Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #76
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Date: 5/18/2011 4:08 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 76
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-16 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Death Valley Days                     [ "Jim Kitchen" <jkitchen@[removed]; ]
      5-17 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      5-18 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Re: John Brown's Radio Roles          [ "Jan" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      Mysterious Traveler & Quiet Please    [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      Re: John Brown                        [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
      Harry Shearer Redux                   [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      Cincinnati 2011 Convention            [ "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@jun ]

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:58:08 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-16 births/deaths

    May 16th births

    05-16-1880 - Julius Tannen - Chicago, IL - d. 1-3-1965
    comedian: (Human Chatterbox) "Goldenrod Revue"; "Seven Star Revue"
    05-16-1881 - Henry Harlan Smith - Izard County, AR - d. 10-14-1931
    emcee: "Hoss Hair Pullers"
    05-16-1882 - Mary Gordon - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 8-23-1963
    actor: Mrs. Emmett "Those We Love"; Mrs. Hudson "Sherlock Holmes"
    05-16-1886 - Norman Ross - Portland, OR - d. 6-19-1953
    05-16-1890 - Kenneth Perkins - d. 6-7-1951
    writer: "Hawk Larabee"
    05-16-1891 - Richard Tauber - Linz, Austria-Hungary - d. 1-8-1948
    opera singer: "General Motors Concert"
    05-16-1892 - Osgood Perkins - West Newton, MA - d. 9-21-1937
    stage actor: "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
    05-16-1904 - Ruth Coleman Bilchick - d. 2-11-1989
    singer and pianist on radio
    05-16-1905 - Henry Fonda - Grand Island, NE - d. 8-12-1982
    actor: "Eyes Aloft"; "Romance"; "Suspense"
    05-16-1905 - Sol Balsom - d. 10-xx-1968
    newscaster: WCNW Brooklyn, New York
    05-16-1908 - Ed Prough - d. 4-9-1993
    announcer: WXYZ Detroit
    05-16-1911 - Margaret Sullavan - Norfolk, VA - d. 1-1-1960
    actor: "Electric Theatre"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
    05-16-1912 - Studs Terkel - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-31-2008
    journalist, sometimes actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Ma Perkins"
    05-16-1913 - Woody Herman - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-29-1987
    bandleader: (The Thundering Herd) "Wildroot Show"
    05-16-1915 - Chuck Cabot - d. 12-27-2007
    bandleader: "The Fitch Bandwagon"
    05-16-1916 - Adriana Caselotti - Bridgeport, CT - d. 1-19-1997
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-16-1916 - Bernard Braden - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-2-1993
    actor: "The Gracie Fields Show"
    05-16-1916 - Zeze Macedo - Rio de Janerio, Brazil - d. 10-8-1999
    brazilian comic: "Home Sweet Home"
    05-16-1919 - Liberace - West Allis, WI - d. 2-4-1987
    pianist, singer: "Stars for Defense"
    05-16-1922 - Larry Glick - Roxbury, MA - d. 3-26-2009
    talk show host: Boston, Massachusetts
    05-16-1924 - Frank Mankiewicz - NYC
    president National Public Radio
    05-16-1940 - Keith Miles - Cardiff, Wales
    writer: "Just for the Day"; "Athlete"
    05-16-1947 - Bob Edwards - Louisville, KY
    newscaster: "All Things Considered", "Morning Edition"; "Bob Edwards
    Show"

