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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 121
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
7-24 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Re: Fred Allen/Jack Benny feud [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]
7-25 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
The Spirit [ Karl Schadow <bluecar91@[removed] ]
7-26 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 29 July t [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:11:48 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 7-24 births/deaths
July 24th births
07-24-1802 - Alexandre Dumas - Aisne, France - d. 12-5-1870
writer: "Works adapted for radio
07-24-1853 - William Gillette - Hartford, CT - d. 4-29-1937
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
07-24-1875 - Frank Moulan - NYC - d. 5-13-1939
comedian: "Roxy and His Gang"
07-24-1878 - Lord Dunsany - London, England - d. 10-25-1957
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
07-24-1888 - Basil Ruysdael - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-10-1960
announcer: "Beggar's Bowl"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Cavalcade of America"
07-24-1898 - Amelia Earhart - Atchinson, KS - d. 7-2-1937
aviatrix: "Amelia Earhart", "Cities Service Concerts"
07-24-1901 - Mabel Albertson - Lynn, MA - d. 9-28-1982
actor: (Sister of Jack Albertson) "The Phil Baker Show"
07-24-1903 - Hazel Arth - d. 3-17-1991
second place winner Atwater-Kent National Radio Auditions
07-24-1904 - Delmer Daves - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-17-1977
movie writer/director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
07-24-1907 - Glenn Riggs - East McKeesport, PA - d. 9-12-1975
announcer: "Musical Varities"; "Hop Harrigan"; "Boston Blackie"
07-24-1911 - Dudley McCarthy - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-3-1987
auther of radio plays
07-24-1911 - Jane Hoffman - Seattle, WA - d. 7-26-2004
actor: "The Author's Studio"
07-24-1911 - Raymond Edward Johnson - Kenosha, WI - d. 8-15-2001
actor: Raymond your host "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; Don Winslow "Don
Winslow of the Navy"
07-24-1913 - Brian Reece - Noctorum, England - d. 4-12-1962
actor: Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby "The Advs. of [removed] 49"
07-24-1913 - Hollace (Vivien) Shaw - Fresno, CA - d. 3-2-1976
singer: "Blue Velvet"; "Vic Damone and Hollace Shaw Show"
07-24-1914 - Frank Silvera - Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies - d.
6-11-1970
actor: "X Minus One"
07-24-1914 - Vincent Bogert - New York - d. 11-28-1978
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
07-24-1915 - Lloyd Marx - d. 5-26-1988
composer, conductor: "Capitol Family Hour"; "Original Amateur Hour"
07-24-1916 - Bob Eberly - Mechanicville, NY - d. 11-17-1981
singer: (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
07-24-1917 - Robert Farnon - Toronto, Canada - d. 4-23-2005
conductor: "AEFP Farewell Party"; "Songs for America"
07-24-1919 - Jerry Wayne - Buffalo, NY - d. 9-15-1996
vocalist: Lover "Happy Island"; "Your All-Time Hit Parade"
07-24-1921 - Billy Taylor - Greenville, SC - d. 12-28-2010
host: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Bing Crosby Show"; "Genius of Duke"
07-24-1921 - Giuseppe Di Stefano - Motta, Sicily, Italy - d. 3-3-2008
operatic tenor: "Standard Hour", "Metropolitan Opera"
July 24th deaths01-12-1892 - Ed McConnell - Atlanta, GA - d. 7-24-1954
host, actor: Smilin' Ed McConnell Show"
02-19-1917 - John Fenton Murray - Lincoln, NE - d. 7-24-1996
comedy writer: "Red Skelton Show"
03-05-1920 - Virginia Christine - Stanton, IA - d. 7-24-1996
actor: "Confession"; "Gunsmoke"
03-23-1917 - Oscar Shumsky - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-24-2000
violinist: "Voice of Firestone"
04-02-1934 - Brian Glover - Sheffield, England - d. 7-24-1997
actor: George Hackett "An American Werewolf in London";
"[removed]"
05-14-1914 - Foy Willing - Bosque County, TX - d. 7-24-1978
singer: (Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage) "Roy Rogers
Show"
06-10-1898 - Dorothy Day - NYC - d. 7-24-1975
actor, writer: "The House Beside the Road"
07-01-1927 - Grady Bass - d. 7-24-1991
sportscaster: KSFA Nacogdoches, Texas
07-14-1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Radzymin, Poland - d. 7-24-1991
yiddish storyteller: "Earplay"
