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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 107
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      6-14 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      A nice surprise                       [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Beyond the Green Door                 [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Jim Cox's comments                    [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Gene Autry's estate                   [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Molly's references to Fibber          [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
      6-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Lost SHADOW recordings                [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Screaming on the Radio                [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:12:01 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    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, 16 Jun 2010 18:04:17 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-14 births/deaths

    June 14th births

    06-14-1884 - John McCormack - Athone, Ireland - d. 9-16-1945
    singer: "The Atwater-Kent Hour"; "The Vince Program"
    06-14-1891 - Elaine Sterne Carrington - NYC - d. 5-4-1958
    creator-writer: "Pepper Young's Family"; "Rosemary"; "When a Girl
    Marries"
    06-14-1893 - Joe Forte - England - d. 3-11-1967
    actor: Osgood Conklin "Our Miss Brooks"; Horowitz "Life with Luigi"
    06-14-1894 - Benny Fields - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-16-1959
    actor: "The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
    06-14-1894 - George Hall - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-24-1959
    orchestra leader: CBS network
    06-14-1895 - Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards - Hannibal, MO - d. 7-17-1971
    singer: Jiminy Cricket "Fun and Fancy Free"; "Cliff Edwards, Ukulele
    Ike"
    06-14-1900 - June Walker - Chicago, IL - d. 2-3-1966
    actor: (Mother of actor John Kerr) "The Rudy Vallee Show"
    06-14-1901 - May Hogan Cambern - Fort Worth, TX - d. 6-25-1988
    harpist on radio
    06-14-1902 - Carl Esmond - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 12-4-2004
    actor: "Mayor of the Town"
    06-14-1904 - Karena Shields - d. 9-27-1972
    actor: Helen Gregory "Tarzan"
    06-14-1905 - Wallace Deuel - d. 5-10-1974
    author: "Information Please"
    06-14-1906 - Gil Lamb - Minneapolis, MN - d. 11-2-1995
    actor: Homer Clinker "The Rudy Vallee Show"
    06-14-1906 - Patricia Brox - Winchester, KY - d. 8-27-1988
    singer: (Brox Sisters) "A Tribute to Irving Berlin
    06-14-1907 - Nappy Lamare - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-19-1988
    jazz guitarist: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    06-14-1908 - John Scott Trotter - Charlotte, NC - d. 10-29-1975
    conductor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
    06-14-1909 - Burl Ives - Hunt Township, IL - d. 4-14-1995
    singer: "Columbia County Journal"; "Radio Reader's Digest"
    06-14-1911 - Dan Pursuit - d. 12-25-1999
    author: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
    06-14-1912 - Peggy Ann Wood - Chiswick, England - d. 5-30-1998
    actor: "The Cleverest Man at Oxford"
    06-14-1913 - Stanley Black - London, England - d. 11-26-2002
    conductor: BBC Dance Orchestra
    06-14-1914 - Loretta Lee, New Orleans, LA
    band vocalist: "Your Hit Parade"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    06-14-1914 - Nat Polen - NYC - d. 5-3-1981
    actor: Edward McCormick "Indictment" "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-14-1915 - Kay Sutton - Irvington, NJ - d. 3-1-1988
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-14-1917 - Paul Monash - NYC - d. 1-14-2003
    writer: "Molle Mystery Theatre"
    06-14-1918 - Dorothy McGuire - Omaha, NE - d. 9-13-2001
    actor: Sue Evans Miller "Big Sister"; "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"
    06-14-1918 - Jon Arthur - New Kensington, PA - d. 2-23-1982
    actor: "Big Jon and Sparkie"; "No School Today"
    06-14-1919 - Gene Barry - NYC - d. 12-9-2009
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-14-1919 - Sam Wanamaker - Chicago, IL - d. 12-18-1993
    actor: Ellis Smith "The Guiding Light"; "Lone Journey"
    06-14-1924 - Jack Jones - El Paso, TX
    writer: "Jason and the Golden Fleece"
    06-14-1925 - George Draper Lewis - d. 1-4-1998
    writer: "The Camel Caravan"
    06-14-1929 - Cy Coleman - NYC - d. 11-18-2004
    jazz pianist, composer: "Cy Coleman at the Piano"; "Voices of Vista"
    06-14-1930 - David Leeson - d. 2-25-1971
    writer: "Young Doctor Malone"

