Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #175
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 7/16/2008 10:18 AM

To: [removed]@[removed]
Reply-to: [removed]@[removed]

    ------------------------------

                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 175
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      7-14 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Old-time-radio boot camp in Seattle   [ JJLjackson@[removed] ]
      Nicodemus                             [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
      OTR database                          [ "Mark Kratzner" <hollywoodhoosiers@ ]
      7-15 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      June 2008 Deaths                      [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Nick O Demus                          [ Don Polite <hawkeye8347@[removed]; ]
      Re: Earplay                           [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:27:16 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-14 births/deaths

    July 14th births

    07-14-1880 - Donald Meek - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 11-18-1946
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-14-1892 - Gene Rouse - Boulder, CO - d. 8-26-1956
    announcer/newscaster: "First Nighter"; "Grand Hotel"; "Vanity Fair"
    07-14-1897 - Cornelia Osgood - d. 4-xx-1984
    actor: Dorothy Regent "Chandu the Magician"; Adella Winston "Stepmother"
    07-14-1898 - Louise Lorimer - d. 8-11-1995
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Short Story"
    07-14-1898 - Pat C. Flick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-1-1955
    actor: Pablo Ittheptiches "Fred Allen Show"
    07-14-1898 - "Happy" Chandler - Corydon, KY - d. 6-15-1991
    governor, baseball commissioner: "University of Chicago Round Table"
    07-14-1901 - George Tobias - NYC - d. 2-27-1980
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-14-1902 - Harlan Ware - d. 5-7-1967
    writer: "The Bartons"; "One Man's Family"
    07-14-1903 - Irving Stone - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-26-1989
    author: "Cavalcade of America"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Arch Oboler's
    Plays"
    07-14-1903 - Ken Murray - Nyack, NY - d. 10-12-1988
    comedian: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
    07-14-1904 - Annabella - La Varenne Hilaire, Val-de-Marne, France -
    d. 9-18-1996
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-14-1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Radzymin, Poland - d. 7-24-1991
    yiddish storyteller: "Earplay"
    07-14-1904 - Nadia Reisenberg - Vilna, Lithuania - d. 6-10-1983
    pianist: "Benny Goodman Music Festival"
    07-14-1909 - Isabel Jewell - Shoshone, WY - d. 4-5-1972
    actor: "Dr. Kildare"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"
    07-14-1909 - Walter Gross - NYC - d. 11-27-1967
    composer, pianist: "Piano Playhouse"; "Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-14-1910 - Boris Aplon - Chicago, IL - d. 11-27-1995
    actor: Ivan Shark "Captain Midnight"
    07-14-1911 - Terry-Thomas - London, England - d. 1-8-1990
    comedian: "Top of the Town"
    07-14-1912 - Woody Guthrie - Okemah, OK - d. 10-2-1967
    songwriter, singer: "Pursuit of Happiness"
    07-14-1913 - Gerald R. Ford - Omaha, NE - d. 12-26-2006
    accidental [removed] president: "Meet the Press"
    07-14-1914 - Billy Kyle - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-23-1966
    pianist: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"
    07-14-1914 - George F. Putnam - Breckenridge, MN
    newscaster, announcer: "George Putnam and the News"; "The Army Hour"
    07-14-1914 - John Laing - NYC - d. 5-15-1979
    announcer: "Great Gildersleeve"; "Sealtest Variety Theatre"
    07-14-1915 - Jack Gregson - Spokane, WA - d. 6-5-1988
    announcer, emcee: "Jack's Place"; "Live Like a Millionaire"
    07-14-1915 - Jerome Lawrence - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-29-2004
    cbs staff writer: "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Doris Day Show"; "Kate Smith
    Show"
    07-14-1917 - Douglas Edwards - Ada, OK - d. 10-13-1990
    newscaster: "Wendy Warren and the News"
    07-14-1919 - Claude Trenier - Mobile, AL - d. 11-17-2003
    singer: "Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra"
    07-14-1923 - Dale Robertson - Harrah, OK
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-14-1926 - Harry Dean Stanton - West Irvine, KY
    vocalist: "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-14-1927 - John Chancellor - Chicago, IL - d. 7-12-1996
    newscaster: WMAQ Chicago, NBC; "Voice of America"
    07-14-1928 - George Rose - Limestone County, AL - d. 12-16-2006
    disk jockey: Cousin Josh "The Cousin Josh Jam-O-Ree"
    07-14-1928 - George "Cousin Josh" Rose - Huntsville, AL - d. 12-16-2006
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    07-14-1928 - Nancy Olson - Milwaukee, WI
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Dimension X"
    07-14-1930 - Polly Bergen - Knoxville, TN
    actor: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    07-14-1931 - Robert Stephens - Bristol, England - d. 11-12-1995
    actor: Aragorn "The Lord of the Rings"
    07-14-1932 - Del Reeves - Sparta, NC - d. 1-1-2007
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    07-14-1944 - Lynn Lorring - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    July 14th deaths

