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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 128
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Born in Pottowatomie [ "Harry Machin, Jr." <harbev5@earthl ]
FOUND IN A BOX [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
Let George Do It [ Ben Kibler <ben_kibler48309@[removed] ]
5-20 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
RE: Story origins [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
The Lone Ranger and Tonto [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
RE: let george do it [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed] ]
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 13:15:58 -0400
From: "Harry Machin, Jr." <harbev5@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Born in Pottowatomie
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I was interested to hear that Tonto was a Pattowatomie indian. I
was born in Pottowatomie County, Kansas, and of course knew
about the indians there. Why the different spelling of the tribal name,
though, I can't say. I would hope that when my county was given
]its name, the spelling would have been considered correct.
Harry Machin, Jr.
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:39:37 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: FOUND IN A BOX
Well here we go.
The first of seventy-seven boxes from my vault has yielded many great books
but the most interesting is a yellowed copy of
SUSPENSE MYSTERY MAGAZINE number 2 from December 1946.
Cover features photos of Lucille Ball, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello,
Gene Kelly, Lee J Cobb, Lillian Gish and Alan Ladd as well as the titles of
the stories they starred in now in short story form in this mag.
If anyone is interested write me off line and I will send a photo.
Serious offers only please. I have had this for more than thirty years and
had thought it lost.
Onwards.
Michael C. Gwynne
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:40:03 -0400
From: Ben Kibler <ben_kibler48309@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Let George Do It
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The LGDI series is listed in the Chicago Tribune as having been broadcast on
Fridays, at 10:45pm on station WBBM starting on June 6, 1952 thru December
19, 1952, then again on January 11, 1953 and January 18, 1953
Ben K
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 22:06:46 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-20 births/deaths
May 20th births
05-20-1894 - Adela Rogers St. Johns - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-10-1988
novelist: Commentator on NBC 1936-1937
05-20-1899 - Stan Lomax - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-26-1987
sportscaster: "Evening Journal Sports"
05-20-1899 - Virginia Sale - Urbana, IL - d. 8-23-1992
actor: Martha "Those We Love"
05-20-1903 - Bob White - Philadelphia, PA - d. unknown
actor: Eric Cunningham "Ma Perkins"; Dr. Petrie "Fu Manchu"
05-20-1906 - Lyda Roberti - Warsaw, Poland - d. 3-12-1938
actor, singer: Freelance; Sang with Al Jolson two days before her death
05-20-1908 - James Stewart - Indiana, PA - d. 7-2-1997
actor: Britt Ponset "Six Shooter"
05-20-1909 - Jerry Hausner - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-1-1993
actor: "Lum and Abner"; "Silver Theatre"
05-20-1911 - Patricia Dunlap - Bloomington, IL
actor: Betty Fairfield "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy"
05-20-1911 - Vet Boswell - Birmingham, AL - d. 11-12-1988
singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "The Boswell Sisters"; "Woodbury Soap
Show"
05-20-1912 - Julius Dixon - Barnwell, SC - d. 1-30-2004
host: "Variety Jive"
05-20-1916 - William D. Carey - Hollister, CA - d. 1-27-2004
actor and singer
05-20-1920 - Dorothy Howe (Virginia Vale) - Dallas, TX - d. 9-14-2006
actor: "Gateway to Hollywood"
05-20-1920 - George Gobel - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1991
comedian, actor, singer: (Lonesome George) Jimmy "Tom Mix"
05-20-1921 - Joel Kane - Los Angeles County, CA - d. 4-20-1993
writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"
05-20-1921 - Sheldon Gross
announcer: WFIL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
05-20-1923 - Edith Fellows - Boston, MA
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-20-1925 - Vic Ames - Malden, MA - d. 1-23-1978
singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
05-20-1926 - John Lucarotti - England - d. 11-19-1994
writer: "Doctor Who"
05-20-1926 - Miles Davis - Alton, IL - d. 9-29-1991
sideman: "Billy Eckstien Orchestra"
05-20-1928 - David Hedison - Providence, RI
Worked as a radio announcer early in his career
05-20-1934 - Ken Boyer - Liberty, MO - d. 9-7-1982
baseball player: "Tops in Sports"
05-20-1936 - Anthony Zerbe - Long Beach, CA
actor: "Earplay"
05-20-1941 - Hal Ross - Montreal, Canada