07-16-1915 - Joe O'Brien - Yonkers, NY - d. 7-24-2005
announcer: "Jack and Cliff"; "Rosemary"
07-27-1925 - Harry Towb - Lame, Northern Ireland - d. 7-24-2009
actor, writer: "The Debt Collector"; "A Candle for Casey"
08-16-1915 - Rosie Ledford - Pilot, KY - d. 7-24-1976
guitar: (Coon Creek Girls) "WLS National Barn Dance"
09-08-1925 - Peter Sellers - London, England - d. 7-24-1980
comedian: Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Major Dennis Bloodnok, others
"Goon Show"
09-22-1891 - Alfred Shirley - d. 7-24-1967
actor: Dr. John Watson "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
10-22-1905 - Constance Bennett - NYC - d. 7-24-1965
interviewer, panelist: "Constance Bennett Calls on You"; "Leave It to
the Girls"
10-30-1922 - Jane White - NYC - d. 7-24-2011
actor: Cloak and Dagger"; CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
12-23-1909 - Maurice Denham - Beckenham, England - d. 7-24-2002
actor: "Return of Sherlock Holmes"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:11:54 -0400
From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Fred Allen/Jack Benny feud
As others will no doubt tell you, it was just played for laughs. But one
thing I might add is that apparently, at least for a time, the sponsors of
both shows were represented by the same ad agency, BBD&O, and so the "feud"
helped cross-promote the shows, which was good for the agency, and actually
for the sponsors, too. It was particularly good for Allen, because his
popularity wasn't anywhere near as high as Benny's, and he has said that the
"feud" helped his show considerably.
Alan
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Alan/Linda Bell
Santa Rosa, CA
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:12:02 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 7-25 births/deaths
July 25th births
07-25-1894 - Isabella Beech - d. 1-3-1972
food editor: Francis Lee Barton "Mother Knows Best"
07-25-1894 - Walter Brennan - Swampscott, MA - d. 9-21-1974
actor: Grandpa Vanderhof "You Can't Take it with You"; Judge Roy Bean
"Law West of the Pecos"
07-25-1896 - Leo Russotto - d. 1-29-1978
musical coach and arranger: "Roxy and His Gang"
07-25-1899 - Ralph Dumke - South Bend, IN - d. 1-4-1964
actor: Willie Tompkins "We, the Abbotts"; Pat Plenty "Quality Twins"
07-25-1900 - Al Pearce - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-2-1961
comedian: Elmer Blurt "Here Comes Elmer"; "Al Pearce Show"
07-25-1901 - Lila Lee - Union Hill, NJ - d. 11-13-1973
actor: "Fleischman's Yeast Hour"
07-25-1903 - Percy Angwin - d. 9-22-1985
sportscaster: WSKI Montpelier, Vermont
07-25-1904 - Bob Beddome - d. 8-xx-1983
baritone: KFWI San Francisco, California
07-25-1905 - Harold Peary - San Leandro, CA - d. 3-30-1985
actor: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve , "Fibber McGee and Molly and The
Great Gildersleeve"
07-25-1906 - Johnny Hodges - Cambridge, MA - d. 5-11-1970
alto saxophonist: "Esquire Jazz Concert"; "Duke Ellington and His
Orchestra"
07-25-1907 - Jack Gilford - NYC - d. 6-4-1990
comedian: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
07-25-1910 - Ted Dale - d. 7-25-1975
orchestra leader: :Carnation Contented Hour"
07-25-1916 - Barbara Vernon - Inverell, Australia - d. 4-6-1978
writer: "The Gerney"
07-25-1917 - Arthur Alsberg - NYC - d. 8-7-2004
wrote comedy routines for Milton Berle and Danny Kaye
07-25-1918 - Louanne Hogan - St. Paul, MN - d. 1-23-2006
singer: "One Night Stand"
07-25-1918 - Nan Grey - Houston, TX - d. 7-25-1993
actor: Kathy Marshall "Those We Love"
07-25-1922 - Earl Gillespie - Chicago, IL - d. 12-12-2003
sportscaster: voice of the Milwaukee Braves
07-25-1936 - Michael Chapin - Hollywood, CA
actor: Andy 'Skipper' Barbour "One Man's Family"
07-25-1936 - Paulette Attie - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-21-2009
host: "Paulette Attie's Musical Playbill"
July 25th deaths
01-08-1892 - Leeman Bone - Arkansas - d. 7-25-1976
guitarist: "Hoss Hair Pullers"
01-12-1915 - Martin Agronsky - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-25-1999
newscaster: "The ABC Morning News"
03-23-1893 - Arnold Johnson - Chicago, IL - d. 7-25-1975
bandleader: "The Majestic Theatre Hour"; "True Story Time"
03-30-1893 - Dennis Hoey - London, England - d. 7-25-1960
actor: Edward Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
04-26-1905 - Cecilia Parker - Fort William, Ontario, Canada - d.
