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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 59
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      4-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      The Pleasures of Listening            [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]
      4-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:07:06 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-3 births/deaths
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    April 3rd births

    04-03-1783 - Washington Irving - NYC - d. 11-28-1859
    author: Several of his works adapted for radio
    04-03-1892 - Lt. Gen. Hubert R. Harmon - Chester, PA - d. 2-22-1957
    [removed] air force general: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    04-03-1893 - Leslie Howard - London, England - d. 6-1-1943
    actor: "Leslie Howard Theatre"; "Streamlined Shakespeare"
    04-03-1894 - Dooley Wilson - Tyler, TX - d. 5-30-1953
    actor: "Theatre of Romance"; "New World A-Coming"; "Jubilee"
    04-03-1895 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Florence, Italy - d. 3-16-1968
    composer: "Fourteen August"; God and Uranium Were On Our Side"
    04-03-1895 - Zez Confrey - Peru, IL - d. 11-22-1971
    pianist, composer: "The Hour Of St. Francis"
    04-03-1898 - Bob Barron - Shell, WY - d. 4-22-1958
    actor: "Tom Mix"; "Mary Marlin"; "Little Orphan Annie"
    04-03-1898 - George Jessel - NYC - d. 5-24-1981
    comedian, emcee: (Toastmaster General of the [removed]) "Hollywood Calling"
    04-03-1904 - Peter Van Steeden - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - d.
    1-3-1990
    bandleader: "Town Hall Tonight"; "Mr. District Attorney"
    04-03-1906 - Iron Eyes Cody - Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-4-1999
    actor: "Straight Arrow Pow-Wow
    04-03-1909 - Jerry Cooper - Bay Minette, AL
    singer: "Krueger's Musical Toast"; "Vocal Varieties"
    04-03-1913 - Mel Tolkin - Odessa, Russia - d. 11-26-2007
    comedy writer: wrote jokes for Bob Hope
    04-03-1914 - George Sopkin - Chicago, IL - d. 10-18-2008
    cellist: Fine Arts Quartet
    04-03-1918 - Sixten Ehrling - Malmo Skane Ian, Sweden - d. 2-13-2005
    conductor: "Metropolitan Opera"
    04-03-1920 - Stan Freeman - Waterbury, CT - d. 1-13-2001
    pianist, composer: "Piano Playhouse"; "All Night on NBC"
    04-03-1921 - George Bauer - d. 6-16-2004
    announcer, newscaster: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    04-03-1921 - Jan Sterling - NYC - d. 3-26-2004
    actor: "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
    04-03-1921 - Leonard Sues - El Paso, TX - d. 10-24-1971
    music: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    04-03-1923 - Elon Packard - d. 12-18-1977
    writer: "The Bing Crosby Show"
    04-03-1924 - Doris Day - Cincinnati, OH
    singer, actor: "Your Hit Parade"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Doris Day Show"
    04-03-1924 - Marlon Brando - Omaha, NE - d. 7-1-2004
    actor: "Streetcar Named Desire"; "As Easy as [removed]"
    04-03-1924 - Peter Hawkins - London, England - d. 7-8-2006
    actor: Frankie Mouse "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
    04-03-1925 - Jan Merlin - NYC
    actor: Roger Manning "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    04-03-1926 - Andrew Keir - Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. 10-5-1997
    actor: title role in "The Quartermass Memoirs"
    04-03-1938 - Jeff Barry - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: Himself "It's the Barrys"
    04-03-1943 - Patricia Johnson - Sydney, Australia
    writer: "Cat's Whisker to Transister"

