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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 256
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  11-2 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Radio and homesick [removed]              [ Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed] ]
  Clarabell the Clown                   [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Tarzan                                [ "Arthur Funk" <Art-Funk@[removed]; ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@cha ]
  Great Radio Soap Operas               [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  11-3 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: Timely revival of Corwin's "The   [ Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@sbcglob ]
  Now in softcover                      [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Jerry of the Circus (and at Fairoaks  [ "Cancilla, Dominick" <dcancilla@cal ]
  Green Hornet TV Serials               [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:34:22 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-2 births/deaths

November 2nd births

11-02-1886 - Philip Merivale - Rehuta, Manickpur, India - d. 3-12-1946
actor: Reverend Spence "One Foot in Heaven"
11-02-1892 - Alice Brady - NYC - d. 10-28-1939
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
11-02-1896 - Walter Woolf King - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-24-1984
emcee, host, actor: :Beatrice Lillie Show"; "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
11-02-1897 - Dennis King - Coventry, England - d. 5-21-1971
announcer: "When a Girl Marries"
11-02-1899 - Evelyn MacGregor - Pittsfield, MA - d. 7-3-1967
singer: " American Melody Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
11-02-1899 - Glenn Rowell - Pontiac, MI - d. 10-9-1965
singer, comedian: "Quaker Early Birds"; "Gene and Glenn"
11-02-1901 - James Dunn - NYC - d. 9-1-1967
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-02-1901 - Paul Ford - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-12-1976
actor: "Suspense"; "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
11-02-1906 - Joseph Ruscoll - d. 11-19-1956
writer: "The Molle Mystery Theatre"; "Murder at Midnight"
11-02-1906 - Peggy Conklin - Dobbs Ferry, NY - d. 3-18-2003
actor: Kitty Archer "McGarry and His Mouse"; Barbara 'Babs' Riley
"Life of Riley"
11-02-1908 - Bunny Berrigan - Hilbert, WI - d. 6-2-1942
bandleader: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Tim and Irene"
11-02-1909 - Fred Lowery - Palestine, TX - d. 12-11-1984
whistler: (The Blind Whistler) "New Fred Lowrey Show"; "Horace Heidt
Show"
11-02-1911 - Johnny Richards - Schenectady, NY - d. 10-7-1968
orchestra leader: "The Jack Carson Show"
11-02-1913 - Burt Lancaster - NYC - d. 10-20-1994
actor: "Ford Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-02-1917 - Janette Davis - Memphis, TN - d. 4-25-2005
singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Avalon Time"; "Red Skelton Show"
11-02-1919 - Warren Stevens - Clark's Summit, PA
actor: "Quiet Please"
11-02-1920 - Ann Rutherford - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
actor: Blondie Bumstead "Blondie"; Connie Menihan "Eddie Bracken Show"
11-02-1920 - Kay Armen - Chicago, IL
singer: "Stop the Music!"; "Pet Milk Show"; "Bob Crosby Show"
11-02-1921 - Shep Menken - NYC - d. 1-2-1999
actor: "Six Shooter"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Four-Star Playhouse"
11-02-1925 - Jack Burger - NYC
composer, author: "Gene Autry Show"
11-02-1929 - Judith Ames - Portland, OR
actor: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"

