Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #321
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Date: 8/23/2003 7:48 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2003 : Issue 321
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Births and Deaths w/e 8-30            [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Sayings and expressions               [ hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed]; ]
      Re: Henry Brugsch                     [ Fred Berney <berney@[removed]; ]
      New "I LOVE A MYSTERY" Item!          [ ilamfan@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:22:24 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Births and Deaths w/e 8-30

    August 24th deaths

    08-24-1875 - Frank Craven - Boston, MA - d. 9-1-1945
    actor: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Cavalcade of America"
    08-24-1896 - Phil Baker - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-1-1963
    comedia, emcee: "Honolulu Bound"; "Take It or Leave It"
    08-24-1900 - Jimmy Fidler - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-9-1988
    commentator: "Jimmy Fidler"
    08-24-1900 - Preston Foster - Ocean City, NJ - d. 7-14-1970
    actor: "NBC University Theatre"
    08-24-1900 - Ralph Kirberry - Patterson, NJ
    singer: (The Dream Singer) "Mohawk Treasure Chest"; "Musical Moments Revue"
    08-24-1912 - Durward Kirby - Covingnton, KY - d. 3-15-2000
    announcer, emcee: "Club Matinee"; "Honeymoon in New York"
    08-24-1913 - Howard Duff - Bremerton, WA - d. 7-8-1990
    actor: Sam Spade "Advs. of Sam Spade"; Mike McCoy "McCoy"; Josh Chandler
    "Dear John"
    08-24-1919 - Dennis James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 6-3-1997
    host, announcer: "Lawyer Q"; "Major Bows Original Amateur Hour"
    08-24-1933 - Bobby Ellis - Chicago, IL - d. 11-24-1973
    actor: Henry Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Chester A. Riley, Jr. "Life of Riley"

    August 24th deaths

    02-15-1916 - Mary Jane Croft - Muncie, IN - d. 8-24-1999
    actress: Sandra Martin "Story of Sandra Martin"; Alice Henderson "Beulah"
    02-17-1919 - Kathleen Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-24-2001
    actress: California Artists Radio Theatre"
    06-25-1933 - Gary Crosby - California - d. 8-24-1995
    singer: "Gary Crosby Show"; "Bing Crosby Show"
    09-09-1924 - Jane Greer - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-24-2001
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"

    August 25th births

    08-25-1905 - Clara Bow - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-27-1965
    actress: (The It Girl) "Kay Parker in Hollywood"
    08-25-1909 - Michael Rennie - Bradford, Yorkshire, England - d. 6-10-1971
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-25-1909 - Ruby Keeler - Halifax, Nova Scotia - d. 2-28-1993
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-25-1916 - Van Johnson - Newport, RI
    actor: "Request Performance"; "Romance"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
    08-25-1917 - Mel Ferrer - Elberon, NJ
    actor: "Eternal Light"; "Cloak and Dagger"; "MGM Theatre of the Air"
    08-25-1918 - Leonard Bernstein - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-14-1990
    conductor: "The Metropolitan Opera"
    08-25-1918 - Richard Greene - Plymouth, England
    actor: "Somerset Maugham Theatre"; "This Is Hollywood"; "Cavalcade of America"
    08-25-1934 - Regis Philbin - NYC
    newscaster: KOGO San Diego

    August 25th deaths

    02-12-1912 - Stan Kenton - Wichita, KS - d. 8-25-1979
    bandleader: "Bob Hope Show"; "Stan Kenton Concerts"
    06-18-1910 - [removed] Marshall - Owatonna, MN - d. 8-25-1998
    narrator: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-27-1905 - Frederick O"Neal - Brooksville, MA - d. 8-25-1992
    actor: "New World A-Coming"
    09-09-1899 - Waite Hoyt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-25-1984
    sportscaster, "Sports Review"; "According to Hoyt"; play-by-play: Cincinnati
    Reds
    09-22-1895 - Paul Muni - Lemberg, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-25-1967
    actor: "The Free Company"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
    10-24-1894 - Ted "Kid" Lewis - London, England - d. 8-25-1971
    bandleader: "Live Band Remotes"

