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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 51
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      3-28 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Gunsmoke Episodes                     [ "Chris Holm" <cbholm@[removed]; ]
      IRS                                   [ Keith Houdeshell <khowdy@[removed] ]
      3-29 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      3-30 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Fred Allen Episode                    [ David Van Nostrand <[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:08:40 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-28 births/deaths

    March 28th births

    03-28-1871 - Willem Mengelberg - Utrecht, Netherlands - d. 3-21-1951
    composer, conductor: "The New York Philharmonic Orchestra"
    03-28-1888 - Jim Harkins - d. 10-24-1970
    emcee: "Song Writing Machine Series"
    03-28-1890 - Paul Whiteman - Denver, CO - d. 12-29-1967
    conductor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
    03-28-1892 - Philip Loeb - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-1-1955
    actor: Jake Goldberg "The Goldbergs"
    03-28-1896 - Abram E. Borodkin - Russia - d. 8-25-1978
    cellist: NBC and CBS networks
    03-28-1896 - Virginia Rea - Louisville, KY - d. xx-xx-1941
    singer: Olive Palmer "Palmolive Hour"; "Rubinoff and His Orchestra"
    03-28-1897 - Frank Hawks - Marshalltown, IA - d. 8-23-1938
    flying ace: "Roads of the Sky"; "Time Flies"
    03-28-1902 - Gordon Clifford - Providence, RI - d. 6-11-1968
    songwriter: "The Rhythm Boys"
    03-28-1903 - Rudolf Serkin - Eger, Bohemia - d. 5-8-1991
    pianist: "Concert Hall"; "New York Philharmonic"
    03-28-1904 - Day Keene - Illinois - d. 1-9-1969
    writer: "Kitty Keene, Incorporated"; "Little Orphan Annie"
    03-28-1904 - Jon Dodson - Richland, MO - d. 11-28-1963
    singer: (Member of the King's Men) "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "King's
    Men"
    03-28-1910 - Jimmy Dodd - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-10-1964
    singer, songwriter: "Lifebuoy Show"; "Command Performance"; "CBS Radio
    Workshop"
    03-28-1912 - Frank Lovejoy - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-2-1962
    actor: Randy 'Lucky' Stone "Nightbeat"; Bill Weigand "Mr. and Mrs.
    North"
    03-28-1913 - Lucille Fletcher - NYC - d. 8-31-2000
    dramatist: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    03-28-1915 - Jay Livingston - McDonald, PA - d. 10-17-2001
    composer: "Hollywood Calling-George Fisher Interviews"
    03-28-1915 - Joel Murcott - d. 2-26-1978
    writer, director: "Tales of the Texas Rangers"; "Yours Truly, Johnny
    Dollar"
    03-28-1917 - Randy Brooks - Sandford, ME - d. 3-21-1967
    bandleader: "One Night Stand"; "The Kate Smith Hour"
    03-28-1918 - John Heath - Seattle, WA
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes"; "Murder is My Hobby"
    03-28-1919 - Vic Raschi - West Springfield, MA - d. 10-14-1988
    baseball pitcher: "National Guard Show"
    03-28-1921 - Dirk Bogarde - London, England - d. 5-8-1999
    actor: "A Christmas Carol"
    03-28-1922 - Lutrelle F. Palmer - Newport News, VA - d. 9-12-2004
    news analyst: "Lu's Notebook"
    03-28-1922 - Paul Bartell - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-19-2006
    announcer, disk jockey: "Blue Baron Show"; "Fox Club"
    03-28-1924 - Freddie Bartholomew - London, England - d. 1-23-1992
    guest: "Anchors Aweigh"
    03-28-1925 - Jerry Walter - Illinois - d. 2-11-1979
    actor: Gil Perry "Island Adventure"
    03-28-1927 - Marguerite Campbell - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 3-19-2003
    singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"

