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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 169
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      10-23 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      NYOTR follow-up                       [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]
      10-24 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Guest stars on Duffy's Tavern?        [ Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed] ]
      10-25 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Jack Benny re Fred Allen's death      [ Michael Berger <[removed]@yaho ]

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    Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:38:19 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-23 births/deaths

    October 23rd births

    10-23-1871 - Rev. Dr. Karl Reiland - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-12-1964
    clergyman: 15-Minute NEWS commentary program for NBC
    10-23-1884 - Cesar Saerchinger - Aix-la-Chapelle, France - d. 10-10-1971
    news correspondent: "Story Behind the Headlines"; "America's Town
    Meeting of the Air"
    10-23-1887 - Oliver M. Saylor - Huntington, IN - d. 10-19-1958
    reviewer: WGBS New York City
    10-23-1896 - Nathan Abas - Amsterdam, Netherlands - d. 6-1-1980
    orchestra director, violinist: "Northern California Symphony Orchestra"
    10-23-1901 - Arthur Jacobson - NYC - d. 10-6-1993
    actor: Kirk Harding "Woman in White"; Anthony J. Marleybone "Affairs
    of Anthony"
    10-23-1904 - Ford Bond - Louisville, KY - d. 8-15-1962
    announcer: "Cities Service Concert"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round";
    Highways in Melody"
    10-23-1904 - Margaret Speaks - Columbus, OH - d. 7-16-1977
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"
    10-23-1904 - Oliver Barbour - d. 4-11-1968
    producer, director: "Life Can Be Beautiful"; "Parker Family"; "When a
    Girl Marries"
    10-23-1906 - Lucy Monroe - NYC - d. 10-13-1987
    singer: (The Star-Spangled Soprano) "Hammerstein's Music Hall";
    "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"
    10-23-1911 - Martha Rountree - Gainesville, FL - d. 8-23-1999
    co-founder, moderator: "Meet the Press"
    10-23-1912 - Floyd Mack - Ava, OH - d. 1-3-1983
    commentator: "Floyd Mack and the News"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
    10-23-1916 - Red Quinlan - Maquoketa, IA - d. 3-11-2007
    founding board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications
    10-23-1918 - Augusta Dabney - Berkeley, CA - d. 2-4-2008
    actor: "Theatre Five"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-23-1918 - James Daly - Wisconsin Rapids, WI - d. 7-3-1978
    actor: "Monitor"
    10-23-1921 - James Blackwood - Ackereman, MS - d. 2-3-2002
    singer: (Blackwood Brothers Quartet) "Songs of the Gospel"
    10-23-1922 - Coleen Gray - Staplehurst, NE
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-23-1922 - Ewell Blackwell - Fresno, CA - d. 10-29-1996
    baseball pitcher: "Babe Didrickson Zaharius Sports Show"
    10-23-1923 - Frank Sutton - Clarksville, TN - d. 6-28-1974
    actor: "Couple Next Door"
    10-23-1925 - Johnny Carson - Corning, IA - d. 1-23-2005
    announcer, disc jockey: "Johnny Carson Show"
    10-23-1931 - Diana Dors - Swindon, Wiltshire, England - d. 5-4-1984
    actor: "Earplay"
    10-23-1940 - Tom McGrath - Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland
    writer: "The Silver Darlings"
    10-23-1943 - Roger Scott - London, England - d. 10-31-1989
    disc jockey: "Three O'Clock Thrill"; "Hitline"

