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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2011 : Issue 4
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  LONE RANGER STORY                     [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
  Re: The Green Hornet                  [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  re: Margot Stevenson                  [ Fass Martin <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
  1-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Anne Francis & OTR                    [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  "Radio's Golden Age: Live Onstage" -  [ Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:32:18 -0500
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  LONE RANGER STORY

For a hilarious true story about Clayton Moore at a car  dealer opening as
the Lone Ranger go here:

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I was a disc jockey for years and know how this  must have felt.
I fall down every time I hear  this.
Enjoy.
Michael C. Gwynne

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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:32:44 -0500
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: The Green Hornet
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In a message dated 1/3/2011 4:51:58 [removed] Central Standard Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

His only  reply to me via e-mail was that he was informed that THE GREEN
HORNET began  as a TV series and that I "must be mistaken."

Did you consider sending him links to an episode or two of the radio show
online ([removed] has a few), and asking him to explain why they don't  exist?

Sometimes I get so embarrassed for my profession, but know there are a few
of us in journalism who wouldn't be caught dead making an error that big,
much  less fighting for my right to do so ("...must be [removed]").

Dixon

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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:39:37 -0500
From: Fass Martin <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re: Margot Stevenson

Margot Stevenson's stage work included a season (or maybe two) as
leading lady at the Elitch Summer Theatre in Denver.  Other people
with radio and film in their credits who trod the boards at Elitch's;
Raymond Burr, Donald Woods, John Archer, Donald Cook, Edward G.
Robinson, Patricia Neal, Whitfield Connor, Grace Kelly, William
Woodson, Joyce and Dick Van Patten, and many more.

--Martin Fass

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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:39:50 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-4 births/deaths

Januray 4th births

01-04-1881 - Norman Field - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 9-11-1956
actor: Glen Hunter "One Man's Family"
01-04-1889 - Pat Kelly - North Queensland, Australia - d. 12-23-1967
announcer: "Dog Heroes"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
01-04-1896 - Everett Dirksen - Pekin, IL - d. 9-7-1969
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"; "American Forum on the Air"
01-04-1905 - Sterling Holloway - Cedartown, GA - d. 11-22-1992
actor: "Railroad Hour"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
01-04-1907 - Floyd Christy - NYC - d. 5-21-1962
writer: "The Johnson Family"
01-04-1910 - Ann Jamison - Belfast, Ireland - d. 4-16-1961
singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "The Packard Hour"
01-04-1911 - Fred Killian - d. 4-25-1994
producer, director: "Those Sensational Years"
01-04-1916 - Lionel Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-3-1989
conductor, composer: (Brother of Alfred) "Hollywood Star Time"
01-04-1917 - Jane Wyman - St. Joseph, MO - d. 9-10-2007
actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"
01-04-1918 - Buddy Baker - Springfield, MO - d. 7-26-2002
musical director: Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny
01-04-1918 - Palmer Thompson - Patterson, NY - d. 12-15-1969
writer: "David Harding, Counterspy"
01-04-1919 - Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins - NYC - d. 9-30-1997
disc jockey: "Collins on a Cloud"; "Happy Al"
01-04-1920 - Rosalie Crutchley - London, England - d. 7-28-1997
actor: "Advice to a Queen"; "Looking After Ourselves"
01-04-1925 - Johnny Lujack - Connellsville, PA
all-american football player, actor: Himself "Johnny Lujack of Notre
Dame"
01-04-1927 - Barbara Rush - Denver, CO
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-04-1927 - John Drury - Peoria, IL - d. 11-25-2007
staff announcer: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
01-04-1935 - Floyd Patterson - Waco, NC - d. 5-11-2006
boxer: "Life and the World"; "Tops in Sports"
01-04-1936 - David Allen - Birmingham, England
writer: "Cheapside"

