Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #211
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Date: 11/4/2009 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 211
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      11-2 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      BBDO - Trunk Falling Down the Stairs  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      11-3 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      That Musical Kirk Douglas (Dr. Jekyl  [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      11-4 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Drear Pooson                          [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
      Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman & Eddie Gree  [ David Fairweather <dmf273@[removed] ]
      Jack Benny - Money or Life            [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:58:05 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-2 births/deaths

    November 2nd births

    11-02-1886 - Philip Merivale - Rehuta, Manickpur, India - d. 3-12-1946
    actor: Reverend Spence "One Foot in Heaven"
    11-02-1892 - Alice Brady - NYC - d. 10-28-1939
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    11-02-1896 - Walter Woolf King - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-24-1984
    emcee, host, actor: :Beatrice Lillie Show"; "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
    11-02-1897 - Dennis King - Coventry, England - d. 5-21-1971
    announcer: "When a Girl Marries"
    11-02-1899 - Evelyn MacGregor - Pittsfield, MA - d. 7-3-1967
    singer: " American Melody Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    11-02-1899 - Glenn Rowell - Pontiac, MI - d. 10-9-1965
    singer, comedian: "Quaker Early Birds"; "Gene and Glenn"
    11-02-1901 - James Dunn - NYC - d. 9-1-1967
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-02-1901 - Paul Ford - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-12-1976
    actor: "Suspense"; "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    11-02-1906 - Joseph Ruscoll - d. 11-19-1956
    writer: "The Molle Mystery Theatre"; "Murder at Midnight"
    11-02-1906 - Peggy Conklin - Dobbs Ferry, NY - d. 3-18-2003
    actor: Kitty Archer "McGarry and His Mouse"; Barbara 'Babs' Riley
    "Life of Riley"
    11-02-1908 - Bunny Berrigan - Hilbert, WI - d. 6-2-1942
    bandleader: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Tim and Irene"
    11-02-1909 - Fred Lowery - Palestine, TX - d. 12-11-1984
    whistler: (The Blind Whistler) "New Fred Lowrey Show"; "Horace Heidt
    Show"
    11-02-1911 - Johnny Richards - Schenectady, NY - d. 10-7-1968
    orchestra leader: "The Jack Carson Show"
    11-02-1913 - Burt Lancaster - NYC - d. 10-20-1994
    actor: "Ford Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-02-1917 - Janette Davis - Memphis, TN - d. 4-25-2005
    singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Avalon Time"; "Red Skelton Show"
    11-02-1919 - Warren Stevens - Clark's Summit, PA
    actor: "Quiet Please"
    11-02-1920 - Ann Rutherford - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    actor: Blondie Bumstead "Blondie"; Connie Menihan "Eddie Bracken Show"
    11-02-1920 - Kay Armen - Chicago, IL
    singer: "Stop the Music!"; "Pet Milk Show"; "Bob Crosby Show"
    11-02-1921 - Shep Menken - NYC - d. 1-2-1999
    actor: "Six Shooter"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Four-Star Playhouse"
    11-02-1925 - Jack Burger - NYC
    composer, author: "Gene Autry Show"
    11-02-1929 - Judith Ames - Portland, OR
    actor: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"

    November 2nd deaths

    01-08-1920 - Robert Gordon Bollard - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-2-1964
    coordinaator of radio stations services
    01-14-1892 - Hal Roach - Elmira, NY - d. 11-2-1992
    film producer, actor: Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-06-1926 - Bob Trow - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 11-2-1998
    wrote and produced commercials for radio
    02-28-1925 - Jean Carson - Charleston, WV - d. 11-2-2005
    actor: "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Frontier Gentleman"
    03-01-1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos - Athens, Greece - d. 11-2-1960
    conductor: "The NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    03-12-1900 - Zora Layman - Hutchinson, KS - d. 11-2-1981
    singer: "Luther-Layman Singer"
    04-08-1906 - Max Afford - Parkside, Australia - d. 11-2-1954
    writer: "Murder's Not for Middle Age"
    06-09-1896 - Tonio Selwart - Wartonberg, Bavaria - d. 11-2-2002
    actor: "Secret Missions"
    06-14-1906 - Gil Lamb - Minneapolis, MN - d. 11-2-1995
    actor: Homer Clinker "The Rudy Vallee Show"
    07-26-1856 - George Bernard Shaw - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-2-1950
    playwright: "Wisconsin College of the Air"; "George Bernard Shaw Speech"
    08-04-1910 - Paul Harris - d. 11-2-1996
    actor: "Covered Wagon Days"
    10-01-1914 - Donald Wollheim - NYC - d. 11-2-1990
    science fiction writer: "Dimension X"
    10-22-1919 - Norman Glisch - West Allis, WI - d. 11-2-2007
    banjo player: Appeared on international radio with Bing Crosby and
    Dinah Shore
    12-08-1894 - James Thurber - Columbus, OH - d. 11-2-1961
    writer: "This Is My Best"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:58:46 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  BBDO - Trunk Falling Down the Stairs
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    Ok experts, was it Jack Benny or Fred Allen who coined the line "Batten,
    Barton, Durstine & Osborn "sounded like a trunk falling down a flight of
    stairs?" I always thought Allen but Stuart Elliott of The New York Times today
    provides a dated citation - 11/21/48 - that says Jack Benny. I don't have my
    Laura Leff book with me right now - does anyone know the answer?