7-25-1993
actor: "Good News of 1939"; "Mail Call"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-26-1912 - John McGovern - d. 7-25-1985
actor: Mike Gallagher "Highway Patrol"; Harold Wilkinson "The O'Neills"
04-29-1912 - Ian Martin - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-25-1981
actor: Horace Sutton "Young Dr. Malone"; Harry Archer "Meet Corliss
Archer"
05-27-1915 - Frank Crane - d. 7-25-1992
one time president of the Southern California Broadcasters Association
05-31-1903 - Blanche Stewart - Pennsylvania - d. 7-25-1952
actor: Brenda "Bob Hope Show"
07-11-1928 - Hope Miller - d. 7-25-1992
actor: "Let's Pretend"
07-18-1913 - Eric Pohlmann - Vienna, Austria - d. 7-25-1979
actor: During WWII broadcast for BBC European Service
07-25-1910 - Ted Dale - d. 7-25-1975
orchestra leader: :Carnation Contented Hour"
07-25-1918 - Nan Grey - Houston, TX - d. 7-25-1993
actor: Kathy Marshall "Those We Love"
08-01-1919 - Stanley Middleton - Notinghamshire, England - d. 7-25-2009
author: "The Captain of Nothinghamshire"
08-16-1932 - Marianne Moylan - Southampten, NY - d. 7-25-1990
singer: (The Moylan Sisters) (Angels of the Airwaves) "Moylan Sisters"
09-02-1912 - Phil Agresta - d. 7-25-1986
sportscaster: WBT Charlotte, North Carolina
09-20-1912 - Ron Cochran - d. 7-25-1994
newscaster: "Sounds of the World"; "Feature Project"
09-27-1883 - Henrietta Tedrow - Mount Sterling, KY - d. 7-25-1948
actor: Hannah O'Leary "Houseboat Hannah"; Helen Spalding "Woman in
White"
10-07-1914 - Alfred Drake - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-25-1992
singer: "Best Plays"; Broadway Matinee"; "Ford Festival of American
Music"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:12:07 -0400
From: Karl Schadow <bluecar91@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: The Spirit
A radio program featuring the exploits of the comic character, The Spirit
began on WFIL in Philadelphia ca. Oct/Nov 1940. The 15-minute dramas heard
each Saturday at 7:00 pm told of The Spirit's adventure appearing in the next
day's comic section. There was a catch. The story ended with a cliffhanger so
that listeners had to purchase the Sunday Record to find out the finale. This
was a great gimmick by the Philadelphia Record which sponsored the program.
