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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 161
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      6-10 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      report on AM transmitting OTR to old  [ Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@yahoo ]
      Re: Johnny Dollar Question            [ "John Abbott" <mraastro@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 11-17 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Bob Bailey                            [ "karl tiedemann" <karltiedemann@hot ]
      The A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION movie    [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
      Great movie web site                  [ "wr k" <wrk41@[removed]; ]
      Re: Bob Bailey                        [ Alan Bell <alanlinda43@[removed]; ]
      6-11 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Ray - farm news                       [ "Mike Hobart" <zines50@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:20:00 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-10 births/deaths

    June 10th births

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAL, HOPE YOU HAVE A WHOLE LOT MORE

    06-10-1889 - Sessue Hayakawa - Chiba, Japan - d. 11-23-1973
    actor: Freelance NHK Tokyo, Japan
    06-10-1891 - Al Dubin - Zurich, Switzerland - d. 2-11-1945
    lyricist: "Mutual-Don Lee Dedicatory Program"
    06-10-1895 - Hattie McDaniel - Wichita, KS - d. 10-26-1952
    actor: Beulah "Beulah"; Mammy "Maxwell House Showboat"
    06-10-1897 - Boris Kroyt - d. 11-15-1969
    violinist: (Member of the Budapest String Quaratet) "Library of
    Congress Concert"
    06-10-1898 - Dorothy Day - NYC - d. 7-24-1975
    actor, writer: "The House Beside the Road"
    06-10-1898 - Norman Brokenshire - Murcheson, Ontario, Canada - d.
    5-4-1965
    announcer: "Music That Satisfies"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    06-10-1901 - Fritz Loewe - Vienna, Austria - d. 2-14-1988
    composer: "Mitch Miller Show"
    06-10-1903 - Clyde Beatty - Bainbridge, OH - d. 7-19-1965
    big game hunter: Himself "The Clyde Beatty Show"
    06-10-1903 - Ernest Chappell - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-4-1983
    announcer: "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"; "Quiet Please"; "Big Story"
    06-10-1909 - Larry LeSueur - NYC - d. 2-5-2003
    CBS news correspondent: "This Week in Europe"; "The World Today"
    06-10-1911 - Mary Lansing - Louisiana - d. 9-30-1988
    actor: Betty Crane "The Greatest of These"; Julie Collins "The
    Guiding Light"
    06-10-1920 - Anne Burr - Boston, MA - d. 2-1-2003
    actor: Regina Rawlings "Backstage Wife"; "Nona Marsh "Wendy Warren
    and the News"
    06-10-1921 - Chuck Thompson - Palmer, MA - d. 3-6-2005
    sportscaster: Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Colts
    06-10-1922 - Judy Garland - Grand Rapids, MN - d. 6-22-1969
    singer, actor: Romantic Interest "The Hardy Family"; "Good News of 1938"
    06-10-1926 - June Haver - Rock Island, IL - d. 7-4-2005
    vocalist: (Fio Rito Orchestra) "Hollywood Hotel"
    06-10-1931 - Hal "Harlan" Stone - Whitestone, Long Island, NY
    actor, author: Jughead Jones "Archie Andrews"; "[removed], Archie!
    Re-laxx!

    June 10th deaths

    01-07-1873 - Adolph Zukor - Ricse, Austria-Hungary - d. 6-10-1976
    film executive: "Time Capsule"; "Flashback"; "Cavalcade of Stars"
    03-09-1912 - Ned Le Fevre - Indiana - d. 6-10-1966
    actor: Ned Holden "The Guiding Light"; Jonathan Kegg "A Life in Your
    Hands"
    04-05-1900 - Spencer Tracy - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-10-1967
    actor: "Good News of 1938"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-06-1910 - Alice Reinheart - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-10-1993
    actor: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"; Jean Abbott "Abbott
    Mysteries"
    05-25-1919 - Lindsey Nelson - Campbellsville, TN - d. 6-10-1995
    sportscaster: "Monitor Preview"; "Biography In Sound"
    06-30-1898 - George Chandler - Waukegan, IL - d. 6-10-1985
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-12-1863 - Herschel Mayall - Bowling Green, KY - d. 6-10-1941
    actor: "The Lone Ranger"; "The March of Time"
    07-14-1904 - Nadia Reisenberg - Vilna, Lithuania - d. 6-10-1983
    pianist: "Benny Goodman Music Festival"
    08-25-1909 - Michael Rennie - Bradford, Yorkshire, England - d.
    6-10-1971
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-30-1910 - Elinor Harriot - Duluth, MN - d. 6-10-2000
    actor: Ruby Taylor "Amos 'n' Andy"; Sally Gibbons "Story of Mary Marlin"
    09-09-1915 - Richard Webb - Bloomington, IL - d. 6-10-1993
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Crime Does Not Pay
    10-20-1926 - Carolina Cotton - Cash, AR - d. 6-10-1997
    yodeler: "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    11-12-1920 - Richard Quine - Detroit, MI - d. 6-10-1989
    actor: "Doctor Christian"; "Mayor of the Town"; "Family Theatre"
    12-28-1890 - Frank Butler - Oxford, England - d. 6-10-1967
    actor: Dave Arnold "Mr. Chameleon"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of Vic Perrin
    Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:20:42 -0400
    From: Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  report on AM transmitting OTR to old radios

