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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2011 : Issue 97
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  New topic: Dragnet comic strips       [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
  OTR-inspiring periodicals still in p  [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
  Scotland Yard, anyone?                [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
  6-17 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Richard Diamond/Lt. Walt Levenson     [ Lanny Gilbert <morsefan1@[removed]; ]
  6-18 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Early Traders                         [ JayHick@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 19-25 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:58:58 -0400
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  New topic: Dragnet comic strips

Hello again --

While listening to one of the many streaming audio OTR stations the other
day, I heard the announcer on Dragnet (George Fenniman?) remind everyone to
read the Dragnet comic strip "in your local paper." I wonder how many of you
knew this fact? The strip continued for three years, from 1952 to 1955, and
there are some examples of it here:

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Apparently Jack Webb was never happy with the strip; it portrayed him the
way he looked, not the way he thought he looked!

yOurs TRuly,
Jan Bach

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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:59:10 -0400
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR-inspiring periodicals still in print

Many OTR programs and characters were drawn from contemporary periodicals
([removed], Black Mask, Collier's, Argosy, Weird Tales, Liberty, The Shadow, etc).
The vast majority of these have ceased publication, reflecting I suppose the
decline of the short story as form of mass popular entertainment.

But that got me thinking: how many periodical OTR sources are still being
published? Probably only a handful. The Saturday Evening Post is still put
out 6 times a year, though I gather it ceased publication briefly in the late
60s or early 70s, so it technically hasn't been published continuously since
the OTR era. I heard an anthology series once from the early 50s -- the name
escapes me -- that drew its stories from Cosmopolitan magazine. I figured
this wasn't the same periodical as the woman's magazine now on the stands,
but apparently it is -- the current Cosmopolitan was launched in 1886, and
ran a lot of fiction in the first half of the 20th century. (You learn
something new every day!) So is Cosmopolitan the longest-running OTR-source
that's still being published?

Before I learned about the rather ancient origins of Cosmo, I had another
pair of contenders for the earliest OTR-inspiring periodical: Detective
Comics (debuted in 1937, giving rise to Batman a few years later, who
guest-starred in the Adventures of Superman series) and Action Comics
(debuted in 1938, giving us Superman himself). Both are still in print,
issued monthly. Action just passed issue 900, and Detective is nearing number
700. (Detective lags behind even though it began earlier because it was
bimonthly for much of the 70s, while Action was weekly for a spell in the
late 80s.) Superman (1939; recently reached issue 700) and Batman (1940, also
in the 700s) have also both in print continuously since their debut (though
Superman was renamed The Adventures of Superman for part of its run). Sadly
it looks like Detective No. 700 will never be published, as the decision has
been made to reboot all four of these titles to number 1 (along with a host of
 other DC Comics), staring in September.

Anything else come to mind, regarding periodicals whose stories or characters
were adapted to OTR programs and which are still in print?

Cheers,
Kermyt

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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:59:29 -0400
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Scotland Yard, anyone?
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Does anyone here have any episodes of

    "Scotland Yard's Inspector Burke" (or some such title)
starring Vincent Price.  The show ran on Mutual during
1947.  I have a friend who is trying to find this program.

    Ted Kneebone

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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:59:37 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-17 births/deaths

