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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 77
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-19 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Mysterious Traveler                   [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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    Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 00:15:53 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-19 births/deaths

    May 19th births

    05-19-1870 - Wright Kramer - Somerville, MA - d. 11-14-1941
    actor: Walter Jamison "Showboat"
    05-19-1891 - Graham Harris - Haverhill, MA - d. 9-3-1946
    orchestra leader: "There Was a Woman"; "WPA Federal Music Concerts"
    05-19-1894 - Henry Busse - Magdeburg, Germany - d. 4-23-1953
    orchestra leader: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Spotlight Bands"
    05-19-1895 - Harry Saxe - Montreal, Canada - d. 11-6-1947
    actor: Daddy Warbucks "Little Orphan Annie"; Dr. Burr "Mryt and Marge
    05-19-1906 - Bruce Bennett - Tacoma, WA - d. 2-24-2007
    actor: "Proudly We Hail"
    05-19-1910 - Wayne Nelson - d. 2-xx-1984
    announcer: "The Camel Caravan"; "The Ted Lewis Show"
    05-19-1913 - Beverly Roberts - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-13-2009
    actor: "The John Barrymore Theatre"; "The Falcon"
    05-19-1913 - Warren Asher - d. 1-xx-1984
    disk jockey: WFOR  Hattiesburg, Mississippi
    05-19-1919 - George Auld - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-8-1990
    bandleader: "Saturday Night Swing Session"
    05-19-1919 - Louisa Vass - Greenville, SC - d. 10-3-2000
    singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phoenix Program"
    05-19-1931 - Eric Davidson - d. 5-20-1996
    writer: "Tommy Steele Radio Show"

    May 19th deaths

    02-02-1915 - Frank Telford - d. 5-19-1987
    producer: "This Is Our Enemy"
    02-06-1919 - Joe Graydon - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-19-2001
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"
    02-09-1891 - Ronald Colman - Richmond, Surrey, England - d. 5-19-1958
    actor: William Todhunter Hall "Halls of Ivy"; "Jack Benny Program"
    02-12-1867 - Joe E. Howard - NYC - d. 5-19-1961
    singer, composer: "Gay Nineties Revue"
    03-14-1913 - Jay Barney - Chicago, IL - d. 5-19-1985
    actor: Bugsy O'Toole "The Romance of Helen Trent"
    03-25-1913 - Prescott Robinson - Montreal, Canada - d. 5-19-1999
    newscaster: "Eight O'Clock Morning News on Mutual"
    03-31-1915 - Henry Morgan - NYC - d. 5-19-1994
    comedian: "Here's Morgan"; "Henry Morgan Show"
    04-06-1922 - Dorothy Donegan - Chicago, IL - d. 5-19-1998
    jazz pianist: "Jubilee"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
    04-10-1913 - Henry "Butch" Stone - NYC - d. 5-19-2009
    vocalist: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) "One Night Stand"
    05-07-1895 - Thomas Darcy, Jr. - Vancouver, WA - d. 5-19-1968
    conducted the United States Army Band on CBS during the 1938 season
    06-05-1906 - Margaret Rawlings - Osaka, Japan - d. 5-19-1996
    actor: "Gigi"
    06-14-1907 - Nappy Lamare - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-19-1988
    jazz guitarist: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    06-17-1921 - Earl Hammond - NYC - d. 5-19-2002
    actor: "Coounterspy"; "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
    07-29-1869 - Booth Tarkington - Indianapolis, IN - d. 5-19-1946
    writer: "Maude and Cousin Bill"
    08-19-1902 - Ogden Nash - Rye, NY - d. 5-19-1971
    poet: "Three Ring Time"; "Kaleidoscope"
    09-09-1901 - James Blades - Peterborough, England - d. 5-19-1999
    percussionist: Freelance, best known as the drummer for  'V for Victory'
    09-24-1921 - Larry Markes - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-19-1999
    writer: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
    10-27-1923 - Peter Bryant - London, England - d. 5-19-2006
    announcer, script editor for BBC Radio
    11-05-1935 - Nicholas Maw - Grantham, England - d. 5-19-2009
    composer: "Odyssey"
    11-16-1916 - Daws Butler - Toledo, OH - d. 5-19-1988
    actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"; "Stan Freberg Show"; "That's Rich"
    11-21-1904 - Coleman Hawkins - St. Josephs, MO - d. 5-19-1969
    tenor sax: (Father of the tenor sax) "Saturday Night Swing Club"
    12-12-1913 - Winston Burdette - Buffalo, NY - d. 5-19-1993
    newscaster: (protege of Edward R. Murrow) "CBS World News Round Up"

    Ron
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    Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 00:16:36 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mysterious Traveler

    Ted Kneebone mentioned:

>     Now that someone has located a book about "The Whistler",
>     does anyone know if there is a book about "The Mysterious Traveler"? Though
>     there is a book by Eidmiller and Lambesis about "Quiet Please",
>     I wonder if another one has been written or is in progress?  One that
>     covers the program in more detail?

    As Dave Siegel pointed out, THE WHISTLER book is devoted primarily on the movies,
    and "briefly" on the radio program, though more of a summary in the same manner as
    John Dunning and other encyclopedia entries. One of these days a book on the
    radio program will become available.

    THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER has been in the works. I'm about 40 scripts away from
    reading the complete series. In the past, I have written magazine articles about
    the "lost" episodes, with titles, broadcast dates and plot summaries, in the same
    manner as THE LONE RANGER "lost" episodes exemplified in a recent SPERDVAC Radiogram
    magazine article which generated a lot of response. It's my hope to get the log, as well as
    a history of the program, and an unpublished (and lengthy) interview with Robert
    Arthur, in print. I've sent copies of the radio scripts to "lost" episodes to a number of
    venues that has since done re-creations of radio programs.

    As for QUIET, PLEASE, there has been a lot written about it. Just last year an article
    I wrote was published about the radio program, mentioning such tidbits as Cooper's
    script writing career at Universal Studios, and his expressed disappointment at the
    SON OF FRANKENSTEIN screenplay experience was evident in the QUIET, PLEASE episode,
    "Rain on New Year's Eve." If you have that episode, relisten to it. Long story short,
    Cooper was asked to re-write the screenplay to SON OF FRANKENSTEIN many times during
    production, much to his disappointment. That particular radio broadcast even has
    Ernest Chappel make a remark about Karloff!

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