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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 63
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  4-10 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: Herbert Marshall                  [ Fass Martin <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
  Re: Mike Wallace                      [ Fass Martin <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  Myron Wallace                         [ Michael Berger <[removed]@yaho ]
  4-11 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Mike Wallace                          [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:13:50 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-10 births/deaths

April 10th births

04-10-1827 - Lew Wallace - Brookville, IN - d. 2-15-1905
author: Several of his works adapted for radio
04-10-1868 - George Arliss - London, England - d. 2-5-1946
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-10-1885 - Sigmund Spaeth - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-11-1965
commentator: "Tune Detective"; "Fun in Print"
04-10-1890 - Grace Wilson - Owosso, MI - d. 6-8-1962
singer: (The Girl with a Million Friends) "National Barn Dance"
04-10-1894 - Haven MacQuarrie - Boston, MA - d. 8-4-1953
emcee: "Do You Want to be an Actor"
04-10-1897 - Eric Knight - Menston, England - d. 1-13-1943
writer: "Everyman's Theatre"
04-10-1897 - Fred Hall - NYC - d. 10-8-1964
composer, performer: (Hall and Fields) "Old Man of the Mountain"
04-10-1902 - Mark Warnow - Monastrischt, Russia - d. 10-17-1949
conductor: "We, the People"; "Your Hit Parade"
04-10-1905 - Paul "Hezzie" Trietsch - Muncie, IN - d. 4-27-1980
musician-singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
04-10-1906 - Lilie Darvas - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-23-1974
actor: Madame Sophie: We Love and Learn/As the Twig is Bent"
04-10-1910 - Peg La Centra - Boston, MA - d. 6-1-1996
singer, actor: "Court of Human Relations"; "For Men Only"; "Gulden
Melodies"
04-10-1911 - Victor Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 1-22-1994
musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
04-10-1913 - Henry "Butch" Stone - NYC - d. 5-19-2009
vocalist: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) "One Night Stand"
04-10-1915 - Harry (Henry) Morgan - Detroit, MI - d. 12-7-2011
actor: "Mystery in the Air"
04-10-1917 - Morty Corb - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-11-1996
bass player: "Guest Star"
04-10-1919 - Bruce Buell - Santa Ana, CA - d. 4-23-1996
annoucer: "California Caravan"; "Mystery is My Hobby"
04-10-1921 - Chuck Connors - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-10-1992
actor: "Family Theatre"
04-10-1922 - Marian Richman - California - d. 2-24-1956
actor: "Tell It Again"
04-10-1927 - Sidney Appleman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-25-1994
string bassist: Clyde McCoy's Band
04-10-1933 - Poncie Ponce - Maui, HI
singer, ukulele: Hawaiin radio

April 10th deaths

01-18-1920 - Sid Newman - California - d. 4-10-2001
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-01-1915 - Alan Burgess - Birmingham, England - d. 4-10-1998
author: wrote a series for the BBC on war heroes
02-08-1907 - Ray Middleton - Chicago, IL - d. 4-10-1984
actor: Abraham Lincoln "Honest Abe"
02-24-1890 - Marjorie Main - Acton, IN - d. 4-10-1975
actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
03-29-1943 - Mike Handley - Norfolk VA - d. 4-10-2009
announcer: "The Larry King Show"
05-09-1923 - Byron Kane - Vermont - d. 4-10-1984
actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Broadway is My Beat"; "Escape"
06-11-1911 - Long John Nebel - Chicago, IL - d. 4-10-1978
host: All-night talk show in NYC
06-12-1920 - Peter Jones - Wem, Shropshire, England - d. 4-10-2000
actor: narrator "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; "In All Directions"
06-19-1892 - Mishel Piastro - Kertz, Russia - d. 4-10-1970
violinist, conductor: "Longines Symphonette"; "General Motors Concerts"
06-30-1899 - Santos Ortega - NYC - d. 4-10-1976
actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Richard Queen "Advs. of
Ellery Queen"
07-10-1918 - John Easton - NYC - d. 4-10-1984
announcer: "The Great Gildersleeve"; "Advs. of Maisie"
08-02-1921 - Kathryn Bankston - d. 4-10-1987
women's programming: WRBC Athens, Georgia
08-13-1916 - Gloria Dickson - Pocatello, ID - d. 4-10-1945
actor: "Warner Bros. Academy Theatre"; "Federal Theatre Special"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
10-08-1906 - William N. Robson - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 4-10-1995
producer, director: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "CBS Radio Workshop"; "Escape"
10-11-1919 - Jean Vander Pyl - d. 4-10-1999
actor: Margaret Anderson "Father Knows Best"; "The Halls of Ivy"
10-16-1921 - Linda Darnell - Dallas, TX - d. 4-10-1965
actor: "Hollywood Premiere"; "So You Want to Lead a Band"
12-24-1886 - Michael Curtiz - Budapest, Hungary - d. 4-10-1962
film director: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre"; Screen Director's
Playhouse"