    March 28th deaths

    01-25-1923 - Rusty Draper - d. 3-28-2003
    country singer: "Dude Martin's Radio Ranch"
    01-26-1905 - Maria von Trapp - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-28-1987
    singer: (Trapp Family Singers) "Christmas Seal Sale"
    02-16-1902 - Leif Eid - Idaho - d. 3-28-1976
    nbc bureau chief: Washington, Ottawa and Paris
    02-26-1911 - Warren M. Lewis - d. 3-28-1997
    producer: "Silver Theatre"; "Stars Over Hollywood"
    04-16-1921 - Peter Ustinov - London, England - d. 3-28-2004
    actor: "Freedom Forum"; "Mitch Miller Show"; "In Any Direction"
    04-19-1913 - Sylvia Froos - New York - d. 3-28-2004
    singer: "Sylvia Froos Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
    05-05-1890 - Christopher Morley - Haverford, PA - d. 3-28-1957
    author: "Information, Please"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Studio One"
    05-14-1902 - Rush Hughes - d. 3-28-1979
    host: Pot O' Gold"
    05-28-1888 - Jim Thorpe - Prague, Indian Territory - d. 3-28-1953
    all around athelete: "Shell Chateau"; "Bill Stern Colgate Sports
    Newsreel"
    06-08-1902 - Elliott Jacoby - NYC - d. 3-28-1977
    composer, conductor: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Maude's Diary"
    06-17-1921 - Tony Scott - Morristown, NJ - d. 3-28-2007
    jazz clarinetist: American Armed Forces Radio
    07-04-1909 - Alec Templeton - Cardiff, South Wales - d. 3-28-1963
    pianist, satirist: "You Shall Have Music"; "Universal Rhythm"; "Alec
    Templeton Time"
    07-15-1905 - Dorothy Fields - Allenhurst, NJ - d. 3-28-1974
    lyricist: "Music for Millions"
    07-19-1914 - Hubert Gregg - London, England - d. 3-28-2004
    host: "Thanks for the Memory for 30 Years"
    07-26-1919 - Virginia Gilmore - El Monte, CA - d. 3-28-1986
    actor: "The Ford Theatre"
    07-28-1914 - Carman Dragon - Antioch, CA - d. 3-28-1987
    conductor: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Baby Snooks Show"; "Railroad
    Hour"
    08-04-1901 - Mildred Henry Merrill - d. 3-28-1995
    writer: "Lone Ranger"; "Green Hornet"; "Official Detective"
    08-24-1898 - Malcolm Cowley - Belsano, PA - d. 3-28-1989
    speaker: "NBC University Theatre"
    09-13-1918 - Dick Haymes - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 3-28-1980
    singer, actor: Dick Haymes Show"; "Tommy Dorsey Show"; Crane Dockery
    "I Fly Anything"
    09-18-1886 - Powel Crosley, Jr. - Cincinnati, OH - d. 3-28-1961
    owner of WLW radio station in Cincinnati
    10-14-1890 - Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhower - Denison, TX - d. 3-28-1969
    general, president: "War Production Drive Program"; "Let's All Back
    the Attack"
    10-15-1929 - Art James - d. 3-28-2004
    announcer: Armed Forces Radio
    11-08-1913 - June Havoc - Vancouver, Canada - d. 3-28-2010
    actor: "Advs. of Sam Spade"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    11-16-1873 - W. C. Handy - Florence, AL - d. 3-28-1958
    jazz trumpeter, composer: "Cavalcade of Music";"Freedom's People"
    11-22-1900 - Alan Cameron - Anderson, IN - d. 3-28-1972
    writer: "Suspense"
    12-08-1888 - Raymond Lawrence - Bedford Square, England - d. 3-28-1976
    actor: "Escape"; "The Halls of Ivy"; "Pursuit"
    12-29-1904 - Wendell Niles - Twin Valley, MN - d. 3-28-1994
    announcer: "Bob Hope Show"; "Man Called X"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"
    xx-xx-1883 - Al Swenson - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 3-28-1941
    actor: "Captain Diamond "Advs. of Captain Diamond"; Paul Hutchinson
    "Hilltop House"

    Ron
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    Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:09:13 -0400
    From: "Chris Holm" <cbholm@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gunsmoke Episodes

    I'm trying to identify a couple of different Gunsmoke episodes which I
    remember, but don't know the names of.  I was hoping that someone here could
    tell me the episode titles.  I've tried the Barabas Gunsmoke book, but their
    episode descriptions aren't detailed enough.

