Subject: [removed] Digest V2010 #123
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 7/11/2010 1:15 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 123
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Lord Haw-Haw                          [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
      7-9 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Fibber's real name                    [ PJHewitt <PJHewitt3@[removed]; ]
      7-10 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 11-16 Jul  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Hoping to put the Fibber McGee contr  [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      The DeMarco Sisters were [removed]  [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      7-11 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:11:42 -0400
    From: <georgewagner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lord Haw-Haw

         Herb, that is precisely the point I was attempting to make.

         The normal punishment in Joyce's day for lying on a British passport
    application was a two-pound fine (around $9- $10, American). Turning that
    into a hanging offense was a real s-t-r-e-t-c-h.

          But the most important fact to remember is that while the British
    democracy  MAY have unfairly executed ONE individual, the Nazis did exactly
    that to MILLIONS of human beings.

         And it was the Nazis whom William Joyce so slavishly served and supported.

         Sincerely,

         George Wagner
         georgewagnert@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:11:48 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-9  births/deaths

    July 9th births

    07-09-1878 - Hans Von  "[removed]" Kaltenborn - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-14-1965
    commentator: "Current Events"; "Editing the News"
    07-09-1881 - Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel - Stillwater, MN - d. 1-13-1936
    emcee: "Roxy's Gang"; "Roxy Revue"
    07-09-1894 - Alan Lipscott - d. 11-20-1961
    writer: "The Life of Riley"
    07-09-1894 - Dorothy Thompson - Lancaster, NY - d. 1-30-1961
    commentator: "Commentary"
    07-09-1901 - Jester Hairston - Belews, NC - d. 1-18-2000
    calypso singer: King Moses "Bold Venture"
    07-09-1907 - Eddie Dean - Posey, TX - d. 3-4-1999
    actor: Larry Burton "Modern Cinderella"
    07-09-1910 - Alfred Kreymborg - NYC - d. 7-2-1991
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
    07-09-1912 - John McQuade - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 9-21-1979
    actor: Charlie Wild "Charlie Wild, Private Detective"; Steve Lansing
    "Our Gal Sunday"
    07-09-1915 - Joan Tompkins - d. 1-29-2005
    actor: Nora Drake "This Is Nora Drake"; Siri Allen "Against the Storm"
    07-09-1917 - Kay Aldredge - Tallahassee, FL - d. 1-12-1995
    actor: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"
    07-09-1917 - Ted Steele - Hartford, CT - d. 10-15-1985
    bandleader: "Ted Steele's Studio Club"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    07-09-1919 - Earl Hagen - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-2008
    conductor: "Music With Wings"; Wrote TV Theme for "Andy Griffith Show"
    07-09-1923 - Molly O'Day - McVeigh, KY - d. 12-5-1987
    country singer: "Renfro Valley Barn Dance", Midday Merry-Go-Round"
    07-09-1924 - Leonard Pennario - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-27-2008
    pianist: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Concert Hall"
    07-09-1925 - Alan Dale - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-20-2002
    singer, actor: "Sing It Again"
    07-09-1927 - Ed Ames - Malden, MA
    singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
    07-09-1929 - Lee Hazelwood - Mannford, OK - d. 8-4-2007
    disk jockey, singer, songwriter
    07-09-1935 - Michael Williams - Liverpool, England - d. 1-11-2001
    actor: George Cragge "In the Red"; Dr. John Watson "Sherlock Holmes"
    07-09-1955 - Mia Dillon - Colorado
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    July 9th deaths

