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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2010 : Issue 58
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  3-30 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  June Havoc                            [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  June Havoc                            [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
  Radio Once More Upcoming Shows        [ Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@y ]
  Mel or Spike? Both!                   [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
  News audio and Challenge of the Yuko  [ Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed]; ]
  Baby June & Radio                     [ Baughan Roemer <doylemilne@[removed] ]

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:32:35 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-30 births/deaths

March 30th births

03-30-1858 - DeWolf Hopper - NYC - d. 9-23-1935
host-narrator: (Husband of Hedda Hopper) "Roses and Drums"
03-30-1883 - Jo Davidson - NYC - d. 1-2-1952
sculptor: "Information Please"
03-30-1889 - Herman Bing - Frankfurt, Germany - d. 1-9-1947
tenor: "Gulf Screen Theatre"
03-30-1892 - Ethel Owen, Racine WI - d. 12-28-1990
actor: Siri Allen "Against the Storm"; Clara Noble "Backstage Wife"
03-30-1892 - Floyd Odlum - Union City, MI - d. 6-17-1976
owner of rko studios: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
03-30-1893 - Dennis Hoey - London, England - d. 7-25-1960
actor: Edward Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
03-30-1895 - Amos Binkley - d. 10-6-1985
banjoist: (Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers" WSM Nashville, TN
03-30-1896 - Samson Raphaelson - NYC - d. 7-16-1983
playwright: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-30-1902 - Ted Heath - Wandsworth, London, England - d. 11-18-1969
bandleader: "Ted Heath and His Orchestra"
03-30-1905 - Don Hollenbeck - Lincoln, NE - d. 6-22-1954
news commentator: "CBS Views the Press"; "You Are There"
03-30-1913 - Frankie Laine - Chicago, IL - d. 2-6-2007
singer: "Big Show"; "Philco Radio Time"; "Spotlight Revue"
03-30-1914 - Stu Novins - Boston, MA - d. 11-7-1989
writer: "The City"
03-30-1916 - Will Hare - Elkins, WV - d. 8-31-1997
actor: "Words at War"; "New World A' Coming"; "Mysterious Traveler"
03-30-1922 - Anne Pitoniak - Westfield, MA - d. 4-22-2007
actor: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Magnificent
Montague"
03-30-1922 - Turhan Bey - Vienna, Austria
actor: Francois Tarique "Notorious Tarique"
03-30-1926 - Bill Farrell - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-30-2007
singer: "Bob Hope Show"
03-30-1929 - Richard Dysart - Augusta, ME
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
03-30-1930 - John Astin - Baltimore, MD
actor: "Zero Hour"; "Empire of the Air"
03-30-1930 - Pepper Barker - d. 3-15-1998
disk jockey: WCMB Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
03-30-1930 - Peter Marshall - Clarksburg, WV
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
03-30-1958 - Maurice LaMarche - Toronto, Canada
actor: "Empire of the Air"

March 30th deaths

01-08-1910 - Fabian Andre - La Crosse, WI - d. 3-30-1960
arranger for dance orchestras on NBC
01-11-1902 - Charlie Nehlsen - d. 3-30-1980
engineer: Recorded Hindenburg disaster as reported by Herb Morrison
03-12-1917 - Georgia Ellis - d. 3-30-1988
actor: Miss Kitty Russell "Gunsmoke"
04-09-xxxx - Louise Larabee - Bremerton, WA - d. 3-30-1988
actor: "Calvacade of America"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-05-1879 - Max Marcin - Posen, Prussia, Germany - d. 3-30-1948
writer, producer, director: "Crime Doctor"; "The FBI in Peace and War"
07-17-1899 - James Cagney - NYC - d. 3-30-1986
actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
07-25-1905 - Harold Peary - San Leandro, CA - d. 3-30-1985
actor: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve , "Fibber McGee and Molly and The
Great Gildersleeve"
07-28-1920 - Art Hannes - Newport, KY - d. 3-30-1992
announcer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Gangbusters"; "Suspense"
08-11-1915 - Bernard "Buddy" Arnold - NYC - d. 3-30-2004
writer: "Your Hit Parade"
09-17-1890 - Gabriel Heatter - NYC - d. 3-30-1972
news, commentator: "News and Comment"; "We, the People"
10-17-1910 - Florence Williams - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-30-1995
actor: Anne Cameron "Barry Cameron"; Sally Farrell "Front Page Farrell"
11-11-1917 - Robert J. Shaw - Pewaukee, WI - d. 3-30-1996
writer: "Mr. District Attorney"; "Advs. of Christopher Wells"
11-20-1908 - Alistair Cooke - Manchester, England - d. 3-30-2004
host: "Transatlantic Quiz"; "Letter to America"; "Stage and Screen"
12-22-1950 - Nick Enright - Maitland, Australia - d. 3-30-2003
writer: "Watching Over Israel"

