Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #3
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 1/5/2009 5:27 PM

To: [removed]@[removed]
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 3
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      "R-E-S-P-E-C-T !"                     [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Shadowgraph needles                   [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
      A Christmas Carol                     [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
      1-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      The End of An Era /// Plus 60         [ Stephen A Kallisd <skallisjr@[removed] ]
      Famous on-air break downs, anyone?    [ Lance Grider <rangegrider@[removed] ]
      1-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      1-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:16:51 -0500
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "R-E-S-P-E-C-T !"

     From: "Bob C" rmc44@[removed]

>     This is my general gripe when  particularly commercial entities
>     (community theater groups, etc.) reprise old  time radio - they
>     ham it up, thinking it can't stand on its  own.

    Preach ON, Brother Bob!

    Having fun WITH a piece? Of  course! Making fun OF it? A pox on that!

    I can't stand the fact that so  many folks seem to think it's cute, when
    doing recreations, to dress everyone in  pinstripes & fedorahs/Joan Crawford
    makeup & dress -and then, to mug to  the house, & generally camp it up.

    That is NOT a valid "recreation"  of a Network Era Broadcast, you clydes!!!

    The strength of the shows at  FOTR (when at their best), is that they are NOT
    treated like that; rather, a  group of level-headed, proficient performing
    artists, doing their best to create  what Leslie Howard called, "the illusion
    of
    the First Time."

    Anything  that makes this still-effective little gem of a medium, Audio
    Drama, look  cutesy, precious, outdated and quaint, is, to quote the Bard this
    time,  "overstep(ing) ... the modesty of nature - for anything so overdone is
    (away) from the PURPOSE of playing."

>     Like Rodney Dangerfield,  OTR don't get no respect.

    This infects the New Time Radio/Modern Audio Drama world too; it annoys me
    no end, that fully 75% of the work done in the field consists of goofy, camp
    scifi - as if the medium is not up to anything more serious.

    Happy New Year,
    -Craig Wichman

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:17:05 -0500
    From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Shadowgraph needles

    I have some 16" discs that say to use RCA 100% Shadowgraphed half
    volume steel needles.

    What are these needles?

    Fred
    Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
    [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:21 -0500
    From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  A Christmas Carol

    Re recent postings about Lionel Barrymore and his acting as
    Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol"...

    The Dec. 25, 1944, issue of Life magazine has a seven-page photo
    spread featuring Barrymore in scenes from the story staged at
    MGM.

    Quoting the article: "On Christmas Eve 1934, Lionel Barrymore and
    the Columbia Broadcasting System first dramatized Dickens'
    'Christmas Carol' on the air and have continued to broadcast the
    story every Christmas season since, with two exceptions, in 1936
    and 1938. (In 1936, Lionel Barrymore's wife died and his late
    brother John took his place.) Millions of Americans, who have
    forsaken the old custom of reading the Carol aloud to the
    children on Christmas Eve, would hardly consider Christmas to be
    Christmas without hearing Barrymore harrumph and growl his way
    through the role of old Scrooge. This year he will do it again,
    on Saturday Dec. 23, from 7 to 7:30 [removed] [removed], on his regular
    'Mayor of the Town'program time." ...

    So it appears it was Barrymore's illness that kept him away in
    '38 ... the earlier absence due to the death of his wife.

    Bob Cockrum

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:28 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-2 births/deaths

