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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 38
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      2-19 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Shadow Reprints                   [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
      "Sketches"                            [ Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed] ]
      "Green Lantern" radio connection      [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      Yesterday USA Special                 [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      ADMINISTRIVIA: Oops.                  [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]

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    Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:41:47 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-19 births/deaths

    February 19th births

    02-19-1893 - Cedric Hardwicke - Stourbridge, England - d. 8-6-1964
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "BBC Home Theatre"; Winston Churchill "These
    Four Men"
    02-19-1895 - Louie Calhern - NYC - d. 5-12-1956
    actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"
    02-19-1896 - Eddie Jackson - d. 7-16-1980
    comic: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Mail Call"; "Big Show"
    02-19-1899 - Carl Matthews - Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-3-1959
    actor: "The Cuckoo Hour"
    02-19-1901 - William Post, Jr. - d. 9-26-1989
    actor: John Perry "John's Other Wife"
    02-19-1902 - Eddie Peabody - Reading, MA - d. 11-7-70
    banjoist: (The Banjo King) "National Barn Dance"
    02-19-1902 - Kay Boyle - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-27-1992
    writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
    02-19-1910 - Lionel Clouser - Shamokin, PA - d. 10-17-1942
    musician: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    02-19-1911 - Merle Oberon - Tasmania, Australia - d. 11-23-1979
    actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Stars Over Hollywood"
    02-19-1912 - Saul Chaplin - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-15-1997
    composer
    02-19-1913 - Jack Leonard - NYC - d. 6-17-1988
    singer: (Tommy Dorsey's Band) "Meet the Music"
    02-19-1915 - Dick Emery - London, England - d. 1-2-1983
    comedian: "Educating Archie"
    02-19-1915 - Fred Freiberger - NYC - d. 3-2-2003
    writer: "Suspense"; "Family Theatre"
    02-19-1917 - John Fenton Murray - Lincoln, NE - d. 7-24-1996
    comedy writer: "Red Skelton  Show"
    02-19-1918 - Fay McKenzie - Hollywood, CA
    actor: "Blue Ribbon Town"
    02-19-1921 - Chris Gampel - Montreal, Canada
    actor: "The Eternal Light"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    02-19-1922 - Sandy Becker - NYC - d. 4-9-1996
    actor, announcer: Jerry Malone "Young Dr. Malone"; "Backstage Wife"
    02-19-1924 - Lee Marvin - NYC - d. 8-29-1987
    actor: "Dragnet"
    02-19-1937 - Lee Harding - Australia
    author: Several of his works adapted for radio

    February 19th deaths

    01-03-1920 - Lester Bashara - d. 2-19-1990
    newscaster: KGFW Kearney, Nebraska
    02-22-1915 - Jules Munshin - NYC - d. 2-19-1970
    actor: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    03-13-1918 - Ina Ray Hutton - Chicago, IL - d. 2-19-1984
    bandleader: "Spotlight Bands"
    03-28-1922 - Paul Bartell - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-19-2006
    announcer, disk jockey: "Blue Baron Show"; "Fox Club"
    04-11-1908 - Leo Rosten - Lodz, Poland - d. 2-19-1997
    writer: "Conversation"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Four Star Playhouse"
    04-14-1913 - John Howard - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-19-1995
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    04-23-1921 - Janet Blair - Altoona, PA - d. 2-19-2007
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre", "Abbott and Costello"
    05-03-1909 - Fort Pearson - d. 2-19-1989
    announcer: "Beat the Band"; "Queen for a Day"; "Hoosier Hot Shots"
    07-07-1919 - Brenda Bruce - Manchester, England - d. 2-19-1996
    actor: "Lady in a Fog"
    07-11-1881 - Clarence Budington Kelland - Powers Park, MI - d. 2-19-1964
    writer: "Scattergood Baines"
    07-17-1902 - Edward Gargan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-19-1964
    actor: "This Is Your [removed]"; "This Is Our Heritage"
    07-20-1916 - Mary Barclay - Wilton, Somerset, England - d. 2-19-2008
    actor: "Advs. in Odyssey"
    07-27-1877 - Florence Gill - London, England - d. 2-19-1965
    actor: "Uncle Walter's Doghouse"
    07-29-1892 - Lewis James - Dexter, MI - d. 2-19-1959
    vocalist: "The Mobiloil Concert"; "The Revelers Quartet"
    08-17-1900 - Quincy Howe - Boston, MA - d. 2-19-1977
    newscaster: "Quincy Howe: Comment"
    08-17-1912 - Gogo De Lys - Edmonton, Canada - d. 2-19-2003
    singer: "Carefree Carnival"; "Little Ol' Hollywood"; "Stoopnagle and
    Budd"
    08-23-1926 - Eugene Troopnick - Boston, MA - d. 2-19-2003
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-25-1904 - Alice White - Paterson, NJ - d. 2-19-1983
    actor: Blondie Bumstead "Blondie"
    09-03-1909 - Dorothy Maynor - Norfolk, VA - d. 2-19-1996
    concert soprano: "For America We Sing"; "Freedom's People"
    09-05-1892 - Joseph Szigeti - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 2-19-1973
    violinist: "Camel Caravan"; "Elgin Christmas Party"; "Concert Hall"
    09-23-1913 - Stanley Kramer - NYC - d. 2-19-2001
    film director: "Jack Benny Program"; "Stagestruck"
    09-30-1905 - Michael Powell - Bekesbourne, Kent, England - d. 2-19-1990
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-07-1927 - Don Rickles - Portland, OR - d. 2-19-1985
    announcer: "Nightbeat"; The Whisperer"; "The Whistler"
    10-20-1913 - "Grandpa" Jones - Niagra, KY - d. 2-19-1998
    country singer, banjoist: "Grand Ole Opry"
    12-29-1879 - Billy Mitchell - Nice, France - d. 2-19-1936
    aviator: "The World's Most Honored Flights"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:43:27 -0500
    From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Shadow Reprints

    on 2/18/09 7:57 PM,  booksteve@[removed]  wrote:

>     Sort of off-topic and not necessarily good for our friend Anthony Tollin but
>     a visit to HALF-PRICE BOOKS today found a rather large number of Mr. Tollin's
>     recent SHADOW pulp reprints remaindered! Didn't see any of the DOC SAVAGE
>     ones. If you have a HALF-PRICE BOOKS near you, you can quickly and cheaply
>     establish a nice collection of this great series.

    Actually, the books were remaindered not by me but by my former partners at
    Nostalgia Ventures, despite a clause in our contract requiring that I was to
    have first refusal before any books were remaindered. This was one of many
    reasons why NVI is no longer my publishing partner. The last books
    co-published by Nostalgia Ventures were THE SHADOW #24 and DOC SAVAGE #23
    back in December.

    Under my own Sanctum Books imprint, I have since published THE SHADOW #25
    (which features "The Gray Ghost" and "The White Skulls,"a foreword by
    Everett Raymond Kinstler and "The Red Room," a lost SHADOW radio script by
    Sidney Slon) and DOC SAVAGE #24 (reprinting "The Black, Black Witch" and two
    other World War II thrillers). NVI was also not involved in the
    recently-published SHADOW #9 "Foreshadowing the Batman" variant edition
    which reprints the Shadow novel that was "adapted" as the first Batman
    story.

    Currently at the printer for release later this month: THE SHADOW #26
    ("Vengeance Is Mine!" and "Battle of Greed," plus a lost 1944 CHICK CARTER,
    BOY DETECTIVE radio crossover teaming Nick Carter's adopted son with The
    Shadow and Margot Lane) and DOC SAVAGE #25 ("The Red Skull" and "The Awful
    Egg"). March will see the first volume of my new AVENGER/JUSTICE, INC.
    volumes, reprinting the first two novels from that series along with a
    script from WHN's 1941 (NOT 1945) AVENGER radio series from which no
    recordings survive.

    As always, the books are available at comic stores and other specialty
    bookshops, from Bud Plant and also individually or by subscription from my
    own [removed] website (where one can also view video interviews
    with Walter Gibson, read articles and listen to actual 1931 excerpts of
    Frank Readick narrating mystery stories as The Shadow and even hear the
    opening of the 1940s Brazilian SHADOW series (in case anyone has a burning
    desire to know what "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" sounds
    like in Portuguese."

    Anthony Tollin
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    Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:43:48 -0500
    From: Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: oldtime radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "Sketches"
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    My Mother, in the 40s and 50s, ALWAYS referred to radio soaps, and even my
    kids' shows, as "sketches."

    Apparently she picked up the term from its use in radio schedules.

    But I never heard anybody else refer to radio drama series as "sketches."

    BILL KNOWLTON, "Bluegrass Ramble," Sundays: 9 pm to midnight (EST) over
    WCNY-FM ([removed]) Syracuse, WUNY ([removed]) Utica, WJNY ([removed]) Watertown NY, also:
    [removed]      PO Box 2400, Syracuse NY 13220-2400. 315-457-6100

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    Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:44:06 -0500
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Green Lantern" radio connection
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           Although there never was a program called "The Green Lantern" on OTR,
    there was a radio connection.  My research says that the voice of the
    animated
    "Green Lantern" character was provided by Gerald Mohr, who acted in several
    radio programs during its Golden Age.

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:44:37 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Yesterday USA Special
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    I can't recall posting this on the Digest already or not, so I am sending this
    again in case I didn't.

    Neal Ellis has a program on the Yesterday USA Network called "Sounds Like
    Yesterday." Broadcast every Saturday

    from 3 to 6 pm (EST) he picks a subject and presents three hours of
    programing. One week it was weddings so

    he played a Life of Riley, Nick Carter, Jack Benny, and other episodes that
    centered on a wedding theme. Another

    week it was magicians, another week was beer.

    On February 28, he's having a special broadcast about Rod Serling and his
    radio work. Recordings of radio dramas

    that Serling himself gave serious consideration into adapting for THE TWILIGHT
    ZONE will be highlighted. Neal doesn't

    usually have a guest speaker but in this case, he will be hosting a one-on-one
    interview. It's a little different than

    his usual broadcasts and warrants attention. Anyone interested, check out
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    Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:27:56 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  ADMINISTRIVIA: Oops.

       As some of you discovered when you attempted to read the blog posting, the
    web server had the computer equivilant of a stroke sometime overnight, and
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       That URI again:

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       I appreciate the comments already received, and look forward to additional
    thoughts.

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