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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 134
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      8-22 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Anthony Tollin and Chuck McCann at G  [ Tom Fichtner <tficht@[removed] ]
      JACK ARMSTRONG                        [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      8-23 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      What HAppened?                        [ "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser1@[removed]; ]
      Extra! Extra! Hear all about it!      [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:11:15 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-22 births/deaths

    August 22nd births

    08-22-1851 - Daniel Frohman - Sandusky, OH - d. 12-26-1940
    broadway producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-22-1879 - Edward Johnson - Ontario, Canada - d. 4-20-1959
    operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
    08-22-1893 - Cecil Kellaway - Capetown, South Africa - d. 2-28-1973
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    08-22-1893 - Dorothy Parker - West End, NJ - d. 6-7-1967
    author, panelist: "Author, Author"; "Information, Please"
    08-22-1897 - Eddie Dunstedter - Edwardsville, IL - d. 7-30-1974
    organist, conductor: "Gold Medal Fast Freight"; "Lineup"; "It Happened
    in Hollywood"
    08-22-1897 - Elisabeth Bergner - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-12-1986
    actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
    08-22-1897 - Nick Lucas - Newark, NJ - d. 7-28-1992
    singer: (The Singing Troubador) "Al Pearce and His Gang"
    08-22-1900 - Charles Halleck - De Motte, IN - d. 3-3-1986
    [removed] congressman "Meet the Press"; "American Forum on the Air"
    08-22-1904 - Don Prindle - d. 10-25-1968
    writer: "The Abbott and Costello Show"; "Niles and Prindle"
    08-22-1904 - Jay Novello - Chicago, IL - d. 9-2-1982
    actor: Sam Sabaaya "Rocky Jordan"; Glenn Hunter "One Man's Family"
    08-22-1906 - James Meighan - NYC - d. 6-20-1970
    actor: Michael Waring "The Falcon"; Peter Carver "Lora Lawton"
    08-22-1907 - Sherling Oliver - Kipling, AL - d. 8-23-1971
    actor: Dudley Trowbridge "Valiant Lady"
    08-22-1909 - Julius J. Epstein - NYC - d. 12-30-2000
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-22-1909 - Philip G. Epstein - NYC - d. 2-7-1952
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-22-1910 - David Victor - d. 10-18-1989
    writer: "Joan Davis Time"; "Let George Do It"; "The Mel Blanc Show"
    08-22-1910 - Lesley Woods - d. 8-2-2003
    actor: Mary Wesley "Boston Blackie"; Margo Lane "The Shadow"
    08-22-1910 - Rod Brasfield - Smithville, MS - d. 9-12-1958
    comedian: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-22-1912 - Charles Carpenter - Chicago, IL - d. 10-18-1978
    writer: "Brownstone Theatre"
    08-22-1915 - Hugh Paddick - Hoddeston, Hartfordshire, England - d.
    11-9-2000
    actor: "Beyond Our Ken"
    08-22-1917 - Joe Connelly - NYC - d. 2-13-2003
    writer: "Harry Von Zell Show"; "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Frank Morgan Show"
    08-22-1920 - Ray Bradbury - Waukegan, IL
    writer: "Bradbury 13"; "Martian Chronicles"
    08-22-1921 - Robert Marsden - London, England - d. 4-5-2007
    actor: "Saturday Night Play"
    08-22-1922 - Shelley Winters - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-14-2006
    actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"
    08-22-1930 - Don Parcher - d. 7-9-2006
    newscaster: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    08-22-1936 - John Callaway - New Martinsville, WV - d. 6-23-2009
    journalist: "Chicago Tonight"; "Nightline"
    08-22-1942 - Kathy Lennon - Los Angeles, CA
    singer: (The Lennon Sisters) "Music on Deck"; "Voices of Vista";
    "Guest Star"
    08-22-1952 - Heather Nimmo - Falkirk, Scotland
    writer: "Fly In-Fly-Out"; "I'll Write to Ritchie Benaud"

