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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 387
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      12-15 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      12-16 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Those Mad Masters                     [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed] ]
      OTRR Launches Electronic Magazine     [ jim beshires <beshiresjim@[removed] ]
      Humphrey Bogart Theatre               [ "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@ezlinknet ]
      Metropolitan Opera                    [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
      12-17 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      ABC                                   [ "evantorch" <etorch@[removed]; ]
      Benny Bell                            [ JayHick@[removed] ]
      Mike Wallace on The Green Hornet      [ [removed]@[removed] ]
      More Mad Masters                      [ DanHaefele@[removed] ]
      Victor gets his name                  [ "JAMES NIXON" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
      Amos 'N' Andy                         [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
      Billie the Brownie Correction         [ "Mark E. Higgins" <paul_frees_fan@a ]
      This week in radio history 17-24 Dec  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:01:18 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-15 births/deaths

    December 15th births

    12-15-1873 - Harry Humphrey - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-1-1947
    actor: Old Ranger "Death Valley Days"; Horace "Ma and Pa"
    12-15-1888 - Maxwell Anderson - Atlantic, PA - d. 2-28-1959
    writer: "Free Company"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "O'Neill Cycle"
    12-15-1896 - Betty Smith - New York, NY - d. 1-17-1972
    author: "Studio One"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    12-15-1901 - Gail Bonney - Columbus, OH - d. 12-7-1984
    actress: "Family Theatre"; "Joan Davis Time"; "NBC University Theatre"
    12-15-1907 - Bob Hawk - Creston, IA - d. 7-4-1989
    quizmaster: "Take It or Leave It"; "Thanks to the Yanks"; "Bob Hawk
    Show"
    12-15-1915 - Margaret Hayes - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-26-1977
    actress: "Silver Theatre"
    12-15-1916 - Buddy Cole - Irving, IL - d. 11-5-1964
    musician: (Buddy Cole Trio) "Ginny Simms Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    12-15-1918 - Jeff Chandler - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-17-1961
    actor: Michael Shayne, "Michael Shayne, Detective"; Philip Boynton,
    "Our Miss Brooks"
    12-15-1926 - Rose Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 4-15-1998
    country singer: "Faron Young Show"; "Country Hoedown"

    December 15th deaths

    01-15-1913 - Stephen Courtleigh - New York, NY - d. 12-15-1967
    actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"
    01-28-1910 - Arnold Moss - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-15-1989
    actor: Philip Cameron "Against the Storm"; Reed Bannister "Big Sister"
    02-15-1919 - Frank Behrens - Sheboygan, WI - d. 12-15-1986
    actor: Billie "Billie the Brownie"; Jack Armstrong "Jack Armstrong"
    03-01-1904 - Glenn Miller - Clarinda, IA - d. 12-15-1944
    bandleader: "Moonlight Serenade"; "USO Matinee"
    05-02-1918 - Frank Milano - d. 12-15-1962
    animal sounds: "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"
    05-21-1904 - Thomas "Fats" Waller - New York, NY - d. 12-15-1943
    pianist, singer: "Columbia Variety Hour"; "Saturday Night Swing Club"
    06-03-1904 - Jan Peerce - New York, NY - d. 12-15-1984
    singer: "Music Hall of the Air"; "A & P Gypsies"; "Golden Treasury of
    Song"
    07-01-1899 - Charles Laughton - Scarborough, England - d. 12-15-1962
    actor: "Three Ring Time"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
    07-18-1903 - Chill Wills - Seagoville, TX - d. 12-15-1978
    actor: "Armed Forces Radio Theatre"; "Dinner Bell Round-Up Time"
    10-13-1885 - Harry Hershfield - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 12-15-1974
    comedian: "Stop Me If You Heard This One"; "Can You Top This?"
    12-02-1910 - Sodney Marshall - d. 12-15-1977
    writer: "Man Called X"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    12-05-1901 - Walt Disney - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1966
    actor: Mickey Mouse "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"

    deaths in november 2005

    01-27-1918 - Skitch Henderson - Birmingham, England - d. 11-1-2005
    bandleader: "Philco Radio Time"; "Songs by Sinatra"
    02-28-1925 - Jean Carson - Charleston, WV - d. 11-2-2005
    actress: "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Frontier Gentleman"
    12-28-1932 - Pamela Duncan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-11-2005
    actress: "Dangerous Assignment"
    06-13-1913 - Ralph Edwards - Merino, CO - d. 11-16-2005
    host, announcer: "Truth or Consequences"; "This Is Your Life"; "Original
    Amateur Hour"
    03-13-1913 - Harold J. Stone - New York, NY - d. 11-18-2005
    actor: Sergeant Waters "21st Precinct"
    05-15-1910 - Constance Cummings - Seattle, WA - d. 11-23-2005
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-17-1910 - Marc Lawrence - New York, NY - d. 11-28-2005
    actor: "Let George Do It"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Scout About Town"
    08-11-1915 - Jean Parker - Deer Lodge, MT - d. 11-30-2005
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:01:27 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-16 births/deaths
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    December 16th births