Ron

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:09:20 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  June Havoc

June Havoc also did a lot of unbilled supporting roles on SUSPENSE and THE
ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE. Case in point: In the SUSPENSE episode "Double
Ugly," the woman's voice chanting "double [removed]" for artistic purposes was
June Havoc. Since many of the SAM SPADE episodes are not known to exist, I
would not be surprised if her radio credits stretched far more than is
documented.

I wrote to her when I was in high school, when I asked her to recount
memories of William Spier and her appearances on SUSPENSE. She was very kind
to offer writing a foreword for my SUSPENSE book and I took her up on it. The
OTR community and film buffs lost a large heart this weekend.

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:09:28 -0400
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  June Havoc

Paul Thompson <beachcrows@[removed]; sends the sad news that June Havoc
has died at age 97.

You can hear Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran interview Ms. Havoc and her
husband, William Spier, from 1970, on "The Golden Age of Radio" as broadcast
on WTIC in Hartford, Connecticut. Go to
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At this same site you can hear 92 full hour programs of interviews and
excerpts from actors, producers, directors, and more from radio's golden
age. You can also hear 42 hours of interviews and music from the big band
era, plus more. Tune in to "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" with host
Arnold Dean at the same website.

--
Bob Scherago
Webmaster and former WTIC engineer
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:10:15 -0400
From: Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio Once More Upcoming Shows

Hi everyone,
   Here's what's coming up on "The Live Show" on Radio Once
More([removed]). "The Live Show" airs every Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday from 9pm-Midnight Eastern and Sunday from 6pm-9pm Eastern.

Wednesday, March 31st - A Green Hornet Update
with Martin Grams and Terry Salomonson

Friday, April 2nd - Vic & Sade with Rodney Bowcock
Sunday, April 4th - Easter Special
Monday, April 5th  - Author Linda Alexander will talk about Robert Taylor
Wednesday, April 7th - Laura Leff will discuss Jack Benny
Friday, April 9th - Charlie Summers, webmaster of the Old Time Radio Digest
Sunday, April 11 - Roy Remembers with [removed] Bright

So join us for all of the fun, plus OTR and Nostalgia programming 24/7!

Ken Stockinger
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[ADMINISTRIVIA: You'd think they'd learn from the last time I appeared on
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:10:32 -0400
From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mel or Spike?  Both!
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Ken Piletic asks about the song/phrase UGGA UGGA BOO.

I found this on a website
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"Other regular characters on Blanc's show included ...Mr. Cushing (Hans
Conried), the "Mighty Potentate" of the Loyal Order of Benevolent Zebras,
the lodge to which Mel belonged. Cushing always greeted Mel with the
lodge password: "Ugga-ugga-boo, ugga-boo-boo-ugga," which soon became the
series' memorable catchphrase. Blanc was later to adopt this bit of
silliness into a song that he and Spike Jones transformed into a hit
record."

---Dan Hughes

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:10:54 -0400
From: Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  News audio and Challenge of the Yukon question

 Does anyone know if there is audio from WABC-AM 770 of the assassination of
Bobby Kennedy? I was listening to the station and have never heard the audio
since.
 And, there is an episode of Sgt. Preston/Challenge of the Yukon (choice is
yours - I go with both <g>) that I can't identify by name. A clip was used on
the Longines Symphonette album with Fred Foy as narrator. I won't put down
the whole thing but here's a bit of it:

Narrator: The following day found the Inspector pacing the floor of his
office at the Lake LeBarge headquarters, and Yukon King paced at his [removed]
standing at the open door with Yukon King, the Inspector saw a column of men,
riding four abreast, emerging from the pine forest. The scarlet tunics seemed
to blaze in the orange light of the setting sun, and even the horses held
their head high, as if they, too, felt the glory of victory.

