Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #253
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Date: 10/30/2008 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 253
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Martians land in upstate New York     [ "Bill Jaker" <bilj@[removed]; ]
      10-29 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      By the way, who is buried in Grant's  [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
      Review of Broadway "To Be or Not To   [ seandd@[removed] ]
      10-30 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:49:32 -0400
    From: "Bill Jaker" <bilj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Martians land in upstate New York

       With the 70th anniversary of the Mercury Theater on the Air
    presentation of "War of the Worlds" there have been some commemorative
    re-enactments.  One of the best(we believe) will happen to the hour on
    Thursday, October 30th at 8:00 PM.  WSKG Public Broadcasting in
    Binghamton will present its own production of the [removed] Wells / Howard
    Koch "War of the Worlds".

      There's been concern expressed here on the Digest and elsewhere about
    some re-enactments turning campy, shifting the scene out of New Jersey
    to the local area or just not getting it right.  So let me assure
    everyone: the WSKG production will be, first of all, _live_ radio,
    including live music and sound effects, and true to the script.  And as
    much as possible we're going to use authentic equipment, including RCA
    44DX microphones.

       It will be heard on WSKG Public Radio ([removed] Binghamton / [removed] Ithaca /
    [removed] Oneonta / [removed] Corning-Elmira / [removed] Hornell).  We're not
    streaming our programs on the web but will archive "WotW" on our
    website [removed].

      There will be some departures from the 1938 Orson Welles production.  We
    will perform before a studio audience -- including at least one person
    who was listening in on 30 October 1938.  And for those who want to see
    how it's all done we're going to simulcast the radio performance on
    WSKG-TV.  The video will also be on the Web.

                               -- Bill Jaker
                                (in the role of Carl Phillips)

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    Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:49:41 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-29 births/deaths

    October 29th births

    10-29-1873 - Walter C. Kelly - Mineville, NY - d. 1-6-1939
    actor: (The Virginia Judge) "The Eveready Hour"
    10-29-1880 - Gleason L. Archer - Great Pond, ME - d. 6-28-1966
    lecturer: "Laws That Safeguard Society"
    10-29-1883 - William K. Wells - NYC - d. 4-17-1956
    writer: "Under Arrest"
    10-29-1889 - Anna Case - Clinton, NJ - d. 1-7-1984
    singer/actor: WJZ New York City
    10-29-1891 - Fanny Brice - NYC - d. 5-29-1951
    comedienne: Baby Snooks Higgins, "Baby Snooks"
    10-29-1894 - Jack Pearl - NYC - d. 12-25-1982
    comedian: Baron Munchausen "Baron and the Bee, Jack and Cliff, Jack
    Pearl Show"
    10-29-1897 - Hope Emerson - Hawarden, IA - d. 4-24-1960
    actor: Henrietta Topper "Advs. of Topper"; Elsie the Cow "Happy Island"
    10-29-1901 - Akim Tamiroff - Baku, Russia - d. 9-17-1972
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-29-1902 - Lillian Lee - d. 5-18-1987
    actor: (Wife of Jack Kirkwood) "Jack Kirkwood Show"; "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    10-29-1903 - Olive Pell - Kalgoorlie, Australia - d. 1-xx-2002
    writer: "Then Came the Day They Came"
    10-29-1905 - Herbert Lateau - d. 3-xx-1984
    producer: "The National Farm and Home Hour"
    10-29-1908 - Robert K. Adams - d. 2-13-1981
    actor: "Dr. Susan"; Hilltop House"; Your Family and Mine"
    10-29-1908 - Ruth Russell - Peoria, IL
    actor: Nancy Donovan "Just Plain Bill"; Kathy "Our Gal Sunday"
    10-29-1909 - Virginia Clark - Peoria, IL
    actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"
    10-29-1910 - Lew Parker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-27-1972
    actor: John Bickerson "The Bickersons" "Mennen Shave Time with Lew
    Parker"
    10-29-1916 - Hadda Brooks - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-21-2002
    pianist: "Jubilee"
    10-29-1921 - Bill Mauldin - Mountain Park, NM - d. 1-22-2003
    cartoonist: "Command Performance"; "Armed Forces V-J Program"
    10-29-1921 - Ed Kemmer - Reading, PA - d. 11-9-2004
    actor: Buzz Corey "Space Patrol"
    10-29-1922 - Neal Hefti - Hastings, NE - d. 10-11-2008
    composer, et al: "Woody Herman Show"; "Manhattan Melodies"
    10-29-1925 - Geraldine Brooks - NYC - d. 6-19-1977
    actor: "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Voice of the Army"
    10-29-1925 - Paul Daneman - London, England - d. 4-28-2001
    actor: "The Hobbit"
    10-29-1925 - Robert Hardy - Cheltenham, England
    actor, writer: "The Leopard and the Lillies"
    10-29-1933 - Douglas Cameron - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
    presenter: "Today"; "double act"

