Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #73
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 73
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Reproduction radios                   [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
      4-14 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Picture of Herb Butterfield?          [ bobb lynes <iairotr@[removed]; ]
      4-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      March 2009 deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      4-16 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:12:01 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:48:04 -0400
    From: <radioaz@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Reproduction radios

    Does anyone have one of those reproductions of old radios?  Specifically,
    Thomas brand.  If so, might you have either the box it came or the original
    paperwork?  I am trying to find the manufacturer's website as I need a
    couple replacement knobs.  I have not been able to Google up anything like
    that.

    Thanks.

    Ted

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    Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:48:16 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-14 births/deaths

    April 14th births

    04-14-1889 - Dick Richards - Detroit, MI - d. 5-28-1951
    Owned radio stations WJR (Detroit), WGAR (Cleveland), KMPC (Los Angeles)
    04-14-1898 - Lee Tracy - Atlanta, GA - d. 10-18-1968
    actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Detective"
    04-14-1903 - Lloyd Amoo - d. 7-15-1973
    newscaster: KRMC Jamestown, North Dakota
    04-14-1904 - John Gielgud - London, England - d. 5-21-2000
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    04-14-1905 - Bob Stanton - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-17-1977
    nbc staff announcer: "Bob Stanton Sports"
    04-14-1913 - John Howard - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-19-1995
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    04-14-1914 - Arnold Perl - d. 12-11-1971
    writer: "The Big Story"; "I Fly Anything"; "The Amazing Mr. Tutt"
    04-14-1914 - John Hubbard - East Chicago, IN - d. 11-6-1988
    actor: Willie Faye "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"
    04-14-1915 - Richard Hart - Providence, RI - d. 1-2-1951
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    04-14-1916 - Emerson Buckley - NYC - d. 11-17-1989
    conductor: "Two Thousand Plus"; "Murder By Experts"
    04-14-1917 - Valerie Hobson - Larne, Ireland - d. 11-13-1998
    actor: Guest Contestant "One Minute Please"
    04-14-1918 - Mary Healy - New Orleans, LA
    actor: Jack Benny Program"; "Texaco Town"; "Ford Show"; "Lum and Abner"
    04-14-1919 - Dennis Ballant - d. 5-10-1970
    disk jockey: WJAG Norfolk, Virginia
    04-14-1924 - Shorty Rogers - Great Barrington, MA - d. 11-7-1994
    jazz trumpeter: "Army Bandstand"; "Here's to Veterans"
    04-14-1926 - Gloria Jean - Buffalo, NY
    singer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    04-14-1929 - Ray Mathew - Leichhardt, Australia - d. 4-xx-2002
    writer: "The Medea of Euripides"
    04-14-1940 - Patsy Bruder - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    April 14th deaths

    02-16-1917 - George Neise - Chicago, IL - d. 4-14-1996
    actor: "The Judy Canova Show"; "The Man Called X"
    03-22-1924 - Bill Wendell - NYC - d. 4-14-1999
    announcer: "Ten Troubled Years"; "Biography In Sound"
    04-12-1921 - Peter R. Brooke - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-14-1999
    writer: "Secret Mission"
    04-13-1887 - Christian Rubb - Austria - d. 4-14-1956
    actor: (Voice of Geppetto) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-12-1907 - Leslie Charteris - Singapore - d. 4-14-1993
    mystery writer: "The Adventures of the Saint"
    06-03-1911 - Ellen Corby - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1999
    actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    06-04-1888 - Ivy Litvinov - England - d. 4-14-1977
    author: "Information Please"
    06-14-1909 - Burl Ives - Hunt Township, IL - d. 4-14-1995
    singer: "Columbia County Journal"; "Radio Reader's Digest"
    06-28-1924 - Gene Thompson - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-14-2001
    writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
    07-06-1925 - Ruth Cracknell - Sydney, Australia - d. 4-14-2002
    actress for the BBC
    07-12-1898 - Joe Reichman - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-14-1970
    bandleader: (the Pagliacci of the Piano) "A Song is Born"
    08-05-1923 - Eileen Browne - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 4-14-1999
    host: "Listed with Mother"
    08-07-1906 - Ernestine Wade - Mississippi - d. 4-14-1983
    actor: Sapphire Stevens "Amos 'n' Andy"
    08-13-1878 - Harry A. Earnshaw - d. 4-14-1953
    Along with Raymond R. Morgan created "Chandu the Magician
    08-13-1930 - Don Ho - Honolulu, HI - d. 4-14-2007
    singer: Interview on KINE
    08-31-1897 - Fredric March - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1975
    actor: "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    09-04-1913 - Henry Russell - Michigan - d. 4-14-1968
    conductor: "NBC University Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    09-19-1908 - Sanford Barnett - East Orange, NJ - d. 4-14-1988
    writer: "Believe It or Not"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-24-1931 - Anthony Newley - London, England - d. 4-14-1999
    singer, actor: "Round and Round"
    10-27-1927 - Charles Mullen - d. 4-14-2002
    actor: "The Blue Playhouse"; "Advs. of Archie Andrews"
    11-05-1893 - Jean Sothern - d. 4-14-1964
    actor: Edie Gray "Pepper Young's Family"; Connie Rickard "Red Davis"
    11-30-1889 - Vito Pellettieri - d. 4-14-1977
    stage manager: "Grand Ole Opry"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:48:34 -0400
    From: bobb lynes <iairotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Picture of Herb Butterfield?
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    Hi,