    January 2nd births

    01-02-1865 - William Lyon Phelps - d. 8-21-1943
    author, critic, scholar: "Information Please"
    01-02-1888 - Tito Schipa - Lecce, Italy - d. 12-16-1965
    operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"; "La Rosa Concerts"
    01-02-1892 - Artur Rodzinski - Dalmatia, Yugoslavia - d. 11-27-1958
    concuctor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Cleveland Symphony Orchestra"
    01-02-1894 - Robert Nathan - NYC - d. 5-25-1985
    writer: "CBS Radio Workshop"
    01-02-1901 - Hugh Ross Williamson - Romsey, England - d. 1-13-1978
    author: "Paul, a Bondslave"
    01-02-1904 - Bernardine Flynn - Madison, WI - d. 3-10-1977
    actor: Sade Gook "Vic and Sade"; Mathilda Barker "Welcome Valley"
    01-02-1904 - James Melton - Moultrie, GA - d. 4-21-1961
    singer" "Palmolive Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "Harvest of Stars"
    01-02-1905 - Michale Tippett - London, England - d. 1-8-1998
    composer: "Midsummer Marriage"
    01-02-1913 - Anna Lee - Ightham, Kent, England - d. 5-14-2004
    actor: "Soldiers in Greaspaint"; "Lifebuoy Show"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-02-1913 - David Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-25-2000
    producer: " We the People"
    01-02-1915 - Nick Fatool - Milbury, MA - d. 9-26-2000
    drummer: (Member of the Big 7 Band) "Pete Kelly's Blues"
    01-02-1917 - Vera Zorina - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-9-2003
    ballet dancer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "I'm An American"
    01-02-1918 - Joan Merrill - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-10-1992
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-02-1920 - Charles Douglass - Mexico - d. 4-8-2003
    radio engineer for the CBS radio network
    01-02-1920 - Corny Peeples - Oak Park, IL - d. 11-15-1954
    actor: William Snood "Tom Mix"; Bud Fairchild "Stepmother"
    01-02-1920 - Isaac Asimov - Petrovich, Russia - d. 4-6-1992
    Author: "I, Robot"; "Nightfall"
    01-02-1923 - Mary Elizabeth Smith - Ft. Worth, TX
    associate radio producer: "Wide, Wide World"
    01-02-1925 - Larry Harmon - Toledo, OH - d. 7-3-2008
    actor: "The Great Gildersleeve"
    01-02-1925 - Richard Jessup - d. 10-22-1982
    writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    01-02-1928 - Howard Caine - Nashville, TN - d. 12-29-1993
    actor: "The Brighter Day"; "The Guiding Light"
    01-02-1930 - Julius LaRosa - Brooklyn, NY
    singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    01-02-1931 - Renee Roy - Buffalo, NY - d. 7-30-2005
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    01-02-1932 - Peter Redgrove - Kingston-on-Thames, England - d. 6-16-2003
    writer: "The Nature of Cold Weather"

    January 2nd deaths

    01-12-1906 - Tex Ritter - Murvaul, TX - d. 1-2-1974
    singer: "Lone Star Rangers"
    01-13-1914 - Osa Massen - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 1-2-2006
    actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Columbia Workshop"
    02-07-1896 - Earl Burtnett - Harrisburg, PA - d. 1-2-1936
    orchestra leader: KHJ Los Angeles, California
    02-09-1902 - Fred Harman, Sr. - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-2-1982
    cartoonist: Creator of Red Ryder
    02-19-1915 - Dick Emery - London, England - d. 1-2-1983
    comedian: "Educating Archie"
    02-20-1920 - Frank Muir - Ramsgate, England - d. 1-2-1998
    comedy writer: "Take It from Here"; "Bedtime with Braden"
    03-08-1918 - Alan Hale, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-2-1990
    actor: "Smiths of Hollywood"
    03-30-1883 - Jo Davidson - NYC - d. 1-2-1952
    sculptor: "Information Please"
    04-14-1915 - Richard Hart - Providence, RI - d. 1-2-1951
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    05-04-1913 - Joe Aleman - d. 1-2-1996
    disk jockey: KPRL Paso Robles, California
    06-15-1921 - Erroll Garner - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-2-1977
    jazz muscian: "Jubilee"; "Command Performance"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    08-23-1906 - Harriet Parsons - Burlington, IA - d. 1-2-1983
    commentator: (Daughter of Louella Parsons) "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-25-1912 - John Rarig - Washington - d. 1-2-1991
    singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
    09-08-1902 - Milton Watson - Salinas, CA - d. 1-2-1982
    vocalist: "Burns and Allen"
    10-20-1897 - Adolph Deutsch - London, England - d. 1-2-1980
    arranger, conductor, composer: "Kraft Program"; "This Is Hollywood"
    10-27-1910 - Jack Carson - Carmen, Canada - d. 1-2-1963
    comedian: "Jack Carson Show"; "New Sealtest Village Store"
    11-02-1921 - Shep Menken - NYC - d. 1-2-1999
    actor: "Six Shooter"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Four-Star Playhouse"
    11-05-1901 - Etta Moten - Weimer, TX - d. 1-2-2004
    singer, actress: "The Laff Parade"; Hollywood Spotlight"
    11-14-1904 - Dick Powell - Mountain. View, AR - d. 1-2-1963
    actor: Richard Diamond "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; Richard
    Rogue "Rogue's Gallery"
    11-19-1897 - Bud Green - Austria - d. 1-2-1981
    lyricist: "Great Moments to Music"
    12-10-1903 - Una Merkel - Covington, KY - d. 1-2-1986
    actor: Adeline Fairchild "Great Gildersleeve"; "Johnny Presents";
    "Texaxo Star Theatre"
    12-xx-1880 - Fred A. Sullivan - Zionsville, IN - d. 1-2-1951
    actor: Kirby Willoughby "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Mitchell Frazier
    "Story of Mary Marlin"