    June 14th deaths

    03-27-1930 - Jack Adams - Hobart, OK - d. 6-14-2003
    singer in nightclubs and radio
    04-16-1924 - Henry Mancini - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-14-1994
    orchestra leader: "Family Theatre"; "Voices of Vista"
    04-23-1918 - Oliver Treyz - Willewemoe, NY - d. 6-14-1998
    director of ABC radio
    04-27-1907 - Matty Matlock - Paducah, KY - d. 6-14-1978
    jazz musician: (Member of the Big 7 Band) "Pete Kelly's Blues"
    05-09-1914 - Carlo Maria Giulini - Barletta, Italy - d. 6-14-2005
    conductor, musical director: "Chicago Symphony"; "Los Angeles Symphony"
    05-22-1923 - Bill Andrick - d. 6-14-1981
    disk jockey: WPAR Parkersburg, West Virginia
    05-25-1893 - Ernest V. Stoneman - Monorat, VA - d. 6-14-1968
    actor: "Irma dn Ezra"
    05-29-1874 - G. K. Chesterton - London, England - d. 6-14-1936
    creator: "Advs. of Father Brown"
    06-18-1910 - Betty Mandeville - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-14-2001
    producer, director: "The FBI in Peace and War"; "Take It or Leave It"
    07-09-1878 - Hans Von  "[removed]" Kaltenborn - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-14-1965
    commentator: "Current Events"; "Editing the News"
    07-21-1914 - Robert Presnell, Jr. - d. 6-14-1986
    writer: "The Smiths of Hollywood"
    08-07-1914 - Clifford Thorsness - d. 6-14-2002
    sound effects: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Edgar Bergen/Charlie
    McCarthy Show"
    08-20-1907 - Alan Reed (aka Teddy Bergman) - NYC - d. 6-14-1977
    actor: Falstaff Openshaw "Fred Allen Show"; Pasquale "Life with Luigi"
    08-31-1918 - Alan Jay Lerner - NYC - d. 6-14-1986
    writer: "Victor Borge"; "Raleigh Room"; "Philco Hall of Fame"
    10-10-1900 - Carlotta Stewart Watson - d. 6-14-2007
    Aunt Carrie on WDIA Memphis, Tennessee
    10-10-1926 - Richard Jaeckel - Long Beach, NY - d. 6-14-1997
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-11-1900 - Lorayn Brox - Memphis, TN - d. 6-14-1993
    singer: (Brox Sisters) "A Tribute to Irving Berlin"
    11-12-1933 - Bert Andersen - d. 6-14-1974
    disk jockey: KTAC Tacoma, Washington
    12-14-1910 - Erskine Johnson - Racine, WI - d. 6-14-1984
    columnist: "Hollywood News"; "Let's Talk Hollywood"
    12-22-1907 - Peggy Ashcroft - London, England - d. 6-14-1991
    actor: BBC "Queen Victoria"
    12-31-1908 - John Kirby - Baltimore, MD - d. 6-14-1952
    jazz musician: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:04:29 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  A nice surprise

    I'm one of the first to notice when journalists who aren't dry behind the
    ears yet ignore all mentions of a personality's radio career when reporting
    their lives or career highs.  So let me be among the first to praise Time
    magazine, and specifically contributor Ron Simon, for his appraisal of the
    life of Himan Brown in the current issue.

    Simon says (which seems to be a cute idea for a game), "Although he [Brown]
    dabbled in television, his passion was always radio."  Ah, the bliss of it
    all!

    He continues, "I am sure he hoped that television would prove a passing fad
    and that we would all reconnect with the aural tradition that sustained us
    since the first stories were bandied about a campfire by cavemen."  Double
    bliss!

    He lauds the shows that make us remember Brown, calling radio "the only art
    form best experienced with closed eyes."

    Who is this well-versed scribe?  It may come as no surprise that he's the
    curator of TV and radio at the Paley Center for Media.  What comes as a
    surprise for sure is that a national magazine (any national magazine) has
    invited a knowledgeable authority to be responsible for a legend's obit.

    This is promising!

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:04:42 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Beyond the Green Door

    BEYOND THE GREEN DOOR was a syndicated radio series, short and brief in
    length, produced in 1965 and syndicated in 1966. The only beautiful part of
    the series was the music. Obviously stock but one of the few programs to use
    stock music so well that it actually heightens the plot.

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:05:12 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jim Cox's comments

    Jim Cox's could not have stated the facts more clearly.

