Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #53
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 2/15/2007 10:18 AM
To: [removed]@[removed]

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 53
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Nig  [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
  October 21, 1945                      [ "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed]; ]
  Ranger 20th Anniversary program       [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
  accuracy                              [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
  Ranger Name continued                 [ "Misty D. Lane" <misty@[removed]; ]
  Two Radio Programs from the Red Scar  [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]
  availability of _Look who's laughing  [ "Stephen Davies" <SDavies@[removed] ]
  THE LONE RANGER                       [ "CHET" <voxpop@[removed]; ]
  Network Radio Coverage of the Army -  [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]
  The Lone Rager                        [ "[removed]@[removed]" <[removed] ]
  Tonto                                 [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  Shows on 10-21-45                     [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  2-15 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  January 2007 deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Japanese Americans in OTR             [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
  October 21, 1945                      [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:11:24 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand
 with the Big Bands"

The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with Dick Bertel
and Ed Corcoran, and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"
with Arnold Dean can be heard at [removed].

Wach week we feature four complete shows in MP3 format
for your listening pleasure or for downloading; two "Golden
Age of Radios" and two "One Night Stands." The two WTIC
programs are on different pages for more flexibility. Please let
me know what you thinkof the new format. You can email me at
 goldena@[removed]

We present new shows every week or so. The current four
programs will be available on line at least until the morning of
Debruary 21, 2007.

"Golden Age of Radio" with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran:

Program 34 - January, 1973 - Virginia Payne

Program 35 - February, 1973 - Don Ameche

"One night Stand with the Big Bands" with Arnold Dean:

31 - November, 1973 - Gene Krupa Memorial Broadcast

32 - December 1973 - Clarinetist Clarence Hutchenreider
and The Casa Loma Orchestra

In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
Big Bands."

Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
Ed Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970; Ed was
Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
of big band music. In 1971, encouraged by the success
of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters,
etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
eras of music history.

Bob Scherago
Webmaster

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:11:33 -0500
From: "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  October 21, 1945

Tom Barnett asked about shows broadcast on 10/21/45.
That was a Sunday and some wonderful shows were done that evening, all
easily found in many collections:
I have shows from Charlie McCarthy, Fitch Bandwagon, Fred Allen, Great
Gildersleeve, Jack Benny, Shadow, Theatre Guild, all on that date.

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:12:07 -0500
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Ranger 20th Anniversary program

Perhaps the closest Fran Striker ever came to revealing the Lone Ranger's
first name occurred in the 20th anniversary program from January 30, 1953.
As the Ranger stares down at the six grave markers in Bryant's Gap, Tonto
and Dan beside him, he reads off the names of the other rangers with whom he
served.  "Jack [removed]".  When he comes to his own grave marker, he
pauses.  Dan says something like, "Golly, that's your name."  (Dan was very
fond of "golly").  "Yes, Dan," the Ranger says.  He goes on to explain that
it was Tonto who put up the grave markers and inscribed the names.  The
Ranger adds something like, "my identity shall forever remain buried with
these brave men."
So Tonto somehow identified the dead rangers (probably from their personal
effects), and must have been able to read English (there are episodes where
Tonto reads notes and letters at least in part).  As to what Dan called his
uncle, he practically never used the word "uncle".  He respectfully called
the Ranger "sir" and referred to him as The Lone Ranger in the third person.

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:13:14 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  accuracy

Martin Grams, Jr., recently wrote:

While I am not an expert on old-time radio,

I would normally not write in to correct Martin Grams, Jr., but when he
makes such a blatant factual error as this one, the record must be set
straight. A little simple fact checking would have revealed to Martin
that he himself has written over a dozen books on OTR. All of them very
scholarly, and generally based on exhaustive readings of scripts and
other original archival materials. There are few posters on this list
who are better qualified to claim the status of expert than Martin!

Cheers,
Kermyt

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:14:55 -0500
From: "Misty D. Lane" <misty@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Ranger Name continued

The information about the Lone Ranger First Name in V2007 #52 is pretty much
up to speed to what I read or acquired by listening to the shows.

One thing to note is that on The Lone Ranger the only bad Indian was an
"Apache".  They never made any reference to the other Tribes as negative.

