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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 138
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      7-24 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      J. LaRosa                             [ Herb Harrison <[removed]@yahoo. ]
      Information Please                    [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      John Todd info                        [ "John Buxbaum" <sorahl@[removed] ]
      Authors who are list members          [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
      Technology & OTR show collecting      [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      Jell-Well Product                     [ Ronald Reeland <ronreeland@[removed]; ]
      7-25 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Jell Well remembered                  [ "Chuck" <yumacool@[removed]; ]
      Re: THE CASEBOOK OF GREGORY HOOD RAD  [ David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed] ]
      Update Westerns: Gunsmoke             [ "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 26 July t  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:10:02 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-24 births/deaths

    July 24th births

    07-24-1802 - Alexandre Dumas - Aisne, France - d. 12-5-1870
    writer: "Works adapted for radio
    07-24-1853 - William Gillette - Hartford, CT - d. 4-29-1937
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
    07-24-1875 - Frank Moulan - NYC - d. 5-13-1939
    comedian: "Roxy and His Gang"
    07-24-1878 - Lord Dunsany - London, England - d. 10-25-1957
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
    07-24-1888 - Basil Ruysdael - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-10-1960
    announcer: "Beggar's Bowl"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-24-1898 - Amelia Earhart - Atchinson, KS - d. 7-2-1937
    aviatrix: "Amelia Earhart", "Cities Service Concerts"
    07-24-1901 - Mabel Albertson - Lynn, MA - d. 9-28-1982
    actor: (Sister of Jack Albertson) "The Phil Baker Show"
    07-24-1903 - Hazel Arth - d. 3-17-1991
    second place winner Atwater-Kent National Radio Auditions
    07-24-1904 - Delmer Daves - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-17-1977
    movie writer/director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-24-1907 - Glenn Riggs - East McKeesport, PA - d. 9-12-1975
    announcer: "Musical Varities"; "Hop Harrigan"; "Boston Blackie"
    07-24-1911 - Dudley McCarthy - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-3-1987
    auther of radio plays
    07-24-1911 - Jane Hoffman - Seattle, WA - d. 7-26-2004
    actor: "The Author's Studio"
    07-24-1911 - Raymond Edward Johnson - Kenosha, WI - d. 8-15-2001
    actor: Raymond your host "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; Don Winslow "Don
    Winslow of the Navy"
    07-24-1913 - Brian Reece - Noctorum, England - d. 4-12-1962
    actor: Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby "The Advs. of [removed] 49"
    07-24-1913 - Hollace (Vivien) Shaw - Fresno, CA - d. 3-2-1976
    singer: "Blue Velvet"; "Vic Damone and Hollace Shaw Show"
    07-24-1914 - Frank Silvera - Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies - d.
    6-11-1970
    actor: "X Minus One"
    07-24-1914 - Vincent Bogert - New York - d. 11-28-1978
    writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
    07-24-1915 - Lloyd Marx - d. 5-26-1988
    composer, conductor: "Capitol Family Hour"; "Original Amateur Hour"
    07-24-1916 - Bob Eberly - Mechanicville, NY - d. 11-17-1981
    singer: (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
    07-24-1917 - Robert Farnon - Toronto, Canada - d. 4-23-2005
    conductor: "AEFP Farewell Party"; "Songs for America"<<223>>
    07-24-1919 - Jerry Wayne - Buffalo, NY - d. 9-15-1996
    vocalist: Lover "Happy Island"; "Your All-Time Hit Parade"
    07-24-1921 - Billy Taylor - Greenville, SC
    host: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Bing Crosby Show"; "Genius of Duke"
    07-24-1921 - Giuseppe Di Stefano - Motta, Sicily, Italy - d. 3-3-2008
    operatic tenor: "Standard Hour", "Metropolitan Opera"