Enid Hager of the Record staff was author and producer of each episode which
starred local Philadelphia talent of Sam Serota (possibly Serata) as Denny
Colt with Salvatore Benigno as Ebony White. WFIL staff organist Mill Spooner
provided the music. The search continues for audio and scripts. ---Karl
Schadow
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:12:15 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 7-26 births/deaths
July 26th births
07-26-1856 - George Bernard Shaw - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-2-1950
playwright: "Wisconsin College of the Air"; "George Bernard Shaw Speech"
07-26-1883 - Walter Blaufuss - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-23-1945
composer, conductor, pianist: "Breakfast Club"; "Viennese Ensemble"
07-26-1894 - Aldous Huxley - Godalming, Surrey, England - d. 11-22-1963
writer: "CBS Radio Workshop"
07-26-1896 - Charles Butterworth - South Bend, IN - d. 6-13-1946
comedian: "Fred Astaire Show"
07-26-1897 - Paul Gallico - NYC - d. 7-15-1976
writer: "Author's Playhouse"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Radio City Playhouse"
07-26-1899 - Danton Walker - Marietta, GA - d. 8-8-1960
broadway columnist: "Forty-Five Minutes on Broadway"; "Twin Views of
the News"
07-26-1901 - Serge Koussevitzky - Vyshni Volocheck, Russia - d. 6-4-1978
symphony conductor: "Boston Symphony Orchestra"
07-26-1902 - Gracie Allen - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-27-1964
comedian: "The Adventures of Gracie"; "The George Burns and Gracie
Allen Show"
07-26-1903 - Donald Voorhees - Allentown, PA - d. 1-10-1989
conductor: "Show Boat"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Telephone Hour"
07-26-1906 - Galen Drake - Kokomo, IN - d. 6-30-1989
commentator: "Galen Drake"
07-26-1908 - Professor Hale Sparks - d. 11-13-1997
director of broadcast University of California: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie
McCarthy"
07-26-1909 - Vivian Vance - Cherryvale, KS - d. 8-17-1979
actor: Ethel Mertz "I Love Lucy"
07-26-1911 - Mary Mason - Pasadena, CA - d. 10-13-1980
actor: Mary Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"; Maudie Mason "Maudie"s Diary"
07-26-1912 - Buddy Clark - Dorchester, MA - d. 10-1-1949
singer: "Your Hit Parade"; "New Carnation Contented Hour"
07-26-1912 - Monty Margetts - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-27-1997
announcer: "This Woman's Secret"
07-26-1914 - Erskine Hawkins - Birmingham, AL - d. 11-11-1992
bandleader: "Apollo Concerts"; "Big Band Themes on the Air"
07-26-1914 - Ralph Blane - Broken Arrow, OK - d. 11-13-1995
singer: "Johnny Green and His Orchestra"
07-26-1915 - Fred S. Fox - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-23-2005
writer: "Freddie the Fox"
07-26-1918 - Stacy Harris - Big Timber, Quebec, Canada - d. 3-13-1973
actor: Jim Taylor "This is Your [removed]"; Carter Trent "Pepper Young's
Family"
07-26-1919 - Virginia Gilmore - El Monte, CA - d. 3-28-1986
actor: "The Ford Theatre"
07-26-1921 - Jean Sheperd - South Chicago, IL - d. 10-16-1999
host: "The Jean Sheperd Show"
07-26-1921 - John de Lancie, Sr. - Berkeley, CA - d. 5-17-2002
principle oboist: "Phildelphia Symphony Orchestra"
07-26-1922 - Blake Edwards - Tulsa, OK - d. 12-15-2010
writer: "Lineup"; "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
07-26-1924 - Ann Howard Bailey - Memphis, TN - d. 11-23-2006
writer: "Suspense"
07-26-1924 - Louis Bellson - Rock Falls, IL - d. 2-14-2009
jazz drummer: "Land's Best Bands"; "Benny Goodman: Let's Dance"
07-26-1935 - Walter Winchell, Jr. - NYC - d. 12-25-1967
radio news writer
07-26-1945 - Helen Mirren - London, England
actor: "NPR: Morning Edition"
July 26th deaths
01-04-1918 - Buddy Baker - Springfield, MO - d. 7-26-2002
musical director: Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny
01-21-1921 - Manya Starr - NYC - d. 7-26-2000
writer: Allegedly fired by Hummert asking about God, "Who's will play
him?"
