Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #126
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Date: 7/4/2009 10:23 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 126
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      7-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Ed Walker and the Hall of Fame        [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Prep work?                            [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Which Warner, brother?                [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      The 39 Forever [removed]                [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Abraham Lincoln (and radio drama) li  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Lost Dragnet episode                  [ mikennancy2001@[removed] ]
      RE: Dragnet [removed] missing guns  [ K & J Hammel <haml@[removed]; ]
      The missing body in Dragnet           [ "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@[removed]; ]
      Re: Dragnet questions - Missing Guns  [ K & J Hammel <haml@[removed]; ]
      7-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:05:33 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-2 births/deaths

    July 2nd births

    07-02-1892 - Jack Hylton - Great Lever, England - d. 1-29-1965
    bandmaster: CBS 1935-1936 Sundays at 10:30 PM Standard Oil
    07-02-1910 - Earl Robinson - d. 7-20-1991
    composer: "The Pursuit of Happiness"
    07-02-1910 - Jeff Alexander - Whidbey Island, WA - d. 12-4-1989
    conductor: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Light Up Time"; "Tums Hollywood Theatre"
    07-02-1914 - Clint Alley - d. 3-9-1994
    sportscaster: WKOY West Virginia
    07-02-1916 - Barry Gray - Red Lion, NJ - d. 12-21-1996
    talk show host: "Barry Gray on Broadway"; "Scout About Town"
    07-02-1916 - Ken Curtis - Lamar, CO - d. 4-28-1991
    singing cowboy: "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    07-02-1921 - Paul Atkerson - d. 5-16-1988
    newscaster: KPHO Phoenix, Arizona
    07-02-1924 - Bryant Arbuckle - d. 6-27-1976
    disk jockey: WAIR Winston-Salem, North Carolina
    07-02-1927 - Brock Peters - NYC - d. 8-23-2005
    actor: Darth Vader "Star Wars"; "Earplay"
    07-02-1927 - Charlie Kennedy - Staten Island, NY - d. 4-3-2009
    saxophonist: "Gene Krupa's Band"; "Louis Prima's Band"
    07-02-1928 - John Timpson - Harrow, England - d. 11-19-2005
    presenter: "Today"
    07-02-1961 - Maria de Lourdes Hinojosa - Mexico City
    radio journalist: "Latino USA"

