Subject: [removed] Digest V2010 #160
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 9/13/2010 7:41 AM

To: [removed]@[removed]
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 160
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Quiz shows                        [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      9-11 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 12-18 Sep  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Ziv                                   [ Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@rocketmai ]
      I love a Mystrey                      [ pauljustmill <pauljustmill@[removed]; ]
      9-12 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      ILAM Recreation?                      [ David Fairweather <dmf273@[removed] ]
      9-13 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Roma Wine                         [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:38:54 -0400
    From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Quiz shows

    Kenneth Clarke asked

>     how long have there been quiz shows on OTR and what
>     were the most popular ones?

    This calls for a reminder that my daughter Leah will be giving a presentation
    on the history of radio quiz and game shows at FOTR next month and some of
    these questions will be answered then.  While it is not going to be
    encyclopedic,
    there are going to be a few surprises and some uncirculated audio.

    Another reminder to everyone, that if you are unable to be at FOTR, we will
    be broadcasting the informational presentations and panel sessions live on
    [removed] .

    Kenneth ended with "Contact me off list with this information."  I've never
    understood this kind of request with an on-topic question like this.
    Why off-list???  This digest is supposed to be an exchange of information
    and ideas. I am sure that every subscriber would be interested in any answers,
    and even Leah would be helping out -- after her presentation, of course.

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:39:00 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-11 births/deaths

    September 11th births

    09-11-1862 - O. Henry (Wm. Sydney Porter) - Greensboro, NC - d. 6-5-1910
    short story writer: Several of his works adapted for radio
    09-11-1878 - Charles Harrison - d. 2-2-1965
    tenor: CBS Staff 1927-1928, had musical program on NBC 1935
    09-11-1887 - Gus Arnheim - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-19-1955
    orchestra leader: "Woodbury Soap Show"
    09-11-1889 - Bill Comstock - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-22-1979
    actor: Tizzy Lish "Mirth Parade"
    09-11-1895 - Harry Tobias - NYC - d. 12-15-1994
    songwriter: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    09-11-1896 - Robert S. Kerr - Ada, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-1-1963
    governor oklahoma: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    09-11-1899 - Jimmie Davis - Quitman, LA - d. 11-5-2000
    Louisiana's Singing Governor: "Songs By Sinatra"
    09-11-1907 - Tommy McLaughlin - d. 7-28-1936
    baritone: "Threads of Happiness"; "Vick's Open House"
    09-11-1908 - Elisebeth A. Heisch - Madison, WI - d. 8-17-2003
    writer: "The Cinnamon Bear"
    09-11-1908 - Ray Beals - Missouri - d. 1-23-1983
    newscaster: KVGB Great Bend, Kansas
    09-11-1909 - Anne Seymour - NYC - d. 12-11-1988
    actor: "Mary Marlin "Story of Mary Marlin"; Francie Nolan "Tree Grows
    in Brooklyn"
    09-11-1909 - Kenneth Banghart - Paramus, NJ - d. 5-25-1980
    announcer: "Archie Andews"; "Lora Lawton"; "Robert Shaw Chorale"
    09-11-1912 - Charles Stark - Reading, PA - d. 3-22-1992
    announcer: "Gene Autry's Melody Rance"; "Our Gal Sunday"
    09-11-1912 - John Masterson - Spokane, WA - d. 2-4-1995
    producer: "Queen for a Day"; "Bride and Groom"
    09-11-1913 - Eugenia Rawls - Macon, GA - d. 11-8-2000
    actor: "We, The People"; "Molle Mystery Theatre"
    09-11-1915 - Athena Lorde - NYC - d. 5-23-1973
    actor: Maggie Sprague "Young Widder Brown"; Sherry "Front Page Farrell"
    09-11-1915 - Jack Fascinato - Bouvier, MO - d. 12-25-1994
    conductor,composer: "Guest Star"; "Johnny Desmond Show"
    09-11-1923 - Betsy Drake - Paris, France
    actor: Muriel Blandings "Mr. and Mrs. Blandings"
    09-11-1926 - Lee Richardson - Chicago, IL - d. 10-2-1999
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    09-11-1928 - Earl Holliman - Delhi, LA
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    09-11-1936 - Roger Barkley - Minnesota - d. 12-21-1997
    actor: "Empire of the Air"

