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Today's Topics:
5-2 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:23:22 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-2 births/deaths
May 2nd births
05-02-1878 - Roy Atwill - Syracuse, NY - d. 2-6-1962
actor, comedian, composer: "The Fred Allen Show"; "The Fred Waring Show"
05-02-1885 - Hedda Hopper - Hollidaysburg, PA - d. 2-1-1966
actor, columnist: Portia Brent "Brenthouse"; "Hedda Hopper Show"
05-02-1892 - Bruno Wick - Krefeld, Germany - d. 11-xx-1979
actor: Ming the Merciless "Flash Gordon"; Mr. Fowler "The Goldbergs"
05-02-1895 - Lorenz Hart - NYC - d. 11-22-1943
lyricist: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour";
"Railroad Hour"
05-02-1897 - J. Fred Coots - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-8-1985
composer, pianist: "Ray Shield's Revue"
05-02-1898 - Edmund Barclay - Gosford, Australia - d. 8-26-1961
writer: "As Ye Sow"
05-02-1902 - Brian Aherne - King's Norton, England - d. 2-10-1986
actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"
05-02-1902 - Erin O'Brien-Moore - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-1979
actor: Elsa Banning "Big Sister"
05-02-1903 - Sylvan Levin - Baltimore, MD - d. 8-10-1996
conductor: "Sinfonietta"; "Brownstone Theatre"; "Let's Go to the Opera"
05-02-1904 - J. Anthony Hughes - NYC - d. 2-11-1970
actor: Bob Drake "Betty and Bob"
05-02-1905 - Sidney Skolsky - NYC - d. 5-3-1983
newspaper columnist: "Songs by Arlen, Stories by Skolsky"; "Bromo
Seltzer Program"
05-02-1907 - Pinky Lee - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-3-1993
comedian: "Hoagy Carmichel Show"; "Carefree Carnival"
05-02-1908 - William R. Carter - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-14-1976
pianist and soloist
05-02-1908 - Wilms Herbert - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1951
actor: Sergeant Otis Ludlum "Richard Diamond, Private Detctive"
05-02-1911 - Myron Niesley - d. 11-28-1985
singer: "Carefree Carnival"
05-02-1912 - Arnold Auerebach - Manhattan, NY - d. 10-20-1998
comedy writer: "Fred Allen Show"; "Milton Berle Show"
05-02-1915 - Van Alexander - NYC
bandleader: "The Callihans"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
05-02-1916 - Robert Grapperhaus - d. 12-13-1966
sound effects: "One Man's Family"; "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Duffy's Tavern"
05-02-1916 - Two Ton Baker - Chicago, IL - d. 5-4-1975
singer, pianist: "Tip Top Lunch Program"
05-02-1917 - Herman Clebanoff - Chicago, IL - d. 1-13-2004
musician: (Herman Clebanoff and the Ensemble) "Big City Serenade"
05-02-1918 - Frank Milano - d. 12-15-1962
animal sounds: "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"
05-02-1924 - Theodore Bikel - Vienna, Austria
actor: "Eternal Light"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-02-1925 - Svatopluk Havelka - Vrbice, Czechoslovakia - d. 2-24-2009
composer: member music department Czechoslovakia in Ostrava
05-02-1945 - Leah Garchik - Brooklyn, NY
panelist: "Minds Over Matter"
05-02-1952 - Campbell McComas - Melbourne, Australia - d. 1-8-2005
regular performer on Australia's ABC radio
05-02-1961 - Lisa Bellear - Melbourne, Australia - d. 7-6-2006
writer: "From a Tribute to Sir Ronald Wilson"
May 2nd deaths
01-21-1902 - Smith Ballew - Palestine, TX - d. 5-2-1984
singer: "The Ipana Troubadors"; "Shell Chateau"
01-30-1911 - Hugh Marlowe - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-2-1982
actor: Ellery Queen "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; Jim Curtis "Brenda Curtis"
01-30-1933 - Louis Rukeyser - NYC - d. 5-2-2006
economic commentator: "Rukeyser's World"; "College Quiz Bowl"
02-01-1908 - George Pal - Cegled, Austria-Hungary - d. 5-2-1980
film producer, director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
02-15-1918 - Jean Hatton - Denver, CO - d. 5-2-2009
assistant to Fulton Lewis, Jr.
02-25-1899 - Wini Shaw - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-2-1982
actor: Air Trailers "Good News of 1935 and In Caliente"
03-07-1889 - Lula Vollmer - Keyser, NC - d. 5-2-1955
writer: "Moonshine and Honeysuckle"
03-08-1943 - Lynn Redgrave - London, England - d. 5-2-2010
actor: "Artist Descending a Staircase"; "Vile Bodies"
03-20-1918 - Jack Barry - Lindenhurst, NY - d. 5-2-1984
actor: "It's the Barrys"
03-27-1919 - Robert Homme - Stoughton, WI - d. 5-2-2000
created "Friendly Giant" for radio in Madison, Wisconsin
04-05-1905 - William Andrews - Oakland, CA - d. 5-2-1985
announcer: "One Man's Family"
04-30-1926 - Lou Cioffi - d. 5-2-1998
news reporter: "The Warning Bell"; "Big News of 1957/58"
05-04-1902 - Dudley Williamson - Above Discovery, AK - d. 5-2-1948
emcee: "What's the Name of the Song?"; "Queen for a Day"
06-11-1908 - Katherine Carrington - South or East Orange, NJ - d.
5-2-1953
vocalist: "Evening in Paris"
07-20-1935 - Ted Rogers - South London, England - d. 5-2-2001
comedian: "The Billy Cotton Band"
08-17-1909 - Larry Clinton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-2-1985
bandleader: "Larry Clinton's Musical Sensations"; "Tommy Riggs and
Betty Lou"
09-15-1899 - Dr. Milton Eisenhower - Abilene, KS - d. 5-2-1985
doctor: (Brother of Ike) "Second Seagram's Symposium"; "Meet the Press"
09-23-1913 - Robert Hudson Ballard - Nyack, NY - d. 5-2-1992
violinist, arranger: "Phil Harris Orchestra"
10-03-1911 - Michael Hordern - Berkhamsted, England - d. 5-2-1995
actor: Gandolf "The Lord of the Rings"
10-07-1917 - Helmut Dantine - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-2-1982
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"; "Theatre of Romance";
"Suspense"
10-16-1912 - Maidie Norman - Villa Rica, GA - d. 5-2-1998
character actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
10-17-1925 - Robert Pauley - New Canaan, CT - d. 5-2-2009
president of abc radio: "Then, Now and Later"
10-28-1895 - Herb Butterfield - Rhode Island - d. 5-2-1957
actor: Clarence Wellman "Halls of Ivy"; Hunter Glenn "One Man's Family"
10-31-1917 - Don Hughes - d. 5-2-1990
juvenile actor: Rollo "Daddy and Rollo"; "Helen and Mary"
11-10-1909 - Robert Arthur, Jr. - Corregidor, Philipines - d. 5-2-1969
writer: "The Mysterious Traveler"
11-14-1908 - Joseph McCarthy - Appleton, WI - d. 5-2-1957
despotic senator: "Meet the Press"
11-28-1901 - Bobbe Brox - Riverton, IA - d. 5-2-1999
singer: (Brox Sisters) "A Tribute to Irving Berlin"
Ron
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