    May 16th deaths

    01-23-1910 - Django Reinhardt - Belgium - d. 5-16-1953
    jazz artist: "Djanjo Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club France"
    02-02-1905 - Jesse Johnson - Cumnock, NC - d. 5-16-1989
    singer: "The Johnson Family Singers"
    02-04-1909 - Charles Simon - Tettenhall Wood, England - d. 5-16-2002
    actor: "Mrs. Dale's Diary"
    02-27-1913 - Irwin Shaw - NYC - d. 5-16-1984
    author: "Columbia Workshop";"Studio One"; "The Gumps"
    03-29-1890 - Joe Cook - Evansville, IN - d. 5-16-1959
    comedian: "House Party"; "Shell Chateau"
    04-04-1904 - John Brown - Hull, England - d. 5-16-1957
    actor: Digby "Digger" O'Dell "Life of Riley"; Melvyn Foster "A Date
    with Judy"
    06-22-1912 - June Carroll - Detroit, MI - d. 5-16-2004
    composer: "New Faces of 1948"
    07-02-1921 - Paul Atkerson - d. 5-16-1988
    newscaster: KPHO Phoenix, Arizona
    07-11-1906 - Fred Feibel - Union City, NJ - d. 5-16-1978
    organist: "Between the Bookends"; "Organ Reveille"
    07-31-1918 - Hank Jones - Vicksburg, MS - d. 5-16-2010
    jazz pianist: "Andy Williams Sings"; Benny Goodman Quintet"
    09-26-1912 - Al Helfer - Elrama, PA - d. 5-16-1975
    sportscaster: "Game of the Day"; "We Want a Touchdown"
    11-08-1918 - Paul Barnes - Chicago, IL - d. 5-16-1983
    actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"
    11-23-1922 - Maze Jackson - North Carolina - d. 5-16-1996
    evangelist: "The Truck Drivers Special"
    11-24-1905 - Vee Lawnhurst - NYC - d. 5-16-1992
    pianist, singer: "The Van Huesen Program"
    12-09-1902 - Margaret Hamilton - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-16-1985
    actor: Aunt Effie "Couple Next Door"; "The Free Company"

    Ron
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:02:34 -0400
    From: "Jim Kitchen" <jkitchen@[removed];
    To: "old time radio digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Death Valley Days

    I remember listening to Death Valley Days back in the 1940's,. A fading,
    forlorn bugle call, heralded announcer Dresser Dahlstead's simple
    announcement: "As the early-morning bugle-call of covered wagon trains fades
    away among the echoes, another true Death Valley Days story is presented for
    your entertainment . . . ." Death Valley Days was first broadcast on Sept.
    30, 1930. The last broadcast was March 23, 1951. After more than 20 years on
    radio, it appears that only 4 episodes are circulating. These episodes are:
    1) 360827 Sam Bass; 2) 380617 The Burro That Had No Name; 3) 390616 Shoo
    Fly; and 4) xxxxxx Dear Teacher. Anyone aware of more Death Valley Days
    episodes in circulation?

    Jim Kitchen

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:04:13 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-17 births/deaths

    May 17th births

    05-17-1878 - Conway Tearle - NYC - d. 10-1-1939
    announcer: "Streamlined Shakespeare"
    05-17-1883 - Ethel Intropidi - NYC - d. 12-18-1946
    actor: Phyllis Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
    05-17-1889 - Harriett Gustin - d. 4-xx-1975
    co-host of a children's amateur hour on WEEI, Boston, Massachusetts
    05-17-1890 - Harry Balogh - d. 8-16-1961
    boxing ring announcer during the 1930s and 1940s
    05-17-1890 - Philip James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 11-1-1975
    conductor, composer: "Bamberger Little Symphony"; "Wellsprings of Music"
    05-17-1895 - Gayelord Hauser - Tubingen, Germany - d. 12-26-1984
    nutritionist: "Look Younger and Live Longer"
    05-17-1896 - Ruth Donnelly - Trenton, NJ - d. 11-17-1982
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-17-1897 - Fletcher Wiley - d. 1-26-1966
    commentator: "Your Home Front Reporter"
    05-17-1902 - Fausto Cleva - Trieste, Italy - d. 8-6-1971
    conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Metropolitan Opera Auditions"
    05-17-1903 - Artie Auerbach - NYC - d. 10-3-1957
    actor: Mr. Kitzel "Jack Benny Program"
    05-17-1905 - John Patrick - Louisville, KY - d. 11-7-1995
    writer, actor: Cecil "Cecil and Sally"
    05-17-1906 - Carl McIntire - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 03-19-2002
    evangelist: "Twentieth Century Reformation Hour"
    05-17-1906 - John Cannon - Chicago, IL - d. 6-22-2001
    announcer, actor: "City Hospital"; "Jack Armstrong, the All-American
    Boy"
    05-17-1907 - Horace McMahon - South Norwalk, CT - d. 8-17-1971
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    05-17-1907 - Jack Petruzzi - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-1-1967
    actor: "Ann Worth, Housewife"; "The Lone Ranger"; "Joe Palooka"
    05-17-1908 - Joe Grant - NYC - d. 5-6-2005
    writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-17-1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan - Boyle, Ireland - d. 6-23-1998
    actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"; "Family Theatre"
    05-17-1912 - Grant Turner - Abilene, TX - d. 10-19-1991
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-17-1916 - Jameson Brewer - Sentinel Butte, ND - d. 9-11-2003
    writer: "The Hardy Family"
    05-17-1918 - Birgit Nilsson - Vastra Karup, Skane Ian, Sweden - d.
    12-25-2005
    singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
    05-17-1920 - Harriet Van Horne - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-15-1998
    newspaper columnist: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"
    05-17-1923 - Alice Backes - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 3-15-2007
    actor: "This Is Your FBI"; "The Whistler"; "Family Theatre"
    05-17-1925 - Ira Tucker - Spartanburg, SC - d. 6-24-2008
    gospel singer: (The Dixie Hummingbirds) WCAU Philadelphia, PA
    05-17-1926 - Tenniel Evans - Nairobi, Kenya - d. 6-10-2009
    actor: Leading Seaman Goldstein "The Navy Lark"

