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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 26
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      LDS President Passes                  [ Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed]; ]
      Dennis Day Show                       [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
      The First "The Second Mrs. Burton"    [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
      Cincinnati Convention                 [ "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed] ]
      Question about Infornation Please     [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
      1-29 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:38:34 -0500
    From: Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  LDS President Passes

    Note - the passing of a religious leader is does not
    usually qualify as a subject for old-time radio, but
    this is, I believe, an exception because of the
    person's connection with radio from the 1930s onward.

     Gordon B. Hinckley, 15th President of the Church of
    Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), died at
    age 97 in Salt Lake City at 7 PM Sunday evening. While
    he was known more for his spiritual leadership
    activities, he began employment around 1935 in the LDS
    Church radio and publications department. Over the
    years, he wrote and produced many programs that were
    heard over station KSL, as well as many other stations
    via syndication. President Hinckley also wrote and
    produced print and film presentations for the church.
    He also worked with Bonneville International, the
    church's media arm.

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    Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:39:01 -0500
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Dennis Day Show
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    This is a message about the Dennis Day Show (not A Day in the Life of Dennis
    Day). There was a radio show on the air called  Dennis Day Show from Sep 19
    1954 to March 13 1955. Does anyone know if it was composed of original
    episodes or if it was a soundtrack from the previously broadcast TV show
    called Dennis Day Show which aired from Feb through August 1954?

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    Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:39:06 -0500
    From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
    To: Time Radio Digest Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The First  "The Second Mrs. Burton"

    Dennis Crow advises us of an interview of Sharon
    Douglas and her son, regarding her work.  Between six
    months and a year ago, Frank Bresee interviewed Ms.
    Douglas for his satellite program on the Yesterday USA
    site.  I do not know if it has been aired yet, and I
    do not know whether Frank, or his co-host, Walden
    Hughes, would entertain requests to repeat a given
    broadcast.  You might want to ask them, and that would
    be easy because Walden subscribes and contributes to
    this Digest.

    I will say that both Frank Bresee and Walden Hughes do
    excellent interviews of people who were performers.
    You should not miss them.  The interviews are very
    professional.  Clips of the artists' work are also
    included.

    While we're on the subject of "The Second Mrs.
    Burton", it seemed to me and others that the writer
    was considered much more important than anyone else on
    the show because that tongue twister, Hector Chevigny,
    got daily credit in the second line of the
    introduction.  I am not the first one to be aware of
    this.  I believe I read a comment about this in one of
    the books, possibly one by Jim Cox.  Who knew what the
    pecking order was?  On "Portia Faces Life", I remember
    that the lead actress, Lucille Wall, received daily
    billing in the introduction.

    Stuart

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    Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:27:18 -0500
    From: "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed];
    To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Cincinnati Convention
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         Signed the contract today. You can start making your hotel
    reservations. Remember to ask for Betty when you call.
    Cincinnati North is the new name of the hotel. [removed]
    As I said before I've been assured you will have a clean room
    and towels by the new people at the hotel. If you had a bad
    experience last year give the new owners a chance. It will
    help them and the convention. I need to to meet the
    required room rental nights, or we won't be able to continue
    with the convention.
         They did get the door fixed to the  dealers room. No need to
    nail a 2 x 4 across the door to secure the room.
         Make your plans to attend this year. April 11, 12. In
    the past many come on Thursday to get a early start.
    As many of you know nothing is planned, so you will
    have plenty of to visit with old friends, and make some
    ]new ones.
         The dealers room will be open sometime Thursday after 6:00.
     If nothing is going on in that room Thursday it could be
     open earlier.
      Bob Burchett

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    Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:03:55 -0500
    From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Question about Infornation Please

>     Earlier this month on Jeopardy, there was an audio clue on Jeopardy in which
>     they played a clip from the radio show 'Information Please'. The clue was
>     something like 'This radio show was later made into an encyclopedia.' I'm
>     proud to say that I got the question right.

    I don't have the right to question Jeopardy, but I use to buy he
    "Information Please Almanac" Is an almanac the same as an encyclopedia ?
    I don't  think so.

    According to Marion Webster:
    Almanac: 1 *:* a publication containing astronomical and meteorological
    data for a given year and often including a miscellany of other information

    encyclopedia: *:* a work that contains information on all branches of
    knowledge or treats comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge usually
    in articles arranged
    alphabetically often by subject.