    July 2nd deaths

    01-17-1875 - Minetta Ellen - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-2-1965
    actor: Francis 'Fanny' Barbour "One Man's Family"
    01-31-1927 - Norman Prescott - Boston, MA - d. 7-2-2005
    producer: Boston radio
    03-27-1914 - Snooky Lanson - Memphis, TN - d. 7-2-1990
    singer: "Snooky Lanson Show"; "Your Hit Parade"
    04-11-1893 - Pat Flanagan - Clinton, IA - d. 7-2-1963
    sportscaster, announcer: CBS Network, WBBM in Chicago
    05-05-1915 - Ben Wright - London, England - d. 7-2-1989
    actor: Hey Boy "Have Gun, Will Travel"; Nicholas Lacey "One Man's
    Family"
    05-08-1910 - Nathan Van Cleave - Bayfield, WI - d. 7-2-1970
    music: "The Man Behind the Gun"; "This Is Your FBI"
    05-15-1910 - Walter Cassel - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 7-2-2000
    baritone: "General Motors Concerts"; "Calling America"
    05-20-1908 - James Stewart - Indiana, PA - d. 7-2-1997
    actor: Britt Ponset "Six Shooter"
    05-25-1929 - Beverly Sills - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-2-2007
    singer: "Major Bowes Capitol Family"; "Uncle Bob's Rainbow House"
    05-30-1920 - Franklin J. Schaffner - Tokyo, Japan - d. 7-2-1989
    writer, director: "World Security Workshop"; "The March of Time"
    06-03-1927 - Boots Randolph - Paducah, KY - d. 7-2-2007
    saxophonist: "Grand Ole Opry"
    06-09-1905 - Martha Boswell - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-2-1958
    singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "The Boswell Sisters"; "Woodbury Soap
    Show"
    06-10-1919 - Hal Simms - Boston, MA - d. 7-2-2002
    announcer: "The Steve Allen Show"; "Stop the Music!"
    06-15-1905 - James Robertson Justice - Wigtown, Scotland - d. 7-2-1975
    actor: "Star Bill"
    06-23-1884 - Marley R. Sherris - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-2-1956
    announcer: "Midweek Hymn Sing"; "National Vespers"
    07-09-1910 - Alfred Kreymborg - NYC - d. 7-2-1991
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
    07-10-1926 - Fred Gwynne - NYC - d. 7-2-1993
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-21-1899 - Ernest Hemingway - Oak Park, IL - d. 7-2-1961
    author: "NBC University Theatre"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    07-23-1936 - Don Drysdale - Van Nuys, CA - d. 7-2-1993
    baseball announcer: California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles
    Dodgers
    07-24-1898 - Amelia Earhart - Atchinson, KS - d. 7-2-1937
    aviatrix: "Amelia Earhart", "Cities Service Concerts"
    08-29-1927 - Marion Williams - Miami, FL - d. 7-2-1994
    gospel singer: "Soundstage"
    09-08-1906 - Orlo Bagley - d. 7-2-1986
    sportscaster: KOMB Cottage Grove, Oregon
    09-30-1896 - Howard Wright - San Diego, CA - d. 7-2-1990
    actor: "Lights Out"; "Mystery is My Hobby"; "Ma Perkins"
    10-04-1916 - Jan Murray - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-2-2006
    emcee: "Songs for Sale"; "Meet Your Match"
    10-13-1926 - Ray Brown - d. 7-2-2002
    jazz bassist: "Bands for Bonds"; "Here's to Veterans"; "White House
    Jazz Festival"
    11-09-1909 - Kay Thompson - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-2-1998
    singer: "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Tune-Up Time"
    11-16-1890 - George Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 7-2-1995
    journalist: His book "A Disease Called Fascism" adapted for "Words at
    War"
    12-14-1899 - DeFord Bailey - Smith County, TN - d. 7-2-1982
    harmonica soloist: "WSM's Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"
    12-18-1916 - Betty Grable - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-2-1973
    actor: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "So You Want to
    Lead a Band"
    xx-xx-xxxx - John Walsh - d. 7-2-1945
    actor: Private Homer Stubbs "Dear Mom"; Chuck Blair "Romance of Helen
    Trent"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:05:39 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ed Walker and the Hall of Fame

    MWOTRC's own Ed Walker has been nominated for the National Radio Hall of
    Fame.  Ed is one of four nominees in the "Local or Regional - Pioneer"
    category, and you can help by going to this address and casting your vote:

    [removed]

    The main web site for the Radio Hall of Fame is:  [removed]    There
    you will find details about all the nominees and categories.

    Many MWOTRC members will remember Ed doing the Joy Boys radio show with
    Willard Scott on WRC radio.
    On the HOF web site they describe "Ed Walker - the Washington, DC legend
    whose program 'Play it Again, Ed' aired on WMAL and garnered one of the
    largest audiences in DC radio history. Walker currently hosts the nostalgia
    show "The Big Broadcast" on WAMU airing radio programs from the 30s, 40s and
    50s."

    Help give Ed the recognition he deserves -- cast your vote today!

    Ed was a guest at the MANC Convention and will probably be a guest this year
    again.
    For more about Ed and Willard, you can also visit [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:06:31 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Prep work?

     From: ISRAEL COLON <colon@[removed];

>     Horn and Hardart  sponsored the Children's Hour

    Wonderful memories! When I first got to my "second hometown" in the late
    '70's, I believe there were two left - one on Lexington in the '20's (?), and
     the one a little east of Grand Central, that I think became the last
    [removed]

>     "Nickel Throwers" ... would literally throw the nickels onto  the
>     marble counter before you.  They never made mistakes

    Pre-counted stacks/groups?

    Best,
    -Craig W.

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:07:10 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Which Warner, brother?

     From: "Tom van der Voort"  <evander800@[removed];

>     'Gateway To Hollywood' ... features movie  industry
>     titans [removed] Warner and Jesse Lasky

    Tom, if it was an "industry titan," I'd guess it was JACK Warner, or [removed]
    Mayer?

    But - if it WAS [removed] Warner, the actor, I'd love to hear it.

    (Folks, did this wonderful Character Man - DeMille's Jesus, It's a
    Wonderful Life and many other Capras, etc. - do radio?)

    Best,
    -Craig

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:09:56 -0400
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The 39 Forever [removed]

    In euologizing Michael Jackson, Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger,
    who frankly looks old enough to know better, demonstrates a funadmental
    misunderstanding of Jack Benny's joke about being 39.  He claims that Benny
    was trying to be an enternally young celebrity with the act.  In the act,
    Benny's character was older than he was in real life.