November 2nd deaths

01-08-1920 - Robert Gordon Bollard - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-2-1964
coordinaator of radio stations services
01-14-1892 - Hal Roach - Elmira, NY - d. 11-2-1992
film producer, actor: Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-06-1926 - Bob Trow - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 11-2-1998
wrote and produced commercials for radio
02-28-1925 - Jean Carson - Charleston, WV - d. 11-2-2005
actor: "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Frontier Gentleman"
03-01-1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos - Athens, Greece - d. 11-2-1960
conductor: "The NBC Symphony Orchestra"
03-12-1900 - Zora Layman - Hutchinson, KS - d. 11-2-1981
singer: "Luther-Layman Singer"
04-08-1906 - Max Afford - Parkside, Australia - d. 11-2-1954
writer: "Murder's Not for Middle Age"
06-09-1896 - Tonio Selwart - Wartonberg, Bavaria - d. 11-2-2002
actor: "Secret Missions"
06-14-1906 - Gil Lamb - Minneapolis, MN - d. 11-2-1995
actor: Homer Clinker "The Rudy Vallee Show"
07-26-1856 - George Bernard Shaw - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-2-1950
playwright: "Wisconsin College of the Air"; "George Bernard Shaw Speech"
08-04-1910 - Paul Harris - d. 11-2-1996
actor: "Covered Wagon Days"
10-01-1914 - Donald Wollheim - NYC - d. 11-2-1990
science fiction writer: "Dimension X"
10-22-1919 - Norman Glisch - West Allis, WI - d. 11-2-2007
banjo player: Appeared on international radio with Bing Crosby and
Dinah Shore
12-08-1894 - James Thurber - Columbus, OH - d. 11-2-1961
writer: "This Is My Best"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:34:28 -0400
From: Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio and homesick [removed]

In re Paul Thompson's post that the AFRS deleted commercials when
rebroadcasting network shows so as to not erode troop morale, I find
this odd to say the least.

Surely American magazines and newspapers were available to troops
overseas, just as they were to the local populations. Did the [removed]
military also excise print ads promoting various products (eg., Coke,
Wrigley's gum, Lucky Strike cigarettes) et al that were not available
to our forces in foreign lands? I think not.

Hasn't the Stars and Stripes always run ads for [removed] products?

I can readily believe that military censors may have closely
scrutinized show content to make sure none of the material reflected
badly on the [removed] (eg. labor problems). And I can also imagine the
federal government not wanting to appear to "endorse" American
products by distributing programs that contained commercial
references. But the notion that they didn't want to destroy troop
"morale" by letting our guys and gals hear radio spots for domestic
products because these brave fighting men and women would be
afflicted with an incapacitating homesickness seems far-fetched to me.

Larry Jordan

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:35:23 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Clarabell the Clown

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:25:17 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];

       I vaguely recall the character from the "Howdy Doody Show"
named Clarabell (no e).  As I recall, this character was played by
Bob Keeshan, who eventually went on to fame as "Captain Kangaroo".
Someone once asked me if Clarabell ever spoke on the "Howdy Doody
Show".  I don't believe that Clarabell spoke during the shows run,
but did say something on the shows final broadcast.  Nothing more
than a few words to the kids in the audience to wrap up the
program.

There were three people who played Clarabell on the Howdy Doody Show.
 Bob Keeshan was indeed the first.  He left or was fired (depending
on whose account you read) in December 1952.  Bob Nicholson, better
known for playing the character J. Cornelius Cobb, played Clarabell
"temporarily" for the next couple of years.  Finally, in 1954 or
1955, Nicholson said, "I thought you said this was temporary," and
they got Lew Anderson, who was a musician in the orchestra in Bob
Smith's morning radio show, to play the part.  He continued to play
Clarabell through the end of the show, in the 1976-77 "New Howdy
Doody Show," in the 1987 40th anniversary special, and in many
personal appearances with Buffalo Bob.  He was also an accomplished
jazz musician.

Lew Anderson was the one who spoke at the end of the final show.  As
the camera closed in on him, he said, "Good-bye Kids."  You can see
it on YouTube:  [removed]

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:35:52 -0400
From: "Arthur Funk" <Art-Funk@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Tarzan

In Digest #254 Richard Campagne wrote:

 I'm looking for two stories that I
believe were done during 1932/34?
Tarzan 1) The Diamond of Asher and 2) The Fire of Thor

I tried to send him an email but it was returned undeliverable.  I have one
or both of these around somewhere.  Contact me, Richard.

