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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 142
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  8-30 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Correction to This week in radio his  [ max@[removed] ]
  Katie and I on RadioOnceMore Live Sh  [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
  8-31 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Born 100 years ago in September       [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:20:50 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-30 births/deaths

August 30th births

08-30-1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - London, England - d. 2-1-1851
creator of Frankenstein
08-30-1879 - Fritzi Scheff - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-8-1954
prima donna: "Lavender and Old Lace"; "The Philco Hour"
08-30-1887 - Eduardo Ciannelli - Island of Ischia, Italy - d. 10-8-1969
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-30-1896 - Raymond Massey - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-29-1983
actor, host: "Doctor Fights"; "Harvest of Stars"
08-30-1898 - Shirley Booth - NYC - d. 10-16-1992
actor: Miss Duffy "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hogan's Daughter"; "Strictly
Business"
08-30-1901 - John Gunther - Chicago, IL - d. 5-29-1970
writer: "Information, Please";"America's Town Meeting of the Air";
"Royal Gelatin Hour"
08-30-1902 - Ray Bloch - Alsace-Lorraine, France - d. 3-29-1982
conductor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Take It or Leave It"; "Johnny Presents"
08-30-1903 - Jack Bundy - Milwaukee, WI - d. 11-30-1973
bandleader: "Heinie and the Grenadiers"
08-30-1905 - Sarah Selby - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-7-1980
actor: Grace Graves "Junior Miss"; Wife "My Mother's Husband"
08-30-1906 - Joan Blondell - NYC - d. 12-25-1979
actor: Mary Vance "Miss Pinkerton, Inc."
08-30-1908 - Fred MacMurray - Kankakee, IL - d. 11-5-1991
actor: George Harvey "Bright Star"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-30-1908 - Willie Bryant - New Orleans, LA - d. 2-9-1964
host: "Night Life"
08-30-1910 - Elinor Herriot - Duluth, MN - d. 6-10-2000
actor: "Ruby Jones "Amos 'n' Andy"; Dorothy Wright "Couple Next Door"
08-30-1910 - Joseph Holland - Virginia - d. 12-28-1994
actor: "Royal Desserts Hour"; "Campbell Playhouse"
08-30-1914 - Frank Latourette - d. 5-7-1985
creator of "Hollywood Byline"
08-30-1914 - Julie Bishop - Denver, CO - d. 8-30-2001
actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-30-1916 - Herman Klurfeld - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-18-2006
ghostwriter for Walter Winchell
08-30-1917 - Dan Enright - d. 5-22-1992
producer: "Put Up or Shut Up"; "Brain Train"; "Juvenile Jury"; "Life
Begins at 80"
08-30-1918 - Ted Williams, San Diego, CA - d. 7-5-2002
baseball superstar: Several interview shows
08-30-1919 - Kitty Wells - Nashville, TN - d. 7-16-2012
singer: (Queen of Country Music) "Grand Ole Opry"
08-30-1924 - Ivor (Arthur) Wilson - Grimsby, England - d. 2-xx-2002
author: "Take Any Day"
08-30-1925 - Jack Bivans - Evanston, IL - d. 8-14-2009
actor: Chuck Ramsey "Captain Midnight"
08-30-1926 - Jeff Brown - NYC - d. 12-3-2003
actor: "Little Blue Playhouse"
08-30-1939 - John Peel - Heswall, England - d. 10-25-2004
disc jockey: "The Perfumed Garden"; "Top Gear"
08-30-1941 - Sue Mac Gregor - Oxford, England
announcer, producer: "The World at One"; "Woman's Hour"; "Today"; "PM"

