Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #64
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 2/23/2007 6:01 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 64
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Photo of Hal                          [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
  Remembering Hal                       [ "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed]; ]
  Clarification                         [ "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed]; ]
  Hal Stone: A Wonderful Human Being    [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
  Frank Martin revisited                [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Hal Stone                             [ JJLjackson@[removed] ]
  lobby a Hal stone award               [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
  Hal Stone                             [ seandd@[removed] ]
  Heard in 38 States                    [ Russ Butler <songbook2@[removed]; ]
  Hal Stone                             [ "Bill" <nbcblue@[removed]; ]
  Hal Stone                             [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]
  HAL STONE                             [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
  Hal Stone                             [ "Scott A Eberbach" <saeberbach@eart ]
  Hal Stone                             [ "[removed]" <asajb2000@ ]
  Mr Hal Stone                          [ gary young <garyy2002us@[removed]; ]
  Frank Martin                          [ danhaefele@[removed] ]
  Hal Stone                             [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  I need to stop lurking for just a mi  [ tomr5@[removed] ]
  Hal Stone                             [ <robertgaxley@[removed]; ]
  2-23 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Clark Kent's clothes                  [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Hal Stone                             [ "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@m ]

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:15:05 -0500
From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Photo of Hal

The only picture I have of Hal is on this page, fourth photo down:
[removed]
---Dan

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:15:30 -0500
From: "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Remembering Hal

     As others have said, I feel I got to know Hal through the Digest.
Unfortunately I only had limited E-Mail contact with him.  Even the small
correspondence I had he made you feel like a friend you knew for years.   I
wrote in a response at the Golden Age Cartoons Message [removed] that while
Hal wasnt a huge star even in his time (and he would have told you that ) he
will be sorely [removed] would have been an outstanding comedian in his own
right had he chosen to follow that path as an [removed] human
[removed]'s story about spending 45 minutes on the phone with him about
the illustrations in his [removed] miss you [removed]

Tim Lones

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:15:43 -0500
From: "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Clarification

What I meant to say in the last part of my previous [removed] spending 45
minutes with Walden disccussing the illustrations in his book shows just how
special he [removed] Bless Dorothy and the family

Tim Lones

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:17:06 -0500
From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
To: Time Radio Digest Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Hal Stone: A Wonderful Human Being

It is hard to believe that this very vital man is gone.  He had
attended and starred in several SPERDVAC conventions, and
without his presence, some of the conventions would have been
outright dull.  You always knew Hal was around.  He had such a
great sense of humor. Many times he would be so funny, with a
straight face.  I will never forget when I visited him together
with Bobb Lynes and Barbara Watkins, and he found out that I had
liberal leanings. He leaned over the table, and in portraying
such great seriousness, he asked with a straight face:  "What is
this man doing in my house?"

Hal would drive to the SPERDVAC conventions from Arizona, and
perform brilliantly in re-creations, and he directed a lot,
also. At all the conventions that he attended, he was thoroughly
and deeply active and involved. He was never too "big" to
participate with our contemporary group "30 Minutes to Curtain"
and doubled in his participation of "Horn Blows At Midnight",
starring Eddie Carrol as Jack Benny.  I believe it was at that
same convention, on Sunday morning, a time when many attendees
had already left, that he and his friend and Archie Andrews
co-star Bob Hastings performed what I call some otherwise
mediocre "Bob and Ray" scripts. Those scripts were never meant
for a live audience.  Stone and Hastings had the entire audience
rolling in the aisles, for almost an hour, almost losing our
breakfast.  I have attended SPERDVAC conventions since 1984, but
that morning was SPERDVAC's finest hour. I am thankful to
organizations like SPERDVAC and FOTR that I had the opportunity
to see Hal perform and to get to know the man, and I thank the
OTR Digest that I was able to read his comments, which I
considered addenda to his wonderful book "[removed], Archie!
Re-laxx!"

Stuart

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:55:57 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Frank Martin revisited

Dennis Townsend writes:

Have heard him as the Wheaties pitchman on Nightbeat and Tales of the Texas
Rangers but nowhere else. Anyone know anything about him? Yes i have
purchased Jim Cox's latest book and was disappointed not to see a listing for
him.

Nightbeat aired 1950-52 and Tales of the Texas Rangers was on in that same
two-year interval.