Chorus: The Maple Leaf Forever

 As Linda Ellerbee would say, and so it [removed]

73, Bob

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:11:56 -0400
From: Baughan Roemer <doylemilne@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Baby June & Radio
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 As Paul Thompson shared with us in yesterday's Digest, actress June
Havoc died on Sunday at her home in Stamford, Conn. She was 97. Despite a
reasonably successful and  lifelong Show Business journey , which spanned from
vaudeville, where she was famously billed as "Baby June", to television ,
Havoc spent much of her life in the shadows  of her mother - the ultimate
stage-mom, Momma Rose and her older sister legendary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee .
Their unique family odyssey  was colorfully  fictionalized in the  iconic 1959
(and frequently revived) Broadway musical  and 1962 film, "Gypsy", based, in
part, on the  best selling memoirs of Gypsy Lee. 
To a lesser extent, Havoc
sometimes also found herself overshadowed by the career of her third husband,
much-revered radio producer/ director William Spier. In this case though,
without the family baggage, Havoc recognized the generally positive impact of
Spier on her own career.  Spier's  radio career began in 1929 , when he
produced and directed "The Atwater Kent Radio Hour", featuring  the sterling
voices of  leading Metropolitan Opera stars. He would then go on to become a
vital creative force behind several highly successful radio programs. This
stellar  list includes ; "The March of Time" , " Duffy's Tavern" , "Suspense"
and  "The Adventures of Sam Spade."  While
producing and directing "Sam
Spade"   Spier met June Havoc in 1947.  She was making the first of several
guest appearances  on "Sam Spade." Havoc also maintained a steady presence on
"Theatre Guild of the Air".  Spier and Havoc quickly fell in love, as they
were married just months after their first meeting . By all accounts , it was
a solid marriage and endured until his death in 1973. Telling friends she had
lost her "best friend", Havoc never remarried.


For years Havoc's radio
cohorts repeatedly teased her about an incident that occurred during a live
"Sam Spade" broadcast.
Being a mystery program , there was often stimulated
gunfire heard on"Sam Spade." But this particular night , the gunshot sound
effect was set off too close to Havoc and set her hair on fire. Having been
taught by her Mamma Rose to stay focused, Havoc remained super calm and
continued reading her script. Meanwhile the control booth was going crazy and
a  slightly dazed prop-man swiftly threw water on her to extinguish the fire.
Her cool composer made quite an impression on Spier. According to Havoc's
personal assistant , Tana Sibilio,  "If Bill Spier hadn't been in love with
her already, her sang-froid  while literally on fire, let alone under it,
would have sealed the deal! And Miss Havoc says that's what won her admission
in the special cadre of radio actors."
             Practically born on stage,
"Baby June" Havoc, having already conquered vaudeville , began appearing in
silent films before she could even speak. Her early film efforts included 24
Hal Roach comedies. In order to have "Baby June" cry before the  cameras,
Momma Rose, headstrong to the max , would frequently tell her youngest child
that the family dog had died. Havoc would eventually emerge from such trauma
and the extreme  ups-and-downs of nearly instant stardom. As an adult she was
able to carve out a credible career for herself on stage, screen and
television - not to mention radio! On broadway she had major   roles from the
1940's(Pal Joey) to the early '80's (Annie). Havoc received  a Tony Award
nomination for directing bMarathon 33b (1963), aplay based on  her memoir
about the marathon dance era. Her numerous film credits include  "Gentleman's
Agreement" with Gregory Peck and "Lady  Possessed" with James  Mason. She made
a wide-array
 of television appearances over five decades; including "The Untouchables" ,
"Murder: She Wrote" and   "General Hospital. 
 Havoc also wrote two books
detailing her many adventures : "Early Havoc" and "More Havoc". Remarkably
enough neither Havoc book  was co-authored by Martin Grams, Jr.

 -  Baughan Roemer

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