    October 23rd deaths

    01-31-1872 - Zane Grey - Zanesville, OH - d. 10-23-1939
    writer: "Rudy Vallee Hour"
    02-01-1947 - Jessica Savitch - Wilmington, DE - d. 10-23-1983
    co-host: "Teen Center"
    02-13-1919 - Janet Logan - Eldon, MO - d. 10-23-1965
    actor: Stella Moore "Girl Alone"; Clara Blake "Romance of Helen Trent"
    03-16-1892 - James C. Petrillo - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-1984
    union leader" Head of the American Federation of Musicians
    03-23-1892 - Nadea Dragonette Loftus - d. 10-23-1982
    Sister and business manager of Jessica Dragonette
    04-09-1916 - Bill Leonard - NYC - d. 10-23-1994
    interviewer: "This Is New York"; "In Town Today"
    05-10-1909 - Maybelle Carter - Nickelsville, VA - d. 10-23-1978
    singer: (Queen of Country Music) "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-26-1886 - Al Jolson - Srednik, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire -
    d. 10-23-1950
    singer: (The Jazz Singer) "Shell Chateau"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    06-04-1919 - Robert Merrill - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-23-2004
    singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "Robert Merrill Show"
    06-05-1928 - Robert Lansing - San Diego, CA - d. 10-23-1994
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-20-1911 - Edward Eager - Toledo, OH - d. 10-23-1964
    writer: "Jane Pickens Show"
    06-26-1920 - Leonid Hambro - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-2006
    pianist: "WQXR Halloween Party:
    07-21-1905 - Diana Trilling - d. 10-23-1996
    writer: "NBC University Theatre"
    07-26-1915 - Fred S. Fox - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-23-2005
    writer: "Freddie the Fox"
    08-04-1897 - Abe Lyman - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-1957
    bandleader: "Jack Pearl Show"; "Lavender and New Lace"; "Waltz Time"
    12-02-1915 - Adolph Green - NYC - d. 10-23-2002
    songwriter: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    12-28-1913 - Lou Jacobi - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-23-2009
    actor: "Advs. in Judaism"; "Earplay"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:38:32 -0400
    From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  NYOTR follow-up

    Living only two towns away from Newark, there was no way I was going to miss
    the NYOTR event despite the absence and non-participation of many FOTR
    perennials. I had a good time visiting with friends. The highlight. as
    Michael C. Gwynne has already recounted, was when the the Marilyn Monroe
    impersonator Erica Smith regaled Arthur Anderson with a belated 90th birthday
    salute by singing the breathy MM/JFK version of "Happy Birthday to You" and
    "I Wanna Be Loved by You" replete with the "Boop-Boop-a-Doops."

    Another highlight was when Listmaster Charlie Summers and I were hanging in
    the hallway while a re-creation was going on. I asked Charlie "What show is
    going on next door?" Mr. Summers answered "Quiet, Please." ...

    ... then I asked him while whispering "What show is going on next door?"

    Yours in  the ether and the nearby New Jersey swamp gas,

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:39:06 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-24 births/deaths

    October 24th births

    10-24-1879 - Benjamin Albert "[removed]" Rolfe - Brasher Falls, NY - d.
    4-23-1956
    conductor: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Believe It or Not"
    10-24-1888 - William Podmore - England - d. 9-xx-1963
    actor: Barnabas Thackery "Shafter Parker and His Circus"
    10-24-1891 - Nila Mack - Arkansas City, KS - d. 1-20-1953
    director: "Helen and Mary"; "Let's Pretend"
    10-24-1894 - Ted "Kid" Lewis - London, England - d. 8-25-1971
    bandleader: "Live Band Remotes"
    10-24-1901 - Gilda Gray - Cracow, Poland - d. 12-22-1959
    ziegfeld follies singer/dancer: WOO Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    10-24-1901 - Harry Breuer - Brooklyn, NY - D. 6-2-1989
    percussionist: "A&P Gypsies"; "Bert Hirsch's Novelty Dance Orchestra"
    10-24-1903 - Melvin Purvis - Timmonsville, SC - d. 2-29-1960
    fbi agent, narrator: "Top Secrets of the FBI"
    10-24-1904 - Moss Hart - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-20-1961
    panelist: "Who Said That?"
    10-24-1904 - Radie Harris - NYC - d. 2-22-2001
    gossip columnist: CBS Radio Network
    10-24-1911 - Sonny Terry - Greensboro, NC - d. 3-11-1986
    blues singer, harmonica player: "Hootenanny"; "Roomful of Music"
    10-24-1912 - Bill Forman - Mount Vernon, NY - d. 6-1-1999
    announcer: "The Whistler"
    10-24-1916 - Ray Singer - NYC - d. 11-16-1992
    writer: "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Charlotte
    Greenwood Show"
    10-24-1924 - Mary Lee - Centralia, IL - d. 6-6-1996
    singer: "Ted Weems and His Orchestra"; "Spotlight Bands"
    10-24-1925 - Teri Keane - NYC
    actor: Hope Evans "Big Sister"; Terry Burton "Second Mrs. Burton"
    10-24-1930 - J. P. "Big Bopper" Richardson - Sabine Pass, TX - d.
    2-3-1959
    Early Rock and Roll disc jockey
    10-24-1936 - David Nelson - NYC - d. 1-11-2011
    actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"

