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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 180
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Richard Wagner's Ring                 [ KC0PWA <oldradiotimes@[removed]; ]
      9-21 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Same [removed] Being Heard on Anot  [ Derek Tague <derek@[removed]; ]
      Sorry, Tonto, no birth [removed]  [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      The Brighter Day                      [ Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed]; ]
      9-22 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      John Hart                             [ JayHick@[removed] ]
      The Man Who Could Work Miracles       [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]

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    Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:01:41 -0400
    From: KC0PWA <oldradiotimes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Richard Wagner's Ring

    Does anyone know if Wagner's four-opera cycle The Ring was ever presented as
    a dramatic radio program? I don't mean broadcasts of the operas themselves,
    but an actual adaptation of the story.
    Ryan

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    Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:03:13 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-21 births/deaths

    September 21st births

    09-21-1866 - H. G. Wells - Bromley, England - d. 8-13-1946
    science fiction author: "A Discussion Between H. G. Wells and Orson
    Welles"
    09-21-1901 - Lloyd Shaffer - Ridgeway, PA - d. 5-28-1999
    orchestra leader: "Chesterfield Supper Club"; "Time to Shine"
    09-21-1901 - Talitha Botsford - Millport, NY - d. 1-30-2002
    composer and violinist
    09-21-1902 - Dymphna Cusak - Wyalong, Australia - d. 10-19-1981
    writer: "Shoulder the Sky"
    09-21-1903 - Westbrook Van Voorhis - New Milford, CT - d. 7-13-1968
    announcer, narrator: "March of Time"
    09-21-1907 - Jack Mather - California - d. 8-15-1966
    actor: Cisco Kid "Cisco Kid"
    09-21-1909 - Nathaniel Curtis - NYC - d. 4-6-1983
    writer: "You Can't Take It With You"
    09-21-1913 - Janet Ertel - Sheboygan, WI - d. 11-22-1988
    singer: (The Chordettes) "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    09-21-1914 - Geoffrey Clarkson - Yonkers, NY
    pianist: "Les Brown and his Band of Renown"
    09-21-1915 - Mac Benoff - NYC - d. 11-16-1972
    writer: "The Mel Blanc Show"
    09-21-1916 - Zinovy Gerdt - Sebezh, Russia - d. 11-18-1996
    actor: Read poetry and prose on radio
    09-21-1921 - Gail Russell - Chicago, IL - d. 8-26-1961
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    09-21-1927 - Jeanne Elaine Starcrystal Mazure - Melbourne, Australia
    writer: "Across 22"
    09-21-1930 - John Morgan - Aberdale, Wales - d. 11-25-2004
    writer: "It's All in the Mind of John Morgan"
    09-21-1935 - Sigrid Valdis - Bakersfield, CA - d. 10-14-2007
    actor: "Shaken, Not Stirred"
    09-21-1944 - Susan Fleetwood - St. Andrews, England - d. 9-29-1995
    actor: "King Priam"
    09-21-1945 - Hazel Edwards - Melbourne, Australia
    writer: " 'L' of a Difference"
    09-21-1967 - Christopher Price - Norfolk, England - d. 4-22-2002
    radio journalist: "BBC News 24"

    September 21st deaths

    01-16-1878 - Harry Carey, Sr. - NYC - d. 9-21-1947
    actor: "Lincoln Highway"; "Suspense"
    03-17-1915 - Joel Cranston - Iowa - d. 9-21-1977
    actor: "Fort Laramie"; "Gunsmoke"; "Escape"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    04-06-1903 - Charles R. Jackson - d. 9-21-1968
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"; "Sweet River"
    04-15-1907 - Theodore Granick - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-21-1970
    moderator: "American Forum of the Air"
    05-15-1916 - Bill Williams - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-21-1992
    actor: "Eternal Light"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-16-1892 - Osgood Perkins - West Newton, MA - d. 9-21-1937
    stage actor: "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
    06-13-1924 - Lee Millar - Oakland, CA - d. 9-21-1980
    actor: Bob Regent "Chandu the Magician"; "On Stage"; "NBC Presents:
    Short Story"
    07-09-1912 - John McQuade - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 9-21-1979
    actor: Charlie Wild "Charlie Wild, Private Detective"; Steve Lansing
    "Our Gal Sunday"
    07-15-1908 - Lee Erwin - Cincinnati, OH - d. 9-21-2000
    organist, arranger: Moneybags Erwin "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    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"
    08-08-1914 - Pete King - Greenville, OH - d. 9-21-1982
    conductor: (Pete King Chorale) "Bing Crosby Show"; "Doris Day Show"
    08-14-1926 - Alice Ghostly - Eve, MO - d. 9-21-2007
    actor: "Theatre Five"
    08-20-1918 - Jacqueline Susann - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-21-1974
    actor: Lola the Cigarette Girl "Morey Amsterdam Show"
    08-24-1905 - Charles C. Alsup - d. 9-21-1987
    sportscaster: KICS Clovis, New Mexico
    11-06-1910 - Donald Dickson - Clairton, PA - d. 9-21-1972
    singer: "Sealtest Party"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
    11-10-1920 - Jennifer Holt - Dorset, England - d. 9-21-1997
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Curtain Time"; "All-Star Western Theatre"
    12-10-1914 - Dorothy Lamour - New Orleans, LA - d. 9-21-1996
    singer, actor: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Front and Center"; "Sealtest
    Variety Show"
    12-14-1909 - "Symphony Sid" Torin - NYC - d. 9-21-1984
    disk jockey specializing in jazz. Worked for several New York stations

