Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #159
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Date: 6/8/2006 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 159
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      6-8 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      SPERDVAC June 10th guest              [ "bobb lynes" <iairotr@[removed]; ]
      Rocky Jordan                          [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      Variety's 100th re Hindenburg, radio  [ Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@earthlin ]
      Dragnet follow up                     [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Re: Baseball on the radio             [ "Paul Adomites" <padomites@ccyberne ]
      Radio Mirror Wanted                   [ "HARLAN ZINCK" <zharlan@[removed]; ]
      Jack Armstrong and Talbot Mundy       [ Briantaves1879@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 23:17:08 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-8 births/deaths

    June 8th births

    06-08-1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright - Richland Center, WI - d. 4-9-1959
    architect: "Bob Elson on Board the Century"
    06-08-1902 - Elliott Jacoby - NYC - d. 3-28-1977
    composer, conductor: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Maude's Diary"
    06-08-1905 - Ruth Bailey - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 9-30-1989
    actor: "First Nighter"; "Kitty Keene, Inc."; "Guiding Light"
    06-08-1907 - Craig McDonnell - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-1956
    actor: Dinty Moore "Bringing Up Father"; Jolly Rogers "Valiant Lady"
    06-08-1907 - Roy Lockwood - Bristol, England - d. 4-25-2002
    director: "Valiant Lady"
    06-08-1908 - June Meredith - Chicago, IL
    actor: Dorothy Wallace Webb "Attorney-at-Law"
    06-08-1910 - John Campbell, Jr. - Newark, NJ - d. 6-11-1971
    writer, host: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "Exploring Tomorrow"
    06-08-1913 - Ray Morgan - d. 1-5-1975
    announcer: "Counterspy"; "Gangbusters"; "Murder at Midnight"
    06-08-1918 - Robert Preston - Newton Highlands, MA - d. 3-21-1987
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Medicine USA"; "Silver
    Theatre"
    06-08-1921 - Alexis Smith - Penticton, British Columbia, Canada - d.
    6-9-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars in the Air"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    06-08-1921 - Gordon McLendon - Paris, TX - d. 9-14-1986
    Founder of the Liberty Radio Network
    06-08-1927 - Jerry Stiller - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-08-1930 - Dana Wynter - London, England
    actor: "Black Museum"; "Lives of Harry Lime"
    06-08-1937 - Joan Rivers - Brooklyn, NY
    comedienne: "Voices of Vista"

    June 8th deaths

    01-30-1915 - Dorothy Dell - Hattiesburg, MS - d. 6-8-1934
    actor: "Stars of Tomorrow"
    02-16-1893 - Katherine Cornell - Berlin, Germany - d. 6-8-1974
    actor: "Tribute to Ethel Barrymore"; "Victory Clothing Collection"
    02-25-1879 - Frank McIntyre - Ann Arbor, MI - d. 6-8-1949
    actor: Captain Barney "Maxwell House Showboat"; Captain Henry "Showboat"
    05-03-1905 - James Nusser - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-8-1979
    actor: "Gunsmoke"
    06-16-1895 - Murray Leinster - Norfolk, VA - d. 6-8-1975
    writer: "Dimension X"
    07-03-1899 - Herb Polesie - d. 6-8-1979
    panelist,director: "Twenty Questions"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
    07-07-1906 - Leroy 'Satchel' Paige - Mobile, AL - d. 6-8-1982
    baseball hall of famer: "Destination Freedom"
    08-01-1904 - Eli Mintz - Lemberg, Austria - d. 6-8-1988
    actor: Uncle David "The Goldbergs"
    08-05-1911 - Robert Taylor - Filley, NE - d. 6-8-1969
    host, actor: "Good News of 1938"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Plays for
    Americans"
    08-26-1903 - Jimmy Rushing - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory - d.
    6-8-1972
    blues singer: "Count Basie and His Orchestra"; "Blue Ribbon Guest Night"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Captain E. Donald Herne - England - d. 6-8-1941
    aviator: "March of Time"; "Captain Herne Speaking"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of Thornton Wilder
    Madison, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 07:42:43 -0400
    From: "bobb lynes" <iairotr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  SPERDVAC June 10th guest

    For those of you who live in the Los Angeles area (or may be visiting this
    weekend), the SPERDVAC meeting will be held this Saturday, June 10th at the
    South Pasadena Library Community Room, in South Pasadena.  Our guest will be
    actress GLORIA McMILLAN, best known for her role as Harriet Conklin on "Our
    Miss Brooks" (radio & TV).  Gloria was a very busy young lady back in the
    40s and 50s, appearing on such shows as Phil Harris/Alice Faye, Halls of
    Ivy,The Saint, Fibber McGee & Molly, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Lux Radio
    Theater and many more.  She'll have lots of stories to tell.
    The Community Room is located in th 1000 block of El Centro St. (3 blocks
    west of Fair Oaks).  The meeting starts at 12 noon and (as always) is FREE
    and open to the public. If you love OTR, you better be there!!
    Bobb

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 07:48:56 -0400
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Rocky Jordan

    I hate to use this forum for this purpose, but if the person who yesterday
    ordered all of our "Rocky Jordan" programs on mp3 is reading this message,
    will you please re-submit your name and address?  I very stupidly deleted
    your message instead of transferring it to our order-in-progress section.

    	Sorry for the trouble,

    		Jerry

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:06:43 -0400
    From: Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Variety's 100th re Hindenburg, radio & film
     audience

    If this is duplicate information, my apologies.  For the past several weeks,
    we have been preparing to move from VA to Florida, to be with our kids.
    Among other things, this involves finding people to take some of my
    collection of perhaps 80 thousand recordings (cylinders, 78s, 45s, LPs, ETs),
    and appurtenances like studio ET TTs, a portable cutting lathe, etc.   As a
    result I have not had much time to write here or elsewhere.