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:59:21 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-3 births/deaths

    November 3rd births

    11-03-1880 - Pearl King Tanner - Eureka, CA - d. 7-16-1980
    actor: Mothere Sherwood "Hawthorne House"; "Eno Crime Clues"
    11-03-1889 - Gustave Haenschen - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-27-1980
    conductor: "Palmolive Hour"; "Show Boat"; "Saturday Night Serenade"
    11-03-1902 - Milt Herth - Kenosha, WI - d. 6-18-1969
    organist: (Milt Herth Trio) "Hollywood News"; "Al Pearce"
    11-03-1902 - Ted Pearson - Arlington, NE - d. 10-5-1961
    announcer: "Advs. of the Thin Man"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Good News
    of 1938"
    11-03-1903 - John Sylvester - Mississippi - d. 3-1-1995
    actor, host: "Now Hear This"; "One Thousand Dollars Reward"
    11-03-1909 - Bennie Anthony Azzara - Newark, NJ - d. 11-23-2001
    pianist: played for Jackie Gleason
    11-03-1909 - George Wells - NYC - d. 11-29-2000
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-03-1909 - James Reston - Clyde Bank, Scotland - d. 12-6-1995
    new york times columnist: "University of Chicago Round Table"; "Meet
    the Press"
    11-03-1910 - Richard Hurndall - Darlington, Durham, England - d.
    4-13-1984
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "BBC Light Programme"
    11-03-1912 - Gilbert Mack - NYC - d. 12-5-2005
    actor: Impy the Midget "Cloak and Daggeer"; "This is My Story"
    11-03-1913 - Harry Babbitt - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-9-2004
    singer: "Kay Kyser's Surprise Party"; "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical
    Knowledge"
    11-03-1915 - Cal Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. xx-xx-1968
    guitar, harmonica: "The Maddox Brothers and Rose"
    11-03-1918 - Bob Feller - Van Meter, IA
    baseball great: "The Jack Benny Program"
    11-03-1919 - Ludovic Kennedy - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 10-18-2009
    author/broadcaster: "First Reading"
    11-03-1925 - Robert Quarry - Santa Rosa, CA - d. 2-21-2008
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-03-1928 - Dick Bennick - North Carolina - d. 2-18-1995
    worked as an advertising director for a Florida radio station
    11-03-1928 - Wanda Hendrix - Jacksonville, FL - d. 2-1-1981
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Stars Over Hollywood"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    11-03-1930 - Lois Smith - Topeka, KS
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    11-03-1933 - Jeremy Brett - Berkswell Grange, England - d. 9-12-1995
    actor: "Barretts of Wimpole Street"; "Mendelssohn and Elyjan"
    11-03-1933 - Ken Berry - Moline, IL
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"