    1 - Matt and Chester are staking out some holed-up bad guys, and encounter a
    rattlesnake.  Chester drives him away by spitting tobacco juice in the
    snake's eye.
    2 - A fugitive escapes from a second floor room.  Matt pursues, but when he
    gets outside, he finds that Chester has stopped the fleeing bad guy by
    dropping a spittoon, chamber pot, or similar on his head.

    Does anyone know the episode titles?

    Thank you,
    Chris Holm

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    Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:09:22 -0400
    From: Keith Houdeshell <khowdy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  IRS

    There were two Jack Benny programs in the 50's with IRS agents.  They
    thought Jack was cheating himself because he didn't deduct enough for
    entertainment.  With a listed income of $250,000 he only deducted $17
    for entertainment.
    Keith

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    Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:09:28 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-29 births/deaths

    March 29th births

    03-29-1867 - Cy Young - Gilmore, OH - d. 11-4-1955
    baseball pitching great: "Feature Project: This Game of Baseball"
    03-29-1878 - Frank Tinney - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-28-1940
    comedian, monologist: WWJ and WJR Detroit, Michigan
    03-29-1888 - Earle Ross - Illinois - d. 5-21-1961
    actor: Judge Horace Hooker "Great Gildersleeve"; J. R. Boone, Sr.
    "Meet Millie"
    03-29-1889 - Howard Lindsay - Waterford, NY - d. 2-11-1968
    writer, host: "The Ford Theatre"
    03-29-1890 - Joe Cook - Evansville, IN - d. 5-16-1959
    comedian: "House Party"; "Shell Chateau"
    03-29-1891 - Warner Baxter - Columbus, OH - d. 5-7-1951
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-29-1898 - Cecil Lewis - Birkenhead, England - d. 1-27-1997
    pioneer in British broadcasting instrumental in creation of the BBC
    03-29-1899 - Clifford Goldsmith - Aurora, NY - d. 7-11-1971
    writer: Created "The Aldrich Family"
    03-29-1902 - Onslow Stevens - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-5-1977
    actor: "Great Plays"
    03-29-1905 - Philip Ahn - Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-28-1978
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-29-1906 - E. Power Biggs - West Cliff, England - d. 3-10-1977
    organist: "Organ Program"
    03-29-1907 - Abe Lincoln - Lancaster, PA - d. 6-8-2000
    trombonist: "Guest Star"
    03-29-1908 - Dennis O'Keefe - Fort Madison, IA - d. 8-31-1968
    actor: Treasure Agent Larsen "T-Man"
    03-29-1912 - Fred Brady - NYC - d. 11-11-1961
    actor: Himself "The Fred Brady Show"
    03-29-1912 - Nancy Douglass - Bloomington, IL
    actor: "My True Story"; "Brave Tomorrow"
    03-29-1914 - Phil Foster - NYC - d. 7-8-1985
    actor: "What's With Hubert"; "Baseball Round Table"; "Big Show"
    03-29-1916 - Eugene McCarthy - Watkins, MN - d. 12-10-2005
    [removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
    03-29-1918 - Pearl Bailey - Newport News, VA - d. 8-17-1990
    singer: "Kraft Music Hall "; "Tribute to Glenn Miller"
    03-29-1919 - Eileen Heckart - Columbus, OH - d. 12-31-2001
    actor: "Cloak and Dagger"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    03-29-1919 - Robert Enders - Pennsylvania - d. 9-7-2007
    producer: "Our Land Be Right"
    03-29-1923 - Bob Stanton - White Plains, NY - d. 1-28-1989
    vocalist: (Brother of Dick Haymes) "The Sealtest Village Store"
    03-29-1923 - Remo Palmieri - The Bronx, NY - d. 2-2-2002
    guitartist: "Music 'Til Midnight"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    03-29-1924 - Ginger Dinning - Braman, KY
    singer: (Dinning Sisters) "Dinning Sisters-Songs"; "WLS National Barn
    Dance"
    03-29-1924 - Jackie Vernon - NYC - d. 11-10-1987
    comedian: "Bill Stern Show"
    03-29-1924 - Jean Dinning - Braman, KY
    singer: (Dinning Sisters) "Dinning Sisters-Songs"; "WLS National Barn
    Dance"
    03-29-1943 - Mike Handley - Norfolk VA - d. 4-10-2009
    announcer: "The Larry King Show"
    03-29-1962 - Earl Root - Raised Edina, MN - d. 5-23-2008
    disk jockey: "Root of All Evil"

