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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 246
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      10-18 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 19-25 Oct  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      10-19 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:15:22 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-18 births/deaths

    October 18th births

    10-18-1892 - Leo G. Carroll - Weedon Northants, England - d. 10-16-1972
    actor: Lux Radio Theatre
    10-18-1901 - Annette Hanshaw - NYC - d. 3-13-1985
    singer: "Show Boat"; "Camel Caravan"
    10-18-1902 - Barbara Brown - d. 7-7-1975
    actor: "Land of the Free"
    10-18-1902 - Miriam Hopkins - Bainbridge, GA - d. 10-9-1972
    actor: "Exploring the Unknown"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"; "These Are Our Men"
    10-18-1903 - Webb Allen - d. 4-xx-1987
    sportscaster: WELO Mississippi
    10-18-1906 - Adele Ronson - NYC - d. 10-31-2000
    actor: Wilma Deering "Buck Rogers"; Sally Gibson "Gibson Family"
    10-18-1908 - Rene Garriguenc - d. 6-22-1998
    composer: "Rogers of the Gazette"; "Advs. of Sam Spade, Detective"
    10-18-1910 - Addy Richton - d. 3-31-1995
    writer: "Valiant Lady"; "Hilltop House"; "This Life is Mine"
    10-18-1911 - Helen Claire - Union Springs, AL - d. 1-12-1974
    actor: Virginia Lansing "Backstage Wife"; Joyce Jordan "Joyce
    Jordan,[removed]"
    10-18-1912 - Gerta Rozan - Vienna, Austria-Hungary
    actor: Eleta "Terry and the Pirates"
    10-18-1913 - Evelyn Venable - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-15-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars of Tomorrow 1934"
    10-18-1913 - Martin Blaine - Illinois - d. 1-19-1989
    actor: Adam Sheppard "FBI in Peace and War"; Scott 'Tubby' Truman
    "Valiant Lady"
    10-18-1914 - David W. Dole - Minneapolis, MN
    sound effects, animal imitator: "Bob Becker's Chats About Dogs"
    10-18-1914 - Louise Fitch - Iowa - d. 9-11-1996
    actor: Dale Locke "Manhattan Mother"; Carol Evans Martin Brent "Road
    of Life"
    10-18-1914 - Louise Lewis - Iowa - d. 9-11-1996
    actor: "Broadway Is My Beat"
    10-18-1915 - Reuben Ship - Montreal, CA - d. 8-23-1975
    writer: "Life of Riley"; "The Man Who Liked Christmas"
    10-18-1918 - Bobby Troup - Harrisburg, PA - d. 2-7-1999
    singer, actor: "Navy Swings"; "Bobby Troup Program"; "Bobby Troup Trio"
    10-18-1919 - Anita O'Day - Kansas City, MO - d. 11-23-2006
    jazz singer: "One Night Stand"; "Command Performance"
    10-18-1920 - Willis Conover - Buffalo, NY - d. 5-17-1996
    jazz producer: "Voice of America Music USA"

