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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 113
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      The Shadow's Clyde Burke              [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      6-25 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      New Sherlock                          [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      Its That Man Again (BBC)?             [ Mark H <mark_lists@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:01:34 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Shadow's Clyde Burke
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    In THE SHADOW MAGAZINE, Clyde Burke was originally an ex-reporter who wrote
    occasional feature
    stories and runs a clipping bureau. He quickly becomes a reporter for
    the EVENING CLASSIC, later to become THE NEW YORK CLASSIC.
     (It gets more detailed but in short, he was a reporter.) With access to crime
    files and contacts with the police department
    (most notably, detective Joe Cardona), he was able to investigate
    certain facts that came to The Shadow's attention. He was formerly a
    crime reporter for another newspaper when a business merger caused a
    number of the staff to lose their jobs  Burke among them.

    Burke appeared in character (with no deviation) in a total of four radio
     broadcasts. He was not an agent for The Shadow, but he definitely
    appears in the opening scene of "The Ruby of Modoc" (Nov. 21, 1937).
    Identified as a newspaper reporter and referred to only by his last
    name, Burke is covering the recent marriage of Barry Ashton to
    Commissioner Weston's niece and their departure for their honeymoon. In
    "The Poison Death" (Jan. 30, 1938), the entire police force is working
    against a poison epidemic that has filled hospital rooms and morgues
    with victims. A wild scheme of a crazed mind has attempted to hold the
    city at ransom for one million and when the mayor fails to pay up,
    people are victimized. Clyde Burke is identified by his full name as a
    reporter for THE CLASSIC who appears in three brief lines over
    the phone, reading the new threat that was apparently mailed in to the
    newspaper office.

    In "The Tenor With the Broken Voice" (June 5, 1938), an opera singer is
    struck down with a broken voice while singing the aria during the climax
     of Piochi and sets about a series of fatal disasters for the opera
    house determined to ensure none of his replacements accomplish the feat
    he failed to do. Reporter Clyde Burke of THE CLASSIC phones
    Commissioner Weston for details of the case, identifying himself by
    name. Burke's fourth and final appearance (played by Everett Sloane) was
     in "Night Without End" (Oct. 16, 1938). When the editor of the city
    paper gets a phone call from Burke regarding the latest details of the
    mysterious black fog that shrouds the city, the reporter is featured as a
     voice over the phone reporting the details as he learned it from
    Commissioner Weston's office. Like his first appearance on the program,
    he is referred to as Burke, sans first name.

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    Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:01:44 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-25 births/deaths

    June 25th births

    06-25-1886 - Edna Wheeler Ballard - d. 2-10-1971
    harpist: WBBM Chicago, Illinois
    06-25-1887 - George Abbott - Forestville, NY - d. 1-31-1995
    broadway producer: "Stagestruck"
    06-25-1891 - Cliff Soubier - d. 9-xx-1984
    host: Howard B. Thurston "Thurston the Magician"; Dwight Twentysixer
    "Vic and Sade"
    06-25-1893 - Charlotte Greenwood - South Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-18-1978
    comedian: "Life with Charlotte Greenwood"; "Charlotte Greenwood Show"
    06-25-1895 - Donald Gallagher - Quincy, IL - d. 8-14-1961
    actor: P. Wallace Carver "Houseboat Hannah"; Humble Dickinson "Joan
    and Kermit"
    06-25-1897 - Wilkie Mahoney - d. 7-1-1976
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show:
    06-25-1898 - Jack Roth - d. 2-12-1980
    drummer: (Memphis Five) "The Jimmy Durante Show"
    06-25-1899 - Arthur Tracy - Kaminetz-Podolski, Russia - d. 10-5-1997
    singer: (The Street Singer) "Street Singer"; "Music That Satisfies"
    06-25-1903 - Anne Revere - NYC - d. 12-18-1990
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"
    06-25-1903 - Earl Ebi - Hollister, CA - d. 1-24-1973
    director: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre";
    "Vic and Sade"
    06-23-1905 - Mary Livingstone (Sadye Marks) - Seattle, WA - d. 6-30-1983
    comedian: (wife of Jack Benny) "Jack Benny Program"
    06-25-1908 - Hawley Ward Ades - Bloomington, IL - d. 3-26-2008
    arranger: "The Fred Waring Show"
    06-25-1908 - Larry Berns - Philadelphia, PA
    producer: "Jack Carson Show"; "Our Miss Brooks"; "Lum and Abner"
    06-25-1911 - Martin Gosch - d. 10-20-1973
    producer, creator, writer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Amazing Mr.
    Smith"
    06-25-1911 - Reed Hadley - Petrolia, TX - d. 12-11-1974
    actor: Red Ryder "Red Ryder"; Chad Remington "Frontier Town"
    06-25-1913 - Cyril Fletcher - Watford, England - d. 1-1-2005
    panelist: "Does the Team Think"
    06-25-1913 - John Pickard - Lascossas, TN - d. 8-4-1993
    actor: Grant Thursday "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; Bruce Barrett "My Son and I"
    06-25-1915 - Peter Lind Hayes - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-21-1998
    actor: "Jack Benny Program"; "Texaco Town"; "Ford Show"; "Lum and Abner"
    06-25-1918 - Ken Mayer - California - d. 1-30-1985
    actor: Robbie Robertson "Space Patrol"
    06-25-1919 - Bill Manhoff - Newark, NJ - d. 6-18-1974
    writer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    06-25-1920 - Frances Lafferty - New Jersey - d. 9-15-1999
    actor: "Ladies Home Journal"; "Mr. District Attorney"; "Myrt and Marge"
    06-25-1924 - Phil Nowlan - d. 4-20-2002
    writer: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century based on Nowlan"s comic strip
    06-25-1924 - Sidney Lumet - Philadelphia, PA
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    06-25-1925 - June Lockhart - NYC
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
    06-25-1925 - Virginia Welles - Wausau, WI
    actor: Cosette (Older) "Les Miserables"
    06-25-1932 - Helen Batts - d. 4-22-2005
    woman's program on WPET Greensboro, North Carolins
    06-25-1939 - Harold Melvin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-24-1997
    lead singer: (Blue Notes) "Music On Deck"; "Join the Navy"

