Subject: [removed] Digest V2012 #48
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 48
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      3-14 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      "Lum and Abner" comic strip           [ Donald Pitchford <donniepitchford@s ]
      Jack Webb Episode                     [ Karen Lerner <kareneflerner@[removed] ]
      Jack Webb Stuff                       [ Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed] ]
      Sgt. Preston name                     [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
      Jack Webb as an immortal              [ "Cancilla, Dominick" <dcancilla@cal ]
      Re: Jack Webb as as Immortal          [ Bryan Haigood <bryanh362@[removed]; ]
      3-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:33:28 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-14 births/deaths

    March 14th births

    03-14-1869 - Algernon Blackwood - d. 12-10-1951
    author: "Escape"
    03-14-1879 - Albert Einstein - Ulm, Germany - d. 4-18-1955
    physicist: "The Quick and the Dead"
    03-14-1886 - Harvey Hays - d. 6-xx-1964
    actor: "Tom Mix"
    03-14-1891 - Dr. Dolphe Martin - Poland - d. 10-3-1974
    conductor: "Tydol Jubilee (Music on the Air)
    03-14-1900 - Bernie Cummins - Akron, OH - d. 9-22-1986
    bandleader: "Coca-Cola Spotlight Bands Program"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
    03-14-1912 - Les Brown - Reinerton, PA - d. 1-4-2001
    bandleader: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) "Bob Hope Show"
    03-14-1913 - Jay Barney - Chicago, IL - d. 5-19-1985
    actor: Bugsy O'Toole "The Romance of Helen Trent"
    03-14-1918 - Dennis Patrick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-13-2002
    actor: "Shakespeare Festival"
    03-14-1919 - Harry Caray - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-18-1998
    baseball announcer: St. Louis Cardinals; Chicago Cubs
    03-14-1919 - Luther Henderson - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-29-2003
    arranger: "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"
    03-14-1922 - Les Baxter - Mexia, TX - d. 1-15-1996
    arranger/conductor: "Bob Hope Show"; "California Melodies"; "Swingtime"
    03-14-1925 - Sonny Cohn - Chicago, IL - d. 11-7-2006
    trumpeter: Count Basie Orchestra
    03-14-1933 - Sir Michael Caine - London, England
    actor: "Wednesday Night" CBC
    03-14-1934 - Eugene Cernan - Chicago, IL
    astronaut: "The Space Story"; "NASA Special Report"
    03-14-1940 - Rita Tushingham - Liverpool, England
    actor: "Mistress of Novices"
    03-14-1948 - Billy Crystal - NYC
    comedian: "The National Lampoon Radio Hour"

    March 14th deaths

    01-09-1901 - Chic Young - Chicago, IL - d. 3-14-1973
    cartoonist: Creator of Blondie Bumstead nee Boopadoop
    01-17-1910 - Tex Fletcher - Harrison, NY - d. 3-14-1987
    actor: Tex Mason "Songs of the B-Bar-B"
    03-08-1922 - Al Gionfriddo - Dysart, PA - d. 3-14-2003
    sportscaster: KONG Visalia, CA
    03-12-1917 - Millard Kaufman - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-14-2009
    writer: "Escape"; "Romance"; "Suspense"
    03-18-1926 - Peter Graves -Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-14-2010
    actor: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"
    04-26-1899 - Joseph Fuchs - NYC - d. 3-14-1997
    violinist: "Longines Symphonette"
    05-02-1908 - William R. Carter - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-14-1976
    pianist and soloist
    05-30-1915 - Frank Blair - Yemasse, SC - d. 3-14-1995
    newscaster, announcer: "America Looks Ahead"; "Fulton Lewis, Jr."
    06-18-1919 - Mel Brandt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-2008
    announcer: "Advs. of Frank Merriwell"
    06-30-1917 - Susan Hayward - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-1975
    actor: "Radio Almanac"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-21-1907 - Carlton Kadell - Danville, IL - d. 3-14-1975
    announcer, actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Red Ryder "Red Ryder"
    09-01-1922 - Cherie DeCastro - NYC - d. 3-14-2010
    singer: (The DeCastro Sisters) "Steve Lawrence Show"; "Here's to
    Veterans"
    09-03-1910 - Michael Eisenmenger - d. 3-14-2003
    sound effects: "Captain Midnight"; "Backstage Wife"
    09-03-1918 - Tom Dillon - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-2005
    actor: "NBC University Theatre"
    10-26-1899 - Rudolph Wickel - d. 3-14-1971
    contestant: "Truth or Consequences"
    11-20-1947 - Richard Shulberg - The Bronx, NY - d. 3-14-2009
    presenter, musician: (Citizen Kafka) "The Secret Museum of the Air"
    11-23-1913 - Maurice Zolotow - NYC - d. 3-14-1991
    writer: "Information Please"
    11-29-1895 - Busby Berkeley - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-14-1976
    choreographer: "Gulf Screen Theatre"; "Whatever Became Of . . . ?"
    12-08-1895 - Harold Arlin - d. 3-14-1986
    first full time radio announcer in the world, KDKA, Pittsburgh, 1921
    12-31-1910 - Jerry Blaine - d. 3-14-1973
    orchestra leader: WOR Newark, New Jersey

