Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #3
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 3
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Mike Wallace and Casey Kasem          [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Lone Ranger                           [ "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed]; ]
      Mike Wallace on the Lone Ranger       [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
      1-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      1-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Anne Francis                          [ "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed]; ]
      [removed] Margot Stevenson, 1918-2011    [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
      Green Hornet surprise                 [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Henager's Memories & Nostalgia        [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:43:31 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mike Wallace and Casey Kasem

    Joe Salerno asked:
    Martin Grams, Jr. informs us that Mike Wallace was among the cast of THE
    LONE RANGER radio broadcasts. Do we know what eps and do those circulate?

    Summer and fall of 1941, and he played various roles from henchmen to town citizens.

    Regarding the mention that Casey Kasem was Kato on THE GREEN HORNET, to date, nothing conclusive
    has been found to verify he was Kato at any time on the series. I asked Casey Kasem personally
    about two years ago and he said he worked for a radio station in Detroit beginning in the
    mid-fifties and since THE GREEN HORNET went off in 1952, and the last 26 original episodes were
    clearly not Kasem, I'd LOVE to know where that rumor started because I've seen it posted twice
    now in the past month on the Digest.
    Martin

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:43:37 -0500
    From: "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lone Ranger

    In his latest post, Derek Tague signs off with "Hi-ho, Silver!",
    which is what I thought I was hearing as I played beside the big
    speaker on the Silvertone console when I was a kid. But maybe I
    wasn't paying close attention or there was just too much static
    on the AM band, because when I got my first Lone Ranger comic
    book I was shocked to see the masked man waving goodbye and
    shouting, "Hi-yo, Silver, away!" So, to those who have seen the
    original scripts, yo-bro, what were Fran Striker's actual words?

    Bob Cockrum

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:43:52 -0500
    From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mike Wallace on the Lone Ranger

    I'm afraid I have to correct my friend Derek (news from the ether) Tague
    about Mike Wallace playing a bad guy on the Lone Ranger.  Mike did indeed
    appear on the program once, but as the announcer.  He was pretty good too.
    The episode is No. 451, "The Deputy Faces Trouble", from December 16, 1940.
    One presumes the regular announcer had some last minute Christmas shopping
    to do and Mike filled in.
    Happy New Year everyone.

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:43:58 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-2 births/deaths

    January 2nd births

    01-02-1865 - William Lyon Phelps - d. 8-21-1943
    author, critic, scholar: "Information Please"
    01-02-1888 - Tito Schipa - Lecce, Italy - d. 12-16-1965
    operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"; "La Rosa Concerts"
    01-02-1892 - Artur Rodzinski - Dalmatia, Yugoslavia - d. 11-27-1958
    concuctor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Cleveland Symphony Orchestra"
    01-02-1894 - Robert Nathan - NYC - d. 5-25-1985
    writer: "CBS Radio Workshop"
    01-02-1901 - Hugh Ross Williamson - Romsey, England - d. 1-13-1978
    author: "Paul, a Bondslave"
    01-02-1904 - Bernardine Flynn - Madison, WI - d. 3-10-1977
    actor: Sade Gook "Vic and Sade"; Mathilda Barker "Welcome Valley"
    01-02-1904 - James Melton - Moultrie, GA - d. 4-21-1961
    singer" "Palmolive Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "Harvest of Stars"
    01-02-1905 - Michale Tippett - London, England - d. 1-8-1998
    composer: "Midsummer Marriage"
    01-02-1913 - Anna Lee - Ightham, Kent, England - d. 5-14-2004
    actor: "Soldiers in Greaspaint"; "Lifebuoy Show"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-02-1913 - David Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-25-2000
    producer: " We the People"
    01-02-1915 - Nick Fatool - Milbury, MA - d. 9-26-2000
    drummer: (Member of the Big 7 Band) "Pete Kelly's Blues"
    01-02-1917 - Vera Zorina - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-9-2003
    ballet dancer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "I'm An American"
    01-02-1918 - Joan Merrill - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-10-1992
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-02-1920 - Charles Douglass - Mexico - d. 4-8-2003
    radio engineer for the CBS radio network
    01-02-1920 - Corny Peeples - Oak Park, IL - d. 11-15-1954
    actor: William Snood "Tom Mix"; Bud Fairchild "Stepmother"
    01-02-1920 - Isaac Asimov - Petrovich, Russia - d. 4-6-1992
    Author: "I, Robot"; "Nightfall"
    01-02-1920 - Richard Lewis - NYC - d. 5-25-2009
    director, writer: "The Falcon"; "Suspense"
    01-02-1923 - Mary Elizabeth Smith - Ft. Worth, TX
    associate radio producer: "Wide, Wide World"
    01-02-1925 - Larry Harmon - Toledo, OH - d. 7-3-2008
    actor: "The Great Gildersleeve"
    01-02-1925 - Richard Jessup - d. 10-22-1982
    writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    01-02-1928 - Howard Caine - Nashville, TN - d. 12-29-1993
    actor: "The Brighter Day"; "The Guiding Light"
    01-02-1930 - Julius LaRosa - Brooklyn, NY
    singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    01-02-1931 - Renee Roy - Buffalo, NY - d. 7-30-2005
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    01-02-1932 - Peter Redgrove - Kingston-on-Thames, England - d. 6-16-2003
    writer: "The Nature of Cold Weather"