June 17th births

06-17-1874 - Robert Boice Carson - Rossville, IN - d. 8-22-1941
director of the Apollo Orchestra on KVOO Tulsa, Oklahoma
06-17-1877 - Charles Coburn - Savannah, GA - d. 8-30-1961
actor: "Roses and Drums"; "Song of Liberty"
06-17-1882 - Igor Stravinsky - Oranienbaum, Russia - d. 4-6-1971
composer: "Columbia Work Shop"; "New York Philharmonic"
06-17-1894 - Harold Levey - NYC - d. 6-18-1967
composer, conductor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
06-17-1897 - Vivian Duncan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1986
singer: (Topsy and Eva) "Wireless Vaudeville"
06-17-1899 - Benny Krueger - Newark, NJ - d. 4-29-1967
bandleader: "The Rudy Vallee Show"; "Side Walk Cafe"
06-17-1904 - Ralph Bellamy - Chicago, IL - d. 11-29-1991
actor: "These Are Our Men"
06-17-1905 - Anne Teeman - New York - d. 8-18-1991
actor: Sally Gibson "The Gibson Family"; Joyce "The Goldbergs"
06-17-1905 - Frank Cunkle - Ft. Smith, AR - d. 2-4-1986
arranger: "The Fred Waring Show"
06-17-1910 - Red Foley - Blue Lick, KY - d. 9-19-1968
singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Red Foley Show"
06-17-1913 - Bob Allen - Allendale, OH - d. 4-24-1989
singer: (Hal Kemp Band) "Phil Baker Show"; "Calling America"
06-17-1914 - John Hersey - Tientsin, China - d. 3-24-1993
author: "Bell for Adano"; "Hiroshima"
06-17-1916 - Terry Gilkyson - Mont Clare, PA - d. 10-15-1999
singer, songwriter: "Solitary Singer"; "America Sings"; "Here's to
Veterans"
06-17-1919 - Beryl Reid - Hereford, England - d. 10-13-1996
actor: Monica "Educating Archie"
06-17-1919 - Gene De Paul - NYC - d. 2-27-1988
composer, arranger, pianist: "Bud's Bandwagon"
06-17-1920 - Aaron "Red" Doff - Washington, D. C. - d. 6-13-1997
actor: "Uncle Whoa Bill"
06-17-1921 - Ben Morris - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 8-18-1982
actor: Pat Novak "Pat Novak for Hire"
06-17-1921 - Earl Hammond - NYC - d. 5-19-2002
actor: "Coounterspy"; "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
06-17-1921 - Tony Scott - Morristown, NJ - d. 3-28-2007
jazz clarinetist: American Armed Forces Radio
06-17-1922 - Jerry Fielding - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-17-1980
conductor: "Hardy Family"; "Jack Paar Show"; "You Bet Your Life"
06-17-1923 - Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch - Wausau, WI - d. 1-28-2004
pro football hall of fame, host: "Elroy Hirsch Sports Show";
"Touchdown Tips"
06-17-1924 - Sir Edward Downes - Birmingham, England - d. 7-10-2009
conductor: "BBC Philharmonic"; "Netherlands Radio Philharmonic"

June 17th deaths

02-19-1913 - Jack Leonard - NYC - d. 6-17-1988
singer: (Tommy Dorsey's Band) "Meet the Music"
03-08-1921 - Cyd Charisse - Amarillo, TX - d. 6-17-2008
actor, dancer: Guest: "Spike Jones Show"
03-30-1892 - Floyd Odlum - Union City, MI - d. 6-17-1976
owner of rko studios: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
04-14-1905 - Bob Stanton - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-17-1977
nbc staff announcer: "Bob Stanton Sports"
05-01-1907 - Kate Smith - Greenville, VA - d. 6-17-1986
singer, emcee: (Songbird of the South) "Kate Smith Revue"; Kate Smith
Speaks"
06-07-1913 - Tom Collins - Chicago, IL - d. 6-17-1973
actor: Chandu "Chandu the Magician"; Nicholas Lacey "One Man's Family"
08-29-1916 - "Georgia Slim" Rutland - Tilton, GA - d. 6-17-1969
fiddler: "Three Fiddlers"
09-29-1909 - Beryl Wallace - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-17-1948
actor: "Furlough Fun"
10-13-1915 - Hugh James - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-17-2001
announcer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Three Star Final"; "Big Town"
11-07-1868 - Royal Copeland - Dexter, MI - d. 6-17-1938
commentator: "Health Talk"; "Fleischmann Hour"
11-14-1915 - Billy Bauer - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-17-2005
jazz guitarist: "Band for Bonds"
11-29-1906 - Luis Van Rooten - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 6-17-1973
actor: George Priestly "County Seat"; John Perry "John's Other Wife";
Nero Wolfe "Nero Wolfe"
12-02-1908 - Hy Gardner - NYC - d. 6-17-1989
columnist, author, host: Celebrity Interviews
12-09-1919 - Gil Rodin - Russia - d. 6-17-1974
saxophone: "The Bob Crosby Show"
12-15-1918 - Jeff Chandler - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-17-1961
actor: Michael Shayne, "Michael Shayne, Detective"; Philip Boynton,
"Our Miss Brooks"
12-19-1882 - Bronislaw Huberman - Czestochowa, Poland - d. 6-17-1947
violinist: "A Tribute to . . . ."
12-24-1910 - Tony Labriola - d. 6-17-1999
actor: Oswald "The Ken Murray Show"

Ron
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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:00:12 -0400
From: Lanny Gilbert <morsefan1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Richard Diamond/Lt. Walt Levenson
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Having grown up watching Warner Brothers cartoons, I always associated Arthur
Q.
Bryan with Elmer Fudd.
Later in life, when I became an OTR fan and discovered Richard Diamond with
Mr.
Bryan playing the "hard boiled"
Lt. Levenson, I almost laughed out loud.

I kept imagining him saying something like "Okay, Wick. Wet's get that
wascawwy
cwiminal!"

Took a little getting used to.

