Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #75
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 5/17/2011 5:58 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 75
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Tchaikovsky radio themes              [ Michael Berger <[removed]@yaho ]
      Sports radio broadcasts               [ K Schindl <apbaball@[removed]; ]
      John Brown                            [ "Cancilla, Dominick" <dcancilla@cal ]
      5-14 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Frank Luther                          [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history            [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      The otr canon                         [ rand@[removed] ]
      Frank Luther                          [ Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed] ]
      re: FUMSI Article: Sound Advice: Onl  [ Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed] ]
      5-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      A CHALLENGE                           [ David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:44:23 -0400
    From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Tchaikovsky radio themes

    The 'Pathetique' theme was used on the old soap opera, Road of Life. Two more
    Tchaikovsky OTR themes I found are:

    Kitty Keene [ None But the Lonely Heart - from Romances for Voice & Piano ]

    Mercury Theater [Piano Conc. #1]

    And a link to comprehensive lists of OTR themes:

    [removed]

    Cheers / Michael

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:46:12 -0400
    From: K Schindl <apbaball@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Sports radio broadcasts

    This link tells the story of Pat Rispole who with the help of other radio
    enthusiasts around the country taped hundreds and hundreds of sports radio
    broadcasts starting in 1957.
    [removed];category=SPORTS

    Pat, I believe was assisted in his recodings by John Furman and Paul
    Thompson.
    Pat is mentioned in this old issue of "hello again"
    [removed](01)[removed]

    I have
    been collecting and listening to many of Pat's recordings as well as
    other sports broadcasts and am interested in corresponding with others who are
    also old-time sports radio enthusiats. Eventually, I would like to catalogue
    all
    the old sports radio broadcasts that have been recorded and saved from
    the 1930s
    until the late 1960s.

     Karl Schindl- As Real As It Gets
    Football league
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:46:19 -0400
    From: "Cancilla, Dominick" <dcancilla@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  John Brown

    My son and I listen to OTR on the weekends as we drive about doing our
    errands. He was pleased to learn that John Brown does voices on three of
    our favorite shows (My Friend Irma, Damon Runyan (sp?) Theater, and
    double duty on Life of Riley).

    Because Brown's voice is so flexible, I don't know that I'd necessarily
    be able to recognize him on other shows. Can anyone tell me if there are
    other series that he is known to have worked on?

    Thanks!

    --Dominick

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:46:28 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-14 births/deaths

    May 14th births

    05-14-1868 - "Big Bill" Thompson - Boston, MA - d. 3-19-1944
    mayor of chicago: "The March of Time"
    05-14-1874 - Marie Nelson - Detroit, MI - d. 5-12-1943
    actor: Ellen Collins "Bachelor's Children"
    05-14-1885 - Otto Klemperer - Breslau, Germany - d. 7-6-1973
    conductor: "George Gershwin Memorial Program"
    05-14-1890 - Carlton Brickert - Martinsville, IN - d. 12-23-1943
    actor: David Post "Story of Mary Marlin"; Howard Thurston "Thurston
    the Magician"
    05-14-1895 - Lew Lehr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-6-1950
    comic: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"; "Stop Me If You've Heard This One"
    05-14-1897 - Sidney Bechet - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-14-1959
    soprano sax, composer: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    05-14-1898 - Zutty Singleton - Bunkie, LA - d. 7-14-1975
    jazz drummer: "Radio Almanac";"Just Jazz"; "BBC Jazz Session"
    05-14-1902 - Rush Hughes - d. 3-28-1979
    host: Pot O' Gold"
    05-14-1905 - Herbert Morrison - d. 1-10-1989
    announcer: Hindenburg Disaster; "Call to Arms"; "Good Old Days of Radio"
    05-14-1907 - Dick Bentley - Melbourne, Australia - d. 8-27-1995
    actor: "Gently, Bentley"; "Navy Mixture"
    05-14-1910 - B. S. Pully - Newark, NJ - d. 1-6-1972
    comedian: "Command Performance"; "Mail Call"
    05-14-1910 - Bill Danch - Hammond, IN - d. 10-6-2004
    writer: "Baby Snooks Show"; "Honest Harold"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
    05-14-1910 - Paul Sutton - Albuquerque, NM - d. 1-31-1970
    actor: Sergeant William Preston "Challenge of the Yukon"
    05-14-1914 - Foy Willing - Bosque County, TX - d. 7-24-1978
    singer: (Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage) "Roy Rogers
    Show"
    05-14-1917 - Norman Luboff - Chicago, IL - d. 9-22-1987
    choir director: (The Norman Luboff Choir) "The Railroad Hour"
    05-14-1918 - June Duprez - Teddington, England - d. 10-30-1918
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-14-1922 - Jackie Rae - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 10-5-2006
    singer: "Three Little Rays of Sunshine"
    05-14-1925 - Patrice Munsel - Spokane, WA
    singer: "Prudential Family Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
    05-14-1925  Tristram Cary - Oxford, England - d. 4-24-2008
    musician: "Dr. Who"
    05-14-1926 - Eric Morecambe - Lancashire, England - d. 5-28-1984
    comedian: "The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Radio Show"
    05-14-1936 - Bobby Darin - NYC - d. 12-20-1973
    singer: "The Bobby Darin Show"; "Cancer Crusade"; "Vocies of Vista"
    05-14-1937 - Lloyd Battista - Cleveland, OH
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-14-1945 - Francesca Annis - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    actor: "Saturay Night Theatre"