    April 3rd deaths

    01-11-1905 - Manfred Lee - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-3-1971
    writer: "Advs of Ellery Queen"; "Author, Author"
    01-22-1893 - Conrad Veidt - Potsdam, Germany - d. 4-3-1943
    actor: "Free World Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    02-18-1933 - Mary Ure - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 4-3-1975
    actor: Won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award for Radio Drama acting in
    1954.
    02-20-1893 - Russel Crouse - Findlay, OH - d. 4-3-1966
    panelist: "Information, Please"; "Transatlantic Quiz"
    02-22-1917 - Tom Braden - Greene, IA - d. 4-3-2009
    commentator: "Confrontation"
    02-28-1907 - Milton Caniff - Hillsboro, OH - d. 4-3-1988
    Creator of "Terry and the Pirates"
    03-02-1900 - Kurt Weill - Dessau, Germany - d. 4-3-1950
    composer: "Der Lindergflug"; "This Is War"
    03-11-1862 - Frank Burt - NYC - d. 4-3-1964
    writer: "The Six Shooter"; "The Unexpected"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"
    03-27-1892 - Ferde Grofi - NYC - d. 4-3-1972
    conductor, composer: (The Grand Canyon Suite) "Florsheim Frolic"
    03-27-1924 - Sarah Vaughn - Newark, NJ - d. 4-3-1990
    singer: "Guest Star"; "Your Rhythm Revue"
    05-02-1907 - Pinky Lee - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-3-1993
    comedian: "Hoagy Carmichel Show"; "Carefree Carnival"
    06-28-1906 - Ann Leaf - Omaha, NE - d. 4-3-1995
    organist: (Little Organ Annie) "Ann Leaf at the Organ"; "Lorenzo Jones"
    07-02-1927 - Charlie Kennedy - Staten Island, NY - d. 4-3-2009
    saxophonist: "Gene Krupa's Band"; "Louis Prima's Band"
    07-21-1912 - Robert Sloane - NYC - d. 4-3-1955
    writer: "The Fat Man"; "The Life of Riley"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
    09-27-1923 - Mary McCarty - Winfield, KS - d. 4-3-1980
    actor: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    10-02-1904 - Graham Greene - Berkhampstead, England - d. 4-3-1991
    writer: "Lives of Harry Lime"; "Studio One"; "NBC University Theatre"
    10-10-1908 - Margaret Baker - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-3-1992
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    11-19-1883 - Ned Sparks - Guelph, Canada - d. 4-3-1957
    actor: "The Grouch Club"; "The Texaco Star Theatre"
    12-19-1907 - Ray Noble - Brighton, England - d. 4-3-1978
    bandleader: "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"
    12-25-1904 - Aline Berry - d. 4-3-1967
    actor: Mrs. Dixon "Raising Junior"
    12-31-1901 - Everett Marshall - Lawrence, MA - d. 4-3-1965
    singer: "Broadway Vanities/Varieties"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:07:13 -0400
    From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Pleasures of Listening

    I've agreed to do a 90-minute presentation I'm calling "The Pleasures of
    Listening." In it I plan to play excerpts of programs that demonstrate
    imaginative use of sound (not just sound _effects_). I'm requesting some
    suggestions for excerpts of shows I might use. To get you started, here are a
    few of the bits I'm thinking of using.

    For sophisticated use of sound effects, one early Dragnet episode in which
    the scene begins in the interrogation room, and, as if using an audio
    "steadycam," it moves to the squad room, down the stairs to the motor pool,
    into a car, driving through the city, then jumping out of the car, down into
    a subway, where a train comes along and hits the suspect being chased. This
    is all in one unbroken "shot," as it were.

    Any number of Gunsmoke episodes, obviously. Any specific ideas?

    The Escape episode Three Skeleton Key, with the men racing up and down the
    steps, including the eerie sound of the thousands of rats.

    Then, there are minimalist effects. The Lights Out episode where a man wills
    himself to walk through a wall, but gets stuck in the middle, and we hear his
    muffled voice calling for rescue. Or another Lights Out, The Dark, the famous
    one where a man gets turned inside-out (to the sound of a rubber glove). Or
    the really creepy X-minus One episode (or was it Dimension X?), Knock, that
    is just the sound of a child knocking on the attic door, calling for her
    parents. That one's really scary. Or the Thing on the Fourble Board from
    Quiet Please, just the sound of creature from Down There.

    Then there's comedy. McGee's closet, of course. But also jokes that just
    wouldn't work visually. For example, from Jack Benny:
    Jack: Isn't that a new tie Dennis?
    Dennis: Yeah, my mother made it for me.
    Jack: But what are those things sticking out the side?
    Dennis: She started to make a sweater and changed her mind.

    Another one I'm thinking of using is the Theater Five episode In Absence of
    All Intelligent Life, where astronauts land on a distant planet, only to find
    evidence of a civilization that destroyed itself. Then, on the last line of
    the show, we find that the planet is Earth. (Could only work on radio.)

    Anyway, you get the idea. Maybe there's a scene or two that don't use any
    sound effects at all, but just the power of words and acting that create a
    vivid picture.

    I have plenty of time to do this. It's not really until September. But I
    thought it might be fun anyway to exchange some of our favorite OTR moments
    in sound, and also help me out a little in the process.

    Alan
    _________________
    Alan/Linda Bell
    Santa Rosa, CA

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    Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:07:20 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-4 births/deaths