    September 11th deaths

    01-04-1881 - Norman Field - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 9-11-1956
    actor: Glen Hunter "One Man's Family"
    01-14-1909 - Brenda Forbes - London, England - d. 9-11-1996
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Theatre Guild on the Air"
    02-04-1912 - Erich Leinsdorf - Vienna, Austria - d. 9-11-1993
    conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Pioneers of Music"; "Musicians
    Off Stage"
    02-12-1915 - Lorne Greene - Ottowa, Canada - d. 9-11-1987
    host Western Night: "Sears Radio Theatre"
    02-16-1901 - Chester Morris - NYC - d. 9-11-1979
    actor: Boston Blackie "Boston Blackie"; Great Merlini "Great Merlini"
    02-17-1897 - Harry Tugend - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1989
    writer: "The Fred Allen Show"
    02-25-1928 - Larry Gelbart - Chicago, IL - d. 9-11-2009
    writer: "Bob Hope Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"; "Jack Parr Show"
    02-26-1912 - Dane Clark - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1998
    actor: Perry 'Quiz' Quisinberry "Passport for Adams
    03-05-1893 - Dorothy Sands - Cambridge, MA - d. 9-11-1980
    actor: Mary Ann Clarke "Barry Cameron"; Margot "Backstage Wife"
    04-08-1937 - Bernelda Wheeler - Saskatchewan, Canada - d. 9-11-2005
    worked as a disc jockey in Churchill, Manitoba
    04-11-1907 - Paul Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-11-1959
    announcer, sportscaster, actor: Lawyer Feldman "Meyer the Buyer"
    05-17-1916 - Jameson Brewer - Sentinel Butte, ND - d. 9-11-2003
    writer: "The Hardy Family"
    05-23-1898 - Frank McHugh - Homestead, PA - d. 9-11-1981
    actor: Fairchild Finnegan "Phone Again Finnegan"
    06-07-1909 - Jessica Tandy - London, England - d. 9-11-1994
    actor: Liz Marriott "Marriage"; Mildred Rogers "Of Human Bondage"
    07-19-1889 - Max Fleischer - Vienna, Austria - d. 9-11-1972
    cartoonist: "Popeye the Sailor"
    08-21-1923 - Chris Schenkel - Bippus, IN - d. 9-11-2005
    sportscaster: "Campy's Corner"; "11:30 Clubhouse"
    09-04-1898 - Charlie Cantor - Worcester, MA - d. 9-11-1966
    actor: Clifton Finnegan "Duffy's Tavern"; Levy Soloman "Abie's Irish
    Rose"
    09-13-1896 - Laidman Browne - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England - d.
    9-11-1961
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Corner in Crime"
    09-15-1915 - Al Casey - Louisville, KY - d. 9-11-2005
    guitarist: "One Night Stand"; "New World A' Coming"; "Eddie Condon's
    Jazz Concert"
    10-18-1914 - Louise Fitch - Iowa - d. 9-11-1996
    actor: Dale Locke "Manhattan Mother"; Carol Evans Martin Brent "Road
    of Life"
    10-18-1914 - Louise Lewis - Iowa - d. 9-11-1996
    actor: "Broadway Is My Beat"
    11-12-1922 - Kim Hunter - Detroit, MI - d. 9-11-2002
    actor: "Medicine USA"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "CBS Radio Mystery
    Theatre"
    12-06-1898 - Eric Sagerquist - Karlstad, Sweden - d. 9-11-1944
    orchestra leader/violinist: "First Nighter"; Romantic Melodies"
    12-08-1898 - Francis Scott Basch - d. 9-11-1997
    news commentator: WAAT Jersey City, New Jersey
    12-23-1903 - Milton Alfred - d. 9-11-1968
    sportscaster: WICA Ashtabula, Ohio

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:39:11 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 12-18 September

     From Those Were The Days

    9/12

    1938   [removed] Kaltenborn made broadcasting history by covering a crisis in
    Czechoslovakia for CBS beginning on this day. Kaltenborn was so devoted
    to his work that he slept in the studio for 18 days while bringing
    updates to his appreciative audience.