    I just spent the weekend autographing copies of the new GREEN HORNET book at
    the Wizard World Comic Con in Philadelphia and shared a table with Jim Rosin
    who was selling his new book on TV's THE INVADERS. It was stressing to
    discover how many youngsters under the age of 25 did not even know who THE
    GREEN HORNET was, or THE LONE RANGER. We knew by Saturday afternoon that
    young kids were not interested in the subject at all. One older gentleman,
    however, knew it was done on radio, talked a lot about hearing the show on
    the radio in the kitchen when he was a boy, went through the 820 page book
    finding answers to questions he had wondered about for years (possibly
    decades) but when it came time to pay for the book and even get it
    autographed, he returned the book to the table and remarked that $30 was too
    expensive. And worse, the young kid next to him pulled out his palm pilot and
    said, "Grandpa, there's all you want to know about THE GREEN HORNET on
    Wikipedia." Four pages versus 820 pages? Free versus $30? Maybe it was the
    price. But last week I paid $45 plus postage for a book weighing in at 245
    pages and after reading half of it on the back porch, I admitted it was well
    worth the cost. I know people usually spend only discretionary money for
    books, but even Jim Rosin questioned whether the economy really plays a toll
    in book buying. He and I suspect Jim Cox hit the nail on the head. If it was
    economy, that still puzzles me because there would not have been a crowd at
    the event we just attended because admission to the Wizard World in
    Philadelphia at the door was $55 per day ($150 for the weekend).

    On a positive note, and a bit of irony to the story above, one young boy
    wanted a book about THE TWILIGHT ZONE and I signed it to the boy but his
    father paid for it. The kid was only 9 years old and loves the TV series. I
    asked if he saw the 1980s and the 2000 remake series and the kid stuck his
    tongue out and said those were stupid. He loves the original black and white.
    And proved it by reciting lines of dialogue from a few classics. And what
    made me happy was the kid asked me (I didn't prompt him) if any of Rod
    Serling's radio work was on CD because he loved old time radio. I got his
    name and address and will be mailing some Serling radio shows Monday morning.
    Yep, we fist bumped and made each other's day.
    Martin

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:05:08 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gene Autry's estate

    Gene Autry, who owned his own chain of radio stations during the 1930s, has left us with more than radio history. Apparently his estate (his house) is now up for sale.

    [removed],0,[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:05:38 -0400
    From: <radioaz@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Molly's references to Fibber

    I was reading a Fibber McGee & Molly script this past weekend and for some
    odd reason noticed something.  I then checked several other scripts and find
    the same thing.  I could not see any place where Molly actually called her
    husband Fibber--or any other name.  She did use terms like "dearie" but
    never called him Fibber.  When talking to other people she referred to him
    as "himself."

    I suppose this is something known to many of you for ages, but to me this is
    a new discovery.

    Ted

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:06:23 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-15 births/deaths

    June 15th births

    06-15-1843 - Edvard Grieg - Bergen Norway - d. 9-4-1907
    composer: Some of his compositions used as themes
    06-15-1861 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Prague, Czechoslovkia - d.
    11-17-1936
    singer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"; "Hoover Sentinels Serenade"
    06-15-1872 - Johanna Gadski - Anclam, Poland - d. 2-23-1932
    operatic singer: WJZ New York City
    06-15-1891 - Mento Everitt - Lakeview, MI - d. xx-xx-1952
    actor: Jenny Peabody "Jenny Peabody"
    06-15-1894 - Leo Cleary - Massachusetts - d. 4-11-1955
    actor: Bailiff "His Honor, the Barber"
    06-15-1894 - Robert Russell Bennett - Kansas City, MO - d. 8-19-1981
    compser: "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"; "Project Twenty"
    06-15-1895 - Morty Howard - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-15-1970
    pianist: "The Moylan Sisters"; "Rocking Horse Rhythms"
    06-15-1905 - James Robertson Justice - Wigtown, Scotland - d. 7-2-1975
    actor: "Star Bill"
    06-15-1909 - Joe DeSantis - NYC - d. 8-30-1989
    actor: Jim Scott "Under Arrest"; "This Is Nora Drake"
    06-15-1909 - Mickey Katz - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-30-1985
    clarinetist: (Father of Joel Grey) "Here's to Veterans"
    06-15-1910 - David Rose - London, England - d. 8-23-1990
    conductor: "Red Skelton Show"; "David Rose Show"; "Bold Venture"
    06-15-1918 - Grace McDonald - Boston, MA - d. 10-30-1999
    actor: "Treasury Star Parade"; "Hollywood Personals"
    06-15-1918 - Hal Roach, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-29-1972
    producer, director: "My Little Margie"
    06-15-1918 - Michael Dunn - NYC
    singer: "This Is Fort Dix"
    06-15-1918 - Richard Derr - Norristown, PA - d. 5-8-1992
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    06-15-1919 - Alvin Boretz - NYC
    writer: "American School of the Air"; "The Big Story"; "Treasury Salute"
    06-15-1921 - Erroll Garner - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-2-1977
    jazz muscian: "Jubilee"; "Command Performance"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    06-15-1921 - Lucille Norman - Lincoln, NE - d. 4-1-1998
    singer: "Time, the Place and the Tune"; "Railroad Hour"
    06-15-1947 - Paul Walters - Wheathampstead., England - d. 10-21-2006
    producer: ""Wake Up with Wogan"

