Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #59
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Date: 3/5/2008 4:19 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 59
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      A Company Man                         [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      3-5 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      best cast spoof?                      [ Chargous@[removed] ]
      Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons?      [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]
      The Twentieth Century                 [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:01:08 -0500
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  A Company Man

>     But while I don't know, offhand, which network "The 21st Century" was aired on,
>     I can't get it out of my head that it, too, may have been a product  of [removed]

    Pretty sure that Mr. Cronkite never strayed from Uncle Bill Paley's  [removed]

    -Craig W.

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    Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 02:12:01 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
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    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:08:57 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-5 births/deaths

    March 5th births

    03-05-1881 - Toby Gremmer - Bainbridge, GA - d. 9-6-1981
    actor: Hermit "The Hermit's Cave"
    03-05-1882 - Eustace Wyatt - Bath, Somerset, England - d. 10-25-1944
    actor: Lord Percy "Our Gal Sunday"
    03-05-1891 - Chic Johnson - Chicago, IL - d. 2-28-1962
    comedian: "Olsen and Johnson"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
    03-05-1892 - Paul Wing - Sandwich, MA - d. 5-29-1957
    actor/emcee: "The Story Man"; "Uncle Toddy"; "Youth vs. Age"
    03-05-1893 - Dorothy Sands - Cambridge, MA - d. 9-11-1980
    actor: Mary Ann Clarke "Barry Cameron"; Margot "Backstage Wife"
    03-05-1894 - Henry Daniell - London, England - d. 10-31-1963
    actor: "Theatre Guild of the Air"
    03-05-1898 - Bud Selvin - d. 7-15-1980
    bandleader: "Devoe Redskins"; "Kolster Radio Hour"
    03-05-1900 - Martin Magner - Stettin, Germany - d. 1-25-2002
    director: "Under Arrest"; "Wooden Fish"
    03-05-1900 - Sam Hearn - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-27-1964
    comedian: Schlepperman "Jack Benny Program, Glamour Manor"
    03-05-1903 - Minerva Pious - Odessa, Russia - d. 3-16-1979
    commedienne: Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum "Fred Allen Show"
    03-05-1906 - Aileen Carlyle - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-3-1984
    vocalist: "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
    03-05-1906 - Harry Lubin - d. 7-21-1977
    music: "Glamour Manor"; "Burns and Allen"; "Blondie"
    03-05-1908 - Rex Harrison - Huyton, England - d. 6-2-1990
    actor: Rex Saunders "Private Files of Rex Saunders"
    03-05-1911 - Joseph Tometty - Ireland - d. 6-7-1995
    writer: "The McCooeys"
    03-05-1913 - Dick Whittinghill - Montana - d. 1-24-2001
    disk jockey: "Did you Whittinghill This Morning?"
    03-05-1920 - Virginia Christine - Stanton, IA - d. 7-24-1996
    actor: "Confession"; "Gunsmoke"
    03-05-1921 - Milt Kamen - Hurleyville, NY - d. 2-24-1977
    satirist: "Voices of Vista"; "Here's to Veterans"
    03-05-1922 - Robert Burr - Jersey City, NJ - d. 5-13-2000
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    03-05-1925 - Lucy Gilman - Chicago, IL - d. 11-23-2006
    actor: "(Sister of Toni Gilman) "I Love A Mystery"; Welcome Valley"
    03-05-1927 - Jack Cassidy - NYC - d. 12-12-1976
    singer, actor: "Stars for Defense"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"
    03-05-1927 - Rachel Gurney - Eton, England - d. 11-24-2001
    actor: BBC Home Service; Emma Woodhouse "Emma"
    03-05-1936 - Dean Stockwell - North Hollywood, CA
    actor: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"

