Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #51
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Date: 2/17/2006 3:13 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 51
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Candy Matson Family Tree, PT 2        [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  Further on hobby assessment           [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
  2-17 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  cincy dates                           [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]

  The Lone Ranger's Range               [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Re: Radio Digest publisher, [removed] Ray  [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
  More Complete Broadcast Days          [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Theatre Five - Stereo ?               [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
  Gale Gordon Centennial                [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
  OTR in the News                       [ seandd@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:52:04 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Candy Matson Family Tree, PT 2

Through the help of Barbara Watkins, who guided me through the thickets
of the Los Angeles Civil Court record system, I was recently able to
buy a copy of the 90 page probate file of Natalie Park Masters. As most
Digesters know, she had the title role of "Candy Matson, YU 2-8209"
which her husband, Monty Masters wrote and directed for NBC in San
Francisco, 1949-51.

In my book, "Private Eyelashes: Radio's Lady Detectives" I wrote of
this duo's wedding "It was her first marriage and his second."  My
information was based upon data from the Park family historian. Turns
out we were both wrong.

In her 1979 will, Natalie attests that she was first married to Melvin
Vickland, that the marriage ended in a 1942 divorce, and there were no
children born to their union.

The only son of Natalie and Monty was Thomas Kirk Masters (nicknamed
Topper), born 5-25-44. By the time he was five he had appeared on his
first "Candy Matson" show as the kid talking to Santa Claus in the
surviving episode of "Jack Frost." Since he could not yet read, his
mother helped him memorize his lines. He appears in a few other CM
episodes, including "The Black Cat," usually billed as George Splevin,
Jr.

Later when the family relocated to LA in the mid 50s, Natalie and
Topper had reoccurring roles on the TV series, "Buckskin." He
eventually got out the acting business and apparently had an unhappy
adult life. He was married twice (and maybe three times) and fathered
two daughters (one of whom Nataline dis-inherited, for some yet unknown
reason.) At the age of only 43, he died of alcohol poisoning in October
[removed] one year after his mother passed away.

Ace researcher Irene Heinstein is working now, as we speak, trying to
get more information on Natalie's mysterious first husband, Melvin
Vickland.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:42:39 -0500
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Further on hobby assessment

We must also not forget those people who spend countless tedious hours
researching and writing books on OTR history to preserve the stories of that
era for all time.  I, for one, appreciate them very much.

Ted

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:42:48 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-17 births/deaths

February 17th births

02-17-1871 - Donald Brian - St. John's, Canada - d. 12-22-1948
singer, actor: "The Philco Hour"
02-17-1881 - Arthur Judson - d. 1-28-1975
executive: Founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System
02-17-1897 - Ben Alley - West Virginia - d. 2-8-1970
singer: (the Golden Tenor) "Melody Lane"; "Sweethearts Of the Air"
02-17-1897 - Harry Tugend - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1989
writer: "The Fred Allen Show"
02-17-1906 - Charlie Spivak - New Haven, CT - d. 3-1-1982
orchestra leader: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"
02-17-1907 - Larry "Buster" Crabbe - Oakland, CA - d. 4-23-1983
actor: "George Jessel Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
02-17-1908 - Staats Cotsworth - Oak Park, IL - d. 4-9-1979
actor: David Farrell "Front Page Farrell"; Mark Trail "Mark Trail"
02-17-1908 - Walter "Red" Barber - Columbus, MS - d. 10-22-1992
sportscaster: (The Old Redhead) "Schaefer Star Revue"
02-17-1910 - Marc Lawrence - New York, NY - d. 11-28-2005
actor: "Let George Do It"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Scout About Town"
02-17-1910 - Mark Hawley - New Jersey - d. 9-5-1986
announcer: Guy Lombardo's New Year's Eve broadcast
02-17-1911 - Orrin Tucker - St. Louis, MO
bandleader: "Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"
02-17-1914 - Arthur Kennedy - Worcester, MA - d. 1-5-1990
actor: "Best Plays"
02-17-1914 - Larry Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-15-1996
actor, singer: "Here's to Romance"
02-17-1914 - Wayne Morris - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-14-1959
actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"; "NBC university Theatre of the Air";
"Lux Radio Theatre"
02-17-1919 - Kathleen Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-24-2001
actress: California Artists Radio Theatre"
02-17-1923 - Buddy De Franco - Camden, NJ
bandleader: "Glenn Miller Orchestra"
02-17-1924 - Margaret Truman - Independence, MO
soprano: "The Big Show"
02-17-1925 - Hal Holbrook - Cleveland, OH
actor: Grayling Dennis "Brighter Day"
02-17-1929 - Patricia Routledge - Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
actress: "Saturday Play"
02-17-1949 - Don Scardino - New York, NY
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
02-17-1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips - Philippines
actor: "Twilight Zone"

