Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #190
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Date: 6/29/2007 4:19 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 190
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Bud Hiestand                          [ crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow) ]
      Conrad in Comedy                      [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Bill Conrad doing comedy              [ "rkidera1" <rkidera1@[removed] ]
      6-29 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Listening to the Radio                [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
      William Conrad Comedy roles           [ "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed]; ]
      It never goes away                    [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      TRUE Lords of the Jungle!             [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Johnny Dollar and Jack Grimes questi  [ Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed]; ]
      Radio Actors Name Change              [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:36:00 -0400
    From: crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow)
    To: [removed]@[removed] (Old Time Radio Digest)
    Subject:  Bud Hiestand

    Stephen Davies alluded to an announcer whose name is certainly Bud Hiestand.
    Hiestand's brother-in-law, Glan Heisch, wrote "The Cinnamon Bear," and Bud
    himself performed the narration for the 26 episode serial.

    SPERDVAC has a recorded interview with Hiestand, who traces his outstanding
    announcing career that spanned both radio and the first twenty years of
    television.

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:33:17 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Conrad in Comedy
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    On Jun 28, 2007, at 6:19 PM, Ryan O.  wrote:

>     If Conrad ever did any comical roles on radio, I'd love to know
>     about them.

    Conrad played "Captain Dingle" in the comedy-detective series, "Meet
    Miss Sherlock" which CBS aired from the West Coast the summer of
    1946. Sondra Gair played the title lead. Only two episodes have
    survived of the '46 version.

    It was resurrected a year later with Monty Margetts in the lead, but
    Conrad had also left the series. No audio copies exist for this 1947
    version.

    "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen" was hardly a comedy series, but one can
    hear Conrad doing some very funny supporting roles in some episodes,
    including one where he plays a Korean pirate.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:17:32 -0400
    From: "rkidera1" <rkidera1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Bill Conrad doing comedy

    RyanO asked if there were any OTR shows featuring Bill Conrad doing comedy.
    There is one gem that I can recommend - it is an episode of "Nightbeat" that
    broadcast 12/28/1951 titled "The Expectant Father" (sometimes this show is
    listed as "The Joys of Fatherhood").  Conrad and the series star Frank
    Lovejoy (also noted more as a dramatic rather than comedic actor) are
    terrific in this well-written tale.  It consists entirely of an increasingly
    inebriated conversation between Randy Stone (Lovejoy) and a co-worker
    (Conrad) whose wife is in labor.  I won't say any more so as not to spoil
    the experience of hearing these two great radio actors chew the scenery.  It
    is obvious to the listener that they are both having a great time with the
    script.

    Bob Kidera

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:17:50 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-29 births/deaths

    June 29th births

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUCK!

    06-29-1893 - Alma Kitchell - Superior, WI - d. 11-13-1996
    singer, commentator: "Melody Hour"; "Brief Case/Streamline Journal"
    06-29-1895 - Paul V. Galvin - Harvard, IL - d. 11-5-1959
    co-founder of Galvin Manufacturing, merged with Motorola
    06-29-1899 - Lester Vail - Denver, CO - d. 11-28-1959
    director: "Aldrich Family"; "March of Time"; "World's Most Honored
    Flights"
    06-29-1901 - Ed Gardner - Astoria, NY - d. 8-17-1963
    comedian: Archie "Duffy's Tavern"
    06-29-1901 - Nelson Eddy - Providence, RI - d. 3-6-1967
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Vicks Open House"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"
    06-29-1905 - John Gibson - Oakland, CA - d. 9-xx-1971
    actor: Red Pennington "Don Winslow of the Navy"
    06-29-1907 - Joan Davis - St. Paul, MN - d. 5-22-1961
    comedienne: "Sealtest Village Store"; "Joan Davis Show"
    06-29-1908 - John Hench - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 2-5-2004
    actor: Stanley Gilman "Those Happy Gilmans"
    06-29-1908 - Leroy Anderson - Cambridge, MA - d. 5-18-1975
    compser, arranger: " Contemporary Composers Concerts"; "Must for
    America"
    06-29-1909 - Oscar Argumedo - d. 8-xx-1986
    disk jockey: KCOR San Antonio, Texas
    06-29-1911 - Bernard Herrmann - NYC - d. 12-24-1975
    conductor, composer: "Columbia Workshop"; "Mercury Theatre on the Air/
    Campbell Playhouse"
    06-29-1911 - Milt Josefsberg - NYC - d. 12-14-1987
    writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Bob Hope Show"
    06-29-1913 - Hilliard Marks - d. 8-19-1982
    producer: (Brother of Mary Livingston) "The Jack Benny Show"
    06-29-1914 - Rafael Kubelik - Bychory, Czech Republic - d. 8-11-1996
    conductor: "Musicians Off Stage"
    06-29-1915 - Leo Diamond - NYC - d. 9-15-1966
    harmonica player: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
    06-29-1915 - Ruth Warrick - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-15-2005
    actor: "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; "Myrt and Marge"
    06-29-1924 - T. Tommy Cutrer - Tangipahoa Parish, LA - d. 10-11-1998
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    06-29-1925 - Cara Williams - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"
    06-29-1934 - Chuck Schaden - Chicago, IL
    host: Those Were the Days"
    06-29-1937 - Ivan Cury - NYC
    actor: Bobbie Benson "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"

