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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 168
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 23-29 Oct  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      10-23 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Norman Corwin and Fourteen August     [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      Norman Corwin                         [ otrguru@[removed] ]
      10-24 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:45:02 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 23-29 Oct

    Those were the days --

    10/23

    1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa, joined
    him on the CBS radio broadcast. Allen's comedy-variety program was known
    as "The Linit Bath Club Revue". It then became "The Salad Bowl Revue",
    then, "The Sal Hapatica Revue", "The Hour of Smiles", "Town Hall
    Tonight", "The Texaco Star Theatre" and finally, someone with just a bit
    of sense, came up with "The Fred Allen Show". The comedic legend stayed
    on radio for 17 years.

    10/24

    1929   The Rudy Vallee Show was broadcast for the first time on NBC.
    Actually, the Rudy Vallee show had several different titles over the
    years,  all of which were referred to by the public as The Rudy Vallee
    Show.  Megaphone totin' Rudy and his Connecticut Yankees band were
    mainstays on  radio into the late 1940s.

    10/25

    1937   Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung
    out  on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the
    entire run.  Stella Dallas was "A continuation on the air of the true
    life story of  mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own
    beloved daughter,  Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing
    the difference in  their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel's life."

    10/26

    1935   A talented twelve year old sang on Wallace Beery's NBC show. Judy
    Garland delighted the appreciative audience. The young girl would soon
    be in pictures and at the top of stardom. It would be only four years
    before Ms. Garland (George Jessel gave her the name, thinking it would
    be better than her own, Frances Gumm) captured the hearts of moviegoers
    everywhere with her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.

    10/27

    Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it was an
    engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting music
    from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a
    wireless (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing
    started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest
    that the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station.

    It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to
    receive a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came
    from the [removed] Department of Commerce. Although the license was
    officially issued on this day, KDKA did not start their broadcast
    operations for a week (they had to wait until the license was posted in
    the station). On November 2, 1920, the station aired the returns of the
    Harding/Cox election ... the first radio programming to reach an
    audience of any size ... approximately 1,000 people.

    1947   This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC. Nora solved domestic, social
    and child raising problems until January 2, 1959.

    1947   "The one, the only Groucho" Marx appeared as quizmaster on You
    Bet Your Life for the first time on ABC. George Fenneman was Groucho's
    eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program's run
    on radio (1948-1959) and TV (1950-1961). By the way, who is buried in
    Grant=s tomb?

    10/28

    1922   WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game
    heard coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at
    Stagg Field in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines
    to New York City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21,
    Chicago 18.)

    1946   Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC for the first time.
    Sky King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy
    Engel, as Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky's niece Penny; Jack Bivens was
    Chipper and Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by
    Mars candy.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:45:34 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-23 births/deaths

