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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 353
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  12-16 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Moe Keale                             [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  This week in radio history 17-23 Dec  [ "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@adelphia ]
  WWII German Broadcast                 [ "Bill Harris" <nbcblue@[removed]; ]
  12-17 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:04:06 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-16 births/deaths
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December 16th births

12-16-1889 - Kurt Kupfer - d. 3-xx-1974
actor: the kindly Joseph Steinbloch "Romance of Helen Trent"
12-16-1890 - Jane Morgan - North Platte, NE - d. 1-1-1972
actor: Mary Lane "Aunt Mary"; Mrs. Margaret Davis "Our Miss Brooks"
12-16-1892 - Cameron Prud'homme - Auburn, CA - d. 11-27-1967
actor: Governor Bradley "Little Herman"; David Harum "David Harum"
12-16-1895 - Andy Razaf - Washington, D. C. - d. 2-3-1973
lyricist: "Music for Millions"
12-16-1898 - Lud Gluskin - NYC - d. 10-13-1989
conductor: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Amos n' Andy"; "Advs. of Sam Spade"
12-16-1899 - Noel Coward - Teddington, Middlesex, England - d. 3-26-1973
actor, playwright: "Stagestruck"
12-16-1900 - Jesse Block - NYC - d. 3-22-1983
comedian: appeared with wife Eve Sully on radio
12-16-1911 - Howard Reilly - d. 11-28-1991
producer: "The Fred Allen Show"
12-16-1913 - Verlye Mills - St. John, KS - d. 10-2-1983
harpist: "The Hour of Charm"; "Your Hit Parade"
12-16-1918 - Paul Talbot - d. 7-6-2005
actor: "It Happened to Me"; "Let's Playwright"
12-16-1946 - Robert Urich - Toronto, OH - d. 4-16-2002
salesman: WGN Chicago, Illinois

December 16th deaths

01-25-1874 - Somerset Maughan - Paris, France - d. 12-16-1965
writer: " Somerset Maughan Theatre"
02-02-1923 - Haleloke Kahuaolapus - Hilo, Hawaii Territory - d.
12-16-2004
singer: "Hawaii Calls"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
02-08-1917 - Robert Dryden - d. 12-16-2003
actor: Doctor West "We Love and Learn"; Sergeant Maggio "Call the
Police"
03-03-1919 - Enzo Stuarti - Rome, Italy - d. 12-16-2005
operatic singer: "Stars for Defense"
03-07-1906 - Edward Mabley - Binghampton, NY - d. 12-16-1984
writer: "The American School of the Air"
05-12-1910 - Jack Jenney - Mason City, IA - d. 12-16-1945
trombonist: "The Saturday Night Swing Club"
07-23-1895 - Aileen Pringle - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-16-1989
actor: Anne Hill "Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne"
07-29-1906 - Thelma Todd - Lawrence, MA - d. 12-16-1935
comedienne: Series with Zasu Pitts
08-02-1886 - Cesare Sodero - Naples, Italy - d. 12-16-1947
conductor: Series of condensed operas on WEAF New York
09-19-1879 - Louis Joseph Vance - NYC - d. 12-16-1933
writer: "The Lone Wolf"
10-19-1925 - Eddie Layton - d. 12-16-2004
organist: New York Yankees and many radio programs
xx-xx-1894 - Bill Corum - Speed, MO - d. 12-16-1958
boxing color man: "Gillettes's Cavalcade of Sports"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:14:56 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Moe Keale

Michael Gwynne commented:

12-13-1939 - Moe Keale - Niihau, HI - d. 4-15-2002
local disc  jockey
The above made me jump.
I was  in Hawaiian radio in Honolulu for many years off and on and have 
never heard that man's name. Please help me with more info if anyone knows.
I'm going to write the King of Hawaiian Radio, Tom  Moffat and see what 
I can learn.

I am not sure when Keale started working on radio, but during the 1970s, he 
played supporting roles on HAWAII FIVE-O.  My wife and I have seen him play 
a bus driver, a pimp, a butler, a cop, he appears every so often on the 
series, which was filmed in Hawaii.  It's possible he started his career on 
radio and then went to TV.  Funny thing, I have TONS of press releases and 
newspaper clippings about the people involved with HAWAII FIVE-O but nothing 
about Moe Keale.  He is elusive . . .
Martin

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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:26:32 -0500
From: "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@[removed];
To: "otrd" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 17-23 December

    From Those Were The Days --
    12/17

1936 - Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen kidded around with his pal, Charlie
McCarthy (who was a bit wooden, we [removed]), for the first time on
radio. The two debuted on The Rudy Vallee Show on NBC. Soon, Bergen became
one of radio's hottest properties, and was called Vallee's greatest talent
discovery.