    Bob Cockrum asked in #72 if anyone knows where there is a picture of actor
    Herb Butterfield.   (Here comes the commercial, folks).  There are four
    pictures of Herb in Frank Bresee & my book "Radio's Golden Years" on pages 64,
    108,169 & 180.
    Although they are line drawings,(they're all the same) and were based on a
    photo I used to have, it gives you pretty good idea of what he looked like.
    The book is STILL available directly from me, only $20 (postpaid) and
    autographed if you wish.  BOBB LYNES,  BOX 561, SOUTH PASADENA,CA 91031.  (End
    of commercial, fade [removed])

    Bobb

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    Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:48:54 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-15 births/deaths

    April 15th births

    04-15-1900 - Eddie Garr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-3-1956
    actor: (Father of Teri Garr) "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    04-15-1907 - Casper Reardon - Little Falls, NY - d. 3-9-1941
    jazz harpist: "Camel Caravan"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    04-15-1907 - Theodore Granick - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-21-1970
    moderator: "American Forum of the Air"
    04-15-1909 - Dave Driscoll - Maplewood, NJ - d. 5-8-1981
    news and sport commentator for the mutual network
    04-15-1909 - Gordon Bambrick - d. 7-16-1977
    announcer: "Reading Is Fun"
    04-15-1910 - Eddie Mayo - Holyoke, MA - d. 11-27-2006
    major league baseball player: "World Series Preview"
    04-15-1915 - Hans Conried - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-5-1982
    actor: Professor Kropotkin "My Friend Irma"; Schultz "Life with Luigi"
    04-15-1918 - Hilda Simms - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-6-1994
    actor: "New World A' Coming"
    04-15-1918 - John Baragrey - Haleyville, AL - d. 8-4-1975
    actor: "X Minus One"; "There Is No Night"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    04-15-1921 - Art Ford - NYC - d. 4-23-2006
    emcee, disk jockey: "Monitor"
    04-15-1928 - Jimmy Ogg - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-1-1986
    actor: "Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang"
    04-15-1931 - Florian Zabach - Chicago, IL - d. 2-25-2006
    violinist: "Arthur Godfrey and His Talent Scouts"; "Here's to Veterans"
    04-15-1933 - Roy Clark - Meherrin, VA
    country/western singer: "Town and Country Time"

    April 15th deaths

    02-12-1809 - Abraham Lincoln - Hardin County, KY - d. 4-15-1865
    [removed] president: Many works on radio dedicated to his life
    02-13-1912 - Margaretta Scott - London, England - d. 4-15-2005
    actor: "The Merchant of Venice"
    02-22-1926 - Kenneth Williams - Islington, England - d. 4-15-1988
    actor:  the Snide "Hancock's Half Hour"
    03-24-1910 - Richard Conte - Jersey City, NJ - d. 4-15-1975
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Hollywood
    Star Playhouse"
    04-01-1886 - Wallace Beery - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-15-1949
    host: "Shell Chateau"
    04-17-1918 - John Hess - Chicago, IL - d. 4-15-2004
    writer: "The Human Adventure"
    06-02-1909 - Martin Ashe - Bradford, IL - d. 4-15-1991
    actor: "Grand Central Station"
    06-04-1881 - Clara Blandick - Hong Kong (on a ship in harbor) - d.
    4-15-1962
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    06-12-1898 - Dick Hartman - Burlington, WV - d. 4-15-1962
    country: (Tennessee Ramblers) "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
    07-23-1920 - Christopher Lynch - County Limerick, Ireland - d. 4-15-1994
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"
    08-05-1882 - General Hugh S. Johnson - Ft. Scott, KS - d. 4-15-1942
    militarist (Old Ironpants) 15 minute commentary thrice weekly on NBC
    08-15-1925 - Rose Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 4-15-1998
    country singer: "Faron Young Show"; "Country Hoedown"
    09-09-1909 - Giulio Gari - Medias, Romania - d. 4-15-1994
    operatic tenor: "Musical Bits"; "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    09-15-1909 - Frank Richards - NYC - d. 4-15-1992
    actor: "I Love A Mystery"
    09-18-1905 - Greta Garbo - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 4-15-1990
    actor: "Conquest"
    09-22-1915 - Arthur Lowe - Hayfield, Derbyshire, England - d. 4-15-1982
    actor: Captain George Mainwaring "Dad's Army"
    11-25-1871 - Kate McComb - Sacramento, CA - d. 4-15-1959
    actor: Mrs. Kerrigan "The Goldbergs"; Nannie "Lora Lawton"
    12-13-1939 - Moe Keale - Niihau, HI - d. 4-15-2002
    local disc jockey