    03-17-1917 - Lily May Ledford - Kentucky - d. 7-14-1985
    fiddle, banjo, singer: (Coon Creek Girls) "WLS National Barn Dance"
    04-04-1859 - Willfred Moore - d. 7-14-1939
    writer: "Air Advs. of Jimmy Allen"; "Howie Wing"; "Captain Midnight"
    05-14-1898 - Zutty Singleton - Bunkie, LA - d. 7-14-1975
    jazz drummer: "Radio Almanac";"Just Jazz"; "BBC Jazz Session"
    05-30-1944 - Meredith MacCrea - Houston, TX - d. 7-14-2000
    actor: (Daughter of Gordon and Shelia MacCrea) "Sears Radio Theatre"
    06-02-1901 - Lou Shoobe - d. 7-14-1989
    bassist: "The Saturday Night Swing Club"
    08-02-1924 - Joe Harnell - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-14-2005
    jazz arranger: (Joe Harnell Quartet) "The Navy Swings"
    08-24-1900 - Preston Foster - Ocean City, NJ - d. 7-14-1970
    actor: "NBC University Theatre"
    09-05-1910 - Kenny Delmar - Boston, MA - d. 7-14-1984
    actor: Beauregard Claghorn "Fred Allen Show"; Commissioner Weston
    "The Shadow"
    09-15-1909 - Eric Linden - NYC - d. 7-14-1994
    actor: "Hollywood On the Air"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-11-1892 - Al Schacht - NYC - d. 7-14-1984
    sportscaster: ( The Clown Prince of Baseball) "Al Schacht's Sports Show"
    12-29-1898 - Jules Bledsoe - Waco, TX - d. 7-14-1943
    baritone: "Jubilee"; "The Theatre Magazine"
    xx-xx-1877 - John Todd - d. 7-14-1957
    actor: Tonto "The Lone Ranger"; Mr. Reid "The Green Hornet"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:27:33 -0400
    From: JJLjackson@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Old-time-radio boot camp in Seattle
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

    On July 26 and 27, 2008, American Radio Theater will do a two-day workshop,
    or rather, boot camp, in Seattle. The shows that will be worked on will be Our
     Miss Brooks, the episode Animals at School, and the audition for First
    Hundred  Years (from 1949). They will be directed by David Van Meter, husband
    to
    Rhoda  Williams, old-time-radio actress on Father Knows Best.  Esther Geddes
    McVey  will be performing with us that weekend, as well as the rest of the
    ART
    ensemble.

    On Sunday night, both shows will be performed in front of an audience at  the
    Mainstage Comedy Club, next door to the Seattle Center. The show starts at
    8. If you're in Seattle, please drop in.

    Joy Jackson
    American Radio Theater

      *** This message was altered by the server, and may not appear ***
      ***                  as the sender intended.                   ***

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:27:49 -0400
    From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Nicodemus

    Jay asks about Nicodemus.

    Nicodemus (or Nick O'Demus) was a pseudomyn of Nick Swewart, the black
    actor who was the voice of Brer Bear in Disney's Song of the South, and
    he played Lightnin' on the TV version of Amos & Andy.

    More here:

    [removed]

    and here:

    [removed]

    Best,

    ---Dan, [removed] (spiffy home page)

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:27:58 -0400
    From: "Mark Kratzner" <hollywoodhoosiers@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR database
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

    Is there a OTP date base that is equal to IMDb (Internet Movie Database)?
    There are other sites that are listing detailed info on TV episodes. I would
    like to see on on radio episodes. [removed] is the best so far
    as to listing radio shows with brief info on the episode. I would like to see
    the features like listing by performers. This would be a great project for a
    board webmaster. I am to busy trying to archive Red Skelton's life. July 18th
    will be his 95th birthday.