    July 24th deaths

    01-12-1892 - Ed McConnell - Atlanta, GA - d. 7-24-1954
    host, actor: Smilin' Ed McConnell Show"
    02-19-1917 - John Fenton Murray - Lincoln, NE - d. 7-24-1996
    comedy writer: "Red Skelton  Show"
    03-05-1920 - Virginia Christine - Stanton, IA - d. 7-24-1996
    actor: "Confession"; "Gunsmoke"
    03-23-1917 - Oscar Shumsky - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-24-2000
    violinist: "Voice of Firestone"
    04-02-1934 - Brian Glover - Sheffield, England - d. 7-24-1997
    actor: George Hackett "An American Werewolf in London";
    "[removed]"
    05-14-1914 - Foy Willing - Bosque County, TX - d. 7-24-1978
    singer: (Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage) "Roy Rogers
    Show"
    06-10-1898 - Dorothy Day - NYC - d. 7-24-1975
    actor, writer: "The House Beside the Road"
    07-01-1927 - Grady Bass - d. 7-24-1991
    sportscaster: KSFA Nacogdoches, Texas
    07-14-1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Radzymin, Poland - d. 7-24-1991
    yiddish storyteller: "Earplay"
    07-16-1915 - Joe O'Brien - Yonkers, NY - d. 7-24-2005
    announcer: "Jack and Cliff"; "Rosemary"
    08-16-1915 - Rosie Ledford - Pilot, KY - d. 7-24-1976
    guitar: (Coon Creek Girls) "WLS National Barn Dance"
    09-08-1925 - Peter Sellers - London, England - d. 7-24-1980
    comedian: Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Major Dennis Bloodnok, others
    "Goon Show"
    09-22-1891 - Alfred Shirley - d. 7-24-1967
    actor: Dr. John Watson "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
    10-22-1905 - Constance Bennett - NYC - d. 7-24-1965
    interviewer, panelist: "Constance Bennett Calls on You"; "Leave It to
    the Girls"
    12-23-1909 - Maurice Denham - Beckenham, England - d. 7-24-2002
    actor: "Return of Sherlock Holmes"

    Ron

     ***** WARNING! UNHANDLED BAD CHARACTER!!!!!

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:10:34 -0400
    From: Herb Harrison <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  J. LaRosa

    Jim Cox wrote, about the on air LaRosa firing by Godfrey:

>     In hindsight, what transpired on CBS gave LaRosa a tremendous boost, at
>     least so temporarily. And Ms. Thompson's retort was similar to that of tens
>     of thousands of absolutely shocked Americans who could hardly believe their
>     ears.

    I was nine years old then, and I remember my mother being angry, too; I
    didn't understand all the hoopla, somehow equating it with the anti-Communist
    stuff going on. (My stepfather had previously declared then-President Truman
    a "g*d-dam*ned Commie rat".)
    Anyhow, some years later I saw LaRosa on TV during his short-lived comeback
    attempt, and I didn't like his singing: He ended many lines of the song he
    was singing with "-uh".

    Example:

    'Brother, can you spare me a dime?
    They used to tell me I was building a dream-uh.
    And so I followed the mob-uh.
    When there was earth to plow or guns to bear,
    I was always [removed]'

    I couldn't figure out why everybody had got all upset, since he wasn't such a
    great crooner, with or without Godfrey.

    Well, that's my 40-year-old opinion, & I'm sticking with it!  :)

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:11:22 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Information Please

    The incident with Jan Struther and the Agatha Christie novel Ken remarked
    refers to the following:

    Jan Struther made numerous appearances on the quiz program from 1940 to 1945.
    She was the author of
    MRS. MINIVER and delighted the experts with her charm, and ability to take a
    wisecrack -- as well as give it back. Struther, however, was dropped abruptly
    after innocently answering a question about an Agatha Christie novel. She
    delivered the English title, TEN LITTLE NIGGERS, which was released in the
    [removed] as TEN LITTLE INDIANS. The judges were expecting the American title and
    while they allowed it to pass, discovered after the broadcast that a number
    of people took offense to the answer. This was not uncommon as the titles of
    novels (and movies) were often different from the [removed] to the [removed] She was
    invited back to the series after the matter was quickly settled.

    Dan Golenpaul, the producer/director, was fully aware that a program truly
    spontaneous was going to offer a bit of diversion at times, and this was just
    one of those stepping stones that he and the crew leanered and addressed so
    it could be prevented, if possible, in future broadcasts. There are tons of
    stories about people slipping on the air when the programs were live and this
    was not uncommon.

    Martin Grams,
    author of INFORMATION, PLEASE (Bear Manor Media, 2003)

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:11:55 -0400
    From: "John Buxbaum" <sorahl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  John Todd info
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>     Our pleas for a Digester in the Erie, PA region to verify John Todd's
>     date and place of birth went unheeded.

    I actually have a contact who knows a relative of John Todd. I will see if I
    can get that info.

    John

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:12:03 -0400
    From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Authors who are list members

    Hello all,

    This is particularly directed at Stephen A. Kallis, Jr., however I'm
    interested in input from anyone here.  I haven't seen him post for a while,
    so I hope all is well with him.

    As I was going through some 1980's issues of _Analog Science Fiction,
    Science Fact_, I came across a name that caught my attention.  It was
    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr. who I of course immediately recognized from his posts
    to the list.  It took place in 1948.  I'm not sure if that author is the
    same as the digest member, but I thought I would ask.  While I'm here, I
    would be interested in any other digest members who've been published in
    non-OTR magazines.  I think I read that Martin Grams, Jr. was, but I'm not
    sure about others.  I found a short story in an issue of Astounding that I
    think was written by Jim Harmon, but I'm not sure if it's the same one.  I
    also know that Carlton E. Morse wrote books after his radio career.  Have
    any of you spotted other stories or articles that aren't related to OTR
    written by OTR digest members?  If you're an author, where were you
    published?  Have any of you written for mystery or other fiction magazines
    or publications?  This could prove to be an interesting thread.  I'm always
    interested to see what the very talented people on the digest have written
    and what their interests are in addition to OTR.

