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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 114
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      7-20 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Stuart Lubin                          [ "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      7-21 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:33:07 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-20 births/deaths

    July 20th births

    07-20-1869 - Howard Thurston - d. 4-13-1936
    conjuror: "Thurston, the Magician"
    07-20-1881 - Hugh Sothern - Anderson County, KS - d. 4-13-1947
    actor: John Marshall "Those We Love"
    07-20-1883 - Mary Cecil - Louisville, KY - d. 12-21-1940
    actor: Miranda Chandler "The Life and Love of Dr. Susan"
    07-20-1890 - Theda Bara - Cincinnati, OH - d. 4-13-1955
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-20-1890 - Verna Felton - Salinas, CA - d. 12-14-1966
    actor: Blossom Blimp "Sealtest Village Store"; Liz Pierce "Judy Canova
    Show"
    07-20-1896 - Harry Horlick - Tiflis, Russia - d. 7-xx-1970
    conductor: "A&P Gypsies"
    07-20-1898 - J. E. Mainer - Weaversville, NC - d. 6-12-1971
    country: (Mainer's Crazy Mountaineers) "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
    07-20-1901 - Dilys Powell - Bournemouth, England - d. 6-3-1995
    film critic: "The Critics"; "Critics Forum"
    07-20-1902 - Jimmie Tansey - Omaha, NE - d. 11-4-1950
    actor: Danny O'Neill "The O'Neills"; Clement Arnaud "Hilltop House"
    07-20-1905 - Murray Forbes - Chicago, IL - d. 1-28-1987
    actor: Willie Fitz "Ma Perkins"; Benny Fox "Foxes of Flatbush"
    07-20-1907 - Art Jarrett - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-23-1987
    singer, bandleader: "Coca Cola's Spotlight Parade"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
    07-20-1908 - Fritz Littlejohn - Paculet, SC - d. 11-25-2005
    news writer/supervisor for NBC radio (1945-1952)
    07-20-1908 - Jerry Desmonde - Middlesbrough, England - d. 2-11-1967
    actor: "Crime Classics"
    07-20-1910 - Muriel Evans - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-26-2000
    four radio shows of her own in Washington [removed]
    07-20-1911 - Bill Dillard - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-16-1995
    jazz trumpeter: "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    07-20-1912 - Tom McDermott - McHenry, IL - d. 3-6-1996
    producer, director: "Portia Faces Life"; "Rosemary"; "Wendy Warren and
    the News"
    07-20-1916 - Mary Barclay - Wilton, Somerset, England - d. 2-19-2008
    actor: "Advs. in Odyssey"
    07-20-1918 - Cindy Walker - Mart, TX - d. 3-23-2006
    songwriter: "National Barn Dance"; "Spike Jones"; "Lifebouy Show"
    07-20-1919 - [removed] Stevens - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-13-1994
    actor: Lois Graves "Junior Miss"
    07-20-1920 - Max Bicknell - d. 11-11-1995
    disk jockey: KIUL Garden City, Kansas
    07-20-1923 - James Bree - England - d. 12-1-2008
    actor: "Sergeant Musgrave's Dance"
    07-20-1925 - Lola Albright - Akron, OH
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "MGM Theatre Of the Air"
    07-20-1935 - Ted Rogers - South London, England - d. 5-2-2001
    comedian: "The Billy Cotton Band"
    07-20-1938 - Diana Rigg - Doncaster, England
    actor: Agave "Dionysos"
    07-20-1938 - Natalie Wood - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-29-1981
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-20-1943 - Wendy Richard - Middlesbrough, England - d. 2-26-2009
    actor: Anne Marie Rat "Cat's Whiskers"; "Dad's Army"

