Subject: [removed] Digest V2012 #55
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Date: 3/29/2012 2:33 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 55
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      For those who missed Bob Elliott's b  [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
      3-27 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Jack and Cathy French Radio Western   [ James Meadows <walthamus@[removed]; ]
      Mystery Solved!                       [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      3-28 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      3-29 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      new radio?                            [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:31:08 -0500
    From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  For those who missed Bob Elliott's [removed]

    This coming Saturday, "Those Were the Days" will celebrate April Fool's Day a
    little early (or Bob Elliott's birthday a few days late) as we spend "A Day
    with Bob and Ray." There'll be plenty of shows and clips from the radio
    career of Mssrs. Elliott and Goulding, and we'll also share our conversation
    with Bob Elliott, recorded last May at his home in Maine. Bob hasn't done a
    lot of interviews in the last two decades and we're enormously proud for the
    chance to share this one. We'll be opening the overstocked warehouse of clips
    this Saturday from 1 to 5 pm CST at WDCB ([removed] or [removed] FM for you
    Chicagoans)-and we'll archive it for a week afterward at
    [removed].

    Until then, remember to hang by your thumbs!

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    Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:31:14 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-27 births/deaths

    March 27th births

    03-27-1892 - Ferde Grofe - NYC - d. 4-3-1972
    conductor, composer: (The Grand Canyon Suite) "Florsheim Frolic"
    03-27-1892 - Thorne Smith - Annapolis, MD - d. 6-21-1934
    writer: "Advs. of Topper" based on his book
    03-27-1895 - William W. Chaplin - NYC - d. 8-18-1978
    newsman: White House correspondent for NBC
    03-27-1899 - Gloria Swanson - Chicago, IL - d. 4-4-1983
    panelist: "Hollywood Byline"; "Suspense"
    03-27-1902 - Sidney Buchman - Duluth, MN - d. 8-23-1975
    movie writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-27-1904 - Hal Kemp - Marion, AL - d. 12-21-1940
    bandleader: "Phil Baker Show"; "Lady Esther Serenade"; "Gulf Gas
    Program"
    03-27-1906 - Pee Wee Russell - Maple Wood, MO - d. 2-15-1969
    clarinet: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    03-27-1907 - Mary Treen - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-20-1989
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-27-1914 - Budd Schulberg - NYC - d. 8-5-2009
    writer: "Free World Theatre"; "The New Theatre"
    03-27-1914 - Richard Denning - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 10-11-1998
    actor: George Cooper "My Favorite Husband"; Jerry North "Mr. and Mrs.
    North"
    03-27-1914 - Snooky Lanson - Memphis, TN - d. 7-2-1990
    singer: "Snooky Lanson Show"; "Your Hit Parade"
    03-27-1915 - Hugh Conover - Washington, [removed] - d. 9-27-1992
    announcer: "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"; "Big Sister"; "Right to
    Happiness"
    03-27-1915 - Robert Lockwood, Jr. - Turkey Scratch, AR - d. 11-21-2006
    guiatrist: "KFFA King Biscuit Time"
    03-27-1916 - Howard Merrill - NYC - d. 4-20-2002
    writer: "Advs. of Leonidas Witherall"; "Leave It to Mike"; "Secret
    Missions"
    03-27-1919 - Robert Homme - Stoughton, WI - d. 5-2-2000
    created "Friendly Giant" for radio in Madison, Wisconsin
    03-27-1920 - Richard Hayman - Cambridge, MA
    arranger, harmonica player: "Stop the Music"; "Steve Lawrence Show"
    03-27-1921 - Fletcher Markle - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - d. 5-22-1991
    actor, director, producer: "Columbia Workshop"; "Studio One"
    03-27-1921 - Fred Foy - Detroit, MI - d. 12-22-2010
    announcer, narrator: "The Lone Ranger"
    03-27-1921 - Harold Nicholas - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 7-3-2000
    dancer: (The Nicholas Brothers) "Big Broadcast of 1936"; "Ben Bernie
    Show"
    03-27-1924 - Hideko Takamine - Hakodate, Japan - d. 12-28-2010
    actor" nhk world radio
    03-27-1924 - Sarah Vaughn - Newark, NJ - d. 4-3-1990
    singer: "Guest Star"; "Your Rhythm Revue"
    03-27-1930 - Bob Larson - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-1-2002
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-27-1930 - Jack Adams - Hobart, OK - d. 6-14-2003
    singer in nightclubs and radio
    03-27-1940 - Janis Martin - Sutherlin, VA - d. 9-3-2007
    rockabilly singer: "Army of Stars"; "Reflections By Starlight"