    May 14th deaths

    01-02-1913 - Anna Lee - Ightham, Kent, England - d. 5-14-2004
    actor: "Soldiers in Greaspaint"; "Lifebuoy Show"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-13-1919 - Robert Stack - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-14-2003
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-25-1878 - Ernst Alexanderson - Uppsala, Sweden - d. 5-14-1975
    engineer: Possibly first voice ever heard on radio Dec. 24, 1906
    01-28-1898 - Alwyn E. W. Bach - Springfield, MA - d. 5-14-1993
    announcer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"; "Luden's Orchestra"; "Real Folks"
    02-01-1891 - Alexander Kipnis - Schitomir, Ukraine - d. 5-14-1978
    wagnerian basso profundo: "Outpost Concert Series"; "Metropolitan Opera"
    02-11-1901 - Fritz Blocki - d. 5-14-1972
    writer: "Chick Carter, Boy Detective"
    02-16-1909 - Hugh Beaumont - Lawrence, KS - d. 5-14-1982
    actor: Appeared on radio in 1931
    04-13-1913 - Dave Albritton - d. 5-14-1994
    disk jockey: Dayton, Ohio
    05-07-1901 - Gary Cooper - Helena, MT - d. 5-14-1961
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; 'Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-08-1922 - Lew Anderson - Kirkman, IA - d. 5-14-2006
    musician: (The Honey Dreamers) "Airtime"; "The Bobby Doyle Show"
    05-14-1897 - Sidney Bechet - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-14-1959
    soprano sax, composer: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    05-15-1909 - Thomas J. D'Andrea - Chicago, IL - d. 5-14-1887
    script writer: Eddie Cantor"
    06-23-1922 - Rusty Morris - Colorado - d. 5-14-1986
    actor: "Halls of Ivy"; "Mayor of the Town"; "This Is Your FBI"
    06-26-1902 - William Powell Lear - Hannibal, MO - d. 5-14-1978
    inventor: With Elmer Wavering, invented first commerial car radio
    (Motorola)
    07-10-1908 - Hjerluf Provenson - Racine, WI - d. 5-14-1957
    announcer: "John's Other Wife"; "The Gulden Serenaders"
    07-17-1911 - Earl Glade, Jr. - Utah - d. 5-14-2001
    announcer: "Music and the Spoken Word (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)"
    07-21-1894 - Elsie Hitz - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-14-1976
    actor: Ellen Randolph "Story of Ellen Randolph"; Gail Brewster
    "Dangerous Paradise"
    08-05-1920 - Selma Diamond - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 5-14-1985
    writer: "Big Show"
    08-07-1884 - Billie Burke - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-14-1970
    comedian: "Billie Burke Show"; Mrs. Featherstone "Gay Mrs. Featherstone"
    08-10-1927 - Jimmy Martin - Sneedville, TN - d. 5-14-2005
    bluegrass performer: "Louisiana Hayride"; "WWVA Jamboree"
    08-15-1912 - Wendy Hiller - Bramhall, Cheshire, England - d. 5-14-2003
    actor: Queen Vic "Original Dramatic Work"
    08-28-1907 - Roy Chamberlain - NYC - d. 5-14-1981
    old gold rhythmaires: "The New Old Gold Show"
    09-26-1922 - Leonard Teale - Brisbane, Australia - d. 5-14-1994
    actor: Played Superman on Australian radio
    09-27-1901 - Beasley Smith - McEwen, TN - d. 5-14-1968
    pianist/orchestra leader: "Music In the Moonlight"; "Sunday Down South"
    10-15-1896 - Joe Sanders - Thayer, KS - d. 5-14-1965
    bandleader: (The Ole Left Hander) "Nighthawks Frolic"
    10-17-1918 - Rita Hayworth - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-14-1987
    actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Bob Elson on
    Board the Century"
    10-20-1901 - Frank Churchill - Rumford, ME - d. 5-14-1942
    pianist: "Greek War Relief Fund"
    10-22-1893 - Will Collins - NYC - d. 5-14-1968
    singer: "Whispering Will Collins"
    12-12-1915 - Frank Sinatra - Hoboken, NJ - d. 5-14-1998
    singer, actor: (The Voice), "Your Hit Parade"; "Frank Sinatra Show";
    Rocky Fortune "Rocky Fortune"
    12-24-1887 - Lucrezia Bori - Valencia, Spain - d. 5-14-1960
    opera singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
    12-30-1912 - Hugh Griffith - Marianglas, Anglesey, North Wales - d.
    5-14-1980
    actor: "Under Milk Wood"

