Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #164
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 10/18/2011 10:25 PM

To: [removed]@[removed]
Reply-to: [removed]@[removed]

    ------------------------------

                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 164
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Spatula City                      [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      10-17 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      10-18 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Club information, FOTR Convention     [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      Norman Corwin, Radio's 'poet laureat  [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      10-19 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:18:53 -0400
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Spatula City

    Hello, again --

    This is a little late to post, but I just read issue no. 160 this morning.
    The "Spatula City" which is referred to by Stephen Jansen actually does
    exist in southern California, and was featured in Weird Al Yankovich's movie
    "UHF" around twenty (!) years ago.

    Jan Bach

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:25:06 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-17 births/deaths

    October 17th births

    10-17-1893 - Spring Byington - Colorado Springs, CO - d. 9-7-1971
    actor: Lily Ruskin "December Bride"
    10-17-1903 - Irene Noblette Ryan - El Paso, TX - d. 4-26-1973
    actor: "Tim & Irene Sky Road Show"; "Royal Crown Revue"
    10-17-1905 - Claude Binyon, Sr. - Chicago, IL - d. 2-14-1978
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-17-1905 - Jean Arthur - NYC - d. 6-19-1991
    actor: "Ford Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-17-1907 - Helen Choate - Boston, MA - d. 1-28-2010
    actor: Patsy Bowen "Nick Carter, Master Detective"
    10-17-1909 - Minnabelle Abbott - Covington, KY - d. 10-9-1981
    actor: Mary Sothern "The Life of Mary Sothern"
    10-17-1910 - Florence Williams - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-30-1995
    actor: Anne Cameron "Barry Cameron"; Sally Farrell "Front Page Farrell"
    10-17-1910 - George W. Briggs, Jr. - Taunton, MA - d. 12-7-1994
    staff pianist and arranger for WBZ radio
    10-17-1912 - Jack Owens - Tulsa, OK - d. 1-26-1982
    vocalist: Cruising Crooner "The Breakfast Club"; "Tin Pan Alley"
    10-17-1914 - Jerry Siegel - Cleveland , OH - d. 1-21-1996
    co-creator (with Joe Shuster): "Advs. of Superman"
    10-17-1915 - Arthur Miller - NYC - d. 2-10-2005
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "The Doctor Fights"
    10-17-1917 - Marsha Hunt - Chicago, IL
    actor: Blanche Bickerson "Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Document A/777"
    10-17-1917 - Sumner Locke Elliott - Sydney, Australia - d. 6-23-1991
    writer: "Jezebel's Daughter"
    10-17-1918 - Rita Hayworth - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-14-1987
    actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Bob Elson on
    Board the Century"
    10-17-1920 - Elie Abel - Montreal, Canada - d. 7-22-2004
    journalist: "Meet the Press"; "When Conventions were Coventions"
    10-17-1920 - Montgomery Clift - Omaha, NE - d. 7-23-1966
    actor: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Ford Theatre"
    10-17-1921 - Tom Poston - Columbus, OH - d. 4-29-2007
    comedian: "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    10-17-1922 - Luiz Bonfa - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - d. 1-12-2001
    guitarist: "The Quitandinha Serenaders"
    10-17-1923 - Barney Kessel - Muskogee, OK - d. 5-6-2004
    jazz guitarist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"; "Just Jazz"
    10-17-1925 - Robert Pauley - New Canaan, CT - d. 5-2-2009
    president of abc radio: "Then, Now and Later"
    10-17-1925 - Ted Jarrett - Nashville, TN - d. 3-21-2009
    songwriter, disk jockey: WSOK Nashville, Tennessee
    10-17-1926 - Beverly Garland - Santa Cruz, CA - d. 12-5-2008
    actor: Worked in radio early in her career
    10-17-1926 - Julie Adams - Waterloo, IA
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-17-1941 - Nicholas Hasluck - Canberra, Australia
    writer: "The Blue Guitar"

