Subject: [removed] Digest V2010 #148
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 148
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      8-22 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      8-23 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Transcriptions                        [ Paul Adomites <padomites@embarqmail ]
      8-24 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      8-25 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Special Agent Five                    [ "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@ ]
      [removed] Dissertation on Meredith Wills  [ Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed] ]
      Liz McLeod on PBS                     [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]

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    Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:15:27 -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] senator: "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: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:15:32 -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-xx-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: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:16:27 -0400
    From: Paul Adomites <padomites@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Transcriptions

    Friends :

    I've been involved with our local theatre group doing OTR nights about three
    times a year for the past five years or so. In the course of those
    adventures, I have transcribed a bunch of OTR shows which I'll be happy to
    email to anyone who's interested. (It takes me about a full day to transcribe
    a half-hour show.) Here's what I have. Let me know.

     From Quiet, Please : "Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" and "Good Ghost"
     From The Bickersons : "Eighth Anniversary" "Blanche Buys a Horse" and
    "Valentine's Day"
     From Suspense : "Hide and Seek" and "Dead Earnest"
     From Pat Novak for Hire : "Rory Malone"
     From X-Minus One : "Protection" and "Tunnel Under the World"
     From Fort Laramie : "Never the Twain"
     From Ozzie and Harriet : "Haunted House" and "Buying a Valentine"
     From Radio City Playhouse : "The Plotters" (a terrific little gem!)
     From Fibber McGee and Molly : "Fall House Cleaning" and "McGee the Wrestler"
     From Columbia Radio Workshop : "Meridian 7-1212"

    Paul Adomites

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    Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:16:29 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-24 births/deaths

    August 24th births

    08-24-1875 - Frank Craven - Boston, MA - d. 9-1-1945
    actor: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Cavalcade of America"
    08-24-1884 - Earl Der Biggers - Warren, OH - d. 4-5-1933
    author: Charlie Chan books
    08-24-1896 - Cyril Armbrister - d. 9-18-1966
    producer, director: "Chandu the Magician"; "Strange As It Seems";
    "Terry and the Pirates"
    08-24-1898 - Malcolm Cowley - Belsano, PA - d. 3-28-1989
    speaker: "NBC University Theatre"
    08-24-1900 - Jimmy Fidler - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-9-1988
    commentator: "Jimmy Fidler"
    08-24-1900 - Preston Foster - Ocean City, NJ - d. 7-14-1970
    actor: "NBC University Theatre"
    08-24-1900 - Ralph Kirbery - Paterson, NJ - d. 8-14-1993
    singer: (The Dream Singer) "Mohawk Treasure Chest"; "Musical Moments
    Revue"
    08-24-1903 - Claude Hopkins - Alexandria, VA - d. 2-18-1984
    bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Let's Go Nightclubbing"
    08-24-1905 - Charles C. Alsup - d. 9-21-1987
    sportscaster: KICS Clovis, New Mexico
    08-24-1905 - Don Douglas - Kinleyside, Scotland - d. 12-31-1945
    actor: "Good News of 1939"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Did Justice
    Triumph?"
    08-24-1909 - Ridley Bell - d. 6-22-1989
    newscaster: WGBA Columbus, Ohio
    08-24-1912 - Durward Kirby - Covingnton, KY - d. 3-15-2000
    announcer, emcee: "Club Matinee"; "Honeymoon in New York"
    08-24-1913 - Howard Duff - Bremerton, WA - d. 7-8-1990
    actor: Sam Spade "Advs. of Sam Spade"; Mike McCoy "McCoy"; Josh
    Chandler "Dear John"
    08-24-1916 - Hal Smith - Petosky, MI - d. 1-28-1994
    singer, piccolo: "California Melodies"
    08-24-1917 - Dennis James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 6-3-1997
    host, announcer: "Lawyer Q"; "Major Bows Original Amateur Hour"
    08-24-1923 - Helena Carter - NYC - d. 1-11-2000
    actor: "Anacin Hollwood Star Theatre"
    08-24-1924 - Lou Teicher - Wilkes Barre, PA - d. 8-3-2008
    pianist: (Ferrante and Teicher) "The Zero Hour"; "Hollywood Radio
    Theatre"
    08-24-1924 - Patricia Maloney - Chisholm MN
    newswriter: KSTP St. Paul
    08-24-1927 - Jerry Damon - d. 1-24-1979
    announcer: "X Minus One"; "The Eternal Light"
    08-24-1933 - Bobby Ellis - Chicago, IL - d. 11-23-1973
    actor: Henry Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Chester A. Riley, Jr. "Life of
    Riley"
    08-24-1957 - Stephen Fry - London, England
    actor: Guest Panelist "One Minute Please"