Jeff Frank Martin Jr., whose entry appears in "Radio Speakers" (p. 180), was
a busy network radio announcer and actor in the period 1943-52.  Could this
not be the man currently being sought?

Jim Cox

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:57:21 -0500
From: JJLjackson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Hal Stone
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The comments below are from Penny Swanberg, who was a good friend to Hal  and
Dorothy--two or three times a year, she'd be staying with them in Sedona.
She was there when Hal went in to the hospital. This message was posted this
morning to all of us at the American Radio Theater.

It doesn't seem possible that he's gone. But his voice and his stories are
still with us, in recordings, and his book. So he'll never really die.

joy

- ---
No one expected Hal's operation to be so critical, the
operation itself was a success but two days after all of
his major  organs stopped functioning.  No one knows for
sure why.

Dorothy,  (and I) are doing as well as can be expected.
Lots of tears, of  course.

There is no funeral, Hal was adamant about that.  Dorothy
asks that no flowers be sent, but instead a donation can
be sent to the  Heart [removed]

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:50:47 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  lobby a Hal stone award

Hi Everybody,

I would like to lobby all the OTR conventions to issue a Hal Stone award
this year.  Hal attended so many   of the conventions each year, and was
such a favorite for so many of us.  Thus it would be nice that each
convention has there own award to  remember our Hal.

Walden Hughes

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:51:18 -0500
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Hal Stone
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I've often written about my first OTR convention in 1994 when I was fortunate
enough to have Hal Stone and Rosemary Rice as the celebrities at my table for
dinner the first day.  That evening was the start of a wonderful time in my
life of meeting so many great people in the OTR hobby and it was a thrill to
be able to speak to him about his career that night.  So in some sense, you
can say that my somewhat substantial involvement with FOTR all started with
[removed] always happy to help out with publicity for the convention and was just
as gracious in private as he was on camera or interviews.  I still have an
interview he did with NJN (PBS in New Jersey) for a convention a few years
back saved on my [removed] was a joy to be around and brought energy and
vitality to every role he played at both FOTR and REPS.  He was so giving of
his time at conventions that is truly saddening to see people posting to this
digest that "they never got to meet him in person."  I swear, if you actually
came to REPS or FOTR you wouldn't have seek him out, somehow, he would find
you and leave you with a [removed] DoughertySeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:55:08 -0500
From: Russ Butler <songbook2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Heard in 38 States

Noting the Jim Cox post that 50Kw flame-throwers WGN Chicago and WSM in
Nashville could be heard in 38 States and Canada reminds me of Jack
Eigen.  His nightly routine on his live broadcast from the Chez Paree
nightclub  lounge in Chicago would include his boast that HE is "heard
in 38 States and Canada" listening at night to WMAQ 670AM, another 50Kw
clear channel station.

Incidentally, there are still six 50,000 watt radio stations in the
Chicago ADI and presumably they all reach 38 states at night, given the
topography and propagation of Illinois!

Rich Samuels has an interesting recap of Jack's career:
[removed]

=Russ Butler  songbook2@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:55:18 -0500
From: "Bill" <nbcblue@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Hal Stone

I never met Hal personally, but we used to swap jokes on the Thursday OTR
chat room. I am so saddned by this news.

Bill H.

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:24:02 -0500
From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Hal Stone
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To say I'm stunned is being less then truthful. Hal was an event, a joy and a
figure that loomed large in my life. From the time we first met at a REPS
meeting to the last time I saw him at the REPS showcase last June we were
able to put aside our political differences and have a good time laughing and
joking about them. I once told him that when I talk to him I did it only from
right side of my mouth. He laughed long and loud. He called me his token
lefty.

  I will  miss him deeply and hope that all of you who got to share any time
with him will join in a prayer of rememberance and joy for the life that was
among us for so brief a time.
  Rest in Peace

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:24:35 -0500
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  HAL STONE

I am just stunned to read  about Hal Stone's passing.
My wife and I enjoyed his  company and she would always have a warm recall of
some event that he was  involved with long after we had arrived back
[removed] is not going to be happy  when I tell her the news.
He was such a gent and my last  two engagements in Newark were all the
greater for his having been a part of the  recreations and the panel.
I got to perform with him last  year when we did GUNSMOKE together. Standing
beside him I could feel his  commitment to  the character and it gave me great
joy to know I was  performing with a pro.
A man who leaves such as he did  behind him is a man for all seasons and one
sorely to me  missed.
I hope we get to do a tribute in October when we  all gather again in Newark.
My condolences to his  family.
They should know of the impact this man had on any  and all who were
privileged to have met him.
I got to work  with him!
I feel particularly blessed by that turn of  fortune.