    12-16-1889 - Kurt Kupfer - d. 3-xx-1974
    actor: the kindly Joseph Steinbloch "Romance of Helen Trent"
    12-16-1890 - Jane Morgan - North Platte, NE - d. 1-1-1972
    actress: Mary Lane "Aunt Mary"; Mrs. Margaret Davis "Our Miss Brooks"
    12-16-1892 - Cameron Prud'homme - Auburn, CA - d. 11-27-1967
    actor: Governor Bradley "Little Herman"; David Harum "David Harum"
    12-16-1895 - Andy Razaf - Washington, D. C. - d. 2-3-1973
    lyricist: "Music for Millions"
    12-16-1898 - Lud Gluskin - New York, NY - d. 10-13-1989
    conductor: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Advs. of Sam Spade"
    12-16-1899 - Noel Coward - Teddington, Middlesex, England - d. 3-26-1973
    actor, playwright: "Stagestruck"
    12-16-1911 - Howard Reilly - d. 11-28-1991
    producer: "The Fred Allen Show"
    12-16-1946 - Robert Urich - Toronto, OH - d. 4-16-2002
    salesman: WGN Chicago, Illinois

    December 16th deaths

    01-25-1874 - Somerset Maughan - Paris, France - d. 12-16-1965
    writer: " Somerset Maughan Theatre"
    02-08-1917 - Robert Dryden - d. 12-16-2003
    actor: Doctor West "We Love and Learn"; Sergeant Maggio "Call the
    Police"
    03-07-1906 - Edward Mabley - Binghampton, NY - d. 12-16-1984
    writer: "The American School of the Air"
    05-12-1910 - Jack Jenney - Mason City, IA - d. 12-16-1945
    trombonist: "The Saturday Night Swing Club"
    07-29-1906 - Thelma Todd - Lawrence, MA - d. 12-16-1935
    comedienne: Series with Zasu Pitts
    08-02-1886 - Cesare Sodero - Naples, Italy - d. 12-16-1947
    conductor: Series of condensed operas on WEAF New York
    09-19-1879 - Louis Joseph Vance - New York, NY - d. 12-16-1933
    writer: "The Lone Wolf"
    10-19-1925 - Eddie Layton - d. 12-16-2004
    organist: New York Yankees and many radio programs
    xx-xx-1922 - Haleloke Kahuaolapus - Hilo, Hawaii Territory - d.
    12-16-2004
    singer: "Hawaii Calls"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:00:15 -0500
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Those Mad Masters
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    There may have been a East Coast replay (years?) after the West Coast
    broadcast.

      This information was provided to me (in a different forum)

      Monty and Natalie Masters' show, "Mad Masters," is in the Oakland Tribune's
    radio listings starting on March 26, 1946, and listed thereafter every
    Tuesday night through April 23, 1946. It was broadcast on KGO at 7:00 [removed]
    On the 19th and all of the other Tuesday nights in March of 1946 that time
    slot was held by "Musical Panorama."

    Visit [removed] for OTR program title and date corrections

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    Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:00:47 -0500
    From: jim beshires <beshiresjim@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTRR Launches Electronic Magazine
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    Hi All,
      The Old Time Radio Researchers ([removed])  is lauching
    it's on-line electronic Magazine - 'Old Radio Times' on December 18, 2005.
    It will be available as a pdf file attached to an e-mail and look just like a
    printed magazine when you open it.

      The first issue is about 18 pages long and features an article on the new
    discoveries in the Tarzan series made by our researchers and one about the
    attempt to hi-jack Ted Davenport's Radio Memories website name.

      We are going to gear it to all those who love old time radio in any format.

      If you'd like to subscribe go to -
      [removed]
      and enter your e-mail address.

      jimb

    Fans of OTR - please check out the OTR Researchers Group Forum at
    [removed]
    MEMBER: ASSOCIATION OF OLD TIME RADIO GROUPS

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    Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:01:03 -0500
    From: "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Humphrey Bogart Theatre

    Hello again:
    FYI - First I want to thank all the digesters for responding
    to my query a few issues ago.
    For those who missed it. My question was about an episode
    of The Humphrey Bogart Theatre that I have on an mp3. I
    received the following information from a very reliable source.
    This was a copy an audition disc of  The Humphrey Bogart Theatre
    for 09-27-49  entitled "Deadman" that never made it to the
    airwaves. So th th th th that's all, folks :-)
    Don Dean - N8IOJ

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    Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:08:01 -0500
    From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Metropolitan Opera

    I suppose others will write about this as well, but just in case no one does
    I'll point out that there is a story on page E1 of Friday's NY Times about
    the Metropolitan Opera's efforts to acquire and conserve recordings of the
    radio broadcasts.  There is even a small picture of Milton Cross.