Art

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:36:08 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@[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," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The
Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
[removed]
=======================================

SAME TIME, SAME STATION

STOOPNAGLE AND BUDD
Episode 1    3-8-35    "Dead Air, Incorporated"
Guests: Jerry Cooper and Benay Venuta
CBS SUSTAINED 10:30 - 11:00 pm
STARS: Fredrick Chase Taylor and Budd Hulick
MUSIC: Mark Warnow and His Orchestra
ANNOUNCER: Andre Baruch

THE GOLDBERGS
Episode 6    3-18-50    "Molly's Driving Test"
CBS Sanka Coffee Saturdays 8:30-9:00 Pm
Stars: Gertrude Berg As Molly, Philip Loeb As Jake, Larry Robinson As
Sammy, Arlene Mcquade As Rosalie, Eli Mintz As Uncle David.
Created by: Gertrude Berg

THE GOLDBERGS
Episode 1074   10-24-41    "Bertie Gets Molly Behind The Wheel"
CBS Oxydol Five-Days-A-Week
Stars: Gertrude Berg As Molly, James R. Waters As Jake, Everett Sloane
as Sammy, Roslyn Silber As Rosalie, Menasha Skulnik As Uncle David.
Created by: Gertrude Berg

THE FIFTH WHEEL
Episode 2      6-12-39 "Mary Washes The Baby" Written, Produced and
Directed by Gertrude Berg

MAMA BLOOM'S BROOD
Episode 1    1934    "New Dresses"

THE O'NEILLS
6-8-43 NBC Royal Gelatin Stars: Kate McComb, Arline Blackburn, Jimmy
Donnelly, Betty Caine, Januce Golbert, Jimmy Tansey

For many details on some of the programs played this week, get a copy of
my good friends, Susan and Dave Siegal's excellent book, "Radio and the
Jews" at [removed]  While there, you can also listen to a
few Audio clips from the CD that is included with their book.

==================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

THE BURNS & ALLEN SHOW
(NBC) 11/08/45 George gets a movie part.

ESCAPE
(CBS) 8/4/47 "The Sire DeMaletroit's Door" by Robt. Louis Stevenson

THE CHALLENGE OF THE YUKON
(WXYZ/Michigan Network) 2/3/44 "Cabin On The Trail" - Pre-ABC/Mutual
series.
====================================

THE GLOWING DIAL

The Abbott & Costello Show - "Who's On First?"
originally aired April 17, 1947 on NBC
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, John Brown, Elvia Allman, Marilyn
Maxwell, Skinnay Ennis & his Orchestra, Michael Roy announcing.
Sponsor: Camel Cigarettes

The Abbott & Costello Show - "Income Tax Troubles"
originally aired March 6, 1947 on NBC
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Elvia Allman. John Brown, Martha
Wentworth, Wally Maher, Marilyn Maxwell, Skinay Ennis & his Orchestra,
Michael Roy announcing.
Sponsor: Camel Cigarettes

The Abbott & Costello Show - "Lucille Ball's Nylon Stockings"
originally aired November 18, 1943 on NBC
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mel Blanc, Billy Gray, Elvia Allman,
Lucille Ball, Connie Haines, Freddie Rich & his Orchestra, Ken Niles
announcing.
Sponsor: Camel Cigarettes

The Abbott & Costello Show - "The Andrews Sisters Sue Bud and Lou"
originally aired April 26, 1945 on NBC
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Sidney Fields, Mel Blanc, The
Andrews Sisters, Connie Haines, Freddie Rich & his Orchestra, Ken Niles
announcing.
Sponsor: Camel Cigarettes

The Abbott & Costello Kids Show - "Riding With Red Ryder"
originally aired September 11, 1948 on ABC
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Brooke Temple, Dawn Bender, Lois
Forman, Anna Mae Slaughter, Johnny McGovern announcing.
Sustained
==================================

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: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:36:18 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Great Radio Soap Operas