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:49:01 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  March 2009 deaths

    March 2009 Deaths

    06-29-1922 - Tony Osborne - Cambridge, England - d. 3-1-2009
    arranger: "The Goon Show"; "Take It From Here"
    11-24-1922 - Joan Turner - Befast, Ireland - d. 3-1-2009
    singer, actor: "Just a Minute"; "[removed]"
    05-29-1935 - Bryar Martin - Ulverston, Cumbrio, England - d. 3-4-2009
    newsreader: BBC Radio 4
    03-19-1930 - Joan Fox - Ottawa, Canada - d. 3-5-2009
    film reviewer: "The Arts This Week"
    01-09-1939 - Jimmy Boyd - McComb, MS - [removed]
    singer: (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus) "The Bing Crosby Show"
    02-15-1918 - Hank Locklin - Mc Lellan, FL - d. 3-8-2009
    played guitar and sang on radio stations across the South as a teenager
    10-18-1924 - Anne Manahan - County Waterford, Ireland - d. 3-8-2009
    actor: "All That Fall"
    xx-xx-1911 - Frances Blaisdell - d. 3-11-2009
    flutist: "Phil Spitalny and His All Girl Orchestra"
    10-30-1918 - Harvey Lowe - Victoria, Canada - d. 3-11-2009
    host: "Call of China"
    05-30-1913 - Kalman Bloch - NYC - d. 3-12-2009
    principal clarinetist" Los Angeles Symphony
    08-09-1912 - Anne (Wiggins) Brown - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-13-2009
    singer: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "This Week Around Paris"
    xx-xx-1918 - Joel Cohen - NYC - d. 3-13-2009
    writer: "Mr. and Mrs. Music"
    12-11-1923 - Betsy Blair - Cliffside, NJ - d. 3-13-2009
    actor: "Favorite Story"; "Meet Me in St. Louis"
    03-12-1917 - Millard Kaufman - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-14-2009
    writer: "Escape"; "Romance"; "Suspense"
    11-20-1947 - Richard Shulberg - The Bronx, NY - d. 3-14-2009
    presenter, musician: (Citizen Kafka) "The Secret Museum of the Air"
    11-22-1939 - Terrence Edmond - Bristol, England - d. 3-16-2009
    actor: "His Natural Life"
    03-20-1918 - Mort Lachman - Seattle, WA - d. 3-17-2009
    gag writer" "The Bob Hope Show"
    01-28-1931 - Ezio Flagello - NYC - d. 3-19-2009
    opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
    04-01-1927 - Bob Arbogast - Bellingham, WA - d. 3-21-2009
    host: "Same Time, Same Station"
    10-17-1925 - Ted Jarrett - Nashville, TN - d. 3-21-2009
    songwriter, disk jockey: WSOK Nashville, Tennessee
    08-23-1922 - George Kell - Swifton, AR - d. 3-24-2009
    baseball announcer: Detroit Tigers
    xx-xx-1920 - Alexander Lepak - d. 3-25-2009
    percussionist: "Hartford Symphony Orchestra"
    xx-xx-1922 - Larry Glick - Roxbury, MA - d. 3-26-2009
    talk show host: Boston, Massachusetts
    08-26-1922 - Irving R. Levine - Pawtucket, RI - d. 3-26-2009
    newsman: "World News Roundup"; "News of the World"
    06-08-1919 - Monte Hale - Ada, OK - d. 3-29-2009
    singing cowboy: "All-Star Western Theatre"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:49:12 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-16 births/deaths

