Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #202
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Date: 8/21/2008 4:11 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 202
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      RIP Guy LeBow                         [ seandd@[removed] ]
      NYT Article on Advertising in Entert  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Resquiat en pacem                     [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      8-19 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Sergeant Preston's First Name         [ Jim Harmon <jimharmonotr@[removed] ]
      Sergeant Preston's first name         [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
      8-20 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      8-21 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Script Recreations                    [ "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed] ]
      Bill Ely, OTR artist                  [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Jim Harmon                            [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:26:58 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RIP Guy LeBow

    Radio sportcaster Guy LeBow is remembered by the New York Post's Phil Musnick
    here:

    [removed]
    [removed]

    Also, for fans of Eddie Carroll's one man show on Jack Benny, he'll in San
    Diego this December.  Apparently, the venue just released its schedule for
    the whole season, hence the early warning.

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:27:21 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  NYT Article on Advertising in Entertainment

    This is all about TV and movies, but it references so many actors and movies
    that had radio links, I figure it is fair game. Mr. Blandings builds his
    dream house, the hucksters, Andy Griffith, Rod Serling and others are
    prominent.

    [removed];ref
    =business

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:27:47 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Resquiat en pacem

     From: JayHick@[removed]

>     I recently found out that Joan Beck, Barney  Beck's widow, died Dec 1 of last
>     year.

    Though the tidings are bad, thanks for sharing them, Jay.

>     She attended our FOTR convention for many years<

    She was a faithful fan, until a year or so ago, when her own health  did not
    allow (Barney's had failed years before.)

    And I will always recall her very gracious words about the work of this  "new
    face" out there.

    Sincerely,
    -Craig

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:28:17 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-19 births/deaths

    August 19th births

    08-19-1870 - Bernard Baruch - Camden, SC - d. 6-20-1965
    guest: "Tex and Jinx"
    08-19-1873 - Fred Stone - Longmont, CO - d. 3-6-1959
    comedian: "Gulf Headliners"
    08-19-1889 - Don "Uncle Don" Carney - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-14-1954
    host: "Uncle Don"; "Friendship Village"; "Dog Chats"
    08-19-1902 - Colleen Moore - Port Huron, MI - d. 1-25-1988
    actor: "Whatever Became of . . . ."
    08-19-1902 - Ogden Nash - Rye, NY - d. 5-19-1971
    poet: "Three Ring Time"; "Kaleidoscope"
    08-19-1903 - Claude Dauphin - Corbeil, France - d. 11-17-1978
    actor: "As Easy as [removed]"
    08-19-1903 - Fran Striker - Buffalo, NY - d. 9-4-1962
    creator, writer: "The Lone Ranger"; "Sgt. Preston of the Yukon"; "The
    Green Hornet"
    08-19-1903 - Muriel Kirkland - Yonkers, NY - d. 9-26-1971
    actor: Mary Marlin "Story of Mary Marlin"; Mary Todd "Honest Abe"
    08-19-1910 - Evelyn Antonsen - d. 8-18-2002
    violinist: WCCO Minneapolis, Minnesota
    08-19-1913 - Harry F. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 6-28-1982
    singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
    08-19-1915 - Ring Lardner, Jr. - Chicago, IL - d. 10-31-2000
    screenwriter: (Member of the Hollywood Ten) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-19-1916 - Marie Wilson - Anaheim, CA - d. 11-23-1972
    actor: Irma Peterson "My Friend Irma"
    08-19-1917 - Muriel M. Bell - d. 8-26-1997
    woman's programming: WBOB Galax, Virginia
    08-19-1918 - Giles Cooper - Carrickmines, Ireland - d. 12-2-1966
    writer: "Thieves Rush In"
    08-19-1921 - Gene Roddenberry - El Paso, TX - d. 10-24-1991
    writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    08-19-1922 - Lester Fletcher - Cardiff, Wales - d. 12-8-1989
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes"; "FBI in Peace and War"
    08-19-1928 - Norman Brooks - Montreal, Canada - d. 9-14-2006
    actor: "The Best Things In Life Are Free"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
    08-19-1930 - David Guy Compton - London, England
    author: "Blind Man's Bluff"
    08-19-1933 - Debra Paget - Denver, CO
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
    08-19-1946 - Bill Clinton - Hope, AR
    [removed] president: Saturday morning presidential broadcast