    October 23rd births

    10-23-1871 - Rev. Dr. Karl Reiland - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-12-1964
    clergyman: 15-Minute NEWS commentary program for NBC
    10-23-1884 - Cesar Saerchinger - Aix-la-Chapelle, France - d. 10-10-1971
    news correspondent: "Story Behind the Headlines"; "America's Town
    Meeting of the Air"
    10-23-1887 - Oliver M. Saylor - Huntington, IN - d. 10-19-1958
    reviewer: WGBS New York City
    10-23-1896 - Nathan Abas - d. 6-1-1980
    orchestra director, violinist: "Northern California Symphony Orchestra"
    10-23-1901 - Arthur Jacobson - NYC - d. 10-6-1993
    actor: Kirk Harding "Woman in White"; Anthony J. Marleybone "Affairs
    of Anthony"
    10-23-1904 - Ford Bond - Louisville, KY - d. 8-15-1962
    announcer: "Cities Service Concert"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round";
    Highways in Melody"
    10-23-1904 - Margaret Speaks - Columbus, OH - d. 7-16-1977
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"
    10-23-1904 - Oliver Barbour - d. 4-11-1968
    producer, director: "Life Can Be Beautiful"; "Parker Family"; "When a
    Girl Marries"
    10-23-1906 - Lucy Monroe - NYC - d. 10-13-1987
    singer: (The Star-Spangled Soprano) "Hammerstein's Music Hall";
    "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"
    10-23-1911 - Martha Rountree - Gainesville, FL - d. 8-23-1999
    co-founder, moderator: "Meet the Press"
    10-23-1912 - Floyd Mack - Ava, OH - d. 1-3-1983
    commentator: "Floyd Mack and the News"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
    10-23-1916 - Red Quinlan - Maquoketa, IA - d. 3-11-2007
    founding board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications
    10-23-1918 - Augusta Dabney - Berkeley, CA - d. 2-4-2008
    actor: "Theatre Five"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-23-1918 - James Daly - Wisconsin Rapids, WI - d. 7-3-1978
    actor: "Monitor"
    10-23-1921 - James Blackwood - Ackereman, MS - d. 2-3-2002
    singer: (Blackwood Brothers Quartet) "Songs of the Gospel"
    10-23-1922 - Coleen Gray - Staplehurst, NE
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-23-1922 - Ewell Blackwell - Fresno, CA - d. 10-29-1996
    baseball pitcher: "Babe Didrickson Zaharius Sports Show"
    10-23-1923 - Frank Sutton - Clarksville, TN - d. 6-28-1974
    actor: "Couple Next Door"
    10-23-1925 - Johnny Carson - Corning, IA - d. 1-23-2005
    announcer, disc jockey: "Johnny Carson Show"
    10-23-1931 - Diana Dors - Swindon, Wiltshire, England - d. 5-4-1984
    actor: "Earplay"
    10-23-1940 - Tom McGrath - Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland
    writer: "The Silver Darlings"
    10-23-1943 - Roger Scott - London, England - d. 10-31-1989
    disc jockey: "Three O'Clock Thrill"; "Hitline"

    October 23rd deaths

    01-31-1872 - Zane Grey - Zanesville, OH - d. 10-23-1939
    writer: "Rudy Vallee Hour"
    02-13-1919 - Janet Logan - Eldon, MO - d. 10-23-1965
    actor: Stella Moore "Girl Alone"; Clara Blake "Romance of Helen Trent"
    03-16-1892 - James C. Petrillo - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-1984
    union leader" Head of the American Federation of Musicians
    03-23-1892 - Nadea Dragonette Loftus - d. 10-23-1982
    Sister and business manager of Jessica Dragonette
    04-09-1916 - Bill Leonard - NYC - d. 10-23-1994
    interviewer: "This Is New York"; "In Town Today"
    05-10-1909 - Maybelle Carter - Nickelsville, VA - d. 10-23-1978
    singer: (Queen of Country Music) "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-26-1886 - Al Jolson - Srednick, Lithuania, Russia - d. 10-23-1950
    singer: (The Jazz Singer) "Shell Chateau"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    06-04-1919 - Robert Merrill - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-23-2004
    singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "Robert Merrill Show"
    06-05-1928 - Robert Lansing - San Diego, CA - d. 10-23-1994
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-20-1911 - Edward Eager - Toledo, OH - d. 10-23-1964
    writer: "Jane Pickens Show"
    06-26-1920 - Leonid Hambro - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-2006
    pianist: "WQXR Halloween Party:
    07-21-1905 - Diana Trilling - d. 10-23-1996
    writer: "NBC University Theatre"
    07-26-1915 - Fred S. Fox - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-23-2005
    writer: "Freddie the Fox"
    08-04-1897 - Abe Lyman - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-1957
    bandleader: "Jack Pearl Show"; "Lavender and New Lace"; "Waltz Time"
    12-02-1915 - Adolph Green - NYC - d. 10-23-2002
    songwriter: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    12-28-1913 - Lou Jacobi - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-23-2009
    actor: "Advs. in Judaism"; "Earplay"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:46:23 -0400
    From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Norman Corwin and Fourteen August

    I'm sure many of the members of this forum were at the FOTR show in Newark
    and had a chance to share their memories of and affection for the great
    Norman Corwin. I hope that someone took a moment to thank Chris Borjas,
    Norman's caregiver for the last few years of his life. I hope that someone
    talked about the kindness and encouragement Norman displayed toward those
    involved in creative endeavors. I was a direct beneficiary of that following
    the publication of a graphic novel I wrote for DC Comics, as we began a
    correspondence that bloomed into a friendship.

