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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 99
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      4-18 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Amos 'n Andy cartoons                 [ "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@earthli ]
      The only accounting for taste, is by  [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
      The Lone Ranger Meets Sgt. Preston?   [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
      Amos & Andy Christmas Episode         [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      The Lone Ranger                       [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      Cinc was great                        [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      Cincy Hotel vs. Crown Plaza           [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Schools of the Air                    [ JayHick@[removed] ]
      4-19 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:17:57 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-18 births/deaths

    April 18th births

    04-18-1857 - Clarence Darrow - Kinsman, OH - d. 3-13-1938
    lawyer: " Scopes "Monkey" trial, WGN Chicago"
    04-18-1880 - Donald Crisp - Aberfeldy, Scotland - d. 5-25-1974
    actor: Jonathan Trimble "Jonathan Trimble, Esquire"
    04-18-1882 - Leopold Stokowski - London, England - d. 9-13-1977
    conductor: "NBC Symphony/Symphony of the Air"
    04-18-1887 - Bill Hay - Dumfires, Scotland - d. 10-12-1978
    announcer: "Amos 'n' Andy"
    04-18-1889 - Gene Carroll - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1972
    comedian: Lena, the maid "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    04-18-1902 - Harry Owens - O'Neil, NE - d. 12-12-1986
    bandleader: "Hawaii Calls"; "Sweet Leilani Time"; Harry Owens and His
    Orchestra"
    04-18-1904 - Pigmeat Markham - Durhan, N - d. 12-13-1981
    comedian: ("order in the court ' cuz here come da judge) "Jubilee"
    04-18-1907 - Miklos Rozsa - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-27-1995
    composer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-18-1907 - Stephen Longstreet - NYC - d. 2-20-2002
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-18-1908 - Irra Petina - Petrograd, Russia - d. 1-19-2000
    singer: "The Railroad Hour"
    04-18-1911 - Louis Vittes - d. 4-21-1969
    writer: "Advs. of The Thin Man"; "Affairs of Peter Salem"; "The Lone
    Wolf"
    04-18-1912 - Al Hodge - Ravenna, OH - d. 3-19-1979
    actor: Britt Reid/Green Hornet "Green Hornet"; "Columbia Workshop"
    04-18-1912 - Fred De Denise - NYC
    drummer: "Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra"
    04-18-1912 - Wendy Barrie - Hong Kong, China - d. 2-2-1978
    hostess, actor: "Detect and Collect"; "Jack Haley Show"; "Star for a
    Night"
    04-18-1914 - Ben Bezoff - d. 12-30-1979
    newscaster: WKY Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; KMYR Denver, Colorado
    04-18-1918 - Page Gilman - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-1-2006
    actor: Jack Barbour "One Man's Family"; "Memory Lane"
    04-18-1918 - Tony Mottola - Kearney, NJ - d. 8-9-2004
    jazz guitarist: "Gordon MacRae Gulf Spray Show"; "Burl Ives Sings"
    04-18-1921 - Barbara Hale - DeKalb, IL
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "This Is Hollywood"
    04-18-1921 - Jay L. McMullen - Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-18-1992
    news commentator: "Babies: [removed]"
    04-18-1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Vinton, LA - d. 9-10-2005
    singer, guitarist: "Newport Jazz Festival"
    04-18-1925 - Bob Hastings - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: Archie Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Jerry "Sea Hound"
    04-18-1929 - Walt Levinsky - New Jersey - d. 12-14-1999
    clarinetist: Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra; Benny Goodman and His
    Orchestra
    04-18-1937 - Robert Hooks - Washington, [removed]
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    04-18-1941 - John J. Jackson - d. 3-17-2004
    rock-radio personality
    04-18-1949 - Larry Albert - Souix Falls, SD
    actor: Harry Nile "Advs. of Harry Nile"

