Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #112
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Date: 7/19/2011 12:21 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 112
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      7-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Lucille Ball's 100th Birthday         [ Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed]; ]
      7-16 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 17-23 Jul  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Norman Corwin on YesterdayUSA Sunday  [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      Super Man Radio Spoof                 [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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    Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:19:35 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-15 births/deaths

    July 15th births

    07-15-1889 - Marjorie Rambeau - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-6-1970
    actor: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-15-1893 - William Dieterle - Rhein-Palatinate, Germany - d. 12-8-1972
    movie director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    07-15-1897 - Howard Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-26-1991
    bandleader: ((King of Society Dance Music) "Atwater Kent Hour";
    "Campbell Soup Show"
    07-15-1900 - Ernest Batchelor - d. 2-25-1976
    disk jockey: WDAX McRae, Georgia
    07-15-1900 - Helen Shields - Champaign, IL - d. 8-7-1963
    actor: Linda Dale "I Love Linda Dale"; Sylvia Meadows "Amanda of
    Honeymoon Hill"
    07-15-1903 - Walter D. Edmonds - Boonville, NY - d. 1-24-1998
    writer: "Information Please"
    07-15-1905 - Dorothy Fields - Allenhurst, NJ - d. 3-28-1974
    lyricist: "Music for Millions"
    07-15-1905 - Shirley Povich - Bar Harbor ME - d. 6-4-1998
    sports columnist: "World Series Preview"; "Sonny Liston vs. Cassius
    Clay"
    07-15-1906 - Richard Armour - San Pedro, CA - d. 2-28-1987
    humorist: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
    07-15-1908 - Lee Erwin - Cincinnati, OH - d. 9-21-2000
    organist, arranger: Moneybags Erwin "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    07-15-1908 - Parke Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-8-1993
    creator, writer, director: "Joe Penner"; "My Friend Irma"
    07-15-1910 - Ken Lynch - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-13-1990
    actor: Lt. Matt King "Twenty-First Precinct"; Christopher Gard "Cafe
    Istanbul"
    07-15-1912 - John Ademy - d. 9-1-1976
    bass-baritone: WCAO Baltimore, Maryland
    07-15-1913 - Cowboy Copas - Muskogee, OK - d. 3-5-1963
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Music Time"
    07-15-1916 - Len Sterling - Chicago, IL
    announcer/actor: "FBI in Peace and War"; "Pot 'O Gold"; "Sunday
    Serenade"
    07-15-1918 - Joan Roberts - NYC
    singer: "The Texaco Star Theatre"
    07-15-1919 - Eve McVeagh - Ohio - d. 12-10-1997
    actor: Harriet Beatty "Clyde Beatty Show"
    07-15-1920 - B. H. Anderly - d. 1-13-1998
    newscaster, disk jockey: KLIZ Brainerd, Minnesota
    07-15-1923 - Herb Sargent - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-6-2005
    writer: Wrote for radio in the 1940s
    07-15-1925 - Phil Carey - Hackensack NJ - d. 2-6-2008
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    07-15-1927 - Nan Martin - Decatur, IL - d. 3-4-2010
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"

