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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 193
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      12-18 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Teller of Tales                   [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      Teller of Tales                       [ Ron Vanover <rvanover@[removed]; ]
      Favorite Yule shows                   [ Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed] ]
      Two Questions                         [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
      12-19 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Favorite Christmas & holiday radio p  [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      Re: two questions                     [ "Candy Jens" <candyj@[removed]; ]
      Favorite Radio Programs               [ "Russell S. Hudson" <hudsonatwtsa@y ]

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    Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:47:01 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-18 births/deaths

    December 18th births

    12-18-1864 - S. Parkes Cadman - Wellington, Shropshire, England - d.
    7-12-1936
    preacher: "National Radio Pulpit"
    12-18-1885 - J. Anthony Smythe - San Francisco, CA - d. 3-20-1966
    actor: "Carefree Carnival"; Henry Barbour "One Man's Family"
    12-18-1886 - Ty Cobb - Narrows, GA - d. 7-17-1961
    baseball great: "Coca Cola Top Notchers"; "Baseball: An Action History"
    12-18-1888 - Gladys Cooper - Lewisham, England - d. 11-17-1971
    actor: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    12-18-1890 - Edwin H. Armstrong - NYC - d. 1-31-1954
    inventor: FM radio
    12-18-1891 - Edward Reese - Baltimore, MD
    actor: Spencer Dean "Eno Crime Clues"; "Just Plain Bill"
    12-18-1895 - Harry Kogen - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1985
    violinist: "The Bobby Doyle Show"; "The Breakfast Club"
    12-18-1897 - Fletcher Henderson - Cuthbert, GA - d. 12-29-1952
    jazz orchestra leader: "Jubilee"; "Magic Carpet"
    12-18-1904 - Montana Slim - Guysborough, Novia Scotia - d. 12-5-1996
    singer: Had his own show on CBS
    12-18-1908 - Celia Johnson - Ellerker Gate, Richmond, England - d.
    4-26-1982
    actor: "Desert Island Disks"; Read poetry and short stories during WWII
    12-18-1909 - George Fisher - d. 12-9-1987
    hollywood reporter: "Hollywood Whispers"; "Hollywood Gossip"
    12-18-1910 - Abe Burrows - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1985
    writer: "Abe Burrows Show"; "Danny Kaye Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"
    12-18-1911 - Jerry Lawrence - Rochester, NY - d. 9-24-2005
    host, announcer: "laugh 'N' Swing Club"; "Tom Power's Life Stories"
    12-18-1913 - Alfred Bester - NYC - d. 9-30-1987
    writer: "Charlie Chan"; "Nick Carter, Master Detective"; "The Shadow"
    12-18-1913 - Lynn Bari - Roanoke,  VA - d. 11-20-1989
    actor: "Dan Carson"
    12-18-1915 - Bill Zuckert - NYC - d. 1-23-1997
    actor: Detective. Lieutenant. Parker "Crime and Peter Chambers"
    12-18-1916 - Betty Grable - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-2-1973
    actor: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "So You Want to
    Lead a Band"
    12-18-1916 - Bill McCord - Colville, WA - d. 1-17-2004
    announcer: "The Circle Arrow Show"; "Easy Money"
    12-18-1917 - Ossie Davis - Cogdell, GA - d. 2-4-2005
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Story Hour"
    12-18-1918 - Danny Simon - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-26-2005
    writer: (Brother of Neil)  "The Milton Berle Show"
    12-18-1918 - Hal Kanter - Savannah, GA
    writer: "The Beulah Show"
    12-18-1919 - Ralph Levy - Phildelphia, PA - d. 10-15-2001
    director: "Burns and Allen"
    12-18-1921 - Chili Williams - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-17-2003
    actor: "Mail Call"; "Truth or Consequences"
    12-18-1922 - Bob Dunnavant - Decatur, AL - d. 4-5-2008
    co-founder of the Athens Broadcasting Company
    12-18-1938 - Chas Chandler - Heaton, Newcastle, England - d. 7-17-1996
    rock musician: (The Animals) "Saturday Club"

