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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2010 : Issue 136
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
8-2 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Brace for impact [ Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed]; ]
Nancy & the Hardy Boys [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
Witch's Tale episode [ Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed] ]
8-3 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:29:48 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-2 births/deaths
August 2nd births
08-02-1886 - Cesare Sodero - Naples, Italy - d. 12-16-1947
conductor: Series of condensed operas on WEAF New York
08-02-1890 - Leila Roosevelt - d. 11-4-1973
explorer: (cousin of FDR) "So You Want to Be"
08-02-1892 - Jack L. Warner - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 9-9-1978
film studio owner" "Jack Benny Program"; "Warner Brothers Academy
Award Theatre"
08-02-1892 - John Kieran - The Bronx, NY, New - d. 12-10-1980
panelist: "Information, Please"
08-02-1892 - Karolyn Wells Bassett - Derby, CT - d. 6-2-1931
was very popular in early radio
08-02-1899 - Charles Bennett - d. 6-15-1995
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Radio City Playhouse"
08-02-1899 - Earle Larimore - Portland, OR - d. 10-22-1947
actor: "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; "Life Can Be Beautiful"
08-02-1900 - Helen Morgan - Danville, IL - d. 10-8-1941
hostess, singer: "Helen Morgan, Songs"; "Broadway Melodies"; "Fred
Allen Show"
08-02-1902 - Guy Repp - d. 11-24-1986
actor: Dr. Abernathy "County Seat"; Benito Mussoline "Our Secret Weapon"
08-02-1903 - Victor McLeod - d. 12-12-1972
writer: "The Bing Crosby Show"; "Stop or Go"
08-02-1904 - John McClain - Ohio - d. 5-3-1967
writer: "Hollywood Hotel"
08-02-1905 - Myrna Loy - Raidersburg, MT - d. 12-14-1993
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-02-1905 - Ruth Nelson - Saginaw, MI - d. 9-12-1992
actor: "Arch Obler's Plays"; "Columbia Workshop"
08-02-1912 - Ann Dvorak - NYC - d. 12-10-1979 - d. 12-10-1979
actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
08-02-1912 - Gwen Plumb - Sydney, Australia - d. 6-4-2002
scripter, actor: "Big Sister"; "Blue Hills"
08-02-1912 - Harry Bailey - Indianapolis, IN
writer: "Cavalcade for Victory"; "Father's Day Program"
08-02-1913 - Hal Block - d. 6-16-1981
writer, panelist: "Burns and Allen"; "Milton Berle Show"; "What's My
Line"
08-02-1914 - Beatrice Straight - Old Westbury, NY - d. 4-7-2001
actor: "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
08-02-1915 - Gary Merrill - Hartford, CT - d. 3-5-1990
actor: Bruce Wayne/Batman "Adventures of Superman"
08-02-1915 - Johnny Long - Newell, NC - d. 10-31-1972
bandleader: "The Teen-Timers Show"; "Judy, Joe, and Johnny"
08-02-1916 - Johnny Coons - d. 7-6-1975
actor: Chuck Ramsey "Captain Midnight"; Clipper "Sky King"; "Vic and
Sade"
08-02-1921 - Kathryn Bankston - d. 4-10-1987
women's programming: WRBC Athens, Georgia
08-02-1924 - Joe Harnell - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-14-2005
jazz arranger: (Joe Harnell Quartet) "The Navy Swings"
08-02-1942 - Doris Kenner-Jackson - North Carolina - d. 2-4-2000
singer: (Shirelles) "Murray The K: Live from the Brooklyn Fox"
08-02-1943 - Rose Tremain - London, England
author: "The Wisest Fool"
August 2nd deaths
01-14-1911 - David Gothard - Beardstown, IL - d. 8-2-1977
actor: Gil Whitney "Romance of Helen Trent"; Nick Charles "The Thin Man"
01-17-1933 - Shari Lewis - NYC - d. 8-2-1998
ventruloquist: "No School Today"
02-27-1873 - Enrico Caruso - Naples, Italy - d. 8-2-1921
tenor: On 12-13-1910 made experimental broadcast with Lee DeForest
05-27-1921 - Redd Stewart - Ashland City, TN - d. 8-2-2003
lyricist: "Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys"
06-13-1899 - Carlos Chavez - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 8-2-1978
composer, conductor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Sinfonia India"
08-06-1894 - Jack Kirkwood - Scotland - d. 8-2-1964
actor: Jack Williams "Saunders of the Circle X"; Uncle Jim "Hawthorne
House"
08-22-1910 - Lesley Woods - d. 8-2-2003
actor: Mary Wesley "Boston Blackie"; Margo Lane "The Shadow"
09-06-1930 - Bernard Jaffe - d. 8-2-1993
science writer: "Information, Please"
09-13-1913 - Gretchen Davidson - Chicago, IL - d. 8-2-2002
actor: Carol Kennedy "Carol Kennedy's Romance"
10-03-1924 - Joe Allison - McKinney, TX - d. 8-2-2002
songwriter: Began his career as a radio disk jockey
11-24-1888 - Cathleen Nesbitt - Belfast, Northern Ireland - d. 8-2-1982
actor: "Philco Radio Playhouse"
11-27-1915 - Ralph Bell -NYC - d. 8-2-1998
actor: Travis Rogers "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator"; Alfred
Drake "This Is Nora Drake"
11-30-1894 - Donald Ogden Stewart - Columbus, OH - d. 8-2-1980
writer: "Information Please"
12-05-1890 - Fritz Lang - Vienna, Austria - d. 8-2-1976
film director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
12-08-1907 - Frank Faylen - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-2-1985
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
12-12-1919 - Seymour Korman - d. 8-2-1993
newsman for Mutual
xx-xx-1932 - Juan Lopez Mactezuma - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 8-2-1995
host: "Jazz en la Cultuira"; "Panorama de Jazz"
Ron
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:14:21 -0400
From: Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Brace for impact
Is it true Brace Beemer wore Western garb when he was on the air? Are
there radio performers who wore costumes when doing radio shows with
no studio audience?
