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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 99
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  4-18 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Amos 'n Andy cartoons                 [ "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@earthli ]
  The only accounting for taste, is by  [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
  The Lone Ranger Meets Sgt. Preston?   [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
  Amos & Andy Christmas Episode         [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  The Lone Ranger                       [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Cinc was great                        [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
  Cincy Hotel vs. Crown Plaza           [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  Schools of the Air                    [ JayHick@[removed] ]
  4-19 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:17:57 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-18 births/deaths

April 18th births

04-18-1857 - Clarence Darrow - Kinsman, OH - d. 3-13-1938
lawyer: " Scopes "Monkey" trial, WGN Chicago"
04-18-1880 - Donald Crisp - Aberfeldy, Scotland - d. 5-25-1974
actor: Jonathan Trimble "Jonathan Trimble, Esquire"
04-18-1882 - Leopold Stokowski - London, England - d. 9-13-1977
conductor: "NBC Symphony/Symphony of the Air"
04-18-1887 - Bill Hay - Dumfires, Scotland - d. 10-12-1978
announcer: "Amos 'n' Andy"
04-18-1889 - Gene Carroll - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1972
comedian: Lena, the maid "Fibber McGee and Molly"
04-18-1902 - Harry Owens - O'Neil, NE - d. 12-12-1986
bandleader: "Hawaii Calls"; "Sweet Leilani Time"; Harry Owens and His
Orchestra"
04-18-1904 - Pigmeat Markham - Durhan, N - d. 12-13-1981
comedian: ("order in the court ' cuz here come da judge) "Jubilee"
04-18-1907 - Miklos Rozsa - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-27-1995
composer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-18-1907 - Stephen Longstreet - NYC - d. 2-20-2002
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-18-1908 - Irra Petina - Petrograd, Russia - d. 1-19-2000
singer: "The Railroad Hour"
04-18-1911 - Louis Vittes - d. 4-21-1969
writer: "Advs. of The Thin Man"; "Affairs of Peter Salem"; "The Lone
Wolf"
04-18-1912 - Al Hodge - Ravenna, OH - d. 3-19-1979
actor: Britt Reid/Green Hornet "Green Hornet"; "Columbia Workshop"
04-18-1912 - Fred De Denise - NYC
drummer: "Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra"
04-18-1912 - Wendy Barrie - Hong Kong, China - d. 2-2-1978
hostess, actor: "Detect and Collect"; "Jack Haley Show"; "Star for a
Night"
04-18-1914 - Ben Bezoff - d. 12-30-1979
newscaster: WKY Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; KMYR Denver, Colorado
04-18-1918 - Page Gilman - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-1-2006
actor: Jack Barbour "One Man's Family"; "Memory Lane"
04-18-1918 - Tony Mottola - Kearney, NJ - d. 8-9-2004
jazz guitarist: "Gordon MacRae Gulf Spray Show"; "Burl Ives Sings"
04-18-1921 - Barbara Hale - DeKalb, IL
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "This Is Hollywood"
04-18-1921 - Jay L. McMullen - Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-18-1992
news commentator: "Babies: [removed]"
04-18-1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Vinton, LA - d. 9-10-2005
singer, guitarist: "Newport Jazz Festival"
04-18-1925 - Bob Hastings - Brooklyn, NY
actor: Archie Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Jerry "Sea Hound"
04-18-1929 - Walt Levinsky - New Jersey - d. 12-14-1999
clarinetist: Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra; Benny Goodman and His
Orchestra
04-18-1937 - Robert Hooks - Washington, [removed]
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
04-18-1941 - John J. Jackson - d. 3-17-2004
rock-radio personality
04-18-1949 - Larry Albert - Souix Falls, SD
actor: Harry Nile "Advs. of Harry Nile"

