Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #65
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 65
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      4-23 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 24-30 Apr  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      FOTR Commemorative Book               [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Re: Madelyn Pugh Davis                [ Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed]; ]
      Sol Saks and OTR                      [ "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed]; ]
      4-24 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Looking for Whistler show             [ mschmid@[removed] ]
      FInally, my personal thoughts on Fin  [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:06:11 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-23 births/deaths

    April 23rd births

    04-23-1564 - William Shakespeare - Stratford-upon-Avon, England - d.
    4-23-1616
    playwright, poet: Several of his works adapted for radio
    04-23-1879 - Talbot Mundy - London, England - d. 8-5-1940
    writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
    04-23-1884 - Edwin C. Hill - Aurora, IN - d. 2-12-1957
    news commentator: "Human Side of the News"; "Your News Parade"
    04-23-1893 - Frank Borzage - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 6-19-1962
    film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    04-23-1895 - Ngaio Marsh - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 2-18-1982
    author: "Final Curtain"
    04-23-1898 - Lee Vines - Texas - d. 12-28-1987
    announcer: "CBS Radio Workshop"; "Burns and Allen"
    04-23-1901 - George Harmon Coxe - Olean, NY - d. 1-30-1984
    novelist: "Casey, Crime Photographer" based on his novels
    04-23-1910 - Simone Simon - Bethune, Pas-de-Calais, France - d.
    2-22-2005
    actor: "Inner Sanctum"
    04-23-1915 - James F. Fleming - Baraboo, WI - d. 8-10-1996
    announcer: "Vic and Sade"; "Get John's Other Wife"
    04-23-1918 - Oliver Treyz - Willewemoe, NY - d. 6-14-1998
    director of ABC radio
    04-23-1919 - Clifford Kendrick - d. 9-17-1996
    drums: "Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets"
    04-23-1921 - Janet Blair - Altoona, PA - d. 2-19-2007
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre", "Abbott and Costello"
    04-23-1921 - Warren Spahn - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-2003
    hall of fame pitcher: "Tops in Sports"
    04-23-1922 - Jack May - Henley-on-Thames, England - d. 9-19-1997
    actor: "The Archers"; "Sherlock Holmes"
    04-23-1924 - Norman Painting - Leamington Spa, England - d. 10-29-2009
    actor: Phil Archer "The Archers"
    04-23-1925 - Elena DaVinci - d. 11-10-2006
    host: "Magazine of the Air"
    04-23-1928 - Shirley Temple - Santa Monica, CA
    actor: Judy Graves "Junior Miss"
    04-23-1931 - Tom Pettit - d. 12-22-1995
    nbc reporter: "Meet the Press"
    04-23-1932 - Ed Walker - Forrest, IL
    co-host: "The Joy Boys of Radio"

    April 23rd deaths

    01-08-1908 - William Hartnell - London, England - d. 4-23-1975
    actor: The Doctor "Doctor Who"
    02-07-1908 - Larry "Buster" Crabbe - Oakland, CA - d. 4-23-1983
    actor: "George Jessel Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    02-12-1898 - Curt Peterson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 4-23-1980
    announcer: "Jones and Hare"; "The Pure Oil Band"
    02-15-1905 - Harold Arlen - Buffalo, NY - d. 4-23-1986
    composer: "Songs By Arlen"; "Kraft Program"; "Good New of 1940"
    03-10-1900 - Peter de Rose - NYC - d. 4-23-1953
    pianist, singer: "Sweethearts of the Air"
    03-19-1907 - Kent Smith - NYC - d. 4-23-1985
    actor: "NBC University Theatre of the Air";"Radio Reader's Digest"
    04-10-1919 - Bruce Buell - Santa Ana, CA - d. 4-23-1996
    annoucer: "California Caravan"; "Mystery is My Hobby"
    04-15-1921 - Art Ford - NYC - d. 4-23-2006
    emcee, disk jockey: "Monitor"
    04-23-1564 - William Shakespeare - Stratford-upon-Avon, England - d.
    4-23-1616
    playwright, poet: Several of his works adapted for radio
    05-07-1903 - Samuel Herbert Herman - Bronxwood, NY - d. 4-23-1995
    xylophone player: Staff musician for NBC
    05-11-1909 - Ocie Stockard - Crafton, TX - d. 4-23-1988
    bango: "The Musical Brownies"
    05-19-1894 - Henry Busse - Magdeburg, Germany - d. 4-23-1953
    orchestra leader: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Spotlight Bands"
    05-24-1914 - Vernon (Vern) Carstensen - Clinton, IA - d. 4-23-1999
    announcer, actor: "Box 13"; "Damon Runyon Theatre"
    06-23-1944 - "Jolly Joe" Truszkowski - Warrior Run, PA - d. 4-23-2009
    polka bandleader: WICK-AM Wilkes Barre, PA
    07-04-1907 - Tommy Carr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-23-1997
    actor: Jerry Hall "Magic Island"
    07-21-1911 - Alice Cornett Asherman - Plant City, FL - d. 4-23-2002
    singer: Had own program five times weekly on NBC
    07-24-1917 - Robert Farnon - Toronto, Canada - d. 4-23-2005
    conductor: "AEFP Farewell Party"; "Songs for America"<<223>>
    07-29-1916 - Albert Lewin - NYC - d. 4-23-1996
    writer: "Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy"; "Eddie Cantor Show"
    08-14-1879 - Edna Fisher - NB - d. 4-23-1978
    actor: "The Al Pearce Show"
    09-13-1883 - Lewis E. Lawes - Elmira, NY - d. 4-23-1947
    commentator: "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing"
    10-12-1915 - Mike Moser - Spokane, WA - d. 4-23-1953
    producer, director: "Space Patrol"
    10-24-1879 - Benjamin Albert "[removed]" Rolfe - Brasher Falls, NY - d.
    4-23-1956
    conductor: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Believe It or Not"
    11-06-1904 - Selena Royle - NYC - d. 4-23-1983
    actor: Hilda Hope "Hilda Hope, [removed]"; Kathy Marsh "Portia Faces Life"
    11-18-1891 - Sigmund Anker - Bern, Switzerland - d. 4-23-1958
    violinist: KFRC San Francisco, California
    12-05-1906 - Otto Preminger - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-23-1986
    actor, film producer, director: "Fun In Print"; "Listen to the People"
    12-17-1902 - House Jameson - Austin, TX - d. 4-23-1971
    actor: Sam Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Inspector Douglas Renfrew
    "Renfrew of the Mounted"

