Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #221
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 221
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Wonderful Smith, RIP                  [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      reel to reel                          [ EDWARD CARR <edcarr@[removed]; ]
      9-18 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      The Vanishing OTR Generation          [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]
      RE: The Vanishing OTR Generation      [ Janet Chamberlain <pepsipenquin@yah ]
      Re: The Vanishing OTR Generation      [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      A couple of odd ones                  [ rand@[removed] ]
      OTR in the News                       [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Royal Visit 1939                      [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Bill Johnstone as Chaplain Jim        [ vzeo0hfk@[removed] ]
      Re: Video Tape                        [ Alan Bell <alanlinda43@[removed]; ]
      Videotape for OTR recording           [ James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed] ]
      9-19 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:51:01 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Wonderful Smith, RIP

    An AP release today reports the death of Wonderful Smith, 97, on
    August 28th in Northridge, CA of undisclosed causes. Smith was one of
    the few African-American performers on the air during radio's Golden
    Age. He left no immediate survivors.

    He was born June 21, 1911 in Arkadelphia, AR and his eight siblings
    had conventional names. Smith claimed he did not realize how unusual
    his first name was until he was teased about it when he started
    attending school. At age 16 he relocated to Los Angeles and was hired
    as a part-time chauffeur by actress Hattie McDaniel, who would later
    become the first black winner of an Academy Award for her performance
    in "Gone With the Wind." By 1941 Smith had a major role in Duke
    Ellington's "Jump For Joy," a satirical review. Part of his monologue
    in that stage show involved him pretending to telephone FDR and after
    introducing himself, say, "No, I'm not related to Governor Al
    [removed]'s quite a difference, as different as night and day."
    In 1941, he was cast as a cook on Red Skelton's radio show, leading
    to him being termed radio's "Negro comedy find of the year."

    Smith was drafted into the Army in 1942 and became a disk jockey for
    AFRS, a nearly all-white organization. Although he was usually
    expected to speak in a "blackface dialect" when performing, Smith was
    surprised this requirement evaporated while he was producing his own
    AFRS radio show from a studio in Calcutta, India. He served with AFRS
    until 1945.

    Back in the [removed] after the war, he returned to Red Skelton show but
    was let go by the producers in 1947, which Smith claimed was because
    he didn't sound as "Negroid" as they expected. He continued in show
    business, including TV and movie bit parts; he was the janitor in the
    1984 film, "This is Spinal Tap."

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:51:10 -0400
    From: EDWARD CARR <edcarr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  reel to reel

    hi
    does anyone have a use for reel to reel decks?
    i have a few, but 2 need new heads as 1 chan is out
    these are going cheap, contact me for more details
    i have been converting over to cd all reels, almost all
    american shows on reels are gone as i sent many to a fellow in cal. i am
    waiting to hear from him.
    my bbc reels i am sending to a fellow in cincinati.
    contact me if interested in the decks,
    edcarr@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:52:02 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-18 births/deaths

    September 18th births

    09-18-1873 - Charles K. Field - Montpelier, VT - d. 9-1-1948
    host: (Cherrio) "Cherrio"; "Arco Birthday Party"
    09-18-1881 - Wythe Williams - Meadville, PA - d. 7-13-1956
    newscaster: "As the Clock Strikes"
    09-18-1886 - Powel Crosley, Jr. - Cincinnati, OH - d. 3-28-1961
    owner of WLW radio station in Cincinnati
    09-18-1894 - Willard Robison - Shelbina, MO - d. 6-24-1968
    orchestra leader: (Evangelist of Rhythm) "Plantation Echoes"
    09-18-1905 - Eddie Anderson - Oakland, CA - d. 2-28-1977
    actor: Rochester Van Jones "Jack Benny Program"
    09-18-1905 - Greta Garbo - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 4-15-1990
    actor: "Conquest"
    09-18-1908 - Blair Walliser - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1996
    writer, director: "Romance of Helen Trent"; "Backstage Wife"
    09-18-1910 - Joe "Curley" Bradley - Coalgate, OK - d. 6-3-1985
    actor, singer: Tom Mix "Tom Mix"; "Singing Marshall"
    09-18-1916 - Samuel Badillo - d. 9-27-1992
    newscaster: WIAC San Juan, PR
    09-18-1917 - June Foray - Springfield, MA
    actor: Junie "Smile Time" "Stan Freberg Show"; "It's a Great Life"
    09-18-1919 - Diana Lewis - Asbury, NJ - d. 1-18-1997
    actor: "G. I. Journal"; "Radio's Reader Digest"
    09-18-1920 - Jack Warden - Newark, NJ - d. 7-19-2006
    actor: "Stagestruck"
    09-18-1929 - Phyllis Kirk - Syracuse, NY - d. 10-20-2006
    actor: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    09-18-1932 - Patricia Roe - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    09-18-1939 - Frankie Avalon, Philadelphia, PA
    singer: "Frankie Avalon Show"
    09-18-1948 - Ken Brett - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-18-2003
    part of the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcast team