    9/13

    1931   Vaudeville star Eddie Cantor was heard for the first time    on
    NBC. The Chase and Sanborn Hour became one of the most popular radio
    shows of the 1930s.

    1937   The first broadcast of Kitty Keene, Inc. was heard on the NBC Red
    network.

    9/14

    1936   NBC presented John's Other Wife for the first time. Actually,
    John's other wife was not his wife at all. She was his secretary.

    9/15

    1934   NBC presented The Gibson Family to American audiences. The
    program was the first musical comedy drama to be broadcast. Ernest
    Whitman and Eddie Green were featured members of the cast and were
    billed as "network radio's only colored comedians." The show originated
    from the studios of WEAF in New York City.

    9/18

    1927   The Columbia Broadcasting System was born on this day in 1927.
    CBS broadcast an opera, The King's Henchman, as its first program.

    1948   The Original Amateur Hour returned to radio on ABC, two years
    after the passing of the program's originator and host, Major Bowes.
    Bowes brought new star talent into living rooms for 13 years.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:39:19 -0400
    From: Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ziv
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    When I was a kid there was a guy in our neighborhood who said that ZIV was
    his uncle. His name was Tony Zedick. Anyone know Ziv;s genealogy.

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    Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:39:24 -0400
    From: pauljustmill <pauljustmill@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  I love a Mystrey
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    Several months ago there was talk of producing ILAM shows which are no longer
    available.  Has anything happened in this area?

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    Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:39:30 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-12 births/deaths

    September 12th births

    09-12-1888 - Maurice Chevalier - Paris, France - d. 1-1-1972
    actor, singer, host: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "This is Paris"; "Bing
    Crosby Show"
    09-12-1892 - Malcolm LaPrade - d. 7-11-1974
    creator, producer: "The Collier Hour"
    09-12-1893 - Gen. Lewis B. Hershey - Steuben City, IN - d. 5-20-1977
    head of selective service: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    09-12-1894 - Billy Gilbert - Louisville, KY - d. 9-23-1971
    actor: "NYA Varieties"; "Rudy Vallee Rehearsal"
    09-12-1897 - Richard Maxwell - Mansfield, OH - d. 9-4-1954
    singer, host: "A Friend in Deed"; "Cheer and Comfort"
    09-12-1897 - Walter B. Gibson - Germantown, PA - d. 12-6-1985
    creater of "The Shadow"; writer for "The Avenger"
    09-12-1901 - Ben Blue - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 3-7-1975
    actor, comedian: "Hollywood Hotel"
    09-12-1901 - Sam Bittel - d. 11-30-1994
    orchestra leader: WBZ-WBZA Boston-Springfield, Massachusetts
    09-12-1907 - Louis MacNeice - Belfast, Ireland - d. 9-4-1963
    author: "Christopher Columbus"
    09-12-1910 - Lehman Engel - Jackson, MS - d. 8-28-1982
    broadway conductor: "Madrigal Singers of New York"; "Texaco Star
    Theatre"
    09-12-1910 - Shep Fields - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-23-1981
    bandleader: "Rippling Rhythm Revue"
    09-12-1914 - Desmond Llewelyn - Newport, South Wales - d. 12-19-1999
    actor: Archdeacon Erabazori "Nemesis"
    09-12-1914 - Eddy Howard - Woodland, CA - d. 5-23-1963
    bandleader, singer: "Carton of Cheer"; "Gay Mrs. Featherstone"
    09-12-1915 - Paul Marion - The Bronx, NY
    actor: Husband "Merry Life of Mary Christmas"
    09-12-1916 - Ed Binns - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-4-1990
    actor: "This Is My Story"
    09-12-1916 - William Anderson - Greenville, SC - d. 4-30-1981
    trumpeter: Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra
    09-12-1918 - Ethel Beard - d. 10-15-2003
    actor: "Experimental Playhouse of the Air"
    09-12-1919 - Norma Jean Ross - Fremont, NE - d. 1-28-1983
    actor: "Scattergood Baines"; "Author's Playhouse"
    09-12-1921 - Frank McGee - Monroe. LA - d. 4-17-1974
    nbc newsman: "Meet the Press";"The Great Debate"
    09-12-1924 - Ella Mae Morse - Mansfield, TX - d. 10-16-1999
    singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Everything for the Boys"; "Jubilee"
    09-12-1925 - Dickie Moore - Los Angeles, CA
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Crime Does Not Pay"
    09-12-1927 - Helen Carter - Maces Springs, VA - d. 6-2-1998
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    09-12-1931 - Ian Holm - Goodmayes, England
    actor: Frodo: The Lord of the Rings"
    09-12-1940 - Skip Hinnant - Chincoteague Island, VA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    September 12th deaths