    April 18th deaths

    02-18-1930 - John Patton, Jr. - Garland City, AR - d. 4-18-2005
    tenor: Hosted a popular radio program in Los Angeles
    02-25-1896 - John Parrish - Lindenhurst, NY - d. 4-18-1988
    actor: "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; "Life Can Be Beautiful"
    02-28-1893 - Ben Hecht - NYC - d. 4-18-1964
    panelist, writer: "Information, Please"; "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
    03-14-1879 - Albert Einstein - Ulm, Germany - d. 4-18-1955
    physicist: "The Quick and the Dead"
    04-04-1901 - Gay Seabrook - Seattle, WA - d. 4-18-1970
    actor: Susabelle "Joe Penner Show"
    04-09-1916 - Ann Morrison - Sioux City, IA - d. 4-18-1978
    actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Escape"
    07-04-1911 - Olga Druce - d. 4-18-2004
    director: "House of Mystery"; "When a Girl Marries"
    08-03-1900 - Ernie Pyle - Dana, IN - d. 4-18-1945
    world war II correspondent: "Words at War"; "Cavalcade of America"
    08-27-1929 - Dick Vosburgh - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 4-18-2007
    writer: "Breakfast with Braden"
    09-03-1910 - Kitty Carlisle - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-18-2007
    singer: "Song Shop"; "RCA Magic Key"
    09-29-1915 - Norton Mockridge - NYC - d. 4-18-2004
    newspaper columnist: Hosted radio program on CBS radio (1964-1970)
    10-06-1914 - Thor Heyerdahl - Larvik, Norway - d. 4-18-2002
    archaeologist: "London Column"
    10-09-1888 - Irving Cummings - NYC - d. 4-18-1959
    host: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-20-1929 - Kenneth Schermerhorn - Schenactady, NY - d. 4-18-2005
    conductor: "Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra"
    11-25-1897 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith - Goshen, NY - d. 4-18-1973
    jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    12-06-1888 - Will Hay - Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 4-18-1949
    comedian: British Radio

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:55:16 -0400
    From: "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Amos 'n Andy cartoons

    I was just poking around [removed] wondering if there were any A&A
    radio shows. Not so much, but some TV excerpts, some Victor records, and
    2 cartoons that I had never heard of before. Lion Tamer & Rasslin' Match

    Perhaps Elizabeth could give us a little more background on these?

    joe salerno

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    Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:55:44 -0400
    From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
    To: Time Radio Digest Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The only accounting for taste, is by taste

    True, everyone has a right to his/her opinion.  Far be
    it from me to argue with someone's taste.  I love Amos
    n Andy and always have, since I was a kid.  However,
    it does bother me when it is said that the program is,
    by today's standards, politically incorrect.  I have
    no idea why anyone would consider this program
    politically incorrect because the three main male
    characters are all very different from one another. I
    would concede that Amos n Andy is as politically
    incorrect as My Friend Irma, if you could prove to me
    that Irma Peterson is dumb because she is Caucasion.

    Stuart (Traveling in beautiful Western NY)

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    Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:56:42 -0400
    From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Lone Ranger Meets Sgt. Preston?

    "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed]; commented:

>     In fact, the earliest Ranger adventure I can find takes place in
>     1826!  It
>     is the Kit Carson episode of July 17, 1944.  [I]t specifically
>     mentions the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who
>     died on the same date, July 4, 1826.  ...Shortly after the Carson
>     episode (August
>     7th), he involves the Ranger with outlaw Al Jennings.  This episode is
>     specifically set in 1896!

    So, if The Lone Ranger was in his prime in the earlier show, he must
    have been pushing 100 in the latter one. Certainly clean living and
    lots of fresh air and exercise would have helped him reach that ripe
    old age. And, perhaps, certain medicinal herbs Tonto might have
    prepared. Which means, also, that The Lone Ranger was still fighting
    crime at the time of the Yukon Gold Rush, just a state and a province
    away from Utah. So it's not hard to imagine the Lone Ranger meeting
    up with his fellow lawman. I know there was some mention of the Lone
    Ranger in The Green Hornet. As far as I know there was no cross-over
    in The Challenge of the Yukon series. But I'd like to learn
    different. BTW, re: a thread that has come up in the past about an
    "inappropriate" LR premium, a flashlight, this was also about the
    time of the invention of the electric torch.

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    Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:57:13 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Amos & Andy Christmas Episode

>     Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:41:04 -0400
>     From: "Andolina, Joe" <Joe_Andolina@[removed];

>     My choice would be Amos N' Andy's Christmas episode I believe from
>     1950 where Andy gets a job as a Department Store Santa.

    Funny, you want to use that episode to introduce someone to otr and
    Ronald Sayles thinks that's the worst possible episode.

    I believe this episode was re-made as a TV episode.  At least it
    sounds very much like a TV episode that I saw in which Andy gets a
    job as a department store Santa.  It was interesting seeing him in
    the costume, with the white beard.  I was about 9 or 10 years old
    when I saw it, and I remarked "But Santa Claus isn't colored!"  And
    my father replied, "To colored people, he can be colored."   This was
    one episode which put the lie to the charge that Amos & Andy
    perpetuated anti-black stereotypes.  As I recall, all Andy's bosses
    in the department store were black, too.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:57:45 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Lone Ranger

>     Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:13:22 -0400
>     From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];

>     Mr. Ross's more interesting point is that the Ranger's adventures
>     seem to involve feats that take place before the Civil War.