    Mark Kratzner
    Vincennes, IN 47591
    Hometown of Red Skelton

      *** This message was altered by the server, and may not appear ***
      ***                  as the sender intended.                   ***

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:28:03 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-15 births/deaths

    July 15th births

    07-15-1889 - Marjorie Rambeau - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-6-1970
    actor: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-15-1893 - William Dieterle - Rhein-Palatinate, Germany - d. 12-8-1972
    movie director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    07-15-1897 - Howard Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-26-1991
    bandleader: ((King of Society Dance Music) "Atwater Kent Hour";
    "Campbell Soup Show"
    07-15-1900 - Ernest Batchelor - d. 2-25-1976
    disk jockey: WDAX McRae, Georgia
    07-15-1900 - Helen Shields - Champaign, IL - d. 8-7-1963
    actor: Linda Dale "I Love Linda Dale"; Sylvia Meadows "Amanda of
    Honeymoon Hill"
    07-15-1903 - Walter D. Edmonds - Boonville, NY - d. 1-24-1998
    writer: "Information Please"
    07-15-1905 - Dorothy Fields - Allenhurst, NJ - d. 3-28-1974
    lyricist: "Music for Millions"
    07-15-1905 - Shirley Povich - Bar Harbor ME - d. 6-4-1998
    sports columnist: "World Series Preview"; "Sonny Liston vs. Cassius
    Clay"
    07-15-1906 - Richard Armour - San Pedro, CA - d. 2-28-1987
    humorist: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
    07-15-1908 - Lee Erwin - Cincinnati, OH - d. 9-21-2000
    organist, arranger: Moneybags Erwin "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    07-15-1908 - Parke Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-8-1993
    creator, writer, director: "Joe Penner"; "My Friend Irma"
    07-15-1910 - Ken Lynch - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-13-1990
    actor: Lt. Matt King "Twenty-First Precinct"; Christopher Gard "Cafe
    Istanbul"
    07-15-1912 - John Ademy - d. 9-1-1976
    bass-baritone: WCAO Baltimore, Maryland
    07-15-1913 - Cowboy Copas - Muskogee, OK - d. 3-5-1963
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Music Time"
    07-15-1916 - Len Sterling - Chicago, IL
    announcer/actor: "FBI in Peace and War"; "Pot 'O Gold"; "Sunday
    Serenade"
    07-15-1918 - Joan Roberts - NYC
    singer: "The Texaco Star Theatre"
    07-15-1919 - Eve McVeagh - Ohio - d. 12-10-1997
    actor: Harriet Beatty "Clyde Beatty Show"
    07-15-1920 - B. H. Anderly - d. 1-13-1998
    newscaster, disk jockey: KLIZ Brainerd, Minnesota
    07-15-1923 - Herb Sargent - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-6-2005
    writer: Wrote for radio in the 1940s
    07-15-1927 - Nan Martin - Decatur, IL
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"

    July 15th deaths

    01-09-1899 - Ted Maxwell - Oakland, CA - d. 7-15-1959
    actor: "Captain Ross "Flying Time"; Fred Nino "Masquerade"
    01-23-1923 - Florence Halop - Jamaica Estates, NY - d. 7-15-1986
    actor: Hotbreath Houlihan "Jimmy Durante Show"; Miss Duffy "Duffy's
    Tavern"
    02-02-1899 - Benny Rubin - Boston, MA - d. 7-15-1986
    comedian: Tout "Jack Benny Program"; "Benny Rubin's Whirligig Revue"
    02-04-1905 - Eddie Foy, Jr. - New Rochelle, NY - d. 7-15-1983
    vaudevillian: "Starlight Operetta"; "Mitch Miller Show"
    02-13-1916 - Ruth Batcheller - d. 7-15-1990
    woman's program on WACE Massachusetts
    02-15-1893 - Walter Donaldson - NYC - d. 7-15-1947
    songwriter: "Fitch Bandwagon"
    02-27-1904 - Elisabeth Welch - NYC - d. 7-15-2003
    actress, singer: "Soft Lights and Sweet Music"
    03-05-1898 - Bud Selvin - d. 7-15-1980
    bandleader: "Devoe Redskins"; "Kolster Radio Hour"
    03-31-1870 - James Cox - Jacksonburg, OH - d. 7-15-1957
    radio station owner, Cox Broadcasting
    04-14-1903 - Lloyd Amoo - d. 7-15-1973
    newscaster: KRMC Jamestown, North Dakota
    05-01-1906 - "Little" Jackie Heller - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-15-1988
    singer: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"
    06-27-1906 - Carroll Bratman - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-15-1984
    staff percussionist for CBS radio
    07-08-1913 - Bill Thompson - Terre Haute, IN - d. 7-15-1971
    actor: Wallace Wimple, Horatio K Boomer and others "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    07-26-1897 - Paul Gallico - NYC - d. 7-15-1976
    writer: "Author's Playhouse"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Radio City Playhouse"
    08-05-1911 - David Brian - NYC - d. 7-15-1993
    actor: Mr. District Attorney "Mr. District Attorney"
    08-28-1885 - Vance Palmer - Bundaberg, Australia - d. 7-15-1959
    writer: "Telling Mrs. Baker"
    09-15-1916 - Margaret Lockwood - Karachi, British India - d. 7-15-1990
    actor: "A Christmas Carol"
    09-25-1905 - Natalie Arnoux - d. 7-15-1997
    violinist: KFDM Beaumont, Texas
    10-28-1906 - Lou Bring - d. 7-15-1951
    orchestra leader: "The Al Jolson Show"; "The Gracie Fields Show"
    11-16-1896 - Lawrence Tibbett - Bakersfield, CA - d. 7-15-1960
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Golden Voices"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Connie Norman - Texas - d. 7-15-1996
    transsexual talk show host: "The Connie Norman Show"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:28:09 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  June 2008 Deaths