    July 20th deaths

    01-01-1867 - Lew Fields - NYC - d. 7-20-1941
    comedian: (Weber and Fields) "The Eveready Hour"; "George Jessel Show"
    01-09-1917 - Jimmy Maxwell - Stockton, CA - d. 7-20-2002
    trumpet: "Paul Barron and His Orchestra"; "Guest Star"
    01-11-1896 - Armina Marshall - d. 7-20-1991
    theatre guild supervisor: "The Theatre Guild on the Air"
    01-15-1911 - Kathleen Wilson - Girard, KS - d. 7-20-2005
    actor: Claudia Barbour "One Man's Family"; I Love a Mystery"
    01-23-1893 - Franklin Pangborn - Newark, NJ - d. 7-20-1958
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    02-09-1923 - Milena Miller - d. 7-20-2001
    vocalist: "The Stu Erwin Show"
    03-03-1920 - James Doohan - Vancouver, Canada - d. 7-20-2005
    actor: "You Never Had It So Good"; "The Investigator"
    03-27-1907 - Mary Treen - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-20-1989
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-31-1908 - Les Damon - Providence, RI - d. 7-20-1962
    actor: Nick Charles "Advs. of the Thin Man"; Michael Waring "The Falcon"
    04-09-1900 - Allen Jenkins - NYC - d. 7-20-1974
    actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    04-25-1874 - Guglielmo Marconi - Bologna, Italy - d. 7-20-1937
    responsible for the first transtlantic transmission of radio waves in
    1901
    04-28-1917 - Robert Cornthwaite - St. Helens, OR - d. 7-20-2006
    actor: worked in radio in Southern California
    05-13-1912 - Helen Craig - San Antonio, TX - d. 7-20-1986
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    06-06-1901 - Jan Struther - London, England - d. 7-20-1953
    author: "Information Please"; "Mrs. Miniver"
    07-02-1910 - Earl Robinson - d. 7-20-1991
    composer: "The Pursuit of Happiness"
    07-12-1912 - Will Bradley - Newtown, NJ - d. 7-20-1978
    bandleader: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Saturday Night Swing Session"
    07-23-1916 - Sandra Gould - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-20-1999
    actor: Lucy Twitchell "Sad Sack"; Miss Duffy "Duffy's Tavern"
    09-04-1880 - Claude Cooper - London, England - d. 7-20-1932
    actor: Pegleg Gaddis "Moonshine and Honeysuckle"
    09-05-1914 - Gail Thompson Kubik - Coffeyville, KS - d. 7-20-1984
    staff composer and music advisor for NBC: "Great Plays," Soldiers with
    Wings"
    10-09-1910 - Phil Hanna - River Forest, IL - d. 7-20-1957
    actor: Three Cheers "Al Pearce Show"
    10-12-1924 - Randy Stuart - Iola, KS - d. 7-20-1996
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-17-1917 - Harry Worth - Tankersley, Yorkshire, England - d. 7-20-1989
    actor: "New to You"
    11-19-1923 - Frank Reynolds - East Chicago, IN - d. 7-20-1983
    newscaster: Chicago radio
    11-22-1913 - Alfred J. Colaiaco - Rome, Italy - d. 7-20-2006
    staff arranger WOR: "Mutual Melody Hour"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:33:12 -0400
    From: "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Stuart Lubin

    When I received word of the passing of Stuart Lubin this week, I thought
    back across numerous pleasant associations in which he helped me pursue some
    thorny issues in OTR research.  Stuart was like a walking encyclopedia -- he
    seemed to know everybody who is still breathing that ever appeared on
    network radio, and legions that had already died.  He possessed an
    incredible memory for details and could call up experiences that he
    witnessed, overheard or participated in directly, providing an eyewitness
    account many times for situations we might never have known.  An inveterate
    live radio fan, he was in one of the chairs in the audiences of numerous
    shows in New York at an early age, then moved to Los Angeles and continued
    doing the same.  He was so familiar to the stars at some venues, in fact,
    that he regularly visited with them before and following their on-air
    performances.  One could be fascinated by the litany of tales he told.  He
    maintained active friendships with many of these, often driving by to pick
    them up in their aging years to carry them to functions of mutual interest.
    He loved to appear in amateur productions and earned a reputation as a
    pretty fair actor.  He maintained strong political opinions which he was
    happy to share with anybody unapologetically.  I marveled when he told me on
    one occasion that he had been a high school Spanish teacher, something few
    of us probably knew about his occupational skills.  All of us in OTR have a
    better grasp of certain data because Stuart Lubin was among us.  I'm blessed
    that my path crossed his at several points and shall miss his ongoing
    willingness to be helpful as anyone needed.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:22:53 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-21 births/deaths