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:12:11 -0400
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Technology & OTR show collecting

    I was struck the other day when I saw that a 1 terabyte external USB drive
    was selling for just $90.

    It's amazing to see how much storage has come down. Assuming 128kps mp3 files
    that are 23mb each, that's more than 43,000 shows.

    Back in my old days of collecting shows 12 to an 1800' reel, that would be
    the equivalent of 3583 reels.

    At 13 ounces a reel (I know because I mailed enough of them!), that's more
    than 2900 pounds of recording tape in plastic reels in boxes. A good deal on
    generic Shamrock reel tape in the 1970s and 1980s was $[removed] -- the equivalent
    of almost $[removed] today.

    So to store that many shows on reels would have cost you $11,645 in today's
    dollars. So there's your choice: $89 or $11,645.

    (Double all of this if you assume 64kps recordings).

    This technology is just incredible. The idea that OLD time radio benefits so
    much from NEW technology is a delightful paradox.

    Regards to all
    Joe Webb

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:12:23 -0400
    From: Ronald Reeland <ronreeland@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jell-Well Product

    Martin Grams was seeking information about Jell-Well. Here is a link to some information that I found on Google:  [removed];dat=19260105&id=WgYMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=r0gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4789,360551

    Seems the product was competition for Jello. The item is an ad in a newspaper called Deseret from January 5, 1926

    Ron reeland

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:12:30 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-25 births/deaths

    July 25th births

    07-25-1894 - Isabella Beech - d. 1-3-1972
    food editor: Francis Lee Barton "Mother Knows Best"
    07-25-1894 - Walter Brennan - Swampscott, MA - d. 9-21-1974
    actor: Grandpa Vanderhof "You Can't Take it with You"; Judge Roy Bean
    "Law West of the Pecos"
    07-25-1896 - Leo Russotto - d. 1-29-1978
    musical coach and arranger: "Roxy and His Gang"
    07-25-1899 - Ralph Dumke - South Bend, IN - d. 1-4-1964
    actor: Willie Tompkins "We, the Abbotts"; Pat Plenty "Quality Twins"
    07-25-1900 - Al Pearce - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-2-1961
    comedian: Elmer Blurt "Here Comes Elmer"; "Al Pearce Show"
    07-25-1901 - Lila Lee - Union Hill, NJ - d. 11-13-1973
    actor: "Fleischman's Yeast Hour"
    07-25-1903 - Percy Angwin - d. 9-22-1985
    sportscaster: WSKI Montpelier, Vermont
    07-25-1904 - Bob Beddome - d. 8-xx-1983
    baritone: KFWI San Francisco, California
    07-25-1905 - Harold Peary - San Leandro, CA - d. 3-30-1985
    actor: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve , "Fibber McGee and Molly and The
    Great Gildersleeve"
    07-25-1906 - Johnny Hodges - Cambridge, MA - d. 5-11-1970
    alto saxophonist: "Esquire Jazz Concert"; "Duke Ellington and His
    Orchestra"
    07-25-1907 - Jack Gilford - NYC - d. 6-4-1990
    comedian: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-25-1910 - Ted Dale - d. 7-25-1975
    orchestra leader: :Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-25-1916 - Barbara Vernon - Inverell, Australia - d. 4-6-1978
    writer: "The Gerney"
    07-25-1917 - Arthur Alsberg - NYC - d. 8-7-2004
    wrote comedy routines for Milton Berle and Danny Kaye
    07-25-1918 - Louanne Hogan - St. Paul, MN - d. 1-23-2006
    singer: "One Night Stand"
    07-25-1918 - Nan Grey - Houston, TX - d. 7-25-1993
    actor: Kathy Marshall "Those We Love"
    07-25-1922 - Earl Gillespie - Chicago, IL - d. 12-12-2003
    sportscaster: voice of the Milwaukee Braves
    07-25-1936 - Michael Chapin - Hollywood, CA
    actor: Andy 'Skipper' Barbour "One Man's Family"