    September 18th deaths

    01-07-1888 - Myrtle Vail Damerel - Joilet, IL - d. 9-18-1978
    actor: Myrtle Spear "Myrt and Marge"
    01-17-1917 - Sam Locke - Peabody, MA - d. 9-18-1998
    scriptwriter: "Grand Central Station"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
    02-27-1905 - Franchot Tone - Niagara Falls, NY - d. 9-18-1968
    actor: "Arch Oboler Plays"; "Free Company"; "Knickerbocker Playhouse"
    03-03-1900 - Edna Best - Hove, East Sussex, England - d. 9-18-1974
    director: "Sherlock Holmes"; "Silver Theatre"
    05-15-1890 - Katherine Anne Porter - Indian Creek, TX - d. 9-18-1980
    author: "NBC University Theatre"
    05-31-1879 - Frances Alda - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 9-18-1952
    soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"
    06-01-1890 - Frank Morgan - NYC - d. 9-18-1949
    actor: Thaddeus Q. Tweedy "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"
    07-08-1917 - Pamela Brown - London, England - d. 9-18-1975
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Theatre On the Air"
    07-14-1904 - Annabella - La Varenne Hilaire, Val-de-Marne, France -
    d. 9-18-1996
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-08-1923 - Jimmy Witherspoon - Gurdon, AR - d. 9-18-1997
    blues singer: (Jay McShann's Band) "Jubilee"
    08-10-1915 - Jack Lester - Oklahoma - d. 9-18-2004
    actor: Sky King "Sky King"; ""Whistlin' Jimmy Steele"
    08-23-1902 - Charles Paul - NYC - d. 9-18-1990
    organist: "Kate Smith"; "As the Twig is Bent"
    08-24-1896 - Cyril Armbrister - d. 9-18-1966
    producer, director: "Chandu the Magician"; "Strange As It Seems";
    "Terry and the Pirates"
    09-04-1914 - Leonard Sterling - d. 9-18-1992
    announcer: "The Brighter Day"; "We Are Always Young"
    09-10-1917 - Jean Ruth Hay - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-18-2004
    disc jockey: "Reveille with Beverly"
    09-27-1893 - Phil Cook - Coldwater, MI - d. 9-18-1958
    comedian: "Radio Chief"; "Quaker Oats Man"; "Morning Almanac"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:52:08 -0400
    From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Vanishing OTR Generation
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    About two years I was trying to renegotiate our contract with AFTRA regarding
    payment of our actors on Imagination Theatre. It took almost a year to get it
    done. why? Because I couldn't seem to get it through the heads of the various
    folks I had to deal with in the national office in New York City just what
    audio drama was. I kept hearing "Oh, so it like books on tape right?"
    AFRA (Now AFTRA) was created to protect the actors of OTR from the abuses of
    their talent that came with working for the networks, producers, ad agencies
    and so forth. But now the very medium the union was started to serve is
    forgotten by said union and the people who work for it. "Yeah, its like books
    on tape."
    Larry Albert

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:52:44 -0400
    From: Janet Chamberlain <pepsipenquin@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: The Vanishing OTR Generation
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    The Vanishing OTR Generation by Tom Barnett

    The young just don't know what they are missing.  I was shopping for a new
    cell phone last year and was talking with about a 22 yr old slick salesman.
    When it got to the part about the phone being able to play MP3's, I asked how
    much storage does it have.  He was telling me about how many 100's of songs I
    could have at my fingertips and I said, no you don't understand.  My "music"
    is about 30 minutes long as I listen to Old Time Radio.  He nodded and acted
    like he understood.  I asked do you know what I mean when I say Old Time
    Radio?  He said yeah, like Rolling Stones and stuff like that.  I laughed and
    said No, not quite.  I listen to ones like Jack Benny, Fibber Mcgee & Molly,
    and Richard Diamond.  He had not a clue who I was talking about, not even
    Jack Benny.  I felt pretty old at that point.