    02-26-1932 - Johnny Cash - Kingsland, AR - d. 9-12-2003
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Louisiana Hayride"
    03-11-1912 - Jerry Seelen - d. 9-12-1981
    songwriter: "Drene Time"
    03-12-1890 - Lou Clayton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-12-1950
    partner: "The Jimmy Durante Show"
    03-16-1891 - Phil M. Donnelly - Lebanon, MO - d. 9-12-1961
    governor missouri: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-28-1922 - Lutrelle F. Palmer - Newport News, VA - d. 9-12-2004
    news analyst: "Lu's Notebook"
    04-04-1904 - Martin Wolfson - NYC - d. 9-12-1973
    actor: Second Brother "Into the Light"
    04-04-1932 - Anthony Perkins - NYC - d. 9-12-1992
    actor: "Guest Star"; "Listening to Music with Tony Perkins"
    04-21-1920 - Jim Nabbie - d. 9-12-1992
      lead tenor: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's
    Go Nightclubbing"
    04-24-1911 - Arval Hogan - Robbinsville, NC - d. 9-12-2003
    country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
    04-26-1927 - Granny Hamner - Richmond, VA - d. 9-12-1993
    sportscaster" "Sports Hilites"
    05-06-1911 - Frank Nelson - Denver, CO - d. 9-12-1986
    actor, comedian: Anthony J. Lyon "Jeff Regan"; nemisis "Jack Benny
    Program"
    05-10-1911 - Tony LaFrano - NYC - d. 9-12-1961
    announcer: "Family Theatre"; "Johnny Modero: Pier 23"
    05-21-1917 - Raymond Burr - New Westminster, Canada - d. 9-12-1993
    actor: Lee Quince "Fort Laramie"; Ed Backstrand "Dragnet"
    05-26-1924 - Leonard Maguire - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 9-12-1997
    actor: "Navigator in the 7th Circle"; "Evening of Scottish Horrors"
    06-05-1898 - William Boyd - Hendrysburg, OH - d. 9-12-1972
    actor: Hopalong Cassidy "Hopalong Cassidy"
    06-24-1910 - Katherine Locke - Kalakenchu, Russia - d. 9-12-1995
    actor: (Wife of Norman Corwin) "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    07-14-1914 - George F. Putnam - Breckenridge, MN - d. 9-12-2008
    newscaster, announcer: "George Putnam and the News"; "The Army Hour"
    07-24-1907 - Glenn Riggs - East McKeesport, PA - d. 9-12-1975
    announcer: "Musical Varities"; "Hop Harrigan"; "Boston Blackie"
    08-01-1921 - Jack Kramer - Las Vegas, NV - d. 9-12-2009
    tennis pro: guest on the "Tex and Jinx Show"
    08-02-1905 - Ruth Nelson - Saginaw, MI - d. 9-12-1992
    actor: "Arch Obler's Plays"; "Columbia Workshop"
    08-07-1883 - Reinald Werrenrath - NYC - d. 9-12-1953
    baritone: "Old Company Program"
    08-07-1908 - Dave Bacal - NYC - d. 9-12-1986
    staff organist for CBS
    08-11-1911 - Jerome Chodorow - NYC - d. 9-12-2004
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-22-1910 - Rod Brasfield - Smithville, MS - d. 9-12-1958
    comedian: "Grand Ole Opry"
    10-16-1893 - Carl Carmer - Cortland, NY - d. 9-12-1976
    historical advisor: "Cavalcade of America"
    10-20-1889 - Robert Fiske - Griggsville, MO - d. 9-12-1944
    actor: Speed Robertson "Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
    10-23-1871 - Rev. Dr. Karl Reiland - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-12-1964
    clergyman: 15-Minute NEWS commentary program for NBC
    11-03-1933 - Jeremy Brett - Berkswell Grange, England - d. 9-12-1995
    actor: "Barretts of Wimpole Street"; "Mendelssohn and Elyjan"
    11-15-1879 - Lewis Stone - Worcester, MA - d. 9-12-1953
    actor: Judge James Hardy "Hardy Family"
    12-06-1900 - Robert Effros - London, England - d. 9-12-1983
    trumpeter: "Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra", "Your Hit Parade"
    12-14-1898 - Lillian Randolph - Louisville, KY - d. 9-12-1980
    actor: Birdie Lee Coggins "Great Gildersleeve"; Sapphire's Mama "Amos
    'n' Andy"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:39:36 -0400
    From: David Fairweather <dmf273@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  ILAM Recreation?

