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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 152
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      8-28 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      PBS Documentary                       [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      History Detectives                    [ Dick Fisher <w9fjl@[removed]; ]
      BBC Archives                          [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 29 August  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      RE: Allen/Skelton                     [ "Mark Kratzner" <hollywoodhoosiers@ ]
      8-29 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      Oral histories                        [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
      RIP Jackson Gillis                    [ charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:21:38 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-28 births/deaths

    August 28th births

    08-28-1870 - James R. Waters - Hungary - d. 11-20-1945
    actor/comedian: Jake Goldberg "The Goldbergs"; "The House of Glass"
    08-28-1885 - Vance Palmer - Bundaberg, Australia - d. 7-15-1959
    writer: "Telling Mrs. Baker"
    08-28-1891 - Stanley Andrews - Chicago, IL - d. 6-23-1969
    actor: Daddy Warbucks "Little Orphan Annie"
    08-28-1893 - Harriette Widmer - Water Valley, MS - d. 9-1-1964
    actor: Madam Queen "Amos 'n' Andy"; Aunt Jemima "Aunt Jemima"
    08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958
    narrator: "Gangbusters"
    08-28-1897 - Charles Boyer - Figeac, France - d. 8-26-1978
    actor: Michel "Presenting Charles Boyer"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
    08-28-1898 - Artells Dickson - Oklahoma Territory - d. 6-24-1968
    actor: Tom Mix "Tom Mix"; Slim "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
    08-28-1900 - Diana Bourbon - NYC - d. 3-19-1978
    producer, director: :Double or Nothing"; "Life Begins"
    08-28-1900 - Rudy Schrager - Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-24-1983
    musical director: "Box 13"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-28-1907 - Roy Chamberlain - NYC - d. 5-14-1981
    old gold rhythmaires: "The New Old Gold Show"
    08-28-1907 - Sam Levene - NYC - d. 12-17-1980
    comedian: "Fred Allen Show"
    08-28-1908 - Genevieve Rowe - Freemont, OH - d. 2-26-1995
    singer: "Gay Nineties Revue"; "Songs America Loves"; "An Evening with
    Romberg"
    08-28-1910 - John F. Holbrook - Cameron, WI - d. 9-20-1978
    announcer, director: "The Bickersons"; "The Dinah Shore Show"
    08-28-1914 - Glenn Osser - Munising, MI
    maestro: "American Music Hall"
    08-28-1914 - Maria F. von Trapp - Zell am See, Austria
    singer: (Trapp Family Singers) "Christmas Seal Sale"
    08-28-1914 - Richard Tucker - NYC - d. 1-8-1975
    opera tenor: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"; "Standard Hour";
    "Metropolitan Opera"
    08-28-1915 - Tol Avery - Texas - d. 8-27-1973
    actor, announcer: "Pat Novak for Hire"; "Richard Diamond, Private
    Detective"
    08-28-1917 - Jayne Walton - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-10-2010
    singer: (Champagne Lady) "Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra"
    08-28-1919 - D. C. Muecke - Adelaide, Australia
    writer: "Ls Signora Fantastici"; "Alcestis Ascends"
    08-28-1920 - Don Glasser - Derry, PA - d. 4-26-2004
    bandleader: "Don Glasser and His Orchestra"
    08-28-1924 - Peggy Ryan - Long Beach, CA - d. 10-30-2004
    dancer, actor: "Mail Call"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Proudly We Hail"
    08-28-1925 - Donald O'Connor - Chicago, IL - d. 9-27-2003
    comedian, actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philip Morris Playhouse";
    "Suspense"
    08-28-1926 - Andree Wallace - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: Mary Lambert "Brave Tomorrow"; Irene "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"
    08-28-1929 - Roxie Roker - Miami, FL - d. 12-2-1995
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-28-1930 - Ben Gazzara - NYC
    actor: "Strange Interlude"