    March 27th deaths

    01-10-1916 - Don Gardiner - NYC - d. 3-27-1977
    newscaster: "Monday Morning Headlines"
    01-17-1904 - Grant Withers - Pueblo, CO - d. 3-27-1959
    actor: "Calling All Cars"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    04-09-1904 - Joseph "Sharkey" Bonamo - New Orleans, LA - d. 3-27-1972
    conductor: (Sharkey Bonamo and His Sharks of Rhythm) "Saturday Night
    Swing Club"
    06-12-1910 - Leon Carr - Allentown, PA - d. 3-27-1976
    composer: "Voices of Vista"
    06-18-1908 - Elmore Vincent - Amarillo, X - d. 3-27-2000
    actor: Phineas Peabody "Lum and Abner"
    06-22-1906 - Billy Wilder - Sucha, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-27-2002
    screenwriter, film director: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    07-01-1925 - Farley Granger - San Jose, CA - d. 3-27-2011
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre", "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-07-1925 - Wally Phillips - Portsmouth, OH - d. 3-27-2008
    radio personality: WGN Chicago, Illinois
    07-08-1911 - Gertrude Niesen - Mid-Atlantic Ocean - d. 3-27-1975
    singer: "Songs by Gertrude Niesen"; "Good News of 1939"
    07-12-1908 - Milton Berle - NYC - d. 3-27-2002
    comedian: "Milton Berle Show"; "Let Yourself Go"; "Three Ring Time"
    08-05-1914 - Anita Colby - Washington, DC - d. 3-27-1992
    actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
    08-26-1922 - Irving R. Levine - Pawtucket, RI - d. 3-27-2009
    newsman: "World News Roundup"; "News of the World"
    09-06-1904 - Ted Royal Dewar - Skedee, Oklahoma Territory - d. 3-27-1981
    orchestrator: "Wayne King and His Orchestra"; Ted Weems and His
    Orchestra"
    09-25-1926 - Aldo Ray - Pen Argyl, PA - d. 3-27-1991
    actor; "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    11-03-1889 - Gustave Haenschen - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-27-1980
    conductor: "Palmolive Hour"; "Show Boat"; "Saturday Night Serenade"
    11-04-1930 - Kate Reid - London, England - d. 3-27-1993
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    12-12-1902 - Helen Menken - NYC - d. 3-27-1966
    actor: Brenda Cummings "Second Husband"
    12-17-1895 - Rudolph Anders - Germany - d. 3-27-1987
    actor: Dr. VanMeter "Space Patrol"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:31:21 -0500
    From: James Meadows <walthamus@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack and Cathy French  Radio Western Question
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       I don't have the exact answer to Jack and Cathy French's question about the
    episodes they found of a radio drama about the frontier adventures of the
    Sergeant family. But I did find a listing on the Internet Movie Database that
    matches the characters and general story. "Pioneer Woman" was a 1973 TV-movie
    starring Joanna Pettet and William Shatner. It was written by Suzanne Clauser,
    the author of several TV scripts and novels. Her TV work includes eight
    episodes
    of "Bonanza", a movie about Calamity Jane and a TV version of
    "Little Women".
    Her best-known novel seems to be "A Girl Named Sooner", for
    which she also wrote
    the script for a TV version.