    October 17th deaths

    01-05-1942 - Susan Odin - d. 10-17-1975
    actor: "Elizabeth Sharon Ann Barbour "One Man's Family"
    01-13-1885 - Jimmy Monaco - Genoa, Italy - d. 10-17-1945
    orchestra leader: WOR Newark, New Jersey
    02-01-1904 - S. J. Perelman - NYC - d. 10-17-1979
    humorist: "Information, Please"; "Author! Author!"; "Railroad Hour"
    02-03-1918 - Joey Bishop - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-17-2007
    actor: "Monitor's Salute to Jimmy Durante"
    02-13-1919 - "Tennessee" Ernie Ford - Bristol, TN - d. 10-17-1991
    singer: "Tennessee Ernie Ford Show"
    02-19-1910 - Lionel Clouser - Shamokin, PA - d. 10-17-1942
    musician: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    03-03-1902 - Ruby Dandridge - Memphis, TN  - d. 10-17-1987
    actor: Mammy Brown "Gallant Heart"; Geranium "Judy Canova Show"
    03-16-1896 - Arthur Hale - d. 10-17-1971
    announcer, newscaster: "Confidentially Yours"; "The Richfield Reporter"
    03-23-1938 - Christopher Glenn - NYC - d. 10-17-2006
    news correspondent: "World News Roundup"; "The World Tonight"
    03-28-1915 - Jay Livingston - McDonald, PA - d. 10-17-2001
    composer: "Hollywood Calling-George Fisher Interviews"
    04-01-1895 - Alberta Hunter - Memphis, Tn - d. 10-17-1984
    blues singer: "Jazz at the Simthsonian"
    04-10-1902 - Mark Warnow - Monastrischt, Russia - d. 10-17-1949
    conductor: "We, the People"; "Your Hit Parade"
    05-04-1909 - Ed Max - Georgia - d. 10-17-1980
    actor: Mr. Gallagher "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"
    05-07-1931 - Teresa Brewer - Toledo, OH - d. 10-17-2007
    singer: "Steve Allen Show"; "Major Bowes Amatuer Hour"
    06-12-1901 - Ben Welden - Toledo, OH - d. 10-17-1997
    character actor: "Family Theatre"; "Railroad Hour"; "Roy Rogers Show"
    08-05-1906 - Joan Hickson - Kingsthorpe - England - d. 10-17-1998
    actor: "Strong Poison"
    10-15-1922 - Paul Kasander - Detroit, MI - d. 10-17-2002
    actor: "Challenge of the Yukon"; "Lone Ranger"; "Green Hornet"
    12-11-1911 - Beecher Pete Kirby - Sevierville, TN - d. 10-17-2002
    dobro, guitar, banjo player: (Member Smokey Mountain Boys) "Grand Ole
    Opry"
    12-18-1921 - Chili Williams - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-17-2003
    actor: "Mail Call"; "Truth or Consequences"

    Ron

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:25:15 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-18 births/deaths

    October 17th was sent twice in error.

    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"
    10-18-1915 - 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"
    10-18-1924 - Anne Manahan - County Waterford, Ireland - d. 3-8-2009
    actor: "All That Fall"

    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"
    02-18-1893 - Bruce Kamman - Cincinnati, OH - 10-18-1969
    actor: August Kaltenmeyer "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"
    04-03-1914 - George Sopkin - Chicago, IL - d. 10-18-2008
    cellist: Fine Arts Quartet
    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"
    05-28-1907 - Don Becker - Covington, KY - d. 10-18-1991
    script writer: "Life Can Be Beautiful"
    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"
    11-01-1914 - Charles Lee - London, England - d. 10-18-1992
    writer: "Bob Hope Show"
    11-03-1919 - Ludovic Kennedy - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 10-18-2009
    author/broadcaster: "First Reading"
    12-27-1911 - Anna Russell - London, England - d. 10-18-2006
    opera singer: "The Nutcraker Suite"

    Ron

    ------------------------------

    Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:48:31 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Club information, FOTR Convention

    Folks;

       Haven't forgotten about the OTR clubs issue - it'll run after this week's
    FOTR Convention. PLEASE contact any clubs you know about and ask them to send
    their [removed] emailed with one club president who didn't know the OTR
    Digest existed, surprising as that may be, so don't assume the club you
    belong to knows about this.