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    Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:08:04 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-17 births/deaths
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    December 17th births

    12-17-1895 - Rudolph Anders - Germany - d. 3-27-1987
    actor: Dr. VanMeter "Space Patrol"
    12-17-1896 - Arthur Fiedler - South Boston, MA - d. 7-10-1979
    conductor: "Robert Merrill with the Boston Pops Orchestra"; "Boston
    Pops"
    12-17-1900 - Katina Paxinou - Piraeus, Greece - d. 2-22-1973
    actress: "Suspense"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    12-17-1902 - House Jameson - Austin, TX - d. 4-23-1971
    actor: Sam Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Inspector Douglas Renfrew
    "Renfrew of the Mounted"
    12-17-1903 - Erskine Caldwell - Morland, GA - d. 4-11-1987
    playwright: "Information, Please"; "Short Story"
    12-17-1906 - Martin Skiles - d. 5-1-1981
    music: "Mr. Aladdin"
    12-17-1913 - Herbert Nelson - Stillwater, MN - d. 7-19-1990
    actor: Ralph Fraser "Dan Harding's Wife"; George Lawlor "Romance of
    Helen Trent"
    12-17-1919 - Edward "Shrimp" Wragge - New York, NY - d. 12-22-1992
    actor: "Gold Spot Pal"
    12-17-1927 - Richard Long - Chicago, IL - d. 12-21-1974
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We Hail"
    12-17-1928 - Julia Meade - Boston, MA

    December 17th deaths

    01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
    actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
    03-01-1914 - Gil Doud - Minnesota - d. 12-17-1957
    writer, director: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "One out of Seven"; "Pat
    Novak for Hire"
    07-04-1895 - Irving Caesar - New York, NY - d. 12-17-1996
    lyricist: "Biography In Sound"; "Perspective"
    07-10-1889 - Noble Sissle - d. 12-17-1975
    songwriter, orchestra leader: "Freedom's People"
    07-11-1892 - Thomas Mitchell - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-17-1962
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    08-28-1907 - Sam Levene - New York, NY - d. 12-17-1980
    comedian: "Fred Allen Show"
    10-09-1913 - John Guedel - Portland, IN - d. 12-17-2001
    producer: "You Bet Your Life"; "People Are Funny"; "Pillsbury House
    Party"
    actress: "Your Hit Parade"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    12-31-1921 - Rex Allen - Wilcox, AZ - d. 12-17-1999
    country/western singer: "Country Music Time"; "Country Hoedown"
    xx-xx-1895 - James Van Dyk - d. 12-17-1951
    actor: Clyde Houston "Lora Lawton"; Dick Phillips "Rosemary"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Susan Odin - d. 12-17-1975
    actress: "Elizabeth Sharon Ann Barbour "One Man's Family"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:35:12 -0500
    From: "evantorch" <etorch@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  ABC

    I was listening to an excellent episode of "The Clock" last night and it
    seems on reflection odd to me how few programs I have ever heard that were
    ABC Radio productions, how few stories about their studio locations,
    conflicts etc. Now that I think of it, the same is true of NBC-RED too. And
    yes I realize that ABC was not in existence that long compared to the other
    3 OTR era networks, but then again, that means almost all should have been
    recorded. Any thoughts or memories?
    Evan Torch, MD
    Atlanta
    etorch@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:39:18 -0500
    From: JayHick@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Benny Bell

    For all you old-time radio fans who remember one of the funniest and craziest
    novelty song pioneers of all time, there's a new Benny Bell compilation CD
    called "Benny Bell: Another Close Shave" that has been made available
    exclusively on the [removed] online record store. The new CD is a must-have
    for anyone
    who loves songs like "Shaving Cream," "Everybody Loves My Fanny," "Grandpa Had
    a Long One," "Without Pants" and "Six Feet Samba" and other, and for anyone
    who wants to help the Benny Bell renewal bandwagon pick up the speed it
    deserves! Benny, born in 1906, wrote and recorded hundreds of songs in his
    seven-decade career, and appeared on radio and TV frequently with Joe
    Franklin, Dr.
    Demento, Uncle Floyd, Cousin Brucie and others. Visit
    [removed] to order the new CD, and send an email to
    bennybellsongs@[removed] for
    more biographical information. After all, this crazy world needs more Benny
    Bell! Now you can have it.

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    Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:29:59 -0500
    From: [removed]@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mike Wallace on The Green Hornet

    Mike Wallace was the narrator on the Green Hornet episode Racket On the River
    which I have a date of August 30, 1941. There are very few Green Hornets in
    circulationso she could have done a series of them.