    March 5th deaths

    02-18-1907 - Billy de Wolf -  Wollaston, MA - d. 3-5-1974
    actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-03-1939 - Sam Chu Lin - Mississippi - d. 3-5-2006
    newscaster, actor: "Empire of the Air"
    03-07-1880 - Sidney Scott Booth - Birmingham, England - d. 3-5-1946
    radio performer
    03-17-1879 - Sid Grauman - Indianapolis, IN - d. 3-5-1950
    theatre owner: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-21-1943 - Vivian Stanshall - Shillingford, England - d. 3-5-1995
    pop musician: "Viv Stanshall's Radio Flashes"
    03-31-1922 - Richard Kiley - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1999
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    04-08-1896 - Yip Harburg - NYC - d. 3-5-1981
    lyricist: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    04-18-1889 - Gene Carroll - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1972
    comedian: Lena, the maid "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    05-02-1908 - Wilms Herbert - d. 3-5-1951
    actor: Sergeant Otis Ludlum "Richard Diamond, Private Detctive"
    05-12-1894 - Leora Thatcher - Logan, UT - d. 3-5-1984
    actor: Mrs. Kramer "Right to Happiness"
    07-06-1875 - Roger Babson - d. 3-5-1967
    economist: "Babson Reports"
    07-15-1913 - Cowboy Copas - Muskogee, OK - d. 3-5-1963
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Music Time"
    07-29-1892 - William Powell - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-5-1984
    actor: Father "My Mother's Husband"
    07-29-1909 - Bernard Mackey - d. 3-5-1980
    singer, guitarist: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots";
    "Let's Go Nightclubbing"
    08-02-1915 - Gary Merrill - Hartford, CT - d. 3-5-1990
    actor: Bruce Wayne/Batman "Adventures of Superman"
    08-03-1886 - Russ Westover - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-5-1966
    writer: Creator of the comic strip "Tillie the Toiler"
    08-23-1869 - Edgar Lee Masters - Garnett, KS - d. 3-5-1950
    author: "Cavalcade of America"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    09-04-1898 - Harry Salter - Bucharest, Romania - d. 3-5-1984
    conductor: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"; "Lanny Ross Show"; "Stop the Music"
    09-06-1915 - Kleve Kirby - d. 3-5-1949
    actor: John Murray "Today's Children"
    09-08-1932 - Patsy Cline - Gore, VA - d. 3-5-1963
    country singer: "Country Hoedown"; "Town and Country Time"
    09-26-1915 - Tony Romano - Fresno, CA - d. 3-5-2005
    guitarist: "The Bob Hope Show"
    09-29-1918 - James Wood - Elgin, Scotland - d. 3-5-1984
    author of radio plays
    10-26-1910 - Clarence Hartzell - Huntington, WV - d. 3-5-1988
    actor: Uncle Fletcher "Vic and Sade"; Pappy Yokum "Li'l AAbner"; "Ben
    Withers "Lum and Abner"
    11-07-1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz - NYC - d. 3-5-1953
    screenwriter, producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-17-1905 - Mischa Auer - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 3-5-1967
    actor: "Mischa the Magnificent"
    12-02-1906 - Donald Woods - Brandon, Manitoba, Canada - d. 3-5-1998
    actor: Leslie Foster "Those We Love"; "Woolworth Hour"
    12-22-1921 - Hawkshaw Hawkins - Huntingdon, WV - d. 3-5-1963
    singer: "Country Style [removed]"; "Country Music Time"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:09:18 -0500
    From: Chargous@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  best cast spoof?

    Of the ones I've heard, I think the hands-down winner would be The Guiding
    Light "Who's the Father?".  Are there any surviving cast spoofs of ano
    other series besides this, Gunsmoke, and Red Ryder?

    Travis

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    Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:59:06 -0500
    From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons?

    I was listening to WAMU's Big Broadcast a week or so ago, and they had
    an episode of Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons on, called The Broken
    Glass Murder Case (or something similar).  I'm not a big fan of Mr Keen.
    While I recognize the show has a certain harmless charm, I don't find
    the pleasure in the ridiculous dialog that some people do ("It's you.
    What are you doing here?  No, don't shoot me with that gun in your hand!
    Ahhhh.  You've shot me!").  Consequently, I've listened to few episodes.

    Every episode I have listened to, however, doesn't involve any missing
    persons.  They're all murder who-done-its. It's always a The ____-Murder
    Case.  So my question is, did Mr Keen ever actually trace any missing
    persons?

    -chris holm

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    Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:30:10 -0500
    From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Twentieth Century
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    "The Twentieth Century" narrated by Walter Cronkite on TV in the 1950's and
    1960's was sponsored by  "The Prudential Insurance Corporation of America." I
    suspect that the nrtwork that produed it would be CBS, as that was Walter
    Cronkite's home turf.

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