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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2011 : Issue 15
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  1-20 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  GH movie                              [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
  2 reponses                            [ mschmid@[removed] ]
  Three times a week for the Lone Rang  [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
  Re/Wrong Jack Benny Progam            [ Joe C <glny41@[removed]; ]
  Harry Langdon's OTR Audition          [ Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed]; ]
  organ music                           [ sdelahoyde@[removed] ]
  Re: Wrong Jack Benny program?         [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]
  Arthur Anderson Update                [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  1-21 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  This is NBC the National Broadcastin  [ etorch@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:21:46 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-20 births/deaths

January 20th births

01-20-1878 - Finlay Currie - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 5-9-1968
actor: John H. Watson "BBC Home Theatre"
01-20-1894 - Harold Gray - Kankakee, IL - d. 5-9-1968
cartoonist: Creater of "Little Orphan Annie"
01-20-1895 - Roscoe Ates - Grange, MS - d. 3-1-1962
stuttering comedian: "Shell Chateau"; "Comedy Stars of Hollywood"
01-20-1896 - George Burns - NYC - d. 3-9-1996
comedian: "Advs. of Gracie"; "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
01-20-1896 - Rolfe Sedan - NYC - d. 9-15-1982
actor: "Escape"; "Suspense"; "Mystery in the Air"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-20-1898 - Norma Varden - London, England - d. 1-19-1989
actor: "Crime Classics"; "NBC University Theatre"
01-20-1898 - Tudor Owen - Wales, UK - d. 3-13-1979
actor: Jocko Madigan "Pat Novak for Hire"; Editor "Alias Jane Doe"
01-20-1899 - Joseph Buloff - Vilnius, Lithuania - d. 2-27-1985
actor: Barney Glass "House of Glass"
01-20-1900 - Colin Clive - [removed], France - d. 6-26-1937
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
01-20-1903 - Leon Ames - Portland, IN - d. 10-10-1993
actor: "Earplay"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
01-20-1912 - Paula Stone - NYC - d. 12-23-1997
moderator: "Leave It to the Girls"
01-20-1914 - Roy Plomley - Kingston-upon-Thames, England - d. 5-28-1985
announcer: Desert Island Discs"; "We Beg to Differ"; "One Minute Please"
01-20-1919 - Tony Shryane - St. Austell, England - d. 9-22-2003
BBC radio producer
01-20-1920 - DeForest Kelley - Atlanta, GA - d. 6-11-1999
actor: "Suspense"
01-20-1920 - Derek Bond - Glascow, Scotland - d. 10-15-2006
actor: "A Christmas Carol"
01-20-1921 - Connie Haines - Savannah, GA - d. 9-22-2008
singer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Rhapsody in Rhythm"
01-20-1922 - Ray Anthony - Bentleyville, PA
band eader: Band remotes for CBS 1951-1952
01-20-1924 - Slim Whitman - Tampa, FL
singer: "Louisiana Hayride"
01-20-1926 - Patricia Neal - Packard, KY - d. 8-8-2010
actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"
01-20-1927 - Dawn Lake - Sydney, Australia - d. 1-1-2006
singer: "The Jack Davey Program"

