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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 272
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  11-27 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Weird Circle                          [ herbop <herbop@[removed]; ]
  A radio grinch                        [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Terror by Night query                 [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
  11-28 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:23:08 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-27 births/deaths

November 27th births

11-27-1881 - C. Mildred Thompson - Atlanta, GA - d. 2-17-1975
historian, educator, feminist: "Information Please"
11-27-1882 - Norman Baker - Muscatine, IL - d. 9-8-1958
vaudevillian: "Mr. Baker Himself"
11-27-1890 - Gladys Rice - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-7-1983
singer: "Roxy's Gang"; "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Voice of
Firestone"
11-27-1893 - Harry Foster Welch - Annapolis, MD - d. 8-16-1973
actor: "Shell Show"
11-27-1897 - Vera Allen - NYC - d. 8-10-1987
actor: Grace Doblen "Hilltop House"; Mother Malone "Young Dr. Malone"
11-27-1898 - Eddie Kay - NYC - d. 12-22-1973
composer, conductor: "Those We Love"
11-27-1899 - Silvio Coscia - Milan, Italy - d. 9-15-1977
co-principal horn: "Metropolitan Opera Orchestra"
11-27-1901 - Ted Husing - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-10-1962
announcer, sportscaster: "Sportslants"; "March of Time"; "Radio
Reader's Digest"
11-27-1902 - J. Scott Smart - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-15-1960
actor: Senator Bloat "Fred Allen Show"; Brad Runyon "Fat Man"
11-27-1904 - Florence Lake - Charleston, SC - d. 4-11-1980
actor: (Sister of Arthur Lake) Tess Terwilliger "David Harum"
11-27-1907 - Betty Hopkins - d. 3-22-1996
writer: "This Is My Best"; "Trouble Is My Business"
11-27-1907 - Joe Bishop - Monticello, AR - d. 5-12-1976
composer, arranger, tuba and flugehorn: "Comedy Capers"
11-27-1909 - George Hogan - Kansas City, MO
announcer: "Luncheon at Sardi's"; "Snow Village Sketches"
11-27-1910 - Ray  Herbeck - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-17-1989
bandleader: "Ray Herbeck and His Orchestra"
11-27-1911 - Charles Wood - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 11-10-1997
announcer: "The Green Hornet"; "The Lone Ranger"
11-27-1912 - Maurice "Muzzy" Marcellino - California - d. 6-11-1997
singer: "Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra"; "Lady Esther Serenade"
11-27-1915 - Ralph Bell -NYC - d. 8-2-1998
actor: Travis Rogers "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator"; Alfred
Drake "This Is Nora Drake"
11-27-1916 - Chick Hearn - Buda, IL - d. 8-5-2002
sportscaster: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"; "Los Angeles Lakers play-by
play"
11-27-1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith - Buffalo, NY - d. 7-30-1998
actor: Howdy Doody "Howdy Doody"
11-27-1917 - Dick Hogan - d. 8-18-1995
actor, singer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Favorite Story"; Voice of the
Army"
11-27-1925 - Ernie Wise - Leeds, England - d. 3-21-1999
comedian: "The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Radio Show"; "Bandwagon"
11-27-1925 - Marshall Thompson - Peoria, IL - d. 5-18-1992
actor: "Free World Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-27-1925 - Michael Tolan - Detroit, MI
actor: Kato "Green Hornet"

