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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 71
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-5 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Born 100 Years Ago in May         [ Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@sbcglob ]
      Arthur Anderson on Those Were the Da  [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
      5-6 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Google maps Corwin's "Cromer"         [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
      Bing Crosby flub                      [ Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed] ]
      This Day in Mis-Quotes                [ mschmid@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 17:00:59 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-5 births/deaths

    May 5th births

    05-05-1879 - Max Marcin - Posen, Prussia, Germany - d. 3-30-1948
    writer, producer, director: "Crime Doctor"; "The FBI in Peace and War"
    05-05-1890 - Christopher Morley - Haverford, PA - d. 3-28-1957
    author: "Information, Please"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Studio One"
    05-05-1899 - Freeman F. Gosden - Richmond, VA - d. 12-10-1982
    comedian: "Sam 'n' Henry"; Amos Jones "Amos 'n' Andy"
    05-05-1907 - Benny Baker - St. Joseph, MO - d. 9-20-1994
    character actor: "Jack Benny Program"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-05-1912 - Alice Faye - NYC - d. 5-9-1998
    singer, actor: "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
    05-05-1912 - Bret Morrison - Chicago, IL - d. 9-25-1978
    actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"
    05-05-1914 - Tyrone Power - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-15-1958
    actor: Dean Edwards "Freedom [removed]"
    05-05-1915 - Ben Wright - London, England - d. 7-2-1989
    actor: Hey Boy "Have Gun, Will Travel"; Nicholas Lacey "One Man's
    Family"
    05-05-1915 - T. A. G. Hungerford - Perth, Australia
    writer: "Help Me Cut Up the Cat"; "Looking After Bert"
    05-05-1918 - Alden Aaroe - d. 7-7-1993
    newscaster: Charlottesville, Virginia
    05-05-1919 - George London - Montreal, Canada - d. 3-23-1985
    singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
    05-05-1919 - Seymour Kapetansky - Michigan - d. 2-9-2001
    sriter: "Duffy's Tavern"
    05-05-1921 - Sydney Walker - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-30-1994
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"; "War of the Worlds 1988"
    05-05-1921 - Ted Brown - Collingwood, NJ - d. 3-20-2005
    announcer, emcee: "Bulldog Drummond"; "Lawrence Welk High Life Revue"
    05-05-1925 - Monica Lewis - Chicago, IL
    singer: "Jan August's Revere Camera Show"
    05-05-1927 - Pat Carroll - Shrevport, LA
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"; "Fifty Years After Fourteen August"
    05-05-1929 - Ilene Woods - Portsmouth, NH - d. 7-1-2010
    singer: "The Ilene Woods Show"
    05-05-1932 - Will Hutchins - Los Angeles, CA
    actor: Instrumental in keeping OTR alive in these the latter days

    May 5th deaths

    01-18-1914 - Rod O'Connor - Houston, TX - d. 5-5-1964
    announcer: "Red Skelton Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"; "Count of Monte Cristo"
    03-31-1896 - Eddie Dunn - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-5-1951
    quizmaster: "True or False"
    05-12-1910 - Giuletta Simionato - Forli, Italy - d. 5-5-2010
    mezzo-soprano:"Metropolitan Opera"
    06-02-1909 - June MacCloy - Sturgis, MI - d. 5-5-2005
    vocalist: "Griff Williams and Jimmy Walsh and Their Orchestra"
    06-26-1923 - Syd Lawrence - Shutton, England - d. 5-5-1998
    orchestra leader: "American Patrol"
    07-12-1912 - Jim McClain - d. 5-5-2004
    host: Dr. [removed] "Dr. [removed]"; Dr. [removed] "Dr. [removed] Jr."
    07-16-1925 - Cal Tjader - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-5-1982
    jazz vibrophonist: "Music for Moderns"; ""All-Star Parade of Bands"
    08-10-1917 - Kathleen Claypool - Aylesworth, IN - d. 5-5-2003
    actor: "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy"
    08-26-1911 - Elmer "Slim" Hall - Tennessee - d. 5-5-1971
    guitar: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
    09-04-1891 - Sam Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-5-1977
    bandleader: "Ipana Troubadors"; "Benrus Ticksters"
    09-29-1898 - Doris Hursley - Milwaukee, WI - d. 5-5-1984
    writer: "American Women"; "Cousin Willie"; "Those Websters"; "The
    Truitts"
    10-04-1916 - George Sidney - Long Island City, NY - d. 5-5-2002
    film musical director: "Shell Chateau"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-04-1916 - Lenore Kingston - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-5-1993
    actor: Mercedes Colby "Don Winslow of the Navy"; Jane Daley "Affairs
    of Anthony"
    11-26-1922 - Terry Ryan - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-5-2001
    comedy writer: "Fred Allen Show"
    11-29-1914 - Hal McIntyre - Cromwell, CT - d. 5-5-1959
    bandleader: "Hal McIntyre and His Orchestra"
    12-16-1918 - Murray Kempton - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-5-1997
    commentator: "Spectrum"
    12-20-1905 - Albert Dekker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-5-1968
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Diane Pendelton - d. 5-5-1969
    singer" Kay Kyser's Band