    October 24th deaths

    01-31-1919 - Jackie Robinson - Cairo, GA - d. 10-24-1972
    sportscaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) "Jackie Robinson Show"
    02-27-1888 - Lotte Lehmann - Perleberg, Prussia, Germany - d. 10-24-1976
    soprano: "Command Performance"; "Concert Hall"; "Here's to Veterans"
    03-28-1888 - Jim Harkins - d. 10-24-1970
    emcee: "Song Writing Machine Series"
    04-03-1921 - Leonard Sues - El Paso, TX - d. 10-24-1971
    music: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    04-22-1865 - Hal Brown - d. 10-24-1942
    harmonica: "Just Plain Bill"
    04-30-1870 - Franz Lehar - Romorn, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-24-1948
    operetta composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Showtime"
    08-06-1933 - Beverly Wills - California - d. 10-24-1963
    actor: (Daughter of Joan Davis) Fluffy Adams "Junior Miss"
    08-19-1921 - Gene Roddenberry - El Paso, TX - d. 10-24-1991
    writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    09-07-1927 - Don Messick - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-24-1997
    actor: "Let George Do It"; "Horizons West"; "NBC University Theatre"
    09-30-1922 - Lamont Johnson - Stockton, CA - d. 10-24-2010
    actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Mark Douglas "Wendy Warren and the News"
    10-10-1915 - Bill Chadwick - NYC - d. 10-24-2009
    new york rangers color analyst
    10-28-1897 - Edith Head - San Bernardino, CA - d. 10-24-1981
    costume designer: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-02-1896 - Walter Woolf King - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-24-1984
    emcee, host, actor: "Beatrice Lillie Show"; "Flying Red Horse Tavern"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:40:10 -0400
    From: Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Guest stars on Duffy's Tavern?

    I have a question that I seriously need answered for research purposes about
    the DUFFY'S TAVERN series.

    It's common knowledge that Ed Gardner switched operations to Puerto Rico at
    the start of the Fifties (to avoid income tax, supposedly), and that the
    regular cast came to live and work there on the island where the episodes
    were recorded.

    But my question concerns the guest stars that appeared on the show at that
    time. Did THEY have to come to Puerto Rico also, or were they piped into the
    episode from New York or Hollywood? I'm trying to figure out where a
    particular guest star might have been, geographically, when he did DUFFY'S in
    1951.

    Also, if the guests DID have to travel to Puerto Rico, I presume the
    production company or the sponsor covered the cost of their transportation,
    right?

    Thanks to any and all who can supply an answer to this question.

    Mike Ogden

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    Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:40:18 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-25 births/deaths

    October 25th births

    10-25-1825 - Johann Strauss, Jr. - Vienna, Austria - d. 7-21-1899
    composer: Many of his works used as themes
    10-25-1875 - Harry Overstreet - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-17-1970
    author and lecturer: "Information Please"
    10-25-1882 - Richard Gordon - Bridgeport, CT - d. 12-xx-1967
    actor: Sherlock Holmes, "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; Jim Barrett,
    "Valiant Lady"
    10-25-1884 - Florence Easton - Middlesborough, England - d. 8-13-1955
    soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    10-25-1888 - Richard E. Byrd - Winchester, VA - d. 3-11-1957
    explorer: "Admiral Byrd Broadcasts"
    10-25-1891 - Father Charles Coughlin - Hamilton, Canada - d. 10-27-1979
    commentator, preacher: (The Radio Priest)
    10-25-1897 - Marek Weber - Vienna, Austria - d. 2-8-1964
    conductor/violinist: "Carnation Contented Hour"
    10-25-1901 - Daniel Landt - Scranton, PA - d. 2-24-1961
    singer: Landt Trio, "Doc Pearson's Drug Store"; "Bob Hawk Show"
    10-25-1902 - Eddie Lang - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-26-1933
    jazz guitarest: "Music That Satisfies"
    10-25-1908 - Polly Ann Young - Denver, CO - d. 1-21-1997
    actor: (Sister of Loretta) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-25-1909 - True Boardman - Seattle, WA - d. 8-4-2003
    writer, narrator: "Silver Theatre"; "Favorite Story"
    10-25-1912 - Constance Cox - Sutton, England - d. 7-8-1998
    playwright: "Northanger Abbey"
    10-25-1912 - Minnie Pearl - Centerville, TN - d. 3-4-1996
    comedian: (Queen of Country Comedy) "Grand Ole Opry"
    10-25-1912 - Sherman Marks - d. 4-4-1975
    actor, director: Ichabod 'Ichy' Mudd "Captain Midnight"; "Cloak and
    Dagger"
    10-25-1914 - John Reed King - Wilmington, DE - d. 7-8-1979
    announcer, actor:"Columbia Workshop"; Schuyler 'Sky' King " "Sky King"
    10-25-1918 - Chubby Jackson - NYC - d. 10-1-2003
    bassist: (Woody Herman Band) "The Woody Herman Show"
    10-25-1924 - Billy Barty - Millsboro, PA - d. 12-23-2000
    comedian: "Spike Jones Band", "James Melton Show"
    10-25-1926 - William E. Greene - Iron City, GA - d. 3-12-1970
    actor: Dr. Fred Thompson "One Man's Family"
    10-25-1927 - Barbara Cook - Atlanta, GA
    actor: Julie Boyd "Great Merlini"
    10-25-1928 - Hal Bruno - Chicago, IL - d. 11-8-2011
    newsman: "Hal Bruno's Washington"
    10-25-1928 - Marion Ross - Albert Lea, MN
    actor: Lux Radio Theatre
    10-25-1933 - Peter Dennis - Dorking, England - d. 4-18-2009
    actor: "Winnie-the-Pooh"