    Hi,

    When I mentioned I had ordered a micro AM transmitter,
    some people were keen on the results.  I just got it
    today.  It's the SSTRAN AMT3000.  Being low power, as
    dictated by the FCC, it's not going to go far.  In
    fact, I had to put the antenna behind the radio to get
    clear reception, but the signal is very clear when
    this is done.

    I'm listening to Jack Armstrong on my 1937 RCA 810K-1.
     After Amos N Andy goes off on SW at 12:15, I'll
    switch to the Zenith for Inner Sanctum! I have 5
    working consoles to choose from, so I can switch it
    up.  They all sound pretty good on OTR.  Not as good
    as hi-quality modern speakers, of course, but still,
    quality of clear AM radio.

    The first program I debuted on my micro station (can't
    be heard outside of my place, it's only 1/10 watt) was
    I Love A Mystery!
    And it doesn't seem to interfere with cell phones, or
    anything else, in case you're wondering.

    Trav

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    Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:21:37 -0400
    From: "John Abbott" <mraastro@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Johnny Dollar Question

>     Separately, does anyone know if Bob Bailey did any TV where we might be
>     able
>     to catch a glimpse of him on TVLand or some other rerun channel?

    Based on an interview with Bob Bailey's daughter that was aired by John
    Dunning some years ago, Bob was the writer of the "Fury" program.  I checked
    the IMDB reference for "Fury" some time ago, and Robert Bailey was not
    listed.  I checked this morning and now he has been added.  The link
    provides the following references to Robert Bailey:

    # "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" (writer) (as Bob Bailey)
    ... aka Hawkeye
    ... aka Last of the Mohicans (Canada: English title)
        - Snake Tattoo (1957) TV Episode (as Bob Bailey)
    # "Fury" (writer) (as Robert Bailey)
    ... aka Brave Stallion (USA: syndication title)
        - Joey's Dame Trouble (1955) TV Episode (as Robert Bailey)
    # Underwater! (1955) (story)
    ... aka The Big Rainbow (USA)

    The only other reference I knew of to Bob after the end of his radio days
    was a brief appearance as a reporter at the end of "The Birdman of
    Alcatraz", so who knows what else may be out there.

    Hope this helps.  I learned something today!

    John C. Abbott

    Note:
    No Trees were harmed in sending this message.
    However, some electrons along the way were inconvenienced.

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    Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:26:47 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 11-17 June

     From Those Were The Days --

    6/12

    1947 - Sergeant Preston of The Yukon went national for the first time.
    The show, with the Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King, continued
    on the radio until 1955, beginning on WXYZ Detroit in 1938. Sgt. Preston
    was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created The
    Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

    1955 - The first network radio show to be produced with no script, The
    University of Chicago Round Table, was heard for the final time on NBC.
    The program was the first network radio program to win the coveted
    George Foster Peabody Award.

    1955 - "This is Monitor, a weekend program service of NBC Radio," was
    heard for the first time. Notables such as Bill Cullen, Ed McMahon, Hugh
    Downs, and Dave Garroway recited this line. It was a network cue to NBC
    radio stations across the nation who carried the long form news,
    entertainment and variety broadcast from New York City. Stations and
    listeners who were "on the Monitor beacon" were entertained for six
    hours or more each Saturday and Sunday night for nearly two decades.
    NBC's Monitor was one of the last live network radio programs on the air.

