Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #1
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 1/1/2009 6:16 AM

To: [removed]@[removed]
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 1
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      12-30 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      I Finally Have a REAL Old Radio - an  [ Tom Barnett <[removed]@earthlink. ]
      Wonderful Life radio stage play       [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
      Pat Padgett                           [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      Ralph "Love in Bloom" Rainger profil  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Postage Stamps                        [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Gilbert and Lionel                    [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      OTR Presentations                     [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      12-31 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      FOTR DVDs now shipping                [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
      Cleaning house, & happy New Year!     [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Born 100 years ago January            [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:03:31 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-30 births/deaths

    December 30th births

    12-30-1873 - Al Smith - NYC - d. 10-4-1944
    governor: "Information Please"
    12-30-1884 - Hideki Tojo - Tokyo, Japan - d. 12-23-1948
    prime minister: War Time Broadcasts
    12-30-1885 - Ed Jerome - NYC - d. 9-10-1959
    actor: Harry Blackstone "Blackstone, the Magic Detective"; Gregory
    Allen "Rich Man's Darling"
    12-30-1894 - Vincent Lopez - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-20-1975
    bandleader: "Luncheon with Lopez"
    12-30-1899 - Michael Raffetto - Placerville, CA - d. 5-31-1990
    actor: Paul Barbour "One Man's Family"; Jack Packard "I Love A Mystery/
    Adventure"
    12-30-1900 - Everett Marshall - Lawrence, MA - d. 4-xx-1965
    singer: "Broadway Vanities/Varieties"
    12-30-1903 - Owen Crump - d. 2-13-1998
    producer: " The Grouch Club"
    12-30-1911 - Jeanette Nolan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-5-1998
    actor: Nicolette Moore "One Man's Family"; Mrs. Hudson "Advs. of
    Sherlock Holmes"
    12-30-1912 - Hugh Griffith - Marianglas, Anglesey, North Wales - d.
    5-14-1980
    actor: "Under Milk Wood"
    12-30-1912 - Nancy Coleman - Everett, WA - d. 1-18-2000
    actor: Alice Hughes "Young Dr. Malone"
    12-30-1914 - Bert Parks - Atlanta, GA - d. 2-2-1992
    emcee, announcer: "Break the Bank"; "Stop the Music"; "Double or
    Nothing"
    12-30-1922 - Bert Holland - d. 3-8-1980
    actor: Emmett "Shorty Bell"
    12-30-1927 - Bernie Barrow - NYC - d. 8-4-1993
    actor: "Golden Door"
    12-30-1931 - Skeeter Davis - Dry Ridge, KY - d. 9-19-2004
    country/western singer: "Grand Ol' Op'ry"
    12-30-1936 - Don Bishoff - Martinsburg, WV
    host: "Town Meeting"
    12-30-1936 - Sandy Koufax - Brooklyn, NY
    baseball legend: "Tops In Sports"
    12-30-1937 - Pat Shanahan - Milwaukee, WI - d. 3-10-2008
    disk jockey: Rocky Foxx WFOX Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    12-30-1939 - Glyn Dean - d. 11-30-1997
    actor: "Jennings at School"; "Children's Hour"; "Mrs. Dale's Diary"

