Subject: [removed] Digest V2010 #45
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Date: 3/9/2010 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 45
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Oops!                                 [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Syracuse, New York                    [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      In search of                          [ Paul Adomites <padomites@embarqmail ]
      3-9 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Sufferin' snakes!                     [ Bob <hrkeller@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:46:24 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Oops!

    Here are the births for March 8th.

    03-08-1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes - Boston, MA - d. 3-6-1935
    On his 90th birthday he delivered a short radio speech
    03-08-1889 - Rosario Bourdon - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-24-1961
    conductor: "Cities Service Concert"; "Great Personalities"
    03-08-1891 - Sam Jaffe - NYC - d. 3-24-1984
    actor: "Fannie Hurst Presents"; "New World A-Coming"; "Cavalcade of
    America"
    03-08-1893 - Victor Arden - Wenona, IL - d. 7-31-1962
    pianist and orchestra director with various radio appearances
    03-08-1899 - Gladys Thornton - Madison. Fl - d. 9-2-1964
    actor: Aunt Addie "My Son and I"; Mrs. Tasek "The O'Neills"
    03-08-1902 - Louise Beavers - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-26-1962
    actor: Beulah "Beulah"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    03-08-1906 - Franklyn MacCormack - Waterloo, IA - d. 6-12-1971
    announcer: "Caroline's Golden Store"; "Jack Armstrong"
    03-08-1909 - Anthony Donato - Prague, NE - d. 10-29-1990
    composer: "Surprise Serenade"
    03-08-1909 - Claire Trevor - NYC - d. 4-8-2000
    actor: Lorelei Kilbourne " Big Town", Theresa Travers "Results, Inc."
    03-08-1910 - Victor Wolfson - NYC - d. 5-23-1990
    author of radio plays
    03-08-1911 - Eunice Hanger - Mount Chalmers, Australia - d. 10-16-1972
    writer: "From the Diary of a Bush Schoolmaster"
    03-08-1911 - Heinie Beau - Calvary, WI - d. 4-19-1987
    composer/arranger: composed for radio, televison and movies
    03-08-1912 - David Friedkin - d. 10-15-1976
    writer: "Bold Venture"; "Broadway Is My Beat"; "The Front Page"
    03-08-1918 - Alan Hale, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-2-1990
    actor: "Smiths of Hollywood"
    03-08-1918 - Sam Donahue - Detroit, MI - d. 3-22-1974
    saxaphonist, bandleader: dance band remotes
    03-08-1919 - Mavor Moore - Toronto, Canada - d. 12-18-2006
    actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "The Crusoe Boys"
    03-08-1921 - Cyd Charisse - Amarillo, TX - d. 6-17-2008
    actor, dancer: Guest: "Spike Jones Show"
    03-08-1922 - Al Gionfriddo - Dysart, PA - d. 3-14-2003
    sportscaster: KONG Visalia, CA
    03-08-1924 - Sean McClory - Dublin, Ireland - d. 12-10-2003
    actor: "Favorite Story"; "NBC University Theatre"
    03-08-1928 - Judy Johnson - Norfolk, VA
    singer: "Stars for Defense"; "Broadway in Review"
    03-08-1929 - Betty Carter - d. 9-26-1998
    jazz vocalist: "Jazz Alive"
    03-08-1943 - Lynn Redgrave - London, England
    actor: "Artist Descending a Staircase"; "Vile Bodies"

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    Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:46:30 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Syracuse, New York

    Just dropping a note that the Cinefest Convention in Syracuse, New York will
    be screening one of the INFORMATION PLEASE film shorts produced by RKO. They
    are not easy to come by and Turner Entertainment still remains silent about
    how many (if not all of them) survive in the vaults. They have never been
    screened on TCM to my knowledge. The event is the last weekend of March and I
    know there are also a number of old time radio dealers at the event.

    The convention web-site is [removed].

    Also, yours truly (shameless plug) will be on the local news channel's Sunday
    morning program to help promote both the convention and old-time radio in
    general, to remind them that old-time radio isn't dead, and is often
    recognized in the firm of film and nostalgia festivals. If you live within
    Syracuse, come check out the event!