    The column is online, free, here:

    [removed]

    The relevant quote
    is "When Jack Benny said he was 39, people thought it was a running joke.
    No. Jack Benny knew. Jack Benny was a genuine celebrity, so he decided to
    stay 39. His fans agreed. Jack Benny was always 39."

    But if you actually listen to the radio shows (or watch the TV shows), you'd
    know they are constantly joking about how old he really is.  There are
    erasure marks on his birth certificate.  Old women from his fan club say he
    was "before their time" when they meet him, he is bald, his joints creak,
    etc.  I mean, in hindsight, jokes aobut George Burns being tired and over
    the hill on a 1938 radio show become even funnier when you know that he
    lived to 100 and died in the 1990s.

    The fundamental joke about Benny's character was that it was a send-up of
    exactly the kind of vanity that encourages entertainers to try and deny
    their real ages and stay young forever.  He didn't "decide to stay 39," he
    just decided that it was funny that others in his field tried to do so.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:14:30 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Abraham Lincoln (and radio drama) lives again -
     for just one day next week!

    Dear Friends-

    (A reminder:)

    With thanks for the kind words about our shows in the past, another invite
    for those in the NY  area:

    [removed]#070909

    Best,
    -Craig  Wichman
    Quicksilver Radio Theater

    [removed] There may well be several FOTR stalwarts in the house, with which to
    mingle; and there will definitely be a famous sfx prop on hand, courtesy of
     Lister Max Schmid!

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:15:33 -0400
    From: mikennancy2001@[removed]
    To: old time radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lost Dragnet episode
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    Thanks to all of you who replied to the questons I had about the emergence of
    Frank [removed]  I seem to recall that the character of Ed Jacobs pinch-hit for
    Ben Romero until Frank Smith's character came [removed] I right in thinking
    this?

    Also, I am quite certain that there was a Dragnet radio episode with a
    character who was shot four times in the [removed] taped this episode when I
    was a very young kid and listened back to it often (the tape itself has long
    since disappeared).B  I remember that the shooter was a character named Abner
    who was being robbed and who shot at the perp; Abnder had a friend or
    colleague named Danville who was shot in the same encounter; Friday and Smith
    are interested in a man named Norman Halleck who turns out not to be their
    [removed]  Is any of this ringing a bell or am I just suffering from early
    Alzheimers?

    Mike in Mountain View

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:15:41 -0400
    From: K & J Hammel <haml@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: Dragnet [removed] missing gunshot victim
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    Just saw the mention of an episode of dragnet where someone was shot 4 times
    in the chest and then Friday and side kick couldn't locate the body.  [removed]
    this is a real dragnet episode, that I listened to [removed] I'll see if I
    can locate it.  The rest of story is that the 'victim' was a robber, who was
    shot by a store owner he and an accomplice sought to steal from.
    I think the 'victim' managed to get himself to a bus bench and hide in plain
    sight.  If I find the episode, I'll post the title.
    Kathy H.

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:17:17 -0400
    From: "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@[removed];
    To: "oldtime radio digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The missing body in Dragnet
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    Hello all,
    i certainly do remember the show.  They never found the dead person who was
    shot at a bus stop i believe.  It did happen.
    Robert Acosta

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:17:25 -0400
    From: K & J Hammel <haml@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Dragnet questions - Missing Gunshot Suspect

    I found the episode That Mike M had asked [removed] the one where the
    supposedly dead suspect went missing.  The title is "The Big Gone"
    appropriately enough.  Jerry Haendiges' log says it was broadcast on November
    30, 1954.

    The 'dead' guy and an accomplice robbed a florist shop, but the shop owner
    had a gun and put 4 bullets into the 'dead' guy.  When the police came to
    investigate, there is no body, but there was a few drops of blood on the
    sidewalk.

    I was not quite correct in my earlier post about the 'dead' guy being on the
    bus bench.  It wasn't the 'dead' guy, but rather his accomplice.  As Mike
    indicated, the 'dead' guy was not located by the end of the episode.

    Hope this helps.

    Kathy H.