Misty D. Lane
misty@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:21:32 -0500
From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Two Radio Programs from the Red Scare

February 14, 2007

Dear Old Time Radio Digest Readers:

In regards to radio and the red scare, I remembered
two programs witch exposed the dangers of communism.

The first program was "Last Man Out" which aired On
the NBC Radio Network in the 1953 1954 radio season
The one episode I know of aired December 6, 1953.

The story tolled of a school teacher who had been a
member of the party.  The host Richard English  ask
party members who wanted out to contact him at NVC for
Help.
Who was Richard English  did he work for the
government?  Is much known  about "Last Man Out are
their any other recordings of the program?

The other program was called "The Big Lie " which
aired on MBS starting October 14, 1961.  On this
program recordings from communist shortwave radio
stations were played and the truth was then given.
The Radio Gold Index list two of the programs
including the first broadcast.
Are these two programs or any other Big Lie programs
available?

Many thanks

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:21:42 -0500
From: "Stephen Davies" <SDavies@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  availability of _Look who's laughing_

Folks,
last summer I watched half of the radio-themed movie _Look who's laughing_
(1941) with Bergen & McCarthy, McGee & Molly, etc.  I streamed it from the
[removed] because it was considered to be in Public Domain.
This year, it is no longer offered from [removed]  Does anyone know what
happened to it?  Did its copyright status change?  Any pointers would be
appreciated.

Stephen D
Calgary

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:21:13 -0500
From: "CHET" <voxpop@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  THE LONE RANGER

hi
i hate to disagree with frank mcgurn via stephen [removed],jr but
the ranger's first name obviously is "LONE"

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:26:27 -0500
From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Network Radio Coverage of the Army - McCarthy
 Hearings

February 14, 2007

Dear Old Time Radio Digest readers:

With all the talk about Senator Joseph R McCarthy and
the Army McCarthy Hearings, most accounts tell of the
television coverage.

Did one or all of the four radio networks provide
gabble to gabble coverage?  Or did the networks
broadcast recorded highlights at night?
In 1954, CBs and NBC aired a roster of soap operas the
hearings lasted from April 22 through June 17 would
the networks have preempted these popular programs for
three months?

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:34:07 -0500
From: "[removed]@[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Lone Rager

I  Thought I was being humorous stating that the Lone Ranger's First
name was Kemosabe. I guess you OTR Digest readers take these little bits
of trivia very seously. I never thought about it until the question was
asked. I really don't care what is first name is or was. I also don't
care what the first names of Hildegarde, Liberace, Dr IQ, or Mr.
District Attorney, Boston Blackie, Ma Perkins and others. I just listen
and enjoy.
 OH, by the way what was Kato's first name was it a Japanese or Filipino
name?.Maybe it was Faithful [removed] Kato his first or last name? I'm
all confused.

Let's all lighten up and laugh once in a while.

Frank McGurn

[ADMINISTRIVIA: Please respond directly to this poster, particularly comments
dealing with the final admonition.  --cfs3]

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:34:20 -0500
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Tonto

It occured to me while reading the Kemosabe discussion that the Lone Ranger
and Tonto had a relationship that isn't that common in popular drama.  They
are friends, and essentially equals.  Every other hero in radio (or TV,
mostly) suffered the company of either a kid or a bumbler, and Tonto was
neither.  I am trying to think of a team of two male friends, roughly equal
in stature, anywhere else in the literature, and I can't; perhaps Kato, with
whom I'm not familiar, was part of one.

M Kinsler
512 E Mulberry St. Lancaster, Ohio USA 43130 740-687-6368
[removed]

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:40:23 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Shows on 10-21-45

On Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 12:18 PM,Tom Barnett wrote:

My Grandfather passed away in June, 2005 at the age of 80. He was just
shy of his 60th wedding anniversary which is October 21 (1945). My
Grandmother is still with us and I wanted to compile some radio shows
that were playing on the day they were married. Ideally I would like to
recreate 3-4 shows from the evening they were married. Does anyone have
any ideas for shows from this date?

What a wonderful [removed] such a lovely idea! And because it is,
I tried to eyeball my collection for this date, since I cannot call up
just dates on my current archival retrieval system. I actually got two
hits and one near miss:

"Fred Allen" 10-21-45 Guest: Frank Sinatra   30 min.

