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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 143
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Conrad Correction                     [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      Batman audition                       [ Richard Olday <raolday@[removed]; ]
      Re: Batman modern OTR                 [ Anthony Tollin <SanctumOTR@earthlin ]
      OTR Event in Wisconsin                [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      OTR Cassettes for Sale                [ Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed] ]
      Bob Hope at Fort Belvoir              [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      5-14 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 10:15:56 -0400
    From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Conrad Correction

    I just noticed something from last week that needs correction.

>     From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
>     May 4th births
>     05-04-1874 - Frank Conrad - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 12-11-1941
>     "the father of radio broadcasting" Started radio station KDKA in his
>     garage

    Not quite true.  Conrad operated amateur station 8XK from his garage in
    Wilkensburg, Pa.  This interested his employer, [removed] Davis of Westinghouse,
    to start a commercial station owned by Westinghouse.  The company received
    the license KDKA, located the station at their factory in East Pittsburg,
    Pa., and went on the air the night of the presidential election, Nov. 2,
    1920.  Conrad remained back in his garage that night, ready to sign on 8XK
    should something go wrong with KDKA.  Nothing went wrong, so he stayed off
    the air, and never put 8XK on the air again.  So one station led to the
    other but never operated parallel to each other.  KDKA was never operated by
    Conrad, and KDKA never operated out of Conrad's garage.  Conrad "inspired"
    the founding of KDKA, but did not start or operate it.

    Michael Biel   mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 11:36:41 -0400
    From: Richard Olday <raolday@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Batman audition

    I have a 15 minute audition from 9/5/1950 of the
    Batman & Robin Mystery Club. I can see why this never
    made the airways. It is not an adventure show as such
    but Batman & Robin in a clubhouse with a bunch of kids
    & no adventure. Very boring!!!  Dick Olday

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    Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 20:21:05 -0400
    From: Anthony Tollin <SanctumOTR@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Batman modern OTR

    The second of two golden age BATMAN radio audition episodes was included
    on Radio Spirits' SMITHSONIAN WORLD'S GREATEST SHOWBIZ TEAMS
    collection.  It starred former FOTR conventioneer Arnold Moss (CABIN
    B-13) as the Caped Crusader.

    There was also an earlier (circa 1944) radio audition that probably
    starred Scott Douglas (who also voiced the title role in THE BLACK HOOD
    radio series.  Allan Asherman included some excerpts from that script in
    the fourth issue of AMAZING WORLD OF DC COMICS.

    And I believe the BBC did a Barman miniseries a few years ago.

    I suspect that the recordings being discussed on this site are probably
    from children's records released by either Leo the Lion records (in its
    "Official Adventures" series) circa 1968 or by Power Records in the late
    1970s.  I believe the Power Records had art by Neal Adams.  I seem to
    recall that they released a Batman vs. Manbat record, but my memories
    may be inaccurate.

    --Anthony Tollin (who years ago in the Orient learned a strange and
    mysterious secret ...)

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    Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 20:21:55 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR Event in Wisconsin

    RG Productions of Kenosha, WI will sponsor another in their series of
    public OTR events on Saturday, June 30, 2007.  This one will be a
    tribute to radio's lady detectives and will (with the permission of my
    publisher) use the title of my book "Private Eyelashes" to caption this
    affair. It will be held in the Kenosha Public Museum, located on the
    shores of Lake Michigan.

    This event, free to the public, will begin at 1 PM and feature two lady
    detective performances. A "Candy Matson, YU 2-8209" episode will be
    performed on stage as well as another feminine sleuth program, "Rebecca
    Diamond, Private Eye." The latter script is by Nita Hunter and it
    recently won an honorable mention from NATF.  Yesterday I accepted an
    invitation to participate in this radio event. I will deliver a short
    history of the lady detective genre and play audio clips from rare
    shows.

    OTR enthusiasts from southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois are
    eagerly anticipating this event. I look forward to meeting and greeting
    my OTR friends in the area. For more details go to the web site of RG
    Productions at <[removed]>

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 20:22:13 -0400
    From: Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR Cassettes for Sale

    I'm getting rid of a bunch of Radio Spirits Cassette collections,
    I'm asking $100 plus shipping costs.