    Ron
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    Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 17:01:21 -0400
    From: Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Born 100 Years Ago in May

>     05-11-1911 - Doodles Weaver - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-13-1983
>     comedian: Professor Feedlebaum "Spike Jones Show"

    Based on Doodles' personal diary, which I've seen, I believe his
    birthdate is actually 5/11/13. The character he played on Spike's
    show was Prof. Feetlebaum, although he sometimes spelled it
    Fietlebaum.

    Jordan R. Young, "Spike Jones Off the Record"

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    Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 17:02:14 -0400
    From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Arthur Anderson on Those Were the Days!

    For those of you who are familiar with the wonderful Arthur Anderson--and
    those of you who aren't--you're invited to tune in to "Those Were the Days"
    this Saturday for an afternoon devoted to Mr. Anderson and his one-time
    employer, Orson Welles. We'll hear Orson on "Suspense," Arthur on "Let's
    Pretend" and Arthur with Orson on the "Mercury Theater on the Air." Plus,
    we'll share a conversation with Mr. Anderson that we recorded last fall at
    the Friends of Old Time Radio convention in Newark. "Those Were the Days" is
    heard live every Saturday on WDCB ([removed] FM in Chicagoland, [removed]
    everywhere else) and archived for a week at [removed] We're
    beginning our 42nd year on the air this week and we hope you'll join us!

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    Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 17:02:22 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-6 births/deaths

    May 6th births

    05-06-1882 - William E. Scripps - Michigan - d. 6-12-1952
    Founded WWJ in Detroit, Michigan
    05-06-1899 - Billy Cotton - London, England - d. 3-25-1969
    bandleader: "Wakey Wakey!!"
    05-06-1900 - Dave Elman - Park River, ND - d. 12-5-1967
    emcee: (The Dean of American Hobbyists) "Hobby Lobby"
    05-06-1906 - Mathilde Ferror - d. 11-26-1990
    writer: "Lorenzo Jones"
    05-06-1908 - Parkyakarkus (Harry Einstein) - Boston, MA - d. 11-24-1958
    comedian: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Al Jolson Show"; "Meet Me at Parkys"
    05-06-1910 - Alice Reinheart - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-10-1993
    actor: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"; Jean Abbott "Abbott
    Mysteries"
    05-06-1911 - Artie Bland - d. 3-4-2002
    disk jockey: KWBU Corpus Christi, Texas
    05-06-1911 - Frank Nelson - Denver, CO - d. 9-12-1986
    actor, comedian: Anthony J. Lyon "Jeff Regan"; nemisis "Jack Benny
    Program"
    05-06-1912 - Bill Quinn - NYC - d. 4-29-1994
    actor: Guy Aldis "Against the Storm"; Tom Davis "When a Girl Marries"
    05-06-1913 - Carmen Cavallaro - NYC - d. 10-12-1989
    bandleader: (The Poet of the Piano) "Schaeffer Revue"; "Tums Tune Time"
    05-06-1913 - Douglas Stewart - Eltham, New Zealand - d. 2-14-1985
    writer: "The Fire On the Snow"
    05-06-1913 - Stewart Granger - London, England - d. 8-16-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    05-06-1914 - Arline Blackburn - NYC - d. 12-17-1994
    actor: Kitty Kelly "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; Eileen Turner "The O'Neills"
    05-06-1914 - Ken Englund - Chicago, IL - d. 8-10-1993
    writer: "Three Sheets to the Wind"
    05-06-1915 - Orson Welles - Kenosha, WI - d. 10-10-1985
    actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"; "Mercury Theatre on the Air"
    05-06-1917 - Bob Murphy - Bismarck, ND - d. 10-25-1959
    announcer: "The Breakfast Club"
    05-06-1926 - Marguarite Piazza - New Orleans, LA
    singer: "Encore"
    05-06-1928 - Doreen Clarke - Middleton, England
    writer: "Oh, The Apple Tree"; "The Name of Your Uncle"
    05-06-1941 - Ghena Dimitrova - Sofia, Bulgaria - d. 7-11-2005
    operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    05-06-1945 - Richard Eyer - Santa Monica, CA
    actor: Bobby "My Friend Irma"