    Ron
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:48:01 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Frank Luther

    Frank Luther was based in Boston for awhile during the 1950s and had a
    regular radio show on WNAC radio on Saturday mornings.  Later he had a
    local television show on WNAC-TV.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                     [removed]
    92 State Street, Suite 700          Fax: [removed]
    Boston, MA 02109-2004     [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:53:30 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history

     From Those Were The Days

    5/15

    1933 - Irna Phillips, an NBC Blue network program-features writer,
    starred in the role of Mother Moran in the radio program, "Today's
    Children", which was heard for the first time this day.

    5/17

    1938 - The NBC Blue network presented "Information Please" for the first
    time. The show was moderated by Clifton Fadiman.

    1939 - The Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, NY was the scene of a
    memorable dual-network radio broadcast of Glenn Miller and his
    orchestra. Both NBC and Mutual carried the event, which was attended by
    1,800 people in the casino ballroom.

    5/18

    1942 - "David Harding, Counterspy" was heard on the NBC Blue network for
    the first time. The program enjoyed a long run on radio, lasting for 15
    years.

    5/19

    1921 - The first opera presented in its entirety over the radio was
    broadcast by 9ZAF in Denver, CO. The opera, "Martha", aired from the
    Denver Auditorium.

    5/20

    1933 - "Charlie Chan" was heard for the final time on the NBC Blue radio
    network after only six months on the air. Not to worry. Several revivals
    of the Chinese detective were on the air years later ...

    Joe

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:53:37 -0400
    From: rand@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The otr canon

    I'm curious about something that was discussed on the digest a few years
    ago, just for reference as I'm doing a bit of research.

    How many shows (not series) are circulating among otr enthusiasts?

    I'm curious more about how many shows one might have if you collated
    what's available from [removed] and various otr dealers in digital form,
    not necessarily the material that's still on tape or disc that hasn't been
    digitized.

    rand

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:54:23 -0400
    From: Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: oldtime radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Frank Luther
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    Frank Luther recorded country music in the 20s/30s; he was the "successor" to
    Vernon Dalhart after Dalhart had a falling out with his partner Carson
    Robison. There
    are some fine CDs of his work avaliable from the British Archive Of Country
    Music. Google them for their website.

    I used to listen to Luther's Saturday morning kids' show on WEAF, NBC in NYC.

    --
    BILL KNOWLTON, "Bluegrass Ramble," Sundays: 9 pm to midnight (EST) over
    WCNY-FM ([removed]) Syracuse, WUNY ([removed]) Utica, WJNY ([removed]) Watertown NY, also:
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:54:33 -0400
    From: Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  re: FUMSI Article: Sound Advice: Online audio

    Many thanks to Graeme Stevenson for the FUMSI link. I am starting the writing
    process for my master's thesis on radio and politics in the 1930s and 1940s
    this summer and have been collecting archive information and this is hugely
    helpful. The otr community has always been a great help to me in so many ways.
    Thanks again, Graeme.

