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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 188
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
12-6 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
BBC 'Radio Times' archive [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
12-7 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Halloween SummersTime posted [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
12-9 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 8-15 Dece [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:06:16 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-6 births/deaths
December 6th births
12-06-1887 - Lynn Fontanne - Waterford, England - d. 7-30-1983
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Biography In Sound"
12-06-1888 - Will Hay - Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 4-18-1949
comedian: British Radio
12-06-1893 - Alma Platts - d. 7-13-1970
actor: "The World's Great Novels"
12-06-1895 - Lou Little - Boston, MA - d. 5-28-1979
football coach: "Football Forecasts"; "Friday Night Quarterback"
12-06-1896 - Ira Gershwin - NYC - d. 8-17-1983
songwriter: "Lady in the Dark"; "Jolson Story"; "Barkleys of Broadway"
12-06-1898 - Eric Sagerquist - Karlstad, Sweden - d. 9-11-1944
orchestra leader/violinist: "First Nighter"; Romantic Melodies"
12-06-1898 - Gunnar Myrdal - Gustafs, Sweden - d. 5-17-1987
1974 nobel prize winner in economics: "United Nations Today"
12-06-1898 - Jack Beall - Waxahachie, TX - d. 1-1-1963
newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "American Legion Presents"
12-06-1900 - Agnes Moorehead - Clinton, MA - d. 4-30-1974
actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"; Marilly "Mayor of the Town"
12-06-1900 - Robert Effros - London, England - d. 9-12-1983
trumpeter: "Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra", "Your Hit Parade"
12-06-1903 - Hugh Farr - Llano, TX - d. 3-17-1980
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
12-06-1904 - Elissa Landi - Venice, Italy - d. 10-21-1948
actor: "I'm An American"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-06-1904 - Eve Curie Lubouisse - Paris, France - d. 10-22-2007
writer: (Daughter of Marie Curie) "This I Believe"
12-06-1909 - Lyn Murray - London, England - d. 5-20-1989
conductor: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Ford Theatre"
12-06-1913 - Karl Haas - Speyer-on-the-Rhine, Germany - d. 2-6-2005
musician, broadcaster: "Adventures in Good Music"
12-06-1913 - Oswald Hoffman - Nebraska - d. 9-8-2005
preacher: "The Lutheran Hour"
12-06-1916 - Elmore Balthis - d. 10-31-1989
newscaster: KCOK Tulare, California
12-06-1919 - Bob Blagg - d. 12-19-1998
disk jockey: WDNE Elkins, West Virginia
12-06-1920 - Dave Brubeck - Concord, CA - d. 12-5-2012
jazz musician: "Dave Brubeck Quartet"
12-06-1920 - Howard Atwell - d. 3-20-2002
disk jockey: WVPO Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
12-06-1924 - Eric Merriman - Golders Green, England - d. 6-2-2003
writer, creator: "Beyond Our Ken"
12-06-1924 - Susanna Foster - Chicago, IL - d. 1-17-2009
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Mail Call"
12-06-1924 - Wally Cox - Detroit, MI - d. 2-15-1973
comedian: "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Wally Cox Show"
12-06-1925 - Robert William Cooke - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-5-1993
saxophonist: "Stan Kenton and His Orchestra"
12-06-1926 - Carroll Abbott - d. 7-6-1984
sportscaster in Kerrville, Texas
12-06-1934 - Vivienne Garrett - Iowa
writer: "Breast Stroke"
December 6th deaths
01-03-1911 - Al Sack - NYC - d. 12-6-1947
orchestra leader: "Beula Show"; "Tony Martin Show"; "Frank Morgan Show"
01-07-1908 - Eliot Daniel - Massachusetts - d. 12-6-1997
music: "Fabulous Dr. Tweddy"; "The King's Men"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
01-11-1910 - Izler Soloman - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-6-1987
conductor: "Design for Living"; "Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra!