    Ron
    Just a note on a coincidence for this day, Dick Powell and Jack Carson
    died on exactly the same day with the same illness, cancer of the
    lymph gland.

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:34 -0500
    From: Stephen A Kallisd <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The End of An Era /// Plus 60

    2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the closing year of the Captain
    Midnight radio show.  The adventure serial began eleven years previously
    as a syndicated radio program, sponsored by Skelly Oil.  The stories were
    aimed at an older audience than the usual serials -- how many youngsters
    bought Skelly Oil products? -- yet it proved popular to listeners of all
    ages.

    In 1940, the show changed sponsorship.  From Skelly Oil, the show came
    under the aegis of Ovaltine.  With the new sponsor came some concepts
    from the previous show they sponsored, Little Orphan Annie.  The Radio
    Orphan Annie Secret Society was echoed with Captain Midnight's Secret
    Squadron.  The ROA SS Secret Decoder Pins were followed by the Secret
    Squadron Code-O-Graphs.

    Despite the new sponsor, the show remained highly popular with grownups,
    and as the United States entered World War II, the program became the
    staple of many service personnel when stationed where they could listen
    to it.  Interestingly, the Captain Midnight storyline in the Fall of 1941
    involved a diagram of Pearl Harbor in the hands of Japanese allies,
    months before the actual attack.  (This was just an odd coincidence,
    though the script writers were visited by the Feds after the attack took
    place.)

    Postwar, the stories reflected the shift in literary interest, with a
    tinge of science fiction in such story elements as death rays, biological
    warfare, force fields, and a prehistoric land with both dinosaurs and
    cave people.  But by the closing phases of the serial in the Spring of
    1949, the stories shifted to such strange things for the heroes to be
    involved with as cattle rustling and juvenile delinquency.

    The Fall of 1949 saw a severe shift in the program.  It shifted from
    serial format to complete half-hour shows.  The actor who played the
    title role for all but one year of the serial,Ed Prentiss, was replaced
    by another, Paul Barnes.  The plotting became very simplified, with the
    writing aimed squarely at school children, which it hadn't been before.
    It aired only twice a week, in alternation with the Tom Mix radio show,
    also in half-hour format.

    Captain Midnight went off radio in December of 1949.  It certainly wasn't
    the longest running radio show ever aired, but the show had a respectable
    run.  To a lot of listeners, it was unforgettable.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
    Free information on becoming a Graphic Designer. Click Now!

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:46 -0500
    From: Lance Grider <rangegrider@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Famous on-air break downs, anyone?