    November 3rd deaths

    03-03-1915 - John Nelson - Spokane, WA - d. 11-3-1976
    emcee: "Bride and Groom"; "Know Your NBC's"; "Live Like a Millionaire"
    03-04-1922 - Martha O'Driscoll - Tulsa, OK - d. 11-3-1998
    actor: "Your Blind Date"
    03-31-1895 - Josef Cherniavsky - Russia - d. 11-3-1959
    composer, conductor: "Musical Camera"
    05-31-1901 - Alfredo Antonini - Alessandra, Italy - d. 11-3-1983
    conductor: "La Rosa Concerts"; "Treasure Hour of Song"
    06-23-1907 - Eddie Pola - NYC - d. 11-3-1995
    director: "Blondie"
    06-26-1893 - Dorothy Fuldheim - Passaic, NJ - d. 11-3-1989
    newscaster: weekly news round-up on the ABC network
    07-01-1921 - Margarita Duparinova - Bulgaria - d. 11-3-2005
    actor: Starred in Bulgarian radio
    08-10-1895 - Harry Richman - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-3-1972
    singer, dancer, actor: "Harry Richman Dodge Program"; "Chase and
    Sanborn Hour"
    10-14-1925 - Vance McCune - d. 11-3-1989
    comedian, actor: Wash "Tom Mix"; "The Sinclair Wiener Minstrels"
    11-07-1916 - Joe Bushkin - NYC - d. 11-3-2004
    jazz pianist: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
    12-01-1913 - Mary Martin - Weatherford, TX - d. 11-3-1990
    singer: "Lifebuoy Health Soap Program"; "Good News of 1940"; "Kraft
    Music Hall"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 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
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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, 4 Nov 2009 11:00:27 -0400
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  That Musical Kirk Douglas (Dr. Jekyll?)

    That Dr. Jekyll with Kirk Douglas was partialy composed by Lionel Bart
    (OLIVER!)...

    What's fascinating, is that there's a scene towards the end, with Mr.
    Hyde at a huge piano in a cemetary--

    Very reminiscent, for whatever reasons, of a tableau in the much later
    PHANTOM OF THE OPERA musical.

    Interesting, because Andrew Lloud Webber, certainly would have seen the
    TV [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:00:34 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-4 births/deaths

    November 4th births

    11-04-1879 - Will Rogers, Sr. - Oolagah,  Oklahoma Territory - d.
    8-15-1935
    humorist: (America's Greatest Humorist) "Gulf Headliners"
    11-04-1892 - Philip Featherstone - Illinois - d. 3-19-1969
    mandolin: "Golden Melody Boys"
    11-04-1893 - Howard Hoffman - Ohio - d. 6-27-1969
    actor: Chandu "Chandu the Magician"
    11-04-1896 - Harry Woods - North Chelmsford, MA - d. 1-13-1970
    compser: "Great Moments to Music"
    11-04-1896 - Ian Wolfe - Canton, IL - d. 1-23-1992
    actor: "Suspense"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Escape"
    11-04-1900 - Arthur Schwartz - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-3-1984
    composer: "The Gibson Family"
    11-04-1901 - Helene Dumas - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-23-1986
    actor: "Jane Arden"; "Eno Crime Club"; "Short Short Story"
    11-04-1902 - Frank Jenks - Des Moines, IA - d. 5-13-1962
    actor: "The Navy Comes Through"
    11-04-1904 - Sam Hayes - Cooksville, IL - d. 7-28-1958
    news commentator: "Newstime with Sam Hayes"; "Sperry Breakfast News"
    11-04-1906 - Bob Considine - Washington D. C. - d. 9-25-1975
    announcer: "Fred Waring Show"; "Sports Broadcasts"
    11-04-1906 - Sterling North - Edgerton, WI - d. 12-21-1974
    writer, host, critic: "Of Men and Books"
    11-04-1908 - Colin Simpson - Petersham, Australia - d. xx-xx-1983
    writer: "Six from Borneo"
    11-04-1910 - Abby Lewis - Mesilla Park, NM - d. 11-27-1997
    actor: Telephone Operator "House in the Country"
    11-04-1911 - Dixie Lee Crosby - Harriman, TN - d. 11-1-1952
    actor: (Wife of Bing) "Shell Chateau"; "Bing Crosby Show"
    11-04-1911 - Jack Rose - Warsaw, Russian Empire - d. 10-21-1995
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    11-04-1911 - Josephine Huston - d. 10-19-1967
    vocalist: "Take a Note"
    11-04-1912 - Humphrey Davis - Meriden, CT - d. 5-23-1987
    actor: Al Douglas "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Sheriff Jackson "Tennessee
    Jed"
    11-04-1914 - Court Benson - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-5-1995
    announcer, narrator: "Tennessee Jed"; "Backstage Wife"
    11-04-1916 - Walter Cronkite - St. Joseph, MO - d. 7-17-2009
    newscaster: "Soldiers of the Press"; "A Tribute [removed]"
    11-04-1917 - Jean King - Dallas, TX - d. 8-19-1993
    disk jockey: Lonesome Gal "Lonesome Gal"
    11-04-1918 - Art Carney - Mount Vernon, NY - d. 11-9-2003
    actor: Billy Oldham "Joe and Ethel Turp"; General Dwight D. Eisenhower
    "Living 1948"
    11-04-1918 - Cameron Mitchell - Dallastown, PA - d. 7-6-1994
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-04-1918 - Jay Jackson - Stockdale, OH - d. 8-16-2005
    host, announcer: "Broadway Talks Back"; "Radio Reader"s Digest"
    11-04-1919 - Martin Balsam - NYC - d. 2-13-1996
    actor: "Cloak and Dagger"
    11-04-1919 - Shirley Mitchell - Toledo, OH
    actor: Alice Darling "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Leila Ransom "Great
    Gildersleeve"
    11-04-1927 - Bobby Breen - Toronto, Canada
    singer, actor: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    11-04-1930 - Kate Reid - London, England - d. 3-27-1993
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    11-04-1931 - Clinton Ford - Salford, Lancashire, England - d. 10-21-2009
    singer: "Saturday Club"