    August 19th deaths

    01-14-1913 - Mary Rita Stewart - d. 8-19-1995
    dancer, singer: (The Three Debutantes) "Irene"
    02-17-1924 - Mel Welles - NYC - d. 8-19-2005
    worked as a radio disc jockey before moving to Hollywood in the 1950s
    03-11-1907 - Jessie Matthews - London, England - d. 8-19-1981
    actor: Mrs. Mary Dale "The Dale's"
    05-21-1915 - Kathleen Cordell - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-19-1997
    actor: Marion Burton Sullivan "Second Mrs. Burton"; Monica Brewster
    "Valiant Lady"
    06-15-1894 - Robert Russell Bennett - Kansas City, MO - d. 8-19-1981
    compser: "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"; "Project Twenty"
    06-20-1890 - Effie Palmer - Albany, NY - d. 8-19-1942
    actor: Jean Evans "Lonely Woman"; Dodie Black "Scattergood Baines"
    06-29-1913 - Hilliard Marks - d. 8-19-1982
    producer: (Brother of Mary Livingston) "The Jack Benny Show"
    10-02-1890 - Groucho Marx - NYC - d. 8-19-1977
    comedian: "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel"; "Blue Ribbon Town"; "You
    Bet Your Life"
    11-04-1917 - Jean King - Dallas, TX - d. 8-19-1993
    disk jockey: Lonesome Gal "Lonesome Gal"
    11-28-1910 - Russell Napier - Perth, Australia - d. 8-19-1974
    actor: "Midweek Theatre"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:28:25 -0400
    From: Jim Harmon <jimharmonotr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Sergeant Preston's First Name

    SERGEANT PRESON'S FIRST NAME

    One of the half hour radio shows and a children's record which I still have
    called "The Case that Made Preston a Sergeant" has a line: "Constable Bill
    Preston hoped this would be the case that made him a [removed]"  In my
    book, Great Radio Heroes, I made him the more formal Sergeant William
    Preston.   While I admire the research of Martin Grams Jr.  I would been
    around so long I just remember a lot of this stuff.   I also recall some
    publicity for the television series gave Preston the first name of "Frank".
    Maybe whoever wrote that handout did not know of the radio show and record or
    someone just decided to change the name.   Perhaps in full it is Sergeant
    William Frank Preston. -- JIM HARMON

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:36:23 -0400
    From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sergeant Preston's first name

    I don't know either if Sgt. Preston's first name was ever used in the 30
    minute adventures of "Challenge of the Yukon", as Joe Ross asked, but there
    is a 15-minute adventure that was issued sometime in the late 1940's or
    early 1950's as a special recording (I don't know either if it was on Decca,
    as were the Lone Ranger adventures, or some other label), in which actor
    Paul Sutton casually introduces himself as "Bill Preston".

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:36:37 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-20 births/deaths

    August 20th births

    08-20-1881 - Edgar Guest - Birmingham, England - d. 8-5-1959
    poet: (Poet Laureate of Radio) "Edgar Guest in Welcome Valley"; "It
    Can Be Done"
    08-20-1888 - Julia Sanderson - Springfield, MA - d. 1-27-1975
    singer, emcee: "Blackstone Plantation"; "Battle of the Sexes"; "Let's
    Be Charming"
    08-20-1905 - Jack Teagarden - Vernon, TX - d. 1-15-1964
    trombonist: "Eddie Condon"s Jazz Concert"; "Paul Whiteman Show"
    08-20-1906 - Floyd Neal - Iowa - d. 12-22-1985
    announcer: "Uncle Don"; "Vienese Night"
    08-20-1907 - Alan Reed (aka Teddy Bergman) - NYC - d. 6-14-1977
    actor: Falstaff Openshaw "Fred Allen Show"; Pasquale "Life with Luigi"
    08-20-1908 - Al Lopez - Tampa, FL - d. 10-29-2005
    baseball hall of fame: "Greatest Sports Thrills"; "Tops In Sports"
    08-20-1908 - Andre Baruch - Paris, France - d. 9-15-1991
    announcer, disc jockey: "Your Hit Parade"; "Kate Smith Program";
    "Myrt and Marge"
    08-20-1911 - Robert Riley Crutcher - Missouri - d. 8-10-1974
    writer: "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"; "Eddie Bracken Show"
    08-20-1912 - Gerald Dickler - NYC - d. 2-13-1999
    first legal counsel to the radio's union
    08-20-1915 - Virginia Vass - Greenville, SC
    singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phoenix Program"
    08-20-1916 - Bernard Archard - London, England - d. 5-1-2008
    actor: "The Murder of Walter Raleigh"
    08-20-1917 - Catherine McCune - Honolulu, Hawiian Territory
    actor: Clara Potts "Scattergood Baines"; "Joe Penner Show"
    08-20-1918 - Henry Leff - NYC - d. 8-12-2007
    actor: Ray Mallard "Candy Matson, YU2-8209"
    08-20-1918 - Jacqueline Susann - Philadelphis, PA - d. 9-21-1974
    actor: Lola the Cigarette Girl "Morey Amsterdam Show"
    08-20-1920 - Stefan Hatos - Aurora, IL - d. 3-2-1999
    producer, writer, announcer: "Beulah"; "The Green Hornet"
    08-20-1923 - Jim Reeves - nr. Galloway, Panola County, TX - d. 7-31-1964
    country singer: "Jim Reeves Show"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Style
    [removed]"
    08-20-1929 - Frank Bresee - Los Angeles, CA
    actor: Little Beaver "Red Ryder"
    08-20-1933 - Ted Donaldson - NYC
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    08-20-1935 - Justin Tubb - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-14-1998
    performer: "Grand Ole Opry"

