Subject: [removed] Digest V2012 #16
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Date: 1/28/2012 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 16
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      1-27 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Ted Johnstone on WXYZ                 [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
      GI Jill and her not so secret identi  [ "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@ ]
      GI Jill                               [ Michael Berger <[removed]@yaho ]
      GI Jill                               [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
      The Museum of Broadcast Communicatio  [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
      The [removed]     [ Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@y ]
      Neal Ellis, and "Radio Once More"     [ TVHistory2009@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:24:38 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-27 births/deaths

    January 27th births

    01-27-1885 - Jerome Kern - NYC - d. 11-11-1945
    composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Show Boat"
    01-27-1886 - Bessie Beatty - d. 4-6-1947
    hostess: Martha Deane
    01-27-1888 - Harry "Singin' Sam" Frankel - Danville, KY - d. 6-12-1948
    singer: (The Barbasol Man) "Reminiscin' with Singin' Sam"
    01-27-1895 - B. G. De Sylva - NYC - d. 7-11-1950
    lyricist: "The Railroad Hour"
    01-27-1895 - Harry Ruby - NYC - d. 2-23-1974
    songwriter: "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood"; "Great Moments to Music"
    01-27-1895 - Violet Heming - Leeds, Yorkshire, England - d. 7-4-1981
    actor: Connie Wakefield "Right to Happiness"
    01-27-1899 - Milton Rettenberg - NYC - d. 12-24-1986
    pianist/conductor: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Cities Service Concerts"
    01-27-1904 - Frankie Marvin - Butler, Indian Territory, Oklahoma - d.
    1-18-1985
    actor: "Gene Autry's Melody Rance"
    01-27-1905 - Howard McNear - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-3-1969
    actor: Doctor Charles Adams "Gunsmoke"
    01-27-1907 - Theodore Epp - Oklahoma Territory - d. 10-13-1985
    preacher: "Back to the Bible"
    01-27-1908 - "Hot Lips" Page - Dallas, TX - d. 11-5-1954
    jazz trumpeter: "Milt Herth Trio"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
    01-27-1911 - Benay Venuta - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-1-1995
    singer: "Benay Venuta's Program"; "Shell Chateau"
    01-27-1914 - Alexander Albert Avola - Boston, MA - d. 1-20-2000
    guitarist/arranger: Artie Shaw Orchestra; Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
    01-27-1916 - Merrill Mueller - NYC - d. 11-30-1980
    reporter: "NBC Stands By"; "Morning News Roundup"; "The Navy Hour"
    01-27-1918 - Irving Cummings - d. 3-26-1996
    producer, host: "Lux Radio Theater"; "Gulf Screen Theatre"
    01-27-1918 - Skitch Henderson - Birmingham, England - d. 11-1-2005
    bandleader: "Philco Radio Time"; "Songs by Sinatra"
    01-27-1921 - Donna Reed - Dennison, IA - d. 1-14-1986
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Star and the Story"; "Silver Theatre"
    01-27-1924 - Sabu - Mysore, India - d. 12-2-1963
    actor: "Confidential Close-Ups"

    January 27th deaths

    01-21-1904 - Allen Prescott - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-27-1978
    host: "Wife Saver"; "Prescott Presents"
    02-08-1915 - George "Doc" Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 1-27-2005
    gardner, host: "The Green Thumb"
    03-16-1901 - Edward Pawley - Kansas City, KS - d. 1-27-1988
    actor: Steve Wilson "Big Town"
    03-19-1920 - Tige Andrews - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-27-2007
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    03-29-1898 - Cecil Lewis - Birkenhead, England - d. 1-27-1997
    pioneer in British broadcasting instrumental in creation of the BBC
    04-27-1914 - Lou Crosby - Lawton, OK - d. 1-27-1984
    announcer: "Rise Stevens Show"; "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Lum and
    Abner"
    05-01-1918 - Jack Paar - Canton, OH - d. 1-27-2004
    comedian: "Jack Paar Show"; "Take It or Leave It"
    05-20-1916 - William D. Carey - Hollister, CA - d. 1-27-2004
    actor and singer
    06-13-1887 - Edward 'Senator' Ford - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-27-1970
    panelist: "Can You Top This"
    06-23-1910 - Edward P. Morgan - Walla Walla, WA - d. 1-27-1993
    newscaster: "News and Commentary"
    06-27-1912 - Bill Kennedy - Cleveland Heights, OH - d. 1-27-1997
    announcer: "Nobody's Children"
    07-03-1911 - Pembroke Davenport - Dallas, TX - d. 1-27-1985
    pianist, arranger: "Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians"
    08-12-1898 - Oscar Homolka - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-27-1978
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-13-1918 - Bobb Carroll, Jr. - d. 1-27-2007
    writer: "It's A Great Life"; "My Favorite Husband"
    08-20-1888 - Julia Sanderson - Springfield, MA - d. 1-27-1975
    singer, emcee: "Blackstone Plantation"; "Battle of the Sexes"; "Let's
    Be Charming"
    10-13-1900 - Gerald Marks - Saginaw, MI - d. 1-27-1997
    tin pan alley composer: "Great Days We Honor"
    10-26-1911 - Mahalia Jackson - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-27-1972
    gospel singer: (The Angel of Peace) "Mahalia Jackson Show"

    Ron

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:25:31 -0500
    From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ted Johnstone on WXYZ

    Gordon Gregerson wrote in a few days ago to report that he believed Ted
    Johnstone was voice of Sgt. Burke on the WXYZ broadcasts of The Green
    Hornet.  Gordon went on to add that Ted also voiced Tonto on The Lone Ranger
    on some occasions when John Todd, the regular actor who played the role, was
    unavailable.  I don't have any additional information on Sgt. Burke, since
    my Hornet recordings are at my summer home and I can't go check.  But I'm
    somewhat doubtful that Ted Johnstone ever voiced Tonto on the Lone Ranger.
    Ted had a very distinctive voice, cultured and higher in pitch that John
    Todd by quite a bit.  In fact, he sounded a little like H. V. Kaltenborn,
    the newscaster of that age.  He was best known as The Inspector on Challenge
    of the Yukon, Sgt. Preston's boss.  Again, I can't refute Gordon since I
    don't have the Union Pacific Lone Ranger series available here, but I can
    only say that it's possible he's mistaking Ted for a different actor.