Ron

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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:51:59 -0400
From: Fass Martin <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Herbert Marshall

I expect the programs might have been done live.  Even if recorded, the flubs
enhance the live feeling.  Further, Herbert Marshall was a special sort of
actor, as can be observed by watching many of his films.  My guess is that
the producers felt fortunate as could be to have him on their program, and
wanted to make his work as pleasant and easy as possible.

--Martin Fass

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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:52:16 -0400
From: Fass Martin <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Mike Wallace

On at least one of the available "Information, Please!" programs, he is one
of the guest panelists.  Not yet known as "Mike Wallace," I believe.
Considering that the program only selected witty, intelligent, literate
people as participants, his presence there as a young man is, I think,
significant.  A special fellow.

--Martin Fass

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:12:01 -0400
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

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Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!

Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
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range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!

For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:23:43 -0400
From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];
To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Myron Wallace

I've been listening to some early Groucho You Bet Your Life shows and last
night, just before signoff, announcer George Fenneman says: "And here's Myron
Wallace, for Elgin American."  And the familiar voice comes on with a pitch
for the jewelry accessories maker. The year was 1949.

Michael Berger

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:23:52 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-11 births/deaths

April 11th births

04-11-1880 - Bernardino Molinari - Rome, Italy - d. 12-25-1952
conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
04-11-1893 - Dean Acheson - Middletown, CT - d. 10-12-1971
[removed] secretary of state: "Building the Peace"; "The United Nations Today"
04-11-1893 - Lou Holtz - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-22-1980
comedian: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Kraft Music Hall"
04-11-1893 - Pat Flanagan - Clinton, IA - d. 7-2-1963
sportscaster, announcer: CBS Network, WBBM in Chicago
04-11-1902 - Carroll Carroll - NYC - d. 2-5-1991
writer: "Over Here"; "Guest Star"
04-11-1902 - Quentin Reynolds - NYC - d. 3-17-1965
author: "Britain Speaks"; "Quentin Reynolds"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"
04-11-1904 - Paul McGrath - Chicago, IL - d. 4-13-1978
actor, host: Host "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; Robert Allison "My Son
Jeep"
04-11-1907 - Paul Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-11-1959
announcer, sportscaster, actor: Lawyer Feldman "Meyer the Buyer"
04-11-1908 - Leo Rosten - Lodz, Poland - d. 2-19-1997
writer: "Conversation"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Four Star Playhouse"
04-11-1909 - Sylvia Picker - NYC - d. 9-25-1981
actor: Suzy "Box 13"
04-11-1910 - Jim Britt - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-31-1980
sports commentator: "Dateline Boston"
04-11-1911 - Bob Dixon - Stamford, CT - d. 8-22-1998
announcer: Edward R. Murrow: created the phrase "Listen to Murrow
tomorrow"
04-11-1911 - Robert Saudek - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-13-1997
television producer: Established the Museum of Television and Radio
04-11-1912 - John Larkin - Oakland, CA - d. 1-29-1965
actor: Perry Mason "Perry Mason"; "Dimension X; " Ford Theatre"
04-11-1913 - Bob LeMond - Hale Center, TX - d. 1-6-2008
announcer: "Romance of the Ranchos"; "Sweeny and March Show"
04-11-1913 - Millie Good - Mt. Carmel, IL - d. 5-3-1993
singer: (Girls of the Golden West) "National Barn Dance"
04-11-1921 - Dorothy Shay - Jacksonville, FL - d. 10-22-1978
singer: (Park Avenue Hillbilly) "The Spike Jones Show"
04-11-1921 - Toni Darnay - Chicago, IL - d. 1-5-1983
actor: Evelyn Winters "Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters"