    June 29th deaths

    02-04-1934 - Bruce Malmuth - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-29-2005
    director: New York Yankees baseball games
    02-08-1920 - Lana Turner - Wallace, ID - d. 6-29-1995
    actor: "Abbott and Costello"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-10-1918 - Pamela Mason - Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, England - d.
    6-29-1996
    actor: "James Mason and Pamela Mason Show"
    03-19-1916 - Irving Wallace - Chicago, IL - d. 6-29-1990
    writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    05-12-1907 - Kathrine Hepburn - Hartford, CT - d. 6-29-2003
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-23-1928 - Rosemary Clooney - Maysville, KY - d. 6-29-2002
    singer: "Rosemary Clooney Show"; "On the Sunny Side"
    07-13-1928 - Bob Crane - Waterbury, CT - d. 6-29-1978
    actor: "Bob Crane Show"
    08-06-1892 - Victor Rodman - Arkansas - d. 6-29-1965
    actor: Jerry Payne "Those We Love"
    08-29-1882 - Richard Legrand - Mount Tabor section near Portland, OR
    - d. 6-29-1963
    actor: Richard Q. Peavy "Great Gildersleeve"; Ole "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    09-19-1912 - Edmund Anderson - NYC - d. 6-29-2002
    program writer and director for various network programs
    11-09-1893 - John P. Medbury - New York - d. 6-29-1947
    writer: "Burns and Allen"; "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"
    xx-xx-1915 - Guy Maufette - Montreal, Canada - d. 6-29-2005
    announcer: Worked with CBC radio, Canada's French network

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:18:16 -0400
    From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Listening to the Radio

    I overheard a conversation this morning in a restaurant. Two women
    were talking about the older one's youth and growing up in a rural
    Iowa town. The older woman is about ninety I would say. She mentioned
    that they had to get all dressed up to go down the street to listen
    to Amos and Andy. It was the same as going to a birthday party or church.

    I wonder how common that was. I don't know the year.

    My mother told me about how they came to have a radio. Her dad liked
    one in the local store and tried talking his wife into letting him
    buy it. But it cost $50 and she refused. The store owner let grandpa
    take the radio home on a trial basis at no cost and it sold itself.
    So my mother became a follower of Little Orphan Annie and sent off
    for the decoder gadgets in the middle 30's.

    Don

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:17:05 -0400
    From: "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  William Conrad Comedy roles

    I listened last year on XM Satellite Radio's Radio Classics Channel to a
    series of 15-Minute Fibber McGee And Molly shows about a "Phantom Burglar
    from October/November 1953.  Bill Conrad played a detective or a police
    chief.  I think he was also in an earlier half-hour Fibber McGee show as an
    escaped convict who is stuck at the [removed]

    Tim Lones

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:44:30 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  It never goes away

    My wife is a fan of fiction writer Mary Higgins Clark.  She also brings home
    books picked up in second-hand stores.  She was telling me about one she's
    currently reading titled "My Gal Sunday" and I mentioned the unusual
    connection with the Hummerts' "Our [removed]"  To my surprise, in Clark's
    childhood, she was subject to regular asthmatic spells which kept her home
    from school with a radio.  Can you guess what her favorite daytime adventure
    was?