    October 18th deaths

    01-13-1925 - Gwen Verdon - Culver City, Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-18-2000
    actor, singer, dancer: "Stagestruck"; "WOR Diamond Jubilee"
    01-19-1927 - Nancy Dickerson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 10-18-1997
    newswoman: "784 Days That Changed America (Watergate Scandal)
    01-29-1902 - Florence Rinard - d. 10-18-1984
    panelist: "Twenty Questions"
    02-02-1909 - Purv Pullen - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-18-1992
    bird and animal imitator: Horatio G. Birdbath "The Spike Jones Show"
    04-14-1898 - Lee Tracy - Atlanta, GA - d. 10-18-1968
    actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Detective"
    05-08-1909 - Gustavo Agrait - d. 10-18-1998
    sportscaster: WIPR San Juan, Puerto Rico
    05-10-1894 - Frank Knight - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada - d.
    10-18-1973
    actor, announcer: Dr. Billbert "Arabesque"; "Literary Digest"
    06-27-1938 - Alan Coren - Paddington, London, England - d. 10-18-2007
    panellist: "The News Quiz"
    06-29-1913 - Charles Gussman - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-18-2000
    writer: "Road to Life"; "Right to Happiness", Young Doctor Malone"
    07-13-1922 - Lois Kibbee - Rhinelander, WI - d. 10-18-1993
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-22-1910 - David Victor - d. 10-18-1989
    writer: "Joan Davis Time"; "Let George Do It"; "The Mel Blanc Show"
    08-22-1912 - Charles Carpenter - Chicago, IL - d. 10-18-1978
    writer: "Brownstone Theatre"
    09-07-1907 - Johnny McAfee - d. 10-18-1982
    vocalist: (Harry James Band) "Chesterfield Time"
    09-26-1926 - Julie London - Santa Rosa, CA - d. 10-18-2000
    torch singer: "Guest Star"; "Here's to Veterans"
    12-27-1911 - Anna Russell - London, England - d. 10-18-2006
    opera singer: "The Nutcraker Suite"
    xx-xx-1954 - Mark Tavener - England - d. 10-18-2007
    novelist: His novel "In the Red" adapted for radio

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:15:28 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 19-25 October

     From Those Were The Days --

    10/19

    1937 - "The freedom of the press is a flaming sword. Use it justly, hold
    it high, guard it well." The radio classic, Big Town, made its debut on
    CBS radio. Star reporters at the Illustrated Press, Steve Wilson and
    Lorelei Kilbourne, were played by Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor.
    Tell the Story was the theme song. Sponsors included Ironized Yeast
    tablets and Lifebuoy soap.

    10/20

    1930 - One of the most memorable of all radio shows, The Adventures of
    Sherlock Holmes, was first heard on the NBC Red network. Its first
    entry, The Speckled Band, featured William Gillette in the role of the
    famous detective. Gillette introduced Holmes to New York audiences as
    early as 1899.

    1932 - Journalist Robert Trout joined CBS.

    10/23

    1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa, joined
      him on the CBS broadcast. Allen's comedy-variety program was known as
    The Linit Bath Club Revue. It then became The Salad Bowl Revue, then,
    The Sal Hapatica Revue, The Hour of Smiles, Town Hall Tonight, The
    Texaco Star Theatre and finally, someone with just a bit of sense, came
    up with The  Fred Allen Show. The comedic legend stayed on radio for 17
    years.

    10/24

    1929 - The Rudy Vallee Show was broadcast for the first time on NBC.
    Actually, the Rudy Vallee show had several different titles over the
    years,  all of which were referred to by the public as The Rudy Vallee
    Show.  Megaphone-totin' Rudy and his Connecticut Yankees band were
    mainstays on  radio into the late 1940s.

    10/25

    1937 - Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung
    out  on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the
    entire run.  Stella Dallas was "A continuation on the air of the
    true-life story of  mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her
    own beloved daughter,  Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and
    realizing the difference in  their tastes and worlds, went out of
    Laurel's life."

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:15:54 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-19 births/deaths