January 20th deaths

01-27-1914 - Alexander Albert Avola - Boston, MA - d. 1-20-2000
guitarist/arranger: Artie Shaw Orchestra; Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
02-18-1903 - Jacques Fray - Paris, France - d. 1-20-1963
pianist, disc jockey: "Fray and Braggiotti"
03-17-1918 - Bill Felton - Greenland, MI - d. 1-20-2005
newscaster, disc jockey: "Valley Varieties"; "Recreation Room"
04-06-1927 - Gerry Mulligan - NYC - d. 1-20-1996
jazz saxophonist: "Sound of Jazz"; "White House Jazz Festival"; "Voice
of Vista"
05-01-1924 - Dennis Main Wilson - Dulwich. London, England - d.
1-20-1997
producer: "Goon Show"; "Hancock's Half Hour"; "Citizen Smith"
05-03-1880 - Horace Murphy - Finley, TN - d. 1-20-1975
actor: Buckskin Blodgett "Red Ryder"
05-04-1929 - Audrey Hepburn - Brussels, Belguim - d. 1-20-1993
actor: "[removed] Story"; "Stagestruck"
05-29-1894 - Beatrice Lillie - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-20-1989
commedienne: "Beatrice Lillie Show"
06-02-1904 - Johnny Weissmuller - Windber, PA - d. 1-20-1984
actor: Movie Tarzan and Jungle Jim
06-05-1907 - D'Artega - Silao, Mexico - d. 1-20-1998
conductor, composer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"
07-11-1922 - Bernard Punsly - NYC - d. 1-20-2004
actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
07-16-1907 - Barbara Stanwyck - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-20-1990
actor: "Prudential Family Hour of Stars"; "This Is My Story"
08-05-1917 - Don Stanley - Stoughton, WI - d. 1-20-2003
announcer: "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "Out of the Deep"; "The Saint"
08-18-1902 - Joseph Catizone - Italy - d. 1-20-1973
trumpeter
09-14-1890 - Anthony Frome - Bellaire, OH - d. 1-20-1962
as "The Poet Prince" he sang and read poetry over NBC Blue in early
1930s
10-24-1891 - Nila Mack - Arkansas City, KS - d. 1-20-1953
director: "Helen and Mary"; "Let's Pretend"
11-14-1906 - Mercer McCloud - d. 1-20-1993
actor: Fran Cummings "Second Husband"
11-14-1913 - George Smathers - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 1-20-2007
[removed] senator from florida: "Meet the Press"
11-26-1911 - Robert Donley - Carmichaels, PA - d. 1-20-2004
actor: "Lieutenant Carpenter "Front Page Farrell"
12-05-1922 - Alan Freed - Johnstown, PA - d. 1-20-1965
disc jockey: "Moondog Show"; "Alan Freed Show"; "Camel Rock and Roll
Party"

Ron
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:21:54 -0500
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  GH movie
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We're going to see this Sunday. I know there are lots of negative comments
about it here. But isn't it great to have the word "radio series" on a movie
poster? I think that's a Massive achievement. If George Clooney and Johnny
Depp play The Lone Ranger and Tonto (a rumor), maybe we'll see it happen
again.

Ben Ohmart

Old radio. Old movies. New books.

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:22:02 -0500
From: mschmid@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  2 reponses

"Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@[removed]; wrote:

Subject:  Flo Gibson has died.

Does anyone know other series she was on? None of the Novak shows list her
in the cast, though many of them are from AFRS, and don't list the
supporting players.

I also checked under her maiden name Anderson, which was mentioned in
the obit, but the Goldin Index lists no actor of that name either.

From: Dixonhayes@[removed] wrote:

When David Nelson died last week, the AP obit included this  flub:

**The show originated on radio in 1952 as "Here Come the Nelsons,  then ran
for 320 episodes on TV from 1952 to 1966 as The Adventures of  Ozzie and
Harriet with some of the story lines taken from the stars' own  lives. ***

The AP issued a correction to this misinformation on 1/18, stating
that the bad info came from the family of David Nelson. The correction
stated that the show started on the radio in 1944 as "The Adventures
of Ozzie and Harriet". They also corrected another point about the TV
show - the original story said that it was shot in the Nelsons' own
home, while the correction stated that only a shot of the exterior of
the house was used for the TV show.

I wonder how many papers/broadcasts that run the bad story ever issue
the correction??

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:22:09 -0500
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Three times a week for the Lone Ranger

At 07:14 PM 1/19/2011, you wrote:
 How many times a week was the Lone Ranger broadcast?

When I was growing up and listened to it, it was on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.

Fred
Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:23:18 -0500
From: Joe C <glny41@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re/Wrong Jack Benny Progam
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From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];:

I'm confused. In OTR DIgest V2011-10 Alan and Linda Bell say that
the Benny program where he decks Rochester was on 2-5-39, but in my version
of the program Rochester doesn't even appear. In this episode Jack hires a
bodyguard (who later robs him) to protect him from Fred Allen.

Jan, you are correct about this Jack Benny Program. My Jack Benny collection
has the program you described including the opening as being aired on February
5,1939. That program is also listed for that date in Laura Leff's "39 Forever"
 Volume 1 1939-1942 on page 343 exactly as you described it. Alan and Linda
Bell are somehow confused about the date. They are one week off.

The broadcast date of the program that Jack boxes Rochester in Andy Devine's
barn and gets knocked down is January 29,1939. The program is described on
page 342 in
"Forever 39 " Volume 1 1939-1942

Joe Caramella

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:23:24 -0500
From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Harry Langdon's OTR Audition

Some years ago, classic movie comedy fans were amazed when a recording
surfaced of a pilot that Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made in March 1944 for
a weekly radio sitcom.  The audition was called "Mr. Slater's Poultry
Market."  I don't know who made this discovery, but I obtained my copy from
Jerry Haendiges.