    December 30th deaths

    01-05-1898 - Irene Kuhn - NYC - d. 12-30-1995
    commentator: "Irene Kuhn's Feature Page"
    04-07-1919 - Ralph Flanagan - Lorain, OH - d. 12-30-1995
    bandleader: "Chesterfield's ABC of Music"; "Let's Go Show"
    04-18-1914 - Ben Bezoff - d. 12-30-1979
    newscaster: WKY Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; KMYR Denver, Colorado
    05-23-1910 - Artie Shaw - NYC - d. 12-30-2004
    bandleader: "Melody and Madness"; "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
    06-28-1902 - Richard Rodgers - Long Island, NY - d. 12-30-1979
    composer: "ASCAP On Parade"; "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and
    Sanborn Hour"
    06-29-1935 - Keith Walker - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-30-1996
    writer: Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    07-21-1892 - Lenore Ulric - New Ulm, MN - d. 12-30-1970
    guest artist: "Watch the Fun Go By"
    08-13-1917 - Jay Bechtel - d. 12-30-2004
    sportscaster: WHOL, Allenton, Pennsylvania
    08-22-1909 - Julius J. Epstein - NYC - d. 12-30-2000
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-26-1894 - Glenn Hunter - NYC - d. 12-30-1945
    actor: "Roses and Drums"
    09-27-1892 - Ed Tomlinson - Stockton, GA - d. 12-30-1973
    commentator: "The Other Americans"; "What's New in South American?"
    09-28-1906 - Jack Meakin - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 12-30-1982
    music: "Abbott and Cosetello Show"; "Great Gildersleeve"; "Honest
    Harold"
    10-06-1901 - Leslie Arliss - London, England - d. 12-30-1987
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    11-18-1900 - Don Quinn - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-30-1967
    writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Halls of Ivy"
    12-07-1905 - Charles Magnante - d. 12-30-1986
    accordionist: "Major Bowes Capitol Family"; "Singin' Sam"; "Tony and
    Gus"
    12-09-1902 - Joe Quillan - d. 12-30-1983
    writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"; "Our Miss Brooks"
    12-14-1934 - Johnny Moore - d. 12-30-1998
    lead singer: (Member of The Drifters) "Camel Rock and Roll Party"
    12-24-1881 - Charles Wakefield Cadman - Johnston, PA - d. 12-30-1946
    Composed "At Dawning," used as theme for "The Brighter Day."
    12-28-1908 - Lew Ayres - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-30-1996
    actor: Dr. James Kildare "Dr. Kildare"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:04:13 -0500
    From: Tom Barnett <[removed]@[removed];
    To: OTR <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  I Finally Have a REAL Old Radio - and Now I Need
     Help

    Happy New Years to all of my friends in the OTR Digest! Hope 2009 is all you
    wish it to be.

    My wife surprised me for Christmas. after having more than a few Thomas radio
    reproductions around the house  she gave me am authentic old radio.

    It is an old cathedral type with tubes and it still works. The name on the
    plate is "Webber" but I am having difficulty finding anything about it on the
    internet.

    Can anyone help me?

    Tom

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:04:52 -0500
    From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Wonderful Life radio stage play

    Somewhere along the way I have lost the middle, if not the end,
    of this thread and am somewhat confused (nothing unusual there).

    Are people saying these different stage plays in various cities
    of a radio version of "It's a Wonderful Life" are a re-creation
    of the Lux Radio Theatre presentation or are they a different
    adaptation? One Digester referred to the version that was done on
    PBS a number of years back - as a fund-raiser, I believe - and to
    me it seemed to be the Lux play. And that dropped script
    business? - staged, it appeared to me.

    This is my general gripe when particularly commercial entities
    (community theater groups, etc.) reprise old time radio - they
    ham it up, thinking it can't stand on its own. Like Rodney
    Dangerfield, OTR don't get no respect.

    Bob Cockrum

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:05:15 -0500
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Pat  Padgett
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           I noticed the name of Pat Padgett on the births/deaths list for 12/29.
    Wasn't there a comedy team known as "Pick and Pat"?  Was Pat Padgett
    part of this team?

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:05:28 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ralph "Love in Bloom" Rainger profiled in Wall
     Street Journal

    A profile of Ralph Rainger, who wrote "Love in Bloom" and "Thanks for the
    Memories" ran in today's Wall Street Journal.

    [removed]

    A separate article in Capitol Hill Blue notes that today (12/30) is the
    anniversary of the start of the Jack Benny/Fred Allen feud.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:05:38 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Postage Stamps
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    August 11 the [removed] Post Office will release a set of 20 postage stamps in
    homage to classic TV programs of the 1950s and 1960s. A number of them were
    also radio programs so while the majority of the public will assume they were
    and are TV stamps, some of us can think of them as OTR stamps!

    The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents
    The Dinah Shore Show
    Dragnet
    The Ed Sullivan Show
    The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show
    Hopalong Cassidy
    The Honeymooners
    Howdy Doody
    I Love Lucy
    Kukla, Fran and Ollie
    Lassie
    The Lone Ranger
    Perry Mason
    The Phil Silvers Show (Sgt. Bilko)
    Red Skelton
    Texaco Star Theater
    The Tonight Show
    The Twilight Zone
    You Bet Your Life

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:05:46 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gilbert and Lionel

    In late 1933, NBC was airing two juvenile adventure programs, each 15
    minutes long and sponsored by a prominent toy company. Both of these
    series were produced in Manhattan at Station WJZ.

    The [removed] Gilbert Company, purveyors of the famous Erector Sets, as
    well as dozens of other scientific sets involving chemistry, radio,
    engineering, etc., sponsored "Engineering Thrills."  This show aired
    exciting stories involving all sorts of engineering projects; one of
    the first programs told the tale of two men rescued from a caisson
    below the surface of the Susquehanna River while working on the
    supports of the Camden Bridge. John Holbrook and Kelvin Keach were on
    this show, but it is not known which one "impersonated" [removed] Gilbert
    in the commercials. Walter Tetley apparently had occasional roles in
    this drama.

