Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #154
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 5/25/2007 4:19 PM

To: [removed]@[removed]

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 154
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Chicago's Those Were the Days Radio   [ Randylarson999@[removed] ]
      Hellish help, anyone?                 [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Mutual's Thrillers                    [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Vera Vague                            [ "Arthur Funk" <Art-Funk@[removed]; ]
      5-25-births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Jack Benny question                   [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:53:21 -0400
    From: Randylarson999@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Chicago's Those Were the Days Radio Players

    Sean Dougherty asks if the OTR recreation in Clarenedon Hills, Illinois,
    referenced in the news article he attached, was part of Chicago's Those Were
    the Days Players.  As a ten year member of said group's South ensemble (south
    side, south suburbs and northwest Indiana) I can say, yes, Sean, they are.
    We are all part of Chuck Schaden's traveling troupes of Players (eight in
    total) who travel throughout the Chicagoland area performing in various
    public and private venues.  I believe the group mentioned in the article is
    the West group.

    Our South group, along with veterans from Chicago's AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio
    Players, have teamed up for several years in presenting receations at Jay
    Hickerson's Friends of Old Time Radio Convention, in Newark each October.  We
    will be pleased this year to present a great comedy show, The Magnificent
    Montague on Thursday night, October 18, at the convention.  For those
    interested, that Thursday morning, at 10:00 [removed] at the "Radio Idol" panel
    presentation, we will take volunteers from the audience to audition before a
    celebrity panel of radio veterans, for a cameo part in our Montague show that
    night.  So come one, come all!

    Randy Larson

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    Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:53:42 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hellish help, anyone?

    Dear Folks-

    Needed ASAP, for research on  two upcoming projects:

    A nice-quality streaming, podcast, or downloadable  copy of the Columbia
    Workshop of 8/6/38, "The Devil and Daniel  Webster."

    Thanks in advance,
    -Craig Wichman
    Quicksilver Radio  Theater

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    Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:53:55 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mutual's Thrillers

    On Thursday, May 24, 2007, at 06:19 PM, Joe Morris wrote:

>     Jim Taylor remembers Mutual's mystery dramas during the mid to late
>        1950's in the dying days of network radio. The programs were
>     broadcast
>        Monday to Friday evenings from 8:00PM to 9:00PM
>        eastern time.

    One of the most complete listing of network shows is Harrison Summers'
    30 year history of national radio (1926-1956) I don't have time to look
    up all the Mutual evening thrillers, but here's some of the listings
    for two seasons:

    Season 1951-52:   Black Museum 8 Tue, Crime Does Not Pay 8 Mon, ILAM
    5XWeek 10:15, Mysterious Traveler 9:30 Tue, Nick Carter 6:30 Sun,
    Official Detective 9 Tue, Peter Salem 7 Sun, The Shadow 5 Sun, True
    Detective Mysteries 5:30 Sun, and Under Arrest 4:30 Sun

    Season 1954-55:   Broadway Cop  8:30 Mon, Counterspy  8 Fri, Crime
    Fighters 8:30 Thr, John Steele, Adventurer  8:30 Tue, Nick Carter 4:30
    Sun, Official Detective  8 Thr, Public Prosecutor 6 Sun, Sentenced 8:30
    Wed, Squad Room 8 Wed, Top Secret Files 8 Mon, Treasury Agent 8 Tues,
    and True Detective Mysteries 5:30 Sun.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 20:08:59 -0400
    From: "Arthur Funk" <Art-Funk@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Vera Vague

    Since the name didn't ring a bell with me I decided to Google Vera Vague and
    found the following on IMDB.  This excerpt is from her "mini-biography"
    which runs several paragraphs.

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    Comedienne/writer Barbara Jo Allen induced laughs nationwide after
    originating and literally becoming synonymous with the talky, shrill-voiced,
    man-hungry spinster "Vera Vague," a WWII creation in the late 1930s. She
    kept the name throughout much of her career and was often billed as such.
    The character, however, was to be both her fortune and her curse.

    Regards to all,
    Art Funk

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    Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 22:04:27 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-25-births/deaths