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:03:17 -0400
    From: Derek Tague <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Same [removed] Being Heard on Another Network

    Hi Gang:

    Yes, I know I haven't posted in quite but I'd like to take this opportunity
    to let everyone here on the Digest know that I can now be contacted at my new
    e-mail address which is [thatderek@[removed]].

    The reason for the change is because my long association with the Talking
    Book Productions  at American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) here in New York
    City comes to an end this coming Wednesday (23rd), three days shy of the
    twentieth anniversary of my 26th September 1989 start date. It was always fun
    speaking with clients, subscribers, and listeners/readers of Talking Books at
    various OTR conventions over the years. Since OTR has always been a
    blind-friendly hobby and endeavour, it is safe to say that there exists a
    great crossover appeal between OTR and audio recordings of books. Some of the
    great Talking Book narrators made their primary living from radio and
    voice-overs and I had the pleasure and privilege of having joined AFB at the
    tail end of an era where I actually got to work in-studio with some OTR
    hangers-on.

    I worked on both Robert Donley's and Ralph Bell's last books. There was also
    Helen Harrelson and Earle Hyman, who are both very much alive. However, there
    was also a second generation of actors who appeared in some 1970s retro-OTR,
    such as Gordon Gould, Catherine Byers, and Barbara Caruso, who all appeared
    on "The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre" throughout the 1970s, and the incomparable
    Suzanne Toren,  the "First Lady of Talking Books," who appeared in a few
    episodes of "The Eternal Light" also in the 1970s (incidentally, it's
    Suzanne's voice you hear dubbing in the voice of Gertrude Berg reading
    recipes over the radio in Yiddish near the beginning of the Aviva Kempner
    documentary "Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg").

    One of my biggest regrets is that we never received from the Library of
    Congress many OTR-themed books to record. Usually, such were either recorded
    in-house in Washington (such as Jack French's "Private Eyelashes" and John
    Dunning's "On the Air") or were sent to other providers located in
    Louisville, Denver, and Bethesda, Maryland. As one-time producer of "Talking
    Book Topics," an audio magazine that served as a catalogue of new titles, I'd
    seethe with envy when I saw other OTR books having been sent "to the
    provinces," We did, however,  have fun with Joan Benny's "Sunday Nights at
    Seven" (read by the aforementioned Suzanne Toren), Mel Blanc's autobiography
    "That's NOT All, Folks!" (read by my pal and co-cruciverbalist Christopher
    Hurt), and Melvin Patrick Ely's book on "Amos 'n' Andy" (read by the late
    John Stratton).

    Please rest assured that Library of Congress will still be commissioning
    Talking Books. They just won't be recorded by AFB any longer. AFB will be
    moving from 11 Penn Plaza across the street to 2 Penn Plaza with less office
    space, and without the Talking Book department and some other departments
    that are being relocated to our satellite office in Huntington, West Virginia.

    The last title to leave Dodge after a 74-year run  is a very dry narrative
    about anthro-archaeology titled "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How
    Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World," by
    David W. Anthony (catalogue number RC 67273), read by Ken Kliban. Ken is an
    actor who the brother of the late "Cats" cartoonist B. Kliban; he's also a
    tremendous OTR fan who can do a dead-on Frank Nelson impersonation. Once Ken
    and I broke into an impromptu version of "Si-Sy-Sue" with him as Mel Blanc
    and me feeding him Jack Benny's straight-lines -- much to the delight of a
    buncha twenty-something co-workers who had never heard it before.