    August 28th deaths

    02-06-1913 - Porter Bourne - d. 8-28-2001
    announcer: WXYZ Detroit
    02-15-1926 - Mary Lee Robb - Chicago, IL - d. 8-28-2006
    actor: Marjorie Forrester "Great Gildersleeve"
    04-24-1894 - Norman Sweetser - d. 8-28-1980
    director: "Just Plain Bill"; "Stella Dallas"
    05-08-1929 - Miyoshi Umeki - Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan - d. 8-28-2007
    singer: "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends"
    06-05-1908 - Craig Rice (Georgiana Ann Randolph) - Illinois - d.
    8-28-1957
    writer: "Murder and Mr. Malone"
    06-21-1911 - Wonderful Smith - Arkadelphia, AR - d. 8-28-2008
    comedian: "Red Skelton Show"
    07-19-1917 - Larry Marcus - Beaver, UT - d. 8-28-2001
    writer: "Suspense"; "Dark Venture"; "Nightbeat"
    07-22-1917 - Lou McGarity - Athens, GA - d. 8-28-1971
    jazz trombonist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    08-05-1906 - John Huston - Nevada, MO - d. 8-28-1987
    actor, writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-17-1918 - Evelyn Ankers - Valparaiso, Chili - d. 8-28-1985
    actor: Argentine Radio
    09-03-1918 - David Harmon - NYC - d. 8-28-2001
    writer: "America in the Air"; "Now Hear This"
    09-12-1910 - Lehman Engel - Jackson, MS - d. 8-28-1982
    broadway conductor: "Madrigal Singers of New York"; "Texaco Star
    Theatre"
    09-25-1896 - Noble Cain - Aurora, IL - d. 8-28-1977
    choral director and producer for NBC
    10-13-1918 - Robert Walker - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 8-28-1951
    actor: Davy Dillon "Maudie's Diary"
    10-13-1929 - Bernie Baum - NYC - d. 8-28-1993
    composer: Composed the theme for "Monitor"
    10-30-1896 - Ruth Gordon - Wollaston, MA - d. 8-28-1985
    actor: "Lincoln Highway"; "Meet Mr. Weeks"; "Orson Welles Theatre"
    11-11-1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason - Boston, MA - d. 8-28-1978
    writer: "The Man from G-2"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:22:20 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  PBS Documentary

    Jack French remarked about the PBS Documentary, commenting:

>     I told them as a union member of both SAG and AFTRA, I would have to be
>     paid scale." "Ohhhh" they shuddered,"We never pay annnnnybody." That was the
>     last I heard from them. So they video-taped Elizabeth, who as usual was
>     excellent, and some current (and non-union) FBI employees to finish off
>     their interview requirements.

    To add to Jack's comments, they asked me if I would be interested in a filmed
    interview and I told them I wasn't interested because I wasn't knowledgable
    on the subject to provide much commentary that could be feasibly used for
    their documentary. I would not fault PBS, however, as most of their
    documentaries are independently produced and the mistake in the name of the
    program would have been the producer who put it together and sold it to PBS.
    What they should have had is a radio historian (or five or six) look over it
    and confirm no errors. Even one of the LORD OF THE RINGS movies was screened
    repeatedly to an audience of 300 LOTR fans to make sure errors were caught so
    they could be later corrected. I don't think a movie or documentary goes by
    that doesn't have an unintentional mistake, minor or major.
    Martin

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    Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:23:03 -0400
    From: Dick Fisher <w9fjl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  History Detectives

     From Jack French's comment on "History Detectives"

>     "So when it was
>     time to start shooting the contrived
>     interviews that make up the show----

    As Jack French said "contrived" interviews.  This is what absolutely drives
    me NUTS about this program. The whole thing is soooo fake  - for example when
    they walk up to someones door and meet them for the first time -- first time
    my foot and it gets worse from there.

    Thanks Jack for putting into words what I have always felt about this program.

    I also thought Elizabeth did a great job with what little time they let her
    have.

    Richard

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    Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:23:16 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  BBC Archives
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    Hi Folks.

    Some recent interesting items on the BBC Internet Blog about BBC Archives,
    with some links on the pages. Best way to see them, I think, is just
    to 'google' them under the following two titles and it should take you
    straight there :

    Peter Skinner a new home for the bbc archives
    Adrian Williams safeguarding the bbc archives

    Cheers !  Graeme ( ORCA / UK )

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    Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:23:23 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 29 August to 4
     September

     From Those Were The Days

    8/30

    1951   Screen Directors Playhouse was heard for the final time on NBC.
    The program had featured some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

    8/31

    1941   The Great Gildersleeve, a spin off of Fibber McGee and Molly,
    started on NBC.

    1946   "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
    Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
    returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
    dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
    of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Wow! The amazing
    power of Kryptonite in the hands of kids! Bud Collyer, later of TV's
    Beat the Clock, played Clark Kent aka Superman on the series.

    9/1

    1922   The first daily news program on radio was The Radio Digest, on
    WBAY. The program, hosted by George F. Thompson, the program's editor,
    originated from New York City.