    December 18th deaths

    01-14-1915 - Mark Goodson - Sacramento, CA - d. 12-18-1992
    producer, director: "Portia Faces Life"; "Stop the Music"
    01-26-1922 - Page Cavanaugh - Cherokee, KS - d. 12-18-2008
    singer: (The Page Cavanaugh Trio) "The Jack Paar Show"
    03-08-1919 - Mavor Moore - Toronto, Canada - d. 12-18-2006
    actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "The Crusoe Boys"
    03-12-1908 - Eugene Conley - Lynn, MA - d. 12-18-1981
    operatic tenor: "NBC Presents Gene Conley"; "Voice of Firestone"
    03-15-1910 - Nick Stewart - NYC - d. 12-18-2000
    actor: "Hollywood Newsreel of the Air"
    03-17-1902 - Bobby Jones - d. 12-18-1971
    renowned golfer, did a 15 minute show on golf
    04-03-1923 - Elon Packard - d. 12-18-1977
    writer: "The Bing Crosby Show"
    04-06-1913 - Don Fedderson - Beresford, SD - d. 12-18-1994
    a vice president of palo alto radio station
    04-24-1907 - John Frank Anders - Upward, NC - d. 12-18-1983
    composer, singer: live radio program in Knoxville, Tennessee
    05-05-1935 - Erwin Frankel - Berlin, Germany - d. 12-18-2012
    Host: "Jazz 'n Things"; "Music From Around the World"
    05-09-1923 - Connie Russell - NYC - d. 12-18-1990
    vocalist: "The Dave Garroway Show"
    05-17-1883 - Ethel Intropidi - NYC - d. 12-18-1946
    actor: Phyllis Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
    06-14-1919 - Sam Wanamaker - Chicago, IL - d. 12-18-1993
    actor: Ellis Smith "The Guiding Light"; "Lone Journey"
    06-25-1903 - Anne Revere - NYC - d. 12-18-1990
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"
    08-30-1916 - Herman Klurfeld - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-18-2006
    ghostwriter for Walter Winchell
    10-01-1885 - Louis Untermeyer - NYC - d. 12-18-1977
    writer: "Information Please"
    10-04-1880 - Homer Rodeheaver - Union Furnace, OH - d. 12-18-1955
    singer/composer: "Come On. Let's Sing"
    10-07-1926 - Diana Lynn - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-18-1971
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    10-11-1897 - Leo Reisman - Boston, MA - d. 12-18-1961
    conductor: "Sheaffer Revue"; "Johnny Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"
    11-02-1914 - Mildred Clinton - NYC - d. 12-18-2010
    actor: "Words at War"; "Cavalcade of America"
    11-20-1937 - Jack Linkletter - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-18-2007
    commercial spokesman: ABC News
    12-01-1898 - Cyril Ritchard - Syndey, Australia - d. 12-18-1977
    actor: "Best Plays"; "United States Steel Hour"; "NBC Star Playhouse"
    12-07-1888 - Heywood Broun - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-18-1939
    theatre critic: "Author, Author"; "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    12-14-1939 - Linda Sutter - Greenwich, CT - d. 12-18-1995
    producer: "Monitor"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:47:08 -0500
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Teller of Tales

    Hello again --
    I know of a couple of rare fifteen-minute broadcasts of a program called
    "Teller of Hawaiian Tales" -- Mike, could that be what you are referring to?
    Jan Bach

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    Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:47:30 -0500
    From: Ron Vanover <rvanover@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Teller of Tales

    Mike Thomas asked if "...anyone here ever heard of a show (otr) called
    "Teller of Tales"?

    I'm not familiar with an OTR series with that precise name, but I do
    have two shows from a series named "Teller of Hawaiian Tales".  The
    programs that I have in my collection feature a historical "tale" about
    Hawaii sandwiched between a musical number at the beginning and end of
    the show.

    Ron Vanover
    [removed]
    Home of the Old-Time Radio Hard Drive

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    Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:26:10 -0500
    From: Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed];
    To: Old Radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Favorite Yule shows

    Two of my favorite Christmas shows:

    -- "Room for a Stranger," starring Frank Sinatra as a pilot home for
    Christmas, originally broadcast Dec. 19, 1946, on Hallmark's Radio Reader's
    Digest over CBS.

