Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #145
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Date: 6/9/2008 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 145
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      6-8 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Obscure Program                       [ <austhaus1@[removed]; ]
      seeking Fred Allen letters            [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
      Re: Dividing Up Old Radio             [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
      Eveready Hour Fragment                [ George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@hotmai ]
      6-9 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Gangbusters Requests                  [ "RyanO" <ryano218@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:42:56 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-8 births/deaths

    June 8th births

    06-08-1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright - Richland Center, WI - d. 4-9-1959
    architect: "Bob Elson on Board the Century"
    06-08-1894 - Charles Frederick Lindsley - Higginsport, OH - d.
    10-31-1960
    judge: "Noah Webster Says"
    06-08-1902 - Elliott Jacoby - NYC - d. 3-28-1977
    composer, conductor: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Maude's Diary"
    06-08-1905 - Ruth Bailey - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 9-30-1989
    actor: "First Nighter"; "Kitty Keene, Inc."; "Guiding Light"
    06-08-1907 - Craig McDonnell - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-1956
    actor: Dinty Moore "Bringing Up Father"; Jolly Rogers "Valiant Lady"
    06-08-1907 - Roy Lockwood - Bristol, England - d. 4-25-2002
    director: "Valiant Lady"
    06-08-1908 - June Meredith - Chicago, IL
    actor: Dorothy Wallace Webb "Attorney-at-Law"
    06-08-1909 - Leland Frederick Cooley - Oakland, CA - d. 10-27-1998
    sportscaster for KNX Los Angeles, California
    06-08-1909 - Leland Frederick Cooley - Oakland, CA - d. 10-27-1998
    writer, emcee: "Andre Kostelanetz Program"; "The Shadow"
    06-08-1910 - John Campbell, Jr. - Newark, NJ - d. 6-11-1971
    writer, host: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "Exploring Tomorrow"
    06-08-1913 - Ray Morgan - d. 1-5-1975
    announcer: "Counterspy"; "Gangbusters"; "Murder at Midnight"
    06-08-1918 - Robert Carroll - North Carolina - d. 11-12-1994
    actor: Inspector Mark Sabre "Molle Mystery Theatre"
    06-08-1918 - Robert Preston - Newton Highlands, MA - d. 3-21-1987
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Medicine USA"; "Silver
    Theatre"
    06-08-1921 - Alexis Smith - Penticton, British Columbia, Canada - d.
    6-9-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars in the Air"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    06-08-1921 - Gordon McLendon - Paris, TX - d. 9-14-1986
    Founder of the Liberty Radio Network
    06-08-1927 - Jerry Stiller - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-08-1931 - Dana Wynter - Berlin, Germany
    actor: "Black Museum"; "Lives of Harry Lime"
    06-08-1933 - Joan Rivers - Brooklyn, NY
    comedienne: "Voices of Vista"

    June 8th deaths

    01-30-1915 - Dorothy Dell - Hattiesburg, MS - d. 6-8-1934
    actor: "Stars of Tomorrow"
    02-16-1893 - Katherine Cornell - Berlin, Germany - d. 6-8-1974
    actor: "Tribute to Ethel Barrymore"; "Victory Clothing Collection"
    02-25-1879 - Frank McIntyre - Ann Arbor, MI - d. 6-8-1949
    actor: Captain Barney "Maxwell House Showboat"; Captain Henry "Showboat"
    05-03-1905 - James Nusser - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-8-1979
    actor: "Gunsmoke"
    06-11-1932 - Ed Bishop - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-8-2005
    disk jockey on Armed Forces Radio
    06-16-1895 - Murray Leinster - Norfolk, VA - d. 6-8-1975
    writer: "Dimension X"
    07-03-1899 - Herb Polesie - d. 6-8-1979
    panelist,director: "Twenty Questions"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
    07-07-1906 - Leroy 'Satchel' Paige - Mobile, AL - d. 6-8-1982
    baseball hall of famer: "Destination Freedom"
    08-01-1904 - Eli Mintz - Lemberg, Austria - d. 6-8-1988
    actor: Uncle David "The Goldbergs"
    08-05-1911 - Robert Taylor - Filley, NE - d. 6-8-1969
    host, actor: "Good News of 1938"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Plays for
    Americans"
    08-26-1903 - Jimmy Rushing - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory - d.
    6-8-1972
    blues singer: "Count Basie and His Orchestra"; "Blue Ribbon Guest Night"
    10-15-1915 - Nellie Lutcher - Lake Charles, LA - d. 6-8-2007
    jazz singer: "Jubilee"; "Spotlight Revue"; "Command Performance"
    12-01-1892 - Harry W. Conn - d. 6-8-1960
    writer: "The Jack Benny Program"
    12-25-1908 - Alton Delmore - Elkmount, AL - d. 6-8-1964
    guitar, singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    12-xx-1889- Captain E. Donald Herne - England - d. 6-8-1941
    aviator: "March of Time"; "Captain Herne Speaking"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:43:09 -0400
    From: <austhaus1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Obscure Program