February 17th deaths

01-10-1896 - Frances Lockridge - d. 2-17-1963
writer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"
02-12-1904 - Joseph Kearns - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 2-17-1962
actor, host: Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"; Man in Black "Suspense"
03-13-1908 - Paul Stewart - New York, NY - d. 2-17-1986
actor: Gyp Mendoza "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Richard Rogue "Rogue's
Gallery"
03-17-1901 - Alfred Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-17-1970
composer, conductor: "Hollywood Star Time"; "Radio Hall of Fame";
"Silver Theatre"
05-01-1919 - Dan O'Herlihy - Wexford, Ireland - d. 2-17-2005
actor: Nicholas Lacey "One Man's Family"
06-17-1922 - Jerry Fielding - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-17-1980
conductor: "Hardy Family"; "Jack Paar Show"; "You Bet Your Life"
07-17-1905 - William Gargan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-17-1979
actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Eye"; Barrie Craig "Barrie
Craig, Private Investigator"
09-15-1876 - Bruno Walter - Berlin, Germany - d. 2-17-1962
conductor: "Salzburg Music Festival"; "Word from the People"; "New
York Philharmonic"

Ron Sayles
[removed]

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:56:02 -0500
From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  cincy dates
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My understanding is that the Cincinnati convention has traditionally been
held the third Friday/Saturday of April.

  By the way, I have PDF files of the flyers if anyone needs them.

  Rodney Bowcock

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:08:13 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Lone Ranger's Range

Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:26:39 -0500
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];

Chief Thundercloud ... was supposedly Tonto's tribal chief, and he
helps the masked man and his companion out of many scrapes.  His
tribe must have been nomadic, because he appears all over the west
at various times.

I wonder just how far did the Lone Ranger travel.  He was supposed to
have been a Texas Ranger (though he speaks like a Northerner), so I
assume that Texas (a pretty big place in itself) was the center of
his operations.  A lot of the towns he rode into seemed pretty
generic Western towns, with no state or territory identified.  Just
how far away from Texas did he go?

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 15 Court Square, Suite 210                 Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:08:31 -0500
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Radio Digest publisher, [removed] Rayner

***
[Obit from the August 19, 1952 New York Times]

EARL C. RAYNER, 63, A TRADE PUBLISHER

Earl Clemons Rayner, publisher of radio and advertisng trade papers,
died Sunday night of a lung ailment at his home, 41-42 Forty-second
Street, Sunnyside, Queens. His age was 63.

Mr. Rayner, who had worked early in his career for The Dayton Daily
News, The Louisville Herald, The Chicago Examiner and The Chicago
American, was born in Xenia, Ohio, attended public schools there and
was graduated from Ohio State University.

In 1921, he began publication of The Radio Digest, one of the first
trade weeklies in that field to attain national circulation.
Subsequently Mr. Rayner founded and published The Post War Digest, The
Advertising Agency and The Advertising Daily.

He leaves his wife, Ada E.; a son, Jack of Chicago, and a daughter,
Mrs. Betty Hoover of Dayton, Ohio.

***
[An excerpt from Drew Pearson's syndicated column The Washington
Merry-Go-Round as it appeared in the December 10,  1943 Chillicothe
(MO) Constitution-Tribune]

ONE MAN - WENDELL WILLKIE

Here are the inside facts behind the isolationist book, "One Man -
Wendell Willkie," a critical take-off on Willkie's "One World,"
brought out as a part of the Stop-Willkie campaign.

The author, C. Nelson Sparks, former Mayor of Akron, Ohio, did most of
the writing, but the office of Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota and
a former secretary of Herbert Hoover had a hand in the book's
preparation.

Gerald W. ("Spike") Movius, long-shanked magazine writer secretary of
Senator Nye, ghost-wrote the first chapter and part of another, also
assisted in editing the book. The original manuscript was submitted
for suggested changes to both Movius and Ray Richmond, executive
secretary of Hoover's "National Committee on Food for Small
Democracies," which folded up just before Pearl Harbor.

Another who had a hand in the actual writing was George Briggs, a
Minneapolis free-lance writer who served on Spark's publicity staff
while the latter was promoting the campaign of Frank Gannett, New York
newspaper publisher, for the GOP Presidential nomination in 1940.