    In 2005, I contributed an article about Norman's career to Chuck Schaden's
    last issue as publisher of Nostalgia Digest. For my first issue, I was
    fortunate enough to get an article by Norman himself to commemorate the 60th
    anniversary of his V-J day soliloquy, "Fourteen August." That Summer 2005
    issue is long out-of-print but anyone who would like to read Norman's
    recollections can do so at
    [removed].

    He was a dear man and a great writer and we will miss him--but we will not
    forget him.

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    Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:47:39 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
    may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
    Radio Theatre," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," John and Larry
    Gassman's "Same Time Station" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
    Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    *Halloween Special*
    Part 1

    FAVORITE STORY
      Episode 20 10-29-46 "Phantom Rickshaw"
      Author: Rudyard Kipling.
      Favorite of: Jesse L. Lasky.
      Stars: William Conrad, Eric Snowden, Edmond MacDonald, Lois Corbett,
    Jean Vander Pyl, Guy Kingsford, Ramsay Hill.
      Director: True Boardman.
      KFI Syndicated and Produced by Lawrence and Lee for Bullocks
      Tuesdays 9:00 - 9:30 pm

    BEHIND THE SCENES
      Episode 70 2-16-51 "Edgar Allen Poe"
      Story teller: Knox Manning
      Mayfair Syndication

    THE HUMAN ADVENTURE
      Episode 81 10-28-45 "Witchcraft" Mutual WGN University of Chicago
    production. Sundays 9:00 - 9:30 pm

    SEALTEST VARIETY THEATER
    "The Dorothy Lamour Show"
      Episode 7 10-28-48 "Boris Karloff's Halloween Party"
      Hostess: Dorothy Lamour
      Guests: Boris Karloff, Jack Carson and Peter Leeds

    ESCAPE
      Episode 7 10-28-48 "Boris Karloff's Halloween Party"
      Episode 29 2-22-48 "How Love Came To Proffessor Guildea"
      Stars: Louie Van Rooten, Parley Baer, Harry Bartell Paul Frees plays
    the part of the Parrot.
      Producer: William N. Robson
      Director: Norman Macdonnell
      Music: Cy Feuer
      CBS Sustaining
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    I CAN HEAR IT NOW
      The original Columbia recordings from 1933-1945 narrated by Edward R.
    Murrow - CBS News. Absolutely fantastic sound collection.

    THE ADVENTURES OF RIN TIN TIN
      (MBS) 11/15/51 "The Ambassador" - Does Rinty get Killed? Shredded
    Wheat commercials with Rusty and Milk-Bone commercials with Rinty.
    ====================================

    THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

    SUSPENSE (CBS)
      Title: Self Defense
      Original Air: 10/16/47
      Starring: Marsha Hunt

    I LOVE A MYSTERY (MUTUAL)
      Title: Battle of the Century --- Episode 8
      Original Air: 2/8/50
      Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, Tony Randall

    GUNSMOKE (CBS)
      Title: General Parsley Smith
      Original Air: 7/2/55
      Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Russell
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    COLUMBIA WORKSHOP
      Norman Corwin was ill and so they brought in most of the cast from
    episode 10 an recreated Descent Of the gods from 10/19/41 Episode (023
    A). Henry Morgan is the star of this show.

      John Dehner starred in this episode of
    HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL
      from 02/08/59 Killer's Widow.

