Subject: [removed] Digest V2010 #22
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Date: 2/5/2010 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 22
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      RIP: Aaron Ruben, writer for Burns &  [ wboenig@[removed] ]
      Salinger and OTR                      [ George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@hotmai ]
      Re: Salinger on Radio                 [ James Meadows <walthamus@[removed]; ]
      2-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      aaron ruben 1914?-2010                [ Afanofoldradio@[removed] ]
      BBC Archives                          [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:01:46 -0500
    From: wboenig@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RIP: Aaron Ruben, writer for Burns & Allen and
     Milton Berle
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    Aaron Ruben, who was a producer, writer and director for some of the  most
    popular television comedies of the 1960s and '70s, notably "The  Andy Griffith
    Show," "Gomer Pyle, [removed]" and "Sanford and Son," died Saturday at his home
    in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 95.

    Mr. Ruben, who cut his teeth as a comedy writer on radio for George  Burns and
    Gracie Allen, and Milton Berle and on television for Phil  Silvers and Sid
    Caesar, tapped a rich vein of television gold when, in  1960, he shifted
    location to the mythical small town of Mayberry, [removed]

    (rest of obit snipped)

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    Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:02:02 -0500
    From: George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Salinger and OTR

    I don't know of any references to [removed] in OTR (apart from the Lux
    adaptation of MY FOOLISH HEART which was adapted from one of his stories) as
    Holden (sorry, I mean Derek) notes.

    However, there are references to OTR in Salinger's work. Much of his not very
    voluminous work deals with the Glass family. It's been a while since I read
    this, but if I remember rightly there were seven Glass siblings. The stories
    mostly take place while they are young adults, but part of their backstory is
    that they were all child prodigies who appeared on a quiz program called IT'S
    A WISE CHILD. From Salinger's description he is obvioulsy basing it on the
    QUIZ KIDS.  He says somewhere that there was at least one of the Glass kids
    on the program continously from 1927 to 1943. Obvioulsy that is an
    anachronism, there were no quiz shows on radio in 1927, or at least nothing
    like the QUIZ KIDS, but it is an interesting OTR connection to his work

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    Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:02:17 -0500
    From: James Meadows <walthamus@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Salinger on Radio

      In response to Derek Tague's question about whether [removed] Salinger showed up
    on OTR (apart from the Lux Radio Theater version of "My Foolish Heart" based
    loosely on the Salinger short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut", I can
    only think of a reverse example --- the OTR show that showed up in Salinger's
    short stories.

       The radio show in question was "It's a Wise Child", a show that sounds
    like a fictional version of "Quiz Kids", which, according to Wikipedia ran on
    radio in the 1940s and early 50s, and then on TV into the mid 50s. The
    children of Salinger's fictional Glass family were regulars on "It's a Wise
    Child", and references to the show are frequent, whenever the Glass family
    stories touch on their childhoods.

       In addtion, the Salinger collection "Nine Stories" features the short
    story "Teddy", about a precocious child with the same interest in Hindu
    spirituality that Salinger was apparently having at the time he wrote it.
    Teddy's father is identified as a leading man in several radio soap operas,
    with a commanding voice to match.

       There may be other references to OTR in Salinger's fiction, but that's all
    that comes to [removed], I think that the adventure story told by a young
    scout leader to his troops about "The Laughing Man" in the story of the same
    name (also in "Nine Stories") would make a dandy OTR kids adventure serial.

    Jim Meadows

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    Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:02:25 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-4 births/deaths

    February 4th births

    02-04-1889 - Walter Catlett - San Francisco, Ca - d. 11-14-1960
    actor: "This Is Your [removed]"; "Escape"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    02-04-1898 - Art Balinger - California - d. 1-18-1980
    announcer: "Here Comes McBride"; "Mr. and Mrs. North"
    02-04-1901 - Tom McKnight - d. 4-22-1963
    producer, director, writer: "Beulah Show"; "Gibson Family"
    02-04-1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh - Detroit, MI - d. 8-26-1974
    aviator: CBS awards program
    02-04-1904 - MacKinlay Kantor - Webster City, IA - d. 10-11-1977
    writer: "Lest We Forget"; "Author's Playhouse"
    02-04-1905 - Eddie Foy, Jr. - New Rochelle, NY - d. 7-15-1983
    vaudevillian: "Starlight Operetta"; "Mitch Miller Show"
    02-04-1908 - Jack Fraser - Lawrence, MA - d. 1-1-2000
    newscaster: "John Gordon Fraser and the News", "Monitor"
    02-04-1908 - Manny Klein - NYC - d. 5-31-1994
    trumpet: "The Ipana Troubadors"
    02-04-1909 - Charles Simon - Tettenhall Wood, England - d. 5-16-2002
    actor: "Mrs. Dale's Diary"
    02-04-1909 - Robert Coote - London, England - d. 11-26-1982
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
    02-04-1910 - Lansing Hatfield - Franklin, VA - d. 8-22-1954
    singer: "Met Opera Auditions of the Air"
    02-04-1912 - Bryon Nelson - Waxachaie, TX - d. 9-26-2006
    golfer: "The Bill Stern Sports Newsreel"
    02-04-1912 - Erich Leinsdorf - Vienna, Austria - d. 9-11-1993
    conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Pioneers of Music"; "Musicians
    Off Stage"
    02-04-1915 - Ray Evans - Salamanca, NY - d. 2-15-2007
    songwriter: "Hollywood Calling-George Fisher Interviews the Stars"
    02-04-1916 - Frank Tarloff - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-25-1999
    writer: "Baby Snooks Show"; "Aldrich Family"; "Hardy Family"
    02-04-1918 - Ida Lupino - London, England - d. 8-3-1995
    panelist, actor: "Hollywood Byline"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    02-04-1918 - Janet Waldo - Grandview, WA
    actor: Corliss Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"; Irene Franklin "One Man's
    Family"
    02-04-1921 - Betty Friedan - Peoria, IL - d. 2-4-2006
    feminist, author: "Second Sunday"
    02-04-1931 - Marion Ryan - Leeds, England - d. 1-15-1999
    pop singer: "Ray Ellington Quarter"
    02-04-1934 - Bruce Malmuth - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-29-2005
    director: New York Yankees baseball games
    02-04-1935 - Delaney "Ben" Casey - Asheville, NC - d. 11-20-2007
    talk show host: "Community Focus"
    02-04-1955 - Michael Gow - Sydney, Australia
    writer: "The Astronaut's Wife"