    I wasn't able to find
    anything about any works for radio by Suzanne Clauser, or
    a radio version of
    "Pioneer Woman", but I've only done a short web search. It
    came to mind that
    a radio version might have been fashioned out of the
    TV-movie's soundtrack,
    with narration added. But I don't know why a producer
    would have chosen a
    relatively unknown movie for that sort of adaptation. Also,
    the movie of
    "Pioneer Woman" is only 74 minutes long (produced, I suspect, for
    the old ABC
    "Movie of the Week" series), and wouldn't generate many radio
    episodes. But
    could Clauser have marketed her story of the Sergeant family in a
    radio
    version that was perhaps produced in Canada? The CBC is the nearest place
    I
    can think of that was producing radio drama in the 1970s, that would have
    sounded similar to work in the U-S.

    Jim Meadows

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    Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:32:02 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mystery Solved!

    Thanks to a diligent Digester, the mystery of what David Siegel and I thought
    was a modern radio play turned out to be the sound track of a western movie
    made for TV.

    Charlie Northway came up with the identity of the "mystery show" within hours
    after my posting. The show in question is "Pioneer Woman" a 1973 motion
    picture made for television which starred Joanna Pettet (wife), William
    Shatner (husband), David Janssen (neighbor) and Helen Hunt, 10 year old
    daughter.

    The silent bits in the recording should have been a clue to me that it might
    be a sound track, but I was only impressed with the tension-building aspects
    of the silence. Since I was listening for "radio" voices, these TV and movie
    stars did not register with me. But I was right on one aspect: the script
    writer was a woman, Suzanne Clauser. And the sound effects were that good
    since many were recordings of the actual sounds, [removed] the rifle shots,
    hoofbeats, and cattle mooing.

    This sound track has been circulating on the Internet for a few years,
    usually marketed by OTR dealers in MP3 format. Few of them identify it as a
    movie sound track; usually it's merely termed  "Pioneer Woman, (western
    drama) PT 1 and PT 2."

    Charlie Northway, both David and I salute your detective skills!

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:32:08 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-28 births/deaths

    March 28th births

    03-28-1871 - Willem Mengelberg - Utrecht, Netherlands - d. 3-21-1951
    composer, conductor: "The New York Philharmonic Orchestra"
    03-28-1888 - Jim Harkins - d. 10-24-1970
    emcee: "Song Writing Machine Series"
    03-28-1890 - Paul Whiteman - Denver, CO - d. 12-29-1967
    conductor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
    03-28-1892 - Philip Loeb - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-1-1955
    actor: Jake Goldberg "The Goldbergs"
    03-28-1896 - Abram E. Borodkin - Russia - d. 8-25-1978
    cellist: NBC and CBS networks
    03-28-1896 - Virginia Rea - Louisville, KY - d. xx-xx-1941
    singer: Olive Palmer "Palmolive Hour"; "Rubinoff and His Orchestra"
    03-28-1897 - Frank Hawks - Marshalltown, IA - d. 8-23-1938
    flying ace: "Roads of the Sky"; "Time Flies"
    03-28-1902 - Gordon Clifford - Providence, RI - d. 6-11-1968
    songwriter: "The Rhythm Boys"
    03-28-1903 - Rudolf Serkin - Eger, Bohemia - d. 5-8-1991
    pianist: "Concert Hall"; "New York Philharmonic"
    03-28-1904 - Day Keene - Illinois - d. 1-9-1969
    writer: "Kitty Keene, Incorporated"; "Little Orphan Annie"
    03-28-1904 - Jon Dodson - Richland, MO - d. 11-28-1963
    singer: (Member of the King's Men) "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "King's
    Men"
    03-28-1910 - Jimmy Dodd - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-10-1964
    singer, songwriter: "Lifebuoy Show"; "Command Performance"; "CBS Radio
    Workshop"
    03-28-1912 - Frank Lovejoy - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-2-1962
    actor: Randy 'Lucky' Stone "Nightbeat"; Bill Weigand "Mr. and Mrs.
    North"
    03-28-1913 - Lucille Fletcher - NYC - d. 8-31-2000
    dramatist: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    03-28-1915 - Jay Livingston - McDonald, PA - d. 10-17-2001
    composer: "Hollywood Calling-George Fisher Interviews"
    03-28-1915 - Joel Murcott - d. 2-26-1978
    writer, director: "Tales of the Texas Rangers"; "Yours Truly, Johnny
    Dollar"
    03-28-1917 - Randy Brooks - Sandford, ME - d. 3-21-1967
    bandleader: "One Night Stand"; "The Kate Smith Hour"
    03-28-1918 - John Heath - Seattle, WA
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes"; "Murder is My Hobby"
    03-28-1919 - Vic Raschi - West Springfield, MA - d. 10-14-1988
    baseball pitcher: "National Guard Show"
    03-28-1921 - Dirk Bogarde - London, England - d. 5-8-1999
    actor: "A Christmas Carol"
    03-28-1922 - Lutrelle F. Palmer - Newport News, VA - d. 9-12-2004
    news analyst: "Lu's Notebook"
    03-28-1922 - Paul Bartell - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-19-2006
    announcer, disk jockey: "Blue Baron Show"; "Fox Club"
    03-28-1924 - Freddie Bartholomew - London, England - d. 1-23-1992
    guest: "Anchors Aweigh"
    03-28-1925 - Jerry Walter - Illinois - d. 2-11-1979
    actor: Gil Perry "Island Adventure"
    03-28-1927 - Marguerite Campbell - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 3-19-2003
    singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"