01-19-1909 - Hans Hotter - Offenback am Main, Germany - d. 12-6-2003
bass-baritone: "Metropolitan Opera"
01-29-1885 - Leadbelly (Huddie Leadbetter) - Louisiana - d. 12-6-1949
jazz musician: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin street"
02-02-1893 - Len Doyle - Toledo, OH - d. 12-6-1959
actor: Harrington "Mr, Distric Attorney"
02-23-1892 - Kathleen Harrison - Blackburn, England - d. 12-6-1995
actor: ""Meet the Huggetts"
03-22-1899 - Douglas Stanbury - Canada - d. 12-6-1980
baritone: "Roxy's Gang"; "Kraft Music Hall"
04-07-1915 - Fred B. Cole - Hingham, MA - d. 12-6-2007
voice of the big bands
05-23-1912 - John Payne - Roanoke, VA - d. 12-6-1989
actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-31-1908 - Don Ameche - Kenosha, WI - d. 12-6-1993
actor, singer: John Bickerson "Bickersons"; Captain Hughes "Jack
Armstrong"
06-30-1910 - Sundra Love - Chicago, IL - d. 12-6-1996
actor: Kay Fairchild "Stepmother"; Ethel Foster "Guiding Light"
08-01-1910 - Jerry Mann - NYC - d. 12-6-1987
singer: (The Jerry Mann Voices) "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"
09-12-1897 - Walter B. Gibson - Germantown, PA - d. 12-6-1985
creater of "The Shadow"; writer for "The Avenger"
09-24-1921 - Edward Bryce - Allenport, PA - d. 12-6-1999
actor: Captain Strong "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
10-05-1911 - Jonquil Anthony/Antony - London, England - d. 12-6-1980
scriptwriter: "Mrs. Dale's Diary"
10-13-1917 - Burr Tillstrom - Chicago, IL - d. 12-6-1985
actor, puppeteer: "The Northerners"; "Kukla, Fran and Ollie"
11-01-1942 - Michael Zaslow - Inglewood, CA - d. 12-6-1998
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery 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"
11-12-1940 - Robert Francis Boulanger - Lewiston, ME - d. 12-6-2005
sang on the radio at the age of 7
11-23-1915 - Ellen Drew - Kansas City, MO - d. 12-6-2003
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
11-24-1925 - Alum Owen - Menai Bridge, North Wales - d. 12-6-1994
writer: "Two Sons"; "It Looks Like Rain"
12-26-1874 - Leon Rothier - Rheims, France - d. 12-6-1951
opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
Ron
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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:06:22 -0500
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To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: BBC 'Radio Times' archive
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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:06:31 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-7 births/deaths
December 7th births
12-07-1879 - Rudolf Friml - Prague, Bohemia - d. 11-12-1972
operetta composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
12-07-1888 - Heywood Broun - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-18-1939
theatre critic: "Author, Author"; "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
12-07-1892 - Fay Bainter - Los Angeles, CA, - d. 4-16-1968
actor: "Nobody's Children"; "Cavalcade of America"
12-07-1901 - Jack Taylor - Summershade, KY - d. 8-4-1962
singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Smile-a-While"
12-07-1904 - Bob Brown - NYC - d. 2-14-1988
announcer: "Vic and Sade"; "Quicksilver"; "This Amazing America"
12-07-1905 - Charles Magnante - d. 12-30-1986
accordionist: "Major Bowes Capitol Family"; "Singin' Sam"; "Tony and
Gus"
12-07-1905 - Leonard Goldenson - Scottsdale, PA - d. 12-27-1999
owner of the ABC network
12-07-1906 - Fred Stewart - Atlanta, GA - d. 12-5-1970
actor: "The Columbia Workshop"
12-07-1908 - Beatrice Churchill - d. 12-13-2006
actor: Betty Drake "Betty and Bob"
12-07-1909 - Arch Oboler - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1987
writer: 'Lights Out"; "Adam and Eve skit on Bergen/McCarthy"
12-07-1910 - Charles Baltin - d. 11-9-1992
newscaster: WHOM Jersey City, New Jersey