Whoever it was, may I humbly request that they return to the same well in
hopes of finding a similar program?

In late March-early April 1944, comedian Harry Langdon - remembered best for
his silent era work, although he made more than twice as many talking films -
recorded an audition for the Blue Network and its producer, Caryl Coleman.
The program was called "Mr. Fixit."  I found this information while perusing
copies of THE BILLBOARD online.  Not coincidentally, Mr. Langdon wrote for
Laurel & Hardy in the late thirties and early forties.

If anyone knows anything more about, or can unearth a recording of, this
curio please contact me.

Michael

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:23:44 -0500
From: sdelahoyde@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  organ music
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I have always wondered about the organ music that was a part of so many radio
shows. Sent a note to the SPERDVAC newsletter about it a long time ago, but
never did get a response.

Was everything performed by "musical script", or was there ad-libbing
involved? Listening to a show, you almost get the sense that the organist is
doing something similar to what the pianist did in a silent movie theatre.
But, since it's radio, listening to the dialog and adding appropiate music,
rather than watching the screen.

Stan Delahoyde, Glendale, AZ

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:23:51 -0500
From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Wrong Jack Benny program?

Jan Bach writes:

I'm confused. In OTR DIgest V2011-10 Alan and Linda Bell say that
the Benny program where he decks Rochester was on 2-5-39, but in
my version of the program Rochester doesn't even appear

Actually, as it turns out, my copy (which came from what used to be called
[removed]) is mislabeled. The 1/29/39 and 2/5/39 episodes are
reversed. The correct date, according to Laura Leff's _39 Forever, [removed] is
1/29/39.

I had listened to the episodes and _thought_ they might have been reversed
but unfortunately didn't check the definitive source before posting. Tsk, tsk
... my bad.

Alan
_________________
Alan/Linda Bell
Santa Rosa, CA

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:23:59 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Arthur Anderson Update

Craig Wichman, our Man in Manhattan, reports today:

"Arthur is doing great, responding very well to therapy, and hoping
to be home soon---perhaps, this weekend? Alice is feeling a bit
swamped, playing one-man band."

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:24:04 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-21 births/deaths

January 21st births

01-21-1867 - John Bratton - Wilmington, DE - d. 2-7-1947
composed "Teddy Bears Picnic" used as theme for "John and Sparky"
01-21-1895 - Muriel 'Molly' Pollock - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-25-1971
concert pianist: "Radio-Keith-Orpheum Hour"; "Sonara Hour"
01-21-1897 - J. Carrol Naish - NYC - d. 1-24-1973
actor: Luigi Basco "Life with Luigi"
01-21-1899 - Ernestine Hill - Rockhampton, Australia - d. 8-22-1972
writer: "Santa Clause of Christmas Creek"
01-21-1902 - Smith Ballew - Palestine, TX - d. 5-2-1984
singer: "The Ipana Troubadors"; "Shell Chateau"
01-21-1904 - Allen Prescott - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-27-1978
host: "Wife Saver"; "Prescott Presents"
01-21-1907 - Lydia Johnson - Ramseur, NC - d. 4-11-1979
singer: "The Johnson Family Singers"
01-21-1909 - Sid Raymond - NYC - d. 12-1-2006
actor: "X Minus One"
01-21-1914 - George A. Putnam - Middletown, NY - d. 4-8-1975
announcer: "Can You Top This?"; "Vic and Sade"; "Portia Faces Life"
01-21-1915 - Alan Hewitt - NYC - d. 11-7-1986
actor: Ken Martinson "This is Nora Drake"; Karl Dorn "Romance of Helen
Trent"
01-21-1915 - John Dunkel - Springfield, OH - d. 2-22-2001
writer: "Escape"; "Fort Laramie"; "Gunsmoke"
01-21-1915 - Ray Erlenborn - Denver, CO - d. 6-4-2007
sound effects, actor: "Burns and Allen"; "Anderson Family"
01-21-1919 - Jinx Falkenburg McCrary - Barcelona, Spain - d. 8-27-2003
hostess: "Hi! Jinx"; "Tex & Jinx"; "Weekend"
01-21-1919 - Louis Innis - Seymour, IN - d. 8-20-1982
guitar: "Plantation Boys"
01-21-1921 - Charlotte Manson - NYC - d. 12-8-1996
actor: Patsy Bowen "Nick Carter, Master Detective"
01-21-1921 - Manya Starr - NYC - d. 7-26-2000
writer: Allegedly fired by Hummert asking about God, "Who's will play
him?"
01-21-1922 - Paul Scofield - Hurstpierpoint, England - d. 3-19-2008
actor: Kadmos "Dionysos"; "The Troy Trilogy"
01-21-1922 - Telly Savalas - Garden City, NY - d. 1-22-1994
actor: "[removed] Story"
01-21-1924 - Benny Hill - Southampton, England - d. 4-20-1992
comedian: "Educating Archie"
01-21-1925 - Charles Aidman - Frankfort, IN - d. 11-7-1993
acotr: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-21-1927 - Milus L. Bradley - Lake Charles, LA
composer, singer, pianist, accordionist
01-21-1937 - Paul Greenberg - Shreveport, LA
commentary: "Sunday Weekend Edition"
01-21-1941 - Placido Domingo - Madrid, Spain
tenor: "The Metropolitan Opera"
01-21-1947 - Jill Eikenberry - New Haven, CT
actor: "We Hold These Truths"