    May 17th deaths

    01-08-1903 - Roger Bower - NYC - d. 5-17-1979
    announcer, emcee: "Can You Top This?"; "Stop Me If You Heard This One"
    01-09-1886 - Arthur "Bugs" Baer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-17-1969
    writer: "The Eveready Hour"
    01-12-1920 - Theodor Uppman - San Jose, CA - d. 5-17-2005
    operatic baritone: "Bell Telephone Hour"
    01-15-1911 - Cy Feuer - NYC - d. 5-17-2006
    music: "Escape"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"; "Shorty Bell"
    01-15-1922 - Thelma Carpenter - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1997
    singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"
    02-26-1920 - Tony Randall - Tulsa, OK - d. 5-17-2004
    actor: Reggie York "I Love A Mystery"
    03-11-1903 - Lawrence Welk - Strasburg, ND - d. 5-17-1992
    bandleader: "Lawrence Welk Orchestra"
    03-15-1877 - Montague Love - Portsmouth, England - d. 5-17-1943
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
    05-29-1897 - F. Hugh Herbert - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-17-1958
    writer: "Meet Corliss Archer"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-30-1900 - Frank Gallop - Boston, MA - d. 5-17-1988
    announcer: "Milton Berle Show"; "Gangbusters"; "Stella Dallas"
    07-06-1910 - Alexander Kendrick - d. 5-17-1991
    correspondent: "Years In Crisis"; "As Europe Sees the Marshall Plan"
    07-10-1877 - Caroline Crockett Ellis - d. 5-17-1963
    actor: Mary Ward "Travels of Mary Ward"; "Caroline's Golden Store"
    07-26-1921 - John de Lancie, Sr. - Berkeley, CA - d. 5-17-2002
    principle oboist: "Phildelphia Symphony Orchestra"
    10-18-1920 - Willis Conover - Buffalo, NY - d. 5-17-1996
    jazz producer: "Voice of America Music USA"
    12-06-1898 - Gunnar Myrdal - Gustafs, Sweden - d. 5-17-1987
    1974 nobel prize winner in economics: "United Nations Today"
    12-18-1910 - Abe Burrows - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1985
    writer: "Abe Burrows Show"; "Danny Kaye Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"
    xx-xx-1916 - Gary Stevens - d. 5-17-2004
    broadcast executive: Produced 20 Questions

    Ron
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:04:16 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-18 births/deaths