    August 22nd deaths

    01-21-1899 - Ernestine Hill - Rockhampton, Australia - d. 8-22-1972
    writer: "Santa Clause of Christmas Creek"
    02-04-1910 - Lansing Hatfield - Franklin, VA - d. 8-22-1954
    singer: "Met Opera Auditions of the Air"
    02-16-1903 - Norman Shelley - d. 8-22-1980
    actor: John H. Watson "Corner In Crime, Saturday Night Theatre"
    03-04-1892 - Helen Van Tuyl - Iowa - d. 8-22-1964
    actor: Ellen Collins "Bachelor's Children"
    04-11-1911 - Bob Dixon - Stamford, CT - d. 8-22-1998
    announcer: Edward R. Murrow: created the phrase "Listen to Murrow
    tomorrow"
    04-30-1926 - Ward Chase - Chicago, IL - d. 8-22-1996
    newscaster: WOKY Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    05-18-1908 - Del King - Kansas City, KS - d. 8-22-1964
    announcer: "Avalon Time"; "Tommy Dorsey's Kool Show"
    05-20-1906 - Sandra Michael - Denmark - d. 8-22-2003
    creator, writer: "Against the Storm"
    06-03-1924 - Colleen Dewhurst - Montreal, Canada - d. 8-22-1991
    actor: "Will Cather: A Look of Rememberance"
    06-17-1874 - Robert Boice Carson - Rossville, IN - d. 8-22-1941
    director of the Apollo Orchestra on KVOO Tulsa, Oklahoma
    06-21-1909 - Ted Sherdeman - d. 8-22-1987
    producer, director, writer: "Latitude Zero"; "Sad Sack"; "Sears Radio
    Theatre"
    07-01-1923 - Ralph Young - NYC- d. 8-22-2008
    singer: "Fitch Bandwagon"
    07-28-1874 - Alice Duer Miller - NYC - d. 8-22-1942
    author: "Author, Author"
    09-23-1913 - Helen Hiett - Tazewell, IL - d. 8-22-1961
    correspondent, newscaster: "Helen Hiett News"; "News Roundup"
    11-21-1882 - Alfred White - d. 8-22-1972
    actor: Soloman Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"
    12-08-1914 - Floyd Tillman - Ryan, OK - d. 8-22-2003
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Music Time"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:11:27 -0400
    From: Tom Fichtner <tficht@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Anthony Tollin and Chuck McCann at George
     Eastman house in Rochester

         Just a note  to thanks Anthony Tollin, Chuck McCann and the rest of
    the cast for a wonderful show presented at the George Eastman House in
    Rochester NY. Very entertaining and up close and personal. Mr McCann
    seems like a very likable person (same as his on air personality)
    Corrine Orr has a wonderful voice for radio, Michael Gwynne sounds just
    like Orson Welles and Will Hutchins is a hoot.!.
         It was neat to hear of Rochester's link to OTR, The Shadow
    originating on WHAM in Rochester in 1932 but problems caused it to be
    broadcast elsewhere. Anthony correct me if I don't have that exactly right
         The Jack Benny "50 cents to a bum " recreation was great. It was
    fun to hear Rochester in Rochester
         If it comes to your town, don't miss it.

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:12:48 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  JACK ARMSTRONG

    I am finishing an article listing all of the existing episodes of JACK
    ARMSTRONG, THE ALL AMERICAN BOY. It appears there are a few recordings that
    are "supposedly" in circulation. I suspect half of them are pre-existing
    episodes with different (and incorrect) airdates and I need to listen to them
    to verify. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the following episodes?

    April 18, 1939 (for example, I suspect it's really April 28, 1939 which was
    the final
    show of the season, concluding the plot involving the Grand Lama of
    Tibet.)

    April 28, 1939

    September 17, 1940

    August 20, 1943

    February 2, 1947

    February 6, 1947

    July 8, 1947

    July 28, 1947

    August 22, 1947

    March 4, 1948

    I will be sure to thank participants in the article when it is completed.
    Many thanks in advance,
    Martin
    mmargrajr@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:12:56 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-23 births/deaths

    August 23rd births

    08-23-1869 - Edgar Lee Masters - Garnett, KS - d. 3-5-1950
    author: "Cavalcade of America"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    08-23-1883 - Art Van Harvey - Chicago, IL - d. 7-7-1957
    actor: Vic Gook "Vic and Sade"; Jeffery Barker "Welcome Valley"
    08-23-1897 - Ray Perkins - Boston, MA - d. 1-31-1969
    emcee, singer: "National Amateur Night"; "Show of the Week"; "Nickel
    Man"
    08-23-1902 - Carl Hohengarten - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-3-1968
    orchestra leader: "Double Everything"; "Knickerbocker Playhouse"
    08-23-1902 - Charles Paul - NYC - d. 9-18-1990
    organist: "Kate Smith"; "As the Twig is Bent"
    08-23-1905 - Rags Ragland - Louisville, KY - d. 8-20-1946
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    08-23-1906 - Harriet Parsons - Burlington, IA - d. 1-2-1983
    commentator: (Daughter of Louella Parsons) "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-23-1908 - Natalie Bodanya - NYC - d. 3-4-2007
    opera soprano: "The Metropolitan Opera"
    08-23-1910 - John Nesbitt - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - d.
    8-10-1960
    commentator: ""John Nesbitt and the News"; Passing Parade"
    08-23-1912 - Gene Kelly - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-2-1996
    actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Star for a Night"; "Suspense"
    08-23-1915 - Ralph Amati - d. 6-20-1980
    sound effects: "One Man's Family"; "I Love A Mystery"
    08-23-1919 - Olin Tice - Savannah, GA - d. 1-8-1998
    announcer: "The Mindy Carson Show"; "The Peggy Lee Show"
    08-23-1922 - George Kell - Swifton, AR - d. 3-24-2009
    baseball announcer: Detroit Tigers
    08-23-1924 - Frank Pacelli - d. 3-7-1997
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Sportsman Club"; "War Town"
    08-23-1925 - Larry Nunn - Marshfield, OR - d. 10-20-1974
    actor: Don Bradley "Glorious One"; Peter Bretn "Brenthouse"
    08-23-1926 - Eugene Troopnick - Boston, MA - d. 2-19-2003
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-23-1928 - Marian Seldes NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-23-1947 - Willy Russell - Whiston, England
    writer: "I Read the News Today"