    The second series was "True Railroad Adventures" and the Lionel
    Corporation paid the bills on this one. Lionel electric trains were
    very popular with kids in that era and the company encouraged sales
    and loyalty by giving a subscription to Lionel Magazine to every one
    who had a train set  (or who wanted one.) The radio series was built
    around "Little Jimmy" who'd climb into the train cab at the beginning
    of each episode where the engineer, "Mike Bolan," would begin telling
    a thrilling story, which would then be dramatized. Jimmy and Mike
    would return at the end of the story in time for the last Lionel
    commercial. Ben Grauer was the announcer on the show; Wilmer Walter
    played Mike while James McCallion was Jimmy.

    Very little more is known about this two programs. No audio copies
    have surfaced yet, nor have any scripts been found. Karl Schadow and
    I have recently taken an interest in attempting to uncover more data
    about this two series.

    Any Digesters have anything to contribute to the cause?

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:05:59 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR Presentations

    It's that time again . . .

    The web-site for the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention is going to be updated
    in about a week and I have a number of time slots open for panels and/or
    presentations about old-time radio. The convention operates on an open-door
    policy so anyone can do a presentation. You do not have to be a member of the
    convention planning committee to participate so anyone, even authors or fans,
    who wants to host a presentation please let me know asap.

    The dates are August 27, 28 and 29.

    Presentations can be anything nostalgic. The history of Sky King, a
    presentation about voice actor Alan Reed, Frank Sinatra spoofs, Judy Garland
    on the radio, you get the idea. Simply drop me a line. Already slated this
    year is a presentation about the history of SGT. PRESTON OF THE YUKON and a
    presentation about THE LUX RADIO THEATER.

    [removed]

    Martin
    mmargrajr@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:06:09 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-31 births/deaths

    December 31st births

    12-31-1884 - Georgette Harvey - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-17-1952
    female bass singer: "New World A' Coming"; "Free Company"
    12-31-1890 - Bradford Browne - North Adams, MA - d. 4-29-1975
    singer: "Brad and Al"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-31-1892 - Jason Robards, Sr. - Hillsdale, MI - d. 4-4-1963
    actor: Chandu "Chandu, the Magician"
    12-31-1894 - Vance Archer - d. 12-xx-1962
    sportscaster: KNEX McPherson, Kansas
    12-31-1897 - Orry-Kelly - Kiama, New South Wales, Australia - d.
    2-27-1964
    costume designer: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-31-1897 - Paula Hemminghous - Columbus, OH - d. 11-22-1997
    singer: "Philco Hour"; "National Radio Pulpit"; "Highlights of the
    Bible"
    12-31-1904 - Buzz Adlam - Chelmsford, England - d. 11-9-1974
    orchestra leader: "Your Star Time"; "Guest Star"
    12-31-1904 - Nathan Milstein - Odessa, Russia - d. 12-21-1992
    violinist: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Concert Hall"
    12-31-1905 - Dick Chevillat - NYC - d. 5-10-1984
    writer: "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
    12-31-1905 - Jule Styne - London, England - d. 9-28-1994
    songwriter: "I Don't Wan to Walk Without You"; "I've Heard That Song
    Before"
    12-31-1908 - John Kirby - Baltimore, MD - d. 6-14-1952
    jazz musician: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"
    12-31-1908 - Jonah Jones - Louisville, KY - d. 4-30-2000
    jazz trumpeter: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "Army Bandstand";
    "Manhattan Melodies"
    12-31-1910 - Jerry Blaine - d. 3-14-1973
    orchestra leader: WOR Newark, New Jersey
    12-31-1910 - Richard Kollmar - Ridgewood, NJ - d. 1-7-1971
    actor: John Perry "John's Other Wife"; Boston Blackie "Boston Blackie"
    12-31-1913 - Ted Meyers - d. 11-25-1996
    announcer: "People Are Funny"; "Yarns for Yanks"; "Calling All Cars"
    12-31-1914 - Pat Brady - Toledo, OH - d. 2-27-1972
    sidekick, stooge: "Roy Rogers Show"
    12-31-1917 - Evelyn Knight - Reedville, VA - d. 9-28-2007
    singer: "Philco Summer Hour"; "Ed Wynn Show"
    12-31-1920 - Richard Hamilton - Illinois - d. 12-28-2004
    actor: "Dimension X; "X Minus One"; "Inheritance"
    12-31-1921 - Rex Allen - Wilcox, AZ - d. 12-17-1999
    country/western singer: "Country Music Time"; "Country Hoedown"
    12-31-1923 - Arthur Siegel - Lakewood, NJ - d. 9-13-1994
    pianist, composer: "New Faces"
    12-31-1928 - Euel Box
    music producer, major radio markets
    12-31-1930 - Odetta - Birmingham, AL - d. 12-2-2008
    singer: "Voices of Vista"