    9/2

    1931   15 Minutes with Bing Crosby debuted on CBS.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:25:04 -0400
    From: "Mark Kratzner" <hollywoodhoosiers@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: Allen/Skelton

    Did not know it was about the NBC VP. The episode was "The Friendly Farmer"
    1947-04-22

    Mark Kratzner
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:25:10 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-29 births/deaths

    August 29th births

    08-29-1882 - Richard Legrand - Mount Tabor section near Portland, OR -
    d. 6-29-1963
    actor: Richard Q. Peavy "Great Gildersleeve"; Ole "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    08-29-1898 - Charlie Grimm - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-15-1983
    Sportscaster: (Jolly Cholly) WBBM Chicago
    08-29-1898 - Preston Sturges - Chicago, IL - d. 8-6-1959
    film producer, writer, director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-29-1899 - George V. Denny, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-11-1959
    moderator: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
    08-29-1900 - Buell Kazee - Burton's Fork, KY - d. 8-31-1976
    banjo-playing, singing Baptist minister: "Renfro Valley Barn Dance"
    08-29-1904 - Ronald Watkins - Surrey, England - d. 2-16-2001
    Reader of prose and poetry
    08-29-1906 - Joe Sawyer - Guelph, Canada - d. 4-21-1982
    actor: Sergant 'Biff' O'Hara "Rin-Tin-Tin"
    08-29-1907 - Lurene Tuttle - Pleasant Lake, IN - d. 5-28-1986
    actor: Effie Perrine "Advs. of Sam Spade"; Ellie Connors "Lum and Abner"
    08-29-1910 - John Kane - Davenport, IA - d. 3-15-1910
    actor: Tom Jones "Five Star Jones"; Scubby "Nick Carter"
    08-29-1912 - Barry Sullivan - NYC - d. 6-6-1994
    actor: Steve Canyon "Steve Canyon"; Simon Templar "The Saint"
    08-29-1913 - Sylvia Fine - NYC - d. 10-28-1991
    writer: (Wife of Danny Kaye) "Danny Kaye Show"; "Forecast"; "Bud's
    Bandwagon"
    08-29-1914 - Willard Waterman - Madison, WI - d. 2-2-1995
    actor: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve "Great Gildersleeve"; Roger Barton
    "The Guiding Light"
    08-29-1915 - Ingrid Bergman - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 8-29-1982
    actor: "Everything for the Boys"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-29-1916 - George Montgomery - Brady, MT - d. 12-12-2000
    actor: "Hollywood Star Time"; "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
    08-29-1916 - Max Bice - d. 11-18-2002
    newscaster: KMO Seattle, Washington
    08-29-1916 - "Georgia Slim" Rutland - Tilton, GA - d. 6-17-1969
    fiddler: "Three Fiddlers"
    08-29-1917 - Eddie Hubbard - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-26-2007
    disk jockey: "Music Unlimited"
    08-29-1920 - Charlie Parker - Kansas City, MO - d. 3-12-1955
    jazz musician: "This Is Jazz"
    08-29-1922 - Arthur Anderson - Staten Island, NY
    actor: "Let's Pretend"; Mark Davis "Lawyer Tucker"; Buddy "Tony and Gus"
    08-29-1924 - Dinah Washington - Tuscaloosa, AL - d. 12-14-1963
    blues singer: "Jubilee"; "Bob Hope Show"; "One Night Stand"
    08-29-1927 - Marion Williams - Miami, FL - d. 7-2-1994
    gospel singer: "Soundstage"
    08-29-1928 - Thomas Stewart - San Saba, TX - d. 9-24-2006
    operatic baritone: "Musicians Off Stage"

    August 29th deaths

    02-19-1924 - Lee Marvin - NYC - d. 8-29-1987
    actor: "Dragnet"
    02-20-1911 - Paul Tripp - NYC - d. 8-29-2002
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    03-04-1920 - Alan MacNaughtan - Bearsden, Scotland - d. 8-29-2002
    actor: "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
    04-06-1892 - Lowell Thomas - Woodington, OH - d. 8-29-1981
    newscaster, commentator: "Lowell Thomas and the News"; "Man with a
    Question"
    05-01-1906 - Rose Hobart - NYC - d. 8-29-2000
    actor: "Nightbeat"
    06-05-1912 - Dan Ocko - d. 8-29-1991
    actor: Killer Kane "Buck Rogers of the 25th Century"; "Sergeant Muggin
    "Inspector Thorne"
    06-27-1911 - Collins Driggs - Manchester, CT - d. 8-29-1966
    organist: Collins Driggs at the Hammond Organ"
    07-06-1912 - Redd Evans - Meridian, MS - d. 8-29-1972
    vocalist: "Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra"
    08-03-1923 - Jean Hagen - Chicago, IL - d. 8-29-1977
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars in the Air"
    08-29-1915 - Ingrid Bergman - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 8-29-1982
    actor: "Everything for the Boys"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-06-1925 - Jimmy Reed - Dunleith, MS - d. 8-29-1976
    blues singer, guitarist, harmonica playere: "One Night Stand"
    10-01-1889 - Ralph W. Sockman - Mount Vernon, OH - d. 8-29-1970
    preacher: "National Radio Pulpit"
    10-27-1898 - Kathryn Cravens - Burkett, TX - d. 8-29-1991
    newscaster: "News Through a Woman's Eye"
    10-30-1898 - Arthur Kohl - Chicago, IL - d. 8-29-1983
    actor: Fred Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Bob Graham "Bachelor's Children"
    11-08-1927 - Chris Connor - Kansas City, MO - d. 8-29-2009
    jazz singer: Claude Thorhill's Orchestra
    12-05-1929 - Richard Beebe - Pasadena, CA - d. 8-29-1998
    newsman: "The Credibility Gap"
    12-25-1902 - Louis Jackobson - d. 8-29-1978
    producer: "Mortimer Gooch"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:25:37 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