    Frank McGurn

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    Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:24:19 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-29 births/deaths

    January 29th birth

    01-29-1874 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-11-1960
    rich person: "The Collier Hour"
    01-29-1874 - Owen Davis - Portland, ME - d. 10-14-1956
    writer: "The Gibson Family"; "Pulitzer Prize Plays"
    01-29-1880 - W. C. Fields - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-25-1946
    comedian: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-29-1885 - Leadbelly (Huddie Leadbetter) - Louisiana - d. 12-6-1949
    jazz musician: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin street"
    01-29-1902 - Florence Rinard - d. 10-18-1984
    panelist: "Twenty Questions"
    01-29-1911 - Bryan Coleman - London, England - d. 7-4-2005
    actor: John H. Watson "BBC Light Programme"
    01-29-1913 - Daniel Taradash - Louisville, KY - d. 1-22-2003
    film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    01-29-1913 - Joe Parker - Venice, CA - d. 4-28-1970
    director: "Sara's Private Caper"
    01-29-1915 - Victor Mature - Louisville, KY - d. 8-4-1999
    actor: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"
    01-29-1916 - Bill Lawrence - Lincoln, NE - d. 3-2-1972
    newsman for the ABC network
    01-29-1917 - John Raitt - Santa Ana, CA - d. 2-20-2005
    actor, singer: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    01-29-1917 - Lloyd Perryman - Ruth, AR - d. 5-31-1977
    singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
    01-29-1918 - John Forsythe - Penns Grove, NJ
    actor: "NBC Star Playhouse"; "Best Plays"
    01-29-1923 - Martin Ragaway - d. 4-20-1989
    writer: "The Abbot and Costello Show"; "The Milton Berle Show"
    01-29-1923 - Paddy Chayefsky - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-1-1981
    writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    01-29-1927 - Don Morrow - Stamford, CT
    announcer: "Advs. of Rin Tin Tin"; "The Dizzy Dean Show"
    01-29-1942 - Robin Morgan - Lake Worth, FL
    actor, Former president of NOW: "Cavalcade of America"
    01-29-1943 - Tony Blackburn - Guildford, England
    disc jockey: "Midday Spin"; "Junior Choice"

    January 29th deaths

    01-14-1914 - Harold Russell - North Sydney, Canada - d. 1-29-2002
    world war II hero, actor: "A Salute to the [removed]"; "NBC University
    Theatre"
    01-22-1899 - Anne Elstner - Lake Charles, LA - d. 1-29-1981
    actor: Stella Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Mary Weston "Wilderness Road"
    02-02-1875 - Fritz Kreisler - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-29-1962
    violinist, composer: "Telephone Hour"; "Concert Hall"; "Gospel In Song"
    02-10-1893 - Jimmy Durante - NYC - d. 1-29-1980
    comedian: (Da Schnozz) Claudius 'Brainy' Bowers "Jumbo Fire Chief
    Program"
    02-22-1925 - Stratford Johns - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - d.
    1-29-2002
    actor: Pennington "Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile"
    03-04-1921 - Harry Besse - d. 1-29-1994
    disk jockey: KSWI Council Bluffs,Iowa
    03-12-1916 - Mandel Kramer - Cleveland, OH - d. 1-29-1989
    actor: Johnny Dollar "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    04-11-1912 - John Larkin - Oakland, CA - d. 1-29-1965
    actor: Perry Mason "Perry Mason"; "Dimension X; " Ford Theatre"
    04-12-1904 - Frankie Masters - Saint Marys, WV - d. 1-29-1991
    music: "Edgar A. Guest"
    04-19-1915 - Albert Buhrman - Springfield, MO - d. 1-29-1999
    organist: "Murder at Midnight"; "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
    07-02-1892 - Jack Hylton - Great Lever, England - d. 1-29-1965
    bandmaster: CBS 1935-1936 Sundays at 10:30 PM Standard Oil
    07-09-1915 - Joan Tompkins - d. 1-29-2005
    actor: Nora Drake "This Is Nora Drake"; Siri Allen "Against the Storm"
    07-25-1896 - Leo Russotto - d. 1-29-1978
    musical coach and arranger: "Roxy and His Gang"
    07-31-1908 - [removed] "Bill" Shadel - Milton, WI - d. 1-29-2005
    newscaster: Reported the D-Day landings for CBS
    09-03-1913 - Alan Ladd - Hot Springs, AR - d. 1-29-1964
    actor: Dan Holliday "Box 13"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We Hail"
    09-09-1930 - Martha Jean "The Queen" Steinberg - d. 1-29-2000
    Owned WQBH-AM Detroit, Michigan
    09-09-1930 - Martha Steinberg - d. 1-29-2000
    detroit radio: WQBH-AM
    10-27-1911 - Leif Erickson - Alameda, CA - d. 1-29-1986
    actor: Richard Rhinelander III "My Friend Irma"
    11-25-1887 - William Steinke - Slatinton, PA - d. 1-29-1958
    host: "Jolly Bill and Jane"; "No School Today"
    11-28-1894 - Frank Black - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-29-1968
    conductor: "Jack Benny Program"; "NBC String Symphony"; "Cities
    Service Concert"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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