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:33:36 -0500
    From: Donald Pitchford <donniepitchford@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Lum and Abner" comic strip

    This is just a reminder that the "Lum and Abner" comic strip is still being
    published every Sunday at this address:
    [removed]

    We just started a new series, "Rags to Radio."

    With each strip comes an audio adaptation. I started these for our many blind
    friends, but everyone is welcome to listen.

    Thanks to everyone who has visited, read, listened, and commented. I hope to
    improve as time passes and offer a better product for your entertainment.

    Donnie Pitchford
    Carthage, Texas

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    Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:39:16 -0500
    From: Karen Lerner <kareneflerner@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jack Webb Episode
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    I believe the Jack Webb show that Paula Keiser is looking for is the Escape
    broadcast from 8/11/47 called "The Ring of Thoth"

    Karen

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    Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:40:08 -0500
    From: Stephen  A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Webb Stuff

    Paula Keiser asks,

>     I want to show a friend that Webb did, indeed, do something other than
>     Joe Friday on radio.  Can anyone tell me the series name and title of
>     the show?

    One was "Pete Kelly's Blues," set in the Prohibition era.  A film was
    made of it, and unless one's heard the OTR show, the theme music, etc. is
    overdone.
    The other was "Pat Novak For Hire," a really interesting detective
    pulp-fiction program, with beautiful purple prose. I confess it's one of
    my favorite continuing-character half-hour evening shows.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:40:17 -0500
    From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sgt. Preston name

    Joseph Ross asked about Sgt. Preston's first name and where it came from.  I
    don't know if this is definitive, but there was a series of 15 minute
    special Challenge of the Yukon episodes released in the early 1950's, one of
    which tells of the sergeant's promotion after tracking down the killer of
    his father.  Paul Sutton casually introduces himself to a character in the
    story as Bill Preston.

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    Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:41:16 -0500
    From: "Cancilla, Dominick" <dcancilla@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jack Webb as an immortal

    I can't help you with the immortal Jack Web, but two less-than-obvious
    examples of Webb's range of work are the "Operation Fleur de Lys" episode of
    Escape, and the (in my opinion pretty bad) The Jack Webb Show.

    --Dominick

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    Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:41:41 -0500
    From: Bryan Haigood <bryanh362@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Jack Webb as as Immortal

    That sounds like one of the early episodes of Escape in 1947. I'm not
    near a log to confirm but I'm guessing it's the show.  Something to do
    with Egypt . . . Well it's been awhile.

    Bryan

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    Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:41:47 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-15 births/deaths