    Well, everybody, you haven't gotten rid me. I'll be at FOTR next month and
    until I find a new job, I hope to have some free time to indulge more so in
    the OTR hobby and on this here "OTR Digest." I'm also available for my
    sideline doing NYC-centered research  -- please contact me off-list at my new
    e-mail [thatderek@[removed]].

    So for probably the last time, I'm going to leave all you fellow Digest-ers
    with one of my non-"ether" sign-offs:

    "These books are made for talkin'!"

    Derek Tague,
    Mayor of Etherville

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    Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:03:23 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sorry, Tonto, no birth [removed]

    I previously posted that a MWOTRC member in Erie, PA, Mark Anderson,
    had agreed to try and locate the birth certificate of Fred McCarthy,
    who under his professional name of John Todd, played Tonto on the
    long-running Lone Ranger series, as well as other characters in
    WXYZ's adventure shows.

    Fred's relatives are certain he was born in or near Crossingville, PA
    and probably on August 14, 1876. His parents were Dennis and Sarah,
    Irish immigrants. The problem is he "changed" his age a few times,
    including reducing it so he could enlist in the military. Even his
    Social Security records show only a date of death, not date of birth.

    During the last four weeks, Anderson has traveled the rural  roads of
    that area by bike and by foot. He's searched all available records,
    including some on the Internet, assisted by Irene Heinstein.  Bottom
    line: Tonto's birth certificate cannot be found. It's not in any
    county records nor church baptismal archives. (Erie County records
    only go back to 1906.) [removed] Census records of that period reflect
    numerous heads of household named "Dennis McCarthy" but none with a
    son named "Fred" or variations.

    Anderson visited the gravesite of the McCarthy family in the cemetery
    of St. James parish in Crossingville and photographed the marker.
    Beneath that family marker lie Dennis, Sarah and four of their eight
    children: Winnie, Eva, Fred, and Leo. Fred's name is accompanied by
    only "1876-1957."

    Alas, nothing more could be learned about this radio [removed]

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:03:51 -0400
    From: Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Brighter Day

    Perhaps someone can answer this. Was the opening "Our years are as the
    falling [removed] live, we love, we dream - and then we go. But somehow we
    keep hoping, don't we, that our dreams will come true on that brighter day"
    used both on radio and TV? When was it used? I think I've heard it once but
    can't recall where. The six surviving radio episodes don't have it. P&G
    claimed it had one TV ep. It hasn't been on any of the clips I've seen. Two
    more questions - are there any other known extant radio episodes, and does
    anyone know if there is a recording of the final TV ep from late September
    1962?

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    Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:05:03 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-22 births/deaths

    September 22nd births

    09-22-1870 - Arthur Pryor - St. Joseph, MO - d. 6-18-1942
    bandmaster, trombonist: "Cremo Military Band Program"; "Goodyear
    Program"
    09-22-1875 - Guy Bates Post - Seattle, WA - d. 1-16-1968
    actor: Ulysses S. Grant "Roses and Drums"
    09-22-1881 - Joe Parsons - Indianapolis, IN - d. 12-22-1947
    singer: Edelweiss Joe "The Sinclair Minstrels"; "The Yeast Foamers"
    09-22-1885 - George Gaul - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-6-1939
    actor: Jeb Stuart "Roses and Drums"; "Grits and Gravy"
    09-22-1891 - Alfred Shirley - d. 7-24-1967
    actor: Dr. John Watson "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
    09-22-1895 - Paul Muni - Lemberg, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-25-1967
    actor: "Free Company"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
    09-22-1900 - Hanley Stafford - Hanley, Staffordshire, England - d.
    9-9-1968
    actor: Mr. Higgins "Baby Snooks Show"; Julius C. Dithers "Blondie"
    09-22-1902 - John Houseman - Bucharest, Romania - d. 10-31-1988
    writer, producer: "Mercury Theatre on the Air"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    09-22-1904 - Clarence Nash - Watonga,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 2-20-1985
    actor: (voice of Donald Duck) "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
    09-22-1907 - Sheppard Strudwick - Hillsboro, NC - d. 1-15-1983
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Odyssey of Homer"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-22-1910 - Del Courtney - Oakland, CA - d. 2-11-2006
    bandleader: "Kodak Camera Show"
    09-22-1913 - Chuck Acree - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-4-1991
    emcee: "Hint Club"; We, the Wives"; Ladies Be Seated"
    09-22-1914 - Martha Scott - Jamesport, MO - d. 5-28-2003
    actor: Alice Blair "Career of Alice Blair"; "Somerset Maugham Theatre"
    09-22-1915 - Arthur Lowe - Hayfield, Derbyshire, England - d. 4-15-1982
    actor: Captain George Mainwaring "Dad's Army"
    09-22-1915 - Vincent Donehue - Whitehall, NY - d. 1-17-1966
    actor: Neil Davison "Home of the Brave"
    09-22-1917 - Richard C. Hottelet - Brooklyn, NY
    news correspondent: CBS news correspondent in Europe and New York
    09-22-1918 - Betty Wragge - NYC
    actor: Peggy Davis "Red Davis"; Peggy Young "Pepper Young's Family
    09-22-1926 - Sybil Trent - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-5-2000
    actor: "Let's Pretend"; Thelma "As the Twig is Bent/We Love and Learn"
    09-22-1932 - Allen Actor - d. 1-12-2004
    disc jockey: Orlando, Florida

