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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2010 : Issue 14
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  1-22 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Green Hornet comic book               [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
  New OTR Book Due This Year            [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  LB and LB                             [ wich2@[removed] ]
  1-23 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Tune into Yesterday newsletter        [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 24-30 Jan  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Betty White on Gildersleeve           [ LBiel <[removed]@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:04:30 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-22 births/deaths

January 22nd births

01-09-1879 - Alfred McCann - d. 01-22-1931
host: "McCann Pure Food Hour"
01-22-1872 - Beatrice Fairfax - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-28-1945
writer: "Advice to the Lovelorn"
01-22-1875 - D. W. Griffith - La Grange, KY - d. 7-23-1948
movie producer-director: "Brooklyn Mark Strand Stage and Studio Program"
01-22-1878 - Constance Collier - Windsor, Berkshire, England - d.
4-25-1955
actor: Jessie Atwood "Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy"
01-22-1893 - Conrad Veidt - Potsdam, Germany - d. 4-3-1943
actor: "Free World Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-22-1893 - Fulton Oursler - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-24-1952
writer: "The Greatest Story Ever Told"; "Thatcher Colt Mysteries"
01-22-1894 - Rosa Ponselle - Meriden, CT - d. 5-25-1981
opera soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera"
01-22-1895 - Ethel (Everett) Remey - d. 2-28-1979
actor: Kathleen Norris "By Kathleen Norris"
01-22-1897 - Linda Carlon - Stuttgart, Germany - d. 6-xx-1985
actor: Mary Sothern "Life of Mary Sothern"
01-22-1899 - Anne Elstner - Lake Charles, LA - d. 1-29-1981
actor: Stella Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Mary Weston "Wilderness Road"
01-22-1906 - Guy Savage - d. 8-31-1981
announcer: "Play Broadcast"
01-22-1907 - Douglas 'Wrong-Way' Corrigan - Galveston, TX - d. 12-9-1995
intrepid pilot: "Believe It or Not"
01-22-1909 - Ann Sothern - Valley City, ND - d. 3-15-2001
actor: Maisie Revere "Maisie"
01-22-1911 - Arnold Robertson - Chicago, IL - d. 7-xx-1969
comedian: Ed Potts "Scattergood Baines"; Dr. Jensen "This Is Nora Drake"
01-22-1914 - Dick Willard - d. 9-6-2000
announcer, emcee: "The Strange Dr. Weird"; "Take it Easy Time"
01-22-1914 - Joy Hodges - Des Moines, IA - d. 1-19-2003
vocalist; "The Joe Penner Show"
01-22-1916 - Howard Teichmann - Chicago, IL - d. 7-7-1987
writer: "Road of Life"; "Theatre USA"; "Valiant Lady"
01-22-1920 - Herman Alexander Baron - NYC - d. 9-xx-1984
staff composer with NBC 1943-1948
01-22-1920 - William Warfield - West Helena, AR - d. 8-25-2002
bass-baritone singer: "Edgar Bergen Show"; "Beyond Victory"
01-22-1924 - J. J. Johnson - d. 2-4-2001
jazz trombonist: "Arthur Godfrey Show"; "One Night Stand"
01-22-1932 - Piper Laurie - Detroit, MI
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-22-1934 - Bill Bixby - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-21-1993
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
01-22-1935 - Dave Holland - Raleigh, NC - d. 11-14-2005
author: "From Out of the Past: A Pictorial History of the Lone Ranger"
01-22-1951 - Steve J. Spears - Adelaide, Australia - d. 10-16-2007
writer: "King Richard"; "Maggie's Ear"