    6/13

    1944 - The wire recorder was patented by Marvin Camras.

    6/14

    1922 - A [removed] President was heard on the radio for the first time.
    President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Francis Scott Key Memorial and
    was heard on WEAR in Baltimore.

    1950 - Harold Peary played the leading role of The Great Gildersleeve
    one final time. Willard Waterman took Peary's place in the role.

    6/15

    1936 - Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler starred in Burlesque on the Lux Radio
    Theatre.

    6/17

    1942 - Suspense, known as radio's outstanding theatre of thrills,
    debuted on CBS. The program kept millions of loyal listeners in suspense
    for the next 20 years (and three months, for the purists <g> -ed)

    Joe

    --
    Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:50:19 -0400
    From: "karl tiedemann" <karltiedemann@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bob Bailey

    Mr. Webb's question about the wonderful Bob Bailey's video work prompted me
    to have a look over at imdb.  BB is credited on individual episodes of
    several largely forgotten, largely crime-related series of the 50s:  M
    SQUAD,  ASPHALT JUNGLE, 87TH PRECINCT (I never even knew those books became
    a series!), TALES OF WELLS FARGO, [removed]  There are also movies:  he was
    the leading man in two of Laurel and Hardy's depressing 20th Century-Fox
    features: JITTERBUGS and THE DANCING MASTERS.  (These probably represent the
    easiest ways to see him at length nowadays.)

    Then a succession of parts and walkons, ending with an uncredited role as a
    dockside reporter in THE BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ.  One interesting footnote is
    that after BIRDMAN there's a twenty-year gap and then suddenly a credit as a
    waiter on a single episode of a short-lived Aaron Spelling series called
    FINDER OF LOST LOVES in 1984!   It says he was credited as "Robert Baile."
    I don't know, maybe it's a mistake, but if he did shoot one last thing in
    the year of his death (he died 8/13/83), it would be interesting to know how
    it came [removed]

                          Karl Tiedemann

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    Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:23:06 -0400
    From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION movie

    There are 4 movie theaters in my area.  One is an independent art house, the
    other three are owned by the Regal Entertainment chain.  I was very much
    surprised that the PHC movie was booked only into the art house.  Usually
    something like this would make it into at least the largest Regal theater
    (the one with 18 screens).  I went to a Saturday matinee at the art house,
    partly because that was a convenient time for me, but also because I assumed
    the evening shows would sell out early as only one theater was showing the
    film.  I would guess 90-95% of the seats were filled for this daytime show,
    so it looks like someone at Regal really dropped the ball.

    On the the move:  It is very good, not great. It's great to see the behind
    the scenes stuff at the Fitzgerald Theater and, yes, Meryl Streep can really
    sing and, no Lindsay Lohan is not annoying and she isn't on screen that much
    anyway.  The one real disappointment is that there is really no depiction of
    the "theater of the mind" aspect of radio.  True, we get to see sound
    effects man Tom Keith doing his stuff on a fake commercial (although in the
    world of the film the show is on a commercial radio station and Powdermilk
    Biscuits etc. are the "real" sponsors of the show.) But Guy Noir (Kevin
    Kline) appears as the security director for the Fitzgerald Theater and Dusty
    and Lefty (John C. Reilly and Woody Harrelson) of "Tales of the Cowboys"
    appear as simply a country music duo. These are fine inside jokes, but the
    non-musical side of the show is totally ignored. We don't even see part of a
    "News from Lake Wobegon". Now I didn't expect to see an uncut monologue, but
    there wasn't even the beginning or end of one, which surprised me.  In fact,
    someone seeing this film who had never listened to a PHC broadcast would not
    really understand how PHC is different from Grand Ole Opry.  That said, the
    film was quite enjoyable and I'd recommend it.

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    Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:04:34 -0400
    From: "wr k" <wrk41@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Great movie web site
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from text/html

       Many of you must not know of the IMDb web site for movies
       based on some of the [removed] wonderful site with just about
       anything one would want to know about a film, actor, film
       facts, bios, [removed] a debut, go to  [removed] and
       type in Harold Peary or J Scott Smart, OTR's original "Fat Man."
       You can search by actor's name, film title or [removed] BIG
       site with lots of info---once you get the hang of all the tools
       available on [removed] [removed]!!!!    Bill Kizer

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    Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:19:40 -0400
    From: Alan Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Bob Bailey

    Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; asks:

>     Separately, does anyone know if Bob Bailey did any TV where we might be able
>     to catch a glimpse of him on TVLand or some other rerun channel?