    June 15th deaths

    02-20-1898 - Amedeo De Filippi - Ariano, Italy - d. 6-15-1990
    orchestrator: Judson Radio Program Company
    04-25-1918 - Ella Fitzgerald - Newport News, VA - d. 6-15-1996
    singer: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"; "Jubilee"
    05-18-1902 - Meredith Willson - Mason City, IA - d. 6-15-1984
    conductor, composer: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Meredith Willson/
    Music Room"
    05-25-1917 - Steve Cochran - Eureka, CA - d. 6-15-1965
    actor: "Voice of the Army"; "Unexpected"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    06-01-1919 - Kathleen Norris - Newark, OH - d. 6-15-2005
    writer, announcer: "By Kathleen Norris"; "Bright Horizon"
    06-12-1884 - William Austin - Georgetown, British Guiana - d. 6-15-1975
    actor: Professor of the English Department "Jack Oakie's College"
    06-27-1886 - Dr. Julius Klein - d. 6-15-1961
    economist: "The World's Business"
    07-14-1898 - "Happy" Chandler - Corydon, KY - d. 6-15-1991
    governor, baseball commissioner: "University of Chicago Round Table"
    07-18-1911 - Hume Cronyn - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 6-15-2003
    actor: Ben Marriott "Marriage"
    08-02-1899 - Charles Bennett - d. 6-15-1995
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Radio City Playhouse"
    08-27-1911 - Paul West - Nebraska - d. 6-15-1998
    scriptwriter: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-01-1905 - Bertram Tanswell - Blandford, England - d. 6-15-1984
    actor/director: "Commandos"; "Second Husband"; "Stage Door Canteen"
    09-01-1925 - Art Pepper - Gardena, CA - d. 6-15-1982
    jazz artist: "Jazz Alive"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:06:32 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lost SHADOW recordings

    I'd like to know if any of the following SHADOW shows listed below are in in
    collector hands? To my knowledge, they are not. But I'd like to know.

    "Die, Lover, Die"  (Sept. 22, 1946)
    "Death Rides the Merry-Go-Round"  (Sept. 29, 1946)
    "The Three Mad Sisters of Lonely Hollow"  (Dec. 14, 1947)
    "Death Has Sharp Claws"  (Dec. 7, 1947)
    "The Case of the Dancing Elephant"  (April 20, 1941)
    "The Mystery of the Fatal Flowers"  (April 11, 1948)
    "The Geni and the Honorable Thieves"  (April 18, 1948)
    "A Dark Horse Called Death"  (April 25, 1948)  -- I suspect this one exists
    and is being hoarded by a collector.
    "The Diamond Murders"  (Oct. 8, 1940)
    "Village of Doom"  (Oct. 15, 1940)
    "Murder for Blackmail"  (Nov. 3, 1946)
    "Cave of Zombies"  (Oct. 27, 1946)
    "Coinage of Death"  (Feb. 18, 1940)
    "The Great Submarine Mystery"  (Feb. 25, 1940)
    "The Undead"  (Dec. 14, 1941)

    I am referring to the American broadcasts, not the Australian versions. If
    you have any of these in your collections, please let me know which ones. As
    I will be on vacation for the next week and a half, it would be appreciated
    if I don't receive inquires about acquiring "lost" shows as I'm only
    interested in knowing whether any of these are in circulation or not. I'll be
    coming back with a bombardment of emails and the less the better.

    Martin
    mmargrajr@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:06:40 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Screaming on the Radio
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
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    Not sure how many people will find this obscurity amusing, but I did.

    August 24, 1948, RADIO DAILY
    "Atlantic City, NJ - WMID's special events department, in an effort to find
    out whether the Silkini Chamber of Horrors Show actually kept spectators on
    the edge of their seats, journeyed down to the local theater to make a
    recording of the crowd's reaction to the show. The record, when completed, was
    full of choppy conversation, mixed with frightened screams. Playback was aired
    the following day."

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