November 27th deaths

01-01-1889 - Alexander Smallens  - St. Petersburg, Russia - d.
11-27-1972
conductor: "Rising Musical Star"
01-02-1892 - Artur Rodzinski - Dalmatia, Yugoslavia - d. 11-27-1958
concuctor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Cleveland Symphony Orchestra"
01-08-1909 - George D. Crothers - Fort Morgan, CO - d. 11-27-1998
moderator: "Invitation to Learning"
01-15-1906 - Sully Mason - Durham, NC - d. 11-27-1970
singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
02-05-1906 - John Carradine - NYC - d. 11-27-1988
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-12-1928 - William Edward Olvis - Hollywood, CA - d. 11-27-1998
opera singer: "Metropolitan Opera"
04-15-1910 - Eddie Mayo - Holyoke, MA - d. 11-27-2006
major league baseball player: "World Series Preview"
06-02-1928 - Bob Amsberry - Boring, OR - d. 11-27-1957
actor: KEX Portland, Oregon
06-18-1938 - Don "Sugarcane" Harris - Pasadena, CA - d. 11-27-1999
rock violinist: (Squires) "Stars for Defense"
07-06-1927 - Alan "Fluff" Freeman - Melbourne, Australia - d. 11-27-2006
announcer, singer: "Records Around Five"; "Pick of the Pops"
07-14-1909 - Walter Gross - NYC - d. 11-27-1967
composer, pianist: "Piano Playhouse"; "Carnation Contented Hour"
07-14-1910 - Boris Aplon - Chicago, IL - d. 11-27-1995
actor: Ivan Shark "Captain Midnight"
07-19-1891 - Raymond Bramley - Independence, OH - d. 11-27-1977
actor: Burton York "Howie Wing"; Silas Finke "David Harum"
08-03-1925 - Billy James Hargis - Texarkana, TX - d. 11-27-2004
preacher: Broadcast his ministry on more than 500 radio stations.
08-09-1906 - Gunnar Back - Escanaba, MI - d. 11-27-1983
newscaster: "CBS Morning News Roundup"; "Headline Addition"
08-10-1878 - Louis Esson - Sydney, Australia - d. 11-27-1943
writer: "Lola, the Lorelei"
09-04-1903 - Phillip Arkansas - d. 11-27-1969
saxophonisst: WWNC Ashville, North Carolina
09-06-1919 - John Mitchum - Bridgeport, CT - d. 11-27-2001
actor: (Brother of Robert Mitchum) "This Is Your FBI"
10-16-1888 - Eugene O'Neill - NYC - d. 11-27-1953
playwright: "NBC Presents Eugene O'Neill"; "Pulitzer Prize Plays";
"Best Plays"
11-04-1910 - Abby Lewis - Mesilla Park, NM - d. 11-27-1997
actor: Telephone Operator "House in the Country"
12-16-1892 - Cameron Prud'homme - Auburn, CA - d. 11-27-1967
actor: Governor Bradley "Little Herman"; David Harum "David Harum"
xx-xx-xxxx - Spencer Bentley - d. 11-27-1963
actor: Barry Cameron "Barry Cameron"; Bob "Betty and Bob"

Ron

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:23:57 -0500
From: herbop <herbop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Weird Circle

Kenneth Clarke asked about the series "Weird Circle."

I bought a CD of a bunch of mp3 files of this syndicated program.
Many of the shows are pretty good. [removed] offers many episodes
for download, plus links to sites with a series summary and a series log:
[removed]

Hope this helps,
Herb Harrison

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:25:27 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  A radio grinch

I'm wondering if anybody else lives in a burg where local radio goes to hell
in a handbag (whatever that is) around the holidays.  We don't exactly
reside in a hamlet, boasting something over a million denizens in our
metropolitan district of Louisville, although I'm certain New Yorkers and
people with multimillions living nearby can hardly relate to us.  Let me
tell your our story.

It seems like virtually everything we have in local radio is owned by Clear
Channel Communications of San Antonio, Texas.  That outfit owns eight
stations here and hundreds of others across the country.  I'll spare you my
thoughts on why this isn't a good plan, though the case I'm about to
illustrate serves as a pretty good example.  In our market, one CCC-owned
station is, forever has, and apparently always will dominate everything --
WHAS.  We are no different here than scores of other markets our size in
that circumstance.  CCC has found it convenient to place all its eggs in
that basket whenever it chooses, holidays and the days before or after them
being prime choices.