I picked up a copy of THE GREAT RADIO SOAP OPERAS at the FOTR Convention the
other week. Authored by Jim Cox, published by McFarland, it features a
lengthy coverage of 31 radio programs with insight and background that I
found fascinating. A few months ago I started listening to a few soap operas
from
the 1930s, 40s and 50s such as PERRY MASON, PEPPER YOUNG'S FAMILY and ONE
MAN'S FAMILY and discovered that the fifteen-minute serial format works
out well -- I can very clearly understand why women enjoyed turning to the
episodes day after day. After listening to just one episode of one show, I
found
myself wanting to hear what happens next. They are addicting, and with clever
writing and plotting there is no doubt why soap operas were the rave during
daytime programming of the 1930s and 1940s and even the 1950s. Keep in mind
this opinion comes from someone who would prefer to watch a James Bond
movie before a romance flick. The book was an enjoyable read, and comes
recommended.
Martin Grams

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:58:27 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-3 births/deaths

November 3rd births

11-03-1880 - Pearl King Tanner - Eureka, CA - d. 7-16-1980
actor: Mothere Sherwood "Hawthorne House"; "Eno Crime Clues"
11-03-1889 - Gustave Haenschen - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-27-1980
conductor: "Palmolive Hour"; "Show Boat"; "Saturday Night Serenade"
11-03-1902 - Milt Herth - Kenosha, WI - d. 6-18-1969
organist: (Milt Herth Trio) "Hollywood News"; "Al Pearce"
11-03-1902 - Ted Pearson - Arlington, NE - d. 10-5-1961
announcer: "Advs. of the Thin Man"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Good News
of 1938"
11-03-1903 - John Sylvester - Mississippi - d. 3-1-1995
actor, host: "Now Hear This"; "One Thousand Dollars Reward"
11-03-1909 - Bennie Anthony Azzara - Newark, NJ - d. 11-23-2001
pianist: played for Jackie Gleason
11-03-1909 - George Wells - NYC - d. 11-29-2000
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-03-1909 - James Reston - Clyde Bank, Scotland - d. 12-6-1995
new york times columnist: "University of Chicago Round Table"; "Meet
the Press"
11-03-1910 - Richard Hurndall - Darlington, Durham, England - d.
4-13-1984
actor: Sherlock Holmes "BBC Light Programme"
11-03-1912 - Gilbert Mack - NYC - d. 12-5-2005
actor: Impy the Midget "Cloak and Daggeer"; "This is My Story"
11-03-1913 - Harry Babbitt - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-9-2004
singer: "Kay Kyser's Surprise Party"; "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical
Knowledge"
11-03-1915 - Cal Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. xx-xx-1968
guitar, harmonica: "Maddox Family Band"
11-03-1918 - Bob Feller - Van Meter, IA
baseball great: "The Jack Benny Program"
11-03-1928 - Dick Bennick - North Carolina - d. 2-18-1995
worked as an advertising director for a Florida radio station
11-03-1928 - Wanda Hendrix - Jacksonville, FL - d. 2-1-1981
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Stars Over Hollywood"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
11-03-1930 - Lois Smith - Topeka, KS
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-03-1933 - Jeremy Brett - Berkswell Grange, England - d. 9-12-1995
actor: "Barretts of Wimpole Street"; "Mendelssohn and Elyjan"
11-03-1933 - Ken Berry - Moline, IL
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"