    Janet
    Topeka by way of California

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:53:14 -0400
    From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: The Vanishing OTR Generation

    Considering Tom Barnett and Joe Mackey's recent run-ins with co-workers
    and neighbors who didn't recognize respectively Rochester and OTR, I had
    the opposite happen yesterday just after reading Tom's posting.  The new
    dean of the college I recently retired from, stopped by to see my office
    that I am still moving out of.  He spotted a picture of Jack Benny on my
    wall and said "Ah! Jack Benny."  Good.  A kindred soul.

    On the other hand, my daughter ran into the opposite a couple of years
    ago when one of her radio production professors didn't recognize the
    name Spike Jones during a discussion of novelty recordings.  Thinking to
    try to one-up her, he said "You mean Spike Milligan, don't you?"  "I
    know who Spike Milligan is," she replied, "I have dozens of Goon Shows
    and even some of Milligan's TV shows.  I MEANT Spike Jones."  "Who's
    he?" came the response.  Since she was interviewing him for a project at
    the time, she gleefully played the tape over the phone for me.  A sad
    statement of the profession I have just left.  And, yes, she handed him
    a CD of Spike JONES a few days later.  What's that line that Oscar
    Hammerstein II wrote? -- "By your pupils you'll be taught."

    Doc Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:54:02 -0400
    From: rand@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  A couple of odd ones

    I just got some AFRS transcriptions from a private seller that I'll be
    transferring and putting up on my blog soon.  In researching the shows, I
    think I might have found a couple more rarities - does anyone have any
    more info on these shows?

    There are a couple of discs from a show called "The Harlem Hospitality
    Club".  I haven't found any shows in this series in circulation and all I
    can seem to find out about it is that it ran on Mutual in 1947 at 2:00 pm
    on Saturday afternoons.

    It's a fun show, broadcast from the Savoy Ballroom - host Willie Bryant
    talks to people in the audience and there are performances from R&B
    singers from the time, such as Little Miss Cornshucks and Amanda Randolph.
     The audience segments are fascinating, with people talking about
    arguments with their husbands, unusual professions and the like.  It sort
    of sounds like a Black version of "Don McNeal's Breakfast Club".

    The other show is another one of those mysteries.  There are three
    transcriptions from the "Dennis Day Show", but not the "Day in the Life of
    Dennis Day" series.  This one is a comedy-variety show that, based on
    clues in the program, appears to date from 1954-55.

    Dennis does a couple of songs and he has guests who do songs and comedy
    skits.  Two of the shows I've got have Mel Blanc as a guest, doing live
    versions of kiddie records he did for Capital Records, and another has
    Johnny Mercer as guest.

    Again, I haven't found any info on this series or any of the shows
    circulating.  Was this a summer replacement or a regular program?

    Randy

    _______
    Randy A. Riddle
    Mebane, NC

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:54:21 -0400
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR in the News

    We have a rather heated reaction to James Dobson being named to the radio
    hall of fame that includes reference to Jack Benny and Edwad R. Murrow:

    [removed]

    The Detroit Free Press reviews the travelling show of "Say Goodnight Gracie"

    [removed]

    And an interview with Smothers Brothers in which they discuss working with
    Jack Benny and George Burns.

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:02:37 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Royal Visit 1939

    Our MWOTRC website just received an inquiry from an OTR researcher
    concerning an NBC radio special of June 11, 1939 to honor King George
    and Queen Elizabeth who were then on a [removed] visit. The program
    originated from New York City and included both the NBC Symphony
    Orchestra and Ray Noble and his orchestra.

    The program featured a host of American and British stars (Basil
    Rathbone, David Niven, Leslie Howard, Nigel Bruce, George M. Cohan,
    Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, Vivien Leigh, among others) with
    George Sanders and Leslie Howard as narrators. The program aired for
    one hour in "prime time."

    Any Digester know if this special has survived in audio form?