    She recounts the familiar, haunting words of the drama's epigram in the
    first page of her novel:  "The story that asks the question 'Can a girl from
    a mining town in the West find happiness as the wife of England's richest,
    most handsome lord, Lord Henry Brinthrop?"  (She's remembered most of it
    precisely.)

    Says Clark:  "I had a huge crush on Lord Henry (I wonder, did any other
    females have similar inclinations besides the bevy of insatiable vixens who
    were out to become Sunday's succerssor as mistress of Black Swan Hall?) and
    thought he and Sunday were a perfect couple.  Yes, she could find happiness
    with him.  Who couldn't, for heaven's sake?"

    So, Clark has turned Lord Henry and Sunday into a husband-and-wife sleuthing
    duo that's perhaps better than Jerry and Pam North or Nick and Nora Charles.
    In "My Gal Sunday," Henry is an ex-president of the U. S. ("smart, nice,
    rich, and gorgeous") and Sunday is a "stunning, savvy" young congresswoman.
    Sounds like it might be based on somebody today although this was published
    in 1996.

    I'm thinking:  The Hummerts (who weren't all that original, basing many of
    their ideas on traditions created by others) adapted their premise for the
    show from a late nineteenth century stage play simply titled "Sunday" (Ethel
    Barrymore starred in it when it was performed early in the twentieth
    century).  But even the Hummerts would probably be amazed by the
    significance of a well-known contemporary author developing stories about
    their urchin-turned-society maven now.

    Those daytime dramas seem to perpetuate, living a continued, charmed life of
    their own.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:56:55 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  TRUE Lords of the Jungle!

    Friend Lee, & other Tarmangani-

    From: _verotas@[removed]_ (mailto:verotas@[removed])

>     This  goes along with the discussion of movie actors who played on radio - if

    he  [removed];

    I'd be interested in answer to this question, [removed] His film work was
    always nicely understated, even when he recast himself as Mr. Bennett (any
    LUX's
    under that name, perchance?)

>     I always thought that Olympianshot-putter, former football star, and  film

    actor Herman Brix (real name) who later used the name Bruce Bennett to  get
    away from the Tarzan image, was the best film Tarzan by [removed];

    He was right at the top - of course, his also-featurized Serial benefited
    from having as a producer, Mr. Burroughs himself! (Alas, the film itself is a
    bit cheap & weak.)

    But there is a tie for King of the Apes, who we also lost recently:  Gordon
    Scott. Both men portrayed Lord Greystoke as both educated Briton AND  Noble
    Savage, not as the grunting lug that most actors have been forced to  play.

    (Bringing this back On Topic, Charlie, I like the 50's audio series work by
    Lamont Johnson for the same reason.)

    RIP, gentlemen.

    Best,
    -Craig

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:49:41 -0400
    From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Johnny Dollar and Jack Grimes questions

    I received the following two questions from a vistor
    to our club website.  May I please draw upon the well
    of expertise that is this Digest's membership for
    answers?  Thanks to all.

    "As a college kid I immensely enjoyed the Johnny
    Dollar program. Which brings me to one of two
    questions I would respectfully present to you: on the
    Johnny Dollar program, which was produced by Jack
    Johnstone, there were regular and repeated references
    to the towns of Upstate Pennsylvania where I was born:
    Hazleton , Wilkes-Barre , and Scranton . Also to the
    Philadelphia or Southern New Jersey environs. I wonder
    who, perhaps among the show's writers, was from that
    area.

    "Second question: my all-time favorite voice on old
    radio belonged to Jack Grimes. Listening to his
    wonderful, crisp juvenile voice on Let's Pretend or
    the Smilin Ed McDonnell program each Saturday morning
    (which, by the way, followed the Chicago-based
    National Farm and Home Hour - "It's a wonderful day
    here in Chicago !") was a treat in itself. I have
    never found out what happened to Jack Grimes and thus
    present the issue to you."

    Michael

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:54:23 -0400
    From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio Actors Name Change
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    One comes to mind Teddy Bergman aka Alan Reed!

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