    May 18th births

    05-18-1892 - Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy - d. 5-9-1957
    singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Ezio Pinza's Children Show"; "Stagestruck"
    05-18-1894 - Raymond Paige - Wausau, WI - d. 8-7-1965
    conductor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Musical Americana"; "Stage Door Canteen"
    05-18-1897 - Frank Capra - Bisacquino, Sicily - d. 9-3-1991
    film director: "Gulf Screen Theatre"; "NBC Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-18-1900 - Joyce Barthelson - d. 12-1-1986
    pianist: KGO Oakland, California
    05-18-1900 - Lew White - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-4-1955
    organist: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Break the Bank"; "Betty
    Moore"
    05-18-1902 - Meredith Willson - Mason City, IA - d. 6-15-1984
    conductor, composer: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Meredith Willson/
    Music Room"
    05-18-1904 - Fred Shields - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-30-1974
    actor: Bill Fraser "Tarzan"
    05-18-1904 - Jacob K. Javits - NYC - d. 3-7-1986
    [removed] senator new york: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-18-1907 - Clifford Curzon - London, England - d. 9-2-1982
    pianist: "March of Dimes"
    05-18-1908 - Alastair McBain - d. 12-xx-1980
    author: "Cloak and Dagger"
    05-18-1908 - Del King - Kansas City, KS - d. 8-22-1964
    announcer: "Avalon Time"; "Tommy Dorsey's Kool Show"
    05-18-1908 - Lorene Scott - d. 4-19-1983
    actor: Maria Hawkins "Young Widder Brown"
    05-18-1908 - Ted Malone - Colorado Springs, CO - d. 10-20-1989
    commentator: "Between the Bookends"; "Pilgrimage of Poetry"
    05-18-1908 - Tommy Tucker - Souris, ND - d. 7-13-1989
    bandleader: "Lucky Strike Show with Walter Winchell"; "George Jessel
    Show"
    05-18-1912 - John Campbell Crosby - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-7-1991
    radio critic: New York Herald Tribune
    05-18-1912 - Perry Como - Canonsburg, PA - d. 5-12-2001
    singer: "Perry Como Program"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    05-18-1913 - Charles Trenet - Creteil, France - d. 1-18-2001
    singer: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Discoparade"
    05-18-1922 - Bill Macy - Revere, MA
    actor: "Earplay"
    05-18-1922 - Kai Winding - Aarhus, Denmark - d. 5-7-1983
    musician: "Stan Kenton and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"
    05-18-1924 - Jack Whitaker - Philadelphia, PA
    disc jockey, sportscaster: "Jack the Bachelor"; "Sports Shots"
    05-18-1931 - Robert Morse - Newton, MA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-18-1932 - Walter Anglin - d. 9-8-2001
    disk jockey: WJLD Birmingham, Alabama
    05-18-1936 - Joel Kupperman - Chicago, IL
    panelist: "Quiz Kids"

    May 18th deaths

    02-06-1888 - Lucille Gleason - Pasadena, CA - d. 5-18-1947
    actor: "Jimmy Gleason's Diner"
    03-21-1893 - Sidney Franklin - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-18-1972
    film producer, director: "Academy Awards Program"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    03-25-1892 - Andy Clyde - Blaingowrie, Scotland - d. 5-18-1967
    actor: California Carlson "Hopalong Cassidy"
    05-03-1919 - Doris Rich - Canada - d. 5-18-1971
    actor: Hannah O'Leary" Houseboat Hannah"; Miss Daisey "Portia Faces
    Life"
    05-10-1910 - Louis Buck - Bessemer, AL - d. 5-18-1971
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Sunday Down South"
    06-13-1890 - Elmer Davis - Aurora, IN - d. 5-18-1958
    newscaster: "Elmer Davis and the News"
    06-18-1919 - Ed Simmons - d. 5-18-1998
    writer, director: "The Martin and Lewis Show"; "The Quiz Kids"
    06-29-1908 - Leroy Anderson - Cambridge, MA - d. 5-18-1975
    composer, arranger: " Contemporary Composers Concerts"; "Must for
    America"
    08-31-1908 - William Saroyan - Fresno, CA - d. 5-18-1981
    writer: "Columbia Workshop"; "The Free Company"; "Biography in Sound"
    09-09-1927 - Elvin Ray Jones - Pontiac, MI - d. 5-18-2004
    jazz drummer: "Newport Jazz Festival"
    10-12-1906 - Daniel Saidenberg - d. 5-18-1997
    conductor: "Alec Templeton Time"
    10-29-1902 - Lillian Lee - d. 5-18-1987
    actor: (Wife of Jack Kirkwood) "Jack Kirkwood Show"; "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    11-01-1923 - Charles Dugdale - Lincoln, NE - d. 5-18-1985
    actor: "Heartbeat Theatre"
    11-16-1912 - Paul Dudley - Massachusetts - d. 5-18-1959
    writer: "Pot o' Gold"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    11-23-1912 - Tyree Glenn - Corsicana, TX - d. 5-18-1974
    trombonist, vibraphonist: "Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concert"
    11-27-1925 - Marshall Thompson - Peoria, IL - d. 5-18-1992
    actor: "Free World Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-29-1905 - Mario Braggiotti - Florence, Italy - d. 5-18-1996
    pianist, composer: "Fray and Braggiotti"