    An acquaintance of mine has got a hold of a NBC produced 16" ET(vinyl
    pressing) of a program called Wings Over The World which was produced by the
    Sixth Ferrying Group of the Air Transport Command, billeted at Long Beach
    Calif.
    It features the comedic stylings of Private George Durgom in some banter with
    the "pilot" of that particular broadcast, Bing Crosby.

    It has a plain white label with typewritten information of: "Wings Over The
    World"
        August 4, 1943
        Part 1/2
    In the runout grooves the matrices are:
    HD3-MM6422-1
    HD3-MM6423-1

    The announcer identifies it as the Blue Network.

    Can Anybody give him some information about this recording? I have checked in
    6 reference books and find no mention of it.

    Thanks
    George Aust

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:43:32 -0400
    From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  seeking Fred Allen letters

    I'm putting together The Complete Letters of Fred Allen, mostly from the
    Boston Public Library. But I know for a fact that their collection doesn't
    contain All the letters that Fred wrote, as I have a few letters from Alan
    Reed Jr. than Fred wrote to Jr.'s dad, and they aren't in the Boston
    collection. Plus, there's a file in the FA collection there which contains
    all the Return to Sender envelopes that Portland sent to the people she knew
    Fred had written to, when she was compiling the previous Selected Letters of
    FA book. I made a list of those names, and will post it here later, so that
    hopefully someone can give me a lead into the families who might still have
    these. Meantime, if anyone knows someone who has FA letters, PLEASE pass my
    plea on to those people - and pass this on to other OTR organizations that
    might help. I'm sending the same message Sperdvac for inclusion in Radiogram,
    but that's the only other one, so please help if you can. I really
     want the book to be as Complete as possible. THANKS.

    Ben Ohmart

    Old radio. Old movies. New books.
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:44:12 -0400
    From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Dividing Up Old Radio

    At 11:18 AM 6/8/2008 [removed]@[removed] wrote:

> >     the hobby of old-time radio is broken up into four factors.
> >     The recordings, the books, the conventions and the clubs

    There are of course: Zenith, RCA, Philco, FADA, Crosley, DuMont, [removed]

    Don

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:44:55 -0400
    From: George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Eveready Hour Fragment

    George Wagner wrote:

>     There appears to be extant one solitaty, fragmentary broadcast of
>     theEveready Hour, from 1928. Can anybody here help me to track it down? It
>     seems to be the one bit of1920s broadcast material that I'm missing.
>     (Although so much has turned in injust the past year that I hesitate to be
>     dogmatic.) I have a hyperlink to an FM station's archives, which apparently
>     holdsthe broadcast, but when I use the link all I get is that station's LIVE
>     feed.

    The program on WFMU was Thomas Edison's Attic. The home page, with links to
    each episode is here

    [removed]

    You'll have to go thru the playlists to find the episode with the Eveready
    Hour fragment.  As I recall there is no announcer heard, it's just like
    listening to a live recording of a performance (unusual enough for the
    1920s).  There are  recordings of early radio programs on 2 or 3 of the TE
    Attic programs.

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    Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:43:06 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-9 births/deaths

