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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 315
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Simple questions                      [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      Well!                                 [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      COLD CASE/WAR OF THE WORLDS           [ "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@m ]
      11-7 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:08:53 -0500
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Simple questions
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           Much has been mentioned lately about the upcoming Writer's Guild
    strike.  My questions are simple:

           [removed] there any writers strikes by radio writers during the golden
    age of radio?

           [removed] there even a union for radio writers then?

           Contact me off list if necessary.

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:22:09 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Well!

    I have just completed the best book I have ever read about Jack
    Benny, and I have several Jack Benny books on my shelves. "Well!
    Reflections on the Life and Career of Jack Benny." Edited by Mike
    Leannah, a frequent contributor to this digest, and published by Ben
    Ohmart's BearManor Media.

    I just got the book on Monday and finished reading it on Tuesday.
    Admittedly it is not a big book, but it is so interesting that it was
    impossible for me to put down once I started to read it.

    Where else can you find what the news was on the day that Jack was
    born, or died? Where else could you find the dialogue on the Benny
    show compared to fine music. You can in this book. This is not your
    run of the mill Jack Benny book, it is different. Jack even wrote two
    chapters himself.

    The book is not a long read, but it is a read jammed packed with
    interesting little tidbits about Jack and his cast.

    Come Christmas morning this book should be under every Christmas tree
    in the nation, or at the very least under ever Christmas tree of
    people who know and remember Jack Benny.

    Right about here you might expect the usual disclaimer that I have no
    vested interest in this book, not this time. I had the privilege and
    honor to coauthor a chapter with the editor Mike Leannah, so I DO
    have an interest in the book. But, that does not negate one iota from
    what I said about the book.

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:48:09 -0500
    From: "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@[removed];
    To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  COLD CASE/WAR OF THE WORLDS
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    Like Jack French, I also watched the "Cold Case" episode aired the other
    night, but reacted to the presentation a bit differently than Jack.  I think
    that the reproductions of the original CBS radio show were accurate and well
    done, but
    the alleged reaction of the public was greatly exaggerated and blown out of
    proportion and reality.
    There is a lot of material available about the actual "reaction" of the 1938
    show, and it does not include thousands of people being misled to the the
    point of disasters and death.  There was a huge influx of telephone calls to
    CBS in NYC following the broadcast, and an alleged NYPD investigation, but
    nothing nearly as drastic as alleged on the
    "Cold Case" broadcast.  A small percentage of the listening public who heard
    only a portion of the show were under
    the erroneous impression that a disaster was occurring, but there were no
    massive evacuations or military actions
    as have been rumored over the 69 years.  Orson gave a complete explanation at
    the end of the program, and
    further documented the program as a "story" adapted from the famous [removed] Wells
    work, the following day in a press
    conference.   The "reaction" in 1938 has been repeatedly inflated for all
    those years, and the "Cold Case" TV show
    only served to reiterate that mistaken (but more interesting) impression.
    With that all said, it was nice to see someone
    work a famous OTR program into a modern-day TV show on a major network.  It
    was entertaining!
    Tom Heathwood

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    Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:48:47 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-7 births/deaths