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    Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:46:36 -0500
    From: Paul Adomites <padomites@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  In search of

    I'm trying to locate the title of a show (Escape? Inner Sanctum? Mysterious
    Traveler?) in which the "hero" murders his wife, buries her in a grave under
    his garage, and then hears two guys deliver a new car she has bought for him
    and park it on top of his exit trap door. It's really too bad, I think, that
    the people who wrote the titles for the shows weren't trying as hard as those
    who wrote the edpisodes.
    Off group responses are okay.
    Paul Adomites
    padomites@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:31:05 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-9 births/deaths

    March 9th births

    03-09-1893 - Ara Gerald - Sydney, Australia - d. 4-2-1957
    actor: Countess Florenza "Our Gal Sunday"
    03-09-1901 - Oscar Race - d. 10-xx-1981
    pianist: (Race and Ballin) WOR Newark, New Jersey
    03-09-1902 - Robert St. John - Chicago, IL - d. 2-6-2003
    newscaster: 1943-46, NBC, weekdays at 10 [removed]
    03-09-1902 - Will Geer - Franfort, IN - d. 4-22-1978
    actor: Penny "Bright Horizon"
    03-09-1909 - Victor Seydel - d. 8-xx-1973
    director: "Counterspy"
    03-09-1911 - Leopold Proser - d. 2-xx-1981
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
    03-09-1912 - Ned Le Fevre - Indiana - d. 6-10-1966
    actor: Ned Holden "The Guiding Light"; Jonathan Kegg "A Life in Your
    Hands"
    03-09-1912 - Ray Darby - Edmonton, Canada - d. 1-22-1982
    radio script writer: "American School of the Air"
    03-09-1914 - Fred Clark - Lincoln, CA - d. 12-5-1968
    actor: "This Is Your FBI"; "Amos 'n' Andy Show"
    03-09-1918 - Marguerite Chapman - Chatham, NY - d. 8-30-1999
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    03-09-1918 - Mickey Spillane - Brooklyn NY - d. 7-17-2006
    writer: "That Hammer Guy" based on his novels
    03-09-1920 - Jerry Byrd - Lima, OH - d. 4-11-2005
    steel guitarist: "Country Music Time"; "March of Dimes"
    03-09-1921 - Carl Betz - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-18-1978
    disk jockey: WCAE Pittsburgh
    03-09-1926 - Joe Franklin - NYC
    disc jockey: "Joe Franklin's Memory Lane"; "Main Street Memories"
    03-09-1932 - Keely Smith - Norfolk, VA
    singer: "Guard Session"; "Here's to Veterans"
    03-09-1934 - Joyce Van Patten - Queens, NY
    actor: Daisy "Reg'lar Fellers"

    March 9th deaths

    01-07-1913 - Shirley Ross - Omaha, NE - d. 3-9-1975
    actor, singer: "Raleigh and Kool Cigarette Program with Tommy Dorsey"
    01-20-1896 - George Burns - NYC - d. 3-9-1996
    comedian: "Advs. of Gracie"; "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
    03-15-1883 - Ernie Hare - Norfolk, VA - d. 3-9-1939
    singer: (The Happiness Boys)
    04-15-1907 - Casper Reardon - Little Falls, NY - d. 3-9-1941
    jazz harpist: "Camel Caravan"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    04-28-1892 - Joseph Dunninger - NYC - d. 3-9-1975
    mentalist: (Master Mind of Mental Mystery) "Dunninger Show"
    06-11-1900 - Lawrence Spivak - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-9-1994
    moderator, panelist: "Meet the Press"
    07-02-1914 - Clint Alley - d. 3-9-1994
    sportscaster: WKOY West Virginia
    07-08-1917 - Faye Emerson - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 3-9-1983
    actor: "My Silent Partner"
    07-16-1907 - Ned Calmer - Chicago, IL - d. 3-9-1986
    news analyst: "World News Roundup"
    07-30-1922 - Meredith Davies - Birkenhead, England - d. 3-9-2005
    conductor: "City of Birmingham Choir"
    08-08-1930 - Terry Nation - South Wales - d. 3-9-1997
    comedy writer: "Goon Show"
    08-25-1913 - Bob Crosby - Spokane, WA - d. 3-9-1993
    bandleader, singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Bob Crosby Show"; "Jack Benny
    Program"
    10-09-1915 - Edward Andrews - Griffin, GA - d. 3-9-1985
    actor: Nat "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    11-17-1918 - Paul Crabtree - Pulaski, VA - d. 3-9-1979
    actor: David Naughton "Claudia and David"
    12-22-1905 - Martha Bohlsen - Nebraska - d. 3-9-1984
    cooking show host: "Kitchen Club"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:31:51 -0500
    From: Bob <hrkeller@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Sufferin' snakes!

    Just received my copy of the new Hornet book (literally 10 minutes ago).

    On first scan, it is exactly what I'd hoped for!

    The history of the radio show (NOT including the episode listing) covers 280+
    pages and the episode listing reports a plot synopsis for some 1,040 episodes
    (save for repeats which it identifies with the original broadcast) and
    covers, by my hasty count, 300+ pages of priceless (to me at least) data!

    Hats off to Messers Grams and Salomonson.

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