So long pal.
Great playin' with  ya!
Michael C. Gwynne

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:25:11 -0500
From: "Scott A Eberbach" <saeberbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Hal Stone
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Hi All,

When I read of Hal's passing I felt a great deal of sadness.  While I never
had the opportunity to meet Hal in person I feel as if I have lost a good
friend.

Through his many postings on the digest,an occasional person to person
e-mail, and his delightful book is how I came to know  this wonderful man. I
find it rather ironic that starting some time last we week  I started
rereading portions of Hal's book. Especially his association with Lillian
Gish and his chance meeting with Judy Garland while on a train to
California. Equally ironic is that just this morning I was planning to drop
him a line to wish him a speedy recovery from his recent surgery and to let
him know how much I have enjoyed his book. I was also hoping to meet him at
one of the many upcoming conventions. And then I read Charlie's note. I
offer my most heartfelt condolences to Dorothy and his other family members
May he rest in peace.

 Scott A Eberbach

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:44:51 -0500
From: "[removed]" <asajb2000@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Hal Stone

You know, we all know it is inevitable and somehow
more jarring, especially when it is someone who has
contributed as much lately as he had and who
graciously made himself available for any interview or
any recreation and really got involved, but it still
doesn't make it any easier.  Some people seem younger
than their years, their chronological age and Hal was
one of those people.  We will all miss him and a real
void exists now.  The remaining conventions will take
some time to adjust to, without Jughead.

Andy Blatt

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:45:28 -0500
From: gary young <garyy2002us@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mr Hal Stone
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I just read that he has passed. Such a loss to all. He is the one person I
wanted to meet. What a history and life he had. I was going to buy his book
on my next paycheck. Hope I still can. Eventhough I havent met him, I will
miss him.
  Prayers to his family.

  Gary

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:40:33 -0500
From: danhaefele@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Frank Martin
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    Frank Martin was an attorney and a radio announcer.  The Gassman Brothers
and I traveled to his home and recorded an interview with him for SPERDVAC
some years ago.  A recording of that interview is in the SPERDVAC library.

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:40:48 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Hal Stone

   I was shocked when I got Charlie's message on Hal's passing.
   I never met him personally, but chatted with him with many times on
the otr chat on Thursdays.  He was a great guy with a great sense of
humour with whom I bantered many times.
   I'll greatly miss [removed]
   Joe (who'll miss the never to be written follow-up on his last book)

--
Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:58:39 -0500
From: tomr5@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  I need to stop lurking for just a [removed]
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We spent part of last FOTR at Dorothy and Hal's table.  What a bright light,
what energy, what fun he brought to the table, and every other table he ever
frequented.

Reeelax, Hal.  We'll all miss you.

Regards,  Tom Rose

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:27:26 -0500
From: <robertgaxley@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Hal Stone

While I never met Hal personally, we corresponded through e-mail a number of
times concerning his book and our review of it in our club newsletter as well
as some other OTR subjects.  I always found him to be a totally kind and
considerate gentleman with a tremendous since of gentle humor which the world
certainly needs more of today.  I had hoped to get the Cincinatti convention
this year with the hope of meeting Hal.  His passing is such a sad day for
OTR fans.
Bob Axley

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:58:31 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-23 births/deaths