WKJK is our local CBS outlet.  It's my contemporary link to the past, if you
get my drift, having nothing else in the way of a connection to network
radio of the glory days (exclusive of internet, which is difficult to
receive in an automobile, in case you're thinking of that as an
alternative).  The local personalities on WKJK have been telling us for days
they would be away Thursday-Sunday during the Thanksgiving holidays.
Nothing new there.  When I turned on WKJK to hear the CBS World News Roundup
on Thanksgiving morning, nevertheless, I found that station carrying -- as
it always does -- the live WHAS signal and no CBS.  I switched to WHAS and
got the same program.  While I didn't check the other 6 CCC-owned outlets in
this market, I'm virtually certain they were all carrying WHAS, and will be
most likely on the day after Thanksgiving.  Get ready for Christmas and New
Year's:  my experience is, it won't be any different for those holiday
periods.  To make matters worse, during the hours Thanksgiving day after
tuning in WHAS on WKJK (and I've checked it numerous times), WKJK is
carrying only static -- no programming whatsoever.  I guess its easier and
cheaper just to pull the plug altogether and go silent than to supply those
smaller outlets with anything when some of the usual listening crowd's
normal schedule is interrupted.

We may be unique here.  Other folks in the hinterlands may have people
running their local stations who demonstrate care for their audiences.  This
is a continuing pattern in our market and clearly suggests that the folks
who own/manage/program local radio aren't concerned about the people who are
supposed to be keeping them employed.  I don't think an environment like
this would have been tolerated from the 1920s to the 1980s, and perhaps not
in the whole 20th century.  We've grown to expect other media to shoot the
stepchild in the foot but here's a genuine example of doing it to ourselves.

Jim Cox

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:16:49 -0500
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Terror by Night query

I'm a reading a book called _Radio Directing_ by Earle McGill (McGraw-Hill,
1940). It contains a script (an adaptation by Walton Butterfield of Oscar
Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost") that's credited to CBS and its horror series
"Terror by Night."

The WorldCat search engine says Dartmouth College has a copy of the script,
dated 24 May 1936. But both Jerry Haendiges' online log and old newspaper
listings give a different title for that date ("The Open Door").

So I'm wondering about the origin of the script. Was it written for the
series and not used? Did it ever air? If so, when?

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:05:14 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-28 births/deaths

November 28th births

11-28-1891- Ethel Wilson - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-19-1980
actor: Aunt Harriett "The Aldrich Family"; May Case "Lora Lawton"
11-28-1894 - Frank Black - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-29-1968
conductor: "Jack Benny Program"; "NBC String Symphony"; "Cities
Service Concert"
11-28-1895 - Jose Iturbi - Valencia, Spain - d. 6-28-1980
pianist, conductor: "Telephone hour"; "Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra"
11-28-1897 - John Kameaaloha Almeida - Pauao Valley, HA - d. 10-9-1985
writer: "Hawaii Calls"; "Island Serenade"
11-28-1901 - Bobbe Brox - Riverton, IA - d. 5-2-1999
singer: (Brox Sisters) "A Tribute to Irving Berlin"
11-28-1904 - Jane Ellen Ball - d. 8-1-1999
woman's programming: WJAS Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
11-28-1906 - Helen Jepson - Titusville, PA - d. 9-16-1997
singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Show Boat"
11-28-1907 - Rose Bampton - Cleveland, OH - d. 8-21-2007
singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"
11-28-1910 - Russell Napier - Perth, Australia - d. 8-19-1974
actor: "Midweek Theatre"
11-28-1914 - Cecil Brower - Bowie, TX - d. 11-21-1965
fiddle: "The Musical Brownies"
11-28-1916 - Richard Tregaskis - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 8-15-1973
author, war correspondent: (Guadalcanal Diary) "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-28-1917 - Elliott Lewis - NYC - d. 5-20-1990
actor, director: Frankie Remley "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"; "On
Stage"; "Mr. Aladdin"
11-28-1925 - Gloria Grahame - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-5-1981
actor: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"
11-28-1925 - Robert Readick - NYC - d. 5-27-1985
actor: (Son of Frank) Bill Roberts "Rosemary"; Don Cornwell "Second
Mrs. Burton"
11-28-1925 - Virginia Hewitt - Shreveport, LA - d. 7-21-1986
actor: Coral Karlyle "Space Patrol"
11-28-1941 - Jennifer Rankin - d. 12-8-1979
writer: "Razorback Mountain Journey"