    January 2nd deaths

    01-12-1906 - Tex Ritter - Murvaul, TX - d. 1-2-1974
    singer: "Lone Star Rangers"; "Grand Ole Opry"
    01-13-1914 - Osa Massen - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 1-2-2006
    actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Columbia Workshop"
    02-07-1896 - Earl Burtnett - Harrisburg, PA - d. 1-2-1936
    orchestra leader: KHJ Los Angeles, California
    02-09-1902 - Fred Harman, Sr. - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-2-1982
    cartoonist: Creator of Red Ryder
    02-19-1915 - Dick Emery - London, England - d. 1-2-1983
    comedian: "Educating Archie"
    02-20-1920 - Frank Muir - Ramsgate, England - d. 1-2-1998
    comedy writer: "Take It from Here"; "Bedtime with Braden"
    03-08-1918 - Alan Hale, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-2-1990
    actor: "Smiths of Hollywood"
    03-30-1883 - Jo Davidson - NYC - d. 1-2-1952
    sculptor: "Information Please"
    04-14-1915 - Richard Hart - Providence, RI - d. 1-2-1951
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    05-04-1913 - Joe Aleman - d. 1-2-1996
    disk jockey: KPRL Paso Robles, California
    06-15-1921 - Erroll Garner - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-2-1977
    jazz muscian: "Jubilee"; "Command Performance"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    08-23-1906 - Harriet Parsons - Burlington, IA - d. 1-2-1983
    commentator: (Daughter of Louella Parsons) "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-25-1912 - John Rarig - Washington - d. 1-2-1991
    singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
    09-08-1902 - Milton Watson - Salinas, CA - d. 1-2-1982
    vocalist: "Burns and Allen"
    10-20-1897 - Adolph Deutsch - London, England - d. 1-2-1980
    arranger, conductor, composer: "Kraft Program"; "This Is Hollywood"
    10-27-1910 - Jack Carson - Carmen, Canada - d. 1-2-1963
    comedian: "Jack Carson Show"; "New Sealtest Village Store"
    11-02-1921 - Shep Menken - NYC - d. 1-2-1999
    actor: "Six Shooter"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Four-Star Playhouse"
    11-05-1901 - Etta Moten - Weimer, TX - d. 1-2-2004
    singer, actress: "The Laff Parade"; Hollywood Spotlight"
    11-14-1904 - Dick Powell - Mountain. View, AR - d. 1-2-1963
    actor: Richard Diamond "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; Richard
    Rogue "Rogue's Gallery"
    11-19-1897 - Bud Green - Austria - d. 1-2-1981
    lyricist: "Great Moments to Music"
    12-02-1880 - Fred A. Sullivan - Zionsville, IN - d. 1-2-1951
    actor: Kirby Willoughby "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Mitchell Frazier
    "Story of Mary Marlin"
    12-10-1903 - Una Merkel - Covington, KY - d. 1-2-1986
    actor: Adeline Fairchild "Great Gildersleeve"; "Johnny Presents";
    "Texaxo Star Theatre"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:44:35 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-3 births/deaths