January 22nd deaths

01-21-1922 - Telly Savalas - Garden City, NY - d. 1-22-1994
actor: "[removed] Story"
01-29-1913 - Daniel Taradash - Louisville, KY - d. 1-22-2003
film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
02-10-1892 - Alan Hale, Sr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 1-22-1950
actor:"Lux Radio Theatre"
02-18-1900 - Zeno Klinker - d. 1-22-1985
writer: "Edgar Bergen/.Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-02-1905 - Marc Blitzstein - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-22-1964
author: "Mercury Theatre On the Air"
03-03-1911 - Henry Gladstone - Boston, MA - d. 1-22-1995
announcer: "White Owl Reporter"
03-09-1912 - Ray Darby - Edmonton, Canada - d. 1-22-1982
radio script writer: "American School of the Air"
04-10-1911 - Victor Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 1-22-1994
musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
04-12-1919 - Ann Miller - Chireno, TX - d. 1-22-2004
dancer, actor: "Forecast"; "Hollywood Hotel"
05-13-1938 - Anna Cropper - Brierfield, England - d. 1-22-2007
actor: "Sherlock Holmes"
05-23-1890 - Herbert Marshall - London, England - d. 1-22-1966
actor: Ken Thurston "Man Called X"
05-25-1926 - Milt Bernhart - Valpariso, IN - d. 1-22-2004
trombonist: "One Night Stand"
06-23-1895 - Pick Malone - nr. Dallas, TX - d. 1-22-1962
comedian: "Show Boat"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
07-21-1901 - Allyn Joslyn - Milford, PA - d. 1-22-1981
actor: "Island Boat Club"; "Page of Romance"; "Show Boat"
08-21-1916 - Consuelo Velazquez - Ciudad Guzman, Mexico - d. 1-22-2005
songwriter: (Besame Mucho) Oversaw classical music programs for
station XEQ
08-27-1908 - Lyndon Baines Johnson - nr. Stonewall, TX - d. 1-22-1973
[removed] president: "Meet the Press"; "World's Fair Holiday"
09-10-1879 - Jess Pugh - Andersonville, IN - d. 1-22-1962
actor: Scattergood Baines, "Scattergood Baines"
10-22-1891 - Parker Fennelly - Northeast Harbor, ME - d. 1-22-1988
actor: Titus Moody, "Fred Allen Show"; Dan Tucker, "Lawyer Dan Tucker"
10-28-1908 - David LeWinter - NYC - d. 1-22-1976
orchestra leader: Late night dance band remotes
10-29-1921 - Bill Mauldin - Mountain Park, NM - d. 1-22-2003
cartoonist: "Command Performance"; "Armed Forces V-J Program"
11-05-1933 - Donald Madden - NYC - d. 1-22-1983
actor: "Let's Pretend"
11-10-1916 - Billy May - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-22-2004
orchestra leader: "Music Depreciation"; "Stan Freberg Show"
12-07-1920 - Frances Gifford - Long Beach, CA - d. 1-22-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:04:46 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Green Hornet comic book

This might be of interest to some readers: Dynamite Comics, the folks who are now producing comic book versions of the Lone Ranger, Buck Rogers, Zorro, and Sherlock Holmes, is going to launch a Green Hornet comic book in March. The initial story line is based on Kevin Smith's unproduced screenplay. The art that I've seen ([removed], [removed]) looks pretty dynamic. Purists take note: Kato is female in the current version. (Apparently that's been done in earlier comic book versions as well, back in the 80s.) Here's a somewhat older article on the forthcoming comic, which discusses the gender switch:
[removed]

Given a choice, I imagine I'd probably take the comic over the forthcoming movie. Even better, let's hope that the current set of "lost" Green Hornet shows sells well enough that keep more coming! (And when is the Grams/Salomonson book coming out?)

Kermyt

      

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:05:45 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  New OTR Book Due This Year

A very, very small percentage of people have known about this, but following
close on the heels of THE GREEN HORNET book due in early March (sorry,
release date of Jan. 31 got pushed to early March, but it is at the printers
now!) is another book centering on Old-Time Radio and it too will be a corker
of a tome. Also 816 pages thick, and highly-detailed. (For anyone wanting to
know what I mean by "highly-detailed," check out the Twilight Zone Biography
page on [removed].)