    May 6th deaths

    01-24-1909 - Ann Todd - Hartford, Cheshire, England - d. 5-6-1993
    actor: Amy Foster "Those We Love"
    03-23-1920 - Maurice Marsac - La Croix, France - d. 5-6-2007
    actor: French Teacher "Our Miss Brooks"
    04-02-1911 - Bill Days - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-6-2002
    singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
    04-27-1899 - Ned Wever - NYC - d. 5-6-1984
    actor: Dick Tracy "Dick Tracy"; Anthony Loring "Young Widder Brown"
    05-12-1903 - Wilfrid Hyde-White - Bourton-on-the-Water, England - d.
    5-6-1991
    actor: Roland Hamilton-Jones "Men of the Ministry"
    05-13-1907 - Warren Angell - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-6-2006
    singer: "Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians"
    05-17-1908 - Joe Grant - NYC - d. 5-6-2005
    writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-31-1900 - Hugh Studebaker - Ridgeville, IN - d. 5-6-1978
    actor: Ichabod Mudd "Captain Midnight"; Silly Watson "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    06-23-1925 - Larry Blyden - Houston, TX - d. 5-6-1975
    actor: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-04-1909 - Al Jarvis - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 5-6-1970
    disc jockey, songwriter: "Make-Believe Ballroom"
    07-15-1923 - Herb Sargent - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-6-2005
    writer: Wrote for radio in the 1940s
    08-09-1901 - Charles Farrell - Onset Bay, Cape Cod, MA - d. 5-6-1990
    actor: Verne Albright "My Little Margie"
    08-17-1888 - Monte Woolley- NYC - d. 5-6-1963
    actor: Edwin Montague "Magnificent Montague"
    09-20-1908 - Lowell Hawley - Lynden, WA - d. 5-6-2003
    screenwriter: "Art Baker's Notebook"
    09-26-1901 - Ted Weems - Pitcairn, PA - d. 5-6-1963
    bandleader: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Sunday Matinee"; "Beat the Band"
    10-06-1893 - Milton Ager - Chicago, IL - d. 5-6-1979
    composer of many songs broadcast on radio
    10-10-1910 - Don Hancock - Anderson, IN - d. 5-6-1980
    announcer: "The Goldbergs"; "Ellery Queen"; "Vox Pop"
    10-17-1923 - Barney Kessel - Muskogee, OK - d. 5-6-2004
    jazz guitarist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"; "Just Jazz"
    11-09-1916 - Norwood Anderson - d. 5-6-2005
    disk jockey: "Town and Party Line" WFTC Kingston, North Carolina
    11-26-1907 - Henry "Hot Lips" Levine - London, England - d. 5-6-1989
    trumpeter, conducter: "Chamber Music of Lower Basin Street"; "Strictly
    from Dixie"
    12-27-1901 - Marlene Dietrich - Berlin, Germany - d. 5-6-1992
    actor: Mlle. Madou, "Cafe Istanbul"

    Ron
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    Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 17:02:30 -0400
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Google maps Corwin's "Cromer"

    Here's a brief but interesting blog post by a listener who, encountering
    Norman Corwin's "Cromer," follows the play's narrator via Google Maps:

    [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 17:02:40 -0400
    From: Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bing Crosby flub

    A couple of years ago while in my car I heard an installment of Bing
    Crosby's "Kraft Music Hall" that was hilarious because he flubbed a
    song, complained about the key, (inquiring who pitched it so high?)
    and made a big joke of "blowing it." The audience was in the aisles
    laughing so hard. I even wrote into the OTR Digest at the time and
    someone was kind enough to send me an mp3 of it. Regrettably, I have
    misplaced the file and now can't remember the date of the original
    broadcast. I seem to recall there was somebody important Bing's show
    that night, probably a fellow singer, and they were both going to
    sing this song when it all went awry.

    No doubt this was an incident that is well known to those of Bing's
    fans who are far more knowledgeable than I. If somebody could refresh
    my memory about this, I'd appreciate it!

    Larry Jordan

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    Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 17:02:50 -0400
    From: mschmid@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  This Day in Mis-Quotes

>     From Those Were The Days
>     5/6
>     1937   A student of history, a broadcaster or anyone interested in news
>     coverage, will remember this day and the words of NBC's Herbert
>     Morrison. "Oh, the humanities!"

    I guess he didn't like his college course load!

    I believe the correct quote would be "Oh, the humanity" (singular).

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