    IMDB to the rescue! Check it out here:
    [removed]

    AB

    _________________
    Alan/Linda Bell
    Grand Rapids, MI

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    Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:19:47 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-11 births/deaths

    June 11th births

    06-11-1889 - Wesley Ruggles - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-8-1972
    film director: (Brother of Charlie) "Screen Guild Theatre"
    06-11-1900 - Lawrence Spivak - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-9-1994
    moderator, panelist: "Meet the Press"
    06-11-1905 - Harry Marble - Maine - d. 8-1-1982
    newscaster: "CBS News of the World"; "The World Today"
    06-11-1906 - Frank Woodruff - Columbia, SC - d. 9-16-1983
    director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-11-1913 - Rise Stevens - NYC
    singer: "Rise Stevens Show"; "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"
    06-11-1914 - Dudley Manlove - d. 4-17-1996
    announcer: "Candy Matson, YU2-8209"
    06-11-1914 - Gerald Mohr - NYC - d. 11-10-1968
    actor: Philip Marlowe "Advs. of Philip Marlowe"; Jacque Monet "Our
    Miss Brooks"
    06-11-1919 - Richard Todd - Dublin, Ireland
    singer: "Rinso-Spry Vaudeville Theatre"; "Your Hit Parade"
    06-11-1920 - Hazel Scott - Port of Spain, Trinidad - d. 10-2-1981
    singer, pianist: "Free World Theatre"; "New World A-Coming"

    June 11th deaths

    01-20-1920 - DeForest Kelley - Atlanta, GA - d. 6-11-1999
    actor: "Suspense"
    02-12-1880 - John L. Lewis - Lucas, IA - d. 6-11-1969
    union leader: "Meet the Press"
    02-12-1898 - Wallace Ford - Batton, England - d. 6-11-1966
    actor: "Hollywood on the Air"; "Royal Gelatin Hour"
    04-17-1923 - Lon McCallister - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-11-2005
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Family Theatre"
    05-03-1922 - Elizabeth Lawrence - d. 6-11-2000
    actor: Francie Brent "Road of Life"
    05-26-1907 - John Wayne - Winterset, IA - d. 6-11-1979
    actor: Dan O'Brien "Three Sheets to the Wind"
    06-01-1920 - Robert Clarke - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 6-11-2005
    actor: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; "Cavalcade of America"
    06-08-1910 - John Campbell, Jr. - Newark, NJ - d. 6-11-1971
    writer, host: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "Exploring Tomorrow"
    06-30-1879 - Walter Hampden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-11-1955
    actor: Leonidas Witherall "Leonidas Witherall"
    07-06-1882 - Ralph Morgan - NYC - d. 6-11-1956
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-10-1920 - David Brinkley - Wilmington, NC - d. 6-11-2003
    newscaster: WRC Washington [removed]; "Nightline"
    07-24-1914 - Frank Silvera - Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies - d.
    6-11-1970
    actor: "X Minus One"
    10-20-1884 - Thomas Hardie Chambers - NYC - d. 6-11-1966
    actor: Sam Young "Pepper Young's Family"
    12-20-1907 - Al Rinker - Tekoa, WA - d. 6-11-1982
    singer (member of The Rhythm Boys) "Paul Whiteman Presents"
    12-29-1903 - Clyde McCoy - Ashland, KY - d. 6-11-1990
    bandleader: "Clyde McCoy and His Orchestra"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Bertha Brainard - South Orange, NJ - d. 6-11-1946
    manager of the commercial program division of NBC in 1937
    xx-xx-xxxx - Kenneth Daigneau - d. 6-11-1948
    actor: Captain Silver "Sea Hound"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of Orson Welles
    Kenosha, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:45:40 -0400
    From: "Mike Hobart" <zines50@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ray - farm news

    In #145, Ray asked

>     in the current age of radio stations being little cubby holes in some
>     strip mall, and farms being owned by large corporations, do any of the
>     stations still broadcast farm news?

    Well, in Australia, the national broadcaster the ABC has farm news on at
    least two of its networks daily.   Radio National has a program "Bush
    Telegraph" while the Local Radio Network has its own show "The Country
    Hour".

    [removed]

    It's a different story on the commercial networks of course.

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