The ink is now dry and the legalities have been cleared, making the new OTR
book an officially licensed property, like most of my previous books. Rather
than reveal the book now, I was asked by Neal Ellis to discuss the subject on
his Wednesday, Jan. 27 broadcast. For anyone not keeping tabs of recent
events, Neal launched [removed] early in the month and devotes
three nights a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) to a live, three-hour
broadcasts about old-time radio. Scholars, historians, authors and
celebrities are making appearances. There are statistically more than 5,000
internet radio stations streaming old-time radio shows 24 hours a day, most
done from people's home computers and according to live365, more than half of
those stations are lucky if they even have one person listening in. Neal has
taken the endeavor to do more than just offer old-time radio shows, he's
offering scholarly views into the deeper world of OTR. And his ratings are
apparently growing. Neal and his co-host Ken Stockinger are great fun to
listen to. Only a few people have been making the same effort: Walden Hughes,
Tom Heathwood, and so on, inviting people to be a guest and discuss an OTR
subject. Neal has been added to the list and I told him it would be fine to
discuss the new book. And I guarantee that you will NOT want to miss out on
this. Eyebrows will be raised. And there has not been anything on my web-site
[removed] that even indicates what it is. If you miss it, then when
you hear what is planned during those three hours, you will kick yourself for
not tuning in.

[removed] if you want to find out what's coming in October, I recommend you tune
in to Neal's program. Besides the announcement, he will also offer some
related-audio that you CANNOT find anywhere else. Literally. (That's just one
surprise.) And like THE GREEN HORNET subject of Jan. 29, there will be a few
photos and goodies posted on his site during those three hours and only
during those three hours for visual interaction. And listeners are welcome to
call in and say hello!

Martin Grams

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:06:44 -0500
From: wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  LB and LB

 From: Don Shenbarger  <donslistmail@[removed];
Subject:  Re: A Christmas  Carol

Barrymore broke his leg tripping over an electrical cord on the  set
of "Saratoga"

Don, hip trouble soon made him largely wheelchair bound for the balance of
his life - as well as drug dependent for the pain. Modern biographers  have
written that Louis B. Mayer covered the drugs.

This  suggests the radio show was not a film soundtrack.

 I'm not sure how you make that connection? (Though my hunch is that  the
radio performance was indeed a stand-alone.) MGM did  do "soundtrack clip"
broadcasts, ala the one with Garbo.

It also suggests Barrymore's removal from the film project had
little to do with arthritis that plagued him from about that same time
except that the accident could have been related to his difficulty  walking.

Which presented little problem for on-mic work; it didn't  stop a great
deal of that later from Lionel. As far as the hip/arthritis/joint  problems,
the same modern writers have mentioned that syphilis likely  compounded the
problem.

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:06:50 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-23 births/deaths

January 23rd births

01-23-1884 - George McManus - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1954
"Bringing Up Father" based on his comic strip
01-23-1892 - Eleanor Nash - d. 10-3-1969
beauty and style consultant (Sister of Ogden Nash): "Ask Eleanor Nash"
01-23-1893 - Franklin Pangborn - Newark, NJ - d. 7-20-1958
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-23-1894 - Clara Acuff Adams - d. 12-31-1950
soprano: KOA Denver, Colorado
01-23-1898 - Randolph Scott - Orange County, VA - d. 3-2-1987
actor: "Academy Award Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
01-23-1899 - Jospeh Nathan Kane - NYC - d. 9-22-2002
writer: "Break the Bank"
01-23-1899 - Margaret Carreau - Bedford, PA - d. 4-4-1997
accompanist to John Charles Thomas
01-23-1907 - Dan Duryea - White Plains, NY - d. 6-7-1968
actor: Lou Dana "Man from Homicide"
01-23-1910 - Django Reinhardt - Belgium - d. 5-16-1953
jazz artist: "Djanjo Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club France"
01-23-1910 - Dorothy Arbuckle - Eldred, IL - d. 11-14-1982
radio journalist
01-23-1913 - Max Smith - Des Moines, IA - d. 7-23-1999
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
01-23-1919 - Ernie Kovacs - Trenton, NJ - d. 1-12-1962
announcer, panelist: Monitor, "Where Have You Been?"
01-23-1919 - Millard Lampell - d. 10-3-1997
co-founder of the Almanac Singers: "Treasury Star Parade"
01-23-1920 - Jack Coleman - Denver, CO - d. 6-6-1985
singer: (Avon Comedy Four) "Old Fashioned Revival Hour"
01-23-1923 - Florence Halop - Jamaica Estates, NY - d. 7-15-1986
actor: Hotbreath Houlihan "Jimmy Durante Show"; Miss Duffy "Duffy's
Tavern"
01-23-1925 - Bernice Wirsbitzke - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-14-2006
singer: "Heinie and the Grenadiers"
01-23-1926 - Lyn Osborn - Wichita Falls, TX - d. 8-30-1958
actor: Cadet Happy "Space Patrol"
01-23-1933 - Chita Rivera - Washington, [removed]
singer: "WOR Diamond Jubilee"

