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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 136
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      8-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Brace for impact                      [ Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      Nancy & the Hardy Boys                [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Witch's Tale episode                  [ Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed] ]
      8-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:29:48 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-2 births/deaths

    August 2nd births

    08-02-1886 - Cesare Sodero - Naples, Italy - d. 12-16-1947
    conductor: Series of condensed operas on WEAF New York
    08-02-1890 - Leila Roosevelt - d. 11-4-1973
    explorer: (cousin of FDR) "So You Want to Be"
    08-02-1892 - Jack L. Warner - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 9-9-1978
    film studio owner" "Jack Benny Program"; "Warner Brothers Academy
    Award Theatre"
    08-02-1892 - John Kieran - The Bronx, NY, New  - d. 12-10-1980
    panelist: "Information, Please"
    08-02-1892 - Karolyn Wells Bassett - Derby, CT - d. 6-2-1931
    was very popular in early radio
    08-02-1899 - Charles Bennett - d. 6-15-1995
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Radio City Playhouse"
    08-02-1899 - Earle Larimore - Portland, OR - d. 10-22-1947
    actor: "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; "Life Can Be Beautiful"
    08-02-1900 - Helen Morgan - Danville, IL - d. 10-8-1941
    hostess, singer: "Helen Morgan, Songs"; "Broadway Melodies"; "Fred
    Allen Show"
    08-02-1902 - Guy Repp - d. 11-24-1986
    actor: Dr. Abernathy "County Seat"; Benito Mussoline "Our Secret Weapon"
    08-02-1903 - Victor McLeod - d. 12-12-1972
    writer: "The Bing Crosby Show"; "Stop or Go"
    08-02-1904 - John McClain - Ohio - d. 5-3-1967
    writer: "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-02-1905 - Myrna Loy - Raidersburg, MT - d. 12-14-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-02-1905 - Ruth Nelson - Saginaw, MI - d. 9-12-1992
    actor: "Arch Obler's Plays"; "Columbia Workshop"
    08-02-1912 - Ann Dvorak - NYC - d. 12-10-1979 - d. 12-10-1979
    actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
    08-02-1912 - Gwen Plumb - Sydney, Australia - d. 6-4-2002
    scripter, actor: "Big Sister"; "Blue Hills"
    08-02-1912 - Harry Bailey - Indianapolis, IN
    writer: "Cavalcade for Victory"; "Father's Day Program"
    08-02-1913 - Hal Block - d. 6-16-1981
    writer, panelist: "Burns and Allen"; "Milton Berle Show"; "What's My
    Line"
    08-02-1914 - Beatrice Straight - Old Westbury, NY - d. 4-7-2001
    actor: "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-02-1915 - Gary Merrill - Hartford, CT - d. 3-5-1990
    actor: Bruce Wayne/Batman "Adventures of Superman"
    08-02-1915 - Johnny Long - Newell, NC - d. 10-31-1972
    bandleader: "The Teen-Timers Show"; "Judy, Joe, and Johnny"
    08-02-1916 - Johnny Coons - d. 7-6-1975
    actor: Chuck Ramsey "Captain Midnight"; Clipper "Sky King"; "Vic and
    Sade"
    08-02-1921 - Kathryn Bankston - d. 4-10-1987
    women's programming: WRBC Athens, Georgia
    08-02-1924 - Joe Harnell - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-14-2005
    jazz arranger: (Joe Harnell Quartet) "The Navy Swings"
    08-02-1942 - Doris Kenner-Jackson - North Carolina - d. 2-4-2000
    singer: (Shirelles) "Murray The K: Live from the Brooklyn Fox"
    08-02-1943 - Rose Tremain - London, England
    author: "The Wisest Fool"

    August 2nd deaths

    01-14-1911 - David Gothard - Beardstown, IL - d. 8-2-1977
    actor: Gil Whitney "Romance of Helen Trent"; Nick Charles "The Thin Man"
    01-17-1933 - Shari Lewis - NYC - d. 8-2-1998
    ventruloquist: "No School Today"
    02-27-1873 - Enrico Caruso - Naples, Italy - d. 8-2-1921
    tenor: On 12-13-1910 made experimental broadcast with Lee DeForest
    05-27-1921 - Redd Stewart - Ashland City, TN - d. 8-2-2003
    lyricist: "Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys"
    06-13-1899 - Carlos Chavez - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 8-2-1978
    composer, conductor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Sinfonia India"
    08-06-1894 - Jack Kirkwood - Scotland - d. 8-2-1964
    actor: Jack Williams "Saunders of the Circle X"; Uncle Jim "Hawthorne
    House"
    08-22-1910 - Lesley Woods - d. 8-2-2003
    actor: Mary Wesley "Boston Blackie"; Margo Lane "The Shadow"
    09-06-1930 - Bernard Jaffe - d. 8-2-1993
    science writer: "Information, Please"
    09-13-1913 - Gretchen Davidson - Chicago, IL - d. 8-2-2002
    actor: Carol Kennedy "Carol Kennedy's Romance"
    10-03-1924 - Joe Allison - McKinney, TX - d. 8-2-2002
    songwriter: Began his career as a radio disk jockey
    11-24-1888 - Cathleen Nesbitt - Belfast, Northern Ireland - d. 8-2-1982
    actor: "Philco Radio Playhouse"
    11-27-1915 - Ralph Bell -NYC - d. 8-2-1998
    actor: Travis Rogers "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator"; Alfred
    Drake "This Is Nora Drake"
    11-30-1894 - Donald Ogden Stewart - Columbus, OH - d. 8-2-1980
    writer: "Information Please"
    12-05-1890 - Fritz Lang - Vienna, Austria - d. 8-2-1976
    film director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    12-08-1907 - Frank Faylen - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-2-1985
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    12-12-1919 - Seymour Korman - d. 8-2-1993
    newsman for Mutual
    xx-xx-1932 - Juan Lopez Mactezuma - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 8-2-1995
    host: "Jazz en la Cultuira"; "Panorama de Jazz"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:14:21 -0400
    From: Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Brace for impact