Lanny Gilbert
e-mail: morsefan1@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:00:20 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-18 births/deaths

June 18th births

06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-18-1893 - Gladys Gooding - Macon, MO - d. 11-18-1963
organist, singer: organist at Madison Square Garden
06-18-1895 - Castro Darazo - San Jose, Costa Rica - d. 12-28-1981
conductor: "Strand Theatre Concert Orchestra" WSMB New Orleans,
Louisiana
06-18-1897 - Alan MacAteer - d. 6-26-1986
actor: Pop, the stage doorman "Backstage Wife"
06-18-1897 - Henry Wadsworth - Maysville, KY - d. 12-5-1974
actor: Alabama Randall "Jane Arden"
06-18-1898 - Carleton Hobbs - Farnborough, England - d. 7-31-1978
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Saturday Night Theatre, Children's Hour"
06-18-1898 - Francis 'Dink' Trout - Beardstown, IL - d. 3-26-1950
actor: Waldo Binney "Life of Riley"; Mr. Anderson "A Day in the Life
of Dennis Day"
06-18-1901 - Jimmy Dale - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-17-1982
pianist, arranger: "Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra"
06-18-1902 - Tom Breneman - Waynesboro, PA - d. 4-28-1948
emcee: "Breakfast at Sardi's/in Hollywood"; "My Secret Ambition"
06-18-1903 - Jeanette MacDonald - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1965
singer: "Nobody's Children"; "Vicks Open House"; "Campbell Playhouse"
06-18-1904 - Keye Luke - Canton, China - d. 1-12-1991
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Image Minorities"
06-18-1906 - Kay Kyser - Rocky Mt., NC - d. 7-23-1985
bandleader, emcee: (The Old Perfessor) "Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
06-18-1906 - Ray Bauduc - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-8-1988
drummer, composer: "The Bob Crosby Show"
06-18-1908 - Clayton "Bud" Collyer - NYC - d. 9-8-1969
actor, announcer: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; "Cavalcade
of America"
06-18-1908 - Elmore Vincent - Amarillo, X - d. 3-27-2000
actor: Phineas Peabody "Lum and Abner"
06-18-1910 - Betty Mandeville - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-14-2001
producer, director: "The FBI in Peace and War"; "Take It or Leave It"
06-18-1910 - Dick Foran - Flemington, NJ - d. 8-10-1979
singer: (The Singing Cowboy) "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
06-18-1910 - Ray McKinley - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-7-1995
bandleader, vocalist: Co-leader of the Glen Miller Band
06-18-1910 - Russ Hodges - Dayton, TN - d. 4-19-1971
sportscaster: "Giants win the pennant, Giants win the pennant, Giants
win the pennant"
06-18-1911 - Babe Russin - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-4-1984
tenor sax: "The Ipana Troubadors"
06-18-1913 - Harold Alberghini - d. 7-16-1993
disk jockey and newscaster: Maine
06-18-1913 - Johnnie Neblett - Mississippi - d. 9-15-1946
announcer: "Bargain Counter"; "Tin Pan Alley"
06-18-1913 - Sammy Cahn - NYC - d. 1-15-1993
lyricist: "You Bet Your Life"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"; "Monitor"
06-18-1914 - [removed] Marshall - Owatonna, MN - d. 8-25-1998
narrator: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-18-1917 - Richard Boone - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-10-1981
actor: "Dragnet"
06-18-1917 - Ross Elliott - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-12-1999
actor: "Mercury Theatre"
06-18-1919 - Ed Simmons - d. 5-18-1998
writer, director: "The Martin and Lewis Show"; "The Quiz Kids"
06-18-1919 - Mel Brandt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-2008
announcer: "Advs. of Frank Merriwell"
06-18-1920 - Ian Carmichael - Hull, Yorkshire, England - d. 2-5-2010
actor: Lord Peter Wimsey "Five Red Herrings" and other Sayers stories
06-18-1922 - Buck Page - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-21-2006
guitarist: (Riders of the Purple Sage) "The Roy Rogers Show"
06-18-1925 - Bob Arthur - Aberdeen, WA - d. 10-1-2008
actor: "The Bob Arthur Show"
06-18-1938 - Don "Sugarcane" Harris - Pasadena, CA - d. 11-27-1999
rock violinist: (Squires) "Stars for Defense"
06-18-1942 - Paul McCartney - Liverpool, England
singer: (The Beatles) "Here We Go Again"