    July 15th deaths

    01-09-1899 - Ted Maxwell - Oakland, CA - d. 7-15-1959
    actor: "Captain Ross "Flying Time"; Fred Nino "Masquerade"
    01-23-1923 - Florence Halop - Jamaica Estates, NY - d. 7-15-1986
    actor: Hotbreath Houlihan "Jimmy Durante Show"; Miss Duffy "Duffy's
    Tavern"
    01-29-1927 - Peter Fernandez - NYC - d. 7-15-2010
    actor: George Bigelow "The Aldrich Family"; Skip "Right to Happiness"
    02-02-1899 - Benny Rubin - Boston, MA - d. 7-15-1986
    comedian: Tout "Jack Benny Program"; "Benny Rubin's Whirligig Revue"
    02-04-1905 - Eddie Foy, Jr. - New Rochelle, NY - d. 7-15-1983
    vaudevillian: "Starlight Operetta"; "Mitch Miller Show"
    02-13-1916 - Ruth Batcheller - d. 7-15-1990
    woman's program on WACE Massachusetts
    02-15-1893 - Walter Donaldson - NYC - d. 7-15-1947
    songwriter: "Fitch Bandwagon"
    02-27-1904 - Elisabeth Welch - NYC - d. 7-15-2003
    actress, singer: "Soft Lights and Sweet Music"
    03-05-1898 - Bud Selvin - d. 7-15-1980
    bandleader: "Devoe Redskins"; "Kolster Radio Hour"
    03-31-1870 - James Cox - Jacksonburg, OH - d. 7-15-1957
    radio station owner, Cox Broadcasting
    04-14-1903 - Lloyd Amoo - d. 7-15-1973
    newscaster: KRMC Jamestown, North Dakota
    05-01-1906 - "Little" Jackie Heller - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-15-1988
    singer: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"
    06-27-1906 - Carroll Bratman - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-15-1984
    staff percussionist for CBS radio
    07-08-1913 - Bill Thompson - Terre Haute, IN - d. 7-15-1971
    actor: Wallace Wimple, Horatio K Boomer and others "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    07-26-1897 - Paul Gallico - NYC - d. 7-15-1976
    writer: "Author's Playhouse"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Radio City Playhouse"
    08-05-1911 - David Brian - NYC - d. 7-15-1993
    actor: Mr. District Attorney "Mr. District Attorney"
    08-28-1885 - Vance Palmer - Bundaberg, Australia - d. 7-15-1959
    writer: "Telling Mrs. Baker"
    09-15-1916 - Margaret Lockwood - Karachi, British India - d. 7-15-1990
    actor: "A Christmas Carol"
    09-25-1905 - Natalie Arnoux - d. 7-15-1997
    violinist: KFDM Beaumont, Texas
    10-28-1906 - Lou Bring - d. 7-15-1951
    orchestra leader: "The Al Jolson Show"; "The Gracie Fields Show"
    11-16-1896 - Lawrence Tibbett - Bakersfield, CA - d. 7-15-1960
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Golden Voices"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Connie Norman - Texas - d. 7-15-1996
    transsexual talk show host: "The Connie Norman Show"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:19:47 -0400
    From: Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lucille Ball's 100th Birthday

    Saturday, August 6th, 2011, marks Lucille Ball's 100th birthday, and I'm
    going to be in Jamestown, NY (Lucy's birthplace) directing two live radio
    shows at 3:30pm on the stage of the 1,300 seat Reg Lenna Civic Center, for
    delayed broadcast that evening around 8pm Eastern time on Sirius XM Satellite
    Radio (on the Radio Classics Channel - Channel 82). One of the shows will be
    a re-creation of an episode of Lucy's radio sitcom, "My Favorite Husband."
    The other will be the "world premiere" of my own new radio play, "I Love
    Lucy: The Untold Story"-- a humorous look behind the scenes at the many
    obstacles that had to be overcome in order to get "I Love Lucy" on the air in
    1951. (The play's "out of town tryout" was last month in Bellevue Washington,
    at the REPS Radio Showcase). The cast will include Michael C. Gwynne, Stuffy
    Singer, fellow FOTR director Gary Yoggy, and a number of excellent standup
    comedian/actors who will be in town for that week's "Lucy Fest" comedy
    festival. It should be a lot of fun. Details on the radio event (and the rest
    of the weekend's festivities) can be found at [removed]

    - Gregg Oppenheimer

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    Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:19:55 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-16 births/deaths