12-07-1910 - Rod Cameron - Calgary, Alberta, Canada - d. 12-21-1983
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
12-07-1912 - Louis Prima - New Orleans,LA - d. 8-24-1978
jazz trumpeter: "You Can't Have Everything"; "Songs by Sinatra"; "The
Navy Swings"
12-07-1915 - Eli Wallach - Brooklyn, NY
actor: "Eternal Light"
12-07-1916 - Dorothea Brooking - Buckinghamshire, England - d. 3-23-1999
announcer for the BBC
12-07-1918 - Hurd Hatfield - NYC - d. 12-25-1998
actor: "Best Plays"; "Crime Does Not Pay"
12-07-1918 - Randy Atcher - d. 10-9-2002
disk jockey: "Old Kentucky Barn Dance"
12-07-1920 - Frances Gifford - Long Beach, CA - d. 1-22-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-07-1922 - Don Maddox - Boaz, AL
"The Maddox Brothers and Rose"
12-07-1928 - Rosemary Squires - Bristol, Avon, England
singer: "Children's Hour"
12-07-1939 - Nomi Mitty - NYC - d. 8-24-1994
actor: "The Goldbergs"
December 7th deaths
01-12-1916 - Jay McShann - Muskogee, OK - d. 12-7-2006
jazz pianist and bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Jazz Alive"
02-27-1910 - Joan Bennett - Palisades, NJ - d. 12-7-1990
actor: "Ford Theatre"; "MGM Theatre of the Air"; "Skippy Hollywood
Theatre"
03-01-1921 - Kenny Baker - Yorkshire, England - d. 12-7-1999
trumpeter: "Let's Settle for Music"
03-06-1904 - Hugh Williams - Bexhill-on-Sea, England - d. 12-7-1969
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
03-12-1914 - Loretta Poynton - Jackson, MI - d. 12-7-1991
actor: Betty Fairfield "Jack Armstrong"; Ruth Morrow "Flying Time"
03-25-1919 - Jeanne Cagney - NYC - d. 12-7-1984
actor: (Sister of James Cagney) "Movietone Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
04-01-1884 - Laurette Taylor - NYC - d. 12-7-1946
actor: "The Everedy Hour"
04-10-1915 - Harry (Henry) Morgan - Detroit, MI - d. 12-7-2011
actor: "Mystery in the Air"
04-17-1897 - Thornton Wilder - Madison, WI - d. 12-7-1975
writer: "This Is My Best"
06-07-1891 - Alois Havrilla - Pressov, Hungary - d. 12-7-1952
announcer: "Campbell Soup Orchestra"; "Jack Benny Program"
06-21-1925 - Desmond Briscoe - Birkenhead, England - d. 12-7-2006
sound technician and effects cooridinator for the BBC Radio
06-23-1914 - Nat Hiken - Chicago, IL - d. 12-7-1968
creator, director, writer: "Magnificent Montague"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
07-01-1913 - Dolph Nelson - d. 12-7-1981
actor, director: "Captain Midnight"; "Art Linkletter's House Party"
07-04-1883 - Rube Goldberg - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-7-1970
cartoonist: "Famous Comic Artists"; "The Shell Show"; "Biography in
Sound"
07-12-1895 - Kirsten Flagstad - Hamar, Norway - d. 12-7-1962
opera singer: "General Motors Concerts"; "Metropolitan Opera"
08-07-1904 - Dr. Ralph Bunche - Detroit, MI - d. 12-7-1971
activist: "The Big Show"
09-27-1918 - Barclay Allen - d. 12-7-1966
pianist/composer: "Freddy Martin, His Singing Saxophone and His
Orchestra"
09-29-1910 - Bill Boyd - Fannin County, Texas - d. 12-7-1977
singer: (Cowboy Ramblers) WRR Dallas, Texas
09-30-1911 - Jerry Scoggins - Mount Pleasant, TX - d. 12-7-2004
singer: (Member of the Cass County Boys) "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"
10-17-1910 - George W. Briggs, Jr. - Taunton, MA - d. 12-7-1994
staff pianist and arranger for WBZ radio
12-15-1901 - Gail Bonney - Columbus, OH - d. 12-7-1984
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Joan Davis Time"; "NBC University Theatre"
Ron
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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:11:27 -0500
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Halloween SummersTime posted
Folks;
Finally got the Halloween edition of SummersTime posted to the [removed]
you're in the mood for a little more fright before the upcoming holiday
season, give it a listen. In this special, Kate and I are broadcasting direct
from the Nostalgialand Cemetary, where old media are buried!
