Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #265
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Date: 11/19/2008 4:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 265
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      11-18 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      True Crime Radio                      [ vzeo0hfk@[removed] ]
      Serials                               [ "Roger Keel" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Christmas marathon                    [ JJLjackson@[removed] ]
      Looking for info.                     [ "Frank McGurn Jr." <[removed]@sbcg ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:50:59 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-18 births/deaths

    November 18th births

    11-18-1836 - William S. Gilbert - London, England - d. 5-29-1911
    composer: (Gilbert and Sullivan) "The Railroad Hour"
    11-18-1860 - Jan Ignace Paderewski - Kurilovka. Poland - d. 6-21-1941
    concert pianist, statesman: "Paderewski's Eightieth Birthday Tribute"
    11-18-1885 - James Brennan - Boston, MA - d. 8-24-1956
    composer, pianist: "The Sachs Program"
    11-18-1888 - Frances Marion - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-12-1973
    screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-18-1891 - Sigmund Anker - Bern, Switzerland - d. 4-23-1958
    violinist: KFRC San Francisco, California
    11-18-1899 - Eugene Ormandy - Budapest, Hungary - d. 3-12-1985
    conductor: "Roxy's Gang"; "Phildelphia Orchestra"
    11-18-1900 - Don Quinn - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-30-1967
    writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Halls of Ivy"
    11-18-1901 - Dr. George Gallup - Jefferson, IA - d. 7-26-1984
    statistician: "Living 1948"
    11-18-1907 - Gwen Meredith - Orange, Australia - d. 10-3-2006
    writer: "Blue Hills"; "The Lawsons"
    11-18-1908 - Imogene Coca - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-2-2001
    comedienne: "Big Show"
    11-18-1909 - Johnny Mercer - Savannah, GA - d. 6-25-1976
    singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Johnny Mercer's Music Shop"; "Dinah Shore
    Show"
    11-18-1912 - Arthur Peterson - Mandan, ND - d. 10-31-1996
    actor: Reverend John Rutledge "The Guiding Light"; "World's Great
    Novels"
    11-18-1919 - Georgia Carroll - Bloomington Grove, TX
    singer: (Wife of Kay Kyser) "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    11-18-1923 - Alan Shepard - Derry, NH - d. 7-21-1998
    astronaut: "NASA Audio News"; "Space Story"
    11-18-1926 - Dorothy Collins - Windsor, Ontario, Canada - d. 7-21-1994
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"
    11-18-1928 - Mickey Mouse - Hollywood, CA
    cartoon character: "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
    11-18-1936 - Don Cherry - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 10-19-1995
    jazz trumpeter: "Manhattan Melodies"
    11-18-1939 - Brenda Vaccaro - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    11-18-1945 - Glenn Walken - Queens, NY
    actor: (Brother of Christopher) Michael Bauer "The Guiding Light"

    November 18th deaths

    03-13-1913 - Harold J. Stone - NYC - d. 11-18-2005
    actor: Sergeant Waters "21st Precinct"
    03-30-1902 - Ted Heath - Wandsworth, London, England - d. 11-18-1969
    bandleader: "Ted Heath and His Orchestra"
    05-01-1888 - [removed] Armstrong - Waverley, Australia - d. 11-18-1973
    writer: "Drought"
    05-29-1924 - Bob Corley - Macon, GA - d. 11-18-1971
    actor: Beulah "Beulah"
    06-07-1907 - Tom Slater - Parkersburg, WV - d. 11-18-1961
    announcer: "Kitty Keen"; "Jack Berch Program"; "For Men Only"
    06-14-1929 - Cy Coleman - NYC - d. 11-18-2004
    jazz pianist, composer: "Cy Coleman at the Piano"; "Voices of Vista"
    06-18-1893 - Gladys Gooding - Macon, MO - d. 11-18-1963
    organist, singer: organist at Madison Square Garden
    07-06-1910 - Dorothy Kirsten - Montclair, NJ - d. 11-18-1992
    singer: "Keepsakes"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Light Up Time"
    07-11-1894 - Walter Wanger - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-18-1968
    film producer: "Information, Please"; "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    07-14-1880 - Donald Meek - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 11-18-1946
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-29-1916 - Max Bice - d. 11-18-2002
    newscaster: KMO Seattle, Washington
    09-06-1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy - East Boston, MA - d. 11-18-1969
    ambassador to Great Britain: "Ambassador Joseph Kennedy"
    09-18-1948 - Ken Brett - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-18-2003
    part of the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcast team
    09-21-1916 - Zinovy Gerdt - Sebezh, Russia - d. 11-18-1996
    actor: Read poetry and prose on radio
    10-07-1888 - Henry Wallace - Adair County, IA - d. 11-18-1965
    vice president: "Free World Theatre"
    10-15-1900 - Fritz Feld - Berlin, Germany - d. 11-18-1993
    actor: "NBC Uinversity Theatre"; "Nightbeat"; "Advs. of the Saint"
    10-30-1891 - Bill Brandt - d. 11-18-1963
    sports commentator: "Inside of Sports"
    11-29-1894 - H. Leslie Atlass - d. 11-18-1960
    Chicago radio pioneer, CBS executive
    12-12-1909 - Louis G. Cowan - Chicago, IL - d. 11-18-1976
    producer: "The Quiz Kids"; "Murder at Midnight"
    12-12-1913 - Hal Dickinson - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-18-1970
    organized Modernaires: "Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra"
    xx-xx-1919 - Walter McGraw - d. 11-18-1978
    director: "Believe It or Not"; "The Chase"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:51:07 -0500
    From: vzeo0hfk@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  True Crime Radio
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       Academically inclined OTR Digest suscribers may be interested in
       getting hold of this old issue of the American Quarterly. I met Elena
       at a conference several years ago