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:25:56 -0500
    From: "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  GI Jill and her not so secret identity

    GI Jill was Martha Wilkerson, co-producer and wife of producer Robert M.
    Warner, who played the part of Jack. The series began in San Francisco
    and was called "Hi Neighbour". SSD took over production in May 1943 for
    56 shows. It was revamped a few months later. It appears to have lasted
    until at least Nov 1949. This according to McKenzie, and that's how he
    spelled "Neighbour".

    Martha attempted to answer every letter received and sent a pic out with
    each response.

    See her as she was in 1944 at:

    [removed]
    (scroll down)

    or-

    [removed]

    The official photo is all over the net, with an AFRS mic, the only I found.

    A little more at-

    [removed]

    Yes, she was a cutie.

    She died in 1999.

    Joe Salerno

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:56:51 -0500
    From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];
    To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  GI Jill

    >From Time Magazine, Feb. 5, 1945:

    With [removed] overseas, the biggest attraction on radio is a pretty, breezy
    blonde with a high-school-fresh voice named Martha Wilkerson. Most [removed]
    civilians never heard of her-but from Kodiak to Canberra, Martha is a top
    [removed] favorite. Last week, with her 870th broadcast, Martha Wilkerson could
    boast of receiving one-fourth of all the fan mail inspired by the Armed
    Forces Radio Service's 122 air shows.

    Recording six days a week in Los Angeles, Martha Wilkerson uses the aeronym,
    "[removed] Jill." Her transcriptions, flown out in six-day batches by [removed],
    are tenderly passed from one mosquito network to the next

    ...and a photo of her at this link:

    [removed]

    Michael Berger

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:56:58 -0500
    From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  GI Jill

    In response to Alan Bell's inquiry about the countenance of Martha Wilkerson
    ([removed] GI Jill), you can see a photo of her on a collection of GI Jive shows
    at [removed].

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:57:12 -0500
    From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Museum of Broadcast Communications

    For those of you who haven't seen the news, it looks as though the Museum of Broadcast Communications got a big boost toward completion of its long-awaited new headquarters: [removed].

    As an aside, "Those Were the Days" is planning to broadcast our February 4 show live from the Museum as we kick off our 34th annual Jack Benny Month. We'll be featuring Chuck Schaden's wonderful audio-documentary, "Speaking of Radio: The Jack Benny Program"; plus, we'll tune in to hear Jack on "Screen Guild Theater" and "The Eddie Cantor Show." The show can be heard live over the web at [removed]. To attend the broadcast in person, visit [removed].

    Steve

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:57:48 -0500
    From: Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The [removed]

    I read with great interest Anthony Tollin's response to my initial post
    on The Shadow. Anthony, it seems as if  my comments may have insulted or
    offended you. Please understand that was never my intention. As I have
    stated in my previous post (and other posts on this forum and others) I
    consider you a respected OTR historian. As a longtime OTR fan and very
    amateur historian/researcher, I am only interested in getting the facts
    straight. I'm sure you would agree that accuracy is the most important
    thing, regardless of the source.

    On the topic of relying on individual memories from years (or even decades)
    ago, of course I don't believe that they should all be discounted. But to
    think that every memory of any person on this planet is 100% accurate is, to
    quote you, "reckless." My only contention is that, whenever possible, it is
    preferable and necessary to have indisputable hard
    evidence to back-up any personal recollections. As many different
    clinical experiments have shown, groups of people will give identical
    stories of an event they witnessed, while video evidence shows the event did
    not happen the way all of them remembered it.

    As to your question regarding my opinion of the Frank Readick article in
    the book I won at FOTR, my answer is "I don't know." The reason is that I
    only attended one dinner this past October, and never won any prizes.
    Anthony, again I consider you a respected historian. If you remembered
    an event from 3 months ago incorrectly, are you honestly saying that
    Walter Gibson's memory (as well as Mr. Nanovic and Ms. Meisner) from a
    half century ago is infallible?

    I think we'll politely agree to disagree on this one. So we won't bore
    the rest of our Digest friends (or get an "Administrivia" from my
    favorite Listmaster), if you really feel it necessary to continue this
    discussion, my e-mail address is at
    the top of this post. Please feel free to contact me off-list there.

    Ken

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:58:18 -0500
    From: TVHistory2009@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Neal Ellis, and "Radio Once More"
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    A brief clarification, concerning Dan Hughes's post from the 1/23/12 issue
    of the Digest (V2012, Issue #11).

    Dan referred to Neal Ellis's radio  broadcasts from the Cincinnati OTR
    convention.  For the past couple of  years, Neal's radio shows from the
    convention have not been a part of the  station "Yesterday USA." His shows
    have
    aired on the OTR and  nostalgia-oriented station he founded and runs, "Radio
    Once More" (_[removed]_ ([removed]) ).

    Thanks.

    Andrew  Fielding

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