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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 108
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      6-16 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      A centennial to celebrate             [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:06:51 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-16 births/deaths

    June 16th births

    06-16-1885 - Tom Howard - County Tyrone, Ireland - d. 2-27-1955
    comedian: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"; "Sunday Night Party"
    06-16-1890 - Bertha Brainard - South Orange, NJ - d. 6-11-1946
    manager of the commercial program division of NBC in 1937
    06-16-1890 - Stan Laurel - Ulverston, England - d. 2-23-1965
    comedian: "Ruth Lyons Show"
    06-16-1892 - Al Llewelyn - d. 4-6-1964
    comedian, singer: (Brad and Al) Heard over CBS and NBC
    06-16-1895 - Murray Leinster - Norfolk, VA - d. 6-8-1975
    writer: "Dimension X"
    06-16-1898 - Harold McClinton - d. 6-29-1977
    producer: "This Is War"
    06-16-1899 - Frank X. Capano - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-10-1956
    singer and program director
    06-16-1899 - Helen Traubel - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-28-1972
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Telephone Hour"; "Jimmy Durante Show"
    06-16-1903 - Louis Raderman - d. 10-xx-1974
    musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
    06-16-1903 - Ona Munson - Portland, OR - d. 2-11-1955
    actor: Lorelei Kilbourne "Big Town"
    06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
    actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade
    of America"
    06-16-1907 - Joan Winters - Dayton, OH - d. 1-1-2001
    actor: Alice Ames "Girl Alone"; Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"
    06-16-1907 - Stuart Allen - NYC - d. 10-xx-1978
    baritone: (Richard Himber Orchestra) "The Monday Night Show"
    06-16-1908 - Grace Albert - d. 4-9-2003
    singer: "The Honeymooners"; "Time Out"; "Cavalcade of America"
    06-16-1912 - Ilona Massey - Budapest, Hungary - d. 8-20-1974
    actor: Mata Hari-style operative in World War II "Top Secret"; "Screen
    Guild Theatre"
    06-16-1914 - Edward Gruskin - d. 11-15-2005
    writer: "Nick Carter, Master Detective"; "Rendezvous in Paris"
    06-16-1916 - Stanley Niss - Illinois - d. 7-21-1969
    writer, director: "Counterspy"; "Gang Busters"; "Twenty-First Precinct"
    06-16-1919 - Al Viola - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-21-2007
    guitarist: "Elgin Thanksgiving Day Greeting to America"
    06-16-1919 - Mason Jones - Hamilton, NY - d. 2-18-2009
    horn player: Philadelphia Orchestra
    06-16-1920 - Amy Sedell - NYC
    actor: "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; "Gangbusters"; "Big Sister"
    06-16-1958 - Mark Lewisohn - London, England
    radio news administrator: "The Beeb's Lost Beetle Tapes"

    June 16th deaths

    01-02-1932 - Peter Redgrove - Kingston-on-Thames, England - d. 6-16-2003
    writer: "The Nature of Cold Weather"
    01-06-1914 - George Reeves - Woolstock, IA - d. 6-16-1959
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Crime Does Not Pay"
    02-10-1905 - Chick Webb - d. 6-16-1939
    bandleader: "Chick Webb and His Orhestra"
    02-11-1905 - Liebert Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 6-16-1993
    musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
    02-14-1913 - Mel Allen - Birmingham, AL - d. 6-16-1996
    sportscaster, announcer: "White Owl Sports Smoker"; "Truth or
    Consequences"
    02-16-1937 - Gary Barkdoll - d. 6-16-2001
    disk jockey: WAYZ Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
    02-29-1920 - Arthur Franz - Perth Amboy, NJ - d. 6-16-2006
    actor: In radio following WWII
    04-01-1908 - Bob Nolan - New Brunswick, Canada - d. 6-16-1980
    singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
    04-03-1921 - George Bauer - d. 6-16-2004
    announcer, newscaster: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    04-28-1882 - Henry Bellamann - Fulton, MO - d. 6-16-1945
    author: "King's Row" based on his novel
    07-07-1922 - Artie Malvin - NYC - d. 6-16-2006
    vocalist: "Moonlight Serenade"; "I Sustain These Wings"; "Wehrmact Hour"
    08-02-1913 - Hal Block - d. 6-16-1981
    writer, panelist: "Burns and Allen"; "Milton Berle Show"; "What's My
    Line"
    08-04-1904 - Alice Bahman - d. 6-16-1970
    woman's program: (Mother of Jonathan Winters) WIZE Springfield, Ohio
    08-07-1911 - Nicholas Ray - Galesville, WI - d. 6-16-1979
    director: Free lance
    08-16-1891 - Harry V. "Pappy" Cheshire - Emporia, KS - d. 6-16-1968
    actor: "The Old Corral"
    10-13-1884 - Jack McLaren - Fitzroy, Australia - d. 6-16-1954
    writer: "The Ghost of the Cabaret"
    10-13-1896 - Jack Shilkret - NYC - d. 6-16-1964
    orchestra leader: "Bond Bread Show"; "Let's Be Charming"; "Tea Time
    Tunes"
    11-20-1891 - Reginald Denny - Richmond, Surrey, England - d. 6-16-1967
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Texaco Star
    Theatre"
    12-17-1909 - Murray Brody - d. 6-16-2004
    producer: KOH Reno, Nevada

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:06:59 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  A centennial to celebrate

    Saturday of this week, June 19, marks the centennial anniversary of the
    actress identified for playing "the mother of the airwaves," Virginia Payne.
    For 27 years, from 1933 to 1960, she never missed a daily performance of Ma
    Perkins, something nobody else in the business could claim for such a
    durable stint.

    This is strictly personal opinion, of course, but based on everything I have
    read about washboard weepers in the halycon days (and that's a lot), if
    determining the favorite dishpan drama had been put to a vote among American
    housewives, Ma Perkins would have won easily.  It was, unequivocally, the
    most beloved narrative of them all.  I think the unparalleled writing of
    Orin Tovrov for more than two decades and the indomitable Virginia Payne
    with the wavering tremelo in her voice were prime reasons.

    No one would have believed that the Cincinnati doctor's daughter could
    convince a nationwide audience at 23 that she was an elderly widow who had
    to pick up the pieces of the hand fate dealt her following the death of her
    husband.  She was left with a lumber business to run and three kids to
    raise.  Virginia Payne, never married, a devout Catholic, talented musician
    (she held two master's degrees from the University of Cincinnati), and the
    first feminine president of AFTRA (1958) after serving chapters in Chicago
    and New York, was absolutely persuasive.  She readily portrayed the
    conscience of Rushville Center, among the wisest residents of the Midwest,
    to whom everybody turned with their dilemmas.

    Although I knew some who played other roles in daytime radio, and thought
    many were absolutely sterling in their achievements, I can't think of one
    who equalled Virginia Payne for her myriad accomplishments -- on her
    signature series, and on many others in which she carried recurring roles.

    She returned to Cincinnati to live out her days after radio and playing on
    the stage in touring productions.  She died in her native city February 10,
    1977 at 66, about the age she was representing all those years.

    Saturday we celebrate again the passing of an incomparable legend.

    Jim Cox

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