January 23rd deaths

01-16-1916 - Norval Taborn - d. 1-23-1990
singer: (The Vagabonds) "The Breakfast Club"
01-19-1887 - Alexander Woollcott - Phalanx, NJ - d. 1-23-1943
commentator: "Early Bookworm"; "Town Crier"
01-28-1937 - Ken Hill - Birmingham, England - d. 1-23-1995
writer: "Night Season"
02-06-1888 - Hugh Aspinwall - d. 1-23-1981
tenor, chief announcer: WHT Chicago, Illinois
02-09-1911 - Harry Kramer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-23-1996
announcer: "Alfred Antonini Orchestra"; "Mike and Buff's Mailbag"
03-26-1907 - Phil Rapp - d. 1-23-1996
creator, writer, director: "The Bickersons"; "Baby Snooks"; "Old Gold
Time"
03-28-1924 - Freddie Bartholomew - London, England - d. 1-23-1992
guest: "Anchors Aweigh"
04-08-1919 - Virginia O'Brien - Los Angles, CA - d. 1-23-2001
actor: "Blue Ribbon Town"
04-09-1898 - Paul Robeson - Princeton, NJ - d. 1-23-1976
singer: "Pursuit of Happiness"
04-13-1918 - Brad Ansley - d. 1-23-1992
sportscaster: WIOD Miami Florida
05-20-1925 - Vic Ames - Malden, MA - d. 1-23-1978
singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
05-29-1932 - Rosalyn Borden - Hartford, CT - d. 1-23-2003
singer: (Borden Twins) "The Kiddies Hour"
05-30-1914 - Bob Sherwood - Indianapolis, IN - d. 1-23-1981
music: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
07-07-1899 - George Cukor - NYC - d. 1-23-1983
film director: "Marilyn Monroe: Fame is Fickle"; "Hollywood Calling"
07-25-1918 - Louanne Hogan - St. Paul, MN - d. 1-23-2006
singer: "One Night Stand"
08-12-1919 - Peter Luke - St. Albans, England - d. 1-23-1995
writer: "The Other Side of the Hill"
08-17-1921 - Wayne Raney - Wolf Bayou, AR - d. 1-23-1993
country music harmonica player: "Grand Ole Opry"
09-11-1908 - Ray Beals - Missouri - d. 1-23-1983
newscaster: KVGB Great Bend, Kansas
09-16-1893 - Alexander Korda - Pusztaturpaszto, Hungary - d. 1-23-1956
director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-16-1902 - Philip Reep - d. 1-23-1985
singer: (Elm City Four) "The Gay Nineties Revue"
09-29-1919 - Arthur Bernard - Gary, IN - d. 1-23-2001
producer: "Turning Point"
10-16-1920 - Gus Wayne - The Bronx, NY - d. 1-23-1998
actor: Little Johnny for Phillip Morris
10-23-1925 - Johnny Carson - Corning, IA - d. 1-23-2005
announcer, disc jockey: "Johnny Carson Show"
11-01-1933 - Art Stamper - nr. Hindman, Knott County, KY - d. 1-23-2005
bluegrass fiddler: Performed with Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe's
Bluegrass Boys
11-04-1896 - Ian Wolfe - Canton, IL - d. 1-23-1992
actor: "Suspense"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Escape"
11-12-1903 - Jack Oakie - Sedalia, MO - d. 1-23-1978
comedian: "Jack Oakie's College"
12-18-1915 - Bill Zuckert - NYC - d. 1-23-1997
actor: Detective. Lieutenant. Parker "Crime and Peter Chambers"
12-25-1886 - Kid Ory - LaPlace. LA - d. 1-23-1973
dixieland jazz trombonist: "This is Jazz";"Radio Almanac"; "Here's to
Veterans"
12-28-1929 - Brian Redhead - Newcastle-upon-Tyne - d. 1-23-1994
presenter: "Today"; "A World in Edgeways"; "From Plato to Nato"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:06:57 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Tune into Yesterday newsletter
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Readers of the Digest in the UK might be interested to know that Issue 58 of
the Tune into Yesterday newsletter is now available from ORCA. The new edition
includes an article by Eric Hitchcock about the 1930s radio pioneer Leonard F.
Plugge, plus a number of items from BBC Written Archives about the German
radio network in September 1945.
The Supplement looks back to the days of Radio Pictorial and Radio Review
magazines in the 1930s
Annual membership of ORCA costs six pounds in the UK, which also gives members
access to our vast lending library of old programmes. A sample copy of TIY
costs one pound and fifty pence, cheques payable to 'ORCA'
Membership Secretary is John Wolstenholme : ORCA, PO Box 1922, Dronfield,
England, S18  8XA

