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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 124
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Gale Storm                            [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
      6-30 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Ladies last?                          [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Dragnet questions                     [ mikennancy2001@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:22:21 -0400
    From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gale Storm

    Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed]; writes: "Sad news to report once
    again - Gale Storm of My Little Margie has died at 87.  She was a fun guest
    at Friends of Old Time Radio on several occassions and was as delightful in
    person as she was on stage. . ."

    The July, 1973 edition of "The Golden Age of Radio," as broadcast by WTIC,
    Hartford, CT, featured Gale Storm and Barbara Britton. You can hear the
    whole interview, and excerpts from their radio work, on "The Golden Age of
    Radio" with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran. You can also hear other full-hour
    shows, extra features, and 42 one-hour episodes of "A One Night Stand with
    the Big Bands" with Arnold Dean interviewing and playing the music of Ray
    McKinley, Gene Krupa, Sy Oliver, and many other Big Band Greats. Tune in any
    time to [removed]

    --
    Bob Scherago
    Webmaster, and former WTIC Engineer
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    Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:22:38 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-30 births/deaths

    June 30th births

    06-30-1879 - Walter Hampden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-11-1955
    actor: Leonidas Witherall "Leonidas Witherall"
    06-30-1891 - Man Mountain Dean - NYC - d. 5-29-1953
    professional wrestler: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-30-1893 - Virginia Beberus - Mercer, ME - d. 10-3-1964
    composer/author: conducted a radio program
    06-30-1894 - Frank Davis - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-9-1970
    singer: "Fred Waring Show"
    06-30-1894 - Phillips Carlin - NYC - d. 8-27-1971
    announcer: "Palmolive Hour"; "Atwater Kent Hour"
    06-30-1896 - Wilfred Pelletier - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-9-1982
    conductor: "Roses and Drums"; "Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air"
    06-30-1898 - Carl Pierce - Quincy, MA - d. 8-16-1962
    announcer: "Breakfast at Sardi's"; "The Right Thing to Do"
    06-30-1898 - George Chandler - Waukegan, IL - d. 6-10-1985
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-30-1899 - Santos Ortega - NYC - d. 4-10-1976
    actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Richard Queen "Advs. of
    Ellery Queen"
    06-30-1900 - Frank Gallop - Boston, MA - d. 5-17-1988
    announcer: "Milton Berle Show"; "Gangbusters"; "Stella Dallas"
    06-30-1904 - Glenda Farrell - Enid,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-1-1971
    opposing pitcher: "Quizzer's Baseball"
    06-30-1905 - Nestor Paiva - Fresno, CA - d. 9-9-1966
    actor: "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Escape"
    06-30-1910 - Sundra Love - Chicago, IL - d. 12-6-1996
    actor: Kay Fairchild "Stepmother"; Ethel Foster "Guiding Light"
    06-30-1913 - Harry Wismer - Port Huron, MI - d. 12-3-1967
    sportscaster: "Harry Wismer Sports Show"; "Champion Roll Call"
    06-30-1917 - Buddy Rich - NYC - d. 4-2-1987
    drummer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Tommy Dorsey and His
    Orchestra"
    06-30-1917 - Lena Horne - Brooklyn, NY
    singer: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
    06-30-1917 - Susan Hayward - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-1975
    actor: "Radio Almanac"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-30-1918 - Stewart Foster - Binghamton, NY - d. 2-7-1968
    singer: "Stewart Foster Show"; "Galen Drake"; "On a Sunday Afternoon"
    06-30-1920 - Dean Harens - South Bend, IN - d. 5-20-1996
    actor: Arthur Anderson "We, the Abbotts"
    06-30-1925 - Alice Wallace - Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-23-2002
    actor: "Music for America"; "Let Freedom Sing"
    06-30-1928 - Frank Marcus - Breslau, Germany - d. 8-5-1996
    playwright: "The Hospital Visitor"
    06-30-1957 - Carol Boettcher - Milwaukee, WI
    actor: Billie "Billie the Brownie"