      Hi Friends,

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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    HIGH ADVENTURE
    Episode 114 6-4-50 "Deep Water"
    Stars: Maurice Tarplin, John Larkin, Connie Lembcke, Ross Martin
    NBC Old Spice Sundays 4:30 - 5:00 pm

    WORLD OF JAZZ
    Episode 55 8-11-66 "Louis Armstrong-The Big Band Era"
    Host: John Wilson
    65th Birthday celebration for Louis Armstrong.

    STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE
    Episode 10 12-9-39
    Host: Milton Berle
    The "Gag Busters": Senator Ford, Harry Hershfield and Jay C. Flippen
    Nbc Quaker Cereal Saturdays 8:30 - 9:00 Pm
    Announcer: Dan Seymour
    Music: Vincert Travers And His Orchestra

    THE WAYS OF MANKIND
    Episode 14 9-13-53 "The Case Of The Bamboo Sized Pigs"
    National Association Of Educational Broadcasters syndication
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    (MBS) 04/11/49 Stars: John Stanley in "The Adventure of the Mad Miners
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    RADIO RARITY
    "Big Brother Bob Emery" on WEEI, Boston, as preserved by 1926 Brunswick
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    THE CAVALCADE OF AMERICA
    (NBC/Red) 12/8/44 "Men In White"
    The day after Pearl Harbor is attacked.

    TERRY AND THE PIRATES
    (Blue) 10/19/44 "Air Attack". Nice wartime episode.
    ====================================

    THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

    HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL (CBS)
    Title: "Killer's Widow"
    Original Air: 2/28/59
    Starring: John Dehner

    I Love a Mystery (Mutual)
    Title: "Bury Your Dead, Arizona -- Episode 10"
    Original Air: 12/1/49
    Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall

    FIBBER McGEE & MOLLY (NBC)
    Title: "The Citizenship Test"
    Original Air: 6/3/47
    Starring: Jim and Marion Jordan
    Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

    GUNSMOKE (CBS)
    Original Air: 9/13/54
    Title: "Dooley Surrenders"
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    Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes
    ====================================

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    This week's show has a little bit of everything. Music, plus a wide
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    PHILCO RADIO HALL OF FAME
    from 03-10-46, Episode (119)
    With George Burns and Gracie Allen, Hedda Hopper, Martha Tilton, and
    Paul Whiteman and his orchestra.

    "SPIKE JONES SHOW"
    from 05-28-49 Episode (22) Spike's Guest is Lassie.

    YOUR HIT PARADE
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    HIGH ADVENTURE
    from 06-04-50 Episode (19) Deep Water
    ====================================

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    the Net

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    Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:25:42 -0400
    From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Oral histories

    I was glad to read about David Siegel's guide to interviews and conversations
    pertaining to the golden age of radio. I grew up listening to Chuck Schaden's
    conversations with the performers and producers from that age and each one I
    heard lent something valuable to my listening experience.

    Those of you who are interested in such things might also like to know that
    Those Were the Days will feature two such conversations on our show this
    fall. On October 16 (the day before her birthday), we'll feature a lengthy
    conversation I had with actress Marsha Hunt; on November 13, we'll present
    Chuck Schaden's 1976 conversation with Art Linkletter. Each of these
    interviews will be "supplemented" with samples of their radio work. More
    details will be available in the Autumn issue of Nostalgia Digest
    ([removed]).

    Steve Darnall

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    Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:25:56 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RIP Jackson Gillis

    Folks;

       Was just told (thanks, Russ!) of the death of writer Jackson Gillis, who
    passed on August 19 in Moscow, Idaho, of pneumonia; he was 93.

       While best-known for his television writings (Superman, The Wild Wild
    West, The Man From [removed], Mission: Impossible, I Spy, and a few
    bazillion others), he got his start in radio, writing for The Whistler, Let
    George Do it, and other shows.

             Charlie

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