    -- "Why the Chimes Rang," starring Harold Peary, and later Willard Waterman,
    as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, who learns an important lesson while reading
    a Christmas story to children. Broadcast several times on "The Great
    Gildersleeve," including Dec. 14, 1949, over NBC.

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    Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:26:18 -0500
    From: <radioaz@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Two Questions

    I can answer one of the questions very quickly: The one show I always listen
    to at Christmas time is Fibber McGee & Molly's Painting the Christmas Tree
    White.

    Ted

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    Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:26:24 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-19 births/deaths

    December 19th births

    12-19-1882 - Bronislaw Huberman - Czestochowa, Poland - d. 6-17-1947
    violinist: "A Tribute to . . . ."
    12-19-1888 - Fritz Reiner - Budapest, Hungary - d. 11-15-1963
    conductor: "Curtis Institute Musicale"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
    12-19-1888 - Mabel Brownell - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-26-1972
    actor: "Polly witha Past"
    12-19-1894 - Ford Frick - Wawaka, IN - d. 4-8-1978
    baseball comissioner: "Baseball: An Action History"; "Play Ball";
    "Tribute to Babe Ruth"
    12-19-1894 - Tess Gardella - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 1-3-1950
    actor: Aunt Jemina "Aunt Jemina"
    12-19-1900 - George T. Bird - Fayette, OH - d. 2-10-1979
    trumpeter, arranger: Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
    12-19-1902 - Mary Michael - Denver, CO - d. 11-6-1980
    actor: Ma Fogart "Big Sister"; Mrs. Kelly "Stepmother"
    12-19-1902 - Ralph Richardson - Cheltenham, England - d. 10-10-1983
    actor: Doctor John H. Watson, "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
    12-19-1907 - Ray Noble - Brighton, England - d. 4-3-1978
    bandleader: "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"
    12-19-1908 - Bill Carlisle - Wakefield, KY - d. 3-17-2003
    performer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    12-19-1908 - Paul Luther - Aylesburg, Canada - d. 11-xx-1978
    actor, announcer: "The Man Behind the Gun"; "Inside Story"
    12-19-1909 - Ed Auxer - d. 8-21-2004
    disk jockey: WSBT South Bend, Indiana
    12-19-1910 - Thelma Bernstein - NYC - d. 5-27-2006
    singer: (Wife of Harry Einstein) Sang on radio
    12-19-1911 - Clark Dennis - Roscommon, MI - d. 11-15-1992
    singer: "Breakfast Club"; "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Chesterfield
    Presents"
    12-19-1912 - Frank Holliday - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-3-1948
    singer: (The Rockaway Four) "The Gay Nineties Revue"
    12-19-1915 - Edith Piaf - Paris, France - d. 10-11-1963
    singer: "The Big Show"
    12-19-1916 - Owen Babbe - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-25-1996
    announcer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
    12-19-1919 - Benedict Freedman - NYC
    writer: "The Red Skelton Show"
    12-19-1919 - Lewis Greifer - London, England - d. 3-18-2003
    writer of comedy sketches: "Take It from Here"; "The Goon Show"
    12-19-1923 - Gordon Jackson - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 1-15-1990
    Freelance actor for the BBC
    12-19-1924 - Rex Barney - Omaha, NE - d. 8-11-1997
    baseball color man: "Game of the Day"
    12-19-1925 - Lillian Clark - Scranton, PA - d. 8-20-1996
    singer: (Clark Sisters) "Jack Smith Show"; "Spotlight Revue"
    12-19-1933 - Cicely Tyson - NYC
    host: "Sears Radio Theatre"; Thursday, Love and Hate Night