April 18th deaths

02-18-1930 - John Patton, Jr. - Garland City, AR - d. 4-18-2005
tenor: Hosted a popular radio program in Los Angeles
02-25-1896 - John Parrish - Lindenhurst, NY - d. 4-18-1988
actor: "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; "Life Can Be Beautiful"
02-28-1893 - Ben Hecht - NYC - d. 4-18-1964
panelist, writer: "Information, Please"; "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
03-14-1879 - Albert Einstein - Ulm, Germany - d. 4-18-1955
physicist: "The Quick and the Dead"
04-04-1901 - Gay Seabrook - Seattle, WA - d. 4-18-1970
actor: Susabelle "Joe Penner Show"
04-09-1916 - Ann Morrison - Sioux City, IA - d. 4-18-1978
actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Escape"
07-04-1911 - Olga Druce - d. 4-18-2004
director: "House of Mystery"; "When a Girl Marries"
08-03-1900 - Ernie Pyle - Dana, IN - d. 4-18-1945
world war II correspondent: "Words at War"; "Cavalcade of America"
08-27-1929 - Dick Vosburgh - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 4-18-2007
writer: "Breakfast with Braden"
09-03-1910 - Kitty Carlisle - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-18-2007
singer: "Song Shop"; "RCA Magic Key"
09-29-1915 - Norton Mockridge - NYC - d. 4-18-2004
newspaper columnist: Hosted radio program on CBS radio (1964-1970)
10-06-1914 - Thor Heyerdahl - Larvik, Norway - d. 4-18-2002
archaeologist: "London Column"
10-09-1888 - Irving Cummings - NYC - d. 4-18-1959
host: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-20-1929 - Kenneth Schermerhorn - Schenactady, NY - d. 4-18-2005
conductor: "Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra"
11-25-1897 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith - Goshen, NY - d. 4-18-1973
jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
12-06-1888 - Will Hay - Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 4-18-1949
comedian: British Radio

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:55:16 -0400
From: "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Amos 'n Andy cartoons

I was just poking around [removed] wondering if there were any A&A
radio shows. Not so much, but some TV excerpts, some Victor records, and
2 cartoons that I had never heard of before. Lion Tamer & Rasslin' Match

Perhaps Elizabeth could give us a little more background on these?

joe salerno

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:55:44 -0400
From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
To: Time Radio Digest Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The only accounting for taste, is by taste

True, everyone has a right to his/her opinion.  Far be
it from me to argue with someone's taste.  I love Amos
n Andy and always have, since I was a kid.  However,
it does bother me when it is said that the program is,
by today's standards, politically incorrect.  I have
no idea why anyone would consider this program
politically incorrect because the three main male
characters are all very different from one another. I
would concede that Amos n Andy is as politically
incorrect as My Friend Irma, if you could prove to me
that Irma Peterson is dumb because she is Caucasion.

Stuart (Traveling in beautiful Western NY)

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:56:42 -0400
From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Lone Ranger Meets Sgt. Preston?

"Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed]; commented:
In fact, the earliest Ranger adventure I can find takes place in
1826!  It
is the Kit Carson episode of July 17, 1944.  [I]t specifically
mentions the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who
died on the same date, July 4, 1826.  ...Shortly after the Carson
episode (August
7th), he involves the Ranger with outlaw Al Jennings.  This episode is
specifically set in 1896!

So, if The Lone Ranger was in his prime in the earlier show, he must
have been pushing 100 in the latter one. Certainly clean living and
lots of fresh air and exercise would have helped him reach that ripe
old age. And, perhaps, certain medicinal herbs Tonto might have
prepared. Which means, also, that The Lone Ranger was still fighting
crime at the time of the Yukon Gold Rush, just a state and a province
away from Utah. So it's not hard to imagine the Lone Ranger meeting
up with his fellow lawman. I know there was some mention of the Lone
Ranger in The Green Hornet. As far as I know there was no cross-over
in The Challenge of the Yukon series. But I'd like to learn
different. BTW, re: a thread that has come up in the past about an
"inappropriate" LR premium, a flashlight, this was also about the
time of the invention of the electric torch.

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:57:13 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Amos & Andy Christmas Episode

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:41:04 -0400
From: "Andolina, Joe" <Joe_Andolina@[removed];

My choice would be Amos N' Andy's Christmas episode I believe from
1950 where Andy gets a job as a Department Store Santa.

Funny, you want to use that episode to introduce someone to otr and
Ronald Sayles thinks that's the worst possible episode.