    Ron
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 02:12:02 -0400
    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
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    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
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    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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    Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:18:51 -0400
    From: "Jan" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: John Brown's Radio Roles

    Hello again --

    In answer to Dominick Cancilla's request for a list of roles John Brown
    played on the radio, Thomas DeLong's "Radio Stars" (1996) mentions that he
    played Ozzie Nelson's neighbor Thornberry (in addition to Riley's neighbor
    Gillis and Digby O'Dell, of course), Judy's father in "A Date with Judy,"
    Broadway, the narrator of "Damon Runyon Theater," various roles on "Maisie,"
    Irma's boss on "My Friend Irma," and Falstaff Openshaw (I think that was his
    name) on the Fred Allen show. DeLong also mentions roles on "The Shadow" and
    "Lincoln Highway." By Brown's own estimate, he played on over 10,000 live
    shows and 5,000 ETs. And let's now forget his bit roles in the movies:
    "Strangers on a Train" and "Hans Christian Anderson" come to mind.

    yOurs TRuly,
    Jan Bach

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    Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:25:15 -0400
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mysterious Traveler & Quiet Please
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    Now that someone has located a book about "The Whistler",
    does anyone know if there is a book about "The Mysterious Traveler"?

    Though there is a book by Eidmiller and Lambesis about "Quiet Please",
    I wonder if another one has been written or is in progress?  One that
    covers the program in more detail?

    Ted Kneebone
    Old Time Radio [removed]
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    Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:25:29 -0400
    From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: John Brown

    on 5/17/11 6:58 PM, [removed]@[removed] at
    [removed]@[removed] wrote:

>     Because Brown's voice is so flexible, I don't know that I'd necessarily
>     be able to recognize him on other shows. Can anyone tell me if there are
>     other series that he is known to have worked on?

    John Brown also voiced next-door neighbor "Thorny" on THE ADVENTURES OF
    OZZIE AND HARRIET and Judy's father for several seasons of DATE WITH JUDY,
    Brown was one of many actors to portray cabby Shrevvy on THE SHADOW.
    --Anthony Tollin

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    Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:25:48 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Harry Shearer Redux

    Folks;

       I'm looking for decent-quality audio of Harry Shearer on various OTR
    programs (Benny, Lux, anything you can point me to). Going to need the clips
    in the next few days if [removed] I know this is unilikely, but I'd love
    to find a photo of a young Shearer at the [removed]

       I'm putting together a little something I hope everyone here will enjoy,
    but I really need some audio to go along with it.

             Charlie

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    Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:58:22 -0400
    From: "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cincinnati 2011 Convention

    Well, the 2011 Cincinnati convention is over, all too soon.

    Though Bob Hastings was unable to attend due to illness, and Ed Clute
    couldn't come because his transportation fell through, the convention was
    fantastic.

    The re-creations were super, with Esther Geddes McVey and Rosemary Rice in
    top form.  The audience-member amateurs who took the other roles were,
    without exception, superb.

    The shows presented this year were Gunsmoke (I was the murderer), The
    Whistler, Green Hornet, Life of Riley, and an absolutely hilarious Dragnet.
    Donald Ramlow's directing was top-flight, and I wish everyone could have been
    there to experience it all.

    The Second Annual Trivia Bowl was won by a team calling themselves The
    Burchett Quartet (Bob Burchett is the Big Kahuna of the convention),
    consisting of Jim Beshires, Travis Conner, Don Frey, and Ryan Ellett.

    And as always, the convention can be best summed up as (kudos to
    conventioneer Frank Boncore for this quote) "a family reunion for people who
    aren't related."  The informality and friendliness of all the attendees made
    for a warm and wonderful two days.

    There are plenty of photos and more reports from conventioneers at the Cincy
    Convention website at:
     [removed].

    If you were at the convention, please post a note there with your
    observations.

    ---Dan Hughes, [removed]

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