      After our look at items happening in the Old Radio Community, we'll
    hear Dick Powell star as Phillip Marlowe in
    LUX RADIO THEATER
      adaptation from 06/11/45 called, Murder, My Sweet.
    ====================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

          Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
          The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
          Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
    the Net

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    Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:52:23 -0400
    From: otrguru@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Norman Corwin

    The death of Norman Corwin at the age of 101 is sad news for all OTR fans and
    historians. My 37-minute interview with him, recorded in his home on August
    6, 1976 (when he was 66) may be heard anytime at [removed] Just
    go to "Interviews" and click on "Norman Corwin." Mr. Corwin and I were among
    the 1993 inductees to the Radio Hall of Fame. Chuck Schaden

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    Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:55:07 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-24 births/deaths

    October 24th births

    10-24-1879 - Benjamin Albert "[removed]" Rolfe - Brasher Falls, NY - d.
    4-23-1956
    conductor: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Believe It or Not"
    10-24-1888 - William Podmore - England - d. 9-xx-1963
    actor: Barnabas Thackery "Shafter Parker and His Circus"
    10-24-1891 - Nila Mack - Arkansas City, KS - d. 1-20-1953
    director: "Helen and Mary"; "Let's Pretend"
    10-24-1894 - Ted "Kid" Lewis - London, England - d. 8-25-1971
    bandleader: "Live Band Remotes"
    10-24-1901 - Gilda Gray - Cracow, Poland - d. 12-22-1959
    ziegfeld follies singer/dancer: WOO Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    10-24-1901 - Harry Breuer - Brooklyn, NY - D. 6-2-1989
    percussionist: "A&P Gypsies"; "Bert Hirsch's Novelty Dance Orchestra"
    10-24-1903 - Melvin Purvis - Timmonsville, SC - d. 2-29-1960
    fbi agent, narrator: "Top Secrets of the FBI"
    10-24-1904 - Moss Hart - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-20-1961
    panelist: "Who Said That?"
    10-24-1904 - Radie Harris - NYC - d. 2-22-2001
    gossip columnist: CBS Radio Network
    10-24-1911 - Sonny Terry - Greensboro, NC - d. 3-11-1986
    blues singer, harmonica player: "Hootenanny"; "Roomful of Music"
    10-24-1916 - Ray Singer - NYC - d. 11-16-1992
    writer: "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Charlotte
    Greenwood Show"
    10-24-1924 - Mary Lee - Centralia, IL - d. 6-6-1996
    singer: "Ted Weems and His Orchestra"; "Spotlight Bands"
    10-24-1925 - Teri Keane - NYC
    actor: Hope Evans "Big Sister"; Terry Burton "Second Mrs. Burton"
    10-24-1930 - J. P. "Big Bopper" Richardson - Sabine Pass, TX - d.
    2-3-1959
    Early Rock and Roll disc jockey
    10-24-1936 - David Nelson - NYC - d. 1-11-2011
    actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"

    October 24th deaths

    01-31-1919 - Jackie Robinson - Cairo, GA - d. 10-24-1972
    sportscaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) "Jackie Robinson Show"
    02-27-1888 - Lotte Lehmann - Perleberg, Prussia, Germany - d. 10-24-1976
    soprano: "Command Performance"; "Concert Hall"; "Here's to Veterans"
    03-28-1888 - Jim Harkins - d. 10-24-1970
    emcee: "Song Writing Machine Series"
    04-03-1921 - Leonard Sues - El Paso, TX - d. 10-24-1971
    music: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    04-22-1865 - Hal Brown - d. 10-24-1942
    harmonica: "Just Plain Bill"
    04-30-1870 - Franz Lehar - Romorn, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-24-1948
    operetta composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Showtime"
    08-06-1933 - Beverly Wills - California - d. 10-24-1963
    actor: (Daughter of Joan Davis) Fluffy Adams "Junior Miss"
    08-19-1921 - Gene Roddenberry - El Paso, TX - d. 10-24-1991
    writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    09-07-1927 - Don Messick - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-24-1997
    actor: "Let George Do It"; "Horizons West"; "NBC University Theatre"
    09-30-1922 - Lamont Johnson - Stockton, CA - d. 10-24-2010
    actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Mark Douglas "Wendy Warren and the News"
    10-10-1915 - Bill Chadwick - NYC - d. 10-24-2009
    new york rangers color analyst
    10-28-1897 - Edith Head - San Bernardino, CA - d. 10-24-1981
    costume designer: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-02-1896 - Walter Woolf King - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-24-1984
    emcee, host, actor: "Beatrice Lillie Show"; "Flying Red Horse Tavern"

    Ron

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