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:08:09 -0400
    From: vzeo0hfk@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bill Johnstone as Chaplain Jim
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        The discussion about Bill Johnstone reminded me of a show in  which
       he starred during World War II called, "Chaplain Jim." The following
       is excerpted from my book, WORDS AT WAR (Scarecrow Press, 2002)

       Chaplain Jim [was conceived] as a show for a special audience. They
       directed it at the little educated, anxious ones who could not quite
       understand why Uncle Sam had taken their loved ones and sent them to
       faraway places. Most of the young soldiers whose families were the
       showbs target audience had never been outside the limits of their home
       towns or counties prior to being drafted. Chaplain Jim was designed to
       put their loved ones at ease. The notion that there was someone else
       to whom a troubled soldier could turn besides an often unsympathetic
       sergeant was a source of comfort to mothers and wives.

       Chaplain Jim, the character, became a real bLiving Friendb in the
       minds of thousands. They were encouraged to write to him personally to
       tell him their problems. Many did so. They complained of not hearing
       from their loved one in the service--or of feeling stranded or
       deserted even if they were receiving letters. The Adjutant Generalbs
       office answered each letter. It also frequently put a follow through
       to military channels. It is difficult to statistically calculate the
       showbs success. But [one War Department official] claimed that the
       show and the follow up prevented tens of thousands of homes from
       breaking up. He similarly credited it with preventing numerous
       soldiers from going AWOL or committing other acts of disobedience.
       There was one aspect of listener reaction that could be measured quite
       objectively. The bChaplainb was so real to so many listeners each week
       that they sent him candy, home made cookies and donations of cash to
       carry on his work.

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:08:36 -0400
    From: Alan Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Video Tape

    Make sure the VCR is a "Hi-FI" VCR before recording OTR or anything else
    where fidelity is a concern. Of course, most VCRs (but not all!) sold over
    the last 20 years or so were Hi-Fi. My understanding is that the audio
    portion in a Hi-Fi tape is recorded along with the video with the spinning
    record head. A non-Hi-Fi recording is just laid down at the edge of the tape,
    and the slower the tape, the worse the fidelity, just as in reel-to-reel. But
    with a Hi-Fi VCR, even at the very slow EP (or SLP)speed, the sound is
    excellent.

    I have a couple of shelves of OTR recorded on video tapes that have been
    around for 15-20 years and they sound perfect. Of course, the disadvantage is
    that if you want to find a particular show that's on a tape with 10 to 12
    other shows, it is kind of a hassle.

    Alan
    _________________
    Alan/Linda Bell
    Grand Rapids, MI

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:09:24 -0400
    From: James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Videotape for OTR recording

    09-18-08

    Videotape became an attractive medium for recording OTR for several
    reasons:

    1)  With Beta's advent of "Beta-HiFi", we now had the ability to put [removed]
    hours of 20 Hz-to-20 KHz high fidelity recording onto one tape.
    2)  All VCR's (Beta or VHS or 8mm) were equipped with
    tape-while-you're-away timers, which meant that nostalgia-type programs
    that replayed the old episodes could be taped in one's absence.

    Here's a warning, though -- if you just feed an audio signal into a lot
    of regular VCR's without a video signal, the speed control electronics
    will have nothing to chew on and the recording speed can go quite
    kaflooie, sending the mechanical tape speed all over the place searching
    for some kind of video synchronization signal.  Beta-HiFi machines had
    the ability to record audio by just flipping a switch that would give
    that circuitry the sync signal it needed to record audio-only tapes.
    Maybe VHS eventually did that.  I don't know.

    Best regards,

    Jim Arva

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:09:31 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-19 births/deaths