    August 26th births

    08-26-1873 - Lee de Forest - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-30-1961
    inventor: Audion tube
    08-26-1905 - George F. Hicks - Tacoma, WA - d. 3-17-1965
    announcer: "Metropolitan Echoes"; "Death Valley Days"; "Seth Parker"
    08-26-1907 - Jack Berch - Sigel, IL - d. 12-10-1992
    singer: "The Kitchen Pirate"; "The Sweetheart Serenade"; "Jack Berch Show"
    08-26-1924 - Gloria Holliday - Billings, MT
    actress: Bessie "Great Gildersleeve"; Gloria "Honest Harold"

    August 26th deaths

    01-07-1898 - Art Baker - NYC - d. 8-26-1966
    announcer, emcee: "People Are Funny"; "Dinah Shore Show"
    01-13-1903 - Kay Francis - Oklahoma City,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 8-26-1968
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-17-1904 - Knox Manning - Worchester, MA - d. 8-26-1980
    announcer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; "Headlines on Parade"
    03-10-1911 - Warner Anderson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-26-1976
    actor: Patrick Ryan "Terry and the Pirates"
    04-13-1899 - Larry Keating - [removed], MN - d. 8-26-1963
    actor, emcee: "Murder Will Out"; "Scramby Amby"; "This Is Your FBI"
    05-24-1907 - Bill Bouchey - Michigan - d. 8-26-1977
    actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"
    08-28-1899 - Charles Boyer - Figeac, France - d. 8-26-1978
    actor: Michel "Presenting Charles Boyer"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
    11-23-1916 - Julie Stevens - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-26-1984
    actress: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"; Kitty Foyle "Kitty Foyle"

    August 27th births

    08-27-1882 - Samuel Goldwyn - Warsaw, Poland - d. 1-31-1974
    panelist: "The People"s Platform"
    08-27-1901 - Al Ritz - Newark, NJ - d. 12-22-1965
    comedian: (The Ritz Brothers) "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-27-1901 - Roger Pryor - NYC - d. 1-31-1974
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Theatre Guild on the Air"; "Summer Symphony"
    08-27-1905 - Frederick O"Neal - Brooksville, MA - d. 8-25-1992
    actor: "New World A-Coming"
    08-27-1916 - Martha Raye - Butte, MT - d. 10-19-1994
    comedienne: "Tuesday Night Party"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    08-27-1916 - Vicki Vola - Denver, CO - d. 7-21-1985
    actress: Shanghai L"il DeVries "Jungle Jim"; Edith Miller "Mr. District
    Attorney"

    August 27th deaths

    01-13-1918 - Steve Dunne - Northampton, MA - d. 8-27-1977
    actor: Sam Spade "Advs. of Sam Spade"
    02-13-1920 - Joan Edwards - NYC - d. 8-27-1981
    singer: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"
    05-25-1898 - Bennett Cerf - NYC - d. 8-27-1971
    narrator, panelist: "Biography in Sound"; "What"s My Line?"
    06-30-1894 - Phillips Carlin - NYC - d. 8-27-1971
    announcer: "Palmolive Hour"; "Atwater Kent Hour"
    07-26-1906 - Gracie Allen - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-27-1964
    comedienne: "Burns and Allen Show"
    10-13-1918 - Robert Walker - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 8-27-1951
    actor: Davy Dillon "Maudie"s Diary"

    August 28th births

    08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958
    narrator: "Gangbusters"
    08-28-1898 - Charlie Grimm - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-15-1983
    Sportscaster:(Jolly Cholly) WBBM Chicago
    08-28-1899 - Charles Boyer - Figeac, France - d. 8-26-1978
    actor: Michel "Presenting Charles Boyer"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
    08-28-1907 - Sam Levene - NYC - d. 12-17-1980
    comedian: "Fred Allen Show"
    08-28-1908 - Genevieve Rowe - Freemont, OH - d. 2-26-1995
    singer: "Gay Nineties Revue"; "Songs America Loves"; "An Evening with Romberg"
    08-28-1925 - Donald O"Connor - Chicago, IL
    comedian, actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"; "Suspense"
    08-28-1930 - Ben Gazzara - NYC
    actor: "Strange Interlude"