    Like most true aficionados of Fibber McGee and Molly, I still have a few
    recordings that I haven't heard, despite being an OTR fan for the past 30
    years. These precious gems are deliberately spaced out to savor on special
    occasions--like New Year's.  Anyway, I was listening to the May 3, 1949
    broadcast "Do a Good-Turn McGee" and was startled to hear the normally
    mellifluous Harlow Wilcox cough, stutter, and then amazingly lose all control
    over his voice during his routine opener for Johnson's Wax. Wilcox coughs,
    his voice rasps out, he calls for "a glass of water like Fibber's" and then,
    when he still can't read his script, simply panics. 'Frank, I can't do it.
    Better have some music, I can't talk." Billy Mills complies with a 10-second
    orchestra interlude, after which Wilcox regains both his voice and composure
    and proceeds as if nothing happened. This incident impressed me for a couple
    of reasons. First for its rarity--given the thousands of on-air
     hours by the ubiquitous Harlow Wilcox, this singular lapse is a testimony to
    his professionalism. And while I'd heard Wilcox cough and apologize before,
    I'd never heard him lose complete control. Second, that this live gaffe was
    allowed to survive on the recording.
    But surely there must be other instances of uncharacteristic flubs by great
    announcers. I'm not talking about Spoonerisms or comic misspeak--Jack Benny
    made that part of Don Wilson's repertoire, after all, ditto with Groucho for
    George Fenneman, to name just two examples. Anybody with more OTR hours have
    a trump for this?
    Lance Grider
    Billings, Montana

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:51 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-3 births/deaths

    January 3rd births

    01-03-1886 - Josephine Hull - Newtonville, MA - d. 3-12-1957
    actor: Miss Julia "Miss Julia"; Mrs. Kayden "The O'Neills"
    01-03-1891 - Gaston Anderson - d. 5-xx-1978
    disk jockey: WGWD Gasden, Alabama
    01-03-1892 - Marion Davies - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-25-1961
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "How I Made Up for the Moview"
    01-03-1893 - Gilbert Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 9-29-1970
    writer: "Americans All, Immigrants All"
    01-03-1897 - Dorothy Arzner - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-1-1979
    film director: "You Were Meant to be a Star"
    01-03-1898 - Freddie Rich - Warsaw, Poland - d. 9-8-1956
    bandleader: "Friendly Five Footnotes"; "Freddie Rich's Penthouse Party"
    01-03-1898 - John Loder - London, England - d. 12-9-1988
    actor, host: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"
    01-03-1898 - Zasu Pitts - Parsons, KS - d. 6-7-1963
    comedienne: "Lum and Abner"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
    01-03-1900 - Cecil Underwood - Vienna, MO - d. 9-27-1976
    producer, director: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"
    01-03-1905 - Anna May Wong - Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-3-1961
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    01-03-1905 - Ray Milland - Neath, Wales - d. 3-10-1986
    actor: Ray McNutley "Meet Mr. McNutley"
    01-03-1909 - Victor Borge - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 12-23-2000
    comedian, pianist: "Victor Borge Show"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    01-03-1911 - Al Sack - NYC - d. 12-6-1947
    orchestra leader: "Beula Show"; "Tony Martin Show"; "Frank Morgan Show"
    01-03-1914 - Carl (Henry) Stewart - Alabama - d. 2-4-1993
    bass: "The Radio Cowboys"
    01-03-1916 - Betty Furness - NYC - d. 4-2-1994
    actor: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"
    01-03-1917 - Jay Sommers - NYC - d. 9-25-1985
    writer: "Lum and Abner"; "Joan Davis Time"; "Alan Young Show"
    01-03-1918 - Jesse White - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-8-1997
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"; "Sears Radio Theatre"
    01-03-1918 - Maxene Andrews - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-21-1995
    singer: (Andrews Sisters) "Andrews Sisters Revue"
    01-03-1920 - Lester Bashara - d. 2-19-1990
    newscaster: KGFW Kearney, Nebraska
    01-03-1927 - William Boyett - Akron, OH - d. 12-29-2004
    actor: Freelance in younger years
    01-03-1930 - Marcel Dube - Montreal, Canada
    author: "Chambres a louer"
    01-03-1942 - John Thaw - West Gorton, England - d. 2-21-2002
    actor: "Peter Pan"