    August 20th deaths

    01-16-1901 - Sid Silvers - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-20-1976
    actor: Beetle "Phil Baker Show"; "Jack Benny Program"
    01-21-1919 - Louis Innis - Seymour, IN - d. 8-20-1982
    guitar: "Plantation Boys"
    03-12-1908 - William Lally - New York - d. 8-20-1956
    actor: "The NBC University Theatre"
    03-16-1916 - Walter Reed - Fort Ward, Bainbridge Island, WA - d.
    8-20-2001
    actor: "The Bombadier"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-16-1912 - Ilona Massey - Budapest, Hungary - d. 8-20-1974
    actor: Mata Hari-style operative in World War II "Top Secret";
    "Screen Guild Theatre"
    08-23-1905 - Rags Ragland - Louisville, KY - d. 8-20-1946
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    11-11-1897 - James Goss - Chicago, IL - d. 8-20-1976
    actor: Uncle Jim Fairfield "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
    12-19-1925 - Lillian Clark - Scranton, PA - d. 8-20-1996
    singer: (Clark Sisters) "Jack Smith Show"; "Spotlight Revue"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:36:48 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-21 births/deaths

    August 21st births

    08-21-1882 - Helen Carew - Kansas - d. 3-7-1980
    actor: Vera Johnson "Stella Dallas"; "Mrs. Mitchell "Barry Cameron"
    08-21-1890 - Bill Henry - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-24-1970
    commentator: Chief CBS Correspondent
    08-21-1895 - Benny Davis - NYC - d. 12-20-1979
    lyricist: "Benny Davis Stardust"
    08-21-1896 - Marie Blake - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1978
    actor: (Sister of Janette MacDonald) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-21-1900 - Ken Carpenter - Avon, IL - d. 10-16-1984
    announcer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "One Man's Family"; "Edgar Bergen/
    Charlie McCarthy Show"
    08-21-1904 - William Allen "Count" Basie - Red Bank, NJ - d. 4-26-1994
    bandleader: "Command Performance"; "Jubilee"
    08-21-1907 - Carlton Kadell - Danville, IL - d. 3-14-1975
    announcer, actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Red Ryder "Red Ryder"
    08-21-1907 - Hy Zaret - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-29-2007
    composer: "Music for Millions"; "I Love You Joe"
    08-21-1908 - Bob Jellison - Des Moines, IA - d. 4-21-1980
    actor: Oswald Ching "Story of Mary Marlin"; Buster Gunn "Great Gunns"
    08-21-1908 - Tom Tully - Durango, CO - d. 4-27-1982
    actor: Charles Martin "Stella Dallas"
    08-21-1911 - Anthony Boucher - Oakland, CA - d. 4-29-1968
    writer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; "Advs. of Ellery Queen; "Gregory
    Hood"
    08-21-1913 - John Faulk - Austin, TX - d. 4-9-1990
    humorist, writer: "Forecast"; "Says Who?"; "Hootenanny"
    08-21-1916 - Consuelo Velazquez - Ciudad Guzman, Mexico - d. 1-22-2005
    songwriter: (Besame Mucho) Oversaw classical music programs for
    station XEQ
    08-21-1919 - Billy Idelson - Forest Park, IL - d. 12-31-2007
    actor: Rush Gook "Vic and Sade"; Henry Herbert Murray "One Man's Family"
    08-21-1923 - Chris Schenkel - Bippus, IN - d. 9-11-2005
    sportscaster: "Campy's Corner"; "11:30 Clubhouse"
    08-21-1924 - Jack Buck - Holyoke, MA - d. 6-18-2002
    baseball broadcaster: St. Louis Cardinals
    08-21-1927 - Barry Foster - Beeston, England - d. 2-11-2002
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
    08-21-1938 - Kenny Rogers - Houston, TX
    country/western singer: "Here's to Veterans"
    08-21-1940 - Jim Frank - Chicago, IL - d. 4-27-2007
    newscaster in Chicago, WBBM, WIND, WMAQ