    02-13-1900 - Wingy Manone - New Orleans, LA - d. 7-9-1982
    orchestra leader: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Young Man with a Band"
    02-16-1904 - James Baskett - Indianapolis, IN - d. 7-9-1948
    actor: Gabby Gibson "Amos 'n' Andy"
    02-22-1905 - Robert Weede - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-9-1972
    singer: "Great Moments in Music"; "For America We Sing"
    03-19-1891 - Earl Warren - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-9-1974
    governor, supreme court justice: "Edgar bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-30-1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner - Chicago, IL - d. 7-9-1979
    actor: Mary "Johnny Presents"
    06-06-1902 - Paul W. White - Pittsburg, KS - d. 7-9-1955
    Organized CBS New Bureau; Vice president of CBS News
    08-03-1894 - Harry Heilmann - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-9-1951
    sportscaster: WXYZ Detroit
    08-22-1930 - Don Parcher - d. 7-9-2006
    newscaster: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    10-20-1911 - Will Rogers, Jr. - NYC - d. 7-9-1993
    actor: Will Rogers "Rogers of the Gazette"
    11-16-1911 - Sonny Dunham - Brockton, MA - d. 7-9-1990
    trumpeter, bandleader: "One Night Stand"; "Spotlight Bands"
    11-26-1912 - Eric Sevareid - Velva, ND - d. 7-9-1992
    correspondent: "Eric Sevaried and the News"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    12-27-1896 - Arch Ward - Irwin, IL - d. 7-9-1955
    sports journalist: Weekly program of sports news with Harry Wismer

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:13:55 -0400
    From: PJHewitt <PJHewitt3@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fibber's real name
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    Hi everybody,

    Jim Meadows asked if Fibber had a proper name. Fibber was his real name, and
    he got the name by accident.

    He did take ribs for his Class A fibs, and we are led to
    believe during this and the course of "Fibber McGee and Molly" that Fibber
    was
    a nickname. As such, he was sure to be a shoo-in winner in the January 1,
    1946, episode, "The Tall Story Contest."

    However, in "Fibber Changes His Name" from March 25, 1941,
    Molly asks, "How on earth did your parents ever come to call you Fibber in
    the
    first place?" His answer: "They didn't. I was named after my fourth
    cousin,
    Walpole J. Fimmer. But the minister that christened me had a cold in his
    head."This may surely be an example of inconsistent information that sneaked
    into so many otr shows, especially the long-running ones. Someone else may
    have another citation with a different answer, but here's my contribution.
    With regards,Patricia

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:14:05 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-10 births/deaths

    July 10th births

    07-10-1877 - Caroline Crockett Ellis - d. 5-17-1963
    actor: Mary Ward "Travels of Mary Ward"; "Caroline's Golden Store"
    07-10-1888 - Graham McNamee - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-9-1942
    announcer: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Fire Chief"; "Treasury Hour"
    07-10-1889 - Noble Sissle - Indianapolis, IN - d. 12-17-1975
    songwriter, orchestra leader: "Freedom's People"
    07-10-1890 - Louis Katzman - Odessa, Russia - d. 11-13-1943
    musical director: "Fred Allen's Linit Bath Club"
    07-10-1894 - Jimmy McHugh - Boston, MA - d. 5-23-1969
    song writer: "Cavalcade of Music"; "It's Time to Smile"; "The Navy
    Sings"
    07-10-1896 - Slim Summerville - Albuquerque, NM - d. 1-5-1946
    actor: "Hollywood Star Time"
    07-10-1905 - Thomas Gomez - NYC - d. 6-18-1971
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-10-1908 - Harry Golder - Detroit, MI - d. 10-16-1968
    announcer: "The Lone Ranger"
    07-10-1908 - Hjerluf Provenson - Racine, WI - d. 5-14-1957
    announcer: "John's Other Wife"; "The Gulden Serenaders"
    07-10-1909 - Bernard Katz - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-22-1992
    pianist: (Cousin of Mel Blanc) "Katz on the Keys"
    07-10-1910 - Helen Pickens - Macon, GA
    singer: (Pickens Sisters) "The Pickens Sisters"; "The Magic Key"
    07-10-1910 - Hugh B. Cave - Chester, England - d. 6-27-2004
    writer: "Escape"; "Romance"
    07-10-1913 - Joan Marsh - Porterville, CA - d. 8-10-2000
    actor: "Calling All Cars"; "Good News of 1939"
    07-10-1914 - Joe Shuster - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - d. 7-30-1992
    co-creator (with Jerry Siegel): "Advs. of Superman"
    07-10-1916 - Dick Carey - Hartford, CT - d. 4-5-1994
    jazz pianist: "Louis Armstrong and the Original All-Stars"
    07-10-1917 - Don Herbert - Waconia, MN - d. 6-12-2007
    actor: "Captain Midnight"; Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy"
    07-10-1918 - Ernest Ricca - d. 10-10-1987
    director: "Lorenzo Jones"; "Valiant Lady"; "Stella Dallas"; "Romance
    of Helen Trent"
    07-10-1918 - John Easton - NYC - d. 4-10-1984
    announcer: "The Great Gildersleeve"; "Advs. of Maisie"
    07-10-1919 - Ian Wallace - London, England - d. 10-12-2009
    bass-baritone: "My Music"
    07-10-1920 - David Brinkley - Wilmington, NC - d. 6-11-2003
    newscaster: WRC Washington [removed]; "Nightline"
    07-10-1921 - Jeff Donnell - South Windham, ME - d. 4-13-1988
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-10-1923 - Earl Hamner, Jr. - Schuyler, VA
    writer: "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
    07-10-1923 - John Bradley - Antigo, WI - d. 1-11-1994
    raiser of second flag on Iwo Jima: "Interview programs"
    07-10-1926 - Carleton Carpenter - Bennington, VT
    actor: "NBC University Theatre"; "Stagestruck"
    07-10-1926 - Fred Gwynne - NYC - d. 7-2-1993
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    July 10th deaths

