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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 358
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Jack Westaway                         [ Karl Schadow <bluecar91@[removed] ]
  Segregated Seating in Radio Studios   [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
  Paddy O'Cinnamon and Christmas        [ crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow) ]
  Trodding the (ethereal) Boards        [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Merry Christmas                       [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
  12-23 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Bob & Ray                             [ "randy story" <hopharrigan@centuryt ]
  Re: WFAN Philadelphia help?           [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:20:20 -0500
From: Karl Schadow <bluecar91@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jack Westaway
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>From The Microphone (New England's Weekly Radio Newspaper) of January 8, 1938:
A new adventure show for children, called "Under the Sea With JACK WESTAWAY"
is heard on the MBS-WGN network each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 [removed]
The story in serial form deals with adventures of a young deep sea diver who
has more than his share of trouble in his chosen profession. Written by a
Chicago radio writer the story will be based on fact and will contain the
authentic adventures of many of the world's greatest divers and distribute
under-water lore of a conservative nature. Dan Sutter as "JACK WESTAWAY" and
Louise Fitch as "MARY RIVERS" will be the hero and the heroine of the story.
Both are members of the acting staff of WGN, Chicago.

In the Chicago Tribune it is listed as Jack Westaway. The serial started in
January 1938 and ended sometime in the summer 1938. Just how many other Mutual
stations aired it remains to be determined. It was not aired over WOR in New
York.

---Karl Schadow

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:52:36 -0500
From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Segregated Seating in Radio Studios

Bethany asked about the possibility of segregated seating in radio studios.

Although I have researched about radio during the Jim Crow era, I have not
come across specific evidence to come up with a definitive answer. However,
the likelihood of more than the very occasional instance of blacks wanting
and trying to come see a normally lilly white cast of broadcasters is very
low, especially in the many parts of the country where one version or another
of Jim Crow was in effect. Perhaps there is a slight correlation with the
fact that at FOTR there is also only an occasional African American attendee.

 On the other hand, WAMC which was a progressive New York city station that
broadcast the racially tolerant New World A' Comin, would likely have had no
racial restrictions in whatever seating  it might have provided for a
broadcast.

Howard Blue

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:53:10 -0500
From: crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow)
To: [removed]@[removed] (Old Time Radio Digest)
Subject:  Paddy O'Cinnamon and Christmas

As you prepare Monday to tuck Paddy away for another year, may it be known
that all people have a silver star in their hearts.  Chuck Schaden, author of
"The Cinnamon Bear Book," put it best when he said, "our living room was
filled with shimmering lights of the Christmas tree and, as I sat before the
radio, my imagination was filled with the sights and sounds of a childhood
Christmas. Judy and Jimmy and the Cinnamon Bear searched for that silver star
every Christmas --- and every Christmas they  found it.  MY SILVER STAR is
the fond memory of their adventures."

May it be for you, and continue to be.  A very "beary" Christmas from my
household. I hope "The Cinnamon Bear" has pushed a Christmas nostalgia
button!  Paddy would be very grateful.

Dennis Crow

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:54:00 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Trodding the (ethereal) Boards

From: Joe Mackey _joemackey108@[removed]_
(mailto:joemackey108@[removed])

1934  - The Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, was read by
Lionel  Barrymore on The Campbell Playhouse on CBS. The reading of the
tale became an  annual radio event for years to [removed];

Dear Joe-

Not to be a nudge, as I likely made this point before, [removed]

Lionel did indeed perform "The Fifth Gospel" at Christmastide for years -  17
times over 19 years, by most counts. And several of those, from the
Campbell/Mercury version in 1939 onwards, blessedly exist to this day, by way
of
transcription.

But I doubt very much that the first, in 1934, involved Lionel READING
either the novella, or an adaptation thereof. Rather, it was in all
likelihood a
fully dramatized, and fully cast, Play for Radio.

There really is a major difference.

Merriest,
-Craig "sometime Scrooge" Wichman

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:10:54 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Merry Christmas

Hi Everybody,

just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.  Take care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:59:12 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-23 births/deaths