    February 4th deaths

    01-03-1914 - Carl (Henry) Stewart - Alabama - d. 2-4-1993
    bass: "The Radio Cowboys"
    01-22-1924 - J. J. Johnson - d. 2-4-2001
    jazz trombonist: "Arthur Godfrey Show"; "One Night Stand"
    02-04-1921 - Betty Friedan - Peoria, IL - d. 2-4-2006
    feminist, author: "Second Sunday"
    03-04-1934 - Barbara McNair - Racine, WI - d. 2-4-2007
    singer/actor: "America Swings"
    03-10-1920 - Kenneth C. Burns (Jethro) - Georgia - d. 2-4-1989
    comedic singer: (Homer and Jethro) "WLS National Barn Dance"
    03-18-1894 - Stuart Buchanan - d. 2-4-1974
    actor, producer, director: "Goofy "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
    04-07-1900 - Maria "Gamby" Gambarelli - La Spezia, Italy - d. 2-4-1990
    ballerina, singer: "Roxy's Gang"; "Dance with Gamby"
    04-13-1919 - Phil Tonken - Hartford, CT - d. 2-4-2000
    announcer/newscaster: "Your Supper"; "Radio Newsreel"
    05-16-1919 - Liberace - West Allis, WI - d. 2-4-1987
    pianist, singer: "Stars for Defense"
    06-02-1910 - Ward Bryon - NYC - d. 2-4-1996
    announcer: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
    06-17-1905 - Frank Cunkle - Ft. Smith, AR - d. 2-4-1986
    arranger: "The Fred Waring Show"
    07-31-1904 - Brett Halliday - Chicago, IL - d. 2-4-1977
    creator of Michael Shayne; host on "Murder by Experts"
    08-02-1942 - Doris Kenner-Jackson - North Carolina - d. 2-4-2000
    singer: (Shirelles) "Murray The K: Live from the Brooklyn Fox"
    08-06-1915 - Jim Ameche - Kenosha, WI - d. 2-4-1983
    actor: Jack Armstrong "Jack Armstrong"; Jim West "Silver Eagle"
    09-11-1912 - John Masterson - Spokane, WA - d. 2-4-1995
    producer: "Queen for a Day"; "Bride and Groom"
    09-19-1904 - Dr. Bergen Evans - Franklin, OH - d. 2-4-1978
    host: "Down You Go"; "Of Many Things"
    10-19-1921 - George Nader - Pasadena, CA - d. 2-4-2002
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    10-23-1918 - Augusta Dabney - Berkeley, CA - d. 2-4-2008
    actor: "Theatre Five"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    11-08-1921 - Jerome Hines - Hollywood, CA - d. 2-4-2003
    singer: "Standard Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
    11-23-1915 - John Dehner - Staten Island, NY - d. 2-4-1992
    actor: Paladin "Have Gun, Will Travel"; [removed] Kendall "Frontier
    Gentleman"; "Gunsmoke"
    12-18-1917 - Ossie Davis - Cogdell, GA - d. 2-4-2005
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Story Hour"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:02:37 -0500
    From: Afanofoldradio@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  aaron ruben 1914?-2010
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    Aaron Ruben, producer, writer, and director of the "Andy Griffith Show"
    from 1960-1965 and a former writer for Dinah Shore, Burns and Allen, Fred
    Allen,  Henry Morgan and the Milton Berle radio shows, has died -he was listed
    at 95 in  Beverly Hills this past Saturday 1-30-2010   his obit is online at
    the  Chicago Tribune site
    ed kienzler  afanofoldradio@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:02:45 -0500
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  BBC Archives
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    Hi Folks. I have seen recently other collectors note that BBC Archive radio
    recordings are  available to listen to on the net outside the UK now. So, for
    those of you outside the UK, just 'Google' BBC Archives and see what happens
    !!

    Cheers ! Graeme

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