    March 28th deaths

    01-25-1923 - Rusty Draper - d. 3-28-2003
    country singer: "Dude Martin's Radio Ranch"
    01-26-1905 - Maria von Trapp - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-28-1987
    singer: (Trapp Family Singers) "Christmas Seal Sale"
    02-16-1902 - Leif Eid - Idaho - d. 3-28-1976
    nbc bureau chief: Washington, Ottawa and Paris
    02-26-1911 - Warren M. Lewis - d. 3-28-1997
    producer: "Silver Theatre"; "Stars Over Hollywood"
    04-16-1921 - Peter Ustinov - London, England - d. 3-28-2004
    actor: "Freedom Forum"; "Mitch Miller Show"; "In Any Direction"
    04-19-1913 - Sylvia Froos - New York - d. 3-28-2004
    singer: "Sylvia Froos Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
    05-05-1890 - Christopher Morley - Haverford, PA - d. 3-28-1957
    author: "Information, Please"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Studio One"
    05-14-1902 - Rush Hughes - d. 3-28-1979
    host: Pot O' Gold"
    05-28-1888 - Jim Thorpe - Prague, Indian Territory - d. 3-28-1953
    all around athelete: "Shell Chateau"; "Bill Stern Colgate Sports
    Newsreel"
    06-08-1902 - Elliott Jacoby - NYC - d. 3-28-1977
    composer, conductor: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Maude's Diary"
    06-17-1921 - Tony Scott - Morristown, NJ - d. 3-28-2007
    jazz clarinetist: American Armed Forces Radio
    07-04-1909 - Alec Templeton - Cardiff, South Wales - d. 3-28-1963
    pianist, satirist: "You Shall Have Music"; "Universal Rhythm"; "Alec
    Templeton Time"
    07-15-1905 - Dorothy Fields - Allenhurst, NJ - d. 3-28-1974
    lyricist: "Music for Millions"
    07-19-1914 - Hubert Gregg - London, England - d. 3-28-2004
    host: "Thanks for the Memory for 30 Years"
    07-26-1919 - Virginia Gilmore - El Monte, CA - d. 3-28-1986
    actor: "The Ford Theatre"
    07-28-1914 - Carman Dragon - Antioch, CA - d. 3-28-1987
    conductor: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Baby Snooks Show"; "Railroad
    Hour"
    08-04-1901 - Mildred Henry Merrill - d. 3-28-1995
    writer: "Lone Ranger"; "Green Hornet"; "Official Detective"
    08-24-1898 - Malcolm Cowley - Belsano, PA - d. 3-28-1989
    speaker: "NBC University Theatre"
    09-13-1918 - Dick Haymes - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 3-28-1980
    singer, actor: Dick Haymes Show"; Dockery Crane "I Fly Anything"
    09-18-1886 - Powel Crosley, Jr. - Cincinnati, OH - d. 3-28-1961
    owner of WLW radio station in Cincinnati
    10-14-1890 - Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhower - Denison, TX - d. 3-28-1969
    general, president: "War Production Drive Program"; "Let's All Back
    the Attack"
    10-15-1929 - Art James - d. 3-28-2004
    announcer: Armed Forces Radio
    11-08-1913 - June Havoc - Vancouver, Canada - d. 3-28-2010
    actor: "Advs. of Sam Spade"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    11-16-1873 - W. C. Handy - Florence, AL - d. 3-28-1958
    jazz trumpeter, composer: "Cavalcade of Music";"Freedom's People"
    11-22-1900 - Alan Cameron - Anderson, IN - d. 3-28-1972
    writer: "Suspense"
    12-08-1888 - Raymond Lawrence - Bedford Square, England - d. 3-28-1976
    actor: "Escape"; "The Halls of Ivy"; "Pursuit"
    12-29-1904 - Wendell Niles - Twin Valley, MN - d. 3-28-1994
    announcer: "Bob Hope Show"; "Man Called X"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"
    xx-xx-1883 - Al Swenson - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 3-28-1941
    actor: "Captain Diamond "Advs. of Captain Diamond"; Paul Hutchinson
    "Hilltop House"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:32:19 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-29 births/deaths