    Seems like its been over a year since the announcement was made here about an
    upcoming officially blessed ILAM recreation.    Whatever happened to it?

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    Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:39:42 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-13 births/deaths

    September 13th births

    09-13-1871 - Alma Kruger - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 4-5-1960
    actor: Emily Mayfield "Those We Love"
    09-13-1876 - Sherwood Anderson - Camden, OH - d. 3-8-1941
    writer: "The Free Company"
    09-13-1880 - Jesse L. Lasky - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-13-1958
    film producer, host: "Gateway to Hollywood"
    09-13-1883 - Lewis E. Lawes - Elmira, NY - d. 4-23-1947
    commentator: "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing"
    09-13-1894 - J. B. Priestley - Bradford, Yorkshire, England - d.
    8-14-1984
    dramatist: "London After Dark"; "Studio One"; "NBC University Theatre"
    09-13-1895 - Ruth McDevitt - Coldwater, MI - d. 5-27-1976
    actor: Jane Channing "This Life is Mine"; Mother "Keeping Up with
    Rosemary"
    09-13-1896 - Laidman Browne - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England - d.
    9-11-1961
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Corner in Crime"
    09-13-1897 - David Rubinoff - Grodno, Poland - d. 10-6-1986
    violinist, conductor: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Rubinoff and His Violin"
    09-13-1900 - Gladys George - Patton, ME - d. 12-8-1954
    actor: "Lincoln Highway"
    09-13-1903 - Claudette Colbert - Paris, France - d. 7-30-1996
    actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Lux Radio Theatre";
    "Millions for Defense"
    09-13-1903 - Dave Binder - London, England - d. 10-3-1992
    formed "Jingle Jem Co," to produce radio jingles
    09-13-1903 - Ken Trietsch - Arcadia, IN - d. 9-17-1987
    musician-singer: (Hoosier Hot Shots) "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
    09-13-1908 - Mae Questel - The Bronx, NY - d. 1-4-1998
    actor: Betty Boop "Betty Boop Fables"; Olive Oyl "Popeye the Sailor"
    09-13-1908 - Sheila Barrett - d. 8-10-1980
    impersonator, mimic: "Fred Allen Show"; "Time of Your Life"; "Magic Key"
    09-13-1909 - Leith Stevens - Mount Moriah, MO - d. 7-23-1970
    conductor: "Death Valley Days"; "Molle Merry Minstrels"
    09-13-1910 - Raymond Raikes - London, England - d. 10-2-1998
    producer: "Dick Barton"; "The Foundling"; "National Theatre of the Air"
    09-13-1910 - Van Amburg - d. 3-15-1990
    sportscaster: KPIX San Francisco, California
    09-13-1911 - Bill Monroe - Rosine, KY - d. 9-9-1996
    mandolin player: (Father of Bluegrass) "Grand Ole Opry"
    09-13-1912 - Claude Casey - Enoree, SC - d. 6-24-1999
    country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
    09-13-1913 - Gretchen Davidson - Chicago, IL - d. 8-2-2002
    actor: Carol Kennedy "Carol Kennedy's Romance"
    09-13-1913 - Roy Engel - Missouri - d. 12-29-1980
    actor:Schuyler 'Sky' King "Sky King" "NBC University Theatre"
    09-13-1914 - Leonard Feather - London, England - d. 9-22-1994
    composer: "Esquire Jazz Concert"; "Mildred Bailey Show"; "One Night
    Stand'
    09-13-1916 - Norm Lenhardt - d. 4-28-1993
    announcer: WXYZ Detroit
    09-13-1916 - Roald Dahl - Llandaff, Wales - d. 11-23-1990
    writer: "Escape"
    09-13-1918 - Dick Haymes - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 3-28-1980
    singer, actor: Dick Haymes Show"; "Tommy Dorsey Show"; Crane Dockery
    "I Fly Anything"
    09-13-1918 - Ernie Winstanley - England - d. 5-27-1992
    actor, sound effects: Scrub Troy "Secretary Hawkins' Fair and Supper
    Club"; "The Lone Ranger"
    09-13-1918 - Ray Charles - Chicago, IL
    choral director: (The Other Ray Charles) "The Big Show"; "Radio Hall
    of Fame"
    09-13-1920 - Carole Mathews - Montgomery, IL
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-13-1923 - Janice Gilbert - NYC
    actor: "Bachelor's Children"; "Dorothy Dix at Home"
    09-13-1924 - Scott Brady - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-16-1985
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-13-1925 - Mel Torme - Chicago, IL- d. 6-5-1999
    actor, singer: Joe Corntassel "Little Orphan Annie"; "Torme Time";
    "New Mel Torme Show"
    09-13-1944 - Carol Barnes - Norwich, England - d. 3-8-2008
    report for the BBC