    Ron
    [removed]

     ***** WARNING! UNHANDLED BAD CHARACTER!!!!!

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:06:17 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 24-30 April

     From Those Were The Days

    4/24

    1949   Dick Powell starred in Richard Diamond, Private Detective on NBC.
    The show stayed on the air for four years.

    1955   X Minus One, a show for science fiction fans, was first heard on NBC.

    1959   The final broadcast of One Man's Family was heard on NBC after
    being on the air 27 years.

    4/25

    1938   Your Family and Mine, a radio serial, was first broadcast.

    4/27

    1921   Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio when
    WEW in St. Louis, MO aired weather news.

    1931   NBC presented Lum and Abner for the first time.

    1932   The Texaco fire chief, Ed Wynn, was heard on Texaco Star Theater
    for the first time. Wynn, a popular vaudeville performer, demanded a
    live audience to react to his humor if he was to make the switch to
    radio. The network consented and Wynn became radio's first true superstar.

    1937   The initial broadcast of Lorenzo Jones was heard over NBC.

    4/28

    1947   Studio One on CBS was first broadcast. The show was full of great
    stars, but no sponsors. CBS dropped Studio One after a year on radio.

    4/30

    1945   "How would you like to be queen for a day!" That opening line,
    delivered by host, Jack Bailey, was first heard on Mutual on this day.
    The first Queen for a Day was Mrs. Evelyn Lane.

    1945   Arthur Godfrey began his CBS morning show. His theme was Seems
    Like Old Times. Arthur Godfrey Time ran until this very same day in
    1972. Godfrey's show used live talent and not records. His popularity
    with listeners was the major reason that several sponsors gave Godfrey
    the freedom to ad lib their commercials and, from time to time, joke
    about the products as well.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:36:45 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  FOTR Commemorative Book

    In recognition of the 36th Annual Friends of Old Time Radio Convention,
    seeing that this is their final year, I am putting together a slick, glossy,
    full-color 48 page book covering every calendar year (all 36 of them) plus
    coverage of a historical nature. How Jay Hickerson has become a father
    figure, how the convention got founded, when it was called SAVE (before
    FOTR), an explanation and all the winners of the Florence Williams, Ray
    Stanich and other awards, the Dave Warren Players and the Gotham Players, and
    so on. In short, it will be a great book that people can turn to 40 years
    from now and have all their questions answered.

    I already have a skeleton frame and am seeking photographs. If anyone has
    photos they'd like to share, please forward them to me. Make sure to identify
    the year and the people in the photos (to make it easier for me). Also, if
    you have a great story, a "favorite moment" or fave memory you'd like to
    share, please do. Terry Salomonson already provided a great story about how
    Parley Baer broke out in cheers the year he attended FOTR (Parley was the
    first West Coast guest FOTR had) and was greeting with a standing ovation
    when he walked into the room. Don Ramlow explained the leg work that went
    into getting Lucille Fletcher to make an appearance at FOTR, and her kind
    comments about the recreation of "Sorry, Wrong Number." You get the idea.
    (Please make your memories about FOTR, not about you, unless necessary.)