    01-17-1914 - Ann Loring - NYC - d. 7-10-2005
    actor: "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "X Minus One"
    02-18-1924 - Sam Rolfe - NYC - d. 7-10-1993
    writer, creator: "Suspense"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    02-xx-1881 - Edith Spencer - Omaha, NE - d. 7-10-1952
    actor: Aunt Jenny "Aunt Jenny"; Sarah "Main Street Sketches"
    05-30-1908 - Mel Blanc - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-10-1989
    actor: Professor Pierre La Blanc "Jack Benny Program"; August Moon
    "Point Sublime"
    06-17-1924 - Sir Edward Downes - Birmingham, England - d. 7-10-2009
    conductor: "BBC Philharmonic"; "Netherlands Radio Philharmonic"
    06-27-1875 - Reginald Mason - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-10-1962
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-29-1896 - William Ford Manley - d. 7-10-1954
    writer: "Snow Village Sketches"
    08-12-1917 - Ebba Haslund - Seattle, WA - d. 7-10-2009
    writer: "Himmelsk Dilemma"
    09-09-1931 - Barbara Lyon - Hollywood, CA - d. 7-10-1995
    actor: "Life  with the Lyons"
    09-10-1886 - Sam Taub - NYC - d. 7-10-1979
    sportscaster: "Madison Square Boxing Bouts"
    09-20-1885 - Jelly Roll Morton - Gulfport, MS - d. 7-10-1941
    jazz musician, songwriter: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin
    Street"; "Americana"
    10-06-1887 - Maria Jeritza - Brunn, Austria-Hungary - d. 7-10-1982
    singer: "General Motors Concerts"
    11-22-1919 - H. Leslie Atlass, Jr. - d. 7-10-2003
    involved in Chicago radio
    12-17-1896 - Arthur Fiedler - South Boston, MA - d. 7-10-1979
    conductor: "Robert Merrill with the Boston Pops Orchestra"; "Boston
    Pops"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:14:13 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 11-16 July

     From Those Were The Days

    7/11

    1944   The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall, debuted on CBS.

    7/12

    1934   The first appointments to the newly created Federal
    Communications Commission were made. The governing body of the American
    broadcasting industry was first served by seven men named as commissioners.

    1946   The Adventures of Sam Spade was heard on ABC for the first time.

    7/14

    1957   Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on CBS.
    The Freberg show only lasted a short time and that newfangled
    contraption, television, was blamed for the show's quick demise.