    April 4th births

    04-04-1859 - Willfred Moore - d. 7-14-1939
    writer: "Air Advs. of Jimmy Allen"; "Howie Wing"; "Captain Midnight"
    04-04-1875 - Pierre Monteux - d. 7-1-1964
    conductor: "The NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    04-04-1889 - Dorothy Gordon - Odessa, Russia - d. 5-11-1970
    moderator: "Dorothy Gordon's Youth Forum"
    04-04-1894 - Ed East - Bloomington, IN - d. 1-18-1952
    actor, writer, pianist, composer: "The Ed East and Polly Show"
    04-04-1895 - Arthur Murray - NYC - d. 3-3-1991
    dance master: "Natural Bridge Dancing Class"
    04-04-1896 - Robert Sherwood - New Rochelle, NY - d. 11-14-1955
    playwright: "Free Company"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    04-04-1897 - Albert Bagdasarian - d. 8-15-1968
    newscaster: WNBZ Saranac Lake, New York
    04-04-1897 - Erno Balogh - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-2-1989
    pianist: WEAF New York City
    04-04-1900 - Chester Renier - d. 7-13-1965
    producer, director: "Mother and Dad"
    04-04-1901 - Gay Seabrook - Seattle, WA - d. 4-18-1970
    actor: Susabelle "Joe Penner Show"
    04-04-1902 - Bernice Berwin - Bay Area, CA - d. 5-22-2002
    actor: Hazel Barbour "One Man's Family"
    04-04-1904 - John Brown - Hull, England - d. 5-16-1957
    actor: Digby "Digger" O'Dell "Life of Riley"; Melvyn Foster "A Date
    with Judy"
    04-04-1904 - Martin Wolfson - NYC - d. 9-12-1973
    actor: Second Brother "Into the Light"
    04-04-1906 - Bea Benaderet - NYC - d. 10-13-1968
    comedian: Gertrude Gearshift "Jack Benny Program"
    04-04-1906 - John Cameron Swayze - Wichita, KS - d. 8-15-1995
    host. panelist: "Monitor"; "Who Said That?"
    04-04-1906 - Johnnie Athaide - d. 5-10-1988
    tenor: KGB San Diego, California
    04-04-1907 - Bob Venables - Woodstock, IL - d. 7-30-1985
    announcer: "The Whistler"
    04-04-1908 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - NYC - d. 11-4-2006
    writer: (Cheaper By the Dozen) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-04-1908 - Ted McMichael - Marshalltown, IA - d. 2-27-2001
    singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
    04-04-1912 - Charles Cliff - Asheville, NC - d. 4-30-2000
    orchestra leader: NBC, CBS and MBS
    04-04-1914 - Frances Langford - Lakeland, FL - d. 7-11-2005
    singer, actor: Blanche Bickerson "Bickersons"; "Bob Hope Show"
    04-04-1914 - Richard Coogan - Short Hills, NJ
    actor: Robbie Hughes "Young Dr. Malone"; Abie Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"
    04-04-1914 - Rosemary Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 11-25-1974
    singer: (The Lane Sisters) "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hollywood Parade"
    04-04-1922 - Elmer Bernstein - NYC - d. 8-18-2004
    composer: "Coming Home"; "Memos to a New Millenium"
    04-04-1932 - Anthony Perkins - NYC - d. 9-12-1992
    actor: "Guest Star"; "Listening to Music with Tony Perkins"
    04-04-1938 - Susan Luckey
    actor: Elizabeth Barbour/Jane Barbour "One Man's Family"
    04-04-1943 - Paulette Jiles - Salem, MO
    author: "My Mother's Quilt"; "Money and Blankets"

    April 4th deaths

    01-15-1929 - Martin Luther King - Atlanta, GA - d. 4-4-1968
    civil right leader: "Monitor"
    01-23-1899 - Margaret Carreau - Bedford, PA - d. 4-4-1997
    accompanist to John Charles Thomas
    03-11-1909 - Karl Tunberg - Spokane, WA - d. 4-4-1992
    film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-20-1903 - Edgar Buchanan - Humansville, MO - d. 4-4-1979
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-27-1899 - Gloria Swanson - Chicago, IL - d. 4-4-1983
    panelist: "Hollywood Byline"; "Suspense"
    04-07-1916 - Anthony Caruso - Frankfort, IN - d. 4-4-2003
    actor: "This Is Your FBI"
    05-25-1916 - Ginny Simms - San Antonio, TX - d. 4-4-1994
    singer: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    06-12-1915 - Priscilla Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 4-4-1995
    singer: "Fred Waring Show"
    07-17-1918 - Red Sovine - Charleston, WV - d. 4-4-1980
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Hoedown"
    08-03-1896 - Wendell Hall - St. George, KS  - d. 4-4-1969
    singer: (The Red Headed Music Maker) "Eveready Hour"; "Red Headed
    Music Maker"
    09-06-1934 - Jody McCrea - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-4-2009
    host" Armed Forces Radio Channel
    09-10-1900 - Joseph Bentonelli - Sayre, OK - d. 4-4-1975
    operatic tenor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Vick's Open House"
    10-25-1912 - Sherman Marks - d. 4-4-1975
    actor, director: Ichabod 'Ichy' Mudd "Captain Midnight"; "Cloak and
    Dagger"
    12-25-1944 - Kenny Everett - Liverpool, England - d. 4-4-1995
    disc jockey: "Kenny 'n' Cash Breakfast Show"
    12-31-1892 - Jason Robards, Sr. - Hillsdale, MI - d. 4-4-1963
    actor: Chandu "Chandu, the Magician"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 02:12:01 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

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