    June 30th deaths

    02-20-1906 - Gale Gordon - NYC - d. 6-30-1995
    actor: Mayor LaTrivia "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Osgood Conklin "Our
    Miss Brooks"
    03-30-1926 - Bill Farrell - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-30-2007
    singer: "Bob Hope Show"
    05-04-1903 - Elmer Leyden - Davenport, IA - d. 6-30-1973
    football player: "One of the Four Horseman" "Information Please"
    05-18-1904 - Fred Shields - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-30-1974
    actor: Bill Fraser "Tarzan"
    05-29-1909 - Oliver Wakefield - Mahlabitini, South Africa - d. 6-30-1956
    comedian: "The Chesterfield Program"; "Fox Fur Trappers"
    06-20-1905 - Lillian Hellman - New Orleans, LA - d. 6-30-1984
    author: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    06-20-1924 - Chet Atkins - Luttrell, TN - d. 6-30-2001
    guitarist: "Boone County Neighbors"; "Grand Ole Opry"
    06-23-1905 - Mary Livingstone (Sadye Marks) - Seattle, WA - d. 6-30-1983
    comedienne: (wife of Jack Benny) "Jack Benny Program"
    07-26-1906 - Galen Drake - Kokomo, IN - d. 6-30-1989
    commentator: "Galen Drake"
    08-26-1873 - Lee De Forest - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-30-1961
    inventor: Audion tube
    09-23-1901 - Frederick Hazlitt Brennan - d. 6-30-1962
    writer: "Shorty Bell" based on Brennan's stories
    09-26-1921 - Russ Atwood - d. 6-30-1992
    disk jockey: WMAS Springfield, Massachusetts
    10-02-1928 - George 'Spanky' McFarland - Dallas, TX - d. 6-30-1993
    actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
    10-10-1920 - Bernard Grant - The Bronx - d. 6-30-2004
    actor: "Rober Kilgore"; "Big Story"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:23:30 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ladies last?

    Joe Mackey reminded us that "Wendy Warren and the News" debuted in
    June 1947 and its unique characteristic was that a real news program,
    about 3 minutes worth, opened the show. However A. Joseph Ross,
    relying only on his memory, challenges this statement and claims the
    newscast was at the end of the show and was actually delivered by
    "Wendy." Fortunately, Attorney Ross cautions us "But I could be
    mistaken."

    And indeed he [removed]

    The exact format of this series is set forth in at several reliable
    OTR books, including Jim Cox' s "The Great Radio Soap Operas" and my
    own, "Private Eyelashes: Radio's Lady Detectives." Every program
    started off with Florence Freeman (as Wendy) greeting the
    audience,"Hello, folks, this is Wendy Warren with news reports from
    the woman's world. But first, here's Douglas Edwards with the latest
    headlines." CBS correspondent Edwards gave actual news bulletins for
    about 2 minutes, before turning the microphone back to "Wendy"
    usually saying something like, "And now here's Wendy Warren with news
    of interest to women."

    Wendy provided about one minute of "women's news" and signed off.
    Supposedly off-mike (but still on script) Edwards and "Wendy" briefly
    discussed their upcoming weekends or some other innocent topic.
    Another variation would be for "Wendy" to introduce "Bill Flood," her
    announcer who would begin the commercial. ("Bill Flood" was actually
    Hugh James.) After saying good-bye to Edwards (or James)  "Wendy"
    quickly got back into whatever the plot had in store for her in this
    continuing soap opera.

    The whole opening, with commercial, was usually under five minutes,
    leaving about 10 minutes for the actual drama. When the 15 minutes
    was up, it ended with the closing commercial, not "Wendy" reporting
    the news.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:02:44 -0400
    From: mikennancy2001@[removed]
    To: old time radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Dragnet questions
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    Hello all:

    I recently discovered Adam Graham's podcast with the original [removed]  While
    I understand the audio quality is extremely variable, I had a couple of
    questions about the timing of the series.

    [removed]  On what date was the episode broadcast where Joe is told that Ed Romero
    has died?

    [removed]  How long after the answer to #1 did Frank Smith become Joe's partner?

    [removed]  Is anyone familiar with the episode where a suspect has supposedly been
    shot four times in the chest and the detectives can't find him -- where Hal
    Gibney says at the end, "As of this date, that investigation is continuing"?

    Hope someone can [removed]

    Mike Messner

    Mountain View, CA

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