    August 28th deaths

    08-05-1906 - John Huston - Nevada, MO - d. 8-28-1987
    actor, writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-17-1918 - Evelyn Ankers - Valparaiso, Chili - d. 8-28-1985
    actress: Argentine Radio
    10-30-1896 - Ruth Gordon - Wollaston, MA - d. 8-28-1985
    actress: "Lincoln Highway"; "Meet Mr. Weeks"; "Orson Welles Theatre"

    August 29th births

    08-29-1882 - Richard Legrand - Mount Tabor section near Portland, OR - d.
    6-29-1963
    actor: Richard Q. Peavy "Great Gildersleeve"; Ole "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    08-29-1899 - George V. Denny, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-11-1959
    moderator: "America"s Town Meeting of the Air"
    08-29-1907 - Lurene Tuttle - Pleasant Lake, IN - d. 5-28-1986
    actress: Effie Perrine "Advs. of Sam Spade"; Ellie Connors "Lum and Abner"
    08-29-1912 - Barry Sullivan - NYC - d. 6-6-1994
    actor: Steve Canyon "Steve Canyon"; Simon Templar "The Saint"
    08-29-1914 - Willard Waterman - Madison, WI - d. 2-2-1995
    actor: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve "Great Gildersleeve"; Roger Barton
    "Guiding Light"
    08-29-1915 - Ingrid Bergman - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 8-29-1982
    actress: "Everything for the Boys"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-29-1916 - George Montgomery - Brady, MT - d. 12-12-2000
    actor: "Hollywood Star Time"; "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
    08-29-1920 - Charlie Parker - Kansas City, MO - d. 3-12-1955
    jazz musician: "This Is Jazz"
    08-29-1922 - Arthur Anderson - Staten Island, NY
    actor: "Let"s Pretend"; Mark Davis "Lawyer Tucker"; Buddy "Tony and Gus"

    August 29th deaths

    04-06-1892 - Lowell Thomas - Woodington, OH - d. 8-29-1981
    newscaster, commentator: "Lowell Thomas and the News"
    08-03-1923 - Jean Hagen - Chicago, IL - d. 8-29-1977
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars in the Air"
    08-29-1915 - Ingrid Bergman - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 8-29-1982
    actress: "Everything for the Boys"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-01-1889 - Ralph W. Sockman - Mount Vernon, OH - d. 8-29-1970
    preacher: "National Radio Pulpit"

    August 30th births

    08-30-1887 - Eduardo Ciannelli - Island of Ischia, Italy - d. 10-8-1969
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-30-1896 - Raymond Massey - Toronto,  - d. 7-29-1983
    actor, host: "The Doctor Fights"; "Harvest of Stars"
    08-30-1902 - Ray Bloch - Alsace-Lorraine, France - d. 3-29-1982
    conductor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Take It or Leave It"; "Johnny Presents"
    08-30-1903 - Jack Bundy - Milwaukee, WI - d. 11-1973
    bandleader: "Heinie and the Grenadiers"
    08-30-1907 - Shirley Booth - NYC - d. 10-16-1992
    actress: Miss Duffy "Duffy"s Tavern"; "Hogan"s Daughter"; "Strictly Business"
    08-30-1908 - Fred MacMurray - Kankakee, IL (R:  Beaver Dam, WI) - d. 11-5-1991
    actor: George Harvey "Bright Star"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-30-1908 - Willie Bryant - New Orleans, LA - d. 2-9-1964
    host: "Night Life"
    08-30-1909 - Joan Blondell - NYC - d. 12-25-1979
    actress: Mary Vance "Miss Pinkerton, Inc."
    08-30-1914 - Julie Bishop - Denver, CO - d. 8-30-2001
    actress: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-30-1918 - Ted Williams, San Diego, CA - d. 7-5-2002
    baseball superstar: Several interview shows
    08-30-1919 - Kitty Wells - Nashville, TN
    singer: "Louisiana Hayride"

    August 30th deaths

    06-15-1909 - Joseph Desantis - NYC - d. 8-30-1989
    actor: Jim Scott "Under Arrest"; "This Is Nora Drake"
    06-19-1877 - Charles Coburn - Savannah, GA - d. 8-30-1961
    actor: "Roses and Drums"; "Song of Liberty"
    08-08-1913 - Axel Stordahl - Staten Island, New  - d. 8-30-1963
    conductor: "Songs by Sinatra/Frank Sinatra Show"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Coke
    Time"
    08-30-1914 - Julie Bishop - Denver, CO - d. 8-30-2001
    actress: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Hometown of [removed] Kaltenborn and Jay Jostyn

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    Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:08:57 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Today in radio history

     From Those Were The Days --

    1923 - Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, The Happiness Boys, were heard on
    radio for the first time. The two were billed as radio's first comedians
    and were also credited with creating and performing the first singing
    commercial.