    Several Digest readers have Emailed me to make sure I'm okay.  I am - as Mr.
    Clemens said, the rumors of my death were greatly exaggerated.

    But I have been keeping up.  One thing I noticed - thanks to good friend and
    tipper-offer Derek Tague - was the 100th Anniversary of Variety, and a
    plethora of historical material on its web pages URL [removed]

    Among them was the item on the Hindenburg explosion.  While it mentions radio
    icon Herbert Morrison, the article points out the astounding impact the event
    had on moviegoers.  It suggests that some 20 million Americans regularly
    attended movie theaters during that period, in the days following the event
    first heralded on radio, that figure jumped to 50 million as our fellow
    citizens flocked to see the newsreel footage.  I did not especially know that
    there were 5 newsreel companies then, let alone that all 5 were filming the
    explosion and aftermath.  No wonder the investigation could so accurately
    time the duration from flash to crash!  Just as Morrison's coverage jumped
    radio listenership permanently, so did the same event affect filmgoers - who
    for a very large part were the very same audience.

    I heartily recommend that readers take the time to read the many fascinating
    stories in Variety's 'alookback' collection.  Well worth the trip from
    anywhere!

    My best to all!  And special huzzah to Derek Tague,
    from Lee Munsick - that Godfrey guy in Appomattox County VA

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:33:40 -0400
    From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Dragnet follow up

    Thanks to everyone who replied to my Dragnet question, both privately
    and on the Digest.  Thanks especially to Etherville's fine Mayor, Derek
    Tague for his kind words and Michael J. Hayde for not only identifying
    the episode in question, but digging up the text of the speech.

    Webb was such a strong supporter of the police, I thought it might be
    possible that he had never done a "crooked cop" show.  Based on what
    I've read here, this episode (The Big Cop) seems even more like him -
    using the bad example to stress all the good examples.

    Off hand, I wonder what Webb would have made about current TV shows like
    The Shield (of which I'm also a fan), which features crooked police
    officers as its protagonists?  Hmmm, something to consider.

    -chris "castile" holm

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:49:47 -0400
    From: "Paul Adomites" <padomites@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Baseball on the radio

    A nice article in the Seattle Times.
    Paul

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:30:11 -0400
    From: "HARLAN ZINCK" <zharlan@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio Mirror Wanted

    Hello! I'm looking to either buy or borrow a copy of "Radio Mirror" magazine
    for September 1947. If anyone has a copy they'd either be willing to part
    with or loan me temporarily, please contact me off-list at
    preservation@[removed]. Thanks in advance for your help!

    Harlan Zinck
    First Generation Radio Archives
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:37:25 -0400
    From: Briantaves1879@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Armstrong and Talbot Mundy
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    Fans of JACK ARMSTRONG, 1930s radio, and serials may be interested to know of
    my new book on Talbot Mundy.  As a long-time OTR fan myself (since age 15
    when my mom introduced me to CBS Radio Mystery Theater), I was determined that
    Mundy's radio writing should not be treated lightly in a biography.  Mundy is
    best known for his 45 books from 1911-40, but his broadcast work during the
    last
    four years of his life was an important part of his output--some 700 scripts,
    almost 120 hours of airtime, enough plots to make the equivalent of at least
    nine novels.  Moreover, his JACK ARMSTRONG shows reached millions of listeners
    in their most formative years.  Mundy spun adventures that demonstrated the
    same fascination with distant cultures as his adult novels, and Jack traveled
    to the Far East, Africa, and South America.  Mundy actually adapted several of
    his novels for JACK ARMSTRONG.

    Despite writing a daily serial for four years, only three of the shows Mundy
    composed survive, and one script.  However, by combining promotional details,
    Wheaties Box Tops, Big Little Books, letters, the help of Fred King, and more,
    together with the plots of several of Mundy's previous novels and those he
    was writing concurrently, I was able to reconstruct in detail these otherwise
    lost years of the show.

    Nonetheless, there's a question I was never able to resolve.  There is no
    evidence that Mundy wrote any other radio material, although some ebay dealers
    have credited his name with various series.  However, without some prior
    experience, is it likely Mundy would have been entrusted with writing a major
    daily
    show in 1936?  Such classic Mundy novels as King of the Khyber Rifles have
    also
    been adapted for the screen, but he never had any successful Hollywood
    writing of his own.

    Here's a bit more about Mundy and my book:
        In 1895, 16-year-old Talbot Mundy fled the strait-laced Victorian
    upbringing of his native England for a life of adventure.  He crossed the
    entire
    northern frontier of India, into Tibet, spent four years in Africa, and
    traveled
    the Middle East in the wake of World War I.
        Colonial odysseys of the time led most writers to echo Rudyard Kipling's
    support of British imperialism, Sax Rohmer's "yellow peril," or Joseph
    Conrad's bleak "heart of darkness."  Not Mundy.  His fantasy-adventure books
    challenged assumptions of Western cultural superiority.
        Mundy's writing was based in Eastern religious teaching, informed by his
    membership in the Theosophical Society in San Diego, California.  There he
    wrote Om The Secret of Ahbor Valley, Tros of Samothrace, and Queen
    Cleopatra.

    Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure:  A Critical Biography by Brian
    Taves
    ISBN 0-7864-2234-3; photographs, appendices, notes, index, 310pp. softcover
    (7 x 10) 2006; $[removed]

    Published by McFarland:
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