    July 16th births

    07-16-1882 - Charles Egelston - Covington, KY - d. 10-31-1958
    actor: Shuffle Shober "Ma Perkins"; Humphrey Fuller "Just Plain Bill"
    07-16-1887 - Floyd Gibbons - Washington, [removed] - d. 9-23-1939
    commentator: "Headline Hunter"; "World Adventures"; "Nash Program"
    07-16-1888 - Percy Kilbride - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-11-1964
    actor,host: "Paul Whiteman Presents"; "Melody Round-Up"; "Stars in the
    Air"
    07-16-1891 - Blossom Seeley - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-17-1974
    song and dance trouper: "The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
    07-16-1902 - Andrew Stone - Oakland, CA - d. 6-9-1999
    film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-16-1903 - Carmen Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 4-17-1971
    saxophonist: (Guy's brother) "Guy Lombardo and His Orchestra"; "Esso
    Marketer"
    07-16-1903 - Edith Walton - d. 3-1-1975
    journalist: "Speaking of Books"; "Author Meets the Critics"
    07-16-1906 - Asakusa Ichimaru (Mitsue Goto) - Japan - d. 2-17-1997
    singer: "Mitsukoshi Calendar of Songs"
    07-16-1906 - Vincent Sherman - Vienna, GA - d. 6-18-2006
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    07-16-1907 - Barbara Stanwyck - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-20-1990
    actor: "Prudential Family Hour of Stars"; "This Is My Story"
    07-16-1907 - Ned Calmer - Chicago, IL - d. 3-9-1986
    news analyst: "World News Roundup"
    07-16-1908 - Frank Singiser - Montevideo, MN - d. 5-28-1982
    newscaster: "Mutual News"
    07-16-1911 - Ginger Rogers - Independence, MO - d. 4-25-1995
    actor: "Star and the Story"; "Packard Hour"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-16-1911 - Sonny Tufts - Boston, MA - d. 6-4-1970
    actor: "Harold Lloyd's Comedy Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-16-1912 - Raphael (Ray) Barr - NYC - d. 3-17-1983
    composer, arranger, pianist: "Cliquot Club Eskimos"
    07-16-1915 - Elaine Barrie - NYC - d. 3-1-2003
    actor: (Wife of John Barrymore) "Streamlined Shakespeare"
    07-16-1915 - Joe O'Brien - Yonkers, NY - d. 7-24-2005
    announcer: "Jack and Cliff"; "Rosemary"
    07-16-1916 - Lionel Baxter - d. 11-11-2000
    sportscaster: WAPI Birmingham, Alabama
    07-16-1917 - William Woodson - Los Angeles, CA
    actor: John Britton :Just Plain Bill"; Narrator "This is Your FBI"
    07-16-1920 - Edwin Cooper - d. 8-14-1961
    announcer, actor: "The Milt Herth Trio"; "RFD America"
    07-16-1920 - Shirley Thomas - d. 7-21-2005
    producer: "Hopalong Cassidy"
    07-16-1925 - Cal Tjader - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-5-1982
    jazz vibrophonist: "Music for Moderns"; ""All-Star Parade of Bands"
    07-16-1926 - Stanley Clements - Long Island, NY - d. 10-16-1981
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-16-1927 - Mindy Carson - NYC
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    07-16-1928 - Robert Sheckley - NYC - d. 12-9-2005
    writer: "X-Minus One"
    07-16-1930 - Joey Giardello - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-4-2008
    middleweight boxer; "Tops In Sports"; "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"
    07-16-1932 - Max McGee - Saxton City, NV - d. 10-20-2007
    color commentator for the Green Bay Packers
    07-16-1948 - Stella Kent - United Kingdom
    writer: "Because"