    November 7th births

    11-07-1868 - Royal Copeland - Dexter, MI - d. 6-17-1938
    commentator: "Health Talk"; "Fleischmann Hour"
    11-07-1883 - Solomon Lightfoot Michaux - Newport News, VA - d.
    10-20-1968
    preacher: "Elder Michaux's Happiness Church Service"
    11-07-1890 - Phil Spitalny - Odessa, Russia - d. 10-11-1970
    conductor: "Nestles Chocolateers"; "Blue Coal Revue"; "Hour of Charm"
    11-07-1893 - Margaret Leech - Newburgh, NY - d. 2-24-1974
    author: "Information Please"
    11-07-1895 - Jerry Belcher - Austin, TX - d. 6-3-1962
    interviewer: "Vox Pop"; "Our Neighbors"
    11-07-1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz - NYC - d. 3-5-1953
    screenwriter, producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-07-1902 - Ed Dodd - Lafayette, GA - d. 5-27-1991
    comic creator: "Mark Trail"
    11-07-1903 - Dean Jagger - Lima, OH - d. 2-5-1991
    actor: "Crisis in War Town"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Cavalcade of America"
    11-07-1906 - Red Ingle - Toledo, OH - d. 9-7-1965
    vocalist: (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) "The Spike Jones Show"
    11-07-1907 - Tom Hanlon - Kansas - d. 9-29-1970
    announcer: "Jane Endicott, Reporter"; "That's My Pop"; "Beulah Show"
    11-07-1910 - Charles Carroll - Jackson, MI - d. 6-xx-1978
    actor: "Margo of Castlewood"; "Valiant Lady"
    11-07-1911 - Dick Stark - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-12-1986
    announcer: "It Pays to be Ignorant"; "Perry Mason"; "Walter
    Winchell's Jergens Journal"
    11-07-1913 - Margorie Anderson - London, England - d. 12-14-1999
    disc jockey: "Forces Favourites"; "Woman's Hour"; "Home for the Day"
    11-07-1916 - Joe Bushkin - NYC - d. 11-3-2004
    jazz pianist: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
    11-07-1917 - Johnnie Stewart - Tonbridge, England - d. 4-29-2005
    sound effects for BBC radio in 1930s, then became a producer
    11-07-1918 - Billy Graham - Charlotte, NC
    preacher: "Hour of Decision"
    11-07-1921 - Virginia Kaye - d. 3-18-2005
    actor: Rosemary Dawson "Rosemary"
    11-07-1922 - Al Hirt - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-27-1999
    dixieland trumpeter: "Voices of Vista"; "The Navy Swings"; "Here's to
    Veterans"
    11-07-1926 - Joan Sutherland - Sydney, Australia
    soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"

    November 7th deaths

    01-21-1915 - Alan Hewitt - NYC - d. 11-7-1986
    actor: Ken Martinson "This is Nora Drake"; Karl Dorn "Romance of
    Helen Trent"
    01-21-1925 - Charles Aidman - Frankfort, IN - d. 11-7-1993
    acotr: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    02-19-1902 - Eddie Peabody - Reading, MA - d. 11-7-70
    banjoist: (The Banjo King) "National Barn Dance"
    03-13-1892 - Janet Flanner - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-7-1978
    reporter: "Listen, The Women"
    03-14-1925 - Sonny Cohn - Chicago, IL - d. 11-7-2006
    trupeter: Count Basie Orchestra
    03-24-1910 - John V. Ambrose - d. 11-7-1995
    sportscaster: WTAG Worcester, Massachusetts
    03-30-1914 - Stu Novins - Boston, MA - d. 11-7-1989
    writer: "The City"
    04-13-1919 - Howard Keel - Gillespie, IL - d. 11-7-2004
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-17-1905 - John Patrick - Louisville, KY - d. 11-7-1995
    writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air";"Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-25-1898 - Gene Tunney - NYC - d. 11-7-1978
    heavyweight boxing champion: "National Guard Show"; "The Navy is Fit
    to Fight"
    08-15-1903 - Jerry Cady - d. 11-7-1948
    writer: "Major Hoople"
    08-18-1879 - Gus Edwards - Hohensaliza, Germany - d. 11-7-1945
    songwriter: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
    08-25-1885 - Chick Sale - Huron, SD - d. 11-7-1936
    humorist: "General Motors Family Party"; "RCA Victor Hour"
    09-16-1927 - Jack Kelly - Astoria, NY - d. 11-7-1992
    actor: "Suspense"
    09-20-1918 - Peg Phillips - Everett, WA - d. 11-7-2002
    actor: "Studio One"; "The Big Show"
    10-04-1905 - Ruth Lyons - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-7-1988
    talk show host: "50-50 Club"
    10-10-1911 - George Mathews - NYC - d. 11-7-1984
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-11-1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt - NYC - d. 11-7-1962
    commentator: "Eleanor Roosevelt Chats/It's a Woman's World/Talks by
    Eleanor Roosevelt"
    10-11-1914 - Buddy Twiss - St. Paul, MN - d. 11-7-1952
    producer: "I Love A Mystery"; "One Man's Family"
    10-16-1900 - Lloyd Corrigan - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-7-1969
    actor: Judge Hunter "One Man's Family"
    10-21-1905 - Carleton Young - NYC - d. 11-7-1994
    actor: Dick Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"; Ellery Queen "Advs of Ellery
    Queen"
    11-05-1885 - Will Durant - North Adams, MA - d. 11-7-1981
    historian: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
    12-11-1883 - Victor McLaglen - Tunbridge Wells, England - d. 11-7-1959
    actor: Captain Flagg "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"; Mountie Eric
    Lewis "Red Trails"
    12-14-1915 - Jerry Daniels - d. 11-7-1995
    singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
    Nightclubbing"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 02:12:01 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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