    March 29th deaths

    01-10-1908 - Paul Henreid - Trieste - d. 3-29-1992
    actor: "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-03-1916 - Andy White - d. 3-29-1999
    writer: "The Great Gildersleeve", "Fred Waring Show"
    05-03-1920 - John Lewis - LaGrange, IL - d. 3-29-2001
    co-founder of "Modern Jazz Quartet": :Modern Jazz Quartet";
    "Listener's Digest"
    05-22-1906 - Harry Ritz - Newark, NJ - d. 3-29-1986
    comedian: (The Ritz Brothers) "Hollywood Hotel"
    06-08-1919 - Monte Hale - Ada, OK - d. 3-29-2009
    singing cowboy: "All-Star Western Theatre"
    06-15-1918 - Hal Roach, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-29-1972
    producer, director: "My Little Margie"
    06-21-1910 - Clive Sansom - London, England - d. 3-29-1981
    writer: "The Pardoner's Tale"
    06-29-1903 - Ellen Pollock - Heidelberg, Germany - d. 3-29-1997
    actor: "The Lady of Lyons"
    08-06-1888 - Arthur Fields - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-29-1953
    singer: "Old Man of the Mountains"; "Pipe Smoking Time"
    08-30-1902 - Ray Bloch - Alsace-Lorraine, France - d. 3-29-1982
    conductor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Take It or Leave It"; "Johnny Presents"
    10-03-1897 - Vincent Sorey - Turin, Italy - d. 3-29-1977
    conductor/violinist: Musical director for WOR New York
    11-01-1908 - Harry Ellis Dickson - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-29-2003
    first violinist: "Boston Symphony Orchestra"; "Boston Symphony
    Rehearsal"
    11-05-1905 - Annunzio Paolo Mantovani - Venice, Italy - d. 3-29-1980
    orchestra leader: "Music In the Air"; "Of These We Sing"
    11-24-1906 - Willard P. Farnum - Mankato, MN - d. 3-29-1994
    actor: Harold Teen "Harold Teen"; John Adams "Woman in White"
    12-12-1918 - Joe Williams - Codele, GA - d. 3-29-1999
    blues singer: "Count Basie and His Orchestra"; "Stars for Defense"

    Ron
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    Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:09:35 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-30 births/deaths

