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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2009 : Issue 20
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Trivia Challenge! [ "Pamela K. Gitta" <wjmtv@[removed] ]
Brief Pause For Murder [ "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed]; ]
"For people that like this kind of t [ Wich2@[removed] ]
1-26 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:28:44 -0500
From: "Pamela K. Gitta" <wjmtv@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Trivia Challenge!
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I've got a doozy that has haunted me for three decades now. Back in the late
70s, I lived in LA and enjoyed the OTR played on KNX every night at 9pm. One
evening, I heard an episode of (I'm pretty sure) "Quiet Please," where the
story was a man who was obsessed with a woman, and all he wanted to do was
watch her-he had no desire to make contact in any way. That's all I
remember, other than I found it one of the most striking dramatic stories
I'd heard to that point, and it remains one of my Top 5 in terms of the
effect it had on me. I would love to find this story again. Can any of the
powerful brains out there in OTRLand help me?
Pam G
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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:29:05 -0500
From: "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Brief Pause For Murder
Have appreciated reading the dates for two performances of this great
Whistler drama. But what is the date for my favorite version with Joseph
Kearns and Mary Jane Croft? I had 9/11/49 but now I'm told that is the date
for
the Frank Nelson one. Anyone know the Kearns date?
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:39:06 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "For people that like this kind of thing -
- this is the kind of thing they would like."
(As the bicentennial boy, Abraham Lincoln, used to say.)
From: Frederick Greenhalgh <fred@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio Drama Documentary looking for OTR Voices
Folks, for those of you who enjoy a smattering of Modern Audio Drama along
with your Old Time Radio, Fred fights the good fight at RADIO DRAMA
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Best,
-Craig W.
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:39:12 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-26 births/deaths
January 26th births
01-26-1880 - Douglas MacArthur - Little Rock, AR - d. 4-5-1964
general: "Special Broadcast from Tokyo"
01-26-1885 - Hugh Barrett Dobbs - d. 2-20-1944
actor: Captain Dobbsie "Ship of Joy"
01-26-1892 - Guy Robertson - Denver, CO - d. unknown
singing host: "Broadway Varieties"
01-26-1899 - Wyllis Cooper - Pekin, IL - d. 6-22-1955
producer, writer, director: "Lights Out"; "Quiet Please"
01-26-1905 - Margaret Cousins - Munday, TX - d. 7-30-1996
writer: "Holmes Radio Magazine"
01-26-1905 - Maria von Trapp - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-28-1987
singer: (Trapp Family Singers) "Christmas Seal Sale"
01-26-1907 - Eddie Ballentine - Chicago, IL - d. 11-14-1995
orchestra leader: "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club"
01-26-1907 - Rita Ascot - d. 3-6-1988
actor: "Fay "Ma Perkins"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
01-26-1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen - Syracuse, NY - d. 2-6-1990
composer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Command Performance"
01-26-1913 - William Prince - Nichols, NY - d. 10-8-1996
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"
01-26-1914 - Jack de Manio - Hampstead, England - d. 10-28-1988
announcer: "Today"; "Jack de Manio Precisely"; "Woman's Hour"
01-26-1914 - Phoebe Ephron - NYC - d. 10-13-1971
author: "Lux RadioTheatre"
01-26-1918 - Vito Scotti - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-5-1996
actor: "Romance"; "Broadway Is My Beat"
01-26-1919 - Jan Bart - Poland - d. 8-12-1971
traveled with Major Bowes for 7 years, had his own radio show
01-26-1922 - Michael Bentine - Watford, Hertfordshie, England - d.
11-26-1996
comedian: "Goon Show"
01-26-1922 - Page Cavanaugh - Cherokee, KS - d. 12-18-2008
singer: (The Page Cavanaugh Trio) "The Jack Paar Show"
01-26-1925 - Joan Leslie - Detroit, MI
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-26-1927 - Billy Redfield - NYC - d. 8-17-1976
actor: Grayling Dennis "Brighter Day"; Willie Piper "Tales of Willie
Piper"
01-26-1927 - Ronnie Hilton - Hull, England - d. 2-21-2001
singer: "Sounds of the Fifties"
01-26-1935 - Bob Uecker - Milwaukee, WI
baseball announcer: "Milwaukee Brewers"
01-26-1937 - Alison Steele - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-27-1995
disk jockey: "The Nightbird"
01-26-1945 - Marti Caine - Sheffield, Yorkshire, England - d. 11-4-1995
comedian: "The Marti Caine Show"
January 26th deaths
01-08-1909 - Jose Ferrer - Santurce, PR - d. 1-26-1992
actor: Philo Vance "Advs. of Philo Vance"; Minister "We Love and Learn"
02-14-1897 - Victor Lindlahr - d. 1-26-1969
commentator: "Talks on Diet"
04-02-1917 - Gertrude Warner - Hartford, CT - d. 1-26-1986
actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"; Christy Allen "Against the Storm"
04-26-1922 - Eric Sinclair - Burkburnett, TX - d. 1-26-2004
actor: "Alias Jane Doe"
04-28-1916 - Rena Craig Waxman - Denver, CO - d. 1-26-2003
actor: "School of Charm"
05-17-1897 - Fletcher Wiley - d. 1-26-1966
commentator: "Your Home Front Reporter"
06-05-1914 - J. Donald Wilson - d. 1-26-1984
creator, writer, producer: "The Whistler"; "Advs. of Nero Wolfe";
"Dark Venture"
06-19-1894 - Emil Coleman - Odessa, Russia - d. 1-26-1965
orchestra leader: "Penthouse Party"; "Gulf Headliners"
07-08-1908 - Nelson Rockefeller - Bar Harbor, ME - d. 1-26-1979
vice president: Helped fund "Hello Americans" with Orson Welles
08-09-1905 - Leo Genn - London, England - d. 1-26-1978
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-24-1905 - Wilbur 'Bill' P. Bardo - d. 1-26-1975
bandleader: "One Night Stand"
10-02-1900 - Cecil Roy - St. Paul, MN - d. 1-26-1995
actor: (Girl of a Thousand Voices) Junior Fitz "Ma Perkins"
10-09-1899 - Goebel (Leon) Reeves - Sherman, TX - d. 1-26-1959
singer, yodeler: "Rudy Vallee Show"
10-17-1912 - Jack Owens - Tulsa, OK - d. 1-26-1982
vocalist: Cruising Crooner "The Breakfast Club"; "Tin Pan Alley"
11-06-1892 - Ole Olsen - Wabash, IN - d. 1-26-1963
comedian: (Olsen and Johnson); "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Breakfast Club"
12-05-1901 - Grace Moore - Jellico, TN - d. 1-26-1947
opera singer: "General Motors Concerts"; "Speed Show"; "Vicks Open
House"
12-10-1913 - Jean Dickenson - Montreal, Canada - d. 1-26-2007
singer: (Nightingale of the Airwaves) "American Album of Familiar Music"
12-12-1893 - Edward G. Robinson - Bucharest, Romania - d. 1-26-1973
actor: Steve Wilson "Big Town"
12-15-1915 - Margaret Hayes - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-26-1977
actor: "Silver Theatre"
12-19-1888 - Mabel Brownell - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-26-1972
actor: "Polly witha Past"
Ron
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