I believe this episode was re-made as a TV episode.  At least it
sounds very much like a TV episode that I saw in which Andy gets a
job as a department store Santa.  It was interesting seeing him in
the costume, with the white beard.  I was about 9 or 10 years old
when I saw it, and I remarked "But Santa Claus isn't colored!"  And
my father replied, "To colored people, he can be colored."   This was
one episode which put the lie to the charge that Amos & Andy
perpetuated anti-black stereotypes.  As I recall, all Andy's bosses
in the department store were black, too.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:57:45 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Lone Ranger

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:13:22 -0400
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];

Mr. Ross's more interesting point is that the Ranger's adventures
seem to involve feats that take place before the Civil War.

Actually, I said just the opposite.  Most westerns seem to be set in
the latter part of the 19th Century, which was a major period of
development of the west.  Episodes in 1826 and in the Mexican War are
inconsistent with the Lone Ranger's origin as a Texas Ranger.  There
cannot have been a Lone Ranger before there were Texas Rangers, which
some quick research discloses were formally constituted by the
Provisional Government of Texas in 1835.

These early stories are also inconsistent with the LR's nephew, Dan
Reid, being alive as the Green Hornet's father in the 20th Century.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:58:48 -0400
From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Cinc was great

Like many of you, I had a great time again this year in Cincinnati.  My only
comment about the hotel is we needed MORE CHAIRS!!!  There was no place to
sit in the lobby outside the rooms, there was only one chair per dealers
table, and none for the customers, and out in the main lobby was a huge
expanse of empty tile floor  with only a couple of small tables and four
chairs in one corner.  Perhaps I was a bit more sensitive about this than
usual, because as some of you who have listened to my broadcasts on
YesterdayUSA or heard Dan Hughes tell everybody he saw, I had a pacemaker
installed the previous Friday.  With that little machine and seven pills a
day my weakened heart has been feeling better, but I found myself that
weekend unable to stand for more than five minutes at a time.  So I kept on
stealing (and returning) Terry S's extra chair so I could sit while spending
scads of money at the dealers' tables.   I can feel for Keven Hartnell who
couldn't attend while recovering from a pulmonary embolism.  We'll see each
other next year!

It was great getting to see a lot of friends there, and thanks for asking
about my daughter Leah, who couldn't come because of a busy time at college.
It was great having a chance to sit down with Neal Ellis and do a number of
YesterdayUSA broadcasts with him.  We had only briefly chatted at past
conventions, but didn't really know each other till this time.  And
hopefully Martin's efforts to boost publicity will make next year bigger
than ever.  We'll say more on Sunday nite at 11:30 EDT on YesterdayUSA.

Michael Biel   mbiel@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:45:29 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Cincy Hotel vs. Crown Plaza

I have to back up Travis.  Ken Stockinger and I had a discussion a couple
months ago about hotels that hold conventions.  If you get a hotel that is
like the Hotel Astor, you'll be paying BIG bucks to stay there.  The
Lancaster Convention Center just sent me material last week (no, I won't be
moving MANC there) and the cheapest room is $149 per night, and that's with
the convention rate.  $229 per night is regaular.  If people are willing to
sacrifice decent rooms for price, $70 per night is better.  In short, people
will complain either because of the price or because of the room, and I'd
rather pay a cheap price.  I only sleep and shower in the room.  I don't live
in it.  For $79 a night like Bob's convention, I'll take a missing ceiling
tile, too.

Bob mentioned Crowne Plaza.  I highly recommend people book their rooms now.
Reason why is because I've stayed at the Crowne Plaza a number of times.  The
Pulpcon Convention in Dayton (this year's dates is August, [removed])
is held at the Crowne Plaza and it really is the best hotel I have ever
stayed in - ever.  There will be more than a minor improvement, it'll be a
dramatic improvement.  And if the hotel right now is charging their usual
convention rate, grab it now.  Don't procrastinate.

By the way, Don Ramlow directs a radio recreation at Pulpcon, so anyone
within driving distance is encouraged to come attend and if they want, try
out for a role.  It's a nice convention.