    September 19th births

    09-19-1877 - T. Stuart Gurr - Bombay, India - d. 12-xx-1960
    writer: "The Summons"
    09-19-1879 - Louis Joseph Vance - NYC - d. 12-16-1933
    writer: "The Lone Wolf"
    09-19-1888 - John Henry Bodkin - Chicago, IL - d. unknown
    director: Abundant Life Mixed Chorus "Operatic Night"
    09-19-1888 - Porter Hall - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-6-1953
    actor: "March of Time"
    09-19-1892 - Fred E. Ahlert - NYC - d. 10-20-1953
    composer/arranger: "When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the
    Day"
    09-19-1899 - Ricardo Cortez - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 4-28-1977
    actor: "Shell Chateau"; "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Treasury Hour"
    09-19-1904 - Dr. Bergen Evans - Franklin, OH - d. 2-4-1978
    host: "Down You Go"; "Of Many Things"
    09-19-1904 - Elvia Allman - Concord, NC - d. 3-6-1992
    comedienne: Tootsie Sagwell "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show";
    Cora Dithers "Blondie"
    09-19-1905 - Betty Garde - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-25-1989
    actor: Peggy O'Neill "O'Neills"; Kate Mason "Maudie's Diary"
    09-19-1908 - Sanford Barnett - East Orange, NJ - d. 4-14-1988
    writer: "Believe It or Not"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-19-1910 - Arthur Mullard - London, England - d. 12-11-1995
    actor: Jack (Dad Porter) "Industrial Inaction"; "Brothers In Law"
    09-19-1910 - Dresser Dahlstead - Springville, UT - d. 4-20-1998
    announcer: "I Deal in Crime"; "Death Valley Days"; "I Love a Mystery"
    09-19-1910 - Margaret Lindsay - Dubuque, IA - d. 5-8-1981
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"
    09-19-1912 - Edmund Anderson - NYC - d. 6-29-2002
    program writer and director for various network programs
    09-19-1912 - William Abramchik - d. 4-16-1998
    newscaster: Chicago, Illinois
    09-19-1913 - Frances Farmer - Seattle, WA - d. 8-1-1970
    actor: "Pursuit of Happiness"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Suspense"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    09-19-1916 - Helen Ward - NYC - d. 4-21-1998
    jazz singer: (Benny Goodman's Band) "Let's Dance"
    09-19-1920 - Warde Q. Butler - d. 4-16-2004
    hosted a music and interview program in Cincinnati, Ohio
    09-19-1921 - Michael Noonan - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 3-5-2000
    writer: "The Man Who Changed the Wind"
    09-19-1922 - Willie Pep - Middletown, CT - d. 11-23-2006
    boxer: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"
    09-19-1924 - Bob Murphy - Oklahoma - d. 8-3-2004
    sportscaster: teamed with Curt Gowdy to broadcast Red Sox Games
    09-19-1926 - James Lipton - Detroit, MI
    actor: Dick Grant "The Guiding Light"; Dan Reid "The Lone Ranger"
    09-19-1927 - William Hickey - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-29-1997
    performed in radio at the age of 9
    09-19-1930 - Derek Nimmo - Liverpool, England - d. 2-25-1999
    comic actor: "The Dales"
    09-19-1931 - Ray Danton - NYC - d. 2-11-1992
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"

    September 19th deaths

    02-03-1903 - Martin Block - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1967
    announcer, disc jockey: "Make-Believe Ballroom"; "Chesterfield Supper
    Club"
    04-07-1899 - Robert Casadesus - Paris, France - d. 9-19-1972
    pianist: "Telephone Hour"; "Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra"
    04-23-1922 - Jack May - Henley-on-Thames, England - d. 9-19-1997
    actor: "The Archers"; "Sherlock Holmes"
    05-21-1901 - Fred Cole - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1964
    writer: "Double or Nothing"
    06-01-1900 - Werner Janssen - NYC - d. 9-19-1990
    music: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-17-1897 - Vivian Duncan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1986
    singer: (Topsy and Eva) "Wireless Vaudeville"
    06-17-1910 - Red Foley - Blue Lick, KY - d. 9-19-1968
    singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Red Foley Show"
    07-18-1910 - Lou Bush - Louisville, KY - d. 9-19-1979
    orchestra leader: "Guest Star"; "Stars for Defense"; "Here's to
    Veterans"
    07-28-1911 - Ann Doran - Amarillo, TX - d. 9-19-2000
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-16-1896 - Eddie Green - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-19-1950
    actor: Eddie the Waiter "Duffy's Tavern"; Jerry "Uncle Charlie's Tent
    Show"
    10-14-1879 - Miles Franklin - Talbingo, Australia - d. 9-19-1954
    wirter: "The Thorny Rose"
    10-20-1895 - Rex Ingram - Cairo, IL - d. 9-19-1965
    actor: "Free World Theatre"
    12-22-1909 - Patricia Hayes - London, England - d. 9-19-1998
    actor: Henry Bones, boy detective "Children's Hour"
    12-30-1931 - Skeeter Davis - Dry Ridge, KY - d. 9-19-2004
    country/western singer: "Grand Ole Opry"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee Wisconsin

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