When I interviewed Buster Crabbe at his home in Rye, NY, in the late
1960s, he told an anecdote about having Beemer as a guest on his WOR-
TV children's show, THE BUSTER CRABBE SHOW, which had a ranch-style
setting. He was talking with Beemer while they stood at the ranch's
fence. Crabbe left to do some bit or routine elsewhere on the set.
When he returned to resume the interview, Beemer was nowhere to be
found. Crabbe said, "He was gone. I looked down at the [removed] and
there was a silver bullet."
Bhob @ [removed]
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:14:27 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Nancy & the Hardy Boys
John Furek poses an excellent question on why Nancy Drew and the
Hardy Boys were never made into a radio series. While I can't fully
answer his question, I can offer a few historical facts that relate
to the issue.
First of all, it's wasn't just Nancy and the Hardy brothers who were
skipped over. The Stratemeyer Syndicate (a true fiction factory) had
dozens of equally popular characters in that era who also never got
their spot at the microphone: Tom Swift, Bomba the Jungle Boy, the
Bobbsey Twins, the X-Bar-X Boys, among others.
A contributing factor was the reluctance on the part of Edward
Stratemey's daughter, Harriet, who was running the outfit since his
death three weeks after Nancy Drew debuted in April 1930. Harriet had
sold the movie rights of Nancy to Warner Bros. for $ 6,000 and she
was very disappointed with the four movies that followed since
Hollywood's idea of "Nancy"was not hers. Thereafter she was very
reluctant to trust any entertainment venue with "her" Nancy until she
finally relented to television in the mid-70s.
Another consideration was the finite amount of radio time for kids'
programs versus the longevity of most of them, who could be measured
in decades, not years, [removed] Superman, Captain Midnight, Jack
Armstrong, Tom Mix, and the Ranger, Mountie, and Hornet from WXYZ.
Open slots for a new kids' program didn't come up that often.
Finally, let's be honest, audience demographics must have played a
role in the decision to keep Nancy off the air. Juvenile heroines
didn't attract sufficient listeners because most radio fans were
boys. Even Ovaltine, who picked "Little Orphan Annie" in hopes that
would appeal to both sexes, were shocked when the first radio premium
requests rolled in, revealing that about 90% of the listeners were
little boys. If more little girls had listened to the radio in those
days, "Wonder Woman" would have gotten her own radio show. (Oh wait,
I [removed] out of every 10 readers of her comic books were also
little boys.)
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:14:36 -0400
From: Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Witch's Tale episode
The last issue of the Digest contained the Heritage Radio Theatre schedule
for the week, including an episode of THE WITCH'S TALE, "The Devil Doctor,"
which was identified as a WOR-NYC show with a broadcast date of February 19,
1937.
Just to set the record straight, there are only two surviving recordings of
the original WOR-Mutual WITCH'S TALE broadcasts--"The Magic Skin--Part 1"
from September 3, 1935, and "In the Devil's Name--Part 1" from January 8,
1937.
Every other WITCH'S TALE episode which currently circulates--however
inaccurately dated by dealers and collectors--is either from one of two 1934
transcription series or from the Australian WITCH'S TALE shows of the early
1940s.
The episode of "The Devil Doctor" which will be heard on Heritage should be
correctly notated "Macquarie Broadcasting Services, Sydney, ca. 1941-42.