       Howard Blue

       Razlogova, Elena.

       Elena Razlogova - True Crime Radio and Listener Disenchantment with
       Network Broadcasting, 1935-1946 - American Quarterly 58:1 American
       Quarterly [removed] (2006) 137-158 True Crime Radio and Listener
       Disenchantment with Network Broadcasting, 1935-1946 Elena Razlogova In
       Depression-era Oklahoma, at a remote farmhouse in Comanche County,
       local sheriffs caught up with two small-time armed robbers, George
       Sands and Leon Siler. A gunfight ensued, and the owner of the farm
       died in the cross fire. Three years later, in February of 1939, a
       popular "true crime" radio program, Gang Busters, reenacted these
       events over the national CBS network. After the broadcast, producers
       received a letter from the farmer's widow, Berniece Medrano, who
       declared Gang Busters' rendition of the gunfight a fraud. Medrano
       insisted that the lawmen deliberately shot her husband: In the first
       place, the Bandits did not order us to cook dinner, there was much
       more shooting than you had in the play -- and my husband was not
       killed in cross fire -- one of those honorable, and noble, Gang
       Bustin' laws did it -- deliberately -- and I can prove it if given a
       chance. . . . I don't know that you have any right using my name
       without permission concerning a bunch of lies. The broadcast failed to
       depict the social order as Medrano saw it -- rigged against farmers,
       with lawmen cast as villains and bandits as victims. Eyewitnesses
       interviewed for the broadcast also objected to the script.

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    Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:51:32 -0500
    From: "Roger Keel" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Serials

    Dominick Cancilla asked about serials to listen to with his son.  So here
    are my suggestions:

    Magic Island -- Good story about a search for a missing girl, mysterious
    island and young hero.

    Cinnamon Bear -- Great Christmas story

    Moon over Africa -- Treasure. Lost City, and a talking severed head.

    Flash Gordon -- Complete story in 26 shows, the last two introduce Jungle
    Jim

    Jungle Jim -- Jim's early adventures were serials.

    And of course:

    Adventures by Morse and I Love a Mystery.

    Roger Keel

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    Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:52:35 -0500
    From: JJLjackson@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Christmas marathon
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    Have you started your Christmas cards yet? Wait, we haven't even gotten to
    Thanksgiving! Well I've got something to inspire you as you do the finishing
    touches on those home-made presents, or as you bake your Christmas cookies.
    On
    Dec. 6 and 7, Radio Out of the Past presents their third holiday marathon.
    Dedicated to a wonderful broadcaster and friend, Fred Bertelsen, it features
    24
     hours of old-time-radio Christmas shows.  That's 12 straight hours on 2
    days! Starting at 9 am Pacific (noon eastern) and ending at 9 pm Pacific
    (midnight eastern) each day. Everything from Burns and Allen to the Shadow.
    Oh,  did
    I mention prizes? Yes, each host will give away one prize per hour. So you
    don't want to miss it. That's the Old-time-radio Marathon on Dec. 6 and 7 on
    [removed] See ya there!

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    Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:54:47 -0500
    From: "Frank McGurn Jr." <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Looking for info.

    Back many years ago in the early 1940's I remember a program called "Easy
    Money" the moral of show was there in no easy money. The program had case
    history's of various ploys to cheat in business or dishonest com artist to
    get easy money.
    I don't remember is it was a network show or if it local in Chicago. It was
    an evening program. I'm not sure if it was a 15 minute or a half hour.
    My father use to listen with me and pointed out there were good lessons. Well
    as result no one has ever cheated out of money, because I never had any.

    Anyone know any about "Easy Money"?

    Frank McGurn

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    Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:12:01 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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