    Is it true Brace Beemer wore Western garb when he was on the air? Are
    there radio performers who wore costumes when doing radio shows with
    no studio audience?

    When I interviewed Buster Crabbe at his home in Rye, NY, in the late
    1960s, he told an anecdote about having Beemer as a guest on his WOR-
    TV children's show, THE BUSTER CRABBE  SHOW, which had a ranch-style
    setting. He was talking with Beemer while they stood at the ranch's
    fence. Crabbe left to do some bit or routine elsewhere on the set.
    When he returned to resume the interview, Beemer was nowhere to be
    found. Crabbe said, "He was gone. I looked down at the [removed] and
    there was a silver bullet."

    Bhob @ [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:14:27 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Nancy & the Hardy Boys

    John Furek poses an excellent question on why Nancy Drew and the
    Hardy Boys were never made into a radio series. While I can't fully
    answer his question, I can offer a few historical facts that relate
    to the issue.

    First of all, it's wasn't just Nancy and the Hardy brothers who were
    skipped over. The Stratemeyer Syndicate (a true fiction factory) had
    dozens of equally popular characters in that era who also never got
    their spot at the microphone: Tom Swift, Bomba the Jungle Boy, the
    Bobbsey Twins, the X-Bar-X Boys, among others.

    A contributing factor was the reluctance on the part of Edward
    Stratemey's daughter, Harriet, who was running the outfit since his
    death three weeks after Nancy Drew debuted in April 1930. Harriet had
    sold the movie rights of Nancy to Warner Bros. for $ 6,000 and she
    was very disappointed with the four movies that followed since
    Hollywood's idea of "Nancy"was not hers.  Thereafter she was very
    reluctant to trust any entertainment venue with "her" Nancy until she
    finally relented to television in the mid-70s.

    Another consideration was the finite amount of radio time for kids'
    programs versus the longevity of most of them, who could be measured
    in decades, not years, [removed] Superman, Captain Midnight, Jack
    Armstrong, Tom Mix, and the Ranger, Mountie, and Hornet from WXYZ.
    Open slots for a new kids' program didn't come up that often.

    Finally, let's be honest, audience demographics must have played a
    role in the decision to keep Nancy off the air. Juvenile heroines
    didn't attract sufficient listeners because most radio fans were
    boys. Even Ovaltine, who picked "Little Orphan Annie" in hopes that
    would appeal to both sexes, were shocked when the first radio premium
    requests rolled in, revealing that about 90% of the listeners were
    little boys. If more little girls had listened to the radio in those
    days, "Wonder Woman" would have gotten her own radio show. (Oh wait,
    I [removed] out of every 10 readers of her comic books were also
    little boys.)

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:14:36 -0400
    From: Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Witch's Tale episode

    The last issue of the Digest contained the Heritage Radio Theatre schedule
    for the week, including an episode of THE WITCH'S TALE, "The Devil Doctor,"
    which was identified as a WOR-NYC show with a broadcast date of February 19,
    1937.

    Just to set the record straight, there are only two surviving recordings of
    the original WOR-Mutual WITCH'S TALE broadcasts--"The Magic Skin--Part 1"
    from September 3, 1935, and "In the Devil's Name--Part 1" from January 8,
    1937.

    Every other WITCH'S TALE episode which currently circulates--however
    inaccurately dated by dealers and collectors--is either from one of two 1934
    transcription series or from the Australian WITCH'S TALE shows of the early
    1940s.

    The episode of "The Devil Doctor" which will be heard on Heritage should be
    correctly notated "Macquarie Broadcasting Services, Sydney, ca. 1941-42.

