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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 257
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  11-4 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  On The Air                            [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
  Another Laughter In Bloom Write-Up    [ seandd@[removed] ]
  11-5 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:59:08 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-4 births/deaths

November 4th births

11-04-1879 - Will Rogers, Sr. - Oolagah,  Oklahoma Territory - d.
8-15-1935
humorist: (America's Greatest Humorist) "Gulf Headliners"
11-04-1892 - Philip Featherstone - Illinois - d. 3-19-1969
mandolin: "Golden Melody Boys"
11-04-1893 - Howard Hoffman - Ohio - d. 6-27-1969
actor: Chandu "Chandu the Magician"
11-04-1896 - Harry Woods - North Chelmsford, MA - d. 1-13-1970
compser: "Great Moments to Music"
11-04-1896 - Ian Wolfe - Canton, IL - d. 1-23-1992
actor: "Suspense"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Escape"
11-04-1900 - Arthur Schwartz - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-3-1984
composer: "The Gibson Family"
11-04-1901 - Helene Dumas - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-23-1986
actor: "Jane Arden"; "Eno Crime Club"; "Short Short Story"
11-04-1902 - Frank Jenks - Des Moines, IA - d. 5-13-1962
actor: "The Navy Comes Through"
11-04-1904 - Sam Hayes - Cooksville, IL - d. 7-28-1958
news commentator: "Newstime with Sam Hayes"; "Sperry Breakfast News"
11-04-1906 - Bob Considine - Washington D. C. - d. 9-25-1975
announcer: "Fred Waring Show"; "Sports Broadcasts"
11-04-1906 - Sterling North - Edgerton, WI - d. 12-21-1974
writer, host, critic: "Of Men and Books"
11-04-1908 - Colin Simpson - Petersham, Australia - d. xx-xx-1983
writer: "Six from Borneo"
11-04-1910 - Abby Lewis - Mesilla Park, NM - d. 11-27-1997
actor: Telephone Operator "House in the Country"
11-04-1911 - Dixie Lee Crosby - Harriman, TN - d. 11-1-1952
actor: (Wife of Bing) "Shell Chateau"; "Bing Crosby Show"
11-04-1911 - Jack Rose - Warsaw, Russian Empire - d. 10-21-1995
writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
11-04-1911 - Josephine Huston - d. 10-19-1967
vocalist: "Take a Note"
11-04-1912 - Humphrey Davis - Meriden, CT - d. 5-23-1987
actor: Al Douglas "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Sheriff Jackson "Tennessee
Jed"
11-04-1914 - Court Benson - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-5-1995
announcer, narrator: "Tennessee Jed"; "Backstage Wife"
11-04-1916 - Walter Cronkite - St. Joseph, MO
newscaster, sportscaster: KCMO, Kansas City; WKY, Oklahoma City
11-04-1917 - Jean King - Dallas, TX - d. 8-19-1993
disk jockey: Lonesome Gal "Lonesome Gal"
11-04-1918 - Art Carney - Mount Vernon, NY - d. 11-9-2003
actor: Billy Oldham "Joe and Ethel Turp"; General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Living 1948"
11-04-1918 - Cameron Mitchell - Dallastown, PA - d. 7-6-1994
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-04-1918 - Jay Jackson - Stockdale, OH - d. 8-16-2005
host, announcer: "Broadway Talks Back"; "Radio Reader"s Digest"
11-04-1919 - Martin Balsam - NYC - d. 2-13-1996
actor: "Cloak and Dagger"
11-04-1919 - Shirley Mitchell - Toledo, OH
actor: Alice Darling "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Leila Ransom "Great
Gildersleeve"
11-04-1927 - Bobby Breen - Toronto, Canada
singer, actor: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
11-04-1930 - Kate Reid - London, England - d. 3-27-1993
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