announcer: CJQC Quebec City, Canada
May 20th deaths
05-19-1931 - Eric Davidson - d. 5-20-1996
writer: "Tommy Steele Radio Show"
06-21-1910 - Montie Montana - Wolf Point, MT - d. 5-20-1998
actor, periennial Rose Parade participant: "All-Star Western Theatre"
06-30-1920 - Dean Harens - South Bend, IN - d. 5-20-1996
actor: Arthur Anderson "We, the Abbotts"
07-07-1919 - Jon Pertwee - Chelsea, England - d. 5-20-1996
actor: The Doctor "Doctor Who"; Worzel; Gummidge "Worzel Gummidge"
09-12-1893 - Gen. Lewis B. Hershey - Steuben City, IN - d. 5-20-1977
head of selective service: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
11-11-1908 - Jerry Devine - Boston, MA - d. 5-20-1994
producer, director, writer: "Mr. District Attorney"; "This Is Your FBI"
11-28-1917 - Elliott Lewis - NYC - d. 5-20-1990
actor, director: Frankie Remley "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"; "On
Stage"; "Mr. Aladdin"
11-xx-1936 - Ingrid Hafner - London, England - d. 5-20-1994
actor: "The Butcher, the Baker"
12-06-1909 - Lyn Murray - London, England - d. 5-20-1989
conductor: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Ford Theatre"
12-24-1914 - Abram S. Ginnes - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-20-2006
adapter: "The Big Story"
12-25-1904 - Sidney Fine - Waterbury, CT - d. 5-20-2002
pianist, arranger: Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Dinah Shore
Ron Sayles
Resident expert birthologist and necrologist
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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 05:25:50 -0400
From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: RE: Story origins
A LENGTH OF ROPE by Chester S. geier
Chester S. Geier's "A Length of Rope" was published in the April 1941 issue
of UNKNOWN FANTASY FICTION, published by the good folks at Street & Smith.
Randy
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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 05:26:38 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Lone Ranger and Tonto
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 13:06:31 -0400
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
Ever wonder why, if no one knew who the Ranger was, he couldn't
take off his mask, and ride into town, and do those things
himself, or at least go with his loyal red friend, and help him.
Because someone might say, "Hey, Reid! I thought you were dead!"
Actually, the LR did go into town himself in disguise at times. But
that didn't always work. There was a television episode where the LR
went in town in his usual bearded disguise, went to a barbershop ,
and asked for a beard trim. The woman barber didn't notice that his
beard was fake, but she did notice the lack of suntan on his face, in
the outline of a mask.
(Which reminds me of a MAD cartoon back in the 1960s, in which Batman
is out in the noonday sun, and later looks in his bathroom mirror and
finds that he is suntanned on the bottom half of his face.)
I'd say in some ways, the Ranger was a lot like the Kingfish, and
Amos on A&A. Always putting the Native American in harms way, instead
of himself. In other words: the Ranger duped his poor misfortunate
red brother into doing things he himself did not want to do.
I always thought of that as more of a division of labor, where each
of them did what he was better at or liked better.
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 21:52:43 -0400
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
Many Ranger episodes feature Chief Thundercloud as a friendly
Indian chieftain who helps the masked man and Tonto.
I thought that was Chief Thunderthud, and Tonto was an Ooragnak! ;->
Kowabonga, Kimosabe!
And Clarabelle Hornblow squirted him with a selzer bottle!
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02109-2004 [removed]
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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 05:27:24 -0400
From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: let george do it
In The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 126
Kathy asked,
Standard oil of California was the sponsor for all of the let george do
it programs that i have heard.
does anyone know who the sponsor/sponsors were in other parts of the
country?
While LET GEORGE DO IT was only heard on the West Coast for most of
its run, it was aired on the New York Mutual station, WOR, during 1954 on
Wednesday nights at 9:30 PM. Unfortunately, I do not know who sponsored
these broadcasts.
LET GEORGE DO IT also aired on Wednesday nights at 9:30 PM on
Washington D. C. station WTOP beginning in April, 1956 and running through
early May, 1957. As WTOP was a CBS affiliate at the time, LET GEORGE DO IT
was probably a syndicated show and could have had a variety of sponsors.
Signing off for now,
Stewart
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