Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #179
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Date: 9/23/2009 10:02 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 179
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      9-18 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Peter Paul and Mary singing to Jack   [ "Irene Theodore Heinstein" <IreneTH ]
      Kraft No Applause Rule                [ LBiel <[removed]@[removed]; ]
      9-19 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 20-26 Sep  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Git'um up, Scout                      [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Henry Morgan Show and other Stein St  [ karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@hotma ]
      NBC Symphony Orchestra                [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
      Shadow question                       [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      The Guiding Light, RIP                [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      9-20 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:52:20 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-18 births/deaths

    September 18th births

    09-18-1873 - Charles K. Field - Montpelier, VT - d. 9-1-1948
    host: (Cherrio) "Cherrio"; "Arco Birthday Party"
    09-18-1881 - Wythe Williams - Meadville, PA - d. 7-13-1956
    newscaster: "As the Clock Strikes"
    09-18-1886 - Powel Crosley, Jr. - Cincinnati, OH - d. 3-28-1961
    owner of WLW radio station in Cincinnati
    09-18-1894 - Willard Robison - Shelbina, MO - d. 6-24-1968
    orchestra leader: (Evangelist of Rhythm) "Plantation Echoes"
    09-18-1905 - Eddie Anderson - Oakland, CA - d. 2-28-1977
    actor: Rochester Van Jones "Jack Benny Program"
    09-18-1905 - Greta Garbo - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 4-15-1990
    actor: "Conquest"
    09-18-1908 - Blair Walliser - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1996
    writer, director: "Romance of Helen Trent"; "Backstage Wife"
    09-18-1910 - Joe "Curley" Bradley - Coalgate, OK - d. 6-3-1985
    actor, singer: Tom Mix "Tom Mix"; "Singing Marshall"
    09-18-1916 - Samuel Badillo - d. 9-27-1992
    newscaster: WIAC San Juan, PR
    09-18-1917 - June Foray - Springfield, MA
    actor: Junie "Smile Time" "Stan Freberg Show"; "It's a Great Life"
    09-18-1919 - Diana Lewis - Asbury, NJ - d. 1-18-1997
    actor: "G. I. Journal"; "Radio's Reader Digest"
    09-18-1920 - Jack Warden - Newark, NJ - d. 7-19-2006
    actor: "Stagestruck"
    09-18-1929 - Phyllis Kirk - Syracuse, NY - d. 10-20-2006
    actor: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    09-18-1932 - Patricia Roe - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    09-18-1939 - Frankie Avalon, Philadelphia, PA
    singer: "Frankie Avalon Show"
    09-18-1948 - Ken Brett - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-18-2003
    part of the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcast team

    September 18th deaths

    01-07-1888 - Myrtle Vail Damerel - Joilet, IL - d. 9-18-1978
    actor: Myrtle Spear "Myrt and Marge"
    01-17-1917 - Sam Locke - Peabody, MA - d. 9-18-1998
    scriptwriter: "Grand Central Station"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
    02-27-1905 - Franchot Tone - Niagara Falls, NY - d. 9-18-1968
    actor: "Arch Oboler Plays"; "Free Company"; "Knickerbocker Playhouse"
    03-03-1900 - Edna Best - Hove, East Sussex, England - d. 9-18-1974
    director: "Sherlock Holmes"; "Silver Theatre"
    05-15-1890 - Katherine Anne Porter - Indian Creek, TX - d. 9-18-1980
    author: "NBC University Theatre"
    05-31-1879 - Frances Alda - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 9-18-1952
    soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"
    06-01-1890 - Frank Morgan - NYC - d. 9-18-1949
    actor: Thaddeus Q. Tweedy "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"
    07-08-1917 - Pamela Brown - London, England - d. 9-18-1975
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Theatre On the Air"
    07-14-1904 - Annabella - La Varenne Hilaire, Val-de-Marne, France - d.
    9-18-1996
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-08-1923 - Jimmy Witherspoon - Gurdon, AR - d. 9-18-1997
    blues singer: (Jay McShann's Band) "Jubilee"
    08-10-1902 - Franklyn Ferguson - Texas - d. 9-18-1969
    announcer: "The Breakfast Club"; "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy"
    08-10-1915 - Jack Lester - Oklahoma - d. 9-18-2004
    actor: Sky King "Sky King"; ""Whistlin' Jimmy Steele"
    08-14-1902 - Harriet Allyn - d. 9-18-1998
    actor: Aggie Horn "In the Case of Aggie Horn"
    08-23-1902 - Charles Paul - NYC - d. 9-18-1990
    organist: "Kate Smith"; "As the Twig is Bent"
    08-24-1896 - Cyril Armbrister - d. 9-18-1966
    producer, director: "Chandu the Magician"; "Strange As It Seems";
    "Terry and the Pirates"
    09-04-1914 - Leonard Sterling - d. 9-18-1992
    announcer: "The Brighter Day"; "We Are Always Young"
    09-10-1917 - Jean Ruth Hay - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-18-2004
    disc jockey: "Reveille with Beverly"
    09-27-1893 - Phil Cook - Coldwater, MI - d. 9-18-1958
    comedian: "Radio Chief"; "Quaker Oats Man"; "Morning Almanac"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:57:20 -0400
    From: "Irene Theodore Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Peter Paul and Mary singing to Jack Benny
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    As a big PPM fan I was looking through YouTube clips of their performances and
    I found this video on YouTube which is Peter, Paul and Mary singing a song to
    and about Jack Benny on his TV show.