    October 29th deaths

    01-14-1923 - Shirley (Ione) Cowell - Tulsa, OK - d. 10-29-1997
    singer: "The Shirley Cowell Show"
    02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
    host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - Missouri - d. 10-29-1979
    announcer: "House Party"; "You Bet Your Life"
    02-29-1888 - Tess Sheehan - Ann Arbor, MI - d. 10-29-1972
    actor: Dorrie Warren "Wendy Warren and the News"
    03-08-1909 - Anthony Donato - Prague, NE - d. 10-29-1990
    composer: "Surprise Serenade"
    03-12-1905 - Milton Merlin - California - d. 10-29-1996
    writer: "The Halls of Ivy"; "The Man Called X"; "Presenting Charles
    Boyer"
    03-xx-1896 - Billy Artzt - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-29-1949
    orchestra leader: "Blondie"; "Myrt and Marge"; "Shirley Temple Time"
    04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
    operatic tenor: "Gala Performance"
    04-12-1907 - Hubert Fincher - Waldo, AR - d. 10-29-1979
    country music: "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
    05-16-1913 - Woody Herman - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-29-1987
    bandleader: (The Thundering Herd) "Wildroot Show"
    06-07-1897 - Mann Holiner - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-29-1958
    producer, director: "Baby Snooks Show"; "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Jubilee"
    06-14-1908 - John Scott Trotter - Charlotte, NC - d. 10-29-1975
    conductor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
    07-03-1919 - Fred Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 10-29-1992
    bass: "Maddox Family Band"
    07-04-1885 - Louis B. Mayer - Minsk, Byelorussia, Russian Empire - d.
    10-29-1957
    film executive: "Good News of 1938/39"; "Songs By Sinatra"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    07-06-1894 - Myra Marsh - Maine - d. 10-29-1964
    actor: Dora Foster "A Date with Judy"; Mother "My Friend Irma"
    07-29-1924 - Lloyd Bochner - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-29-2005
    actor: "The Chase"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-20-1908 - Al Lopez - Tampa, FL - d. 10-29-2005
    baseball hall of fame: "Greatest Sports Thrills"; "Tops In Sports"
    10-23-1922 - Ewell Blackwell - Fresno, CA - d. 10-29-1996
    baseball pitcher: "Babe Didrickson Zaharius Sports Show"
    12-14-1912 - Morey Amsterdam - Chicago, IL - d. 10-29-1996
    comedian: "Morey Amsterdan Show"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Robert Caswell - Rockhampton, Australia - d. 10-29-2006
    writer: "Little Lunches"; "The Phone Friend"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:50:15 -0400
    From: Rentingnow@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  By the way, who is buried in Grant's tomb?

    The answer is, of course, Mrs. Grant.

    Wonder whether anyone answered it that way?

    Larry Moore

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    Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:50:25 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Review of Broadway "To Be or Not To Be"

    This article is an appreciation of Jack Benny's greatest film role from a
    recent issue of The Wall Street Journal.

    [removed]

    I know it is not radio but it does seem close enough to post.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:50:32 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-30 births/deaths