       I have gotten precous few responses as of yet, so please, clubs (from
    small to large - this means you, SPERDVAC!), drop a short note to the Digest
    describing your organization and where to go to get more information, and
    I'll gather and run them all together in a special issue of the Digest.

       And about the FOTR Convention, if you're going to be there make sure you
    find me and say [removed]'m usually pretty easy to spot, what as routund as I
    am hanging out around the coffee urns all morning, and this year I'll have
    along my sound effects t-shirt so I can play my theme song before entering a
    room.  ;)

       If you're not going to be there, it's your loss, because there won't be
    any [removed] old-radio itself, it will slip into the mists of history
    after this final great convention. If you can, at least stop in for the day,
    meet the stars, and help us bid the convention a fond farewell!

             Charlie

    ------------------------------

    Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:23:43 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Norman Corwin, Radio's 'poet laureate,' dies at
     101

    Folks;

       From the LA Times Obit: Norman Corwin, the legendary writer, director and
    producer of original radio plays for CBS during the golden age of radio in
    the 1930s and '40s when he was revered as the 'poet of the airwaves,' has
    died. He was 101.

    [removed],0,[removed]
    ory

       I was fortunate enough to have met him, thanks to the Friends of Old-Time
    Radio Convention. Damn, I'm gonna miss this [removed]

             Charlie

    ------------------------------

    Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:23:57 -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"
    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 - John C. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 1-24-1936
    singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"; "Bing Crosby
    Show"
    10-19-1911 - Evelyn Kaye Klein - NYC - d. 7-8-1990
    violinist: (Evelyn and Her Magic Violin) "Hour of Charm"
    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"
    10-19-1918 - 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 - 7-31-2009
    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 - Bernard Hepton - Bradford, England
    actor: "Public & Confidential"; "Maigret's Special Murder"
    10-19-1925 - Eddie Layton - d. 12-16-2004
    organist: New York Yankees and many radio programs
    10-19-1927 - Buff Cobb - Florence, Italy - d. 7-12-2010
    actor: (Wife of Mike Wallace) "Proudly We Hail"; "Curtain Time"
    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"

    October 19th deaths

    01-09-1916 - Vic Mizzy - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-19-2009
    songwriter: "Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour"; "The Fred Allen Show"
    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"
    05-15-1918 - Joseph Wiseman - Montreal Canada - d. 10-19-2009
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    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, VT - d. 10-19-1975
    actor: Seth Parker "Seth Parker"; Mitchell Frazier "Story of Mary
    Marlin"
    07-19-1907 - Thomas Grandin - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-19-1977
    correspondent: "ABC News"; "CBS News of Europe"; "World News Today"
    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
    comedian: "Tuesday Night Party"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    09-21-1902 - Dymphna Cusak - Wyalong, Australia - d. 10-19-1981
    writer: "Shoulder the Sky"
    10-01-1927 - Tom Bosley - Chicago, IL - d. 10-19-2010
    host: "General Mills Adventure Theatre"
    10-16-1924 - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-19-2004
    press secretary to President JFK: "Meet the Press"
    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"
    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

    --------------------------------
    End of [removed] Digest V2011 Issue #164
    *********************************************

    Copyright [removed] Communications, York, PA; All Rights Reserved,
      including republication in any form.

    If you enjoy this list, please consider financially supporting it:
       [removed]

    For Help: [removed]@[removed]

    To Unsubscribe: [removed]@[removed]

    To Subscribe: [removed]@[removed]
      or see [removed]

    For Help with the Archive Server, send the command ARCHIVE HELP
      in the SUBJECT of a message to [removed]@[removed]

    To contact the listmaster, mail to listmaster@[removed]

    In the event of a major mail problem, please contact the listmaster via
      the web-based contact form available at [removed]
      (on the sidebar) or follow/DM CFSummers on Twitter

    To Send Mail to the list, simply send to [removed]@[removed]