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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2010 : Issue 25
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  one man's family                      [ Grams46@[removed] ]
  The Manhattan Merry-Go-Round          [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
  The fates of femme fatales at the fi  [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  2-9 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Jack Merrell                          [ JayHick@[removed] ]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:12:01 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

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Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!

Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!

For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:10:37 -0500
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  one man's family

i have a recording of a may 1945 broadcast of  one man's family but the
sound is terrible - book 54 chapter 9.     during the program jack says his
good-bye's to various members of the family  because he is going off to war in
the pacific theatre.
does anyone know where  i could obtain a copy that has good sound?
thanks and peace from  kathy
support our troops; end the wars in iraq and afghanistan
john 3:16

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:10:51 -0500
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

I wnder how many emember this old Sunday Night progran that was came on
after Charlie McCarthy on NBC. The program was one of the Frank & Ann
Hummert's and sponsoer by Dr. Lyons Tooth Powder. The show was similar
to the Hit Parade playing the most popular music of the week. The format
of the show was an inaimagery Tour of New York Night Club. The program
was on from 1933 - 1949   as  kid  I didn't like it, and forgot about it
until I acquired  a ffew of the programs. I like the show now.

 From what I ave found there are not many available, a dozen or so. Also
I cant find any logs either. The show I have are from the 40's can tell
by the music but no exact date Is there an expert on he Merry-Go-Round
in OTR land ?

One of the things I like is that te announcer, Ford Bond, say in the
introduction is "Songs are sung so Clearly you can understand every word
and sing them yourself"  a far cry from todays music. The words are sung
so nobody can under stand them.

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:11:01 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The fates of femme fatales at the finish line

Frances Reid, who played Alice Horton on "Days of Our Lives" from 1965-2007
 and played Portia on the TV version of "Portia Faces Life" has died at
the age 95

Frances Reid was the actress who briefly introduced Portia Blake Manning at
the very start of the run of CBS-TV's Portia Faces Life on April 5, 1954.
But a veteran radio actress, Fran Carlon (Lora Lawton, Lorenzo Jones, Ma
Perkins, Our Gal Sunday, Portia Faces Life, Today's Children, et al.), who
died Oct. 4, 1993, carried the role for the bulk of that series' fleeting
life, which ended with a quick death on July 1, 1955.

Portia Faces Death might have been a better appellation.  Even at the end of
the aural run, Portia didn't fare well.  As the organist droned the fading
notes of the 11-year radio series' final installment on June 29, 1951, the
poor lady barister was hustled off to the slammer for a crime we know she
didn't commit.  In that instance, Portia did seem destined to face life!  It
was her producers' strong belief, however, that the masses would rise up and
protest NBC's decision to cut her off, so much so that there would be no
question she would be returned to the air by popular demand -- and the
writers would have a chance to make them all live happily everafter.  That
didn't happen:  there was little demonstration and therefore no exoneration,
and when last she was heard from, she was sulking in her cell.  Until she
was rescued by CBS-TV a quadrennial hence, of course.

Portia wasn't a Hummert property, incidentally.  Those two (Frank & Anne)
had the good sense not to allow their beloved Helen Trent and Ellen (Young
Widder) Brown to make hasty trips down the aisle as they were reaching for
their cancellation slips.  To have done so would have devastated years of
Hummert minions' plotting that kept Helen from wedding attorney Gil Whitney
and Ellen from a similar appointment with Dr. Anthony Loring.  The Hummerts,
too, were hopeful their dramas would be returned to their rightful places on
the ether, and prepared accordingly.  It was their ace in the hole although
it didn't work either time.

What an agonizing end all three beleagured ladies suffered.

Jim Cox

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:11:06 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-9 births/deaths