    August 24th deaths

    01-06-1897 - Billy M. Greene - NYC - d. 8-24-1973
    actor: Sheriff McGrath "His Honor, The Barber"
    02-15-1916 - Mary Jane Croft - Muncie, IN - d. 8-24-1999
    actor: Sandra Martin "Story of Sandra Martin"; Alice Henderson "Beulah"
    02-17-1919 - Kathleen Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-24-2001
    actor: California Artists Radio Theatre"
    02-27-1902 - Joe Tarto - d. 8-24-1976
    musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
    04-08-1915 - R. Norwood Smith - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-24-1999
    singer: "Norwood Smith Sings"
    04-16-1909 - Dick Wynn - d. 8-24-1996
    announcer: "Count of Monte  Cristo"; "The Lone Wolf"
    06-27-1933 - Gary Crosby - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-24-1995
    singer: "Gary Crosby Show"; "Bing Crosby Show"
    08-07-1921 - Warren Covington - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-24-1999
    orchestra leader: "Warren Covington and His Orchestra"
    08-28-1900 - Rudy Schrager - Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-24-1983
    musical director: "Box 13"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-02-1896 - Amanda Randolph - Louisville, KY - d. 8-24-1967
    actor: Mama "Amos 'n' Andy"; Oriole "Beulah"
    09-04-1903 - Leonard Lee - d. 8-24-1964
    writer: "Sherlock Holmes"
    09-09-1924 - Jane Greer - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-24-2001
    singer, actor: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-24-1908 - John Winters - Williamsport, PA - d. 8-24-1990
    organist: "Frank Merriwell"; "When a Girl Marries"; "Young Dr. Malone"
    09-28-1926 - Jerry Clower - Amite County, MS - d. 8-24-1998
    comedian: "The Grand Ole Opry"
    10-10-1906 - Paul Creston - NYC - d. 8-24-1985
    composer: "Radio Hall of Fame"; "Creeps By Night"
    11-18-1885 - James Brennan - Boston, MA - d. 8-24-1956
    composer, pianist: "The Sachs Program"
    11-19-1940 - Roger Hume - London, England - d. 8-24-1996
    actor: Bert Fry "The Archers"
    11-20-1912 - Harold Ensley - Arkansas - d. 8-24-2005
    produced over 5,000 radio shows
    12-07-1912 - Louis Prima - New Orleans,LA - d. 8-24-1978
    jazz trumpeter: "You Can't Have Everything"; "Songs by Sinatra"; "The
    Navy Swings"
    12-07-1939 - Nomi Mitty - NYC - d. 8-24-1994
    actor: "The Goldbergs"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:16:46 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-25 births/deaths

    August 25th births

    08-25-1885 - Chick Sale - Huron, SD - d. 11-7-1936
    humorist: "General Motors Family Party"; "RCA Victor Hour"
    08-25-1896 - Dick Ryan - Connecticut - d. 8-12-1969
    actor: "The Nebbs"
    08-25-1901 - Ken Christie - Binghamton, NY - d. 4-xx-1967
    choral director: "The Ford Summer Hour"; "Telephone Hour"
    08-25-1903 - Michael Bartlett - North Oxford, MA - d. 2-1-1978
    singer: "The Jack Benny Program"
    08-25-1904 - Alice White - Paterson, NJ - d. 2-19-1983
    actor: Blondie Bumstead "Blondie"
    08-25-1908 - Walter Burke - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1984
    actor: Mark Saber's Assistant "Inspector Mark Saber"
    08-25-1909 - Michael Rennie - Bradford, Yorkshire, England - d.
    6-10-1971
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-25-1910 - Albert Ward - d. 2-20-2009
    director: "Romance"; "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "Columbia Workshop"
    08-25-1910 - Ruby Keeler - Halifax, Nova Scotia - d. 2-28-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-25-1911 - Herbert (Edwin) Harris - London, England - d. 4-xx-1995
    author: "The Detective's Wife"
    08-25-1912 - John Rarig - Washington - d. 1-2-1991
    singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
    08-25-1912 - Zinn Arthur - d. 3-11-2003
    orchestra leader: WFIL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    08-25-1913 - Bob Crosby - Spokane, WA - d. 3-9-1993
    bandleader, singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Bob Crosby Show"; "Jack Benny
    Program"
    08-25-1914 - Dolores O'Neill - d. 12-12-2006
    singer: The Bob Chester Orchestra
    08-25-1916 - Guy Hall - NYC - d. 5-10-2009
    saxophonist: "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye"
    08-25-1916 - Van Johnson - Newport, RI - d. 12-12-2008
    actor: "Request Performance"; "Romance"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
    08-25-1917 - Mel Ferrer - Elberon, NJ - d. 6-2-2008
    actor: "Eternal Light"; "Cloak and Dagger"; "MGM Theatre of the Air"
    08-25-1918 - Leonard Bernstein - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-14-1990
    conductor: "Metropolitan Opera"
    08-25-1918 - Richard Greene - Plymouth, England - d. 6-1-1985
    actor: "Somerset Maugham Theatre"; "This Is Hollywood"; "Cavalcade of
    America"
    08-25-1921 - Monty Hall - Winnipeg, Canada
    host (communicator) "Monitor"
    08-25-1924 - Karl A. Mackey - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-13-2002
    actor: "Hodge Podge Lodge"; "Wizard of Music"
    08-25-1931 - Hal Fishman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-7-2007
    television news anchor: Got start on campus radio at Cornell
    08-25-1931 - Regis Philbin - NYC
    newscaster: KOGO San Diego
    08-25-1943 - Bill Holm - nr: Minneota, MN - d. 2-25-2009
    writer: "Prairie Home Companion"