    October 25th deaths

    01-07-1903 - Betty Hanna - d. 10-25-1976
    actor: Deborah Matthews "Ma Perkins"; Luella Hayworth "Step Mother"
    02-12-1919 - Forrest Tucker - Plainfield, IN - d. 10-25-1986
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-25-1918 - Bobby Riggs - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-25-1995
    overbearing tennis player: "National Guard Show"
    03-05-1882 - Eustace Wyatt - Bath, Somerset, England - d. 10-25-1944
    actor: Lord Percy "Our Gal Sunday"
    03-07-1890 - George H. Shackley - Quincy, MA - d. 10-25-1959
    conductor/composer: "Ava Maria Hour"; "Homemaker's Exchange"
    05-06-1917 - Bob Murphy - Bismarck, ND - d. 10-25-1959
    announcer: "The Breakfast Club"
    05-12-1902 - Philip Wylie - Beverly, MA - d. 10-25-1971
    writer: "This Is War"; "Sportsman's Club"; "Tomorrow"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    05-15-1929 - David Healy - NYC - d. 10-25-1995
    actor: "Kismet"; "Finian's Rainbow"; "The Music Man"
    05-27-1911 - Vincent Price - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-25-1993
    actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-19-1908 - Mildred Natwick - Baltimore, MD - d. 10-25-1994
    actor: "Starring Boris Karloff"; "Best Plays"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    06-21-1912 - Mary McCarthy - Seattle, WA - d. 10-25-1989
    novelist: "Guest Star Time"
    07-03-1926 - Anne Gerety - NYC - d. 10-25-2003
    actor: Aunt Bery "Star Wars"
    07-24-1878 - Lord Dunsany - London, England - d. 10-25-1957
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
    08-22-1904 - Don Prindle - d. 10-25-1968
    writer: "The Abbott and Costello Show"; "Niles and Prindle"
    08-30-1939 - John Peel - Heswall, England - d. 10-25-2004
    disc jockey: "The Perfumed Garden"; "Top Gear"
    09-14-1907 - Cecil Brown - New Brighton, PA - d. 10-25-1987
    newscaster: "CBS European News"; "Sizing Up the News"
    10-31-1928 - Cleo Moore - Baton Rouge, LA - d. 10-25-1973
    actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    11-14-1901 - Morton Downey - Wallingford, CT  - d. 10-25-1985
    singer: (The Irish Thrush), "Morton Downey Show"; "Songs by Morton
    Downey"
    12-29-1920 - Viveca Lindfors - Uppsala, Sweden - d. 10-25-1995
    actor: "[removed] Steel Hour"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:40:32 -0400
    From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];
    To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jack Benny re Fred Allen's death
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    The day after Fred Allen died, Jack Benny broadcast his personal comments,
    obviously off the cuff, about the loss of his friend. It's obvious that he
    was deeply shaken, and the fact that he made this special statement,
    confirmed what he said - that he and Allen were old and good friends. I'm not
    sure what the collectors' source is for the recording, but I have an mp3
    copy. Perhaps Laura Leff can enlighten us.

    Michael Berger

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