    I miss you, Mary.

    Irene

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    Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:57:27 -0400
    From: LBiel <[removed]@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Kraft No Applause Rule

    I remember there being a no-applause rule on the Voice of Firestone even
    into the late 1950s, and I knew there were early programs that even had
    a "glass curtain" to separate the audience from the performers, but I
    had not realized that there was a no-applause rule for the Kraft Music
    Hall.  In the August 1941 issue of "Radio and Television Mirror" page 4
    'What's New From Coast to Coast' by Dan Senseney there is this item:

    "The no-applause rule on the Kraft Music Hall has been broken just twice
    since the show first went on the air.  The first person to break it was
    the big boss himself, [removed] Kraft, president of the sponsoring company.
    He got carried away with enthusiasm one night by the banter between Bing
    Crosby and some Boy Scot guests, and clapped befoe he remembered.  The
    second time the rule was broken was on Alec Templeton's guest
    appearance.  His rendition of the show's theme song "Hail KMH" was so
    good the audience couldn't keep from applauding."

    Anybody recognize these programs?  When did they start to allow
    applause?  I would have thought that  Al Jolson who headed the program
    first between August 1933 and 34 would have INSISTED on applause!!!
    Furthermore, it is ironic that Alex Templeton is noted here as getting
    that exceptional reaction, not that he wasn't a great performer -- he
    was --, but that Crosby's Kraft series was noted as being the location
    for Victor Borge's wildly successful debut a few months after this issue
    was published.  Templeton did a lot of the same sort of piano parodies
    and vocal twistings that Borge did, and I've always wondered why Borge
    had not  been pegged as a copycat.

    And "Hail KMH"??????  What happened to "Where the Blue of the Night
    Meets the Gold of the Day"?

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:57:32 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-19 births/deaths

    September 19th births

    09-19-1877 - T. Stuart Gurr - Bombay, India - d. 12-xx-1960
    writer: "The Summons"
    09-19-1879 - Louis Joseph Vance - NYC - d. 12-16-1933
    writer: "The Lone Wolf"
    09-19-1888 - John Henry Bodkin - Chicago, IL - d. unknown
    director: Abundant Life Mixed Chorus "Operatic Night"
    09-19-1888 - Porter Hall - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-6-1953
    actor: "March of Time"
    09-19-1892 - Fred E. Ahlert - NYC - d. 10-20-1953
    composer/arranger: "When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the
    Day"
    09-19-1899 - Ricardo Cortez - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 4-28-1977
    actor: "Shell Chateau"; "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Treasury Hour"
    09-19-1904 - Dr. Bergen Evans - Franklin, OH - d. 2-4-1978
    host: "Down You Go"; "Of Many Things"
    09-19-1904 - Elvia Allman - Concord, NC - d. 3-6-1992
    comedian: Tootsie Sagwell "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"; Cora
    Dithers "Blondie"
    09-19-1905 - Betty Garde - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-25-1989
    actor: Peggy O'Neill "O'Neills"; Kate Mason "Maudie's Diary"
    09-19-1908 - Sanford Barnett - East Orange, NJ - d. 4-14-1988
    writer: "Believe It or Not"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-19-1910 - Arthur Mullard - London, England - d. 12-11-1995
    actor: Jack (Dad Porter) "Industrial Inaction"; "Brothers In Law"
    09-19-1910 - Dresser Dahlstead - Springville, UT - d. 4-20-1998
    announcer: "I Deal in Crime"; "Death Valley Days"; "I Love a Mystery"
    09-19-1910 - Margaret Lindsay - Dubuque, IA - d. 5-8-1981
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"
    09-19-1912 - Edmund Anderson - NYC - d. 6-29-2002
    program writer and director for various network programs
    09-19-1912 - William Abramchik - d. 4-16-1998
    newscaster: Chicago, Illinois
    09-19-1913 - Frances Farmer - Seattle, WA - d. 8-1-1970
    actor: "Pursuit of Happiness"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Suspense"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    09-19-1916 - Helen Ward - NYC - d. 4-21-1998
    jazz singer: (Benny Goodman's Band) "Let's Dance"
    09-19-1920 - Warde Q. Butler - d. 4-16-2004
    hosted a music and interview program in Cincinnati, Ohio
    09-19-1921 - Michael Noonan - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 3-5-2000
    writer: "The Man Who Changed the Wind"
    09-19-1922 - Willie Pep - Middletown, CT - d. 11-23-2006
    boxer: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"
    09-19-1924 - Bob Murphy - Oklahoma - d. 8-3-2004
    sportscaster: teamed with Curt Gowdy to broadcast Red Sox Games
    09-19-1926 - James Lipton - Detroit, MI
    actor: Dick Grant "The Guiding Light"; Dan Reid "The Lone Ranger"
    09-19-1927 - William Hickey - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-29-1997
    performed in radio at the age of 9
    09-19-1930 - Derek Nimmo - Liverpool, England - d. 2-25-1999
    comic actor: "The Dales"
    09-19-1931 - Ray Danton - NYC - d. 2-11-1992
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"