    July 16th deaths

    01-01-1905 - Dick Aurandt - d. 7-16-1984
    orchestra leader: "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"; "Steve Canyon"
    01-16-1910 - Dwight Weist - Palo Alto, CA - d. 7-16-1991
    actor: Mr. District Attorney "Mr. District Attorney"
    01-17-1904 - Patsy Ruth Miller - d. 7-16-1995
    silent film star: "Arthur Godfrey and His Talent Scouts"
    01-30-1885 - Ida Bailey Allen - Danielson, CT - d. 7-16-1973
    homemaker: "Ida Bailey Allen and the Chef"
    02-16-1933 - Rod Trongard - d. 7-16-2005
    announcer: Minnesota radio
    02-18-1901 - Wayne King - Savannah, IL - d. 7-16-1985
    bandleader: (The Waltz King) "Lady Esther Serenade"
    02-19-1896 - Eddie Jackson - d. 7-16-1980
    comic: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Mail Call"; "Big Show"
    03-13-1907 - Grady Cole - d. 7-16-1979
    announcer: "The Johnson Family Singers"
    03-30-1896 - Samson Raphaelson - NYC - d. 7-16-1983
    playwright: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-15-1909 - Gordon Bambrick - d. 7-16-1977
    announcer: "Reading Is Fun"
    05-09-1909 - Don Messer - Tweedside, New Brunswick, Canada - d.
    7-16-1972
    fiddle: "Don Messer and His Islanders"
    06-18-1913 - Harold Alberghini - d. 7-16-1993
    disk jockey and newscaster: Maine
    07-11-1884 - Howard Estabrook - Detroit, MI - d. 7-16-1978
    screen writer: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-12-1884 - Edgar Stehli - Lyons, France - d. 7-16-1973
    actor: Dr. Huer "Buck Rogers"; Rex A. Starr "It's Murder"
    07-27-1928 - Barbara Eiler - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-16-2006
    actor: Babs Riley "Life of Riley"; Millie Anderson "Day in the Life of
    Dennis Day"
    09-01-1902 - John J. Anthony - NYC - d. 7-16-1970
    moderator: "Good Will Hour"; "John J. Anthony Hour"
    09-02-1918 - Laurinda Almeida - Sao Paulo, Brazil - d. 7-16-1995
    guitarist: "Stan Kenton and His Orchestra"
    10-23-1904 - Margaret Speaks - Columbus, OH - d. 7-16-1977
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"
    11-03-1880 - Pearl King Tanner - Eureka, CA - d. 7-16-1980
    actor: Mothere Sherwood "Hawthorne House"; "Eno Crime Clues"
    11-10-1893 - John P. Marquand - Wilmington, DE - d. 7-16-1963
    writer: "Information Please"
    11-12-1917 - Jo Stafford - Coalinga, CA - d. 7-16-2008
    singer: "Tommy Dorsey Show"; "Ford Show"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    11-19-1913 - Blue Barron - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-16-2005
    bandleader: "Blue Barron and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"
    12-03-1916 - Whitfield Connor - Rathdowney, Ireland - d. 7-16-1988
    actor: Harry Davis "When a Girl Marries"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:20:03 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 17-23 July

     From Those Were The Days

    7/18

    1936   The critically acclaimed, experimental theatre of the air, The
    Columbia Workshop, debuted on CBS.

    7/19

    1942   The Seventh Symphony, by Shastakovich, was performed for the
    first time in the United States by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony
    Orchestra.

    1948    Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon, debuted on
    CBS this day.

    7/20

    1935   NBC debuted G men. The show was later renamed Gangbusters.

    Joe

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    Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:20:10 -0400
    From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Norman Corwin on YesterdayUSA Sunday

    Back on May 14, I met Norman Corwin in person for the first time, talked
    with him for a bit, and did a presentation about his career for the
    Association for Recorded Sound Collections conference in Los Angeles.
    On this Sunday night on [removed] we will be playing my tribute
    to Norman and the all-star re-creation of "The Undecided Molecule"
    presented that day.  The recordings will be featured on Walden Hughes'
    live show which begins at 10:30 pm Eastern.  There are some pictures up
    on my facebook page, and we hope to get up some short video clips of the
    rehearsal.

    Last year when I learned that ARSC was meeting in LA, I immediately
    called my YesterdayUSA partner Walden Hughes and asked him if he could
    get Norman for us like he ad just helped with for REPS.  "I think so,"
    he replied, and a few weeks later came the confirmation from Michael
    Kasey with plans to do an all-star Corwin re-creation following the
    round-table the three of us hoped to do with Norman.  Alas, this year
    has been rough for Norman who just turned 101, especially with the death
    of his older brother Emile at 107.  His voice has become very weak and
    he prefers to speak one-to-one rather than to a public audience, but
    Michael assure us that Norman was REALLY looking forward to this, and
    the preparations of "The Undecided Molecule" re-creation kept him going
    these months after Emile's death.  (Coincidentally, the prospect of this
    presentation kept ME going during my recovery from complications after
    an operation in late January which put me on life-support for three
    days.  I was determined to be able to stand and walk and get to the
    conference in [removed]  And I did.)

