Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #191
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Date: 6/30/2007 3:52 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 191
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Heaston, name change                  [ "Lois Culver" <loiseula@[removed] ]
      HV mimic on Benny                     [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
      Amos & Andy                           [ "[removed]" <asajb2000@ ]
      6-30 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Re: Listening to the Radio            [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
      Help: Bill Conrad's Book of Photogra  [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:49:55 -0400
    From: "Lois Culver" <loiseula@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Heaston, name change

    Stephen Davis asks:

>     at the end of each "Let George do it" during 1949, the announcer identifies
>     himself as John Heaston.  Is this the same announcer who was "last, but not
>     least'n, with Bud Heaston" on the Burns & Allen show during 1940-41?

    I imagine that the man you are referring to is John Hiestand/Bud Hiestand.
    He was in radio in the Hollywood scene as announcer, producer, etc.  He was
    working at KFI Los Angeles as a producer at the same time I worked there.
    (1944 on)

    Lois Culver

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:58:10 -0400
    From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  HV mimic on Benny

    Michael Berger asked:

>     imitation of the famed newscaster HV Kaltenborn that cracked up the
>     audience,

    That's the talented Ollie O'Toole.

    --Laura Leff
    President, IJBFC
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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:58:35 -0400
    From: "[removed]" <asajb2000@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Amos & Andy
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    My dad was a child in the 1930's and he remembered that during A & A, they
    used to stop the movies during an afternoon at the mopvies at the local
    theater (Paramount in Brooklyn) and air Amos and Andy and then continue on
    with the film presentation.  This was very common, especially with something
    as influential as Amos & Andy.

    Andy Blatt

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:11:05 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-30 births/deaths

    June 30th births

    06-30-1879 - Walter Hampden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-11-1955
    actor: Leonidas Witherall "Leonidas Witherall"
    06-30-1891 - Man Mountain Dean - NYC - d. 5-29-1953
    professional wrestler: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-30-1894 - Phillips Carlin - NYC - d. 8-27-1971
    announcer: "Palmolive Hour"; "Atwater Kent Hour"
    06-30-1896 - Wilfred Pelletier - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-9-1982
    conductor: "Roses and Drums"; "Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air"
    06-30-1898 - Carl Pierce - Quincy, MA - d. 8-16-1962
    announcer: "Breakfast at Sardi's"; "The Right Thing to Do"
    06-30-1898 - George Chandler - Waukegan, IL - d. 6-10-1985
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-30-1899 - Santos Ortega - NYC - d. 4-10-1976
    actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Richard Queen "Advs. of
    Ellery Queen"
    06-30-1900 - Frank Gallop - Boston, MA - d. 5-17-1988
    announcer: "Milton Berle Show"; "Gangbusters"; "Stella Dallas"
    06-30-1904 - Glenda Farrell - Enid,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-1-1971
    opposing pitcher: "Quizzer's Baseball"
    06-30-1905 - Nestor Paiva - Fresno, CA - d. 9-9-1966
    actor: "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Escape"
    06-30-1910 - Sundra Love - Chicago, IL
    actor: Kay Fairchild "Stepmother"; Ethel Foster "Guiding Light"
    06-30-1913 - Harry Wismer - Port Huron, MI - d. 12-3-1967
    sportscaster: "Harry Wismer Sports Show"; "Champion Roll Call"
    06-30-1917 - Buddy Rich - NYC - d. 4-2-1987
    drummer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Tommy Dorsey and His
    Orchestra"
    06-30-1917 - Lena Horne - Brooklyn, NY
    singer: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
    06-30-1917 - Susan Hayward - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-1975
    actor: "Radio Almanac"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-30-1918 - Stewart Foster - Binghamton, NY - d. 2-7-1968
    singer: "Stewart Foster Show"; "Galen Drake"; "On a Sunday Afternoon"
    06-30-1920 - Dean Harens - South Bend, IN - d. 5-20-1996
    actor: Arthur Anderson "We, the Abbotts"

    June 30th deaths

    02-20-1906 - Gale Gordon - NYC - d. 6-30-1995
    actor: Mayor LaTrivia "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Osgood Conklin "Our
    Miss Brooks"
    05-04-1903 - Elmer Leyden - Davenport, IA - d. 6-30-1973
    football player: "One of the Four Horseman" "Information Please"
    05-18-1904 - Fred Shields - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-30-1974
    actor: Bill Fraser "Tarzan"
    05-29-1909 - Oliver Wakefield - Mahlabitini, South Africa - d. 6-30-1956
    comedian: "The Chesterfield Program"; "Fox Fur Trappers"
    06-20-1905 - Lillian Hellman - New Orleans, LA - d. 6-30-1984
    author: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    06-20-1924 - Chet Atkins - Luttrell, TN - d. 6-30-2001
    guitarist: "Boone County Neighbors"; "Grand Ole Opry"
    06-23-1908 - Mary Livingston - Vancouver, Canada - d. 6-30-1983
    comedienne: (wife of Jack Benny) "Jack Benny Program"
    07-26-1906 - Galen Drake - Kokomo, IN - d. 6-30-1989
    commentator: "Galen Drake"
    08-26-1873 - Lee De Forest - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-30-1961
    inventor: Audion tube
    09-23-1901 - Frederick Hazlitt Brennan - d. 6-30-1962
    writer: "Shorty Bell" based on Brennan's stories
    09-26-1921 - Russ Atwood - d. 6-30-1992
    disk jockey: WMAS Springfield, Massachusetts
    10-02-1928 - George 'Spanky' McFarland - Dallas, TX - d. 6-30-1993
    actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
    10-10-1920 - Bernard Grant - The Bronx - d. 6-30-2004
    actor: "Rober Kilgore"; "Big Story"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:02:54 -0400
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: 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.

    It's funny you mention this because I was recently wondering the same
    thing. Just last week, I ran across this little paragraph in the
    February 17, 1923 Oil City Derrick, a Pennsylvania newspaper. It's
    about the broadcast of a circa 1909 play called "The Third Degree" by
    Schenectady's WGY Players:

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    RADIO PLAY HEARD BY NUMBER OF FANS

    Eighty spectators "listened in" [in] Young's Electric store last
    evening to a radio play, "The First [sic] Degree," which was being
    broadcasted by the General Electric Co.'s station WGY at Schenectady,
    N. Y. The entire play, four acts, was heard very distinctly and music
    was furnished between the acts by the WGY orchestra. The store will be
    open to those who wish to "listen in" on the radio Tuesday and Friday
    nights and a play is scheduled to be broadcast from WGY every week.
    This is the second [sic, more like the 27th] play to be sent out from
    that station.
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    Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:45:23 -0400
    From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Help:  Bill Conrad's Book of Photographs

    I have a small combbound book of Bill Conrad's close-up photographs of a
    beach, published in 1949 by Noel Young Press.  The book is called
    WATERSEDGE SANTA BARBARA.

    Conrad signed this copy of the book "For "Frankie" Fowler, with warmest
    personal regards.  Bill Conrad, Christmas 1949."

    The first name, which is in quotes, is hard to decipher.  It looks like
    Frankie, but it could possibly be Frontier or Frontline.

    Google told me that in Conrad's unbought TV pilot "The Murder That
    Wouldn't Die," one of the characters is named police Lt. Frank Fowler.
    Wonder if it's a tribute to whomever this book was given?

    Also, Frank Fowler is the real name of screenwriter Borden Chase,who
    wrote a film that Conrad was in.

    Finally, he dedicated the book to Hope.  Wife?  Daughter?

    Thanks!

    ---Dan, [removed]

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