    Mike Ogden

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    Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:14:45 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-3 births/deaths

    August 3rd births

    08-03-1885 - Arthur Sinclair - Dublin, Ireland - d. 12-14-1951
    actor: John A. Considine "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
    08-03-1886 - Anna Barbash - d. 1-1-1983
    soprano: "Memories of Jennie Lind"
    08-03-1886 - Russ Westover - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-5-1966
    writer: Creator of the comic strip "Tillie the Toiler"
    08-03-1894 - Harry Heilmann - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-9-1951
    sportscaster: WXYZ Detroit
    08-03-1896 - Wendell Hall - St. George, KS  - d. 4-4-1969
    singer: (The Red Headed Music Maker) "Eveready Hour"; "Red Headed
    Music Maker"
    08-03-1900 - Ernie Pyle - Dana, IN - d. 4-18-1945
    world war II correspondent: "Words at War"; "Cavalcade of America"
    08-03-1902 - Irma Glen - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1982
    organist: "Irma Glen Lovable Music"; "Vic and Sade"
    08-03-1903 - John S. Young - Springfield, MA - d. 1-12-1976
    announcer: Foreign news for NBC in Nyw York
    08-03-1904 - Clifford Simak - Millville, WI - d. 4-24-1988
    writer: "Dimension X"
    08-03-1905 - Dolores Del Rio - Durango, Mexico - d. 4-11-1983
    actor: "Hollywood on the Air"
    08-03-1905 - Gaylord Carter - Wiesbaden, Germany - d. 11-20-2000
    organist: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Breakfast in Hollywood"
    08-03-1906 - James Thieran Biggs - Richwood, OH - d. 8-27-1996
    radio and telegraph operator: WVZ
    08-03-1906 - Robert Emmett Dolan - Hartford, CT - d. 9-26-1972
    music maestro: "The Circle"; "Birdseye Open House"
    08-03-1907 - Adrienne Ames - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-31-1947
    film star: WHN New York, New York
    08-03-1907 - Irene Tedrow - Denver, CO - d. 3-10-1995
    actor: Janet Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"; Dorothy Regent "Chandu, the
    Magacian"
    08-03-1911 - Ken Patterson - Montana - d. 2-16-1990
    actor: "Dragnet"
    08-03-1915 - Hugh Douglas - Chicago, IL - d. 9-1-1993
    announcer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    08-03-1916 - Horace Logan - Shreveport, LA - d. 10-13-2002
    creator of "The Louisana Hayride"
    08-03-1916 - Milton Drake - NYC - d. 11-13-2006
    songwriter: "Mairzy Doats"
    08-03-1917 - Charlie Shavers - NYC - d. 7-8-1971
    jazz trumpeter: "Jump Time"; "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Tommy Dorsey Show"
    08-03-1917 - Larry Haines - Mt. Vernon, NY - d. 7-17-2008
    actor: Carl Ward "Young Dr. Malone"; Fred Molina "This is Nora Drake"
    08-03-1918 - Les Elgart - New Haven, CT - d. 7-29-1995
    bandleader: "Let's Go to Town"; "Manhattan Melodies"
    08-03-1920 - Marilyn Maxwell - Clarinda, IA - d. 3-20-1972
    singer, actor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Bob
    Hope Show"
    08-03-1923 - Jean Hagen - Chicago, IL - d. 8-29-1977
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars in the Air"
    08-03-1925 - Billy James Hargis - Texarkana, TX - d. 11-27-2004
    preacher: Broadcast his ministry on more than 500 radio stations.
    08-03-1926 - Tony Bennett - NYC
    singer: "[removed] Woolworth Hour"; "Songs for Sale"; "Stepping Out"
    08-03-1927 - Gordon Scott - Portland, OR - d. 4-30-2007
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"

    August 3rd deaths

    01-25-1920 - Fred Pinkard - d. 8-3-2004
    actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Hello, Sucker"
    02-04-1918 - Ida Lupino - London, England - d. 8-3-1995
    panelist, actor: "Hollywood Byline"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    04-28-1929 - Carolyn Jones - Amarillo, TX - d. 8-3-1983
    actor: "Dragnet"; "Survivors"
    06-27-1938 - Ron Lyons - Asheville, NC - d. 8-3-2007
    traffic anchor: KCBS San Francisco, California
    08-06-1923 - William B. Williams - Babylon, NY - d. 8-3-1986
    disc jockey: Leading New York DJ for more than 40 years at WNEW
    08-12-1892 - Alfred Lunt - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-3-1977
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Treasury
    Star Parade"
    08-24-1924 - Lou Teicher - Wilkes Barre, PA - d. 8-3-2008
    pianist: (Ferrante and Teicher) "The Zero Hour"; "Hollywood Radio
    Theatre"
    09-19-1924 - Bob Murphy - Oklahoma - d. 8-3-2004
    sportscaster: teamed with Curt Gowdy to broadcast Red Sox Games
    10-13-1925 - Lenny Bruce - Mineola, NY - d. 8-3-1966
    comedian: "Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts"; "Why Did Lenny Bruce Die?"
    12-03-1857 - Joseph Conrad - Kiev, Russian Empire - d. 8-3-1924
    author: Some of his works were adapted for radio
    12-09-1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Jarotschin, Posen, Germany - d.
    8-3-2006
    singer: Austrian Radio
    12-19-1912 - Frank Holliday - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-3-1948
    singer: (The Rockaway Four) "The Gay Nineties Revue"
    12-29-1894 - Harry Lang - NYC - d. 8-3-1953
    actor: Mr. Fuddle "Blondie"; Pan Pancho "Cisco Kid"

    Ron

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