    June 2008 deaths

    08-25-1917 - Mel Ferrer - Elberon, NJ - d. 6-2-2008
    actor: "Eternal Light"; "Cloak and Dagger"; "MGM Theatre of the Air"
    03-08-1921 - Cyd Charisse - Amarillo, TX - d. 6-17-2008
    actor, dancer: Guest: "Spike Jones Show"
    10-28-1915 - Dody Goodman - Columbus, OH - d. 6-22-2008
    actor: "Hopalong Cassidy"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    05-12-1937 - George Carlin - NYC - d. 6-22-2008
    comedian : Was an announcer for WEZE Boston, Massachusetts
    05-17-1925 - Ira Tucker - Spartanburg, SC - d. 6-24-2008
    gospel singer: (The Dixie Hummingbirds) WCAU Philadelphia, PA
    07-09-1924 - Leonard Pennario - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-27-2008
    pianist: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Concert Hall"
    08-15-1912 - Robert Lewis Shayon - NYC - d. 6-28-2008
    along with Edward R. Murrow created "You Are There"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:28:19 -0400
    From: Don Polite <hawkeye8347@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Nick O Demus

    I believe Nick O Demus played "Lightnin" on Amos n' Andy. At least on the TV
    series.  He also played the African guide on Ramar of the Jungle in the
    1950's.  His real name would have been Horace Stewart or Nick Stewart. At
    least I think this would be the same person.

    Don Polite
    Lewes, Delaware

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:28:44 -0400
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Earplay

    Hello again --
    I am reminded of another ntr (new time radio) dramatization series which I
    believe was broadcasted on NPR. It was called the Mind's Eye, and it
    dramatized great works of literature as well. I remember the wide-eyed look
    of my younger, junior-high-school-age daughter when I played the Mind's Eye
    dramatization of Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis," about a young salesman who
    awakened in the morning to find that he had turned into a giant cockroach.
    His voice was enhanced by a gurgling sound used as a control frequency that
    made him sound underwater for most of the time. A really chilling program.
     According to John Dunning's great radio encyclopedia, it was the most
    serious attempt to revive radio drama, was produced from 1972 to the 1990s,
    and attracted such playwrights as Edward Albee, David Mamet, and Arthur
    Kopit, and included such actors as Brock Peters, Meryl Streep, Lurene
    Tuttle, Leon Ames, and others, many of whom had never done radio acting.
    Does anyone else remember Earplay or where its programs can be obtained?

    Jan Bach

    ------------------------------

    Date: Wed, 16 Jul 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!

    --------------------------------
    End of [removed] Digest V2008 Issue #175
    *********************************************

    Copyright [removed] Communications, York, PA; All Rights Reserved,
      including republication in any form.

    If you enjoy this list, please consider financially supporting it:
       [removed]

    For Help: [removed]@[removed]

    To Unsubscribe: [removed]@[removed]

    To Subscribe: [removed]@[removed]
      or see [removed]

    For Help with the Archive Server, send the command ARCHIVE HELP
      in the SUBJECT of a message to [removed]@[removed]

    To contact the listmaster, mail to listmaster@[removed]

    To Send Mail to the list, simply send to [removed]@[removed]