    7/16

    1934   NBC Red network premiered the musical drama, Dreams Come True. It
    was a show about baritone singer Barry McKinley and his novelist sweetheart.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:14:25 -0400
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hoping to put the Fibber McGee controversy to
     rest

    Hello again --

    In the still continuing discussion of Fibber McGee's first name, I'm amazed
    (unless I missed it) that no one has cited the old Stumpf-Price "Heavenly
    Days" book, which remains a treasure trove of facts about the Fibber McGee
    and Molly show. According to that book, the McGee character was patterned
    after a teller of tall tales from the Jordans' previous program, Smackout,
    Luke Gray. In fact, Jim Jordan had been presented with a reward for "Best
    Tall-Tale of the Year" by the Burlington Liars Club of Wisconsin, so the
    Luke Gray character was pretty well known. Jack Louis, an advertising
    representative of the Johnson Wax Company, the new show's first sponsor,
    suggested that the first name of the new character  should be something
    synonymous with liar. Don Quinn, the writer of the new show, brought a long
    strip of paper to their next meeting, on which was written in highly
    decorative letters (Quinn was originally a cartoonist) FIBBER McGEE. And
    that was that!
    Now we only need to know where the name "McGee" came from -- and that secret
    may have died with Quinn in  1967.

    yOurs TRuly,
    Jan Bach

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:14:35 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The DeMarco Sisters were [removed]

    One of our MWOTRC members is trying to straighten out the first names
    (and birth order) of the five DeMarco Sisters. They were prominent on
    radio as a singing group and were featured from 1945 to 1949 on Fred
    Allen's Show.

    Here's the [removed]  Both Thomas DeLong in his book "Radio
    Stars" and John Dunning in his "OTR Encyclopedia" list them as "Ann,
    Gene, Gloria, Marie and Arlene."

    Buxton & Owen in "The Big Broadcast" list the oldest three as "Lily,
    Mary, and Ann."

    A 1937 movie clip of them called the oldest three "Gina, Anne, and
    Gloria."

    When the oldest three appeared on "The Tastee Bread Loafers" (Jones &
    Hare) circa 1937, the oldest sister was referred to an "Lillian" by
    the boys.

    By the time they reached Vegas in the early 50s, one of the sisters
    was named "Terri."

    We're guessing that "Lillian" is probably also "Lily" some years and
    other years "Ann" or "Anne." Could "Gene" be "Jean" or "Gina"? And
    who the heck is Terri?

    Can any reputable Digester shred more light on this mystery?

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:14:42 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-11 births/deaths

    July 11th births

    07-11-1881 - Clarence Budington Kelland - Powers Park, MI - d. 2-19-1964
    writer: "Scattergood Baines"
    07-11-1884 - Howard Estabrook - Detroit, MI - d. 7-16-1978
    screen writer: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-11-1888 - Dr. Lyman Bryson - Valentine, NE - d. 11-24-1959
    moderator: "American School of the Air"; "Invitation to Learning";
    "People's Platform"
    07-11-1892 - Thomas Mitchell - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-17-1962
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-11-1894 - Walter Wanger - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-18-1968
    film producer: "Information, Please"; "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    07-11-1897 - Johnny Marvin - Butler, Oklahoma Territory - d. 12-20-1944
    country singer: Had his own show on NBC
    07-11-1906 - Fred Feibel - Union City, NJ - d. 5-16-1978
    organist: "Between the Bookends"; "Organ Reveille"
    07-11-1906 - Harry Von Zell - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-21-1981
    actor, announcer: Bill Smith "Smiths of Hollywood"; "George Burns and
    Gracie Allen Show"
    07-11-1909 - Irene Hervey - Venice, CA - d. 12-20-1998
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-11-1914 - Tommy Bartlett - Milwaukee, WI  - d. 9-6-1998
    emcee: "Welcome Travlers"
    07-11-1922 - Bernard Punsly - NYC - d. 1-20-2004
    actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
    07-11-1922 - Gene Evans - Holbrook, AZ - d. 4-1-1998
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    07-11-1928 - Hope Miller - d. 7-25-1992
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    07-11-1929 - Hermann Prey - Berlin, Germany - d. 7-22-1998
    operatic baritone: "Metropolitan Opera"
    07-11-1933 - Chuck Cassey - Chicago, IL
    composer, conductor: (Chuck Casey Singers) "Voices of Vista"
    07-11-1942 - Tommy Vance - Oxford, England - d. 3-6-2005
    presenter: Radio 1

