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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 270
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
11-25 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Fanny Barbour's Memory Book [ Conrad Binyon <cbinyon@[removed]; ]
New Radio website [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
Irving [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
Even more Miss Pinkerton [ Al Lingley <fpdw3@[removed]; ]
Formal language [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Weird Circle [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
OTR in today's comics [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:33:36 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-25 births/deaths
November 25th births
11-25-1871 - Kate McComb - Sacramento, CA - d. 4-15-1959
actor: Mrs. Kerrigan "The Goldbergs"; Nannie "Lora Lawton"
11-25-1886 - Rex Maupin - St. Joseph, MO - d. 7-28-1966
orchestra leader: "Breakfast Club"; "National Farm and Home Hour"
11-25-1887 - William Steinke - Slatinton, PA - d. 1-29-1958
host: "Jolly Bill and Jane"; "No School Today"
11-25-1893 - Jack Frost - Boston, MA - d. 10-21-1959
producer: "The National Barn Dance"
11-25-1894 - Laurence Stallings - Macon, GA - d. 2-28-1968
writer: "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt" based on his play "What
Price Glory?"
11-25-1896 - Virgil Thomson - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1989
composer: "Columbia Workshop"
11-25-1897 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith - Goshen, NY - d. 4-18-1973
jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
11-25-1899 - Kay Strozzi - Swan's Point Plantation, VA - d. 1-18-1996
actor: Shelia Blade "I Love Linda Dale"; Victoria Lorring "Young
Widder Brown"
11-25-1899 - Pierre Andre - d. 7-21-1962
announcer: "Little Orphan Annie"; "Captain Midnight"
11-25-1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas - Boonton, NJ - d. 6-28-1980
actor: (Wife of Melvin Douglas) "Hollywood Fights Back"; "A Report to
the Nation"
11-25-1904 - Jessie Royce Landis - Chicago, IL - d. 2-2-1972
actor: "We Are Always Young"
11-25-1905 - Will Osborne - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1981
bandleader, singer: "Abbott and Costello"
11-25-1908 - Ray Carter - Chicago, IL - d. 9-xx-1982
composer, conductor: "The Goal Beyond"
11-25-1909 - Verne Smith - NYC - d. 3-4-1978
announcer: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
11-25-1912 - Francis Durbridge - Hull, Yorkshire, England - d. 4-11-1998
writer: Creator of Paul Temple
11-25-1912 - Henry Denker - NYC
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Greatest Story Ever Told"
11-25-1914 - Joe DiMaggio - Martinez, CA - d. 3-8-1999
baseball superstar: "Joe DiMaggio Show"
11-25-1919 - Norman Tokar - Newark, NJ - d. 4-6-1979
actor: Henry Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"
11-25-1920 - Ricardo Montalban - Mexico City, Mexico
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "As Easy as [removed]"
11-25-1922 - Patricia Foy - London, England - d. 7-26-2006
vocalist: "Shep Fields Orchestra"
11-25-1925 - Jeffrey Hunter - New Orleans. LA - d. 5-27-1969
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-25-1926 - Poul Anderson - Bristol, PA - d. 4-1-2001
scifi author: Works adapted for "X Minus One" "Exploring Tomorrow"
November 25th deaths
01-04-1927 - John Drury - Peoria, IL - d. 11-25-2007
staff announcer: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
02-22-1879 - Philip F. Lord - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-25-1968
actor: Pop Gunn "Great Gunns"; Frazier Mitchell "Mary Marlin"
03-04-1909 - Harry Elders - d. 11-25-1993
actor: Dr. Bill Evans "Road of Life"; David Houseman "Stepmother"
04-04-1914 - Rosemary Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 11-25-1974
singer: (The Lane Sisters) "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hollywood Parade"
04-13-1916 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner - Kansas City, MO - d.
11-25-2006
writer of radio soap operas
04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade
of America"
07-13-1889 - Frank M. Thomas - St. Joseph, MO - d. 11-25-1989
actor: Police Captain "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
07-20-1908 - Fritz Littlejohn - Paculet, SC - d. 11-25-2005
news writer/supervisor for NBC radio (1945-1952)
07-30-1912 - Edward L. Bliss - Fizhou, China - d. 11-25-2002
cbs news correspondent: (One of Morrow's Boys) CBS News Twentieth
Century Roundup"
08-01-1918 - Bill Shipley - Ottawa, KS - d. 11-25-1996
announcer: "The Jimmy Dorsey Show"; "Look Your Best"
08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958
narrator: "Gangbusters"
09-21-1930 - John Morgan - Aberdale, Wales - d. 11-25-2004
writer: "It's All in the Mind of John Morgan"
11-19-1905 - Eleanor Audley - NYC - d. 11-25-1991
actor: Elizabeth Smith "Father Knows Best"
11-30-1931 - Teddy Wilburn - Hardy, MO - d. 11-25-2003
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Style [removed]"
12-08-1933 - Flip Wilson - Jersey City, NJ - d. 11-25-1998
comedian: "Voices of Vista"
12-25-1907 - Matt Brooks - NYC - d. 11-25-1990
writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
12-31-1913 - Ted Meyers - d. 11-25-1996
announcer: "People Are Funny"; "Yarns for Yanks"; "Calling All Cars"
Ron
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:50:49 -0500
From: Conrad Binyon <cbinyon@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Fanny Barbour's Memory Book
Joe Salerno's question
"Who are these people in the Standard Brands promotional Memory Book
photographs? Are they the actors who portrayed those roles, or just models
posing as?