    November 4th deaths

    01-26-1945 - Marti Caine - Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - d. 11-4-1995
    comedian: "The Marti Caine Show"
    02-14-1904 - Bruce Barrington - d. 11-4-1990
    newscaster: WEBQ Harrisburg, Illinois
    03-29-1867 - Cy Young - Gilmore, OH - d. 11-4-1955
    baseball pitching great: "Feature Project: This Game of Baseball"
    04-04-1908 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - NYC - d. 11-4-2006
    writer: (Cheaper By the Dozen) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-13-1912 - Phil Alampi - d. 11-4-1992
    farm newscaster: ABC, WJZ New York, New York
    07-20-1902 - Jimmie Tansey - Omaha, NE - d. 11-4-1950
    actor: Danny O'Neill "The O'Neills"; Clement Arnaud "Hilltop House"
    08-02-1890 - Leila Roosevelt - d. 11-4-1973
    explorer: (cousin of FDR) "So You Want to Be"
    08-05-1916 - Elizabeth Bemis - d. 11-4-2004
    newscaster: WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
    09-22-1913 - Chuck Acree - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-4-1991
    emcee: "Hint Club"; We, the Wives"; Ladies Be Seated"
    10-21-1915 - Frances Mercer - New Rochelle, NY - d. 11-4-2000
    actor: "Nothing Serious"
    11-10-1899 - George Storer - Champaign, IL - d. 11-4-1975
    Broadcast Executive
    11-23-1908 - Nelson Bond - Scranton, PA - d. 11-4-2006
    writer: "Hot Copy"; "Suspense"; "Dr. Christian"
    12-02-1913 - Jerry Sohl - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-4-2002
    author: "X Minus One"
    12-27-1893 - Ann Pennington - Camden, NJ - d. 11-4-1971
    actor: "Good News of 1938"
    xx-xx-1913 - Joy Hathaway - British Columbia, Canada - d. 11-4-1954
    actor: Amanda Dyke Leighton "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:01:08 -0400
    From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Drear Pooson

    Steve Salaba asks:

>     I was wondering, if the flub
>     appeared in the east coast broadcast, did they try to repeat it for
>     the west coast, or did the folks in the west hear the script as
>     originally written?

    This was the 1/8/50 show, long after the show was being recorded for the
    West Coast.  And to anticipate the next question, most of Mary's classic
    bloopers also started after the show was being recorded.

    --Laura Leff
    President, IJBFC
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    Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:01:39 -0400
    From: David Fairweather <dmf273@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman & Eddie Green: "One
     Meatball"

    Here's a YouTube slideshow with very rare photos of Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
    and Eddie "The Waiter" Green as they perform "One Meatball" on AFRS Jubilee
    122 February 26, 1945.

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    Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:28:44 -0500
    From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny - Money or Life
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    Hi Gang -

    I recently saw the TV version of the Jack Benny Program featuring the
    famous "Your Money or Your Life" routine.  At the end of the program was
    listed
    the cast of characters.  I am wondering who played the hold-up man.
    Apparently it was one of these three actors:
    Joseph Downey, Benny Rubin, or Harlan Warde (I know it was neither Lois
    Corbett nor Joe Kearns).

    I used to think that Sheldon Leonard played the part on the radio version,
    but now I'm not so sure.  If Leonard did not play the hold-up man on radio,
    who did?  One of the above?

    Happy Taping (does anybody 'tape' any more?) -
    Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois and Alma, Arkansas

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