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to the podcast, either with the RSS feed or iTunes button directly on the
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Charlie (who's working on a non-Christmas special for next week)
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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:11:37 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-9 births/deaths
December 9th births
12-09-1888 - John Henry Bodkin - Chicago, IL - d. 10-28-1967
director: Abundant Life Mixed Chorus "Operatic Night"
12-09-1897 - Herb Lytton - d. 6-26-1981
actor: Bill Johnson "Gallant Heart"
12-09-1897 - Hermione Gingold - London, England - d. 5-24-1987
actor: "Stagestruck"
12-09-1902 - Brace Beemer - Mount Carmel, IL - d. 3-1-1965
actor: Lone Ranger "Lone Ranger"
12-09-1902 - Joe Quillan - d. 12-30-1983
writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"; "Our Miss Brooks"
12-09-1902 - Margaret Hamilton - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-16-1985
actor: Aunt Effie "Couple Next Door"; "The Free Company"
12-09-1903 - Matty Malneck - Newark, NJ - d. 2-25-1981
bandleader: "Campana Serenade"; "Duffy's Tavern"
12-09-1904 - Jerry Lesser - Cleveland, OH - d. unknown
actor: Dr. Benson "Life of Mary Sothern"; Brocco "Fight Camp"
12-09-1905 - Dalton Trumbo - Montrose, CO - d. 9-10-1976
writer: (member of infamous Hollywood Ten); "Arch Oboler's Plays"
12-09-1906 - Freddy Martin - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-30-1983
bandleader: "Penthouse Serenade"; "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Jack Carson Show"
12-09-1906 - Ken Niles - Livingston, MT - d. 10-31-1988
announcer: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "A Date with Judy"
12-09-1909 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - NYC - d. 5-7-2000
actor: "Silent Men"; "This Is War"; "We Care"
12-09-1911 - Broderick Crawford - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-26-1986
actor: "Hedda Hopper Show"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; Cavalcade of America"
12-09-1912 - Bartlett Robinson - NYC - d. 3-26-1986
actor: Walter Manning "Portia Faces Life"; Perry Mason "Perry Mason"
12-09-1912 - Philip Guest Adams - d. 1-3-1998
actor: "The Green Hornet"; "Gangbusters"
12-09-1914 - Frances Reid - Wichita Falls, TX - d. 2-3-2010
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
12-09-1915 - Bob Emerick - Tacoma, WA - d. 6-1-1973
announcer: "Two Thousand Plus"; "Mr. Feathers"; "Special Agent"
12-09-1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Jarotschin, Posen, Germany - d.
8-3-2006
singer: Austrian Radio
12-09-1916 - Kirk Douglas - Amsterdam, NY
actor: "Doris Day Show"; "Hollywood Byline"; "Screen Director's
Playhouse"
12-09-1918 - George Heinemann - d. 8-21-1996
creator: "Faces in the Window"
12-09-1919 - Gil Rodin - Russia - d. 6-17-1974
saxophone: "The Bob Crosby Show"
12-09-1925 - Patricia Wheel - NYC - d. 6-3-1986
actor: "Stroke of Fate"; "Crime and Peter Chambers"
12-09-1927 - Benny Green - Leeds, England - d. 6-22-1998
musician, conversationalist, writer: ""Stop the Week"; "Kaleidoscope"
12-09-1928 - Dick Van Patten - Richmond Hill, Queens, NY
actor: Wilfred Finnegan "Duffy's Tavern"; "Let's Pretend"; Jimmy Dugan
"Reg'lar Fellers"
12-09-1932 - Bill Hartack - Ebensburg, PA - d. 11-26-2007
jockey: "Tops in Sports"
12-09-1934 - Dame Judi Dench - York, England
actor: Renaissance Theatre Company in association with BBC Radio Drama
12-09-1934 - Junior Wells - Memphis, TN - d. 1-15-1998
harmonica player: Muddy Waters Band
12-09-1940 - Samar Attar - Damascus, Syria
writer: "Australia Day"
December 9th deaths
01-03-1898 - John Loder - London, England - d. 12-9-1988
actor, host: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"
01-07-1922 - Vincent Gardenia - Naples, Italy - d. 12-9-1992
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-22-1907 - Douglas 'Wrong-Way' Corrigan - Galveston, TX - d. 12-9-1995
intrepid pilot: "Believe It or Not"
01-28-1912 - Monty Masters - New Haven, CT - d. 12-9-1969
actor, producer: "The Mad Masters"; "Candy Matson"
02-15-1899 - Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Beatrice Malleson) - London,
England - d. 12-9-1973
author: "Black Death"
02-29-1896 - William A. Wellman - Brookline, MA - d. 12-9-1975
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
03-13-1898 - Donald MacDonald - Denison, TX - d. 12-9-1959
actor: Willie the Weep "Big Town"
03-19-1906 - Pat Adelman - d. 12-9-1982