    August 25th deaths

    01-19-1919 - Ray Eberle - Hoosick Falls, NY - d. 8-25-1979
    singer: "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra"; "Glenn Miller's Moonlight
    Serenade"
    01-22-1920 - William Warfield - West Helena, AR - d. 8-25-2002
    bass-baritone singer: "Edgar Bergen Show"; "Beyond Victory"
    02-12-1912 - Stan Kenton - Wichita, KS - d. 8-25-1979
    bandleader: "Bob Hope Show"; "Stan Kenton Concerts"
    02-14-1900 - Eddie Marr - New Jersey - d. 8-25-1987
    actor: Press Agent "Jack Carson Show"; "Jack Benny Program"; "I Fly
    Anything"
    02-22-1932 - Ted Kennedy - Brookline, MA - d. 8-25-2009
    [removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
    03-06-1934 - Art Blaske - d. 8-25-1997
    disk jockey: KFAM St. Cloud, Minnesota
    03-28-1896 - Abram E. Borodkin - Russia - d. 8-25-1978
    cellist: NBC and CBS networks
    04-08-1881 - Arthur B. Allen - Gowanda, NY - d. 8-25-1947
    actor: "Snow Village Sketches"; "Kate Smith Show"; Stebbens Boys"
    04-10-1927 - Sidney Appleman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-25-1994
    string bassist: Clyde McCoy's Band
    04-25-1915 - Cliff Bruner - Houston, TX - d. 8-25-2000
    fiddle: "The Musical Brownies"
    04-25-1916 - Irving Gaynor Neiman - d. 8-25-1996
    began career by writing scripts for NBC
    04-27-1882 - Herman Bundesen - d. 8-25-1960
    health official: "Adventures in Health"
    05-21-1923 - Dorothy Hewett - Perth, Western Australia - d. 8-25-2002
    writer: "Frost at Midnight"
    06-06-1891 - Ted Lewis - Circleville, OH - d. 8-25-1971
    singer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
    06-18-1914 - [removed] Marshall - Owatonna, MN - d. 8-25-1998
    narrator: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-22-1919 - Gower Champion - Geneva, IL - d. 8-25-1980
    choreographer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Guest Star"
    07-23-1908 - Irving Mansfield - d. 8-25-1988
    producer: "It's Always Albert"; "The Morey Amsterdam Show"
    08-11-1915 - Berne Surrey - d. 8-25-1992
    sound effects: "Suspense (Sorry, Wrong Number)"; "Whistler"; "Sam Spade"
    08-27-1905 - Frederick O'Neal - Brooksville, MA - d. 8-25-1992
    actor: "New World A-Coming"
    09-09-1899 - Waite Hoyt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-25-1984
    sportscaster, "Sports Review"; "According to Hoyt"; play-by-play:
    Cincinnati Reds
    09-22-1895 - Paul Muni - Lemberg, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-25-1967
    actor: "Free Company"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
    09-26-1929 - Peter Dews - Yorkshire, England - d. 8-25-1997
    producer: "The Archers"
    09-30-1924 - Truman Capote - New Orleans, LA - d. 8-25-1984
    author: "Cather: A Look of Remembrance"
    10-03-1918 - Perry Lafferty - Davenport, IA - d. 8-25-2005
    producer: "Meet the Music"; "Columbia Workshop"
    10-24-1894 - Ted "Kid" Lewis - London, England - d. 8-25-1971
    bandleader: "Live Band Remotes"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:00:11 -0400
    From: "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Special Agent Five

    Over on Arsclist, or was it 78-L? we have had a brief discussion about
    Special Agent Five, an episode of which survives from Dec. 6, 1932.
    Elizabeth McLeod can be seen on the PBS series History Detectives
    discussion of the show.

    Since no one else seems to be inclined to spill the beans, I will.

    Look here to see the show online -

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    Elizabeth is on briefly and you can see and hear briefly the record, an
    RCA home recording, as it is auditioned.

    View the transcript -

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    View the script for Special Agent Five, Episode IV, Part 1: "The Lamar
    Bank Robbery":

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    There just isn't that much OTR from this early around.

    joe salerno

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    Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:01:24 -0400
    From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];
    To: OTRDIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  [removed] Dissertation on Meredith Willson
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    The following link is to an online copy of a 2008  University of Florida
    dissertation
    on The Orchestral Works of Meredith Willson by Valerie A Austin.

    The first third is about his background and his involvement with RADIO.
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    Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:00:44 -0400
    From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Liz McLeod on PBS

    Saw an episode of History Detectives Monday, Aug 23 on KQED San Francisco. It
    featured an interview segment with one of our fave OTR experts on this forum,
    Elizabeth McLeod. It was regarding a script some people had of an old radio
    show called Special Agent Five from the early '30s. Interesting program, and
    great to see the person behind the expertise.

    It's available online, in case you didn't see it. Check it out.
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    Alan
    _________________

    Alan/Linda Bell

    Santa Rosa, CA

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