    Paul Urbahns
    Radcliff, KY

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    Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:06:03 -0500
    From: DanHaefele@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  More Mad Masters
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    I'm really glad  there has been some discussion here about the broadcast of
    Those Mad  Masters.  I had begun to suspect the show in SPERDVAC's Archives
    Library  might be an audition recording, since the show in question, Irene
    pointed out,  has a broadcast date which precedes date the program first
    aired on
    NBC.  I  checked the transcription labels on SPERDVAC's copy and confirmed the
    date  indicated is March 19, 1946.

         Today I  played the opening and closing of the show to determine if
    there are any other  clues.  One clue is that the transcription labels are
    from
    the American  Broadcasting Company.  The other clue solves the mystery for
    me.
    The closing announcement indicates it aired over KGO, San  Francisco, not on
    the network.  At the end of the program radio listeners  are invited to attend
    a live broadcast from Studio C at KGO.  Apparently  the series moved to NBC
    in 1947 as a summer replacement for Truth or  Consequences.

    Dan  Haefele

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    Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:45:38 -0500
    From: "JAMES NIXON" <ranger6000@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Victor gets his name

    Stephen Kallis raised a question about when Dan Reid, the Lone Ranger's
    nephew, found a name for the horse, the son of Silver, that was given to him
    by his uncle.  This occurred in the episode that was aired on March 1, 1943,
    titled "Death and Taxes".  So it wasn't exactly after WWII, but during it.

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    Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:46:07 -0500
    From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Amos 'N' Andy

    Question For Elizabeth (whose magnificient book on Amos & Andy I'm about to
    finish [removed]):

    On Paul Harvey's "The Rest Of the Story" this morning he told of a would-be
    musician who got into auditioning musicians for radio on a suburban station
    in Chicago. He hired Gosden and Correll as singers although he thought they
    sang terribly but had good patter.

    This was not WGN.

    Anyway, the "rest of the story" was that this fellow went on to "discover"
    the hamburger flipping MacDonald Brothers on the west coast too.

    It was Ray Kroc.

    Elizabeth, is this a, er, crock?!

    BILL KNOWLTON

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    Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:12:52 -0500
    From: "Mark E. Higgins" <paul_frees_fan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Billie the Brownie Correction

        The other day (Issue 381) I mentioned that we would be doing a live
    recreation of Billie the Brownie twice in the coming week.  I included
    links to the two station websites.  Yesterday, I was listening to WOKY
    (the place for the Sunday morning show) over the internet, and noticed
    that there were no commercials.  Apparently "Listen live to WOKY" might
    not mean what it sounds like, and that they may be broadcasting
    continuous Christmas music during the holidays.  So, if you do try on
    Sunday, and it's not there, there is still Friday morning at 10 (CST).
    Sorry about that.

    Mark Higgins

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    Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:18:21 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 17-24 December

      12/19

     From The Today in History, NY Times --

    1932 -- the British Broadcasting Corporation began transmitting overseas
    with its Empire Service to Australia.

    12/22

     From Those Were The Days --

    1920 - WEAF, in New York City, aired the first broadcast of a prize
    fight from ringside. The fight was broadcast from Madison Square Garden
    where Joe Lynch defeated Peter Herman to retain the bantamweight title.
    Bantamweights top the scales at 118 pounds. Just think, either of those
    boxers could have been mistaken for the microphone stand.

    1922 - WEAF once again proved to be the pillar of radio promotion. This
    time they broadcast radio's first double wedding ceremony. Four thousand
    spectators watched as the two couples exchanged vows at Grand Central
    Palace. The broadcast was made in conjunction with the American Radio
    Exposition. The couples each got $100; a hefty sum in 1922.

    12/23

    In 1928, the National Broadcasting Company set up a permanent,
    coast-to-coast network.

    12/24 --

    1906 - Professor Reginald A. Fessenden sent his first radio broadcast
    from Brant Rock, MA. The program included a little verse, some violin
    and a speech.

    1928 - The first broadcast of The Voice of Firestone was heard. The
    program aired each Monday evening at 8. The Voice of Firestone became a
    hallmark in radio broadcasting. It kept its same night, time (in 1931
    the start time changed to 8:30) and sponsor for its entire run.
    Beginning on September 5, 1949, the program of classical and
    semiclassical music was also seen on television.

    1944 - The Andrews Sisters starred in the debut of The Andrews Sisters'
    Eight-to-the-Bar Ranch on ABC. Patty, Maxene and LaVerne ran a fictional
    dude ranch. George 'Gabby' Hayes was a regular guest along with Vic
    Schoen's orchestra. The ranch stayed in operation until 1946.

    Joe

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