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:54:41 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-15 births/deaths

    May 15th births

    05-15-1890 - Katherine Anne Porter - Indian Creek, TX - d. 9-18-1980
    author: "NBC University Theatre"
    05-15-1890 - Menasha Skulnik - Warsaw, Poland - d. 6-4-1970
    actor: Mr. Cohen "Abie's Irish Rose"; Uncle David "The Goldbergs"
    05-15-1897 - Jacques Renard - Kiev, Ukraine - d. 1-30-1973
    bandleader: "Burns and Allen"; "The Joe Penner Show"; "Stoopnagle and
    Budd"
    05-15-1904 - Clifton Fadiman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-20-1999
    emcee: "Information, Please"; "Conversation"; "RCA Magic Key"
    05-15-1905 - Joseph Cotten - Petersburg, VA - d. 2-6-1994
    actor: Matthew Bell "Private Files of Matthew Bell"; "Mercury Theatre
    on the Air"
    05-15-1909 - James Mason - Huddersfield, England - d. 7-27-1984
    actor: "James and Pamela Mason Show"; "Studio One"
    05-15-1909 - Thomas J. D'Andrea - Chicago, IL - d. 5-14-1887
    script writer: Eddie Cantor"
    05-15-1910 - Constance Cummings - Seattle, WA - d. 11-23-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-15-1910 - Walter Cassel - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 7-2-2000
    baritone: "General Motors Concerts"; "Calling America"
    05-15-1913 - James Baxter - Yucalpa, CA - d. 12-11-1964
    writer of radio scripts
    05-15-1915 - Harold Barlow - Boston, MA - d. 2-15-1993
    Music plagiarism consultant for radio stations
    05-15-1915 - Jack Watson - Thorney, England - d. 7-4-1999
    actor: "Biggles"
    05-15-1916 - Bill Williams - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-21-1992
    actor: "Eternal Light"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-15-1917 - Wade Barnes - Alliance, OH - d. 2-25-1999
    announcer/pianist: WHBC Canton, Ohio
    05-15-1918 - Eddy Arnold - Henderson, TN - d. 5-8-2008
    singer: (Tennessee Plowboy) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Eddy Arnold Show"
    05-15-1918 - Joseph Wiseman - Montreal Canada - d. 10-19-2009
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    05-15-1921 - Margaret Lipper - Oliver, PA
    actor: Hazel Toumey "Career of Ann Blair"; Patsy Curtis "Brenda Curtis"
    05-15-1923 - Doris Dowling - Detroit, MI - d. 6-18-2004
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-15-1926 - Regis J. "Rege" Cordic - Hazelwood, PA - d. 4-16-1999
    Replaced Bob Crane on station KNX in Los Angeles, California
    05-15-1929 - David Healy - NYC - d. 10-25-1995
    actor: "Kismet"; "Finian's Rainbow"; "The Music Man"
    05-15-1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti - Pesano, Italy
    singer: "Here's to Veterans"

    May 15th deaths

    01-03-1923 - Charles Tingwell - Coogee, Australia - d. 5-15-2009
    actor: "The Clock"
    04-08-1928 - Eric Porter - London, England - d. 5-15-1995
    actor: "Landscape"
    06-23-1929 - June Carter Cash - Maces Spring, VA - d. 5-15-2003
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    06-28-1914 - Zina Provendie - d. 5-15-2005
    actor: Sylvia Bruno Wick "The Goldbergs"
    07-03-1903 - Wynne Gibson - NYC - d. 5-15-1987
    actor: Amah "Thanks for Tomorrow"; Angie "When a Girl Marries"
    07-13-1886 - Father Flanagan - Roscommon, Ireland - d. 5-15-1948
    founder of boys town: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"; "Good New
    of 1939"
    07-14-1914 - John Laing - NYC - d. 5-15-1979
    announcer: "Great Gildersleeve"; "Sealtest Variety Theatre"
    08-17-1916 - Ira Cook - Duluth, MN - d. 5-15-2007
    disk jockey: KMPC Los Angeles, California
    09-03-1910 - Grace Matthews - Toronto, Canada - d. 5-15-1995
    actor: Ruth Evans Wayne "Big Sister"; Margo Lane "The Shadow"
    10-10-1908 - Johnny Green - NYC - d. 5-15-1989
    conductor: "In the Modern Manner"; "Jack Benny Program"; "Man Called X"
    10-12-1931 - Sam Buffington - Massachusetts - d. 5-15-1960
    actor: Luke Slaughter "Luke Slaughter of Tombstone"
    12-10-1919 - Alexander Courage - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-15-2008
    music: "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Hollywood Soundstage"; "Romance"
    12-28-1923 - Andrew Duggan - Franklin, IN - d. 5-15-1988
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"; "Voice of the Army"; "Top Secret"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:54:57 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
    may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
    Radio Theatre," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," John and Larry
    Gassman's "Same Time Station" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
    Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
    [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    =======================================

    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY
      Episode 401 3-13-46 "The Case of the Deadly Train"
      Stars: Jay Jostyn, Vicki Vola, Len Doyle
      Creator: Phillips H. Lord
      NBC