    April 16th births

    04-16-1887 - Mark Smith - NYC - d. 5-9-1944
    actor: Jiggs "Bringing Up Father"; "Uria Calwalder "Show Boat"
    04-16-1889 - Charles Chaplin - London, England - d. 12-25-1977
    actor: "Dodge Brothers Hour"
    04-16-1895 - Mischa Mischakoff - Proskourov, Russia - d. 2-1-1981
    violinist: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "NBC String Trio"
    04-16-1897 - Milton J. Cross - NYC - d. 1-3-1975
    announcer, commentator: (The Voice of the Met) "General Motors Concerts"
    04-16-1898 - Marian Jordan - Peoria, IL - d. 4-7-1961
    commedienne: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"
    04-16-1904 - Fifi D'Orsay - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 12-2-1983
    singer: "Folies De Paris"; "This Is Your Life"
    04-16-1909 - Dick Wynn - d. 8-24-1996
    announcer: "Count of Monte  Cristo"; "The Lone Wolf"
    04-16-1913 - Les Tremayne - London, England - d. 12-19-2003
    actor: Nick Charles "Advs. of the Thin Man"; Michael Waring "The Falcon"
    04-16-1914 - Frank Vass - Greenville, SC
    singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phoenix Program"
    04-16-1914 - John Hodiak - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-19-1955
    actor: L'il Abner "L'il Abner"; Butch Cavendish "Lone Ranger"
    04-16-1917 - Jean Holloway - d. 11-11-1989
    writer: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Mayor of the Town"; "Mr. President"
    04-16-1918 - Joan Alexander - St. Paul, MN
    actor: Lois Lane "Advs. of Superman"; Ellen Deering "Philo Vance"
    04-16-1918 - Spike Milligan - Ahmednagar, India - d. 2-27-2002
    comedian: Eccles the Idiot, Miss Minnie Bannister, Count Moriarty
    "Goon Show"
    04-16-1920 - Barry Nelson - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-7-2007
    actor: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Treasury Salute"; "Monitor"
    04-16-1921 - Peter Ustinov - London, England - d. 3-28-2004
    actor: "Freedom Forum"; "Mitch Miller Show"; "In Any Direction"
    04-16-1924 - Henry Mancini - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-14-1994
    orchestra leader: "Family Theatre"; "Voices of Vista"
    04-16-1927 - Edie Adams - Kingston, PA-d. 10-15-2008
    singer, actor: "Stewart Foster Show"
    04-16-1930 - Herbie Mann - NYC - d. 7-1-2003
    jazz flutist: "Voices of Vista"; "Sounds of Freedom"
    04-16-1933 - Ike Pappas - NYC - d. 8-31-2008
    newscaster: "World News Roundup"; "CBS News"
    04-16-1935 - Bobby Vinton - Canonsburg, PA
    singer: "Christmas Seal Campaign"

    April 16th deaths

    01-04-1910 - Ann Jamison - Belfast, Ireland - d. 4-16-1961
    singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "The Packard Hour"
    01-05-1916 - Alfred Ryder - NYC - d. 4-16-1995
    actor: Sammie Goldberg "The Goldbergs"; Carl "Easy Aces"
    03-03-1885 - Marshall Bartholomew - Belleville, IL - d. 4-16-1978
    tenor on nbc, connected with the Yale Glee Club
    03-03-1896 - Willie Fung - Canton, China - d. 4-16-1945
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-25-1908 - David Lean - Croydon, Surrey, England - d. 4-16-1991
    screenwriter, film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-24-1928 - Brian Clewer - London, England - d. 4-16-2008
    host: "Cynic's Choice"
    05-09-1919 - Arthur English - Aldershot, Hampshire, England - d.
    4-16-1995
    comedian: "Variety Bandbox"
    05-15-1926 - Regis J. "Rege" Cordic - Hazelwood, PA - d. 4-16-1999
    Replaced Bob Crane on station KNX in Los Angeles, California
    05-26-1908 - Vera Van - Marion, OH - d. 4-16-1992
    singer: "The George Jessel Show"; "The Vicks Open House"
    08-04-1921 - Herb Purdum - d. 4-16-1993
    writer: "Gunsmoke"
    08-15-1885 - Edna Ferber - Kalamazoo, MI - d. 4-16-1968
    author: "Cavalcade of America"; "Cables from Lisbon"; "Campbell
    Playhouse"
    08-15-1931 - Joe Feeney - Grand Island, NE - d. 4-16-2008
    irish tenor: Got start at station WOW in Omaha, Nebraska
    09-10-1904 - Emery Deutsch - Budapest, Hungary - d. 4-16-1997
    conductor: "Arabesque"; "Let's Pretend"
    09-13-1924 - Scott Brady - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-16-1985
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-16-1919 - Andy Russell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-16-1992
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"
    09-19-1912 - William Abramchik - d. 4-16-1998
    newscaster: Chicago, Illinois
    09-19-1920 - Warde Q. Butler - d. 4-16-2004
    hosted a music and interview program in Cincinnati, Ohio
    11-10-1914 - Cyril Enfield - Scranton, PA - d. 4-16-1995
    writer: "Supsense"
    12-07-1892 - Fay Bainter - Los Angeles, CA,  - d. 4-16-1968
    actor: "Nobody's Children"; "Cavalcade of America"
    12-16-1946 - Robert Urich - Toronto, OH - d. 4-16-2002
    salesman: WGN Chicago, Illinois

    Ron

    A frequent contributor to this list and a friend, Andrew Godfrey, has
    started up a new nostalgia blog. Though not always about radio, I
    think you will find it interesting.

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