    Actually, I said just the opposite.  Most westerns seem to be set in
    the latter part of the 19th Century, which was a major period of
    development of the west.  Episodes in 1826 and in the Mexican War are
    inconsistent with the Lone Ranger's origin as a Texas Ranger.  There
    cannot have been a Lone Ranger before there were Texas Rangers, which
    some quick research discloses were formally constituted by the
    Provisional Government of Texas in 1835.

    These early stories are also inconsistent with the LR's nephew, Dan
    Reid, being alive as the Green Hornet's father in the 20th Century.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:58:48 -0400
    From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Cinc was great

    Like many of you, I had a great time again this year in Cincinnati.  My only
    comment about the hotel is we needed MORE CHAIRS!!!  There was no place to
    sit in the lobby outside the rooms, there was only one chair per dealers
    table, and none for the customers, and out in the main lobby was a huge
    expanse of empty tile floor  with only a couple of small tables and four
    chairs in one corner.  Perhaps I was a bit more sensitive about this than
    usual, because as some of you who have listened to my broadcasts on
    YesterdayUSA or heard Dan Hughes tell everybody he saw, I had a pacemaker
    installed the previous Friday.  With that little machine and seven pills a
    day my weakened heart has been feeling better, but I found myself that
    weekend unable to stand for more than five minutes at a time.  So I kept on
    stealing (and returning) Terry S's extra chair so I could sit while spending
    scads of money at the dealers' tables.   I can feel for Keven Hartnell who
    couldn't attend while recovering from a pulmonary embolism.  We'll see each
    other next year!

    It was great getting to see a lot of friends there, and thanks for asking
    about my daughter Leah, who couldn't come because of a busy time at college.
    It was great having a chance to sit down with Neal Ellis and do a number of
    YesterdayUSA broadcasts with him.  We had only briefly chatted at past
    conventions, but didn't really know each other till this time.  And
    hopefully Martin's efforts to boost publicity will make next year bigger
    than ever.  We'll say more on Sunday nite at 11:30 EDT on YesterdayUSA.

    Michael Biel   mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:45:29 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Cincy Hotel vs. Crown Plaza

    I have to back up Travis.  Ken Stockinger and I had a discussion a couple
    months ago about hotels that hold conventions.  If you get a hotel that is
    like the Hotel Astor, you'll be paying BIG bucks to stay there.  The
    Lancaster Convention Center just sent me material last week (no, I won't be
    moving MANC there) and the cheapest room is $149 per night, and that's with
    the convention rate.  $229 per night is regaular.  If people are willing to
    sacrifice decent rooms for price, $70 per night is better.  In short, people
    will complain either because of the price or because of the room, and I'd
    rather pay a cheap price.  I only sleep and shower in the room.  I don't live
    in it.  For $79 a night like Bob's convention, I'll take a missing ceiling
    tile, too.

    Bob mentioned Crowne Plaza.  I highly recommend people book their rooms now.
    Reason why is because I've stayed at the Crowne Plaza a number of times.  The
    Pulpcon Convention in Dayton (this year's dates is August, [removed])
    is held at the Crowne Plaza and it really is the best hotel I have ever
    stayed in - ever.  There will be more than a minor improvement, it'll be a
    dramatic improvement.  And if the hotel right now is charging their usual
    convention rate, grab it now.  Don't procrastinate.

    By the way, Don Ramlow directs a radio recreation at Pulpcon, so anyone
    within driving distance is encouraged to come attend and if they want, try
    out for a role.  It's a nice convention.

    Martin

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    Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:48:32 -0400
    From: JayHick@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Schools of the Air
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     From McFarland ;   1-800-253-2187; Web ([removed])

    Schools of the Air
    A History of Instructional Programs on Radio in the United States
    William Bianchi
    ISBN 978-0-7864-3058-1
    photos, tables, notes, bibliography, index
    336pp. softcover (7 x 10) 2008
    $45
    Available for immediate shipment
    Description
    Born in the 1920s during the emergence of radio, schools of the air broadcast
    an impressive array of instructional programs for the classroom. These
    broadcast schools operated at the national, state and local levels; issued
    teacher
    manuals and learning materials; and offered enormous educational resources to
    students in both rural and urban areas. This work gives the history of 14
    schools of the air, and fills an important gap in scholarship about American
    education and broadcast media. The book also assesses the successes and
    failures of
    the school of the air movement, and examines reasons for its demise.