    I have a deadline of three weeks so do not delay. Scan your photos and e-mail
    me your memories and stories, to me direct.
    Martin

    mmargrajr@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:37:56 -0400
    From: Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Madelyn Pugh Davis

    On Apr 23, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Derek Tague wrote:

>     To: [removed]@[removed]
>     Subject:  Sol Saks, Madelyn Carroll, Orrin Tucker

>     It seems like it's been a bad week for OTR comedy writers better known for
>     their
>     TV work what with the passing of "Bewitched's" creator Sol Saks at age 100

>     [removed],0,[removed] a
>     nd
>     the just announced news that Madelyn Pugh Davis (aka Madelyn Carroll), age
>     90 has died.

    I was deeply saddened to hear of Madelyn's passing. She was a genuinely nice
    person, an enormous talent, and a true pioneer in the industry. I first met
    her long before I can remember (starting when I was still a baby, Madelyn and
    Bob Carroll Jr. and my dad sometimes held "I Love Lucy" writing sessions at
    our house in Brentwood), and we've have had fairly regular contact in recent
    years, including a memorable interview I did with Madelyn to create an audio
    commentary track for one of the "I Love Lucy" DVDs.

    Although Madelyn did at one time briefly date her writing partner, Bob
    Carroll Jr., they never married, so she has never in fact been known (other
    than mistakenly) as "Madelyn Carroll".

>     Other than utility stock player Shirley Mitchell and Keith "Little Ricky"
>     Thibodeaux, is anybody else still alive from "My Favourite Husband"/"I Love
>     Lucy"?

    If you're talking only of actors, there aren't many left

    Doris Singleton (Lucy Ricardo's friend/nemesis, Caroline Appleby,) is still
    around. She also appeared on "My Favorite Husband." I was listening to the
    original 1943 broadcast of "Sorry, Wrong Number" the other day when I thought
    I recognized Doris's voice in the role of the Chief Operator. I called Doris
    and asked her if it was indeed her (since Agnes Moorehead was the only actor
    who received an on-air credit). Indeed it was.

    Janet Waldo (the Bobby-Soxer, Peggy, who had a crush on Ricky Ricardo in the
    "I Love Lucy" episode with Dick Crenna) is also doing well. She appeared on
    "My Favorite Husband." Janet wowed the crowd with her performances at last
    year's SPERDVAC convention.

    There are a few others still around who were child actors when they appeared
    on "I Love Lucy" (such as Bart Braverman).

    Of the original crew of "I Love Lucy", only the original film editor, Dann
    Cahn (whose son, Daniel, is now President of the Motion Picture Editor's
    Guild) and the casting director, Mercedes Manzanares (who also worked briefly
    on "My Favorite Husband") survive.

    Bill Asher, who directed more than a hundred "I Love Lucy" episodes, is also
    still with us. He wasn't on the original "I Love Lucy" crew (he was offered
    the job of film editor on the show, but he turned it down because he wanted
    to get into directing).  A few months later, Billy landed the job of director
    on another Desilu show, "Our Miss Brooks," where he stayed until Eve Arden
    made the mistake of mentioning to Lucy at lunch one day what a wonderful
    director Billy was.  The first Lucy episode he directed was the famous
    "Chocolate Factory" show.  Billy, who a few years later married Elizabeth
    McGovern, was also an important creative force as producer-director of
    "Bewitched", working with Sol Saks. One of my early childhood memories is
    Billy stopping by our house on his way home from work. (This was after "I
    Love Lucy", so Billy and my dad were no longer working together at the
    studio.) Several times a week, shortly after we'd sat down at the dinner
    table in our family room, our doorbell would ring. "There's Billy," my mom
    would always say. She'd go to the door and invite him in, while my dad would
    get up from the table to fix Billy a drink. Then Mom and Dad would come back
    and sit down at the dinner table, and Billy would go sit on the sofa on other
    side of the room, where he would sip his drink and talk with us as we ate our
    dinner.  This became such a routine occurrence that when he finally stopped
    coming by quite so often, I'd sometimes sit down for dinner and after a few
    minutes I'd turn to Mom and ask, "Where's Billy?"

    Not sure what that story has to do with anything, but reading all the
    articles about Madelyn has brought back a lot of memories.

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:39:16 -0400
    From: "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sol Saks and OTR

    >From the Los Angeles Times:

    "Sol Saks, a veteran television writer and playwright who created
    the classic 1960s sitcom "Bewitched," has died. He was 100."