    June 25th deaths

    02-03-1925 - John Fiedler - Platteville, WI - d. 6-25-2005
    actor: Homer Brown "The Aldrich Family"
    02-04-1916 - Frank Tarloff - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-25-1999
    writer: "Baby Snooks Show"; "Aldrich Family"; "Hardy Family"
    04-29-1918 - Tom Rogers - d. 6-25-2005
    writer: Wrote for radio in the 1940s
    05-12-1924 - Tony Hancock - Birmingham, England - d. 6-25-1968
    comedian: "Hancock's Half Hour"
    05-26-1914 - Ziggy Elman - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-25-1968
    trumpet: "Benny Goodman Orchestra", "The Tommy Dorsey Show"
    06-11-1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Saint Andrew, France - d. 6-25-1997
    oceanographer: "The Space Story"
    06-14-1901 - May Hogan Cambern - Fort Worth, TX - d. 6-25-1988
    harpist on radio
    08-09-1903 - Maurice Wells - Nebraska - d. 6-25-1978
    actor: Donald Putnam "Your Family and Mine"; Warren Biggers "Lawyer
    Tucker"
    09-17-1907 - Warren Burger - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-25-1995
    chief justice of the supreme court: "We Hold These Truths"
    11-10-1891 - Gary Breckner - Illinois - d. 6-25-1945
    announcer: "Al Pearce and His Gang"; "Gateway to Hollywood"
    11-17-1922 - Jack Farren - NYC - d. 6-25-1997
    announcer: "Under Arrest"
    11-18-1909 - Johnny Mercer - Savannah, GA - d. 6-25-1976
    singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Johnny Mercer's Music Shop"; "Dinah Shore
    Show"
    11-29-1900 - Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars - Portland, ME - d. 6-25-1988
    propagandist: Midge "Home Sweet Home"; Radio Berlin "Vision of an
    Invasion"
    12-08-1922 - Elkan Allan - London, England - d. 6-25-2006
    writer: "Quiz Time", "Quiz Team"
    12-13-1901 - Jay Jostyn - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-25-1976
    actor: Max Tilley "Life of Mary Sothern"; Mr, District Attorney "Mr.
    District Attorney"
    12-19-1916 - Owen Babbe - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-25-1996
    announcer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"

    Ron

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    Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:01:49 -0400
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  New Sherlock

    Yes, Michael, the "new" Sherlock Holmes with Clive Merrison and Michael
    Williams are excellent.  They run 45:00, except for the novels which are
    60:00.  BBC did the broadcasts and made them available for sale.  The acting
    is excellent and the sfx are very realistic.  They have the "aura" or
    whatever it is called.  If you are a Sherlock fan, be sure to listen to
    these.  Coules even wrote some new scripts, not part of the Doyle series.
    The music is solo violin, and there are no commercials.

    And the series is complete.  They include all the stories and novels that
    Doyle wrote about Sherlock.
    In my opinion, the acting is as good as, or superior to Rathbone and Bruce.
    Maybe I should say, the acting is different, wonderfully different.

    Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.
    Old Time Radio: [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:01:54 -0400
    From: Mark H <mark_lists@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Its That Man Again (BBC)?

    Anyone know of a source for mp3s for the BBC wartime program It's
    That Man Again??

    thanks for the help.

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