    December 31st deaths

    01-07-1900 - Mary Lewis - Hot Springs, AR - d. 12-31-1941
    soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    01-09-1908 - Richard Byron - NYC - d. 12-31-1969
    radio comedy writer
    01-12-1908 - Joan Burroughs - Chicago, IL - d. 12-31-1972
    actor: (Daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs) Jane "Tarzan"
    01-23-1894 - Clara Acuff Adams - d. 12-31-1950
    soprano: KOA Denver, Colorado
    02-13-1912 - Art Rollini - d. 12-31-1993
    saxophone: (The Benny Goodman Orchestra) "Let's Dance"
    02-13-1927 - Jim McReynolds - Carfax, VA - d. 12-31-2002
    guitarist: (Jim and Jesse) "Grand Ol' Op'ry"
    03-11-1887 - Raoul Walsh - NYC - d. 12-31-1980
    film director: "Jack Benny Program"
    03-29-1919 - Eileen Heckart - Columbus, OH - d. 12-31-2001
    actor: "Cloak and Dagger"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    04-11-1910 - Jim Britt - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-31-1980
    sports commentator: "Dateline Boston"
    05-08-1940 - Ricky Nelson - Teaneck, NJ - d. 12-31-1985
    actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
    05-12-1927 - Suzanne Dalbert - Paris, France - d. 12-31-1970
    actor: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"; "Command Performance"
    06-27-1907 - Valerie Cossart - London, England - d. 12-31-1994
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    07-13-1919 - Dirk Fredericks - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-31-1976
    announcer: "Music Tent"
    07-27-1919 - David Swift - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-31-2001
    writer: "Opie Cates Show"
    08-04-1913 - Wesley Addy - Omaha, NB - d. 12-31-1996
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Great Plays"
    08-16-1927 - Neil Strawser - Rittman, OH - d. 12-31-2005
    newscaster: "CBS World News Roundup"
    08-18-1934 - Roberto Clemente - Carolina, Puerto Rico - d. 12-31-1972
    baseball great: "Tops In Sport"
    08-21-1919 - Billy Idelson - Forest Park, IL - d. 12-31-2007
    actor: Rush Gook "Vic and Sade"; Henry Herbert Murray "One Man's Family"
    08-24-1905 - Don Douglas - Kinleyside, Scotland - d. 12-31-1945
    actor: "Good News of 1939"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Did Justice
    Triumph?"
    09-27-1921 - Carol Thurston - Forsyth, MT - d. 12-31-1969
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-14-1932 - Enrico Di Giuseppi - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-31-2005
    operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
    10-20-1911 - Bobby Christian - Chicago, IL - d. 12-31-1991
    percussionist: "Destination Freedom"; "Roy Shield and Company"
    10-27-1933 - Floyd Cramer - Camti, LA - d. 12-31-1997
    country pianist: "Country Music Time"; "Country Style [removed]"
    11-05-1905 - Thomas Freebairn-Smith - Walton-on-Thames, England - d.
    12-31-1985
    writer, producer: "Jonathan Trimble, Esq."; "Al Pearce and His Gang"
    11-08-1891 - Clarence J. Ingram - Jersey City, NJ - d. 12-31-1955
    interviewer: "Stardust"
    12-01-1896 - Ray Henderson - Buffalo, NY - d. 12-31-1970
    composer: "Music for Millions"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:06:23 -0500
    From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  FOTR DVDs now shipping

    For everyone who ordered DVDs at the Friends of Old Time Radio
    convention in New Jersey this year, the DVDs were shipped yesterday.
    It took me a little longer to edit them this year. However, every
    order went out.

    If you are interested in ordering DVDs of the convention, you can
    email me for an order form. Now that the masters are made, orders can
    be shipped within 24 hours of being received.