    September 13th deaths

    02-08-1913 - Betty Field - Boston, MA - d. 9-13-1973
    actor: Mary Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
    04-18-1882 - Leopold Stokowski - London, England - d. 9-13-1977
    conductor: "NBC Symphony/Symphony of the Air"
    06-14-1918 - Dorothy McGuire - Omaha, NE - d. 9-13-2001
    actor: Sue Evans Miller "Big Sister"; "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"
    07-06-1895 - Grete Stueckgold - d. 9-13-1977
    soloist: "The Chesterfield Show"; "Chesterfield Presents"
    07-13-1895 - Bradley Kincaid - Kentucky - d. 9-13-1989
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "WLS Barn Dance"
    07-27-1889 - Ada Arlitt - d. 9-13-1976
    host: "Mother's Discussion Group"
    08-31-1907 - Winifred Cecil - Staten Island, NY - d. 9-13-1985
    singer: "Show Boat"
    09-02-1901 - Phil Napoleon - Boston, MA - d. 9-13-1990
    bandleader: "Napoleon's Retreat"
    10-15-1879 - Sara Allgood - Dublin, Ireland - d. 9-13-1950
    actor: "Radio Guild"; "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-15-1900 - Mervyn LeRoy - San Francisco,CA - d. 9-13-1987
    film director: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Songs By
    Sinatra"
    10-15-1921 - Geri Fontane - New Milford, NJ - d. 9-13-1993
    singer: (The Fontane Sisters) "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    10-22-1884 - George Washington Hill - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-13-1946
    President of American Tobacco Company, sponsor of many radio programs
    12-31-1923 - Arthur Siegel - Lakewood, NJ - d. 9-13-1994
    pianist, composer: "New Faces"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:39:49 -0400
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Roma Wine

    Hello again --

    As a youngster, I thought the fact that Roma Wine sponsored Suspense gave
    the program a special sophistication. Little did I know, until I drank some
    of it in college, that it was awful stuff, probably the cheapest blended
    wine on the market. At the time of Suspense it was manufactured by Schenley,
    a whiskey distributor, and its Tawny Port was nearly lethal -- you could buy
    a gallon of it for about $4 in 1960, and I'm embarrassed to say that its
    consumption during an end-of-school-year party laid my graduate school
    roommate and our two girl friends out on the floor in a totally drunken
    stupor, which was actually a merciful outcome of our imbibing until we woke
    up and became terribly sick to our stomachs. In fact, Roma cured me of
    drinking wine for several years until I acquired a little sophistication of
    my own and discovered the excellence of the California Napa Valley among our
    country's domestic wines.
    You can read a description of the company and the wine varieties it was
    still producing in 1955 by going to
    [removed] . It reads like a
    complimentary advertisement for the product, but believe me, Roma wine, in
    all its infinite variety, was terrible stuff. I don't know when it
    disappeared from the market, but I have a pretty good idea of why.

    Jan Bach

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