February 23rd births

02-23-1883 - Victor Fleming - Pasasena, CA - d. 1-6-1949
film director: "Gulf Screen Theatre"
02-23-1899 - Norman Taurog - Chicago, IL - d. 4-7-1981
film director: "Biography in Sound"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
02-23-1904 - William L. Shirer - Chicago, IL - d. 12-28-1993
news analyst: "CBS European News"; "[removed] Shirer: News and Comments"
02-23-1905 - Emil Baffa - d. 11-xx-1973
conducted his orchestra for NBC
02-23-1909 - Anthony Ross - NYC - d. 10-26-1955
actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"; Broadway Columnist "Mr.
Broadway"
02-23-1912 - Thomas L. Thomas - Maesteg, South Wales - d. 4-17-1983
singer: "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"; "Voice of Firestone"
02-23-1913 - Jon Hall - Fresno, CA - d. 12-13-1979
actor: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
02-23-1925 - Niels Robinson - d. 1-18-1994
actor: "Coast-to-Coast on a Bus"
02-23-1926 - Isabel Bigley - The Bronx, NY - d. 9-30-2006
singer: "Music for America"; "Heartbeat of Broadway"; "Let Freedom Sing"
02-23-1935 - Gerrianne Raphael - NYC
actor: "Let's Pretend"
02-23-1943 - Jada Rowland - NYC
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

February 23rd deaths

01-10-1893 - John Bonnell - Prince Edward Island, Canada - d. 2-23-1992
preacher: "Our Spiritual Life"; "Your Life Today"
01-27-1895 - Harry Ruby - NYC - d. 2-23-1974
songwriter: "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood"; "Great Moments to Music"
03-15-1911 - Abraham A. Albayalde - d. 2-23-1994
newscaster: KTOH Lihue, Hawaii
03-20-1924 - Philip Abbott - Lincoln, NE - d. 2-23-1998
actor: "Family Theatre"
03-25-1906 - Margaret Daum - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-23-1977
singer: "American Album of Familiar Music"
04-08-1889 - Adrian Boult - Chester, England - d. 2-23-1983
writer: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Casebook of Gregory Hood";
"Sherlock Holmes"
04-21-1919 - Don Cornell - NYC - d. 2-23-2004
singer: "Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenade"; "One Night Stand"; "The Big
Show"
05-09-1901 - Fuzzy Knight - Fairmont, WV - d. 2-23-1976
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
06-14-1918 - Jon Arthur - New Kensington, PA - d. 2-23-1982
actor: "Big Jon and Sparkie"; "No School Today"
06-15-1872 - Johanna Gadski - Anclam, Poland - d. 2-23-1932
operatic singer: WJZ New York City
06-16-1890 - Stan Laurel - Ulverston, England - d. 2-23-1965
comedian: "Laurel and Hardy Show" Pilot, never broadcast
07-14-1914 - Billy Kyle - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-23-1966
pianist: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"
08-11-1913 - Edith Oliver - NYC - d. 2-23-1998
actor: "Crime Doctor"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
09-12-1910 - Shep Fields - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-23-1981
bandleader: "Rippling Rhythm Revue"
09-27-1915 - Frank Gerstle - d. 2-23-1970
actor: "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"; "Six Shooter"; "Gunsmoke"
10-03-1916 - James Alfred "Alf" Wight - Sunderland, England - d.
2-23-1995
author: James Herriot Books
10-19-1889 - Fannie Hurst - Hamilton, OH - d. 2-23-1968
writer: "United China Relief"; "Fanny Hurst Reviews"; "Big Joe";
"United Nations Today"
11-08-1899 - Edmund "Tiny" Ruffner - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 2-23-1983
announcer: "Show Boat"; "Captain Diamond's Adventure"; "Better Half"
11-13-1913 - Alexander Scourby - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-23-1985
actor: Herbert Temple "Young Widder Brown"; Philip Cameron "Against
the Storm"
xx-xx-1885 - Rev. Dr. Frederick K. Stamm - Millheim, PA - d. 2-23-1961
pastor: "Highlights of the Bible"
xx-xx-1914 - Leo McCabe - Belfast, Ireland - d. 2-23-1986
actor: Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:44:35 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Clark Kent's clothes

Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:54:23 -0500
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];

I seem to remember hearing either on the TV show or the radio show,
that Superman would put his Clark Kent cloths in his cape. I guess it
had a zipper pocket.

Not on the TV show, maybe on the radio show, but I suspect not.  The
cape pouch appeared in the comics, but not until around 1960 or
thereabouts.

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

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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:44:53 -0500
From: "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Hal Stone
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News of Hal's passing signifies a great loss to the OTR community and many of
us personally who had a chance to get to know him.   Hal was a guest on my
Heritage Radio Theatre last year, and we were planning
another appearance
after his surgery. May I extend my deepest condolences to his family at this
time. We will all miss him.    Tom Heathwood

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