February 9th births

02-09-1883 - Joseph King - Austin, TX - d. 4-11-1951
announcer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"; "A Report to the Nation"
02-09-1884 - Wilmer Walter - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-23-1941
actor: David Harum "David Harum"; Andy Agnes "The Gumps"
02-09-1891 - Ronald Colman - Richmond, Surrey, England - d. 5-19-1958
actor: William Todhunter Hall "Halls of Ivy"; "Jack Benny Program"
02-09-1892 - Frank W. Asper - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 11-8-1973
organist: "Music and the Spoken Word"
02-09-1892 - Peggy Wood - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-18-1978
actor: "NBC Present Eugene O'Neill"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "
02-09-1901 - Brian Donlevy - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-5-1972
actor: Steve Mitchell "Dangerous Assignment"
02-09-1901 - Walter Preston - Quincy, IL - d. 8-7-1982
singer: "Philco Hour"
02-09-1902 - Chester A. Lauck - Alleene, AR - d. 2-22-1980
comedian: Columbus 'Lum' Edwards "Lum and Abner"
02-09-1902 - Fred Harman, Sr. - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-2-1982
cartoonist: Creator of Red Ryder
02-09-1904 - Carmen Miranda - Lisbon, Portugal - d. 8-5-1955
singer: "Hello Americans"
02-09-1910 - Peanuts Holland - Norfold, VA - d. 2-7-1979
jazz trumpeter, singer: "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"; "Yank Swing
Session"
02-09-1911 - Harry Kramer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-23-1996
announcer: "Alfred Antonini Orchestra"; "Mike and Buff's Mailbag"
02-09-1912 - Bob Armstrong - Buffalo, NY - d. 4-25-1994
orchestra director: NBC 1942
02-09-1912 - Bob Hannon - Chicago, IL - d. 2-16-1993
singer: "American Melody Hour"; "Waltz Time"
02-09-1913 - Erskine Butterfield - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-11-1961
jazz musician: "Cats 'n' Jammers"
02-09-1914 - Bob Hite - Decatur, IN - d. 2-18-2000
announcer: "Challenge of the Yukon"; "Green Hornet"; "Casey, Crime
Photographer"
02-09-1914 - Ernest Tubb - Crisp, TX - d. 9-6-1984
singer: (The Texas Troubador) "Grand Ole Opry"
02-09-1914 - Ralph Hermann - Milwaukee, WI - d. 7-28-1994
bandleader: "Herb Oscar Anderson Show"
02-09-1915 - Charlotte Holland - d. 1-13-1997
actor: Nita Bennett "Lone Journey"; Nora Drake "This is Nora Drake"
02-09-1921 - Gene Lyons - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-8-1974
actor: Freelance
02-09-1922 - Kathryn Grayson - Winston-Salem, NC
singer: "Mail Call"
02-09-1923 - Milena Miller - d. 7-20-2001
vocalist: "The Stu Erwin Show"
02-09-1930 - Garner Ted Armstrong - Portland, OR - d. 9-15-2003
preacher: (Son of Herbert W. Armstrong) "Plain Truth"; "The World
Tomorrow"
02-09-1937 - Clete Boyer - Cassville, MO - d. 6-4-2007
baseball player: "Tops in Sports"
02-09-1939 - Janet Suzman - Johannesburg, South Africa
actor: "Guest Panelist "[removed]"
02-09-1949 - Judith Light - Trenton, NJ
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

February 9th deaths

01-13-1884 - Sophie Tucker - Minsk, Russian Federation - d. 2-9-1966
singer: (The Last of the Red Hot Mammas) "Sophie Tucker and Her Show"
01-30-1914 - David Wayne - Traverse City, MI - d. 2-9-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre" ;" Eternal Light"; "Stars in the Air"
03-16-1927 - Ruby Braff - Boston, MA - d. 2-9-2003
performer: "Jazz from Storyville"
04-01-1909 - Eddy Duchin - Cambridge, MA - d. 2-9-1951
bandleader: (The Ten Magic Fingers of Radio) "Lasalle Style Show"
04-07-1908 - Percy Faith - Toronto, Canada - d. 2-9-1976
conductor: "Carnation Contented Hour"; "Pause That Refreshes on the Air"
04-07-1934 - Ian Richardson - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 2-9-2007
actor: Richard II and Bolingbroke "Richard II"
04-09-1905 - James Fulbright - Summer, MO - d. 2-9-1995
[removed] senator: "Information Please"
04-28-1917 - Robert Anderson - NYC - d. 2-9-2009
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
04-30-1916 - Phil Brown - Cambridge, MA - d. 2-9-2006
actor: "Arch Obolor's Playes"
05-05-1919 - Seymour Kapetansky - Michigan - d. 2-9-2001
sriter: "Duffy's Tavern"
05-07-1885 - George "Gabby" Hayes - Wellsville, NY - d. 2-9-1969
actor: "Andrews Sisters' Eight-to-the-Bar Ranch"; "Roy Rogers Show"
06-26-1902 - Bruce Evans - d. 2-9-1978
actor: Trapeze Artist "Circus Days"
07-06-1925 - Bill Haley, Jr. - Highland Park, MI - d. 2-9-1981
rocker: "Camel Rock and Roll Party"; "Stars for Defense"
07-12-1919 - Vera Hruba Ralston - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 2-9-2003
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-29-1919 - Vic Lewis - London, England - d. 2-9-2009
band leader: "Jazz Alive"
07-31-1922 - Hank Bauer - East St. Louis, IL - d. 2-9-2007
baseball great: "Tops in Sports"
08-10-1896 - Louis Sobol - New Haven, CT - d. 2-9-1986
columist: "Album of Manhattan"; "Voice of Broadway"; "Bright Lights of
New York"
08-30-1908 - Willie Bryant - New Orleans, LA - d. 2-9-1964
host: "Night Life"
09-23-1907 - Jarmila Novatana - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 2-9-1994
lyric soprano: "The Pause that Refreshes"; "The Celanese Hour"
10-12-1927 - Peggy Taylor - Inglewood, CA - d. 2-9-2002
singer: "The Breakfast Club"; "The Stan Freeberg Show"
11-23-1915 - Natalie Park Masters - San Francisco, CA - d. 2-9-1986
actor: Candy Matson "Candy Matson
12-23-1873 - Burns Mantle - Watertown, NY - d. 2-9-1948
writer: "Best Plays" based on Mantle's theatrical yearbook

Ron

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:11:13 -0500
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Merrell
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Jack Merrell, Rosemary Rice's husband just died on Sunday.   I got the
information from Terry
Salomonson first.   Her address is 122 Palmers Hill Rd. #1235, Stamford, CT
06902.   I have no other details at this time.   Jay

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