April 11th deaths

01-21-1907 - Lydia Johnson - Ramseur, NC - d. 4-11-1979
singer: "The Johnson Family Singers"
01-31-1905 - John O'Hara - Pottsville, PA - d. 4-11-1970
author: "Information, Please"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
02-09-1883 - Joseph King - Austin, TX - d. 4-11-1951
announcer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"; "A Report to the Nation"
02-11-1908 - Hiram Sherman - Boston, MA - d. 4-11-1989
actor: "Les Miserables"; "Mercury Theatre on the Aie"
03-05-1924 - Myrna Dell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-11-2011
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-09-1920 - Jerry Byrd - Lima, OH - d. 4-11-2005
steel guitarist: "Country Music Time"; "March of Dimes"
03-24-1895 - Paul Specht - d. 4-11-1954
bandleader: Made very first broadcast of dance Music 9-20-1920 WWJ
Detroit
04-02-1878 - Leo Curley - NYC - d. 4-11-1960
actor: Ed Jackson "Backstage Wife"; Mike Shaw "Tom Mix"
05-08-1928 - John Bennett - London, England - d. 4-11-2005
actor: "John Bennett Programme"
05-11-1907 - Kent Taylor - Nashua, IA - d. 4-11-1987
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
06-15-1894 - Leo Cleary - Massachusetts - d. 4-11-1955
actor: Bailiff "His Honor, the Barber"
06-26-1907 - Ynez Seabury - Oregon - d. 4-11-1973
actor: Libby Collins "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-27-1905 - Sydney Mason - NYC - d. 4-11-1976
announcer, actor: "Famous Jury Trials"; "Johnny Presents"
08-03-1905 - Dolores Del Rio - Durango, Mexico - d. 4-11-1983
actor: "Hollywood on the Air"
09-29-1903 - Ted de Corsia - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-11-1973
actor: Flip Corkin "Terry and the Pirates"; Dan McGarry "McGarry and
His Mouse"
10-23-1904 - Oliver Barbour - d. 4-11-1968
producer, director: "Life Can Be Beautiful"; "Parker Family"; "When a
Girl Marries"
11-25-1912 - Francis Durbridge - Hull, Yorkshire, England - d. 4-11-1998
writer: Creator of Paul Temple
11-27-1904 - Florence Lake - Charleston, SC - d. 4-11-1980
actor: (Sister of Arthur Lake) Tess Terwilliger "David Harum"
12-17-1903 - Erskine Caldwell - Morland, GA - d. 4-11-1987
playwright: "Information, Please"; "Short Story"
12-27-1900 - Pauline Alpert - d. 4-11-1988
"Whirlwind Pianist": "Log Cabin Inn"; "Rhythm and Rhyme"

Ron

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:24:16 -0400
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I have lived for
the past 40 years.  And, according to the Globe's obit, he lived just a
few blocks away from here. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award
from Brookline High in 2002.

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What nobody seems to be mentioning is that in 1956-57, he was the host
of "The Big Surprise," NBC's answer to the $64,000 Question."   I can
just imagine a former quiz show host getting a news interview show
today.  I guess people were more versatile in those days.

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

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