    March 29th births

    03-29-1867 - Cy Young - Gilmore, OH - d. 11-4-1955
    baseball pitching great: "Feature Project: This Game of Baseball"
    03-29-1878 - Frank Tinney - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-28-1940
    comedian, monologist: WWJ and WJR Detroit, Michigan
    03-29-1888 - Earle Ross - Illinois - d. 5-21-1961
    actor: Judge Horace Hooker "Great Gildersleeve"; J. R. Boone, Sr.
    "Meet Millie"
    03-29-1889 - Howard Lindsay - Waterford, NY - d. 2-11-1968
    writer, host: "The Ford Theatre"
    03-29-1890 - Joe Cook - Evansville, IN - d. 5-16-1959
    comedian: "House Party"; "Shell Chateau"
    03-29-1891 - Warner Baxter - Columbus, OH - d. 5-7-1951
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-29-1898 - Cecil Lewis - Birkenhead, England - d. 1-27-1997
    pioneer in British broadcasting instrumental in creation of the BBC
    03-29-1899 - Clifford Goldsmith - Aurora, NY - d. 7-11-1971
    writer: Created "The Aldrich Family"
    03-29-1902 - Onslow Stevens - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-5-1977
    actor: "Great Plays"
    03-29-1905 - Philip Ahn - Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-28-1978
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-29-1906 - E. Power Biggs - West Cliff, England - d. 3-10-1977
    organist: "Organ Program"
    03-29-1907 - Abe Lincoln - Lancaster, PA - d. 6-8-2000
    trombonist: "Guest Star"
    03-29-1908 - Dennis O'Keefe - Fort Madison, IA - d. 8-31-1968
    actor: Treasure Agent Larsen "T-Man"
    03-29-1912 - Fred Brady - NYC - d. 11-11-1961
    actor: Himself "The Fred Brady Show"
    03-29-1912 - Nancy Douglass - Bloomington, IL
    actor: "My True Story"; "Brave Tomorrow"
    03-29-1914 - Phil Foster - NYC - d. 7-8-1985
    actor: "What's With Hubert"; "Baseball Round Table"; "Big Show"
    03-29-1916 - Eugene McCarthy - Watkins, MN - d. 12-10-2005
    [removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
    03-29-1918 - Pearl Bailey - Newport News, VA - d. 8-17-1990
    singer: "Kraft Music Hall "; "Tribute to Glenn Miller"
    03-29-1919 - Eileen Heckart - Columbus, OH - d. 12-31-2001
    actor: "Cloak and Dagger"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    03-29-1919 - Robert Enders - Pennsylvania - d. 9-7-2007
    producer: "Our Land Be Right"
    03-29-1923 - Bob Stanton - White Plains, NY - d. 1-28-1989
    vocalist: (Brother of Dick Haymes) "The Sealtest Village Store"
    03-29-1923 - Remo Palmieri - The Bronx, NY - d. 2-2-2002
    guitartist: "Music 'Til Midnight"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    03-29-1924 - Ginger Dinning - Braman, KY
    singer: (Dinning Sisters) "Dinning Sisters-Songs"; "WLS National Barn
    Dance"
    03-29-1924 - Jackie Vernon - NYC - d. 11-10-1987
    comedian: "Bill Stern Show"
    03-29-1924 - Jean Dinning - Braman, KY - d. 2-22-2011
    singer: (Dinning Sisters) "Dinning Sisters-Songs"; "WLS National Barn
    Dance"
    03-29-1943 - Mike Handley - Norfolk VA - d. 4-10-2009
    announcer: "The Larry King Show"
    03-29-1957 - Marc Reed - Plymouth, WI
    disc jockey: WSHS; WKTS; WRST
    03-29-1962 - Earl Root - Raised Edina, MN - d. 5-23-2008
    disk jockey: "Root of All Evil"