    8/24

    1950 - The summer replacement radio show for Suspense, titled Somebody
    Knows, was heard for the final time. The program offered a reward of
    $5,000 for information that led to the solving of crimes. Somebody Knows
    began with the introduction, "You out there. You, who think you have
    committed the perfect crime -- that there are no clues, no witnesses --
    listen. Somebody knows."

    Joe

    --
    Visit my homepage:  [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:09:24 -0400
    From: hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sayings and expressions

     Glen Schroeder's posting about the expression "two shakes of a lambs tale"
    is one I also recall my Mother using. But then Glen goes on to [removed]

>      Hope this isn't too far off topic Charley.

    I suggest a way we can get back on topic Glen, before you and I get into
    trouble. (Unless it's been done before). How about coming up with
    expressions made famous by OTR personalities, that found their way into
    conversations, (as rejoinders, put-downs, etc,) and became common usage in
    this country back in the glory days.

    I'll start off with "T'aint funny McGee"

    "Coming Mother"

    "Wanna buy a duck"?

    "Who was that masked man?"

    And then, as kids, we'd do a Superman rip off.

    "Look, up in the sky! Is that a Bird? A Plane? [removed](At that time we'd say
    "ugh" and wipe our eye).... No, it's a bird. :(

    Hal(Harlan)Stone
    Jughead

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    Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:17:08 -0400
    From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Henry Brugsch

    If Henry Brugsch is still on this list, would you please email me. I tried
    the old address I had and the email came back to me as unknown.

    Fred
    berney@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:28:07 -0400
    From: ilamfan@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
    Subject:  New "I LOVE A MYSTERY" Item!

    Hello, everyone!
         WELL!  I can finally breathe an enormous sigh of relief - I have been
    assisting on a major "I Love A Mystery" project for almost a year, now.  Part
    of my agreement involved keeping quiet about the project until it was
    finished (due to contractual agreements with the Morse estate, among other
    things).
         My involvement began because of my tremendous fan (remember, that's
    short for "fanatical"!) interest in ILAM.  I shared my numerous radio
    episodes, episode fragments, auditions, fan magazines, interviews, logs,
    scripts, etc along with a few others, to help the project along.
         And now, the project is finished, and I finally get to tell everyone
    about it!  The project [removed] "I LOVE A MYSTERY" Companion!  Written by
    none other [removed] (Suspense/Alfred Hitchcock/CBSRMT/Inner Sanctum)
    Grams, Jr!
         He has given me permission to quote the preliminary flyer for the book:

    THE I LOVE A MYSTERY COMPANION
    by Martin Grams, Jr.
    with a foreward by Jim Harmon

    Longing only for action, adventure and excitement wherever it would lead
    them, three men fought through vampire-infested jungles, ghost towns of
    wind-swept Nevada, and solved mysteries involving werewolves, defeated mad
    scientists hell-bent on world domination, fought gruesome reptiles and
    modern-day pirates seeking treasure in every shape and form.  Jack, Packard,
    Doc Long and Reggie York were those three musketeers and for more than a
    decade I LOVE A MYSTERY ruled the radio airwaves.

    The complete production history and episode guide will be available under
    one cover in late October, officially authorized through the estate of
    Carlton E. Morse.  The book's contents include:

    A complete history of the radio program, including copies of Morse's
    correspondence, memories from cast and crew, biographical material about
    Carlton E. Morse, and trivia about the various serials dramatized.

    A complete episode guide for each and every I LOVE A MYSTERY broadcast
    starting from January of 1939 with an episode-by-episode plot description
    and cast list!