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    Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:23:53 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-19 births/deaths

    April 19th births

    04-19-1858 - May Robson - Melbourne, Australia - d. 10-20-1943
    actor: Aunt May Webster "Lady of Millions"
    04-19-1888 - William Axt - d. 2-12-1959
    musical director: "Major Bowes Capitol Family Program"
    04-19-1891 - Ralph Jewell - d. 5-xx-1964
    Played cornet for various bands around Detroit and WXYZ
    04-19-1897 - Vivienne Segal - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-29-1992
    actor: "Jantzen Radio Program"
    04-19-1900 - George O'Brien - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-23-1985
    actor: "Anchors Aweigh"
    04-19-1907 - Lin Basquette - San Mateo, CA - d. 9-30-1994
    actor: "Whatever Became of  . . . "
    04-19-1913 - Sylvia Froos - New York - d. 3-28-2004
    singer: "Sylvia Froos Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
    04-19-1915 - Albert Buhrman - Springfield, MO - d. 1-29-1999
    organist: "Murder at Midnight"; "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
    04-19-1915 - Betty Winkler - Berwick, PA - d. 6-4-2002
    actor: Joyce Jordan "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; Rosemary Levy "Abie's Irish
    Rose"
    04-19-1920 - Frank Fontaine - Cambridge, MA - d. 8-4-1978
    comedian: John L. C. Sivoney "Jack Benny Program"
    04-19-1937 - Elinor Donahue - Tacoma, WA
    actor: "The Search"
    04-19-1942 - Noah Adams - Ashland, KY
    host: "All Things Considered"
    04-19-1977 - Martin Grams. Jr. - Baltimore, MD
    old time radio historian

    April 19th deaths

    01-05-1910 - Lumpy Brannum - Sandwich, IL - d. 4-19-1987
    bass: "Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians"
    02-20-1888 - Muriel Starr - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-19-1950
    actor: Susan Leighton "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    03-06-1917 - Frankie Howerd - York, England - d. 4-19-1992
    comedian: "Frankie Howerd Show"
    03-08-1911 - Heinie Beau - Calvary, WI - d. 4-19-1987
    composer/arranger: composed for radio, televison and movies
    04-05-1926 - Stan Levy - d. 4-19-2005
    jazz drummer: "Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra"
    04-22-1900 - Joan Blaine - Fort Dodge, IA - d. 4-19-1949
    actor: Joan Houston "Tale of Today"; Mary Marlin "Story of Mary Marlin"
    04-29-1897 - Charles Seel - NYC - d. 4-19-1980
    actor: "Romance"; "Four-Star Playhouse"; "The Halls of Ivy"
    05-10-1930 - June Knox-Mawer - Wrexham, England - d. 4-19-2006
    host: "The Women's Hour"
    05-13-1907 - Daphne du Maurier - London, England - d. 4-19-1989
    author: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Matinee Theatre"; "Romance"; "Escape"
    05-18-1908 - Lorene Scott - d. 4-19-1983
    actor: Maria Hawkins "Young Widder Brown"
    06-18-1910 - Russ Hodges - Dayton, TN - d. 4-19-1971
    sportscaster: "Giants win the pennant, Giants win the pennant, Giants
    win the pennant"
    07-01-1920 - Ronnie Bonner - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-19-1991
    song writer: "Uncle Wip"
    07-30-1909 - Gordon Hughes - d. 4-19-1999
    director: "Lights Out"; "The Guiding Light"
    09-05-1914 - Nancy Ordway - Fort Warden, WA - d. 4-19-2005
    actor: Helen Holden "Helen Holden, Government Girl"
    09-10-1907 - Alvin Childress - Meridian, MS - d. 4-19-1986
    actor: "New World A-Coming"
    10-02-1921 - Scott Crossfield - Berkely, CA - d. 4-19-2006
    test pilot: "Great Moments To Music"
    10-30-1911 - Ruth Hussey - Providence, RI - d. 4-19-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-28-1891- Ethel Wilson - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-19-1980
    actor: Aunt Harriett "The Aldrich Family"; May Case "Lora Lawton"
    11-29-1918 - Michael O'Duffy - Derry, Ireland - d. 4-19-2003
    lyric tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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