    Superman on the Radio Box Set (4 Cassettes)
    Superman v. Atom Man Box Set (4 Cassettes)
    Superman and Batman/Robin - World's Finest Box Set (5 Cassettes)
    Superman and Batman/Robin - All American Heroes Box Set (20 Cassettes)
    The Lone Ranger vol. 1-5  (6 Cassettes each)
    The Green Hornet vol. 1-3  (10 Cassettes each)
    Tales of the Texas Rangers vol. 1-4 (6 Cassettes each)
    X-1 vol. 1-2 (6 Cassettes each)
    Damon Runyon Theater (4 Cassettes)
    11 misc. cassettes

    thanks,

    rob

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    Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 20:23:06 -0400
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bob Hope at Fort Belvoir
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    There is an episode of the Bob Hope Show which is performed at Fort Belvoir,
    VA. Marilyn Maxwell is the guest. The show has been dated as  50-10-24 (which
    is way off) and as  53-05-27 through various logs (which may be a little
    off).  There are five reasons I think the show may be from earlier in May
    1953 such as May 6, ,1953, but I was wondering if anyone could provide any
    verification one way or the other perhaps through newspaper articles?

     1. At 2:18 Bob says  "Mrs Eisenhower has been accepted as a member of the
    [removed]"

     FIRST LADY PLANS TO JOIN THE D. A. R.; Group's 62d Congress Opens --
    Eisenhower Urges Women to Bolster Spirit of Nation
     Special to THE NEW YORK [removed] New York Times (1857-Current file). New
    York, [removed]: Apr 21, 1953. ; p. 23 (1 page)

     2. Bob then says "While I'm here, I'm going to attend a dinner for the White
    House Press Correspondents" This implies the dinner has not occurred yet.

     WHITE HOUSE WRITERS ENTERTAIN PRESIDENT
     Special to THE NEW YORK [removed] New York Times (1857-Current file). New
    York, [removed]: May 9, 1953. ; p. 21 (1 page)

    The article mentions Bob Hope attended.

     3. At 7:00 they discuss Bob's new movie with Marilyn Maxwell. The title is
    deleted out, but it is probably "Off Limits." It premiered 19 February 1953.

     4. At 22:28 it is mentioned that Fort Belvoir was founded in 1778, "175
    years ago" ([removed] 1953)

     5. On May 13th, the show was at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC (which
    is relatively near Fort Belvoir)

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    Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 20:23:30 -0400
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

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     Dragnet - # 175 "The Big Number"
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    originally aired January 18, 1953 on NBC
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    originally aired March 8, 1953 on NBC
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    announcing the commercials.
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    Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:17:01 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-14 births/deaths

    May 14th births

    05-14-1868 - "Big Bill" Thompson - Boston, MA - d. 3-19-1944
    mayor of chicago: "The March of Time"
    05-14-1874 - Marie Nelson - Detroit, MI - d. 5-12-1943
    actor: Ellen Collins "Bachelor's Children"
    05-14-1885 - Otto Klemperer - Breslau, Germany - d. 7-6-1973
    conductor: "George Gershwin Memorial Program"
    05-14-1890 - Carlton Brickert - Martinsville, IN - d. 12-23-1943
    actor: David Post "Story of Mary Marlin"; Howard Thurston "Thurston
    the Magician"
    05-14-1895 - Edith Spenser - Omaha, NE - d. unknown
    actor: Aunt Jenny "Aunt Jenny"; Sarah "Main Street Sketches"
    05-14-1895 - Lew Lehr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-6-1950
    comic: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"; "Stop Me If You've Heard This One"
    05-14-1897 - Sidney Bechet - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-14-1959
    soprano sax, composer: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    05-14-1898 - Zutty Singleton - Bunkie, LA - d. 7-14-1975
    jazz drummer: "Radio Almanac";"Just Jazz"; "BBC Jazz Session"
    05-14-1902 - Rush Hughes - d. 3-xx-1979
    host: Pot O' Gold"
    05-14-1905 - Herbert Morrison - d. 1-10-1989
    announcer: Hindenburg Disaster; "Call to Arms"; "Good Old Days of Radio"
    05-14-1910 - B. S. Pully - Newark, NJ - d. 1-6-1972
    comedian: "Command Performance"; "Mail Call"
    05-14-1910 - Bill Danch - Hammond, IN - d. 10-6-2004
    writer: "Baby Snooks Show"; "Honest Harold"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
    05-14-1910 - Paul Sutton - Albuquerque, NM - d. 1-31-1970
    actor: Sergeant William Preston "Challenge of the Yukon"
    05-14-1914 - Foy Willing - Bosque County, TX - d. 7-24-1978
    singer: (Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage) "Roy Rogers
    Show"
    05-14-1917 - Norman Luboff - Chicago, IL - d. 9-22-1987
    choir director: (The Norman Luboff Choir) "The Railroad Hour"
    05-14-1918 - June Duprez - Teddington, England - d. 10-30-1918
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-14-1925 - Patrice Munsel - Spokane, WA
    singer: "Prudential Family Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
    05-14-1926 - Eric Morecambe - Lancashire, England - d. 5-28-1984
    comedian: "The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Radio Show"
    05-14-1936 - Bobby Darin - NYC - d. 12-20-1973
    singer: "The Bobby Darin Show"; "Cancer Crusade"; "Vocies of Vista"
    05-14-1937 - Lloyd Battista - Cleveland, OH
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    May 14th deaths