November 4th deaths

01-26-1945 - Marti Caine - Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - d. 11-4-1995
comedian: "The Marti Caine Show"
02-14-1904 - Bruce Barrington - d. 11-4-1990
newscaster: WEBQ Harrisburg, Illinois
03-29-1867 - Cy Young - Gilmore, OH - d. 11-4-1955
baseball pitching great: "Feature Project: This Game of Baseball"
04-04-1908 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - NYC - d. 11-4-2006
writer: (Cheaper By the Dozen) "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-13-1912 - Phil Alampi - d. 11-4-1992
farm newscaster: ABC, WJZ New York, New York
07-20-1902 - Jimmie Tansey - Omaha, NE - d. 11-4-1950
actor: Danny O'Neill "The O'Neills"; Clement Arnaud "Hilltop House"
08-02-1890 - Leila Roosevelt - d. 11-4-1973
explorer: (cousin of FDR) "So You Want to Be"
08-05-1916 - Elizabeth Bemis - d. 11-4-2004
newscaster: WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
09-22-1913 - Chuck Acree - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-4-1991
emcee: "Hint Club"; We, the Wives"; Ladies Be Seated"
10-21-1915 - Frances Mercer - New Rochelle, NY - d. 11-4-2000
actor: "Nothing Serious"
11-10-1899 - George Storer - Champaign, IL - d. 11-4-1975
Broadcast Executive
11-23-1908 - Nelson Bond - Scranton, PA - d. 11-4-2006
writer: "Hot Copy"; "Suspense"; "Dr. Christian"
12-02-1913 - Jerry Sohl - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-4-2002
author: "X Minus One"
12-27-1893 - Ann Pennington - Camden, NJ - d. 11-4-1971
actor: "Good News of 1938"
xx-xx-1913 - Joy Hathaway - British Columbia, Canada - d. 11-4-1954
actor: Amanda Dyke Leighton "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:59:14 -0400
From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  On The Air

It's that time again ... actually, I think they're about a month
late ... but Oxford University Press is having its annual sale of
John Dunning's "On the Air." So if your previous copy is in two
(mine has progressed to being in threes) now's the time to get a
replacement for $[removed] - I think that up $[removed] from last year.
Usual disclaimers apply.

[removed]

Bob Cockrum

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:59:27 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Another Laughter In Bloom Write-Up

Eddie Carroll is performing on November 7 in Lynwood Washington - details in the following - 

[removed];dept_id=231486&newsid=20184735&PAG=461&rfi=9

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:59:35 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-5 births/deaths

November 5th births

11-05-1877 - Henry M. Neely - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-1-1963
actor, writer, director, producer: "Fitch Bandwagon"
11-05-1879 - Will Hays - Sullivan, IN - d. 3-7-1954
puritanical censor: "Republican National Convention 1948"; "A Tribute
to FDR"
11-05-1885 - Will Durant - North Adams, MA - d. 11-7-1981
historian: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
11-05-1887 - Ralph Moody - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-16-1971
actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Roy Rogers Show"; "Wild Bill Hickok"
11-05-1891 - Vinton Freedley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-5-1969
host: "Theatre USA"
11-05-1893 - Jean Sothern - d. 4-14-1964
actor: Edie Gray "Pepper Young's Family"; Connie Rickard "Red Davis"
11-05-1893 - Theodore von Eltz - New Haven, CT - d. 10-6-1964
actor: Inspector Fernak "The Saint"
11-05-1895 - Charles MacArthur - Scranton, PA - d. 4-21-1956
playwright: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour"
11-05-1897 - Jan Garber - Norristown, PA - d. 10-5-1977
bandleader: "Jan Garber Supper Club"
11-05-1901 - Etta Moten - Weimer, TX - d. 1-2-2004
singer, actress: "The Laff Parade"; Hollywood Spotlight"
11-05-1902 - Borrah Minevitch - Kiev, Russia - d. 6-26-1955
harmonica player: (King of the Harmonica) Had own show on NBC Blue
11-05-1905 - Annunzio Paolo Mantovani - Venice, Italy - d. 3-29-1980
orchestra leader: "Music In the Air"; "Of These We Sing"
11-05-1905 - Joel McCrea - South Pasadena, CA - d. 10-20-1990
actor: Jace Pearson "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
11-05-1905 - John Whedon - d. 11-21-1991
writer: "The Great Gildersleeve"
11-05-1905 - Thomas Freebairn-Smith - Walton-on-Thames, England - d.
12-31-1985
writer, producer: "Jonathan Trimble, Esq."; "Al Pearce and His Gang"
11-05-1911 - Roy Rogers - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-6-1998
singer, actor: (King of the Cowboys) "Roy Rogers Show"; "Saturday Nite
Round-Up"
11-05-1913 - Vivien Leigh - Darjeeling, India - d. 7-7-1967
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-05-1914 - Jack McVea - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-27-2000
saxophonist: "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"
11-05-1917 - Claus Adam - Sumatra, Indonesia - d. 7-4-1983
first cellist: WOR New York
11-05-1919 - Earl Bennett - Kansas City, KS - d. 10-4-2007
musician, comedian: Sir Fredrick Gas "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
11-05-1919 - Myron Floren - Webster, SD - d. 7-23-2005
accordianist: "Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music"
11-05-1922 - Roger Albright - Evanston, IL - d. 11-xx-1987
writer, producer: "A Home of Your Own"
11-05-1927 - Robert Abernathy - Geneva, Switzerland
newscaster: "News on the Hour"
11-05-1931 - Ike Turner - Clarksdale MS - d. 12-12-2007
singer: (Ike and Tina) "Lost and Found Sound"
11-05-1933 - Donald Madden - NYC - d. 1-22-1983
actor: "Let's Pretend"
11-05-1937 - Harris Yulin - Los Angles, CA
actor: "Empire of the Air"
11-05-1948 - Ruth Welting - Memphis, TN - d. 12-16-1999
coloratura soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
11-05-1956 - Jacksondouglas (Douglas Hanford) - Williamsburg, VA
announcer, producer: "Original Oldies Show"