"The Nebbs"   10-21-45    30 min

and the near miss:  "The Whisper Man" 10-20-45 Linda Jones eps.   30
min.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
<[removed]>

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:05:45 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-15 births/deaths

February 15th births

02-15-1882 - John Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-29-1942
actor: (The Great Profile) "Streamlined Shakespeare"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
02-15-1883 - Sax Rohmer - London, England - d. 6-1-1959
writer: "Fu Manchu detective novels
02-15-1893 - Walter Donaldson - NYC - d. 7-15-1947
songwriter: "Fitch Bandwagon"
02-15-1896 - Arthur Shields - d. 4-27-1970
actor: (Brother of Barry Fitzgerald) "Cavalcade of America"
02-15-1899 - Gale Sondergaard - Litchfield, MN - d. 8-14-1985
actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
02-15-1905 - Harold Arlen - Buffalo, NY - d. 4-23-1986
composer: "Songs By Arlen"; "Kraft Program"; "Good New of 1940"
02-15-1907 - Cesar Romero - NYC - d. 1-1-1994
actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
02-15-1908 - Hartzell Spence - Clarion, IA - d. 5-9-2001
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-15-1908 - Hugh Wedlock, Jr. - d. 12-13-1993
writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Lum and Abner"; "That's My Pop"
02-15-1908 - William Janney - NYC - d. 12-22-1992
actor: Gary Haven "We are Always Young"; Howie Wing "Howie Wing"
02-15-1910 - Vladimir Selinsky - Kiev, Russia - d. 9-6-1984
music: "The Doctor Fights"; "The FBI in Peace and War"; "The Electric
Theatre"
02-15-1912 - Howard Harris - d. 3-22-1986
writer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Amazing Mr. Smith"; "Mr. and
Mrs. North"
02-15-1914 - Kevin McCarthy - Seattle, WA
actor: Richard Lawless "Richard Lawless"
02-15-1914 - Roland Kibbee - Monongahela, PA - d. 8-5-1984
writer: "The Fred Allen Show"
02-15-1916 - Mary Jane Croft - Muncie, IN - d. 8-24-1999
actor: Sandra Martin "Story of Sandra Martin"; Alice Henderson "Beulah"
02-15-1919 - Frank Behrens - Sheboygan, WI - d. 12-15-1986
actor: Billie "Billie the Brownie"; Jack Armstrong "Jack Armstrong"
02-15-1923 - Keene Curtis - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 10-13-2002
actor: NPR Playhouse "Star Wars"
02-15-1924 - Kingsley Colton - NYC
actor: Buddy Watson "My Son and I"; Hancey Nielsen "Prairie Folks"
02-15-1926 - Mary Lee Robb - Chicago, IL - d. 8-28-2006
actor: Marjorie Forrester "Great Gildersleeve"
02-15-1931 - Claire Bloom - London, England
actor: "Kaleidoscope"
02-15-1934 - Graham Kennedy - d. 5-25-2005
began career on radio in 1950s as sidekick to Nicky Nicholls