Martin

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:48:32 -0400
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Schools of the Air
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A History of Instructional Programs on Radio in the United States
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ISBN 978-0-7864-3058-1
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:23:53 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-19 births/deaths

April 19th births

04-19-1858 - May Robson - Melbourne, Australia - d. 10-20-1943
actor: Aunt May Webster "Lady of Millions"
04-19-1888 - William Axt - d. 2-12-1959
musical director: "Major Bowes Capitol Family Program"
04-19-1891 - Ralph Jewell - d. 5-xx-1964
Played cornet for various bands around Detroit and WXYZ
04-19-1897 - Vivienne Segal - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-29-1992
actor: "Jantzen Radio Program"
04-19-1900 - George O'Brien - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-23-1985
actor: "Anchors Aweigh"
04-19-1907 - Lin Basquette - San Mateo, CA - d. 9-30-1994
actor: "Whatever Became of  . . . "
04-19-1913 - Sylvia Froos - New York - d. 3-28-2004
singer: "Sylvia Froos Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
04-19-1915 - Albert Buhrman - Springfield, MO - d. 1-29-1999
organist: "Murder at Midnight"; "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
04-19-1915 - Betty Winkler - Berwick, PA - d. 6-4-2002
actor: Joyce Jordan "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; Rosemary Levy "Abie's Irish
Rose"
04-19-1920 - Frank Fontaine - Cambridge, MA - d. 8-4-1978
comedian: John L. C. Sivoney "Jack Benny Program"
04-19-1937 - Elinor Donahue - Tacoma, WA
actor: "The Search"
04-19-1942 - Noah Adams - Ashland, KY
host: "All Things Considered"
04-19-1977 - Martin Grams. Jr. - Baltimore, MD
old time radio historian

April 19th deaths

01-05-1910 - Lumpy Brannum - Sandwich, IL - d. 4-19-1987
bass: "Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians"
02-20-1888 - Muriel Starr - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-19-1950
actor: Susan Leighton "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
03-06-1917 - Frankie Howerd - York, England - d. 4-19-1992
comedian: "Frankie Howerd Show"
03-08-1911 - Heinie Beau - Calvary, WI - d. 4-19-1987
composer/arranger: composed for radio, televison and movies
04-05-1926 - Stan Levy - d. 4-19-2005
jazz drummer: "Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra"
04-22-1900 - Joan Blaine - Fort Dodge, IA - d. 4-19-1949
actor: Joan Houston "Tale of Today"; Mary Marlin "Story of Mary Marlin"
04-29-1897 - Charles Seel - NYC - d. 4-19-1980
actor: "Romance"; "Four-Star Playhouse"; "The Halls of Ivy"
05-10-1930 - June Knox-Mawer - Wrexham, England - d. 4-19-2006
host: "The Women's Hour"
05-13-1907 - Daphne du Maurier - London, England - d. 4-19-1989
author: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Matinee Theatre"; "Romance"; "Escape"
05-18-1908 - Lorene Scott - d. 4-19-1983
actor: Maria Hawkins "Young Widder Brown"
06-18-1910 - Russ Hodges - Dayton, TN - d. 4-19-1971
sportscaster: "Giants win the pennant, Giants win the pennant, Giants
win the pennant"
07-01-1920 - Ronnie Bonner - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-19-1991
song writer: "Uncle Wip"
07-30-1909 - Gordon Hughes - d. 4-19-1999
director: "Lights Out"; "The Guiding Light"
09-05-1914 - Nancy Ordway - Fort Warden, WA - d. 4-19-2005
actor: Helen Holden "Helen Holden, Government Girl"
09-10-1907 - Alvin Childress - Meridian, MS - d. 4-19-1986
actor: "New World A-Coming"
10-02-1921 - Scott Crossfield - Berkely, CA - d. 4-19-2006
test pilot: "Great Moments To Music"
10-30-1911 - Ruth Hussey - Providence, RI - d. 4-19-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-28-1891- Ethel Wilson - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-19-1980
actor: Aunt Harriett "The Aldrich Family"; May Case "Lora Lawton"
11-29-1918 - Michael O'Duffy - Derry, Ireland - d. 4-19-2003
lyric tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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