    There are still copies of the 30th anniversary DVD available. This is
    a two DVD set that has excerpts of the first thirty years of the
    convention. The cost is $[removed] plus $[removed] for shipping within the
    United States. Half of the proceeds go to FOTR.

    Fred
    Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:08:32 -0500
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cleaning house, & happy New Year!

     From: Randy Watts rew1014@[removed]

>     Barrymore recorded "A Christmas  Carol" for MGM Records. Decca Records cast
>     Ronald Colman as Scrooge ...  Columbia's version starred Basil
>     Rathbone. Victor's starred Eustace  Wyatt

    Thanks for your input, Randy. I've come across several  more factoids this
    holiday season.

    The Chappell/Wyatt version  differs from most of the many produced-for-record
    CAROLs, in that it is well  over 30min. long. And for me, the story simply
    can't be done justice to in under  30. It is VERY much in the "radio" style
    (in
    fact, sources say it was -  illegally - used as such), and features several
    other Network vets, including  Larry Robinson (one of the best actors I ever
    had
    the pleasure to work with at  FOTR) as Tiny Tim. Alas, I find Wyatt a bit
    over and one-note in the  lead.

     From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];

>     "Fred  Ibbett, ace producer, has been presented with a series of wax records
>     of his  "Hollywood Hotel" " ... So where are those wax records?

    Anyone  know? (Thanks, [removed])

     From: Steven Lewis _stevenl751@[removed]_ (mailto:stevenl751@[removed])

>     ... The MAN BEHIND  THE GUN ... narrator, played in the original series by
>     Jackson Beck ...  Gotham Radio Players were very lucky to have radio and
>     television veteran  Jeff David step into this role.

    I intend to tune in, Steve. Jeff was another one who it was a joy to  know,
    and a pleasure to work at mic with (among others, we "Brutus &  Cassius"-ed.)

    Happy New Year, all!
    -Craig W.
    (Whose own  "Uncle Ebenezer: can be found archived here, for a short  time:
    [removed] )

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:08:40 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Born 100 years ago January

    01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
    actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
    01-01-1909 - Frank Kettering - Monmouth, IL - d. 6-09-1973
    bass player: (Hoosier Hot Shots) "National Barn Dance"
    01-03-1909 - Victor Borge - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 12-23-2000
    comedian, pianist: "Victor Borge Show"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    01-08-1909 - George D. Crothers - Fort Morgan, CO - d. 11-27-1998
    moderator: "Invitation to Learning"
    01-08-1909 - Jose Ferrer - Santurce, PR - d. 1-26-1992
    actor: Philo Vance "Advs. of Philo Vance"; Minister "We Love and Learn"
    01-09-1909 - Patrick Peyton - Carracastle, Ireland - d. 6-3-1992
    preacher: (The Rosary Priest) "Family Theatre"
    01-13-1909 - Danny Barker - New Orleans, LA - d. 3-13-1994
    jazz guitar: "This Is Jazz"
    01-14-1909 - Brenda Forbes - London, England - d. 9-11-1996
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Theatre Guild on the Air"
    01-14-1909 - Joseph Losey - La Crosse, WI - d. 6-22-1984
    director: "Words at War"
    01-15-1909 - Gene Krupa - Chicago, IL - d. 10-16-1973
    drummer: "Rhythm Masters"; "Benny Goodman and His Orchestra"
    01-15-1909 - Gloria Grafton - Yakima, WA - d. 12-29-1994
    actor: Mickey Considine "The Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
    01-16-1909 - Ethel Merman - Astoria, NY - d. 2-15-1984
    singer" "Ethel Merman Show"; "Home Front Matinee"
    01-19-1909 - Hans Hotter - Offenback am Main, Germany - d. 12-6-2003
    bass-baritone: "Metropolitan Opera"
    01-19-1909 - Merrill E. Joels - Hartford, CT - d. 9-5-2001
    actor: "Counterspy"; "Aunt Jenny"; "The Big Story"
    01-19-1909 - Norman Barry - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-25-1997
    announcer: "Dan Harding's Wife"
    01-21-1909 - Sid Raymond - NYC - d. 12-1-2006
    actor: "X Minus One"
    01-22-1909 - Ann Sothern - Valley City, ND - d. 3-15-2001
    actor: Maisie Revere "Maisie"
    01-24-1909 - Ann Todd - Hartford, Cheshire, England - d. 5-6-1993
    actor: Amy Foster "Those We Love"
    01-31-1909 - Walter Coy - Great Falls, MT - d. 12-11-1974
    actor: Michael Lanyard/Lone Wolf "Lone Wolf"

    Ron

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