    October 19th births

    10-19-1885 - R. R. Brown - Dagus Mines, PA - d. 2-20-1964
    minister: "Radio Chapel Service"<<229>>
    10-19-1889 - Fannie Hurst - Hamilton, OH - d. 2-23-1968
    writer: "United China Relief"; "Fanny Hurst Reviews"; "Big Joe";
    "United Nations Today"
    10-19-1897 - Atilio Baggiore - d. 1-xx-1963
    tenor, conductor: "Chase and Sanborn Hour"; "Pageant of Melody"
    10-19-1903 - Robert Hardy Andrews - Effingham, KS - d. 11-11-1976
    writer: "Skippy"; "Jack Armstrong"; "Just Plain Bill"
    10-19-1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn - Morristown, NJ - d. 7-12-1962
    bandleader: "Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra"
    10-19-1910 - Howard Smith - Ardmore, OK
    pianist/orchestra leader: "A Bouquet for You"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
    10-19-1910 - John C. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 1-24-1936
    singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"; "Bing Crosby
    Show"
    10-19-1911 - George Cates - NYC - d. 5-12-2002
    orchestra leader: "Full Speed Ahead"; "Guest Star"; "Stand By for Music"
    10-19-1916 - David Lewis - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 12-11-2000
    actor: "Wake Up America"
    10-19-1917 - Evelyn Kaye Klein - NYC
    violinist: (Evelyn and Her Magic Violin) "Hour of Charm"
    10-19-1918 - Bob Sweeney - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-7-1992
    actor: "Sweeney and March"; "Sara's Private Caper"
    10-19-1920 - Harry Alan Towers - London, England
    producer: "The Black Museum"; "Horatio Hornblower"; "The Scarlet
    Pimpernel"
    10-19-1921 - Bern Bennett - Rochester, NY
    announcer: "Rock and Roll Dance Party"; "Winner Take All"
    10-19-1921 - George Nader - Pasadena, CA - d. 2-4-2002
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    10-19-1925 - Eddie Layton - d. 12-16-2004
    organist: New York Yankees and many radio programs
    10-19-1930 - Wally Flaherty - The Bronx, NY - d. 9-23-1998
    host: "Open Line"
    10-19-1932 - Robert Reed - Highland Park, IL - d. 5-12-1992
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    10-19-1945 - John Lithgow - Rochester, NY
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-19-1957 - Charles Ross - NYC
    host: "Your Personal Finance"
    10-19-1961 - Michael Gurr - Melbourne, Australia
    writer: "A Pair of Claws"; "Worlds Apart"
    10-23-1887 - Oliver M. Saylor - Huntington, IN - d. 10-19-1958
    reviewer: WGBS New York City
    11-04-1911 - Josephine Huston - d. 10-19-1967
    vocalist: "Take a Note"

    October 19th deaths

    01-31-1894 - Isham Jones - Coalton, OH - d. 10-19-1956
    bandleader: "Isham Jones and His Orchestra"
    02-22-1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay - Rockland, ME - d. 10-19-1950
    author: "Against the Storm"
    03-16-1920 - Wolf Rilla - Berlin, Germany - d. 10-19-2005
    writer for the BBC
    04-16-1914 - John Hodiak - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-19-1955
    actor: L'il Abner "L'il Abner"; Butch Cavendish "Lone Ranger"
    05-01-1919 - John Meredyth Lucas - d. 10-19-2002
    film director, producer: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    05-17-1912 - Grant Turner - Abilene, TX - d. 10-19-1991
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-30-1892 - Russ Brown - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-19-1964
    singer: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"; "The Joe Penner Show"
    07-13-1902 - Phillips H. Lord - Hartford, CT - d. 10-19-1975
    actor: Seth Parker "Seth Parker"; Mitchell Frazier "Story of Mary
    Marlin"
    08-05-1900 - Frances Royster Williams - d. 10-19-1998
    cartoonist: Created "Cuddles and Tuckle" the basis for several radio
    shows
    08-27-1916 - Martha Raye - Butte, MT - d. 10-19-1994
    comedienne: "Tuesday Night Party"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen
    Guild Theatre"
    09-21-1902 - Dymphna Cusak - Wyalong, Australia - d. 10-19-1981
    writer: "Shoulder the Sky"
    10-16-1924 - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-19-2004
    press secretary to President JFK: "Meet the Press"
    11-18-1936 - Don Cherry - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 10-19-1995
    jazz trumpeter: "Manhattan Melodies"
    11-30-1667 - Jonathan Swift - Dublin, Ireland - d. 10-19-1745
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
    12-22-1911 - Bob Guilbert - Wisconsin - d. 10-19-1990
    actor: Don Winslow "Don Winslow of the Navy"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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