sportscaster: Austin, Texas
03-21-1911 - Henny Backus - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-9-2004
actor: "Romance"
04-28-1922 - Phil Tate - Bramley, England - d. 12-9-2005
host: "Non-Stop Pop"
06-05-1940 - David Brudnoy - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-9-2004
radio personality WBZ Boston, Massachusetts
06-14-1919 - Gene Barry - NYC - d. 12-9-2009
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-26-1877 - William Hiram Foulkes - d. 12-9-1961
presbyterian leader: mid-week inspirational talks
07-16-1928 - Robert Sheckley - NYC - d. 12-9-2005
writer: "X-Minus One"
07-28-1916 - Laird Cregar - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-9-1944
actor: "Hello, Americans"; "Radio Hall of Fame"; "Suspense"
08-06-1881 - Louella Parsons - Freeport, IL - d. 12-9-1972
commentator: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Louella Parsons"
08-06-1912 - Marina Koshetz - Moscow, Russia - d. 12-9-2000
singer: "Kraft Music Hall"
08-08-1905 - Nino Martini - Verona, Italy - d. 12-9-1976
singer: "Seven Star Revue"
08-17-1919 - Georgia Gibbs - Worcester, MA - d. 12-9-2006
singer: (Her Nibs) "Your Hit Parade"; "Camel Caravan"; "Philco Hall of
Fame"
10-09-1912 - Walter Compton - Charleston, SC - d. 12-9-1959
quizmaster: "Double or Nothing"
11-21-1908 - Marian Young Taylor - Star Lake, NY - d. 12-9-1973
commentator: "Martha Deane Show";
11-21-1921 - Vivian Blaine - Newark, NJ - d. 12-9-1995
actor, singer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-08-1928 - Jay "Jaybird" Drennan - d. 12-9-2006
country music disk jockey (Akron, Ohio)
12-13-1913 - Archie Moore - Benoit, MS - d. 12-9-1998
light heavyweight boxing champion: "Tops in Sports"
12-18-1909 - George Fisher - d. 12-9-1987
hollywood reporter: "Hollywood Whispers"; "Hollywood Gossip"
12-25-1909 - Mike Mazurki - Tarnopol, Austria - d. 12-9-1990
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
Ron
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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:11:43 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 8-15 December
From Those Were The Days -
12/9
1940 The Longines Watch Company signed for the first FM radio
advertising contract with experimental station W2XOR in New York City.
The ads ran for 26 weeks and promoted the Longines time signals.
12/10
1927 For the first time, famed radio announcer George Hay introduced
the WSM Barn Dance as The Grand Ole Opry.
12/11
1944 The Chesterfield Supper Club debuted on NBC. Perry Como, Jo
Stafford and many other stars of the day shared the spotlight on the 15
minute show that aired five nights a week. The show was sponsored by
Chesterfield cigarettes.
(Little humour here: The first display of the Northern Lights was
recorded in America. The sighting was made in New England on this day in
1719. The report said that a mysterious face seemed to appear in the
atmosphere; and, since most aurora borealis displays occur in September
and October and again in March and April, this is very strange, indeed!
(The green, red, and frost white light displays occur most frequently
when there is a great deal of sunspot activity.
(Old joke. Phil Harris and Alice Faye go to Alaska to see the Northern
Lights. While watching them Phil notices Alice yawning and asks, "Does
the aurora bore ya Alice?")
12/12
From The [removed]
1901 Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first
transatlantic radio transmission in St. John's Newfoundland.
From Those Were The Days
1937 The Federal Communications Commission was a bit upset with NBC.
The FCC scolded the radio network for a skit that starred Mae West. The
satirical routine was based on the biblical tale of Adam and Eve but
West's "suggestive" reading was not to network standards. So, following
its scolding by the FCC, NBC banned Miss West from its airwaves several
years. Even the mere mention of her name on NBC was a no no, it is said.
12/13
1942 The characters of Allen's Alley were presented for the first time
on The Fred Allen Show. This particular segment of the show became very
popular and was used by Allen until 1949. Remember the stops along the
way in Allen's Alley? They were at the Brooklyn tenement of Mrs.
Nussbaum, the farmhouse of Titus Moody, the shack of Ajax Cassidy and
the antebellum mansion of Senator Beauregard Claghorn.
12/14
1953 Fred Allen returned from semi-retirement to narrate Prokofiev's
classic, Peter and the Wolf, on the Bell Telephone Hour on NBC.
Joe
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