    June 9th births

    06-09-1890 - Leslie Banks - West Derby, England - d. 4-21-1952
    actor: "Theatre of Romance"
    06-09-1891 - Cole Porter - Peru, IN - d. 10-15-1964
    composer: Theme for "My Friend Irma"
    06-09-1896 - Tonio Selwart - Wartonberg, Bavaria - d. 11-2-2002
    actor: "Secret Missions"
    06-09-1900 - Fred Waring - Tyrone, PA - d. 7-29-1984
    conductor: "Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians"; "Pleasure Time/
    Victory Tunes"
    06-09-1903 - Marcia Davenport - NYC - d. 1-15-1996
    auther: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-09-1905 - Martha Boswell - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-2-1958
    singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "The Boswell Sisters"; "Woodbury Soap
    Show"
    06-09-1908 - Joe Biviano - d. 9-4-1992
    accordionist: NBC Blue Network
    06-09-1908 - Robert Cummings - Joplin, MO - d. 12-1-1990
    actor: David Adair "Those We Love"; "Cavalcade of America"
    06-09-1910 - George Bryan - NYC - d. 6-27-1969
    announcer: "Helen Hayes Theatre"; "Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts"
    06-09-1910 - Joseph Julian - St. Marys, PA - d. 3-11-1982
    actor: Sandy Matson "Lorenzo Jones"; Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero
    Wolfe"
    06-09-1912 - Don Forbes - Camrose, Alberta, Canada - d. 11-28-1995
    newscaster, announcer: "The Richfield Reporter"; Ten-Two-Four Ranch"
    06-09-1912 - Ingolf Dahl - Hamburg, Germany - d. 8-7-1970
    conductor, pianist
    06-09-1915 - Les Paul - Waukesha, WI
    guitarist: "Les Paul and Mary Ford Show"; "Rhubarb Red"
    06-09-1922 - George Axelrod - NYC - d. 6-21-2003
    writer: "Midnight in Manhattan"; "Grand Ole Opry"
    06-09-1926 - Mona Freeman - Baltimore, MD
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
    06-09-1929 - Louise Maheux-Forcier - Montreal, Canada
    author: "Neiges et palmiers"
    06-09-1929 - Nancy Ashbaugh - Rochester, NY
    writer: "The Story of Bill Adams"
    06-09-1934 - Dick Orkin - Williamsport, PA
    comedian: "Chickenman"; "Tooth Fairy"

    June 9th deaths

    01-11-1910 - Betty Miles - Santa Monica, CA - d. 6-9-1992
    actor: Millie Anderson "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"
    02-06-1903 - Claudio Arrau - Chillans, Chile - d. 6-9-1991
    classical pianist: "New York Philharmonic"; "Music America Loves Best"
    02-07-1812 - Charles Dickens - Portsmouth, England - d. 6-9-1870
    author: Many of his works adapted for radio
    02-17-1912 - Clifford Evans - Senghenydd, Wales - d. 6-9-1985
    Producer and director on Welsh radio
    03-18-1905 - Robert Donat - Manchester, England - d. 6-9-1958
    actor, poetry reader: "Justice"; "Monte Carlo"; "Reader of Poetry";
    [removed] Steel Hour"
    03-26-1911 - Hank Booream - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-9-2006
    director: "March of Time"; "Burns and Allen"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    05-30-1888 - James Farley - Crassey Point, NY - d. 6-9-1976
    post master general: "Information Please"
    05-31-1931 - Barbara Whiting - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-9-2004
    actor: Judy Graves "Junior Miss"; Mildred "Meet Corliss Archer"
    06-06-1931 - Lloyd Lindroth - d. 6-9-1994
    harpist: "Unites States Army Band"
    06-08-1921 - Alexis Smith - Penticton, British Columbia, Canada - d.
    6-9-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars in the Air"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    06-13-1909 - Anna Sosenko - NYC - d. 6-9-2000
    friend and agent to Hildegard
    07-16-1902 - Andrew Stone - Oakland, CA - d. 6-9-1999
    film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-05-1918 - Allen Ludden - Mineral Point, WI - d. 6-9-1981
    host: "Mind Your Manners"; "College Bowl"
    10-26-1888 - Pat Barnes - Sharon, PA - d. 6-9-1969
    emcee: "The Pat Barnes and Barbara Show"
    12-12-1908 - Hank Ladd - Chicago, IL - d. 6-9-1982
    actor: Beetle "Phil Baker Show"
    12-27-1910 - Harry Saz - d. 6-9-1994
    director: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:45:02 -0400
    From: "RyanO" <ryano218@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gangbusters Requests

    Hi all. Am looking for two episodes of Gangbusters I know to be in
    circulation.

    1. The Case of the Cowboy Killers: Gangsters hold up a series of bars in one
    night, staying just ahead of the cops.

    2.  Not sure of the title of this one, but its about a bandit who plays the
    jazz clarinet as a hobby.  He ends up in a battle with police and hides in a
    pig pin trough, but dies there because of infected bullet wounds.

    If anyone has these to trade or sell, please contact me off list.

    RyanO

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