    July 21st births

    07-21-1863 - C. Aubrey Smith - London, England - d. 12-20-1948
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-21-1883 - Cecil Humphreys - Cheltenham, England - d. 11-6-1947
    actor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
    07-21-1892 - Lenore Ulric - New Ulm, MN - d. 12-30-1970
    guest artist: "Watch the Fun Go By"
    07-21-1894 - Elsie Hitz - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-14-1976
    actor: Ellen Randolph "Story of Ellen Randolph"; Gail Brewster
    "Dangerous Paradise"
    07-21-1895 - Ken Maynard - Vevey, IN - d. 3-13-1973
    cowboy actor: Ken Maynard Show"
    07-21-1899 - Ernest Hemingway - Oak Park, IL - d. 7-2-1961
    author: "NBC University Theatre"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    07-21-1899 - Sara Dougherty Carter - Flatwoods, VA - d. 1-8-1979
    singer: (Carter Family) XERA Mexico
    07-21-1901 - Allyn Joslyn - Milford, PA - d. 1-22-1981
    actor: "Island Boat Club"; "Page of Romance"; "Show Boat"
    07-21-1905 - Diana Trilling - d. 10-23-1996
    writer: "NBC University Theatre"
    07-21-1909 - Gene Kirby - d. 3-xx-1985
    announcer, sportscaster: "The Adele Clark Show"; "Big Moment in Sports"
    07-21-1910 - Carl Ravazza - Alameda, CA - d. 7-29-1968
    bandleader: "Carl Ravazza and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"
    07-21-1910 - Himan Brown - NYC - d. 6-4-2010
    actor, producer: Papa Marino "Little Italy"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
    07-21-1910 - Mary Eastman - Kansas City, MO
    soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"; "Waltz Time"
    07-21-1911 - Alice Cornett Asherman - Plant City, FL - d. 4-23-2002
    singer: Had own program five times weekly on NBC
    07-21-1912 - Frank Deniz - Cardiff, Wales - d. 7-17-2005
    guitarist: "Harry Parry's Radio Rhythm Club"
    07-21-1912 - Robert Sloane - NYC - d. 4-3-1955
    writer: "The Fat Man"; "The Life of Riley"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
    07-21-1914 - Robert Presnell, Jr. - d. 6-14-1986
    writer: "The Smiths of Hollywood"
    07-21-1915 - Floyd McDaniel - Athens, AL - d. 7-22-1995
    guitarist, vocalist: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots";
    "Let's Go Nightclubbing"
    07-21-1920 - Isaac Stern - Kreminiecz, Ukraine, USSR - d. 9-22-2001
    violinist: "Jack Benny Program"; "New York Philharmonic"
    07-21-1921 - Arthur Marx - NYC - d. 4-14-2011
    gag writer: (Son of Groucho Marx) "The Milton Berle Show"
    07-21-1922 - Kay Starr - Dougherty, OK
    singer: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    07-21-1922 - Mollie Sugden - Keighley, England - d. 7-1-2009
    actor: Worked in British radio
    07-21-1924 - Don Knotts - Morgantown, WV - d. 2-24-2006
    actor: Windy Wales "Bobby Benson's Adventures"
    07-21-1925 - Anne Meacham - Chicago, IL - d. 1-12-2006
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-21-1926 - Bill Pertwee - Amersham, England
    actor: ARP Warden Hodges "Dad's Army"
    07-21-1926 - Josephine Premice - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-13-2001
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-21-1942 - Patricia Elliott - Gunnison, CO
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-21-1949 - Ian Kennedy-Williams - Weston-Super-Mare, England
    writer: "Beached"

    July 22nd deaths

    01-05-1925 - Wolfe Mooris - Portsmouth, England - d. 7-21-1996
    actor: "The Hobbit"
    02-10-1929 - Jerry Goldsmith - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-21-2004
    composer, conductor: "Frontier Gentleman"; "Romance"
    02-22-1907 - Robert Young - Chicago, IL - d. 7-21-1998
    actor: Jim Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Doug Adams "Passport for Adams"
    03-05-1906 - Harry Lubin - d. 7-21-1977
    music: "Glamour Manor"; "Burns and Allen"; "Blondie"
    04-08-1911 - Ichiro Fujiyama - Tokyo, Japan - d. 7-21-1993
    enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"
    04-22-1905 - Ed Ludes - d. 7-21-1987
    sound effects: "Fibber McGee and Molly" Created the closet effect
    04-28-1914 - Esther Allan - Suvalke, Poland - d. 7-21-1985
    pianist/organist: All girl band on local radio in Michigan
    05-35-1935 - Hiroshi Wakasugi - NYC - d. 7-21-2009
    orchestral conductor: "Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra"
    06-13-1892 - Basil Rathbone - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 7-21-1967
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"; Inspector Burke "Scotland
    Yard's Inspector Burke"
    06-16-1916 - Stanley Niss - Illinois - d. 7-21-1969
    writer, director: "Counterspy"; "Gang Busters"; "Twenty-First Precinct"
    07-13-1913 - Dave Garroway - Schenectady, NY - d. 7-21-1982
    emcee, announcer: "World's Great Novels"; "Dave Garroway Show"; "Dial
    Dave Garroway"
    07-16-1920 - Shirley Thomas - d. 7-21-2005
    producer: "Hopalong Cassidy"
    08-09-1919 - Ralph Houk - Lawrence, KS - d. 7-21-2010
    baseball manager: "Tops In Sports"
    08-17-1921 - Donald Buka - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-21-2009
    actor: Barney Mallory "Sparrow and the Hawk"
    08-27-1916 - Vicki Vola - Denver, CO - d. 7-21-1985
    actor: Shanghai L'il DeVries "Jungle Jim"; Edith Miller "Mr. District
    Attorney"
    09-03-1926 - Bill Flemming - Chicago, IL - d. 7-21-2007
    sports director: WUOM Ann Arbor, Michigan
    10-25-1825 - Johann Strauss, Jr. - Vienna, Austria - d. 7-21-1899
    composer: Many of his works used as themes
    11-18-1923 - Alan Shepard - Derry, NH - d. 7-21-1998
    astronaut: "NASA Audio News"; "Space Story"
    11-18-1924 - Les Lye - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-21-2009
    emcee: CFRA Ottawa; CKEY Toronto
    11-18-1926 - Dorothy Collins - Windsor, Ontario, Canada - d. 7-21-1994
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"
    11-25-1899 - Pierre Andre - d. 7-21-1962
    announcer: "Little Orphan Annie"; "Captain Midnight"
    11-28-1925 - Virginia Hewitt - Shreveport, LA - d. 7-21-1986
    actor: Coral Karlyle "Space Patrol"

    Ron

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