    September 19th deaths

    02-03-1903 - Martin Block - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1967
    announcer, disc jockey: "Make-Believe Ballroom"; "Chesterfield Supper
    Club"
    04-07-1899 - Robert Casadesus - Paris, France - d. 9-19-1972
    pianist: "Telephone Hour"; "Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra"
    04-23-1922 - Jack May - Henley-on-Thames, England - d. 9-19-1997
    actor: "The Archers"; "Sherlock Holmes"
    05-21-1901 - Fred Cole - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1964
    writer: "Double or Nothing"
    06-01-1900 - Werner Janssen - NYC - d. 9-19-1990
    music: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-17-1897 - Vivian Duncan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1986
    singer: (Topsy and Eva) "Wireless Vaudeville"
    06-17-1910 - Red Foley - Blue Lick, KY - d. 9-19-1968
    singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Red Foley Show"
    07-18-1910 - Lou Bush - Louisville, KY - d. 9-19-1979
    orchestra leader: "Guest Star"; "Stars for Defense"; "Here's to
    Veterans"
    07-28-1911 - Ann Doran - Amarillo, TX - d. 9-19-2000
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-16-1896 - Eddie Green - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-19-1950
    actor: Eddie the Waiter "Duffy's Tavern"; Jerry "Uncle Charlie's Tent
    Show"
    10-14-1879 - Miles Franklin - Talbingo, Australia - d. 9-19-1954
    wirter: "The Thorny Rose"
    10-20-1895 - Rex Ingram - Cairo, IL - d. 9-19-1965
    actor: "Free World Theatre"
    12-22-1909 - Patricia Hayes - London, England - d. 9-19-1998
    actor: Henry Bones, boy detective "Children's Hour"
    12-30-1931 - Skeeter Davis - Dry Ridge, KY - d. 9-19-2004
    country/western singer: "Grand Old Opry"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:57:38 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 20-26 September

     From Those Were The Days

    9/20

    1921   KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started one of the first daily
    radio newscasts in the country. The broadcast came from the city desk of
    The Pittsburgh Post.

    1953   Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC. He played Britt
    Ponset on the Western.

    9/21

    1946   After being tested on a regional basis, The Second Mrs. Burton
    was heard for the first time on the entire CBS network. The Second Mrs.
    Burton fared very well, having a relationship with the network for 14 years.

    1948   The serial Life With Luigi debuted on CBS. Luigi Basko was played
    by J. Carroll Naish. Naish, an Irish American, became typecast as an
    Italian immigrant, and went on to play the same role in the TV version
    in 1952.

    9/22

    1943   Singer Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal. For 13
    continuous hours Smith had stayed on the air, collecting a whopping $39
    million dollars in bond pledges.

    1957   The CBS Radio Workshop was silenced after 18 months of what the
    critics said was "ingenious radio programming."

    9/24

    1942   Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS. It was
    time for Miller to go to war. The show had aired three times a week for
    Chesterfield Cigarettes.