    January 3rd births

    01-03-1886 - Josephine Hull - Newtonville, MA - d. 3-12-1957
    actor: Miss Julia "Miss Julia"; Mrs. Kayden "The O'Neills"
    01-03-1891 - Gaston Anderson - d. 5-xx-1978
    disk jockey: WGWD Gasden, Alabama
    01-03-1892 - Marion Davies - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-25-1961
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "How I Made Up for the Moview"
    01-03-1893 - Gilbert Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 9-29-1970
    writer: "Americans All, Immigrants All"
    01-03-1897 - Dorothy Arzner - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-1-1979
    film director: "You Were Meant to be a Star"
    01-03-1898 - Freddie Rich - Warsaw, Poland - d. 9-8-1956
    bandleader: "Friendly Five Footnotes"; "Freddie Rich's Penthouse Party"
    01-03-1898 - John Loder - London, England - d. 12-9-1988
    actor, host: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"
    01-03-1898 - Zasu Pitts - Parsons, KS - d. 6-7-1963
    comedian: "Lum and Abner"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
    01-03-1900 - Cecil Underwood - Vienna, MO - d. 9-27-1976
    producer, director: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"
    01-03-1905 - Anna May Wong - Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-3-1961
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    01-03-1905 - Ray Milland - Neath, Wales - d. 3-10-1986
    actor: Ray McNutley "Meet Mr. McNutley"
    01-03-1909 - Victor Borge - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 12-23-2000
    comedian, pianist: "Victor Borge Show"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    01-03-1911 - Al Sack - NYC - d. 12-6-1947
    orchestra leader: "Beula Show"; "Tony Martin Show"; "Frank Morgan Show"
    01-03-1914 - Carl (Henry) Stewart - Alabama - d. 2-4-1993
    bass: "The Radio Cowboys"
    01-03-1916 - Betty Furness - NYC - d. 4-2-1994
    actor: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"
    01-03-1916 - Maxine Andrews - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-21-1995
    singer: (Andrews Sisters) "Andrews Sisters Revue"
    01-03-1917 - Jay Sommers - NYC - d. 9-25-1985
    writer: "Lum and Abner"; "Joan Davis Time"; "Alan Young Show"
    01-03-1918 - Jesse White - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-8-1997
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"; "Sears Radio Theatre"
    01-03-1920 - Lester Bashara - d. 2-19-1990
    newscaster: KGFW Kearney, Nebraska
    01-03-1923 - Charles Tingwell - Coogee, Australia - d. 5-15-2009
    actor: "The Clock"
    01-03-1925 - Jill Balcom - London, England - d. 7-18-2009
    actress: "Time for Verse"
    01-03-1927 - William Boyett - Akron, OH - d. 12-29-2004
    actor: Freelance in younger years
    01-03-1930 - Marcel Dube - Montreal, Canada
    author: "Chambres a louer"
    01-03-1942 - John Thaw - West Gorton, England - d. 2-21-2002
    actor: "Peter Pan"

    January 3rd deaths

    01-27-1905 - Howard McNear - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-3-1969
    actor: Doctor Charles Adams "Gunsmoke"
    02-08-1890 - Irving Kaufman - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-3-1976
    singer: "Champion Sparkers"; "Broadway Vanities"
    02-08-1892 - Will Aubrey - Lithuania - d. 1-3-1958
    actor: (The Bard of the Byways) "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    02-10-1897 - Judith Anderson - Adelaide, Australia - d. 1-3-1992
    actor: Royal Gelatin Hour"
    02-13-1904 - Erwin D. Canham - Auburn, ME - d. 1-3-1982
    news commentator: "Christian Science Monitor Views the News"
    02-20-1874 - Mary Garden - Aberdeen, Scotland - d. 1-3-1967
    singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
    02-22-1901 - Bess Johnson - d. 1-3-1975
    actor: Bess Johnson "Story of Bess Johnson"; Lady Esther "Lady Esther
    Serenade
    03-03-1948 - Byron MacGregor - Alberta, Canada - d. 1-3-1995
    CKLW radio newsman, recorded narrative "The Americans"
    03-04-1907 - Pat McGeehan - Steelton, PA - d. 1-3-1988
    announcer, actor: "Abbott and Costello"; "The Red Skelton Show"
    03-26-1924 - Jean M. Brooks - Brighton, England - d. 1-3-2003
    writer: "Gregory of the Outback"; "Opal Witch"
    04-02-1907 - Luke Appling - High Point, NC - d. 1-3-1991
    baseball great: "Tops in Sport"
    04-03-1904 - Peter Van Steeden - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - d.
    1-3-1990
    bandleader: "Town Hall Tonight"; "Mr. District Attorney"
    04-16-1897 - Milton J. Cross - NYC - d. 1-3-1975
    announcer, commentator: (The Voice of the Met) "General Motors Concerts"
    04-24-1906 - William "Lord Haw Haw" Joyce - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-3-1946
    propagnadist for Nazi Germany during World War II: Hung for treason
    05-16-1880 - Julius Tannen - Chicago, IL - d. 1-3-1965
    comedian: (Human Chatterbox) "Goldenrod Revue"; "Seven Star Revue"
    05-23-1907 - Kenneth Griffin - Enid, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-3-1951
    actor: Larry Noble "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"
    06-06-1923 - Beverly Styles - Richmond, VA - d. 1-3-2005
    violinist, pianist, drummer vocalist
    07-25-1894 - Isabella Beech - d. 1-3-1972
    food editor: Francis Lee Barton "Mother Knows Best"
    08-12-1895 - Carol DeAngelo - Rome, Italy - d. 1-3-1962
    actor, director: "We Love and Learn"; "The Jack Benny Program"
    08-14-1917 - Marty Glickman - NYC - d. 1-3-2001
    sprorts broadcaster: "Saturday Night Bandwagon"; "Play Ball"; "Box
    Score Review"
    09-04-1923 - Graham Archer - d. 1-3-2001
    disk jockey: "Wax Museum"; "The States of the Union"
    10-23-1912 - Floyd Mack - Ava, OH - d. 1-3-1983
    commentator: "Floyd Mack and the News"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
    12-09-1912 - Philip Guest Adams - d. 1-3-1998
    actor: "The Green Hornet"; "Gangbusters"
    12-19-1894 - Tess Gardella - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 1-3-1950
    actor: Aunt Jemina "Aunt Jemina"
    12-20-1906 - Marion Talley - Nevada, MO - d. 1-3-1983
    singer: "Ry-Krisp Presents Marion Talley"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Bryna Raeburn - d. 1-3-1986
    actor: "Gangbusters"; "Philo Vance"; "The Big Story"