    Documentary about Morse's early mystery and police serials including THE
    CROSS-EYED PARROT, DEAD MEN PROWL, DRAGON IN THE SUN, PROWL BY NIGHT, KILLED
    IN ACTION, KILLER AT THE WHEEL, THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN POST, THE GAME CALLED
    MURDER, CAPTAIN POST: CRIME SPECIALIST, THE WITCH OF ENDOR, BARBARY COAST
    NIGHTS, CHINATOWN SQUAD, TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY, THE CITY OF THE DEAD,
    and even a complete episode guide for each serial including episode numbers,
    titles, air dates, cast lists, plot descriptions and various bits of trivia.

    The same treatment is given for I LOVE ADVENTURE and ADVENTURES BY MORSE.

    A complete reprint of the January 1939 contract between Carlton E. Morse and
    NBC and Standard Brands (the sponsor), and later revision and amendments.
    Even a sneak peak at the contract negotiations!

    Learn why the program changed formats in both time slots and length of
    broadcasts, why sponsors dropped sponsorship, why Michael Raffetto and
    Barton Yarborough left the series in 1944, and how it came to be reprised in
    1949 for Mutual.

    Learn where and how Morse came up with the ideas for his serials, and the
    fact that someone else wrote at least ten of the I LOVE A MYSTERY serials
    and was quietly paid by Morse for their contribution.

    Read the correspondence between Buddy Twiss (the director), Carlton E. Morse
    and Peter Lorre's agent when Lorre felt his name and character was being
    infringed upon on the program!

    Learn about Harry Leopold, the 29-year-old Denver gunman who asked the
    warden for a short postponement to Colorado's lethal gas chamber so he could
    listen to the concluding chapter of his favorite radio program, I LOVE A
    MYSTERY.

    Complete documentation of the ILAM novels, comic strips (reprinted in the
    book courtesy of the artist), and a complete documentation and production of
    the I LOVE A MYSTERY movies with a reprint of a summary proposed but never
    made into a full-length motion picture.

    Features a reprint of "Treasure Hunt," an unused proposed outline for a
    ten-chapter ILAM serial that Morse never got around to writing for the
    series.

    Reprints of USO material Morse wrote for Barton Yarborough based on the
    character of Doc Long.

    Complete documentation and episode guides for many of Morse's early serials
    including HOUSE OF MYTHS, RCA SPLIT-SECOND TALES, PIGSKIN ROMANCES,
    CHINATOWN TALES, THE UPPER ROOM and much, much more.

    About 500 pages thick.  Will be available in mid-late October, good chance
    it'll be at the FOTR Convention.
    (For bookstore buyers, it will not be available through bookstores or
    [removed] till around Thanksgiving.)
    Retail price of the book is $[removed]
    Postage is $[removed] for the first book and $[removed] per additional copy.

    Pre-publication offer: There is no postage cost involved if the book is
    ordered before October 15.
    I LOVE A MYSTERY BOOK, Po Box 189, Delta, PA 17314

         This is, of course, big, BIG news for all fans of radio mystery and
    Carlton Morse (and just plain old all fans of OTR)!  I have reviewed the
    information in this book, and the amount of material is staggering - there
    are shows covered in this book that I have never before heard mentioned as
    being Morse shows (some I've never heard mentioned at all!).  The network and
    sponsor contracts give much insight about the placement and tone of the
    show.  The interviews cover the actor's thoughts and viewpoints.  We know
    that there must have been more ILAM shows recorded than exist today, this
    book tells how many actually were recorded (and theoretically, might still
    EXIST somewhere - Hey, that chapter of "Eight Kinds Of Murder" got found,
    cleaned up and released last Christmas - 62 years after it was aired!).
         Every great mystery should leave clues for the reader or listener to
    find.  "I Love A Mystery" left way too many questions, in my opinion.  I have
    always wanted to know more about the show, more about Morse, but there never
    seemed to be enough clues around to get my questions answered
    satisfactorily.  Now there is.  Plenty of answers.  Plenty satisfying.
         It really was a pleasure making suggestions and helping Martin compile
    information and check facts for this legendary series!

         Honest to mah grandmaw - the ONLY hard part was keeping quiet about it!

    WHEW!

    Stephen Jansen
    ilamfan@[removed]

    --
    Old Time Radio never dies - it
    just changes formats!

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