    March 30th births

    03-30-1858 - DeWolf Hopper - NYC - d. 9-23-1935
    host-narrator: (Husband of Hedda Hopper) "Roses and Drums"
    03-30-1883 - Jo Davidson - NYC - d. 1-2-1952
    sculptor: "Information Please"
    03-30-1889 - Herman Bing - Frankfurt, Germany - d. 1-9-1947
    tenor: "Gulf Screen Theatre"
    03-30-1892 - Ethel Owen, Racine WI - d. 12-28-1990
    actor: Siri Allen "Against the Storm"; Clara Noble "Backstage Wife"
    03-30-1892 - Floyd Odlum - Union City, MI - d. 6-17-1976
    owner of rko studios: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
    03-30-1893 - Dennis Hoey - London, England - d. 7-25-1960
    actor: Edward Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
    03-30-1895 - Amos Binkley - d. 10-6-1985
    banjoist: (Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers" WSM Nashville, TN
    03-30-1896 - Samson Raphaelson - NYC - d. 7-16-1983
    playwright: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-30-1902 - Ted Heath - Wandsworth, London, England - d. 11-18-1969
    bandleader: "Ted Heath and His Orchestra"
    03-30-1905 - Don Hollenbeck - Lincoln, NE - d. 6-22-1954
    news commentator: "CBS Views the Press"; "You Are There"
    03-30-1913 - Frankie Laine - Chicago, IL - d. 2-6-2007
    singer: "Big Show"; "Philco Radio Time"; "Spotlight Revue"
    03-30-1914 - Stu Novins - Boston, MA - d. 11-7-1989
    writer: "The City"
    03-30-1916 - Will Hare - Elkins, WV - d. 8-31-1997
    actor: "Words at War"; "New World A' Coming"; "Mysterious Traveler"
    03-30-1922 - Anne Pitoniak - Westfield, MA - d. 4-22-2007
    actor: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Magnificent
    Montague"
    03-30-1922 - Turhan Bey - Vienna, Austria
    actor: Francois Tarique "Notorious Tarique"
    03-30-1926 - Bill Farrell - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-30-2007
    singer: "Bob Hope Show"
    03-30-1926 - Jim Shean - d. 7-30-2007
    writer: "Bobby Benson"; "Superman"
    03-30-1929 - Richard Dysart - Augusta, ME
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    03-30-1930 - John Astin - Baltimore, MD
    actor: "Zero Hour"; "Empire of the Air"
    03-30-1930 - Pepper Barker - d. 3-15-1998
    disk jockey: WCMB Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
    03-30-1930 - Peter Marshall - Clarksburg, WV
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    03-30-1958 - Maurice LaMarche - Toronto, Canada
    actor: "Empire of the Air"
    03-30-1967 - Fuyumi Sakamoto - Kamitonda, Japan
    enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"

    March 30th deaths

    01-08-1910 - Fabian Andre - La Crosse, WI - d. 3-30-1960
    arranger for dance orchestras on NBC
    01-11-1902 - Charlie Nehlsen - d. 3-30-1980
    engineer: Recorded Hindenburg disaster as reported by Herb Morrison
    03-12-1917 - Georgia Ellis - d. 3-30-1988
    actor: Miss Kitty Russell "Gunsmoke"
    04-09-xxxx - Louise Larabee - Bremerton, WA - d. 3-30-1988
    actor: "Calvacade of America"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-05-1879 - Max Marcin - Posen, Prussia, Germany - d. 3-30-1948
    writer, producer, director: "Crime Doctor"; "The FBI in Peace and War"
    07-17-1899 - James Cagney - NYC - d. 3-30-1986
    actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-25-1905 - Harold Peary - San Leandro, CA - d. 3-30-1985
    actor: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve , "Fibber McGee and Molly and The
    Great Gildersleeve"
    07-28-1920 - Art Hannes - Newport, KY - d. 3-30-1992
    announcer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Gangbusters"; "Suspense"
    08-11-1915 - Bernard "Buddy" Arnold - NYC - d. 3-30-2004
    writer: "Your Hit Parade"
    09-17-1890 - Gabriel Heatter - NYC - d. 3-30-1972
    news, commentator: "News and Comment"; "We, the People"
    10-17-1910 - Florence Williams - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-30-1995
    actor: Anne Cameron "Barry Cameron"; Sally Farrell "Front Page Farrell"
    11-11-1917 - Robert J. Shaw - Pewaukee, WI - d. 3-30-1996
    writer: "Mr. District Attorney"; "Advs. of Christopher Wells"
    11-20-1908 - Alistair Cooke - Manchester, England - d. 3-30-2004
    host: "Transatlantic Quiz"; "Letter to America"; "Stage and Screen"
    12-01-1921 - John Bunch - Tipton, IN - d. 3-30-2010
    jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon"; "Maynard Ferguson"
    12-22-1950 - Nick Enright - Maitland, Australia - d. 3-30-2003
    writer: "Watching Over Israel"

    Ron
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    Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:19:33 -0400
    From: David Van Nostrand <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Fred Allen Episode

    I was listening to an episode of Biography in Sound: Fred Allen last night.
    In the opening of that show, they used a clip of Fred Allen describing his
    birth.  There was a joke about many changes and he said he was not referring
    to the diaper.  Does anyone know what show that was taken from?  I would
    really like to add this to my collection.

    Thanks

    Dave
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