November 5th deaths

01-17-1880 - Mack Sennett - Richmond, Quebec, Canada - d. 11-5-1960
king of silent comedy: "Hear It Now"; "Biography In Sound"
01-27-1908 - "Hot Lips" Page - Dallas, TX - d. 11-5-1954
jazz trumpeter: "Milt Herth Trio"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
02-05-1884 - Joan Harvey - Bangalore, India - d. 11-5-1965
writer: "The Hidden Valley"
02-05-1911 - Bert Wilson - d. 11-5-1955
chicago cubs play-by-play announcer 1944-1955
03-11-1922 - Vinnette Carroll - NYC - d. 11-5-2002
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
03-20-1904 - Bob Chester - Detroit, MI - d. 11-5-1975
bandleader: "Bob Chester and His Orchestra"
04-09-1903 - Ward Bond - Denver, CO - d. 11-5-1960
actor: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
06-19-1902 - Guy Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 11-5-1977
bandleader: (The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven) "Lombardoland USA"
06-29-1895 - Paul V. Galvin - Harvard, IL - d. 11-5-1959
co-founder of Galvin Manufacturing, merged with Motorola
07-03-1878 - George M. Cohan - Providence, RI - d. 11-5-1942
composer: "Collier Hour"; "Ed Sullivan Show"; "Free Company"
08-05-1887 - Reginald Owen - Wheathampton, England - d. 11-5-1972
actor, writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-30-1908 - Fred MacMurray - Kankakee, IL - d. 11-5-1991
actor: George Harvey "Bright Star"; "Lux Radio Theatre
08-31-1906 - Ruth Weston - Boston, MA - d. 11-5-1955
actor: Maude Kellogg "Life Can Be Beautiful"
09-11-1899 - Jimmie Davis - Quitman, LA - d. 11-5-2000
Louisiana's Singing Governor: "Songs By Sinatra"
09-28-1901 - William S. Paley - Chicago, IL - d. 11-5-1990
Founder and president of CBS
09-28-1909 - Al Capp - New Haven, CT - d. 11-5-1979
cartoonist: Creator of "Li'l Abner"; "Monitor"
10-01-1904 - Vladimir Horowitz - Kiev, Ukraine, Russia - d. 11-5-1989
piano virtuoso: "GuestStar"; "Pictures At An Exhibition"
10-12-1885 - Vladimir Bakaleinikoff - Moscow, Russia - d. 11-5-1953
conductor: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
10-13-1909 - Art Tatum - Toledo, OH - d. 11-5-1956
pianist: David Rose Orchestra
10-20-1934 - Eddie Harris - Chicago, IL - d. 11-5-1996
jazz saxophonist: "Voices of Vista"
12-15-1916 - Buddy Cole - Irving, IL - d. 11-5-1964
musician: (Buddy Cole Trio) "Ginny Simms Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 02:12:01 -0500
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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