    August 21st deaths

    01-02-1865 - William Lyon Phelps - d. 8-21-1943
    author, critic, scholar: "Information Please"
    04-09-1914 - Frank Bingham - Athens, OH - d. 8-21-1988
    announcer: "Straight Arrow"; "Phantom Pilot"
    04-30-1903 - Fulton Lewis, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-21-1966
    commentator: "News and Comments"
    06-18-1922 - Buck Page - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-21-2006
    guitarist: (Riders of the Purple Sage) "The Roy Rogers Show"
    08-14-1863 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Lawrence, MA - d. 8-21-1940
    author: "Favorite Story"
    08-14-1914 - Alyce King - Payson, UT - d. 8-21-1996
    singer: (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"; "Al
    Pearce and His Gang"
    10-08-1913 - Walter Schumann - NYC - d. 8-21-1958
    composer: "Dragnet"; "Junior Miss"; "Modern Advs. of Casanova"
    11-28-1907 - Rose Bampton - Cleveland, OH - d. 8-21-2007
    singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"
    12-01-1904 - Jean Paul King - North Bend, NE - d. 8-21-1965
    annoucer: "Clara, Lu, and Em"; "Music of the Haydns"
    12-09-1918 - George Heinemann - d. 8-21-1996
    creator: "Faces in the Window"
    12-19-1909 - Ed Auxer - d. 8-21-2004
    disk jockey: WSBT South Bend, Indiana
    12-25-1915 - Richard Wilson - McKeesport, PA - d. 8-21-1991
    actor, writer, director: Co-founded The Mercury Theatre with Orson
    Welles

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:37:18 -0400
    From: "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Script Recreations

    G'Day folks,

    There has been some discussion about script recreations and I would like to
    throw a couple of thoughts into the subject.

    Several years ago I put up a proposal to the National Film and Sound
    Archives in Australia, about including them as sponsors in a National Radio
    Script Competition.  Our idea was a National competition on three levels:

    School
    Community
    Professional/Semi Professional

    We wanted to include local radio stations to sponsor local competitions on
    those 3 levels.  We also hoped to include retired radio folk to assist teams
    in their communities.  The radio stations judged the group to represent
    their region, then a state representative and culminating in a final in
    Canberra at a radio convention, judged by well-known radio personalities
    from the OTR era.

    The National winners would then be contracted to do recreations of missing
    scripts.  There have also been suggestions of filming the 'behind the
    scenes' and the progression to the finals to assist in financing etc.

    Whilst the Archives weren't particularly interested, we have progressed to
    getitng permission to using a particular Production House's scripts, as well
    as their assistance with lining up the judges.  We have had some expressions
    of interest from retired radio producers as well as interest from some
    repertory theatre members.  No interest from the Federal Education Minister
    as yet, but it is early days.

    Once we have a rough agreement on how it will work, we will then approach
    major radio networks and sponsors,  particularly the original sponsors of
    the same shows we are looking to recreate.

    Its one of many larger projects we are involved in planning, but it has the
    potential to really make an impact.

    Ian Grieve
    Moderator
    Australian OTR Group

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:28:25 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Bill Ely, OTR artist

    I am trying to track down William J. Ely (aka  Bill Ely), a comic artist who
    did a number of comic strips for old-time radio shows. All of my sources are
    dried up. Anyone know where I might be able to contact him?
    Martin
    mmargrajr@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:09:31 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jim Harmon

    Here I am, reading the March 1959 issue of AMAZING SCIENCE FICTION STORIES
    and what do I find? A short story by our own Jim Harmon, titled "Measure for
    a Loner." And this is a big coincidence cause just last month I came across a
    dozen letters exchanged to and from Mr. Harmon and a pioneer of old-time
    radio programs from the 1930s. I know Mr. Harmon wrote a number of short
    stories bu Jim, fill us in . . . how many short stories did you write during
    the 1950s? Any awards? Oh, and drop me a line cause I'd like to mail you a
    copy of these letters and a couple burning questions I have to help curb my
    curiosity.
    Martin
    mmargrajr@[removed]

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