    THEATER OF ROMANCE
      Episode 25 12-19-44 "Casa Blanca"
      Stars: Victor Jory, Dooley Wilson, Mercedes McCambridge, Santos Ortega
      Announcer: Del Sharbutt
      Adaptor: Jean Holloway
      CBS Palmolive

    INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES
      Episode 32 8-10-41 "Death Ship"
      Host: Raymond Edward Johnson
      Blue Network Carter's Little Liver Pills

    SCREEN GUILD THEATER
      Episode 526 6-22-52 "Family Honeymoon"
      Stars: Jeff Chandler, Ann Sheridan, Bob Sweeney, Janet Beverly,
    Lawrence Dobkin, Gil Stratton, Charlie Smith, Leif Erickson, Benny
    Rubin, Arthur Q. Bryan, Ken Christy, Elvia Allman, Peter Votrian, Isa
    Ashdown, Jane Morgan
      Announcer: Johnny Jacobs
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO PROGRAM
      (AFRS) 6/7/45 Costello is girl crazy.

    THE GRAND OLE OPRY
      (WSM-Nashville segment) 6/12/59 Star and Host: Roy Acuff

    TARZAN OF THE APES
      (WOR-NYC/Synd) 9/12-9/13 1932 The very first two chapters of the early
    version of the story of Tarzan on radio.
    ====================================

    THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

    THE HALLS OF IVY (NBC)
      Title: Gangster's Son
      Original Air: 1/20/50
      Starring: Ronald Colman and Benita Hume

    ADVENTURES BY MORSE (Syndicated)
      Title: City of the Dead, Episode 3
      Original Air: 1/22/44
      Starring: Elliott Lewis, Jack Edwards

    GUNSMOKE (CBS)
      Title: Unwanted Deputy
      Original Air: 5/9/59
      Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Russell
    ====================================

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    COLUMBIA WORKSHOP
      "Radio Primer" from 05/04/41 Episode (001)

      Next, we hear THE CLYDE BEATTY SHOW
      starring Vic Perrin and Eve McVeagh from 1950. This is a syndicated
    Episode from Comodore Productions. (01) The Devil Cat.

      In Hour #2, we hear another Columbia Workshop. This episode features
    several recognizable names from the junior staff who were just breaking
    in to radio.
    COLUMBIA WORKSHOP
      Dialogue with Music-Fraternity Mating from 03/14/40 Episode (026)

      And to end the show for this week, we hear Bill Conrad and Paul Frees
    in an episode from ESCAPE
      called Something For Nothing from 04/28/50 Episode (108)
    ====================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

          Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
          The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
          Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
    the Net

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    Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:55:07 -0400
    From: David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed];
    To: OTR DIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  A  CHALLENGE

    John Gardner posted a very  interesting challenge in Isssue # 73 of
    the Digest. He began his posting by Identifying himself as an otr fan
    who lives  in Great Britain and who just happened to receive his copy
    of Martin Grams new book abouut the SHADOW on th very same day that a
    fellow named Siegel praised the book (Issue #  72)

         John was kind enough to  agree with  the nice things I said
    about the SHADOW book and then "challenged" Martin to devote similar
    to an extensive study  of the [removed] one may
    reasonably assume, is a favorite program of Mr Gardner.

        FLASH: Until Martin  (or any oher writer) decides whether he is
    sufficently interested in accepting Mr Gardner's challenge, I am
    pleased to report that there is a book in print that celebrates the
    career of the WHISTLER. The book in question, is entiitled: "Thr
    Whistller: Stepping Into The Shadows". The publisher is the great
    friend of otr, film, TV, [removed] BEAR MANOR MEDIA, The page count 421
    and the price only $[removed]

          While I am pleased to include this book among the many volumes
    related to otr in my collection, I have not considered the question
    of reviewing it. The reason,  quite simply, is that only a single
    (short) chapter is devoted to the radio character as this book
    povides an in depth study of the eight motion pictures in which
    Richard Dix was featured  in Columbia Films basedon the radio series.
    Honesty prevents me from pretending from being qualified to speak
    with any authority about the substance of a book about a movie
    series. Honesty does not, however prevent me from revealing that the
    amatuer film buff in me ejoyed the book and until some ambiitious otr
    scholaer takes up Mr Gardners [removed] FILM NOIR, in depth
    study of the WHISTLER  may have to suffice.

    A brief PS, Daniel Van Neste (DVann2800@[removed])  the author of the
    WHISTLER book would welcome suggestions from well meaniing fans
    regarding venues for sharing informaton about his book.

    DAVE SIEGEL

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