January 21st deaths

01-13-1915 - Mahlon Aldridge - d. 1-21-1986
sportscaster: Missouri
02-10-1902 - Jose Cortes - d. 1-21-1996
fiddle: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
02-21-1915 - Ann Sheridan - Dallas, TX - d. 1-21-1967
actor: (The Oomph Girl) "Smiths of Hollywood"; "Stars in the Air"
02-25-1951 - Don Poier - d. 1-21-2005
sports announcer
03-22-1895 - Joseph Schildkraut - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-21-1964
actor: "Intrigue"; "Best Plays"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Hollywood Hotel"
04-01-1915 - Bob Dwan - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-21-2005
director: "You Bet Your Life"
05-12-1896 - Milton Herman - NYC - d. 1-21-1951
actor: Gargoyle "The Bishop and the Gargoyle"; Italo "Today's Children"
05-22-1938 - Susan Strasberg - NYC - d. 1-21-1999
actor: Emily Marriott "Marriage"
05-26-1920 - Peggy Lee - Jamestown, ND - d. 1-21-2002
singer: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"; "Peggy Lee
Show"
05-27-1910 - Sidney Slon - Chicago, IL - d. 1-21-1995
actor: Solly "The Goldbergs"; Mr. Trent "Valiant Lady"
06-01-1917 - Donald Dame - Titusville, PA - d. 1-21-1952
singer: "Music for an Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
07-05-1921 - Mort Fega - d. 1-21-2005
long time jazz disc jockey in New York
07-25-1936 - Paulette Attie - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-21-2009
host: "Paulette Attie's Musical Playbill"
08-07-1927 - Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer - Paris, IL - d. 1-21-1959
actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
08-11-1908 - Russell Procope - d. 1-21-1981
clarinetist, saxophonist: "Duke Ellington and His Orchestra";
"Ellington at Newport"
08-12-1881 - Cecil B. DeMille - Ashfield, MA - d. 1-21-1959
host: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-03-1903 - Carlton Beck - d. 1-21-1979
newscaster: KOMA Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
10-17-1914 - Jerry Siegel - Cleveland , OH - d. 1-21-1996
co-creator (with Joe Shuster): "Advs. of Superman"
10-25-1908 - Polly Ann Young - Denver, CO - d. 1-21-1997
actor: (Sister of Loretta) "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-23-1894 - Andrew Schoeppel - Chaflin, KS - d. 1-21-1962
governor kansas: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
12-02-1921 - Rita Lynn - Louisiana - d. 1-21-1996
actor: "Dimension X"
12-28-1904 - Country Washburn - Houston, TX - d. 1-21-1974
bandleader/singer: "Curt Massey/Martha Tilton"; "Spike Jones and His
City Slickers"

Ron
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:24:10 -0500
From: etorch@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This is NBC the National Broadcasting Company

It has seemed to me after 30 years of listening to OTR that NBC was always
more particular about having a "booth man" either ready for an away-studio
announcer commercial or an announcer who seemed to me to be ready (in
Hollywood, anyway) to voice the final "This is NBC, the [removed]"
traditional sign off before the three tones. Don Pardo started at NBC Radio
in NYC that way, he once told me, and further mentioned that they also did
bulletins, which he hated. CBS seemed more prone to have the program
announcer sign off as did Mutual.
For 10 years, after almost any Hollywood based NBC program, I believe that I
am hearing the same booth man. In the early '40's, he is rather flat; as the
40's went on, he seemed to pick up a bit of gusto.
Does anyone know if this was a coveted job, or was it just part of being an
announcer at KFI?

Evan Torch,[removed]
Atlanta

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