August 30th deaths

01-23-1926 - Lyn Osborn - Wichita Falls, TX - d. 8-30-1958
actor: Cadet Happy "Space Patrol"
02-16-1926 - Vera-Ellen - Cincinnati, OH - d. 8-30-1981
actor: "Martin and Lewis Show"; "Tony Awards"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
03-09-1918 - Marguerite Chapman - Chatham, NY - d. 8-30-1999
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
03-11-1903 - Dorothy Schiff - NYC- d. 8-30-1989
owner of several radio stations in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and San
Francisco
04-17-1923 - Lindsay Anderson - South India - d. 8-30-1994
film director: First person to udder the "F" word on the BBC
05-01-1916 - Glenn Ford - Quebec, Canada - d. 8-30-2006
actor: Christopher London "Advs. of Christopher London"
06-15-1909 - Joe DeSantis - NYC - d. 8-30-1989
actor: Jim Scott "Under Arrest"; "This Is Nora Drake"
06-17-1877 - Charles Coburn - Savannah, GA - d. 8-30-1961
actor: "Roses and Drums"; "Song of Liberty"
07-28-1935 - Simon Dee - Manchester, England - d. 8-30-2009
disk jockey "BBC Light Programme"
08-08-1913 - Axel Stordahl - Staten Island, NY  - d. 8-30-1963
conductor: "Songs by Sinatra/Frank Sinatra Show"; "Your Hit Parade";
"Coke Time"
08-14-1913 - Peggy (Craven) Lloyd - d. 8-30-2011
actor: "Mercury Theatre"
08-30-1914 - Julie Bishop - Denver, CO - d. 8-30-2001
actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-11-1909 - Bill Demling - Chicago, IL - d. 8-30-1974
writer: "Mickey Mouse's Theatre of the Air"

Ron

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:20:55 -0400
From: max@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Correction to This week in radio history August
 31

Subject:  This week in radio history 26 August to 1 September

  From Those Were The Days

8/31

1946   "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves.
________________________________________________________

While this is apparently all true, the year that it happened was 1942.
The show signed off on March 09 with the last chapter of "A Mystery
for Superman" and returned on August 31, 1942, still unsponsored,
according to Jerry Haendages' logs. Kelloggs Pep started paying the
bills on January 04, 1943.

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:24:02 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Katie and I on RadioOnceMore Live Show!

Folks;

   My daughter Katie and I will make an appearance on The Live Show on
RadioONceMore tonight (Friday) sometime around 9:00pm EDT (6:00pm for you on
the west coast) to promote the premiere of our show SummersTime next Monday
night at 6:00pm EDT (3:00pm Pacific).

   Just go to [removed] to listen!

         Charlie

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:24:12 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-31 births/deaths

August 31st births

08-31-1883 - Erma Miranda - d. 12-xx-1964
choir director: Beloit College Choir, WBBW Norfold, Virginia
08-31-1886 - L. Wolfe Gilbert - Odessa, Russia - d. 7-12-1970
pianist: WEAF New York City
08-31-1897 - Fredric March - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1975
actor: "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
08-31-1897 - Sidney Ellstrom - Chicago, IL - d. 7-29-1968
actor: "Captain Midnight"; "Flying Patrol"; "Lights Out"
08-31-1898 - Jack Ward - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-26-1973
organist: "Gangbusters"; "Magnificent Montague"
08-31-1900 - Cedric Foster - Hartford, CT - d. 3-6-1975
commentator: "News and Commentary"
08-31-1900 - Larry Elliott - Washington, [removed] - d. 7-27-1957
announcer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "American Melody Hour"; "Barry
Cameron"
08-31-1903 - Arthur Godfrey - NYC - d. 3-16-1983
emcee: (The Old Redhead) "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Arthur Godfrey's
Talent Scouts"
08-31-1905 - Dory Schary - Newark, NJ - d. 7-7-1980
writer: "America Calling"; "The Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Hall of Fame"
08-31-1906 - Ruth Weston - Boston, MA - d. 11-5-1955
actor: Maude Kellogg "Life Can Be Beautiful"
08-31-1907 - Gus Hawkins - Shreveport, LA - d. 11-10-2007
congressman: Democratic response to Reagan's radio address
08-31-1907 - Winifred Cecil - Staten Island, NY - d. 9-13-1985
singer: "Show Boat"
08-31-1908 - William Saroyan - Fresno, CA - d. 5-18-1981
writer: "Columbia Workshop"; "The Free Company"; "Biography in Sound"
08-31-1911 - Walter Paterson - Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia - d. 9-1-1942
actor: Reggie York "I Love A Mystery"; Nicholas Lacy "One Man's Family"
08-31-1912 - Ramon Vinay - Chillan, Chile - d. 1-4-1996
tenor: "A Critic's Toscanini"
08-31-1914 - Richard Basehart - Zanesville, OH - d. 9-17-1984
actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Preview"
08-31-1916 - Daniel Schoor - NYC - d. 7-23-2010
correspondent, commentator: "Edward R. Murrow and the News"
08-31-1917 - Burleigh Robbins Downey, Jr. - d. 3-1-2000
news director: "You are the Jury"
08-31-1918 - Alan Jay Lerner - NYC - d. 6-14-1986
writer: "Victor Borge"; "Raleigh Room"; "Philco Hall of Fame"
08-31-1922 - John Hanson - Ontario, Canada - d. 12-4-1998
singer, actor: "Children's Hour"; "Songs from the Shows"; "Variety
Bandbox"
08-31-1930 - Big Tiny Little - Worthington, MN - d. 3-3-2010
piano player: "The Lawrence Welk Show"
08-31-1932 - Roy Castle - Scholes, England - d. 9-2-1994
actor: "Castles on the Air"