November 28th deaths

01-08-1879 - Emory S. Land - Canon City, CO - d. 11-28-1971
[removed] naval officer: "Information Please"
01-22-1872 - Beatrice Fairfax - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-28-1945
writer: "Advice to the Lovelorn"
01-31-1915 - Garry Moore - Baltimore, MD - d. 11-28-1993
host, comedian: "Garry Moore Show"; "Camel Caravan"; "Take It or Leave
It"
02-17-1910 - Marc Lawrence - NYC - d. 11-28-2005
actor: "Let George Do It"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Scout About Town"
02-27-1880 - Georgia Burke - Atlanta, GA - d. 11-28-1985
actor: Lily "When A Girl Marries"
03-04-1934 - John Dunn - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 11-28-2004
announcer, newsreader: "Roundabout"; "Housewive's Choice"; "Breadfast
Special"
03-29-1878 - Frank Tinney - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-28-1940
comedian, monologist: WWJ and WJR Detroit, Michigan
04-03-1783 - Washington Irving - NYC - d. 11-28-1859
author: Several of his works adapted for radio
04-06-1913 - Martha Lipton - NYC - d. 11-28-2006
opera singer: "Music from the House of Squibb"; "Great Days We Honor"
04-21-1895 - Max Jordan - San Remo, Italy - d. 11-28-1977
correspondent: "NBC News"
04-27-1898 - George McCall - Renton, Scotland - d. 11-28-1952
host: "Man About Hollywood"
05-01-1912 - Anna Pollak - Manchester, England - d. 11-28-1996
soprano: (English Opera Group) "BBC Third Programme"
05-02-1911 - Myron Niesley - d. 11-28-1985
singer: "Carefree Carnival"
05-11-1910 - Johnnie 'Skat' Davis - Brazil, IN - d. 11-28-1983
trumpet: "The Fred Waring Show"
05-21-1918 - Jeanne Bates - Berkeley, CA - d. 11-28-2007
actor: Teddy Lawson "One Man's Family"; "Gunsmoke"
06-04-1907 - Rosalind Russell - Waterbury, CT - d. 11-28-1976
actor: "Four-Star Playhouse"; "Silver Theatre"
06-09-1912 - Don Forbes - Camrose, Alberta, Canada - d. 11-28-1995
newscaster, announcer: "The Richfield Reporter"; Ten-Two-Four Ranch"
06-29-1899 - Lester Vail - Denver, CO - d. 11-28-1959
director: "Aldrich Family"; "March of Time"; "World's Most Honored
Flights"
07-24-1914 - Vincent Bogert - New York - d. 11-28-1978
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
08-10-1911 - Wanna Coffman - d. 11-28-1991
bass: "The Musical Brownies"
09-24-1911 - Edmund L. Hartman - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-28-2003
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-06-1912 - Mel Dinelli - d. 11-28-1991
writer: "Advs. of Philip Marlowe"
10-11-1920 - Ralph Paul - Denver, CO - d. 11-28-1987
announcer: "Aldrich Family"; "True Detective Mysteries"; "Might Casey"
11-08-1916 - Norman Macdonnell - Pasadena, CA - d. 11-28-1979
producer, director: "Gunsmoke"
11-17-1902 - Ricky Craig, Jr. - NYC - d. 11-28-1933
monologist: "Blue Ribbon Malt Jester"
12-02-1924 - Margaret Fuller - Lisbon, Portugal - d. 11-28-2006
actor: "The Guiding Light"
12-16-1911 - Howard Reilly - d. 11-28-1991
producer: "The Fred Allen Show"
xx-xx-1908 - Fred Uttal - NYC - d. 11-28-1963
quizmaster: "Detect and Collect"; "What's My Name"; "Melody Puzzles"

Ron

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