02-14-1915 - Oliver B. Greene - Greenville, SC - d. 7-26-1976
baptist evangelist: "The Gospel Hour"
03-07-1917 - Hubert Bisping - d. 7-26-1992
newscaster: KUTA Salt Lake City, Utah
03-18-1860 - William Jennings Bryan - Salem, IL - d. 7-26-1925
lawyer: Scopes Monkey trial
03-18-1889 - Gene Byrnes - NYC - d. 7-26-1974
comic strip cartoonist: "Reg'lar Fellers" based on his comic strip
03-19-1900 - Frank Chapman - d. 7-26-1966
singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
03-20-1913 - Kenny Gardner - Lakeview, IA - d. 7-26-2002
singer: "Guy Lombardo Show"; "Lombardoland [removed]"; "Your Hit Parade"
05-04-1927 - Terry Scott - Watford, England - d. 7-26-1994
actor: "Junior Choice"; "Great Scott, It's Maynard"; "Hugh and I"
05-07-1919 - Eva Peron - Los Toldos, Argentina - d. 7-26-1952
actor, hostess: "Radio Argentina"; "Radio Belgrano"
06-29-1910 - Frank Loesser - NYC - d. 7-26-1969
composer: "Cavalcade for Victory"; "Abe Burrows Show"; "Heartbeat of
Broadway"
07-24-1911 - Jane Hoffman - Seattle, WA - d. 7-26-2004
actor: "The Author's Studio"
08-31-1898 - Jack Ward - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-26-1973
organist: "Gangbusters"; "Magnificent Montague"
09-07-1919 - Louise Bennett - Kingston, Jamaica - d. 7-26-2006
poet, folklorist: commented on social matters as Aunty Roachy
09-09-1887 - Raymond Walburn - Plymouth, IN - d. 7-26-1969
actor: "That's My Pop"
09-29-1913 - Gerald Strachan Pawle - Bishops Stortford, England - d.
7-26-1991
author of several radio plays
10-27-1911 - Charles R. Callender - Phrae, Thailand - d. 7-26-1987
sang and played piano on radio
11-15-1891 - Averell Harriman - NYC - d. 7-26-1986
[removed] ambassador to the soviet union: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy
Show"
11-18-1901 - Dr. George Gallup - Jefferson, IA - d. 7-26-1984
statistician: "Living 1948"
11-25-1922 - Patricia Foy - London, England - d. 7-26-2006
vocalist: "Shep Fields Orchestra"
12-03-1897 - Reed Brown, Jr. - Texas - d. 7-26-1962
actor: Capt. Gordon Wright "Roses and Drums"
12-18-1918 - Danny Simon - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-26-2005
writer: (Brother of Neil) "The Milton Berle Show"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:12:21 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 29 July to 4 August
From Those Were The Days
7/30
1937 The American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) was organized. It
was part of the American Federation of Labor. The union was for all
radio performers except musicians. The union later became The American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to include TV folk,
as well.
1942 Stage Door Canteen was first heard on CBS. The show was broadcast
from New York City and 500 servicemen were entertained each week by
celebrities who freely donated their time for the war effort.
7/31
1933 listeners turned up the radio on this day to hear the announcer
introduce "Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy!" The show was one of
the longest running adventure programs on radio, continuing until 1951.
8/4
1921 The first tennis match on radio was broadcast on KDKA in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This was a natural since KDKA was the first
commercial radio station in the United States. Within eight months the
powers that be figured out that sports on radio would bring in big sales
revenues. And so, the Davis Cup match between Great Britain and
Australia was aired on the radio; but much to the wonderment of KDKA's
listeners. Tennis anyone? On radio? It rates right up there with radio
wrestling or, maybe, [removed]
1927 Station 2XAG, later named WGY, the General Electric station in
Schenectady, NY, began experimental operations from a 100,000 watt
transmitter. Later, the FCC regulated the power of AM radio stations to
not exceed 50,000 watts on 'clear channels' (where few, if any, stations
would cause interference with each other).
1940 Crime Doctor introduced a new kind of radio hero to audiences.
The CBS program presented Dr. Benjamin Ordway, the show's main
character, who was a victim of amnesia. He once was a criminal, but got
hit on the head, and suddenly began to work as a crime fighter. Nice twist.
Joe
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