June 18th deaths

01-18-1910 - Arthur Howard - London, England - d. 6-18-1995
actor: "Whack-O!)
02-03-1918 - Gene Baldridge - d. 6-18-1988
disk jockey: WSIP Paintsville, Kentucky
02-07-1949 - Susan Boyd - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 6-18-2004
writer: "Another Day"
03-19-1923 - Pamela Britton - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-18-1974
actor: "Luncheon at Sardi's"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-23-1920 - Alfred Palca - Manhattan, NY - d. 6-18-1998
writer: Wrote for NBC radio while still in college
05-15-1923 - Doris Dowling - Detroit, MI - d. 6-18-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-21-1920 - Bill Barber - Hornell, NY - d. 6-18-2007
jazz tuba player: "Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra"
05-27-1912 - John Cheever - Quincy, MA - d. 6-18-1982
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
06-01-1922 - Joan Caulfield - East Orange, NJ - d. 6-18-1991
actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"
06-17-1894 - Harold Levey - NYC - d. 6-18-1967
composer, conductor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
06-19-1928 - Nancy Marchand - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-2000
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "A Private Space"
06-25-1919 - Bill Manhoff - Newark, NJ - d. 6-18-1974
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hollywood Showcase"
07-10-1905 - Thomas Gomez - NYC - d. 6-18-1971
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-16-1906 - Vincent Sherman - Vienna, GA - d. 6-18-2006
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
08-08-1927 - Basil Kirchin - Blackpool, England - d. 6-18-2005
drummer: "Harry Roy and His Orchestra"
08-15-1879 - Ethel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-18-1959
actor: Hattie Thompson "Miss Hattie"
08-21-1924 - Jack Buck - Holyoke, MA - d. 6-18-2002
baseball broadcaster: St. Louis Cardinals
09-22-1870 - Arthur Pryor - St. Joseph, MO - d. 6-18-1942
bandmaster, trombonist: "Cremo Military Band Program"; "Goodyear
Program"
09-25-1926 - John Ericson - Dusseldorf, Germany - d. 6-18-1972
actor: "Stars On Parade"
10-02-1920 - Rosemarie Brancato - d. 6-18-1994
operatic soprano: "Twin Sisters"
10-30-1926 - Charles Woolf - California - d. 6-18-1994
actor: "Life of Riley"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-31-1915 - Chris Griffin - d. 6-18-2005
trumpet: (Benny Goodman's Orchestra) "Camel Caravan"
11-01-1908 - Felix Knight - Macon, GA - d. 6-18-1998
singer: "Schaefer Revue"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
11-03-1902 - Milt Herth - Kenosha, WI - d. 6-18-1969
organist: (Milt Herth Trio) "Hollywood News"; "Al Pearce"
11-15-1907 - Bill Anson - Chicago, IL - d. 6-18-1983
quizmaster: "The Hirsch Telephone Quiz"
11-21-1907 - Charles Korvin - Postyen, Hungary - d. 6-18-1998
actor: "Voice of the Army"
12-01-1917 - William Tracy - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-18-1967
actor: Roosty "Roosty of the AAF"
12-05-1892 - Al Boasberg - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-1937
writer: "Jack Benny Program"

Ron
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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:00:26 -0400
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Early Traders
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I am looking for information about Ray Stanich.   I started looking through
HA.   My first issue in April, 1970 mentioned the following traders and
friends who first helped me.   Do (did) you know any of them and are any still
alive. I know some have passed on:   Jack Miller, George Blacker, Dick
Ayers, Don Boates, Peter Bayer, Bill Blalock, Ed Corcoran, Vern Eldridge, Bill
Hillman, Bill Hennessey, Steve Hofar, Roger Hill, Dopn Koehnemann, Don
Racette, Dave Swift (Dave came to our convention until a few years ago), Mel
Shlank
(still lives in CT.), Sal Trapani (started me collecting).   Jay

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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:00:34 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 19-25 June

 From Those Were The Days

6/19

1934   The [removed] Congress established the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC). The task of the commission was to regulate radio
broadcasting.

6/23

1933   The Pepper Pot program welcomed a new host. Don McNeill took over
the show and renamed it The Breakfast Club. The show, a huge success for
the NBC Blue and later, ABC, became one of the longest running radio
programs in history. The show aired with McNeill as host until December
27, 1968. The Breakfast Club was a morning show that had its share of
corny jokes, visiting celebrities and lots of audience participation.

1941   Front Page Farrell was heard for the first time on Mutual. In
1942, the program moved to NBC and stayed on the air until 1954. Sally
and David Farrell were the central characters.

1947   Wendy Warren and the News debuted on CBS. The broadcasts
continued until 1958. No, the program was not a newscast, in the
traditional sense. It was a serial one of many of the time. The unique
thing about this particular show, however, was that Wendy Warren and the
News did utilize a real three minute newscast to open the show. The
newscaster, delivering the news as part of the show, chose not to stay
in the entertainment side of radio, but continued to be a true
journalist and a legend at CBS. That newsman was Douglas Edwards.

6/24

1960   The Romance of Helen Trent was heard for the last time. Helen and
her boy toy, Gil Whitney, were about to be married, but the loving
couple never made it to the altar just in case the show would ever be
renewed. Helen Trent and her romance aired for 27 years a total of 7,222
episodes on the CBS.

6/25

1942   The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on WOR
and the Mutual Broadcasting System.

Joe

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