    October 30th births

    10-30-1751 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Dublin, Ireland - d. 7-7-1816
    writer: (Inventor of the Malaprop) Some of his works adapted for radio
    10-30-1879 - Eily Malyon - London, England - d. 9-26-1961
    actor: Lady Greystroke "Tarzan"
    10-30-1885 - Ezra Pound - Hailey, ID - d. 11-1-1972
    poet and traitor: "Italian Propaganda Broadcast"
    10-30-1891 - Bill Brandt - d. 11-18-1963
    sports commentator: "Inside of Sports"
    10-30-1896 - Bill Terry - Atlanta, GA - d. 1-9-1989
    sportscaster: WAGA Atlanta
    10-30-1896 - Ruth Gordon - Wollaston, MA - d. 8-28-1985
    actor: "Lincoln Highway"; "Meet Mr. Weeks"; "Orson Welles Theatre"
    10-30-1898 - Arthur Kohl - Chicago, IL - d. 8-xx-1983
    actor: Fred Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Bob Graham "Bachelor's Children"
    10-30-1901 - Chester Bagg - d. 10-13-1988
    baritone: WCBC Zion, Illinois
    10-30-1906 - Paul J. Smith - Calumet, MI - d. 1-25-1985
    music: "The Eddie Bracken Show"
    10-30-1907 - Renzo Cesana - Rome, Italy - d. 11-8-1970
    creater: "The Steve Allen Show"
    10-30-1908 - Patsy Montana - Hot Springs, AK - d. 5-3-1996
    yodeling country singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Smile-a-While"
    10-30-1910 - Francia White - Greenville, TX - d. 10-22-1984
    singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Fred Astaire Show";
    "Telephone Hour"
    10-30-1911 - Milton Lieberthal - d. 6-5-1989
    writer: "The Sheriff"
    10-30-1911 - Ruth Hussey - Providence, RI - d. 4-19-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-30-1912 - Preston Lockwood - Leyton, England - d. 4-24-1996
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes"
    10-30-1915 - Fred Friendly - NYC - d. 3-3-1998
    writer, director: "Hear It Now"; "Who Said That?"; "Quick and the Dead"
    10-30-1918 - Joan Banks - NYC - d. 1-18-1998
    actor: Arline Harrison Manning, "Portia Faces Life"; Carlotta Lagorro
    Armour, "Today's Children"
    10-30-1918 - William N. Burch - d. 10-1-2005
    producer: "Truth or Consequences"; "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"
    10-30-1923 - Hershel Bernardi - NYC - d. 5-9-1986
    actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    10-30-1924 - Norman Bird - Coalville, England - d. 4-22-2005
    actor: Major Burnaby "The Sittaford Mystery"
    10-30-1926 - Charles Woolf - California - d. 6-18-1994
    actor: "Life of Riley"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-30-1927 - Joe Adcock - Coushatta, LA - d. 5-3-1999
    baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
    10-30-1939 - Sammy Ogg - Lexington, VA
    actor: Little Beaver "Red Ryder"; Donnie Henderson "Beulah"
    10-30-1951 - Harry Hamlin - Pasadena, CA
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"

    October 30th deaths

    02-06-1899 - Ramon Novarro - Durango, Mexico - d. 10-30-1968
    actor: Freelance
    02-10-1903 - Lewis Allan - NYC - d. 10-30-1986
    writer for theatre, radio, television and films
    04-08-1915 - Carlyle Austin - d. 10-30-1985
    sportscaster: KEVR Seattle, Washington
    05-11-1914 - Bob Atcher - Hardin County, KY - d. 10-30-1993
    singer: "Faultless Starch Time"; "WLS Barn Dance"
    05-14-1918 - June Duprez - Teddington, England - d. 10-30-1918
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-11-1904 - Allen Roth - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-30-1972
    conductor: "Broadway Matinee"; "So You Think You Know Music"
    06-15-1918 - Grace McDonald - Boston, MA - d. 10-30-1999
    actor: "Treasury Star Parade"; "Hollywood Personals"
    06-19-1921 - Buddy Brees - NYC - d. 10-30-1994
    singer: "Art Mooney and his Orchestra"; "Bob Chester and his Orchestra"
    08-01-1906 - Judd McMichael - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-30-1989
    singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
    08-12-1912 - Sam Fuller - Worcester, MA - d. 10-30-1997
    producer, director: "The Aldrich Family"; "The Jack Carson Show"
    08-28-1924 - Peggy Ryan - Long Beach, CA - d. 10-30-2004
    dancer, actor: "Mail Call"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Proudly We Hail"
    09-09-1873 - Max Reinhardt - Baden, Austria - d. 10-30-1943
    film director: "Texaco Star Theatre"
    10-14-1907 - Pert Kelton - Great Falls, MT - d. 10-30-1968
    actor: Agnes "Magnificent Montague"; Lolita "We Are Always Young";
    "Milton Berle Show"
    10-27-1908 - Josephine Antoine - Boulder, CO - d. 10-30-1971
    singer: "Contented Hour"
    11-24-1911 - Kirby Grant - Butte, MO - d. 10-30-1985
    singer, actor: "Gatewood to Hollywood"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    11-26-1933 - Robert Goulet - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-30-2007
    singer-actor: "Guard Session"; "Voices of Vista"
    12-05-1886 - Rose Wilder Lane - De Smet, SD - d. 10-30-1968
    writer: (Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) "Hallmark Hall of Fame";
    "Helen Hayes Theatre"
    12-26-1921 - Steve Allen - NYC - d. 10-30-2000
    comedian, actor, singer, composer and anything else you might mention:
    "Steve Allen Show"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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