Joe, In all but very rare cases when the actor wasn't available, at least re
One Man's Family, they WERE the actors who portrayed the roles in question.
Otherwise a suitable model substitute was used. I remember one photo shoot
where one of the photographers "stood in" as the physical body of "Clifford"
in a family group photo. The photo lab later on "photoshopped" Barton
Yarbourough's head onto the print for later reproduction.
Conrad Binyon
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:51:11 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: New Radio website
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British collector Brian Reynolds now has a website for those interested in the
old BBC Radio orchestras from the 1930s -1960s. The website is:
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Cheers !B Graeme ( ORCA / UK )
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:51:17 -0500
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Irving
I was Very sorry to hear of Irving Breecher's passing. I was in touch with
him about 5 years ago to get his permission to do a Life of Riley book. He
gave it and even wrote a foreword to the book, which I'm ashamed to say I
haven't even started yet. I just didn't have the time as more and more books
kept piling up that I had to put out. He was a nice guy. Almost blind,
though. I had to send him VERY LARGE sheets of the foreword for him to proof.
I also wanted to publish his autobiography VERY much, but I guess he just
wanted to put it out himself. I hope it does well. He was one of the Best
comedy writers.
Ben Ohmart
Old radio. Old movies. New books.
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:51:30 -0500
From: Al Lingley <fpdw3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Even more Miss Pinkerton
I also have a Radio Recorders pressing of the Miss Pinkerton Inc audition.
The labels are typewritten with "AUD" penciled in for the program number.
The matrix numbers are 7499 for part 1 (side 1), and 7500-D for part 2 (side
2). What is interesting, is that I have a another single sided pressing of
part 2 with matrix number 7500. This version had a messed up telephone
effect.
My [removed]
Why would Radio Recorders press a flubbed version? Were audition discs as a
rule actually broadcast by networks or local radio stations?
- Al Lingley
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:00:01 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Formal language
With the discussion on the formal language used on OMF, I have a
comment about language on radio that is seldom used any longer.
The polite way of referring to people as "Mr", "Mrs" or "Miss".
On Let George Do It, in the early '50s, his assistant is always
introduced as "Miss Brooks" but in private is called Brooksie by George.
On Our Miss Brooks, Connie always referred to as Miss Brooks even by
fellow teachers and Mr Conklin. The only person who seems to address
Conklin by his first name is Miss Davis, the landlady, since they had
known each other for years.
This reminds me of when I was growing up and adults were always
called Mr or Mrs. Single women were called "Miz" here in the South, a
slurring of Miss, and when MS came along, pronounced Miz, there was no
problem with me using the new term. :)
Today adults tell children to call them by their first name.
Something unthought of years ago.
Joe
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:00:23 -0500
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Weird Circle
Kenneth Clarke asked about the series "Weird Circle." I have eight episodes
of that series, which based on context clues from some of those episodes, may
have been a Canadian series. It appears to have aired from at least 1945 to
at least Sept. 29, 1947.
The episodes I have appear in a collection of radio shows on tape called
"Mystery Mania"; in the Radio Spirits collection "Old Time Radio's Greatest
Mysteries"; in "Smithsonian OTR Mysteries"; and among the tapes released by
the Media Bay subsidiary "World's Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows."
The episodes I own are "Bride of Death", "Cask of Amontillado", "Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde", "Fall of the House of Usher", "Markheim", "Middle Toe of the
Right Foot", "Murder of the Little Pig" and "Pistol Shot." "Middle [removed]"
and "[removed]" were sponsored by Ogden's Playhouse/Ogden's fine-cut tobacco.
Rick
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:32:31 -0500
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR in today's comics
Last week I got the new five DVD set of Howdy Doody TV programs just
issued by Mill Creek. The programs are all or mostly not the ones in
circulation on previous DVDs and videocassettes, are in excellent,
complete condition, and date as far back as early 1949. They did not
include any of the radio programs, but in the very large photo gallery
on disc 5 there are two photographs that can only be production shots of
the radio show.
Which leads me to the topic of this posting. In today's (Tues Nov 25)
Mother Goose and Grimm, Howdy appears, sitting at a committee table
between Pinoccicho and Charlie McCarthy. Charlie is the star of this
single-panel strip, and he is saying into an array of three microphones
in front of him: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the
Ventriloquist Society?" The punchline, down on the lower right of the
panel, "Charlie McCarthyism".
When I just called my daughter, Leah, about it, she said, "Oh that's
such an old joke. Even 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000' used it." I
should have asked her what episode number. But maybe all over the
country there will be kids asking their parents what this means? (And
then those parents will have to ask their parents! That's what
Thanksgiving dinners are for.)
The comic is on line. [removed]
and put in 11/25/08 in the date pull-down.
Michael Biel mbiel@[removed]
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