    01-02-1913 - Anna Lee - Ightham, Kent, England - d. 5-14-2004
    actor: "Soldiers in Greaspaint"; "Lifebuoy Show"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-13-1919 - Robert Stack - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-14-2003
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-25-1878 - Ernest Alexanderson - Uppsala, Sweden - d. 5-14-1975
    engineer: Possibly first voice ever heard on radio Dec. 24, 1906
    01-28-1898 - Alwyn E. W. Bach - Springfield, MA - d. 5-14-1993
    announcer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"; "Luden's Orchestra"; "Real Folks"
    02-01-1891 - Alexander Kipnis - Schitomir, Ukraine - d. 5-14-1978
    wagnerian basso profundo: "Outpost Concert Series"; "Metropolitan Opera"
    02-16-1909 - Hugh Beaumont - Lawrence, KS - d. 5-14-1982
    actor: Appeared on radio in 1931
    04-13-1913 - Dave Albritton - d. 5-14-1994
    disk jockey: Dayton, Ohio
    05-07-1901 - Gary Cooper - Helena, MT - d. 5-14-1961
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; 'Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-14-1897 - Sidney Bechet - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-14-1959
    soprano sax, composer: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    06-23-1922 - Rolland Morris - d. 5-14-1986
    actor: "Dramas of Youth"
    06-23-1922 - Rusty Morris - Colorado - d. 5-14-1986
    actor: "Halls of Ivy"; "Mayor of the Town"; "This Is Your FBI"
    06-26-1902 - William Powell Lear - Hannibal, MO - d. 5-14-1978
    inventor: With Elmer Wavering, invented first commerial car radio
    (Motorola)
    07-17-1911 - Earl Glade, Jr. - Utah - d. 5-14-2001
    announcer: "Music and the Spoken Word (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)"
    08-05-1920 - Selma Diamond - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 5-14-1985
    writer: "Big Show"
    08-07-1884 - Billie Burke - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-14-1970
    comedienne: "Billie Burke Show"; Mrs. Featherstone "Gay Mrs.
    Featherstone"
    08-10-1927 - Jimmy Martin - Sneedville, TN - d. 5-14-2005
    actor: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-15-1912 - Wendy Hiller - Bramhall, Cheshire, England - d. 5-14-2003
    actor: Queen Vic "Original Dramatic Work"
    09-27-1901 - Beasley Smith - McEwen, TN - d. 5-14-1968
    pianist/orchestra leader: "Music In the Moonlight"; "Sunday Down South"
    10-15-1896 - Joe Sanders - Thayer, KS - d. 5-14-1965
    bandleader: (The Ole Left Hander) "Nighthawks Frolic"
    10-17-1918 - Rita Hayworth - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-14-1987
    actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Bob Elson on
    Board the Century"
    12-12-1915 - Frank Sinatra - Hoboken, NJ - d. 5-14-1998
    singer, actor: (The Voice), "Your Hit Parade"; "Frank Sinatra Show";
    Rocky Fortune "Rocky Fortune"
    12-24-1887 - Lucrezia Bori - Valencia, Spain - d. 5-14-1960
    opera singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
    12-30-1912 - Hugh Griffith - Marianglas, Anglesey, North Wales - d.
    5-14-1980
    actor: "Under Milk Wood"

    Ron Sayles

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