Rahway, NJ - d. 5-25-1985
    actor: Anthony J. Marleybone "Affairs of Anthony"; Terry Regan
    "Attorney at Law"
    10-09-1909 - Robert Beatty - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - d. 3-3-1992
    announcer: BBC Radio Newsreel"; "London Column"
    10-09-1910 - Phil Hanna - River Forest, IL - d. 7-20-1957
    actor: Three Cheers "Al Pearce Show"
    10-09-1911 - Leo Boulette - d. 10-9-1990
    scriptwriter: "The Lone Ranger"
    10-09-1911 - Michael Allman - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-13-1989
    arranger for such bands as Mitchell Ayres, Freddy Martin and Harry James
    10-09-1912 - John Tackaberry - Adelaide, Australia - d. 6-24-1969
    writer: "Jack Benny Program"
    10-09-1912 - Walter Compton - Charleston, SC - d. 12-9-1959
    quizmaster: "Double or Nothing"
    10-09-1913 - John Guedel - Portland, IN - d. 12-15-2001
    producer: "You Bet Your Life"; "People Are Funny"; "Pillsbury House
    Party"
    10-09-1915 - Edward Andrews - Griffin, GA - d. 3-9-1985
    actor: Nat "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    10-09-1915 - Lee Wiley - Port Gibson, OK - d. 12-11-1975
    singer: "Lee Wiley"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"; "It's Florida's
    Treat"
    10-09-1916 - Jack Boyle - Illinois - d. 10-15-1965
    actor: Andy Gump "The Gumps"
    10-09-1918 - Skip Farrell - Illinois - d. 5-8-1962
    actor, singer: "National Barn Dance"
    10-09-1922 - Phil Sterling - d. 11-30-1998
    actor: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Hilltop House"; "Special Agent"
    10-09-1929 - Harry Harvey - Florida - d. 12-8-1978
    actor: Oogie Pringle "A Date with Judy"

    October 9th deaths

    02-02-1898 - William Costello - Rhode Island - d. 10-9-1971
    actor: Freddie Frog "Betty Boop Fables"
    03-10-1903 - Claire Boothe Luce - NYC - d. 10-9-1987
    correspondent: "University of Chicago Round Table"; "Wake Up America"
    03-20-1921 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Cotton Plant, AR - d. 10-9-1973
    singer: "Jubilee"
    04-08-1882 - Lulu McConnell - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-9-1962
    comedienne: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
    05-01-1913 - Louis Nye - Hartford, CT - d. 10-9-2005
    comedian: "Louis Nye Show"; "Official Detective"
    06-13-1939 - Tom Cheek - Pensacola, FL - d. 10-9-2005
    sports announcer: Original Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play
    10-09-1911 - Leo Boulette - d. 10-9-1990
    scriptwriter: "The Lone Ranger"
    10-13-1924 - Marilyn Hare - Flushing, NY - d. 10-9-1981
    singer: (Daughter of Ernie Hare) "The Happiness Boys"
    10-15-1908 - Gus Hatula - d. 10-9-1997
    audio engineer for WXYZ
    10-17-1909 - Minnabelle Abbott - Covington, KY - d. 10-9-1981
    actor: Mary Sothern "The Life of Mary Sothern"
    10-18-1902 - Miriam Hopkins - Bainbridge, GA - d. 10-9-1972
    actor: "Exploring the Unknown"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"; "These Are Our Men"
    11-02-1899 - Glenn Rowell - Pontiac, MI - d. 10-9-1965
    singer, comedian: "Quaker Early Birds"; "Gene and Glenn"
    11-24-1903 - Bernard Lenrow - Binghamton, NY - d. 10-9-1963
    actor: Geoffrey Barnes "Molle Mystery Theatre"
    11-29-1921 - Virginia Egnor "Dagmar" - Huntington, WV - d. 10-9-2001
    dumb blonde: "Stars On Parade"; "Says Who?"
    12-07-1918 - Randy Atcher - d. 10-9-2002
    disk jockey: WKLO Louisville, Kentucky

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 23:12:32 -0400
    From: Larry Groebe <lgroebe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Broadway Is My Beat" Series Name

>     The question [removed] is it "Broadway's My Beat" or is it
>     "Broadway is My Beat"?