    9/25

    1933   America's favorite cowboy, Tom Mix, was heard for the first time
    on NBC. The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters continued on the air until
    June 1950.

    Joe

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    Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:57:46 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Git'um up, Scout

    It has been previously reported on this Digest that a new Lone Ranger
    movie is in the works and that Johnny Depp might be playing Tonto.

    Depp confirmed this yesterday in Annapolis, MD where his 156 luxury
    yacht "Vajoliroja" is temporarily docked, attracting throngs of news
    media. Depp will next star in the fourth of the "Pirates of the
    Caribbean" series sub-titled "On Stranger Tides." By the time that
    motion picure is released in summer 2011, Depp will have finished
    filming his next movie "The Lone Ranger" in which he will be the co-
    lead in the role of Tonto.

    No release date for this Masked Rider of the Plains has been projected.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:57:58 -0400
    From: karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Henry Morgan Show and other Stein Stuff

    Hello, all.  Would anyone be able to tell me the best sources-- aurally
    speaking-- for the 1946-50 HENRY MORGAN SHOW.  And does anyone know if any
    episodes of the 1949 Ethel Merman sitcom are extant [removed]   I'm
    trying to pull material together of Joe (FIDDLER ON THE ROOF) Stein's.  (I
    gather he also wrote for HILDEGARDE'S RALEIGH ROOM.)

    Thanks.

    Karl Tiedemann (NYC)

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    Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:58:08 -0400
    From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  NBC Symphony Orchestra

    A friend recalls hearing the NBC Symphony Orchestra interrupt its live
    performance on December 7, 1941 to play a spirited version of the Star
    Spangled Banner following the Pearl Harbor announcement. Is it possible that
    a recording of this exists?

    --
    Bob Scherago
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:58:22 -0400
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Shadow question

    Just as Martin Grams suggested, the new Shadow "Strange Puzzles"  set from
    Radio Spirits is quite good, and Bill Nadel's liner notes (should they be
    called liner notes any more?) are fascinating. He identifies voices and
    relationships among the actors that make it a better read than some of the
    plots of the shows!

    He does mention on the final page that there was a time when Morrison filled
    in for Berry Kroeger on The Haunting Hour, and that six years later "when the
    Shadow had expanded to 52 episodes a year" that Morrison needed a vacation
    and Kroeger filled in, repaying the favor. I had never heard this before and
    wondered what the date of such a show was, and, of course, if the recording
    exists.

    Regards to all
    JWW

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    Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:58:30 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Guiding Light, RIP

    The world's longest running TV soap opera was kicked to the curb by
    CBS on Friday, September 18, 2009. "The Guiding Light," a brilliant
    creation of Irna Phillips, debuted on radio January 25, 1937 and ran
    on network radio until June 29, 1956. By that time, it had already
    logged four years on television, from June 30, 1952. All in all, over
    its 72 year run, it accumulated 15,762 episodes on radio and television.

    One would probably think that CBS would have tipped its hat to such a
    series, if not just in terms of its longevity, in terms of its
    quality. Over the seven decades, it had captured 368 nominations for
    various awards of excellence and won 95 Emmies and other tributes for
    cast and crew. One might further hope that some brief tribute would
    accompany this last TV episode. If so, one would be terribly
    disappointed, as was I while watching that last episode.

    The opening encouraged my hopes; in the span of perhaps four seconds,
    it showed the opening title of "the Guiding Light" with about a half
    dozen titles from the "old days" including some in black and white.
    "This looks promising" I told myself. But then it was non-stop
    through dozens of plot lines, trying to resolve them all in less than
    an hour, interspersed with commercials.

    At the half hour break, I waited for CBS to announce we were watching
    the 15,762nd and last episode of this venerable soap opera. Nothing
    happened at the break, so I began to become nervous as I awaited the
    end of the program. When the last scene faded out at 10:57 AM, I
    silently cheered, expecting the CBS had saved the last three minutes
    to mention Irna, the radio history, and TV era.

    But instead, CBS crassly aired three solid minutes of commercials,
    including Plumbers' Helper, Hour Eyes, and [removed] So in a
    blink of commercials, 72 years went down the drain.