August 31st deaths

01-22-1906 - Guy Savage - d. 8-31-1981
announcer: "Play Broadcast"
02-01-1895 - John Ford - Cape Elizabeth, ME - d. 8-31-1973
director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
02-25-1895 - George Schuyler - Providence, RI - d. 8-31-1977
host: "The Negro World"
03-19-1890 - Gayne Whitman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1958
actor, announcer: Frank Chandler "Chandu the Magician"; "Cavalcade of
America"
03-28-1913 - Lucille Fletcher - NYC - d. 8-31-2000
dramatist: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
03-29-1908 - Dennis O'Keefe - Fort Madison, IA - d. 8-31-1968
actor: Treasure Agent Larsen "T-Man"
03-30-1916 - Will Hare - Elkins, WV - d. 8-31-1997
actor: "Words at War"; "New World A' Coming"; "Mysterious Traveler"
04-16-1933 - Ike Pappas - NYC - d. 8-31-2008
newscaster: "World News Roundup"; "CBS News"
04-20-1908 - Lionel Hampton - Louisville, KY - d. 8-31-2002
vibraphone artist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"; "Lionel Hampton and
His Orchestra"
04-28-1908 - Michael Fitzmaurice - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1967
actor: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; Dick Grosvenor "Stella
Dallas"
05-08-1914 - Carmen Matthews - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-31-1995
actor: "There Is No Light"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-27-1906 - Elizabeth Baldwin Hazelton - d. 8-31-1995
writer: "Grand Central Station"; "Death Valley Days"
08-29-1900 - Buell Kazee - Burton's Fork, KY - d. 8-31-1976
banjo-playing, singing Baptist minister: "Renfro Valley Barn Dance"
09-18-1908 - Blair Walliser - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1996
writer, director: "Romance of Helen Trent"; "Backstage Wife"
10-27-1901 - David Stone - Savannah, GA - d. 8-31-1995
announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
xx-xx-1893 - Oscar Bradley - London, England - d. 8-31-1948
orchestra leader: "The Phil Baker Show"; "Gulf Screen Guild Theatre"

Ron

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:24:17 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Born 100 years ago in September

09-01-1912 - Victor Zembruski - d. 11-19-1976
orchestra leader: "The Victor Zembruski Polish Eagle Show"
09-02-1912 - Phil Agresta - d. 7-25-1986
sportscaster: WBT Charlotte, North Carolina
09-03-1912 - Peter Capell - Berlin, Germany - d. 3-3-1986
actor:"Dimension X"; "Romance"; "Secret Missions"
09-05-1912 - John Cage - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-12-1992
composer: "The Columbia Workshop"
09-05-1912 - Sally Payne - Chicago, IL - d. 5-8-1999
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-11-1912 - Charles Stark - Reading, PA - d. 3-22-1992
announcer: "Gene Autry's Melody Rance"; "Our Gal Sunday"
09-11-1912 - John Masterson - Spokane, WA - d. 2-4-1995
producer: "Queen for a Day"; "Bride and Groom"
09-13-1912 - Claude Casey - Enoree, SC - d. 6-24-1999
country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
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
09-20-1912 - John W. Loveton - d. 1-17-1997
director: "The Shadow"; "Mr. and Mrs. North"; "Court of Missing Heirs"
09-20-1912 - Ron Cochran - d. 7-25-1994
newscaster: "Sounds of the World"; "Feature Project"
09-25-1912 - Bobby Worth - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-17-2002
songwriter: Had his own radio program at an early age
09-26-1912 - Al Helfer - Elrama, PA - d. 5-16-1975
sportscaster: "Game of the Day"; "We Want a Touchdown"
09-26-1912 - Jacqueline de Wit - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-7-1998
actor: Ruth Thompson "Meet Mr. McNutley"; Valerie "Second Husband"
09-30-1912 - Kenny Baker - Monrovia, CA - d. 8-10-1985
singer, comedian: "Jack Benny Program"; "Glamour Manor"; "Kenny Baker
Show"

Ron

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