    August 23rd deaths

    01-10-1883 - Francis X. Bushman - Norfolk, VA - d. 8-23-1966
    actor: John Fairchild "Step Mother"; Peter Standish "Betty and Bob"
    02-09-1884 - Wilmer Walter - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-23-1941
    actor: David Harum "David Harum"; Andy Agnes "The Gumps"
    03-27-1902 - Sidney Buchman - Duluth, MN - d. 8-23-1975
    movie writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-28-1897 - Frank Hawks - Marshalltown, IA - d. 8-23-1938
    flying ace: "Roads of the Sky"; "Time Flies"
    05-16-1882 - Mary Gordon - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 8-23-1963
    actor: Mrs. Emmett "Those We Love"; Mrs. Hudson "Sherlock Holmes"
    05-20-1899 - Virginia Sale - Urbana, IL - d. 8-23-1992
    actor: Martha "Those We Love"
    05-28-1928 - Maynard Ferguson - Montreal, Canada - d. 8-23-2006
    trumpeter: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    06-07-1903 - Glen Gray - Metamora, IL - d. 8-23-1963
    bandleader: "Camel Caravan"
    06-15-1910 - David Rose - London, England - d. 8-23-1990
    conductor: "Red Skelton Show"; "David Rose Show"; "Bold Venture"
    07-02-1927 - Brock Peters - NYC - d. 8-23-2005
    actor: Darth Vader "Star Wars"; "Earplay"
    07-06-1918 - Sebastian Cabot - London, England - d. 8-23-1977
    actor: Toussiant Charbonneau "Horizons West"; "Studio One"; "Lives of
    Harry Lime"
    07-12-1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II - NYC - d. 8-23-1960
    lyricist: "Pet Milk Show"
    07-26-1883 - Walter Blaufuss - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-23-1945
    composer, conductor, pianist: "Breakfast Club"; "Viennese Ensemble"
    08-22-1907 - Sherling Oliver - Kipling, AL - d. 8-23-1971
    actor: Dudley Trowbridge "Valiant Lady"
    10-13-1919 - Marion Hargrove - Mount Olive, NC - d. 8-23-2003
    author: "MGM Theatre of the Air"; "Information, Please"; "March of Time"
    10-18-1915 - Reuben Ship - Montreal, CA - d. 8-23-1975
    writer: "Life of Riley"; "The Man Who Liked Christmas"
    10-23-1911 - Martha Rountree - Gainesville, FL - d. 8-23-1999
    co-founder, moderator: "Meet the Press"
    xx-xx-1897 - Nan Rae - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-23-1946
    singer: (The Clark Sisters) "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Kate Smith"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:34:38 -0400
    From: "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  What HAppened?

    I am so loving his.  Suddenly the old OTR Digest is hoppin'!

    Keep the questions and answers coming, folks! We have only touched upon the
    depth of the topic of Old Time Radio, and there is so much more to learn.

    Paula Keiser
    Topeka, KS

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:34:46 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Extra! Extra! Hear all about it!

    Folks;

       A week or three ago, I talked to someone about news broadcasts; this made
    me actually dig around in the musty caverns at Chez Charlie to see what news
    broadcasts I could find. After rummaging around on everything including
    ancient HFS CDs (this will only make sense to old Macintosh folks), I
    gathered together what I could [removed] over a hundred files, mostly
    CBS' World News Today shows with many if not most uploaded to USENET many
    many moons ago by the revered Paradygm (if you were there, you know; if you
    weren't, I can't explain).

       After listening to the Bob Edwards Show this morning and his interview
    with Steve Wick, author of "The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise
    and Fall of the Third Reich," I again thought about these news broadcasts,
    and that they should be distributed. But also that the hundred or so I've
    been able to find thus far should only be the tip of the collector's iceberg.

       So before I make the distribution set available to all and sundry, how
    many more can be added?

       In the next day or three I will post a list of the files that I have. If
    you have any to add, contact me and we'll find a simple way for you to get
    them to me. I'll also post an episode or two to the podcast this week, just
    to get some of these shows to your ears. And to start the looking for
    additional shows, does anyone know if the first CBS news "round-up" which
    aired on 3/13/1938 with Robert Trout, Edward R. Murrow, and William L. Shirer
    is in circulation?

             Charlie

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