    July 11th deaths

    01-18-1899 - Lucille Wall - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1986
    actor: Portia Blake "Portia Faces Life"; Belle Jones "Lorenzo Jones"
    01-27-1895 - B. G. De Sylva - NYC - d. 7-11-1950
    lyricist: "The Railroad Hour"
    02-03-1915 - Bill Miller - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-11-2006
    piano, conductor: "Frank Sinatra"; "Jim Hawthorne Show"
    02-09-1913 - Erskine Butterfield - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-11-1961
    jazz musician: "Cats 'n' Jammers"
    02-21-1909 - Ray Hedge - d. 7-11-1994
    actor: Clarence Tiffingtuffer "Myrt and Marge"
    03-24-1892 - Roy Harvey - Monroe County, WV - d. 7-11-1958
    guitarist: "Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers"
    03-29-1899 - Clifford Goldsmith - Aurora, NY - d. 7-11-1971
    writer: Created "The Aldrich Family"
    04-04-1914 - Frances Langford - Lakeland, FL - d. 7-11-2005
    singer, actor: Blanche Bickerson "Bickersons"; "Bob Hope Show"
    04-12-1918 - Helen Forrest - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 7-11-1999
    singer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Harry James and His Orchestra"
    04-17-1913 - Richard Travis - Carlsbad, NM - d. 7-11-1989
    announcer and sportscaster
    04-27-1923 - Peggy Knudsen - Duluth, MN - d. 7-11-1980
    actor: Karen Adams "Woman in White"; Lois "Bill Goodwin Show"
    05-06-1941 - Ghena Dimitrova - Sofia, Bulgaria - d. 7-11-2005
    operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    05-22-1907 - Laurence Olivier - Dorking, England - d. 7-11-1989
    actor: "Biography in Sound"; "Document A/777"; "Hour of Mystery"
    06-12-1893 - Evelyn Varden - Adair, Oklahoma Territory - d. 7-11-1958
    actor: Dorothy Stewart "This is Nora Drake"; Mother Malone "Young Dr.
    Malone"
    06-12-1914 - Herbert C. Kenny - d. 7-11-1992
    singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
    Nightclubbing"
    08-10-1910 - Roy Ringwald - d. 7-11-1995
    singer: "The Fred Waring Show"
    09-12-1892 - Malcolm LaPrade - d. 7-11-1974
    creator, producer: "The Collier Hour"
    09-15-1896 - Irene Arledge - d. 7-11-1977
    contralto: KFDM Beaumont, Texas
    09-26-1898 - George Gershwin - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-11-1937
    pianist, composer: "Music by Gershwin"
    09-27-1918 - James McCallion - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-11-1991
    actor: Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Sydney Lawrence "One Man's
    Family"
    11-11-1909 - Robert Ryan - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1973
    actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Suspense"
    12-10-1889 - Ray Collins - Sacramento, CA - d. 7-11-1965
    actor: Doc Will Hackett, "County Seat"; member of The Mercury Theatre
    12-17-1907 - Frank Gill - d. 7-11-1970
    writer, comedian: "Joe E. Brown's Post Toasties Show"
    12-20-1919 - Everett Greenbaum - Buffalo, NY - d. 7-11-1999
    writer: "Greenbaum's Gallery"
    12-22-1912 - Lady Bird Johnson - Karnack, TX - d. 7-11-2007
    first lady: owner of radio station KTBC Austin, Texas

    Ron

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