    12/19

>From The Today in History, NY Times --

1932 -- the British Broadcasting Corporation began transmitting overseas
with its Empire Service to Australia.

    12/22

1920 - WEAF, in New York City, aired the first broadcast of a prize fight
from ringside. The fight was broadcast from Madison Square Garden where Joe
Lynch defeated Peter Herman to retain the bantamweight title. Bantamweights
top the scales at 118 pounds. Just think, either of those boxers could have
been mistaken for the microphone stand.
1922 - WEAF once again proved to be the pillar of radio promotion. This time
they broadcast radio's first double wedding ceremony. 4,000 spectators
watched as the two couples exchanged vows at Grand Central Palace. The
broadcast was made in conjunction with the American Radio Exposition. The
couples each got $100; a hefty sum in 1922.  ($1,035 in 2005).

    12/23

>From Today in history, the NY Times --

In 1928, the National Broadcasting Company set up a permanent,
coast-to-coast network.

>From Today's Almanac --

In 1947, the transistor was invented, leading to a revolution in
communications and electronics.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:29:46 -0500
From: "Bill Harris" <nbcblue@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WWII German Broadcast

Travis wrote, and I quote:

It would be fascinating to listen to the German
Broadcast Day too, but I doubt the recordings exist anymore.

I have a tape of a portion of a speach Hitler delivered to a Nazi Congress
in Nuremberg on Sept. 12, 1938. So such recordings do exists.

Bill H.

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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:59:29 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-17 births/deaths

December 17th births

12-17-1895 - Rudolph Anders - Germany - d. 3-27-1987
actor: Dr. VanMeter "Space Patrol"
12-17-1896 - Arthur Fiedler - South Boston, MA - d. 7-10-1979
conductor: "Robert Merrill with the Boston Pops Orchestra"; "Boston
Pops"
12-17-1900 - Katina Paxinou - Piraeus, Greece - d. 2-22-1973
actor: "Suspense"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
12-17-1900 - Norman Cloutier - Hartford, CT - d. unknown
orchestra leader: "Cloutier Calling"; "Cosmopolitan Melodies"
12-17-1902 - House Jameson - Austin, TX - d. 4-23-1971
actor: Sam Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Inspector Douglas Renfrew
"Renfrew of the Mounted"
12-17-1903 - Erskine Caldwell - Morland, GA - d. 4-11-1987
playwright: "Information, Please"; "Short Story"
12-17-1906 - Martin Skiles - d. 5-1-1981
music: "Mr. Aladdin"
12-17-1907 - Frank Gill - d. 7-11-1970
writer, comedian: "Joe E. Brown's Post Toasties Show"
12-17-1910 - Spade Cooley - Oklahoma Territory - d. 11-23-1969
western singer: (Rider's of the Purple Sage) "Spade Cooley Show"
12-17-1911 - Jennie Land - St. Louis, MO
singer: "Dramas of Youth"; "Musical Grocery Store"
12-17-1911 - Richard Sale - NYC - d. 3-4-1993
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-17-1913 - Herbert Nelson - Stillwater, MN - d. 7-19-1990
actor: Ralph Fraser "Dan Harding's Wife"; George Lawlor "Romance of
Helen Trent"
12-17-1919 - Edward "Shrimp" Wragge - NYC - d. 12-22-1992
actor: "Gold Spot Pal"
12-17-1927 - Richard Long - Chicago, IL - d. 12-21-1974
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We Hail"
12-17-1928 - Julia Meade - Boston, MA
actor: 'Your Hit Parade"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
12-17-1930 - Bill Beutel - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-18-2006
news reporter: "New York 1960"

December 17th deaths

01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
03-01-1914 - Gil Doud - Minnesota - d. 12-17-1957
writer, director: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "One out of Seven"; "Pat
Novak for Hire"
07-04-1895 - Irving Caesar - NYC - d. 12-17-1996
lyricist: "Biography In Sound"; "Perspective"
07-10-1889 - Noble Sissle - d. 12-17-1975
songwriter, orchestra leader: "Freedom's People"
07-11-1892 - Thomas Mitchell - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-17-1962
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
08-28-1907 - Sam Levene - NYC - d. 12-17-1980
comedian: "Fred Allen Show"
10-09-1913 - John Guedel - Portland, IN - d. 12-17-2001
producer: "You Bet Your Life"; "People Are Funny"; "Pillsbury House
Party"
11-14-1894 - James Van Dyk - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-17-1951
actor: Clyde Houston "Lora Lawton"; Dick Phillips "Rosemary"
12-31-1921 - Rex Allen - Wilcox, AZ - d. 12-17-1999
country/western singer: "Country Music Time"; "Country Hoedown"

Ron Sayles

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