    March 15th births

    03-15-1874 - Harold Ickes - Frankstown, PA - d. 2-3-1952
    secretary of interior: "Information Please"
    03-15-1877 - Montague Love - Portsmouth, England - d. 5-17-1943
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
    03-15-1883 - Ernie Hare - Norfolk, VA - d. 3-9-1939
    singer: (The Happiness Boys)
    03-15-1887 - Billy Jones - NYC - d. 11-23-1940
    singer: (The Happiness Boys)
    03-15-1898 - Everett Mitchell - Austin, IL - d. 11-9-1990
    annnouncer, host: "National Farm and Home Hour"; "Voice of the Farm"
    03-15-1901 - Madeleine Pierce - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-8-1983
    actor: Wiki "Just Plain Bill"; Rudy Cameron "When A Girl Marries"
    03-15-1904 - George Brent - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-26-1979
    actor, moderator: "Doctor Fights"; "Leave It to the Girls"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    03-15-1904 - Pat O'Malley - Burnley, Lancashire, England - d. 3-1-1985
    actor: "Cavalcade of America";"Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-15-1904 - Verree Teasdale - Spokane, WA - d. 2-17-1987
    actor: (Wife of Adolph Menjou) "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-15-1905 - Margaret Webster - NYC - d. 11-13-1972
    stage actor, director: "Information Please"
    03-15-1905 - Nat Perrin - New York - d. 5-9-1998
    writer: "The Marx Brothers"
    03-15-1907 - Jimmy McPartland - Chicago, IL - d. 3-13-1991
    jazz artist: "Doctor Jazz"; "Town Hall Concert"
    03-15-1908 - Roland Varno (Varnoux) - Utrecht, Netherlands - d.
    5-24-1996
    character actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "You Were There"
    03-15-1909 - John Roeburt - d. 5-22-1972
    writer: "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator"; "Inner Sanctum
    Mysteries"
    03-15-1910 - Nick Stewart - NYC - d. 12-18-2000
    actor: "Hollywood Newsreel of the Air"
    03-15-1911 - Abraham A. Albayalde - d. 2-23-1994
    newscaster: KTOH Lihue, Hawaii
    03-15-1913 - Macdonald Carey - Sioux City, IA - d. 3-21-1994
    actor: Jonathan Hillary "Just Plain Bill "; Lee Markham "Woman in White"
    03-15-1915 - David Schoenbrun - NYC - d. 5-23-1988
    news correspondent: CBS News, Paris; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    03-15-1915 - Johnny Frazer - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-11-1945 Died in WWII
    announcer: "Brenthouse"; "The Bob Hope Show"; "The Kool Show"
    03-15-1916 - Frank Coghlan, Jr. - New Haven, CT - d. 9-7-2009
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Doctor Christian"
    03-15-1916 - Harry James - Albany, GA - d. 7-5-1983
    bandleader: "Spotlight Bands"; "Call for Music"
    03-15-1919 - Lawrence Tierney - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-26-2002
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-15-1919 - Merv Baldrica - d. 4-25-2006
    sportscaster: WMIQ Iron Mountain, Michigan
    03-15-1921 - Madelyn Pugh - Indianapolis, IN - d. 4-20-2011
    writer: "My Favorite Husband"
    03-15-1927 - Carl Smith - Maynardville, TN - d. 1-16-2010
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Cas Walker's Radio Show"
    03-15-1932 - Ray Aparicio - d. 1-12-2006
    disk jockey: KBUC Corona, California
    03-15-1939 - Robert (Thomas) Nye - London, England
    writer: "Sisters"

    March 15th deaths

    01-22-1909 - Ann Sothern - Valley City, ND - d. 3-15-2001
    actor: Maisie Revere "Maisie"
    03-21-1906 - Helen Deutsch - NYC - d. 3-15-1992
    writer: "Forecast": "Gulf Screen Guild Theatre", "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-30-1930 - Pepper Barker - d. 3-15-1998
    disk jockey: WCMB Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
    04-13-1906 - Bud Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 3-15-1991
    tenor sax player: "Camel Caravan"; "Fats Waller Jam School"; "Doctor
    Jazz"
    05-17-1923 - Alice Backes - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 3-15-2007
    actor: "This Is Your FBI"; "The Whistler"; "Family Theatre"
    08-24-1912 - Durward Kirby - Covingnton, KY - d. 3-15-2000
    announcer, emcee: "Club Matinee"; "Honeymoon in New York"
    08-27-1916 - Larry Thor - Lundar, Manitoba, Canada - d. 3-15-1976
    actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"
    08-29-1910 - John Kane - Davenport, IA - d. 3-15-1910
    actor: Tom Jones "Five Star Jones"; Scubby "Nick Carter"
    08-xx-1864 - Clara Lane - Ellsworth, ME - d. 3-15-1952
    singer: WBZ Boston, Massachusetts
    09-13-1910 - Van Amburg - d. 3-15-1990
    sportscaster: KPIX San Francisco, California
    11-11-1898 - Rene Clair - Paris, France - d. 3-15-1981
    film director: "This Week Around Paris"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-26-1889 - H. I. Phillips - Connecticut - d. 3-15-1965
    writer, composer: "Information Please"
    12-21-1908 - Sylvester L. "Pat" Weaver - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-15-2002
    producer: "Fred Allen Show"

    Ron

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