    Although for some reason I can't lay my hands on the actual original
    script in our files at this moment, according to our catalog notes
    the title for the series, as typed on the script, was "Broadway's My
    Beat" -- or at least it was in August of 1951.

    --Larry Groebe
       Generic Radio Workshop
       [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:20:40 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Captain Midnight's real name

    I think Captain Midnight's real name was John Reid!  ;->

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:21:10 -0400
    From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mickey Rooney

    Wayne Johnson asked:

>     I was lucky enough to attend Mickey Rooney's show last night: "Let's Put On
>     A Show".  It was mentioned that he had 4 starts in Holloywood and one was
>     for Radio.  I have never personally run into anything that he has done in
>     radio.  Can someone fill me in please?

    Mickey in did have a  syndicated sitcom "The Hardy Family"  January 1952
    to January 1, 1953. was heard on Mutual. There are about 14 episodes
    [removed]
    It was spin of of his Andy Hardy,16 MGM movies series ( 1937 to 1958)
    that he stared as teen ager with his troubles and [removed], in
    some of the movies were Judy Garland  and Ann Rutherford  who were his
    love interests. It
    His movie Father, Judge Hardy, and  Mother were in  the radio series.
    Lewis Stone and Fay Holden. as his parents.

    I know Mickey made appearances on "Suspense"

    Frank McGurn

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    Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:21:29 -0400
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR in the News

    Here's a nostalgic article about old time radio that ran recently in the
    Napa Valley Register.

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:09:02 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Pending FOTR Coverage - The Record (Hackensack)
     This Sunday

    An interview with X Minus One writer George Lefferts, scheduled guest of The
    Friends of Old Time Radio Convention (October 18-21 at the Holiday Inn North
    in Newark, NJ, [removed]), will appear in the Sunday October 14 edition of
    The Record (aka the Bergen Record), [removed] article will also
    feature a preview of the convention.

    Reporter and OTR fan Jim Beckerman again does the honors, featuring Leonia,
    [removed] resident Lefferts.

    Everyone be on the lookout!

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:25:10 -0400
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Shadow info
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           I'm hoping someone out there can provide some background, or
    at least some clarification, on "The Shadow".  Recently, someone told me
    something about the true identity of the Shadow which totally contradicts
    what I've been told.  She said that the true identity of the Shadow wasn't
    Lamont Cranston, but was a pilot. I checked the eps of this program I've
    got and each one says that Cranston learned his secret of invisability in the
    Far East and that 'his constant companion, the lovely Margo Lane, was the
    only person who knew to whom the voice of the Shadow belonged'.

           I'm confused.  Was Lamont Cranston, indeed, the Shadow's alter ego?
    Did this pilot act as one of his helpers (like Moe Shrevnitz, the cabbie)?
    Was he ever part of any of the scripts to begin with or am I being strung
    along?
    Was Margo aware of this pilot and his part in helping the Shadow, if he ever
    existed to begin with? Why would she tell me that this pilot existed if he
    didn't?

            Please help.

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth

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    Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:29:09 -0400
    From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mickey Rooney On radio
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    Dear Sir,   Mickey Rooney starred on "The Hardy Family" in the late
    1940's-early 1950's as teenager, "Andy Hardy" on radio.     Best Regards,
    Bob Slate

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    Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 19:58:20 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mickey Rooney and OTR

    Wayne Johnson inquires about the radio series in which Mickey Rooney
    was the lead.

    This series was "Shorty Bell" which ran for part of 1948 (March to
    June) on CBS, usually on Sunday nights.  It was a comedy-adventure
    show whose cast also included Florence Halop, John Hoyt, and Burt
    Holland. William Robson directed the series and billed it as "stark
    realism."

    Mickey played the lead, a cub reporter, and Jeanne Bates was "Joan"
    while Parley Baer voiced "Packrat." Four programs are in circulation
    today, and if the one I have is any evidence, it was neither funny
    nor exciting.

    When the show was cancelled, it was replaced by "Hollywood Showcase"
    with Mickey as a performing emcee.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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