    January 3rd deaths

    01-27-1905 - Howard McNear - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-3-1969
    actor: Doctor Charles Adams "Gunsmoke"
    02-08-1890 - Irving Kaufman - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-3-1976
    singer: "Champion Sparkers"; "Broadway Vanities"
    02-08-1892 - Will Aubrey - Lithuania - d. 1-3-1958
    actor: (The Bard of the Byways) "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    02-10-1897 - Judith Anderson - Adelaide, Australia - d. 1-3-1992
    actor: Royal Gelatin Hour"
    02-13-1904 - Erwin D. Canham - Auburn, ME - d. 1-3-1982
    news commentator: "Christian Science Monitor Views the News"
    02-20-1874 - Mary Garden - Aberdeen, Scotland - d. 1-3-1967
    singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
    02-22-1901 - Bess Johnson - d. 1-3-1975
    actor: Bess Johnson "Story of Bess Johnson"; Lady Esther "Lady Esther
    Serenade
    03-03-1948 - Byron MacGregor - Alberta, Canada - d. 1-3-1995
    CKLW radio newsman, recorded narrative "The Americans"
    03-04-1907 - Pat McGeehan - Steelton, PA - d. 1-3-1988
    announcer, actor: "Abbott and Costello"; "The Red Skelton Show"
    03-26-1924 - Jean M. Brooks - Brighton, England - d. 1-3-2003
    writer: "Gregory of the Outback"; "Opal Witch"
    04-02-1907 - Luke Appling - High Point, NC - d. 1-3-1991
    baseball great: "Tops in Sport"
    04-03-1904 - Peter Van Steeden - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - d.
    1-3-1990
    bandleader: "Town Hall Tonight"; "Mr. District Attorney"
    04-16-1897 - Milton J. Cross - NYC - d. 1-3-1975
    announcer, commentator: (The Voice of the Met) "General Motors Concerts"
    04-24-1906 - William "Lord Haw Haw" Joyce - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-3-1946
    propagnadist for Nazi Germany during World War II: Hung for treason
    05-16-1880 - Julius Tannen - Chicago, IL - d. 1-3-1965
    comedian: (Human Chatterbox) "Goldenrod Revue"; "Seven Star Revue"
    05-23-1907 - Kenneth Griffin - Enid, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-3-1951
    actor: Larry Noble "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"
    06-06-1923 - Beverly Styles - Richmond, VA - d. 1-3-2005
    violinist, pianist, drummer vocalist
    08-12-1895 - Carol DeAngelo - Rome, Italy - d. 1-3-1962
    actor, director: "We Love and Learn"; "The Jack Benny Program"
    08-14-1917 - Marty Glickman - NYC - d. 1-3-2001
    sprorts broadcaster: "Saturday Night Bandwagon"; "Play Ball"; "Box
    Score Review"
    09-04-1923 - Graham Archer - d. 1-3-2001
    disk jockey: "Wax Museum"; "The States of the Union"
    10-23-1912 - Floyd Mack - Ava, OH - d. 1-3-1983
    commentator: "Floyd Mack and the News"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
    12-09-1912 - Philip Guest Adams - d. 1-3-1998
    actor: "The Green Hornet"; "Gangbusters"
    12-19-1894 - Tess Gardella - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 1-3-1950
    actor: Aunt Jemina "Aunt Jemina"
    12-20-1906 - Marion Talley - Nevada, MO - d. 1-3-1983
    singer: "Ry-Krisp Presents Marion Talley"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Bryna Raeburn - d. 1-3-1986
    actor: "Gangbusters"; "Philo Vance"; "The Big Story"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Isabella Beech - d. 1-3-1972
    food editor: Francis Lee Barton "Mother Knows Best"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:57 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-4 births/deaths

    January 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
    01-04-1919 - 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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