    May 25th births

    05-25-1877 - Billy Murray - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-17-1954
    singer: "The National Barn Dance"
    05-25-1892 - Bennett Cerf - NYC - d. 8-27-1971
    narrator, panelist: "Biography in Sound"; "What's My Line?"
    05-25-1898 - Gene Tunney - NYC - d. 11-7-1978
    heavyweight boxing champion: "National Guard Show"; "The Navy is Fit
    to Fight"
    05-25-1905 - Joseph C. Harsch - Toledo, OH - d. 6-3-1998
    news commentator: "A Closer Look at the News"; "Emphasis"
    05-25-1907 - Barbara Luddy - Helena, MT - d. 4-1-1979
    actor: Carol Evans "Road of Life"; Janet Munson Adams "Woman in White"
    05-25-1908 - Linda Watkins - Boston, MA - d. 10-31-1976
    actor: Dot "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"; "Big Guy"; "Fat Man"
    05-25-1912 - Eddie Maxwell - Detroit. MI - d. 11-21-1999
    writer: "The Spike Jones Show"
    05-25-1913 - Richard Dimbleby - Richmond onThames, England - d.
    12-22-1965
    BBC's first-ever radio news reporter: "Down Your Way"; "Twenty
    Questions"
    05-25-1916 - Ginny Simms - San Antonio, TX - d. 4-4-1994
    singer: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    05-25-1916 - Kevin O'Morrison - St. Louis, MO
    actor: Charlie Wild "Charlie Wild, Private Detective"
    05-25-1917 - Steve Cochran - Eureka, CA - d. 6-15-1965
    actor: "Voice of the Army"; "Unexpected"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    05-25-1918 - Henry Calvin - Dallas, TX - d. 10-6-1975
    actor: Joshua Sharpe "Big Guy"
    05-25-1919 - Lindsey Nelson - Campbellsville, TN - d. 6-10-1995
    sportscaster: "Monitor Preview"; "Biography In Sound"
    05-25-1921 - Kitty Kallen - Philadelphia, PA
    singer: "Kitty Kallen Calling"; "Harry James and His Music Makers"
    05-25-1923 - Eddie Ryan - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: "The Charlotte Greenwood Show"; "Let's Pretend"
    05-25-1925 - Jeanne Crain - Barstow, CA - d. 12-14-2003
    actor: "Screen Guild Players"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    05-25-1927 - William "Rosko" Mercer - NYC - d. 8-1-2000
    disc jockey, announcer: CBS Network
    05-25-1929 - Beverly Sills - Brooklyn, NY
    singer: "Major Bowes Capitol Family"; "Uncle Bob's Rainbow House"
    05-25-1943 - Leslie Uggams - NYC
    singer: "The Peter Lind Hayes Show"

    May 25th deaths

    01-02-1894 - Robert Nathan - NYC - d. 5-25-1985
    writer: "CBS Radio Workshop"
    01-06-1918 - Buddy Weed - Ossining, NY - d. 5-25-1997
    musician: "Old Gold Party Time"; "Lanny Ross Show"
    01-21-1895 - Muriel 'Molly' Pollock - Kingsbridge, NY - d. 5-25-1971
    concert pianist: "Radio-Keith-Orpheum Hour"; "Sonara Hour"
    01-22-1894 - Rosa Ponselle - Meriden, CT - d. 5-25-1981
    opera soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera"
    02-15-1934 - Graham Kennedy - d. 5-25-2005
    began career on radio in 1950s as sidekick to Nicky Nicholls
    02-21-1901 - Reginald Kirby - England - d. 5-25-1972
    writer: "Road to Tokyo"
    04-18-1880 - Donald Crisp - Aberfeldy, Scotland - d. 5-25-1974
    actor: Jonathan Trimble "Jonathan Trimble, Esquire"
    05-01-1922 - Katy Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 5-25-2005
    gardening expert: "The Green Thumb"
    05-31-1925 - Bob Aro - d. 5-25-1996
    disk jockey: WHLB Virginia, Minnesota
    07-31-1909 - Roger Krupp - Minnesota - d. 5-25-1987
    announcer, newscaster: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Famous Jury Trials"
    08-26-1921 - June Whitley - d. 5-25-2006
    actor: Margaret Anderson "Father Knows Best"
    08-27-1926 - Pat Coombs - London, England - d. 5-25-2002
    comedian: Nola "Hello Playmates"
    09-08-1914 - Hillary Brooke - Astoria, NY - d. 5-25-1999
    actor: "Suspense"
    09-11-1909 - Kenneth Banghart - Paramus, NJ - d. 5-25-1980
    announcer: "Archie Andews"; "Lora Lawton"; "Robert Shaw Chorale"
    10-09-1907 - Henry Hunter - Rahway, NJ - d. 5-25-1985
    actor: Anthony J. Marleybone "Affairs of Anthony"; Terry Regan
    "Attorney at Law"
    11-06-1899 - Francis Lederer - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 5-25-2000
    actor: Guest Armchair detective: Ellery Queen
    xx-xx-1918 - Tom Fouts (Captain Stubby) - d. 5-25-2004
    humorist: "National Barn Dance"; "Is Anybody Home?"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:21:04 -0400
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny question
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    Is there a way to distinguish the Jack Benny 49-03-20 from the 51-03-11
    rebroadcast? This episode had Van Johnson as the guest star.

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