    To add insult to injury, CBS announced later that day that the time
    slot for "The Guiding Light" would be filled with re-runs of "The
    Price is Right" until some new episodes of "Let's Make A Deal" can be
    churned out later.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:11:15 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-20 births/deaths

    September 20th births

    09-20-1869 - George Robey - London, England - d. 11-29-1954
    music hall singer: "Music Hall"
    09-20-1885 - Jelly Roll Morton - Gulfport, MS - d. 7-10-1941
    jazz musician, songwriter: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin
    Street"; "Americana"
    09-20-1896 - Si Wills - Pennsylvania - d. 10-3-1977
    writer: (Husband of Joan Davis) "Joan Davis Time"
    09-20-1898 - Charlie Dressen - Decatur, IL - d. 8-10-1966
    baseball manager: "Tops in Sports"; "Brooklyn Dodgers Locker Room
    Interviews"
    09-20-1899 - Elliot Nugent - Dover, OH - d. 8-9-1980
    actor: "Best Plays"; "United States Steel Hour"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-20-1908 - Lowell Hawley - Lynden, WA - d. 5-6-2003
    screenwriter: "Art Baker's Notebook"
    09-20-1911 - Frank De Vol - Moundsville, WV - d. 10-27-1999
    conductor: "Rudy Vallee Drene Show"; "Sealtest Village Store"; "Dinah
    Shore Show"
    09-20-1912 - John W. Loveton - d. 1-17-1997
    director: "The Shadow"; "Mr. and Mrs. North"; "Court of Missing Heirs"
    09-20-1912 - Ron Cochran - d. 7-25-1994
    newscaster: "Sounds of the World"; "Feature Project"
    09-20-1915 - Joe King - Birmingham, AL
    announcer: "Songs By Morton Downey"; "Walk A Mile"
    09-20-1917 - Red Auerbach - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-28-2006
    legendary baskeball coach: "The Inside Track"
    09-20-1918 - Gordon Heath - NYC - d. 8-27-1991
    actor: "New World A' Coming"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    09-20-1918 - Peg Phillips - Everett, WA - d. 11-7-2002
    actor: "Studio One"; "The Big Show"
    09-20-1919 - Francis Heflin - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 6-1-1994
    actor: (Sister of Van Heflin) "Aunt Jenny"; "Big Sister"
    09-20-1924 - Michael Hardwick - Leeds, England - d. 3-4-1991
    author: Adapted Sherlock Holmes for radio
    09-20-1925 - Joan Barton - d. 8-27-1976
    actor: Cashier "Meet Me at Parky's"
    09-20-1928 - Dr. Joyce Brothers - NYC
    psychologist: "Monitor"
    09-20-1929 - Anne Meara - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    09-20-1929 - Henry Livings - Northern England - d. 2-20-1998
    dramatist: "After the Last Lamp"; "A Most Wonderful Thing"
    09-20-1937 - Tom Tresh - Detroit, MI - d. 10-15-2008
    baseball player: "Tops In Sports"

    September 20th deaths

    03-12-1912 - Paul Weston - Springfield, MA - d. 9-20-1996
    conductor: "Chesterfield Supper Club"; "Paul Weston Orchestra"
    03-16-1897 - M. Barnard Eldershaw - Darlington, Australia - d. 9-20-1956
    writer: "The Watch on the Headland"
    03-22-1913 - James Westerfield - Nashville, TN - d. 9-20-1971
    actor: "Mystery Theatre"; "Gunsmoke", "Have Gun,Will Travel"
    04-25-1909 - Karl Farr - Rochelle, TX - d. 9-20-1961
    singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show)
    05-05-1907 - Benny Baker - St. Joseph, MO - d. 9-20-1994
    character actor: "Jack Benny Program"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-25-1917 - Jimmy Hamilton - Dillon, SC - d. 9-20-1994
    jazz clarinetist: "One Night Stand"; "A Date with the Duke"
    07-18-1893 - Richard Dix - St. Paul, MN - d. 9-20-1949
    actor: "Eveready Hour"
    08-16-1899 - Glenn Strange - Weed, NM - d. 9-20-1973
    singer, actor: "Arizona Wranglers"
    08-28-1910 - John F. Holbrook - Cameron, WI - d. 9-20-1978
    announcer, director: "The Bickersons"; "The Dinah Shore Show"
    10-10-1918 - Paul Dubov - Illinois - d. 9-20-1979
    actor: Frank Race "Advs. of Frank Race"
    11-11-1909 - Rad Robinson - Bountiful, UT - d. 9-20-1988
    singer: (Member of the King's Men) "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "King's
    Men"
    12-11-1882 - Fiorello La Guardia - NYC - d. 9-20-1947
    NYC mayor: "Douglas Corrigan Parade"; "This Is New York"; "Reads the
    Funnies"
    12-30-1894 - Vincent Lopez - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-20-1975
    bandleader: "Luncheon with Lopez"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:12:02 -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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