Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #134
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Date: 5/15/2006 10:19 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 134
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      visualization                         [ Grams46@[removed] ]
      RE: Color Radio                       [ "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed] ]
      WLS "Stand By"                        [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
      Re: Profs MacDonald and Balk          [ Vince Long <vlongbsh@[removed]; ]
      what series                           [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
      5-15 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Deaths in April                       [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      HOUDINI                               [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      Houdini's Death                       [ "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 13:09:46 -0400
    From: Grams46@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  visualization

    i was startled the other day while listening to  "yours truly, johnny dollar"
    starring mandel kramer.
    one of the characters  described johnny

    peace from kathy
    support our troops; end the  war
    john 3:16

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    Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 20:59:43 -0400
    From: "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: Color Radio

    Whenever I listen to an old time radio show I listen in black and white
    because that is the way I picture the characters in the shows in a setting
    similar to the black and white movies of the 30's and 40's.
    Andrew Godfrey

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    Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 20:59:55 -0400
    From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WLS "Stand By"

    Would the kind gentleman who answered my request for "Stand By" copies
    please conact me again? I managed in my senior moment to delete the message
    and e-mail address.

    Thanks!

    Bill Knowlton udmacon1#[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 21:00:11 -0400
    From: Vince Long <vlongbsh@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Profs MacDonald and Balk

    Clif Martin asked about J. Fred MacDonald's work.  I found his book "Don't
    Touch That Dial" in the library of the high school where I teach, of all
    places, and really enjoyed it.  It's not a fan book by any means but not
    overly academic either.  It certainly is one of the books I'd recommend to
    anyone researching the history of OTR.

    Vince

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    Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 21:41:05 -0400
    From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  what series

    Hi Everybody,

    what series in OTR should have had a longer run?    Lets say under  3 years
    as a bench marker for a short run series on radio.  The quality   of some of
    the below runs are very good and if there timing might have been better I
    think they should have had a longer run. I would like to suggest that the
    Halls of Ivy, Six Shooter, Screen Director Playhouse, and Frontier Gentleman
    were some of the very best in radio that had a short run.  Does any one else
    could add to the list?  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:31:16 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-15 births/deaths

    May 15th births

    05-15-1890 - Katherine Anne Porter - Indian Creek, TX - d. 9-18-1980
    author: "NBC University Theatre"
    05-15-1890 - Menasha Skulnik - Warsaw, Poland - d. 6-4-1970
    actor: Mr. Cohen "Abie's Irish Rose"; Uncle David "The Goldbergs"
    05-15-1897 - Jacques Renard - d. 1-xx-1973
    bandleader: "Burns and Allen"; "The Joe Penner Show"; "Stoopnagle and
    Budd"
    05-15-1904 - Clifton Fadiman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-20-1999
    emcee: "Information, Please"; "Conversation"; "RCA Magic Key"
    05-15-1905 - Joseph Cotten - Petersburg, VA - d. 2-6-1994
    actor: Matthew Bell "Private Files of Matthew Bell"; "Mercury Theatre
    on the Air"
    05-15-1909 - James Mason - Huddersfield, England - d. 7-27-1984
    actor: "James and Pamela Mason Show"; "Studio One"
    05-15-1910 - Constance Cummings - Seattle, WA - d. 11-23-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-15-1910 - Walter Cassel - Council Bluffs, IA
    baritone: "General Motors Concerts"; "Calling America"
    05-15-1916 - Bill Williams - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-21-1992
    actor: "Eternal Light"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-15-1918 - Eddy Arnold - Henderson, TN
    singer: (Tennessee Plowboy) "Checkerboard Square"; "Eddy Arnold Show"
    05-15-1918 - Joseph Wiseman - Montreal Canada
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    05-15-1921 - Margaret Lipper - Oliver, PA
    actor: Hazel Toumey "Career of Ann Blair"; Patsy Curtis "Brenda Curtis"
    05-15-1923 - Doris Dowling - Detroit, MI - d. 6-18-2004
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-15-1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti - Pesano, Italy
    singer: "Here's to Veterans"

    May 15th deaths

    06-23-1929 - June Carter Cash - Maces Spring, VA - d. 5-15-2003
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    06-28-1914 - Zina Provendie - d. 5-15-2005
    actor: Sylvia Bruno Wick "The Goldbergs"
    07-03-1903 - Wynne Gibson - NYC - d. 5-15-1987
    actor: Amah "Thanks for Tomorrow"; Angie "When a Girl Marries"
    07-13-1886 - Father Flanagan - Roscommon, Ireland - d. 5-15-1948
    founder of boys town: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"; "Good New
    of 1939"
    07-14-1914 - John Laing - NYC - d. 5-15-1979
    announcer: "Great Gildersleeve"; "Sealtest Variety Theatre"
    09-03-1910 - Grace Matthews - Toronto, Canada - d. 5-15-1995
    actor: Ruth Evans Wayne "Big Sister"; Margo Lane "The Shadow"
    10-10-1908 - Johnny Green - NYC - d. 5-15-1989
    conductor: "In the Modern Manner"; "Jack Benny Program"; "Man Called X"
    10-12-1931 - Sam Buffington - Massachusetts - d. 5-15-1960
    actor: Luke Slaughter "Luke Slaughter of Tombstone"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Birthplace of Liberace