Graeme Stevenson  Editor : Tune into Yesterday

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:07:06 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 24-30 January

 From Those Were The Days

1/24

1930   Ben Bernie (Benjamin Anzelwitz) began a weekly remote broadcast
from the lovely Roosevelt Hotel in NYC.

1942 - Abie's Irish Rose was first heard on NBC this day replacing
Knickerbocker Playhouse. The program was based on the smash play from
Broadway that ran for nearly 2,000 performances. Sydney Smith played the
part of Abie.  Rosemary Murphy was played by Betty Winkler.

1/25

1937   NBC presented the first broadcast of The Guiding Light.

1944   The character, a black maid named Beulah and played by a white
man, Marlin Hurt, aired for the first time on Fibber McGee and Molly.
The spinoff, Beulah, became a radio series in 1945.

1/26

1947   The Greatest Story Ever Told was first heard on ABC.

1/27

1931   NBC introduced listeners to Clara, Lu 'n' Em on its Blue network.
The show became the first daytime radio serial when it was moved from
its original nighttime slot.

1948   Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first
magnetic tape recorder. The 'Wireway' machine with a built-in oscillator
sold for $[removed] ($[removed] in 2008 money).

1956   The CBS Radio Workshop was heard for the first time. This first
broadcast featured Aldous Huxley narrating his classic, Brave New World.

1/28

1940 Beat the Band made its debut on NBC, with the Ted Weems band. Beat
the Band was where listeners' questions were selected in the hopes of
stumping the band. If a listener's question was chosen, he or she
received $10 ( $[removed] in 2008 dollars) The questions were posed as
riddles: What song title tells you what Cinderella might have said if
she awoke one morning and found that her foot had grown too large for
her glass slipper? If the band played the correct musical answer, Where
Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, the listener lost.

When Raleigh cigarettes sponsored Beat the Band, the listener who beat
the band won $50 ($[removed] in 2008) and two cartons of cigarettes ...
Raleigh's, of course. When the sponsor changed to General Mill's Kix
cereal, if the listener beat the band, he/she won twenty bucks ($[removed]
in 2006) and a case of Kix cereal.

1934   As a result of a compliment paid on this day, by Walter Winchell,
in his newspaper column; a local disc jockey began receiving several
offers from talent scouts and producers. The DJ became known as the
Redhead, adored by thousands in Washington, DC and, later, by millions
across the country on CBS radio and TV. His trademark (strumming a
ukulele and delivering down home patter) endeared him to fans for many
years. We remember the broadcasting legend, Arthur Godfrey. "I wanna go
back to my little grass [removed]"

1/30

1933    The Lone Ranger was heard for the first time.

Joe

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:07:30 -0500
From: LBiel <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Betty White on Gildersleeve

The Screen Actors Guild just gave Betty White a Lifetime Achievement
Award, and she gave a very funny acceptance speech.  The film bio of her
discussed her first radio success as a role on Harold Peary's Great
Gildersleeve and played a short segment before moving on to her lengthy
TV career.  In fact, in her speech she mentioned her first appearance on
TV was 71 years ago, which would be 1939.  But it is nice that they
remembered radio.

Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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