    December 19th deaths

    01-12-1912 - Sara Berner - Albany, NY - d. 12-19-1969
    actor: Mable Flapsaddle "Jack Benny Program"
    02-01-1922 - Renata Tebaldi - Pesaro, Italy - d. 12-19-2004
    lyric soprano: "Bell Telephone Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera
    02-24-1895 - May Singhi Breen - NYC - d. 12-19-1970
    singer: (The Ukulele Lady) "Sweethearts of the Air"
    02-25-1912 - Wally Ausley - d. 12-19-1994
    play-by-play for the North Carolina State Wolfpack
    04-16-1913 - Les Tremayne - London, England - d. 12-19-2003
    actor: Nick Charles "Advs. of the Thin Man"; Michael Waring "The Falcon"
    05-21-1894 - Kenyon Nicholson - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 12-19-1986
    writer: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
    06-01-1901 - John Van Druten - London, England - d. 12-19-1957
    writer: "Radio Guild"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour"; "Theatre Guild On the
    Air"
    06-03-1924 - Jimmy Rogers - Ruleville, MS - d. 12-19-1997
    blues singer: "Stars for Defense"; "Here's to Veterans"; "Guest Star"
    06-23-1910 - Milt Hinton - Vicksburg, MS - d. 12-19-2000
    jazz bassist: "Town Hall Concert"; "Monsanto Night: Benny Goodman"
    06-27-1912 - Audrey Christie - Chicago, IL - d. 12-19-1989
    actor: Assistant to Peter Standish "Peter Standish, Medical Examiner"
    07-31-1902 - Robert E. Griffin - Hutchinson, KS - d. 12-19-1960
    actor: Wilbur Ramage "Story of Holly Sloan"; Michael West "Bright
    Horizon"
    09-12-1914 - Desmond Llewelyn - Newport, South Wales - d. 12-19-1999
    actor: Archdeacon Erabazori "Nemesis"
    09-25-1875 - Clyde Fillmore - McConnelsville, OH - d. 12-19-1946
    actor: Sam Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"
    10-02-1900 - Barton Yarborough - Goldthwaite, TX - d. 12-19-1951
    actor: Ben Romero "Dragnet"; Doc Long "I Love A Mystery/Adventure"
    10-11-1918 - Linda Hayes - Sac City, IA - d. 12-19-1995
    actor: "Special Assignment"; "[removed] Jive"
    11-10-1915 - Bob Shepard - NYC - d. 12-19-1993
    announcer: "Pot O' Gold"; "Counterspy"; "Break the Bank"; "You Can"t
    Take it with You"
    11-24-1921 - John V. Lindsay - NYC - d. 12-19-2000
    mayor of new york city: "Meet the Press"; "Apollo 11"
    12-06-1919 - Bob Blagg - d. 12-19-1998
    disk jockey: WDNE Elkins, West Virginia
    12-31-1910 - Irvin Ashkenazy - NYC - d. 12-19-1982
    writer: "Nightbeat"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:26:34 -0500
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Favorite Christmas & holiday radio programs

    Here are my favorites in OTR:
        Christmas Carol by Dickens, starring Lionel Barrymore, 1939
        CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Holiday visit, 1980
        Columbia Workshop, The day they gave babies away, 1939 (?)
        Columbia Workshop, Letter from above, 1939 (?)
    That's good for starters.  I also have some favorite videos.
        Ted
    Ted Kneebone
    Old Time Radio [removed]
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:26:43 -0500
    From: "Candy Jens" <candyj@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: two questions

    A couple favorites:

    Red Skelton's skit where  he, a bum, tries his best to get arrested so he
    can get a warm room and a meal, but everybody gives him a break.

    Green Christmas - Stan Freeberg (sp?)  objects to the commercialization of
    Christmas

    Dragnet - tv and radio? - Friday investigated the theft of a baby Jesus
    statue from a church - turns out a little boy prayed for a wagon and
    promised the baby Jesus He;s have the first ride.  The boy got the wagon and
    fulfilled his promise.

    The Stingiest Man in Town -  record album from a tv show from 'way back - it
    was a flop, but I love the music.

    Merry Christmas!   Candy

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    Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:26:51 -0500
    From: "Russell S. Hudson" <hudsonatwtsa@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Favorite Radio Programs

    I have two favorite Christmas radio programs:

    Family Theatre hosted by Otto Kruger
    "The Other Wise Man"  Dec 14, 1949 Starring Jeff Chandler
    Story by Henry van Dyke

    Matinee Theatre hosted by Victor Jory
    "A Stable in [removed]"  Dec 24, 1944 Starring Marin Gabel
    Story by Charles Tazewell

    Russ Hudson
    Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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