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    Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:32:41 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Deaths in April
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    02-17-1941 - Gene Pitney - Hartford, CT - d. 4-5-2006
    singer: "Voices of Vista"
    10-02-1921 - Scott Crossfield - Berkely, CA - d. 4-19-1921
    test pilot: "Great Moments To Music"
    05-31-1921 - Alida Valli - Pola, Istria, Italy - d. 4-22-2006
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood"
    10-15-1908 - John Kenneth Galbraith - Iona Station, Canada - d.
    4-28-2006
    economist: "University of Chicago Round Table"; "Meet the Press"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:33:34 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  HOUDINI

    Stephen had it [removed]

    The CardioloJest

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    Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 00:33:50 -0400
    From: "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
    To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Houdini's Death

    I went to the announcement of his death in the NY Times of Nov 1, 1926.
    Both Stephen and Craig are right about part of the story.   I have this to
    add from the article.

    They say a series of events started in early October in Albany, NY.  A piece
    of apparatus used in his "water torture cell" trick was overturned striking
    Houdini on his foot . In great pain he called for a doctor in the audience
    who examined  his foot and he then completed his performance, going to a
    hospital for an x-ray after the performance.

    A bone was found to be partially fractured and he was advised to take a few
    days off his tour and give prompt attention and plentry of rest to his
    injured food.  Houdini declined to cancel any shows.

    Next was Schenectady.  "Houdini was in continuous pain and returned to
    Albany for several treaments.  By the time he left Schenectady for Montreal
    his whole system was in a weakened condition"

    According to the NY Times Oct 19 was the day he received the sucker punch.
    "he suffered no distress at the time but after he had boarded a train for
    Detroit he complained of pain."  The company's nurse "arranged by wire to
    have a physician meet the magician in Detroit."

    A prominent physician, Dr. Leo Kretzka "made a hurried examination and told
    the patient there were symptoms of appendicitis.  He left it to Houdini to
    decide where it would be advisable for him to appear that evening at the
    Garrick Theatre for the opening night of the show.  Houdini would not
    disappoint his admirers."

    That was his last appearance.   It was reported that the large audience "now
    realizes that the famous magician did his tricks under a great [removed]
    was worried for one of the few times in his career and was plainly not up to
    his best form in some of his tricks."

    Later, at his hotel the pain increased.  He was taken to Gray Hospital at
    the suggestion of his family physician, Dr. William Stone of NY who was
    notified by phone of his friend's conditions. He underwent an operation for
    appendicitis the next afternoon.

    "Until his death Houdini was conscious and his mind was keen and alert.  The
    physicians who attended him say he was the best patient they ever had, and
    he helped them wonderfully.  His mental attitude, combined with unusual
    stamina, did much to prolong his life."

    The 'playful' punches were the cause of death according to the doctors,
    having caused the appendix to burst "saturating his system with poisons."

    Peritonitis developed soon after the operation.  His first operation was on
    Oct 25, the second Oct 29 and he died Oct 31, [Hlloween, at midnight
    according to magicians groups who honor him every Halloween at  his grave in
    Queens]

    +++++++++++++++++++++++
    However, the story does not end there.   The next day, Nov 2, 1926 the
    Washington Post reports that the sucker punch story had been challenged.

    "Abbi Wright, manager of the local theater where Houdini recently appeared
    said Houdini was ill when he came to Montreal and forced himself with great
    difficulty to go through with his performance."

    "Dr. William B. Tait, professor of Psychology at the McGill University where
    Houdini delivered a lecture before The McGill Union said there was no
    encounter between the student and the magician."

    Another AP story, Detroit,  dated Nov 1, 1926 said that "the magician had
    been stricken in Montreal, arriving here one day later where despite a
    temperature of 104, he carried out his opening performance at a local
    theater."
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++
    New York Times
    Montreal, Dec 22, 1926, AP

    Insurance company confirms denial that blow killed magician.

    The result of the finding is that the insurance company did not have to pay
    an additional $25,000 to Houdini's family on top of the $25,000 they had
    already received.  He had a clause doubling his insurance payout if his
    death was the result of an accident.

    But it's not over:
    ++++++++++++++++++++
    LA Times, June 14, 1927

    New York, June 13 AP

    New York Life Insurance Co accepts the death of Houdini as a result of an
    accident, [removed], being puched in the vicinity of the appendix, causing a
    rupture and awards Houdini's widow an additional $25,000
    +++++++++++++++++++
    News to me:
    Wa Post, July 8, 1930

    on the occasion of the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reference is made to
    the "animated friendship betwen them  [Conan Doyle and Houdini] which was
    interrupted four years ago with Houdini's death."

    "In his last letter to an American friend, written less than a month ago
    when he was aware that the heart ailment which caused his death might soon
    prove fatal, Sir Arthur wrote of that friendship and of his hope of resuming
    it in the spirit world in which he believed so earnestly."

    "I expect to talk it all over with Houdini in person before very long" he
    wrote.  "I view the prospect with perfect equanimity.  That is why psychic
    research does for one."

    That's all, folks
    Irene

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