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:17:31 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-3 births/deaths

    July 3rd births

    07-03-1878 - George M. Cohan - Providence, RI - d. 11-5-1942
    composer: "Collier Hour"; "Ed Sullivan Show"; "Free Company"
    07-03-1881 - Leon Errol - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-12-1951
    actor, comedian: WENR Chicago
    07-03-1890 - Herbert A. Bell - Rock Valley, IA - d. 1-30-1970
    radio manufacturer: Co-founder of Packard-Bell in 1945
    07-03-1899 - Herb Polesie - d. 6-8-1979
    panelist,director: "Twenty Questions"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
    07-03-1900 - John Mason Brown - Louisville, KY - d. 3-16-1969
    host-critic: "Of Men and Books"
    07-03-1903 - John Lake - Leesburg, VA - d. 6-28-1960
    actor: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Twelve Players"
    07-03-1903 - Wynne Gibson - NYC - d. 5-15-1987
    actor: Amah "Thanks for Tomorrow"; Angie "When a Girl Marries"
    07-03-1906 - George Sanders - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 4-25-1972
    host: "High Adventure"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "[removed] Steel Hour";
    "Cavalcade of America"
    07-03-1908 - Robert B. Meyner - Phillipsburg, NJ - d. 5-27-1990
    governor new jersey: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    07-03-1911 - Pembroke Davenport - Dallas, TX - d. 1-27-1985
    pianist, arranger: "Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians"
    07-03-1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen - Chicago, IL - d. 11-8-1965
    commentator: "Voice of Broadway"; "Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick"
    07-03-1915 - Jerry Gray - Boston MA - d. 8-10-1976
    bandleader: "I Sustain the Wings"; "Philip Morris Frolics"; "Club 15"
    07-03-1919 - Fred Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 10-29-1992
    bass: "Maddox Family Band"
    07-03-1920 - Louise Allbritton - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 2-16-1979
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "This Is My Best"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-03-1926 - Anne Gerety - NYC - d. 10-25-2003
    actor: Aunt Bery "Star Wars"
    07-03-1930 - Pete Fountain - New Orleans, LA
    dixieland clarinetist: "New Year's All-Star Parade of Bands"
    07-03-1930 - Robert Robertson - St. Andrews, Scotland - d. 1-16-2001
    actor: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    07-03-1937 - Tom Stoppard - Zlin, Czechoslovakia
    writer: "Earplay Weekday Theatre"; "The Dissolution of Dominic Boot"

    July 3rd deaths

    01-02-1925 - Larry Harmon - Toledo, OH - d. 7-3-2008
    actor: "The Great Gildersleeve"
    02-25-1913 - Jim Backus - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-3-1989
    comedian: Hubert Updike "Alan Young Show"; Chester Fenwick "Sad Sack"
    03-22-1920 - Ross Martin - Grodek, Poland - d. 7-3-1981
    actor: Soap Opera "Janice Grey"
    03-25-1914 - Forrest Bartlett - d. 7-3-2006
    newscaster: KGER Long Beach, California
    03-27-1921 - Harold Nicholas - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 7-3-2000
    dancer: (The Nicholas Brothers) "Big Broadcast of 1936"; "Ben Bernie
    Show"
    05-07-1906 - Irving Reis - NYC - d. 7-3-1953
    director: "The Free Company"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Brave New World"
    07-28-1901 - Rudy Vallee - Island Pond, VT - d. 7-3-1986
    singer, bandleader, emcee: (The Vagabond Lover) "Fleischmann Hour";
    Rudy Vallee Show"
    08-06-1914 - Dorothy Ashmore - d. 7-3-1989
    women's programming: WCAT Orange, Massachusetts
    10-08-1919 - Gabriel Dell - Barbados, British West Indies - d. 7-3-1988
    actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
    10-23-1918 - James Daly - Wisconsin Rapids, WI - d. 7-3-1978
    actor: "Monitor"
    11-02-1899 - Evelyn MacGregor - Pittsfield, MA - d. 7-3-1967
    singer: " American Melody Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    11-16-1913 - Jack "Smilin' Jack" Smith - Bainbridge Island, WA - d.
    7-3-2006
    singer: "Breezing Along"; "Prudential Family Hour"; "Jack Smith Show"
    12-22-1885 - Deems Taylor - NYC - d. 7-3-1966
    commentator: "Deems Taylor Music Series"; "Prudential Family Hour";
    "RCA Victor Show"
    12-24-1920 - John Barron - London, England - d. 7-3-2004
    actor: "Dad's Army"; "Brothers In Law"

    Ron

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