    A few weeks before the conference, Michael Kasey called me and told me
    that our planned interview round-table would not be able to have Norman
    speaking.  I knew that our group of archivists, librarians, and record
    collectors were quite different from the OTR groups Norman was known to,
    and that he would need an introduction to our group, I fleshed out my
    question outline into an introduction to Norman's OTR career complete
    with a dozen sound excerpts that included some past discussions I had
    had with Norman on YesterdayUSA.  I discussed why I prefer the uplifting
    patriotism of "We Hold These Truths" over the seeming belligerence of
    "On A Note Of Triumph."  I read from a letter he had written about "On A
    Note Of Triumph" where he also had expressed his concerns, and I matched
    his discussion with an excerpt.

    Shortly after 9/11/2001 I had discussed with Norman my long-held feeling
    about the glory of the Bill of Rights he had written about having been
    violated within months by the interment of the Japanese -- including
    American citizens.  "Ironic," he had said, and then went on to discuss
    the 2001 parallel where any Muslim-looking person was being viewed with
    suspicion.   This was before Gitmo, Abu Gareb, and interment of
    indefinite length -- and I know that if we did this as a live interview
    he would have wanted to discuss these other compromises to The Bill Of
    Rights, and how much these images differed from the thoughtful
    "conqueror" (played by soft-spoken Elliott Lewis) he presented in "On A
    Note of Triumph".  I had hoped that Norman would approve of the
    political discussions I was able to include, and was gratified afterward
    when he told me he appreciated what I had said.

    To document his pre-CBS career I played an excerpt of his poetry reading
    from a rare Columbia album he did for their Educational Series because I
    had been unable to find a recording of his WQXR series "Poetic
    License".  I had looked all over and asked everyone -- but not so.
    Right after, my friend Andy Lanset, WNYC/WQXR archivist, came up to me
    and said "Gee, Mike, I wish I had known you were looking for "Poetic
    License" because we finally were able to negotiate for one last month."
    And sure enough, it is there for everyone to hear on their website.

    [removed]

    A couple of other things.  Norman told me that Jimmy Stewart was NOT supposed
    to chuckle at the Don't Walk/Walk line early in "We Hold These Truths".  He
    than started to say that this now made it TWO mistakes in the program.  EVERY
    time this program is discussed he always brought up the other mistake, and I
    told him that he has to stop hearing only the mistake because it is a GREAT
    program!  (I'll discuss the other mistake another time.)  He also confirmed
    that yes, he was surprised when Groucho cracked up Keenan Wynn at the closing
    credits of the original broadcast of "The Undecided Molecule", yes, he was
    annoyed that it happened, and no, he does not remember a crack-up like that
    on any of his other programs.  (If you haven't heard this, listen to it, it
    is a blooper par excellence.)

    The re-creation of "The Undecided Molecule" was wonderful.  The ARSC group
    was enthralled -- while we are accustomed to these at our OTR conventions,
    they've never had anything like this performed at ARSC. My friends who were
    running the convention were genuinely worried that this couldn't be done, but
    I had to reassure them that the OTR people do these things all the time, and
    we can easily pull this off.  Michael Kasey was a wonderful director -- he's
    had a good teacher -- and the sound effects and music integration were
    flawless.  Norman Lloyd didn't look or sound a day over 60, although he is
    95.  Janet Waldo was fetching in a red minidress and white boots.  Phil
    Proctor was decked out in a white judge's wig.  A geat time was had by all,
    and we'll be describing it during the YesterdayUSA program on Sunday.

    Michael Biel  mbiuel@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:20:45 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Super Man Radio Spoof

    While spending the morning with the nieces and nephews, I caught an old time
    radio reference in the children's cartoon, MAX AND RUBY. In the episode
    "Super Max to the Rescue," two bunnies trying to create their own play circus
    (using stuffed animals) find their efforts thwarted by Max, dressed up like
    Superman, trying to save people from the giant elephant. Max is inspired to
    save the day because he spent a few minutes in the livingroom, by an
    old-style radio, listening to THE ADVENTURES OF SUPER BUNNY. No television
    here, just the radio. Clearly a direct old-time radio reference. And it seems
    Max has done this more than once on the show -- there's even a children's
    book featuring a similar story, SUPER BUNNY TALES (Max and Ruby).

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