January 4th deaths

03-10-1888 - Barry Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland - d. 1-4-1961
actor: Bernard Fitz "His Honor, the Barber"
03-14-1912 - Les Brown - Reinerton, PA - d. 1-4-2001
bandleader: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) "Bob Hope Show"
03-16-1886 - Howard Pierce - d. 1-4-1973
Owned a piece of the Lone Ranger
04-03-1906 - Iron Eyes Cody - Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-4-1999
actor: "Straight Arrow Pow-Wow
04-06-1895 - Dudley Nichols - Wapakoneta, OH - d. 1-4-1960
screenwiriter: "Cavalcade of America"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-09-1895 - Frank H. Anderson, Jr. - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1952
pianist/singer: had his own program for 8 years
04-29-1946 - Humphrey Carpenter - Oxford, England - d. 1-4-2005
writer, disc jockey: BBC radio
05-26-1909 - Richard Maibaum - NYC - d. 1-4-1991
screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-14-1925 - George Draper Lewis - d. 1-4-1998
writer: "The Camel Caravan"
07-25-1899 - Ralph Dumke - South Bend, IN - d. 1-4-1964
actor: Willie Tompkins "We, the Abbotts"; Pat Plenty "Quality Twins"
08-12-1909 - Nat Asherton - NYC - d. 1-4-1987
composer/pianist: Leo Reisman Orchestra, Lester Lanin Orchestra
08-26-1904 - Chirstopher Isherwood - High Lane, Cheshire, England - d.
1-4-1986
writer: "NBC University Theatre"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
08-31-1912 - Ramon Vinay - Chillan, Chile - d. 1-4-1996
tenor: "A Critic's Toscanini"
09-08-1877 - Bide Dudley - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1944
drama critic: "Around Little 'Ol Broadway"
09-13-1908 - Mae Questel - The Bronx, NY - d. 1-4-1998
actor: Betty Boop "Betty Boop Fables"; Olive Oyl "Popeye the Sailor"
09-24-1901 - Paschal Strong - d. 1-4-1988
writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
09-24-1924 - Joan Aiken - Rye, Sussex, England - d. 1-4-2004
adapter of her short fiction: "Chilredn's Hour"
09-26-1888 - T. S. Eliot - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-4-1965
writer: "Columbia Workshop"
10-16-1912 - Berry Kroeger - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-4-1991
actor: Michael Waring/The Falcon "The Falcon"; Reed Bannister "Big
Sister"
11-29-1932 - John Gary - Watertown, NY - d. 1-4-1998
singer: "Christmas Music - Spots for the National Guard"

Ron
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:41:04 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Anne Francis & OTR

Derek Tague and I were researching the radio career of Anne Francis
about four years ago when it looked like she might accept his
invitation to guest at the Friends of Old Time Radio in Newark. She
ultimately declined, and more's the pity.

She may have been one of the most active child actors in radio for
the ten years prior to her getting a Hollywood contract at age 16,
based upon some early TV shows. She got on TV  for the first time at
age 10.

She started in radio at age 6, having been a child model with the
Powers Agency in NYC since age 5. She started in 1936 on what was
nick-named "The Madge Tucker Show" but officially was "Coast to Coast
on a Bus" a Sunday show of kids singing and acting out fun stories.
When Nila Mack started "Let's Pretend" in 1939 to dramatize fairy
tales, Francis starting getting roles on that program. Thereafter
there were more roles on network shows: "Portia Faces Life," "Big
Town", "Rosemary" and "Aunt Jenny's True Life Stories." Her longest
continuous role was a three year stint (1943-46) playing Kathy
Cameron on "When A Girl Marries," the popular soap by Elaine Carrington.

Eventually she was dubbed "The Little Queen of Soaps" though in
adulthood she couldn't recall whether it was her press agent or a
media reporter that created that title. She once estimated that she
had appeared on about 3,000 broadcasts before leaving for Hollywood
in 1947, the year she was featured on the cover of Radio-Mirror.

She remembered in a 1996 interview that she did a lot of on-air
audience shows as a kid. Many of those included big celebrities; she
was on the air with Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Eleanor Roosevelt, etc.
Anne did a radio show with the First Lady who was talking about her
charity programs.

When not working before a microphone, she attended NY's Professional
Children's School, as most young radio actors did in that era. "They
were actually very strict there" she recalled, "If you didn't keep
your grades up, the child welfare board pulled you out of working."

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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:42:13 -0500
From: Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Radio's Golden Age: Live Onstage" - 1/8/11 in
 Woodland Hills, CA

I'm producing and directing an exciting show this Saturday, Jan. 8,
from 2pm to 4pm at a theater in Woodland Hills, CA.

It's called "Radio's Golden Age: Live Onstage!" and will include
re-creations of "The Great Gildersleeve," "Baby Snooks," and
"The Bickersons," plus spoofs of "Dragnet" and "The Shadow."
Performed live onstage by professional actors (including some
original cast members), with music and live sound effects.

We've got a phenomenal cast, including Shirley Mitchell
(re-creating her role as "Leila Ransom" in "Gildersleeve"),
June Foray, Gloria McMillan, Chuck McCann, Mallory Lewis
and "Lambchop" (as "Baby Snooks"), Richard Herd, Gregg Berger,
Pat Crawford Brown, Connie Sawyer, Mark Silverman,
Ron Cocking, and Dora Pearson (lead female vocalist in Sha Na Na).

Admission is FREE (as is parking), but seating is limited.
The reason for the late notice is that it's not really open to the public.
I'm producing the show for the benefit of a private non-profit group, who
thought its members would fill the theater, but they overestimated, so
they're letting me invite another 50 people. The remaining tickets will be
allocated on a first-come first served basis. If you're interested in
attending,
please email me at gopp@[removed] and I'll get you the details and a map
with directions to the theater (if we haven't run out of seats by the time I
hear from you).

Gregg Oppenheimer

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