    March 29th deaths

    01-10-1908 - Paul Henreid - Trieste - d. 3-29-1992
    actor: "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-03-1916 - Andy White - d. 3-29-1999
    writer: "The Great Gildersleeve", "Fred Waring Show"
    05-03-1920 - John Lewis - LaGrange, IL - d. 3-29-2001
    co-founder of "Modern Jazz Quartet": :Modern Jazz Quartet";
    "Listener's Digest"
    05-22-1906 - Harry Ritz - Newark, NJ - d. 3-29-1986
    comedian: (The Ritz Brothers) "Hollywood Hotel"
    06-08-1919 - Monte Hale - Ada, OK - d. 3-29-2009
    singing cowboy: "All-Star Western Theatre"
    06-15-1918 - Hal Roach, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-29-1972
    producer, director: "My Little Margie"
    06-21-1910 - Clive Sansom - London, England - d. 3-29-1981
    writer: "The Pardoner's Tale"
    06-29-1903 - Ellen Pollock - Heidelberg, Germany - d. 3-29-1997
    actor: "The Lady of Lyons"
    08-06-1888 - Arthur Fields - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-29-1953
    singer: "Old Man of the Mountains"; "Pipe Smoking Time"
    08-30-1902 - Ray Bloch - Alsace-Lorraine, France - d. 3-29-1982
    conductor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Take It or Leave It"; "Johnny Presents"
    10-03-1897 - Vincent Sorey - Turin, Italy - d. 3-29-1977
    conductor/violinist: Musical director for WOR New York
    11-01-1908 - Harry Ellis Dickson - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-29-2003
    first violinist: "Boston Symphony Orchestra"; "Boston Symphony
    Rehearsal"
    11-05-1905 - Annunzio Paolo Mantovani - Venice, Italy - d. 3-29-1980
    orchestra leader: "Music In the Air"; "Of These We Sing"
    11-24-1906 - Willard P. Farnum - Mankato, MN - d. 3-29-1994
    actor: Harold Teen "Harold Teen"; John Adams "Woman in White"
    12-12-1918 - Joe Williams - Codele, GA - d. 3-29-1999
    blues singer: "Count Basie and His Orchestra"; "Stars for Defense"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:33:08 -0500
    From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  new radio?

    Fred (son of Paul) Frees and I are working on a variety of comedy projects, and we would like to tackle a short radio series.
    I'd like to hear from any and all radio fans about what they'd like to hear done as a New series. Even if it's further
    episodes of an old one (in its original time period or modern); for instance, we were thinking of doing a new
    series of The Player, since Fred sounds like his dad.
    All comments appreciated!
    Thanks.

    Ben Ohmart
    New books on old movies
    [removed]

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Please direct comments directly to Ben, since this is a bit off-topic for the Digest.  --cfs3]

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