    September 22nd deaths

    01-11-1888 - Charles Previn - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-22-1973
    conductor, pianist: "Sea Romances"; "Silken Strings"
    01-20-1919 - Tony Shryane - St. Austell, England - d. 9-22-2003
    BBC radio producer
    01-20-1921 - Connie Haines - Savannah, GA - d. 9-22-2008
    singer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Rhapsody in Rhythm"
    01-23-1899 - Jospeh Nathan Kane - NYC - d. 9-22-2002
    writer: "Break the Bank"
    02-14-1916 - Bill Murtaugh - Chagrin Falls, OH - d. 9-22-2006
    CBS sound engineer from 1944 to 1981
    03-14-1900 - Bernie Cummins - Akron, OH - d. 9-22-1986
    bandleader: "Coca-Cola Spotlight Bands Program"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
    03-22-1927 - Karl Hardman - Pittsuburgh, PA - d. 9-22-2007
    actor: Louie the Garbage Man, Roquefort O. Lafarge "Cordie and Company"
    03-24-1885 - Joseph Granby - Boston, MA - d. 9-22-1965
    actor: Mead Connors "We Are Always Young"
    04-09-1904 - Mickey Alpert - d. 9-22-1965
    orchestra leader: "Amalgamated Broadcasting System Inaugural Program"
    04-11-1893 - Lou Holtz - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-22-1980
    comedian: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    05-11-1888 - Irving Berlin - Temum, Russia - d. 9-22-1989
    composer: "Ed Sullivan Show"; "People's Platform"
    05-14-1917 - Norman Luboff - Chicago, IL - d. 9-22-1987
    choir director: (The Norman Luboff Choir) "The Railroad Hour"
    07-08-1928 - Royce Baerg - d. 9-22-2002
    disk jockey: KNEX McPherson, Kansas
    07-21-1920 - Isaac Stern - Kreminiecz, Ukraine, USSR - d. 9-22-2001
    violinist: "Jack Benny Program"; "New York Philharmonic"
    07-25-1903 - Percy Angwin - d. 9-22-1985
    sportscaster: WSKI Montpelier, Vermont
    09-13-1914 - Leonard Feather - London, England - d. 9-22-1994
    composer: "Esquire Jazz Concert"; "Mildred Bailey Show"; "One Night
    Stand'
    09-30-1902 - Harold Bechtel (Uncle Harry) - d. 9-22-1971
    actor: "Candy Matson"
    10-01-1898 - Curtiss Arnall - Cheyenne, WY - d. 9-22-1964
    actor: Buck Rogers, "Buck Rogers"
    11-11-1923 - Willie Cook - Tangipahoa, LA - d. 9-22-2000
    jazz trumpeter: "Voice of America"
    12-21-1910 - Mary Orr - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-22-2006
    author: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    12-24-1893 - Harry Warren - NYC - d. 9-22-1981
    composer: "Good News of 1940"; "Great Moments to Music"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:05:18 -0400
    From: JayHick@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  John Hart
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    According to his daughter, Robyn Hart Proiette, John Hart died on Sunday at
    age 91.   (This was sent by Terry Salomonson).

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    Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:05:53 -0400
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Man Who Could Work Miracles
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           I've recently received some radio cassettes with programs I can't
    seem to find air dates on.  One of them is "The Man Who Could Work
    Miracles" on which I need an air date.  I also need an episode guide
    for "The Adventures of Superman". The names of the eps which were
    provided are difficult to locate.  If anyone has any information on where
    I can find such information, please let me know off list.

    As always,

    Kenneth Clarke

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