    See the old-time radio connection at:

    [removed],0,[removed]

    Bob Cockrum

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    Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:59:47 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-24 births/deaths

    April 24th births

    04-24-1871 - Blanche Ring - Boston, MA - d. 1-13-1961
    actor/singer: "Fight Camp"; "Jumbo"
    04-24-1894 - Norman Sweetser - d. 8-28-1980
    director: "Just Plain Bill"; "Stella Dallas"
    04-24-1897 - Alfred Brown - d. 1-28-1978
    actor: Og "Og, Son of Fire"
    04-24-1905 - Robert Penn Warren - Guthrie, KY - d. 9-15-1989
    author: (All the King's Men) "NBC University Theatre"
    04-24-1906 - William "Lord Haw Haw" Joyce - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-3-1946
    propagnadist for Nazi Germany during World War II: Hung for treason
    04-24-1907 - John Frank Anders - Upward, NC - d. 12-18-1983
    composer, singer: live radio program in Knoxville, Tennessee
    04-24-1910 - Albert Zugsmith - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 10-26-1993
    film producer/director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    04-24-1911 - Arval Hogan - Robbinsville, NC - d. 9-12-2003
    country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
    04-24-1916 - Eldon Shamblin - Weatherford, OK - d. 8-5-1998
    guitarist: "Bob Wills and the Texax Playboys"
    04-24-1922 - Aaron Bell - Muskogee, OK - d. 7-28-2003
    singer: "Steve Lawrence Show"
    04-24-1924 - Clement Freud - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-15-2009
    panelist: "(Grandson of Sigmund) Just a Minute"
    04-24-1926 - Marilyn Erskine - Rochester, NY
    actor: Gail Carver "Lora Lawton"; Janey Brown "Young Widder Brown"
    04-24-1928 - Brian Clewer - London, England - d. 4-16-2008
    host: "Cynic's Choice"
    04-24-1928 - Ted McKay - Raised in North Avondale, OH - d. 12-22-2005
    talk show host: "Party Line"; Created first talk show on WKRC
    Cincinatti in 1955

    April 24th deaths

    02-03-1924 - Leslie Stevens - Washington, [removed] - d. 4-24-1998
    film director: "Stagestruck"
    02-12-1923 - Mel Powell - NYC - d. 4-24-1998
    pianist, composer: "Jam"; "I Sustain These Wings"; "Grand Roundup"
    02-13-1908 - Lennie Hayton - NYC - d. 4-24-1971
    conductor: "Your Hit Parade"; "Ipana Troubadors"
    03-08-1889 - Rosario Bourdon - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-24-1961
    conductor: "Cities Service Concert"; "Great Personalities"
    04-26-1920 - Frankie Scott - Georgia - d. 4-24-2004
    performer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-07-1896 - Gale Binkley - d. 4-24-1979
    banjoist: (Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers" WSM Nashville, TN
    05-14-1925  Tristram Cary - Oxford, England - d. 4-24-2008
    musician: "Dr. Who"
    06-04-1921 - Harvey Bullock - Oxford, NC - d. 4-24-2006
    writer: "Breakfast with Burrows"
    06-17-1913 - Bob Allen - Allendale, OH - d. 4-24-1989
    singer: (Hal Kemp Band) "Phil Baker Show"; "Calling America"
    06-27-1914 - Noboru Kirishima - Iwaki City, Japan - d. 4-24-1984
    enka singer: "This Week's Star"
    07-17-1906 - John Carroll - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-24-1979
    actor: "Hello Mom"; "Suspense"
    08-03-1904 - Clifford Simak - Millville, WI - d. 4-24-1988
    writer: "Dimension X"
    08-16-1915 - Al Hibbler - Tyro, MS - d. 4-24-2001
    jazz singer: "A Date with the Duke"; "Jubilee"
    08-21-1890 - Bill Henry - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-24-1970
    commentator: Chief CBS Correspondent
    10-02-1895 - Bud Abbott - Asbury Park, NJ - d. 4-24-1974
    comedian: "Abbott and Costello Show"
    10-29-1897 - Hope Emerson - Hawarden, IA - d. 4-24-1960
    actor: Henrietta Topper "Advs. of Topper"; Elsie the Cow "Happy Island"
    10-30-1912 - Preston Lockwood - Leyton, England - d. 4-24-1996
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes"
    11-15-1924 - Mike Raven - London, England - d. 4-24-1997
    actor: "Raven Around Show"

    Ron
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:00:05 -0400
    From: mschmid@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Looking for Whistler show

    A while back I was listening to one of the interviews from the WTIC
    Golden Age of Radio series featuring a leading actress, but don't
    remember who it was.

    One feature on the show was her performance in a dual role on The
    Whistler. It sounded fascinating, and I would like to locate this
    episode and play it my own Golden Age of Radio program - anyone know
    what episode it is?  Many thanks. - Max

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    Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:04:34 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  FInally, my personal thoughts on Final

    Folks;

       After many delays caused [removed], I finally posted my personal
    thoughts about this year's final Friends of Old-Time Radio convention. Check
    out the blog at [removed] - I added to this entry some
    photos from my collection.

             Charlie

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