February 15th deaths

01-16-1909 - Ethel Merman - Astoria, NY - d. 2-15-1984
singer" "Ethel Merman Show"; "Home Front Matinee"
02-03-1915 - Helen Hall - d. 2-15-1984
hostess: "One Woman's New York"
02-05-1918 - Tim Holt - Beverly Hills, CA - d. 2-15-1973
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-25-1921 - Patricia Ryan - London, England - d. 2-15-1949
actor: Amy March "Little Women"; Claudia Naughton "Claudia and David"
03-13-1905 - Louis Roen - Marengo, WI - d. 2-15-1993
announcer: "Today's Children"; "The Breakfast Club"
03-17-1919 - Nat "King" Cole - Montgomery, AL - d. 2-15-1965
singer: "King Cole Trio Time"
03-27-1906 - Pee Wee Russell - Maple Wood, MO - d. 2-15-1969
clarinet: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
04-08-1905 - Ilka Chase - NYC - d. 2-15-1978
panelist, hostess, actor: "Leave It to the Girls"; "Luncheon at the
Waldorf"
04-10-1827 - Lew Wallace - Brookville, IN - d. 2-15-1905
author: (Ben Hur) "Favorite Story"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
05-12-1914 - Howard K. Smith - Ferriday, LA - d. 2-15-2002
newsman: "World News Today"; "News Roundup"; "Howard K. Smith News"
06-07-1908 - Boris Goldovsky - Moscow, Russia - d. 2-15-2001
commentator: "Metropolitan Opera"
06-15-1895 - Morty Howard - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-15-1970
pianist: "The Moylan Sisters"; "Rocking Horse Rhythms"
06-22-1901 - Jack Whiting - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-15-1961
singer: "MGM Radio Club"
07-07-1888 - John Frank - Missouri - d. 2-15-1961
actor: Jimmie Allen "Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
07-08-1912 - Donna Dameral - Chicago, IL - d. 2-15-1941
actor: Marge Mintere "Myrt and Marge"
07-22-1910 - Dorris Macon - d. 2-15-1982
singer: (Son of Uncle Dave Macon) :"Grand Ole Opry"
07-30-1912 - Charles Irving - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-15-1981
actor: Tex Mason "Bobby Benson's Advs."; Jerry Malone "Young Dr. Malone"
09-03-1922 - Burt Kennedy - Muskegon MI - d. 2-15-2001
writer: Wrote for radio in late 1940s
09-28-1914 - Lou Derman - d. 2-15-1976
writer: "Life with Luigi"
10-15-1917 - Jan Miner - Boston, MA - d. 2-15-2004
actor: Ann Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "Lora Lawton "Lora
Lawton"
12-02-1889 - Paul Althouse - d. 2-15-1954
tenor: WEAF New York, New York
12-06-1924 - Wally Cox - Detroit, MI - d. 2-15-1973
comedian: "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Wally Cox Show"
12-17-1905 - Stella Unger - NYC - d. 2-15-1970
commentatoe: "Hecker's Information Bureau"; "Your Hollywood News Girl"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:06:06 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  January 2007 deaths

Deaths in January 2007

07-14-1932 - Del Reeves - Sparta, NC - d. 1-1-2007
country singer: "Grand Old Opry"
09-01-1922 - Yvonne De Carlo - Vancouver, Canada - d. 1-8-2007
actor: " Screen Guild Theatre"; "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
06-21-1928 - Rudy Wissler - d. 1-11-2007
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
10-20-1925 - Art Buchwald - Mount Vernon, NY - d. 1-17-2007
humorist: "Monitor"
11-14-1913 - George Smathers - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 1-20-2007
[removed] senator from florida: "Meet the Press"
09-17-1910 - Roberta Semple Salter - Hong Kong - d. 1-25-2007
researcher: "Hobby Lobby"
03-19-1920 - Tige Andrews - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-27-2007
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
08-13-1918 - Bob Carroll, Jr. - d. 1-27-2007
writer: "It's A Great Life"; "My Favorite Husband"
02-11-1917 - Sidney Sheldon - Chicago, IL - d. 1-30-2007
writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
xx-xx-xxxx - Barney Beck - d. 1-30-2007
sound effects: "The Shadow"; "I Love A Mystery"; "Bob and Ray"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:06:10 -0500
From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Japanese Americans in OTR

Dominick asked whether there were any depictions
of Japanese Americans in OTR during World War II? Did dramas ever
mention the internment camps? Or was the subject avoided?

As I mention in Words at War,(Scarecriw Press, 2002) my book about OTR radio
during World War II, in Sept.,1945 NBC aired Arch Oboler's play, "The Family
Nagashi," about a family that had been interned. His good instincts
notwithstanding, however, Oboler could not restrain himself from using the
term "slant eyed individuals" in his introductory remarks to the play.

In the same chapter 8, I also mention two fascinating letters that Lux Radio
Theatre host Cecil B. DeMille got from two Japanese American girls (one of
whom wrote from an internment camp!) concerning the portrayal of Japanese
soldiers in a couple of Lux shows.

Howard Blue

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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:48:19 -0500
From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest (E-mail)" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  October 21, 1945

Tom Barnet asked for a list of radio programs that were broadcast on
10-21-45.  I was able to come up with three:

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE - Leila's new friend 10-21-45
FRED ALLEN - Guest: Frank Sinatra 10-21-45
CHARLIE MCCARTHY SHOW - Guest: Fred Allen 10-21-45

Karen Lerner
Radio Spirits

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