The book, a colored narrative of alleged incidents in Wilkie's
political career - including his story-book nomination by the
Philadelphia Republican convention in 1940 - is aimed at stamping
Willkie as a political accident. It is published by E. C. Rayner, a
small New York publisher who went to high school with Sparks in Ohio,
according to friends.

Sparks tried to get Publisher Gannett to "angel" the work, but Gannett
apparently didn't consider it a good business proposition. The author
finally had to put up about $4,000 of his own money. The rest of the
initial publishing cost was supplied by the Rayner firm.

***
[February 11, 1929 Oakland (CA) Tribune]

RADIO 'FILMING' METHOD FOUND

CHICAGO, Feb. 11. - AP) - A plan for the recording of complete radio
programs for simultaneous use over a number of stations had been
announced by E. C. Rayner, editor of the Radio Digest.

A system, similar to that employed in the "talking pictures" is
employed, and Rayner said the new method would reproduce vocal and
orchestral music electrically with more sharpness and precision than
is obtained by the broadcasting programs carried distances over
telephone wires into the several stations.

"Editing"  of programs also is possible under the Rayner method so
that programs once recorded maybe trimmed or done over if necessary.
The system also permits of obtaining natural sound effects when
needed, by taking the artist "on location."

The plan, Rayner said, will serve broadcasting stations much the same
as film companies now serve theaters.

***
[January 2, 1927 Iowa Press-Citizen]

WLW to Honor Radio Editors

Editors have been the "men behind the gun" in developing and
maintaining interest in radio transmission, reception, and as a
mercantile venture during the last few years, and now they are to take
a place, "out in the open", for one hour, at least. WLW, Cincinnati,
has invited radio editors to get in the spotlight on the night of
Wednesday, January 26th. Each will suggest his favorite number, or, at
least, the one he wants played that night, and he will hear it
accordingly. Some ot the biggest men in the field have filed their
requests already - including S. Gernback, [sic] Walter Schilling,
Kendall Banning, George Baxter Howe, and E. C. Rayner, editor of the
Radio Digest. WLW, in the near future, will also devote a special
broadcast to the preferences of radio editors.

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:09:32 -0500
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  More Complete Broadcast Days

NBC recorded everything aired over WEAF from June 6, 1944 to August 16,
1944, and this over two-month-long continuous recording survives, give or
take the occasional broken disc, at the Library of Congress.

Memovox recordings exist of the entire output of NBC Red and Blue from
2pm on December 7, 1941 thru the full day of December 8.

The Federal Communications Commission had recordings made of the entire
broadcast days of all six stations active in Washington DC on July 6,
1945, for use in a study of the percentage of time devoted to advertising
in a typical broadcast day. These recordings were analyzed and discussed
in "Public Service Responsibility of Broadcast Licensees," the famous
"Blue Book" report released by the commission in 1946. It's not known if
these recordings still exist in some deep-storage National Archives file
box, or even the format in which they were made -- it's likely they were
not high-quality discs, but rather Memovoxes or some such low-grade
system.

Elizabeth

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:10:00 -0500
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Theatre Five - Stereo ?

Hi Gang -

I'm catching up on some past issues of the otrdigest.  Before the  "Theatre
Five"
discussion disappears, I have a few comments:

I recorded most (all?) broadcasts of Theatre Five off the air from WLS-FM
and I should
have some excellent sound.  As I recall, I ran the tapes at 7-1/2 ips  and I
think
the program may have been broadcast in stereo.  There may be station  breaks
and
newscasts on the tapes as well.

My tapes are all in Illinois, and I'm in Arkansas.  When I get back to
Illinois I'll
check my library.  Meantime, does anybody recall whether these  programs were
in stereo?  My memory is not as good as it once was.

I hope see many of you in Cincinnati, and we can talk about Theatre  Five and
other
not-quite-so-old-time Radio.

Happy Taping --  Ken Piletic - Stereamwood, Illinois -- Alma, Arkansas

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:10:24 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Gale Gordon Centennial

If I'm not mistaken, Gale Gordon's 100th birthday is coming up in a few
days, on 02-20-2006. I always seem to miss these things (like Hal
Peary's centennial last year, or William Bendix's last month)--by the
time they hit the digest it's often the next day. So I'm sending this
out a couple of days early, in case anybody wants to organize their
listening habits on Monday to honor Mayor LaTrivia and Osgood Conklin!

Kermyt

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:13:12 -0500
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR in the News

The Lawrence Eagle Tribune in Massachusetts runs an article on a local radio recreation group up there -

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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