November 3rd deaths

03-03-1915 - John Nelson - Spokane, WA - d. 11-3-1976
emcee: "Bride and Groom"; "Know Your NBC's"; "Live Like a Millionaire"
03-04-1922 - Martha O'Driscoll - Tulsa, OK - d. 11-3-1998
actor: "Your Blind Date"
03-31-1895 - Josef Cherniavsky - Russia - d. 11-3-1959
composer, conductor: "Musical Camera"
05-31-1901 - Alfredo Antonini - Alessandra, Italy - d. 11-3-1983
conductor: "La Rosa Concerts"; "Treasure Hour of Song"
06-23-1907 - Eddie Pola - NYC - d. 11-3-1995
director: "Blondie"
06-26-1893 - Dorothy Fuldheim - Passaic, NJ - d. 11-3-1989
newscaster: weekly news round-up on the ABC network
07-01-1921 - Margarita Duparinova - Bulgaria - d. 11-3-2005
actor: Starred in Bulgarian radio
08-10-1895 - Harry Richman - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-3-1972
singer, dancer, actor: "Harry Richman Dodge Program"; "Chase and
Sanborn Hour"
10-14-1925 - Vance McCune - d. 11-3-1989
comedian, actor: Wash "Tom Mix"; "The Sinclair Wiener Minstrels"
11-07-1916 - Joe Bushkin - NYC - d. 11-3-2004
jazz pianist: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
12-01-1913 - Mary Martin - Weatherford, TX - d. 11-3-1990
singer: "Lifebuoy Health Soap Program"; "Good News of 1940"; "Kraft
Music Hall"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:58:36 -0400
From: Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Timely revival of Corwin's "The Rivalry"

For those who want a reminder why Norman Corwin is considered radio's
greatest dramatist--and those who just want to hear a piece of great
radio theatre--check out the podcast of "The Rivalry," this week on
KPCC's website. Just go to the second item on the page and click on
"listen":

[removed]

The play, about the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates that brought Lincoln
to national prominence, features superb performances by Paul Giamatti
as Stephen Douglas and David Strathairn as Abe Lincoln.

Jordan Young

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:58:43 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Now in softcover

If you missed "The Great Radio Audience Participation Shows" when it was
originally released, this compendium of game and quiz shows and interactive
series with hosts in myriad formats has just been re-released this week in a
less expensive softcover edition.  You may order the same 264-page edition
as the original for $[removed]

The new work highlights 17 programs of the genus from the 1940s and 1950s.
Furthermore, it includes an Annotated Guide to Almost 400 Network Audience
Participation Shows, plus preface, notes, bibliography, index, and all of
the photographs of the original edition.

The new tome gives detailed histories of each show and personalities, casts,
crews, networks, sponsors, dates and times and lots of anecdotes from behind
the microphones.  Among the featured shows are Art Linkletter's House Party,
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, The Breakfast Club, Can You Top This?, Dr.
I. Q., Information Please, Stop the Music!, Strike It Rich, Truth or
Consequences, You Bet Your Life, and more.

"The Great Radio Audience Participation Shows" may be ordered now from
[removed], 800-253-2187 or fax 336-246-4403.  If you loved these
shows, you'll find plenty you've likely never read before.

Jim Cox

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:58:51 -0400
From: "Cancilla, Dominick" <dcancilla@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jerry of the Circus (and at Fairoaks)

My son and I have been listening to OTR serials together. After going
through all the Superman episodes we could get our hands on, we tried
Jerry of the Circus. I'd never heard of the show before, but was very
impressed! In particular, I was pleased that there were generally
several plot threads going at one time (as opposed to Superman, in which
a new plot generally doesn't begin until an old one ends). It's strange
to be 40+ years old and feel sad when I get to the last episode of a
kiddie show <G>.

After we were done with the circus, I discovered Jerry at Fairoaks,
which is just as good. We've only got 18 episodes of that left, so I'm
looking for something to listen to next.

This brings me to two questions:

Can anyone suggest a radio serial that is well written and has long
strings of episodes available? (If it helps, my son is 10.)

Does anyone have information on the two Jerry shows? I can find very
little online or in the standard references. I'd be particularly
interested to know who the actors were and in what market the show ran.

Thanks!

--Dominick

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:59:03 -0400
From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Green Hornet TV Serials

VCI Entertainment will release two serials in 2009 on DVD: "The Green
Hornet" and "The Green Hornet Strikes Again!". They say there will be
special features.

Don

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