    Ron
    [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:44:58 -0500
    From: "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Anne Francis

    At the risk of repeating someone, Anne Francis has died of cancer
    in Santa Barbara, California. From the Los Angeles Times:

    <<She was born Sept. 16, 1930, in Ossining, [removed] At the age of 7,
    after her family moved to New York City, she was signed by the
    John Robert Powers modeling agency.

    Her career as a child model led to acting roles on the children's
    radio shows "Let's Pretend" and "Coast-to-Coast on a Bus," and
    she then moved on to radio soap operas. In 1941, she also
    appeared on Broadway, playing Gertrude Lawrence as a child in
    "Lady in the Dark.">>

    bc

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:45:03 -0500
    From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  [removed] Margot Stevenson, 1918-2011

    Margot Stevenson passed away January 2nd. She would have been 99 on February
    8th.

    A major leading lady on Broadway, Margot Stevenson starred as Alice Sycamore
    in the original Broadway cast of the Pulitzer-winning YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH
    YOU, and also appeared in 17 other Broadway productions including STAGE DOOR
    and THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET. She also starred in a number of Warner
    Bros. films including CASTLE ON THE HUDSON, INVISIBLE STRIPES (alongside
    Bogart and Raft), SMASHING THE MONEY RING (sharing top billing with Ronald
    Reagan) and CALLING PHILO VANCE. She also did a lot of early television
    work.

    Margot of course was the inspiration and namesake for "the lovely Margot
    Lane" on THE SHADOW, and played the role opposite Orson Welles in the 1938
    Goodrich summer season (the only season that survives in its entirety).
    Margot was a fixture for many years in my FOTR recreations, and I always
    considered her the most versatile (and finest) actress in our company.
    Margot was also one of the nicest, warmest human beings and a great guest.
    She first recreated her famous radio role at the 1983 FOTR convention (with
    Rosa Rio at the Hammond organ), starred in "Sorry, Wrong Number" at the 1985
    convention and delivered her final FOTR performance at the 2005 convention.
    --Anthony Tollin

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:45:15 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Green Hornet surprise

    I think this might make most of you shake your [removed]
    Remember the numerous times someone posted on the Digest of an error in
    today's newspapers that got information wrong about an old radio show or
    character? Try this one.

    I received an e-mail a week ago from someone representing the Washington
    Post, explaining that they are doing a write-up about THE GREEN HORNET for
    the upcoming motion picture. They said their write-up was to focus on the
    inspiration for the movie, namely, the 1966 TV series. They also made
    reference that the character of THE GREEN HORNET and KATO began as a TV
    series, a spin-off from the popular BATMAN series. They asked if they could
    have my phone number and call me and ask questions.

    I sent a reply, stating yes, they can call me. I gave them my number. And I
    also pointed out that THE GREEN HORNET began as a radio program in 1936 (not
    as a TV feature in 1966). Yes, the movie is based on the TV version, but it
    began as a radio show, not as a TV show.

    His only reply to me via e-mail was that he was informed that THE GREEN
    HORNET began as a TV series and that I "must be mistaken."

    It's been a week and I never got that phone call. I can only imagine how that
    article is going to turn [removed]

    Martin Grams

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:47:55 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Henager's Memories & Nostalgia

    Cleaning out a stack of brochures I picked up at conventions the past year
    and came across one I thought might be worthy of sharing.
    Henager's Memories & Nostalgia museum located in Buckskin, Indiana.
    [removed]

    Seems they have displays for TV and movie heroes and legends like Roy Rogers
    and Gene Autry, American music with thousands of records, album covers and a
    1952 Seeburg jukebox. Smokey the Bear memorabilia, a 1930 Model A Ford, and a
    display for radio station WSKP. If you plan to travel through there this
    coming summer, take a quick stop and check it out. For all others, the
    web-site address is provided.

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