December 23rd births

12-23-1873 - Burns Mantle - Watertown, NY - d. 2-9-1948
writer: "Best Plays" based on Mantle's theatrical yearbook
12-23-1887 - John Cromwell - d. 9-26-1979
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-23-1893 - Anne O'Neal - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-24-1971
actor: Cynthia Veryberry "Grapevine Rancho"
12-23-1903 - Helen Troy - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-1-1942
actor: Telephone Operator "It Happened in Hollywood"
12-23-1903 - Milton Alfred - d. 9-xx-1968
sportscaster: WICA Ashtabula, Ohio
12-23-1907 - Don McNeill - Galena, IL - d. 5-7-1996
host: "Breakfast Club"
12-23-1911 - James Gregory - The Bronx, NY - d. 9-16-2002
actor: Captain Vincent Cronin "21st Precinct"
12-23-1913 - Anton M. Leader - Boston, MA - d. 7-1-1988
director: "Eternal Light"; "Murder at Midnight"; "Suspense"; "Words
at War"
12-23-1922 - Jack Lloyd - Duisburg, Germany - d. 5-21-1976
actor: "Armstrong Theatre of Today"; "The Joan Davis Show"
12-23-1922 - Ruth Roman - Boston, MA - d. 9-9-1999
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hollywood Sound Stage"
12-23-1923 - Ray Kemper - Lankershim, CA
sound effects: "Gunsmoke"; "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"; "Fort Laramie"
12-23-1924 - Floyd Kalber - Omaha, NE - d. 5-13-2004
news correspondent: NBC; News Anchor for WMAQ and WLS in Chicago
12-23-1931 - Kenneth Methold - Sussex, England
writer: "Sweet Singing the Choir"; "All Suspect"
12-23-1943 - Harry Shearer - Los Angeles, CA
actor: Member of the Beavers "Jack Benny Program"
12-30-1884 - Hideki Tojo - Tokyo, Japan - d. 12-23-1948
prime minister: War Time Broadcasts
xx-xx-xxxx - Dr. Jacob Tarshish - d. 12-23-1960
rabbi: "The Lamplighter"

December 23rd deaths

01-03-1909 - Victor Borge - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 12-23-2000
comedian, pianist: "Victor Borge Show"; "Kraft Music Hall"
01-04-1889 - Pat Kelly - North Queensland, Australia - d. 12-23-1967
announcer: "Dog Heroes"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
01-20-1912 - Paula Stone - NYC - d. 12-23-1997
moderator: "Leave It to the Girls"
02-08-1886 - Charlie Ruggles - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-23-1970
comedian: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Suspense"; "This Is My Best"
04-02-1892 - Marjorie Child Husted - d. 12-23-1986
First radio voice of Betty Crocker
04-02-1920 - Jack Webb - Santa Monica, CA - d. 12-23-1982
actor: Joe Friday "Dragnet"; Pete Kelly "Pete Kelly's Blues"
04-06-1924 - Mimi Benzell - Bridgeport, CT - d. 12-23-1970
singer: "Jack Pearl and Mimi Benzell"; "Railroad Hour"
05-14-1890 - Carlton Brickert - Martinsville, IN - d. 12-23-1943
actor: David Post "Story of Mary Marlin"; Howard Thurston "Thurston
the Magician"
07-01-1901 - Irna Phillips - Chicago, IL - d. 12-23-1973
actor, writer: Mother Moran "Today's Children"; "The Guiding Light";
"Road of Life"
10-25-1924 - Billy Barty - Millsboro, PA - d. 12-23-2000
comedian: "Spike Jones Band", "James Melton Show"
11-04-1901 - Helene Dumas - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-23-1986
actor: "Jane Arden"; "Eno Crime Club"; "Short Short Story"
11-11-1911 - Patric Knowles - Horsforth, Yorkshire, England - d.
12-23-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:48:27 -0500
From: "randy story" <hopharrigan@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bob & Ray
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Hello, OTR fans.
I have recently become enamored of the work of Bob Eliot and Ray Goulding. Is
there a definitive work on their career(s) and work? Are there any complete
logs of their shows? I read a great article about the two of them in a fairly
recent Nostalgia Digest and began listening to a lot of their stuff. it is
really is wonderful and I want to know and hear more if possible. Can anyone
out there help me in locating more materials about/ by this great team?
Much thanks,
Randy Story

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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:55:50 -0500
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: WFAN Philadelphia help?

I have an autograph I'd like to know more about.  It looks like
"Artie Bittorig", and from the inscription it looks like he played a
character name King Cheerio on WFAN radio.  Was King Cheerio
a character on a children's show?  ...

Here's Mr. Bittong's obit as it appeared in the 21 December 1945
Chester (PA) Times:

ARTHUR 'ARTIE' BITTONG

Funeral services for Arthur "Artie" Bittong, 68, of 130 Chatham road,
Upper Darby, known to thousands as "King Cheerio" of the early days of
radio, will be held 2 p. m. Monday in the Robert J. Mannal Funeral
Home, 6925 Frankford avenue, Philadelphia, with interment in Oakland
cemetery.

Inveterate joiner and clubman and  friend of many of Philadelphia's
great, Mr. Bittong died at his home on Thursday after suffering from a
heart ailment for the past eight months. He had organized the
"Cheer-Ups" in 1925 on Station WCAU, the days when crystal sets were
the vogue.  Purpose of the organization was to bring a little humor to
shut-ins, a feature of the program being a cowbell which was clanged
whenever he initiated a new member over the air. In the six or seven
years of its life, the club grew to 50,000 members. In its day it was
one of the most popular programs on the ether waves, spreading out
into innumerable performances in hospitals, sanitariums and benefits
for organizations of individuals assailed by tragedy.

Mr. Bittong rose to high offices in the Tall Cedars. Eagles, Moose,
Shrine, the Welsh Society and was widely known as an able after dinner
speaker and close friend of city officials.

In business life, he was associated with the Valspar Corporation and
served that firm as local general manager for 25 years. He is survived
by his wife, Mamie, and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Dorothy Southworth of New
York City.

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