Mike Ogden
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:14:45 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-3 births/deaths
August 3rd births
08-03-1885 - Arthur Sinclair - Dublin, Ireland - d. 12-14-1951
actor: John A. Considine "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
08-03-1886 - Anna Barbash - d. 1-1-1983
soprano: "Memories of Jennie Lind"
08-03-1886 - Russ Westover - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-5-1966
writer: Creator of the comic strip "Tillie the Toiler"
08-03-1894 - Harry Heilmann - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-9-1951
sportscaster: WXYZ Detroit
08-03-1896 - Wendell Hall - St. George, KS - d. 4-4-1969
singer: (The Red Headed Music Maker) "Eveready Hour"; "Red Headed
Music Maker"
08-03-1900 - Ernie Pyle - Dana, IN - d. 4-18-1945
world war II correspondent: "Words at War"; "Cavalcade of America"
08-03-1902 - Irma Glen - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1982
organist: "Irma Glen Lovable Music"; "Vic and Sade"
08-03-1903 - John S. Young - Springfield, MA - d. 1-12-1976
announcer: Foreign news for NBC in Nyw York
08-03-1904 - Clifford Simak - Millville, WI - d. 4-24-1988
writer: "Dimension X"
08-03-1905 - Dolores Del Rio - Durango, Mexico - d. 4-11-1983
actor: "Hollywood on the Air"
08-03-1905 - Gaylord Carter - Wiesbaden, Germany - d. 11-20-2000
organist: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Breakfast in Hollywood"
08-03-1906 - James Thieran Biggs - Richwood, OH - d. 8-27-1996
radio and telegraph operator: WVZ
08-03-1906 - Robert Emmett Dolan - Hartford, CT - d. 9-26-1972
music maestro: "The Circle"; "Birdseye Open House"
08-03-1907 - Adrienne Ames - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-31-1947
film star: WHN New York, New York
08-03-1907 - Irene Tedrow - Denver, CO - d. 3-10-1995
actor: Janet Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"; Dorothy Regent "Chandu, the
Magacian"
08-03-1911 - Ken Patterson - Montana - d. 2-16-1990
actor: "Dragnet"
08-03-1915 - Hugh Douglas - Chicago, IL - d. 9-1-1993
announcer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
08-03-1916 - Horace Logan - Shreveport, LA - d. 10-13-2002
creator of "The Louisana Hayride"
08-03-1916 - Milton Drake - NYC - d. 11-13-2006
songwriter: "Mairzy Doats"
08-03-1917 - Charlie Shavers - NYC - d. 7-8-1971
jazz trumpeter: "Jump Time"; "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Tommy Dorsey Show"
08-03-1917 - Larry Haines - Mt. Vernon, NY - d. 7-17-2008
actor: Carl Ward "Young Dr. Malone"; Fred Molina "This is Nora Drake"
08-03-1918 - Les Elgart - New Haven, CT - d. 7-29-1995
bandleader: "Let's Go to Town"; "Manhattan Melodies"
08-03-1920 - Marilyn Maxwell - Clarinda, IA - d. 3-20-1972
singer, actor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Bob
Hope Show"
08-03-1923 - Jean Hagen - Chicago, IL - d. 8-29-1977
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars in the Air"
08-03-1925 - Billy James Hargis - Texarkana, TX - d. 11-27-2004
preacher: Broadcast his ministry on more than 500 radio stations.
08-03-1926 - Tony Bennett - NYC
singer: "[removed] Woolworth Hour"; "Songs for Sale"; "Stepping Out"
08-03-1927 - Gordon Scott - Portland, OR - d. 4-30-2007
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
August 3rd deaths
01-25-1920 - Fred Pinkard - d. 8-3-2004
actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Hello, Sucker"
02-04-1918 - Ida Lupino - London, England - d. 8-3-1995
panelist, actor: "Hollywood Byline"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
04-28-1929 - Carolyn Jones - Amarillo, TX - d. 8-3-1983
actor: "Dragnet"; "Survivors"
06-27-1938 - Ron Lyons - Asheville, NC - d. 8-3-2007
traffic anchor: KCBS San Francisco, California
08-06-1923 - William B. Williams - Babylon, NY - d. 8-3-1986
disc jockey: Leading New York DJ for more than 40 years at WNEW
08-12-1892 - Alfred Lunt - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-3-1977
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Treasury
Star Parade"
08-24-1924 - Lou Teicher - Wilkes Barre, PA - d. 8-3-2008
pianist: (Ferrante and Teicher) "The Zero Hour"; "Hollywood Radio
Theatre"
09-19-1924 - Bob Murphy - Oklahoma - d. 8-3-2004
sportscaster: teamed with Curt Gowdy to broadcast Red Sox Games
10-13-1925 - Lenny Bruce - Mineola, NY - d. 8-3-1966
comedian: "Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts"; "Why Did Lenny Bruce Die?"
12-03-1857 - Joseph Conrad - Kiev, Russian Empire - d. 8-3-1924
author: Some of his works were adapted for radio
12-09-1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Jarotschin, Posen, Germany - d.
8-3-2006
singer: Austrian Radio
12-19-1912 - Frank Holliday - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-3-1948
singer: (The Rockaway Four) "The Gay Nineties Revue"
12-29-1894 - Harry Lang - NYC - d. 8-3-1953
actor: Mr. Fuddle "Blondie"; Pan Pancho "Cisco Kid"
Ron
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