    July 25th deaths

    01-08-1892 - Leeman Bone - Arkansas - d. 7-25-1976
    guitarist: "Hoss Hair Pullers"
    01-12-1915 - Martin Agronsky - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-25-1999
    newscaster: "The ABC Morning News"
    03-23-1893 - Arnold Johnson - Chicago, IL - d. 7-25-1975
    bandleader: "The Majestic Theatre Hour"; "True Story Time"
    03-30-1893 - Dennis Hoey - London, England - d. 7-25-1960
    actor: Edward Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
    04-26-1905 - Cecilia Parker - Fort William, Ontario, Canada - d.
    7-25-1993
    actor: "Good News of 1939"; "Mail Call"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-26-1912 - John McGovern - d. 7-25-1985
    actor: Mike Gallagher "Highway Patrol"; Harold Wilkinson "The O'Neills"
    04-29-1912 - Ian Martin - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-25-1981
    actor: Horace Sutton "Young Dr. Malone"; Harry Archer "Meet Corliss
    Archer"
    05-27-1915 - Frank Crane - d. 7-25-1992
    one time president of the Southern California Broadcasters Association
    05-31-1903 - Blanche Stewart - Pennsylvania - d. 7-25-1952
    actor: Brenda "Bob Hope Show"
    07-11-1928 - Hope Miller - d. 7-25-1992
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    07-18-1913 - Eric Pohlmann - Vienna, Austria - d. 7-25-1979
    actor: During WWII broadcast for BBC European Service
    07-25-1910 - Ted Dale - d. 7-25-1975
    orchestra leader: :Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-25-1918 - Nan Grey - Houston, TX - d. 7-25-1993
    actor: Kathy Marshall "Those We Love"
    08-16-1932 - Marianne Moylan - Southampten, NY - d. 7-25-1990
    singer: (The Moylan Sisters) (Angels of the Airwaves) "Moylan Sisters"
    09-02-1912 - Phil Agresta - d. 7-25-1986
    sportscaster: WBT Charlotte, North Carolina
    09-20-1912 - Ron Cochran - d. 7-25-1994
    newscaster: "Sounds of the World"; "Feature Project"
    09-xx-1884 - Henrietta Tedrow - d. 7-25-1948
    actor: Hannah O'Leary "Houseboat Hannah"; Helen Spalding "Woman in
    White"
    10-07-1914 - Alfred Drake - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-25-1992
    singer: "Best Plays"; Broadway Matinee"; "Ford Festival of American
    Music"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:12:45 -0400
    From: "Chuck" <yumacool@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jell Well remembered

    I remember Jell Well very well from my childhood.  My mother always
    purchased it rather than Jello because it was less expensive and tasted the
    same.  I don't know about the advertising behind the product, but I know I
    ate a lot of it

    Chuck

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:14:06 -0400
    From: David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed];
    To: OTR DIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: THE CASEBOOK OF GREGORY HOOD RADIO  SCRIPTS

      OTR fans like myself who are addicted to mysteries as well as
    old radio are in for a treat as  CRIPPIN ABD LANDRU, a small press
    publisher specializing in mystery is just issued a collection of
    14 complete Gregory Hood radio scripts by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green
    the 257 page trade paperback also includes a checklist or log
    for  the entire series.  It's a mystery how the publisher can sell
    this book for only $19.

        The name behind CRIPPIN AND LANDRU should be familiar to fans
    of John Dickson Carr mysteries. It is Douglas Greene, the
    recognized authority on the life and works of [removed] . Carr and
    author of a Carrr biography and several collections of  Carr radio scripts.

         Folks who know me know that when it comes to books dealing
    with radio I have no sales resistance nor do I hesitate to
    encourage others fall into the same trap. I mention this because
    while the publisher of the Gregory Hood specializes in mystery
    fiction at least three of four other volumes can be found on his
    website deal with radio. Two of them are scripts that J D Carr
    wrote for the BBC (13 To the Gallows and Speak of the Devil) Two
    other volumes containing material related to Ellery Queen (The
    Tragedy Of Errors and The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and
    Other Radio Mysteries)......

    And finally, beyond being a good customer to all publishers of radio
    e books I have no financial interest in this company.

    Dave S.

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:14:27 -0400
    From: "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Update Westerns: Gunsmoke
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    In response to the Gunsmoke "audible bedsprings" reference, I have several
    tapes of Gunsmoke dress rehearsals in which the tradition among the actors was
    to become as raucous and profane as possible, knowing that the tapes would
    never be broadcast. The language, complete with curses, obscenities,
    references to bodily functions and clamorous laughter would rival anything on
    HBO today.

    JBelpedio
    Becker College
    Worcester, MA

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:18:19 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 26 July to 1 August

     From Those Were The Days

    7/30

    1937   The American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) was organized. It
    was part of the American Federation of Labor. The union was for all
    radio performers except musicians. The union later became The American
    Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to include TV folk,
    as well.

    1942   Stage Door Canteen was first heard on CBS. The show was broadcast
    from New York City and 500 servicemen were entertained each week by
    celebrities who freely donated their time for the war effort.

    7/31

    1933    listeners turned up the radio on this day to hear the announcer
    introduce "Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy!" The show was one of
    the longest running adventure programs on radio, continuing until 1951.

    Joe

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