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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 181
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Adela and Gale Maritano               [ ajhubin@[removed] ]
  11-25 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Women in Radio - Followup             [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  11-26 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  Groucho Marx on radio                 [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:40:00 -0400
From: ajhubin@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Adela and Gale Maritano
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This husband and wife were active in Chicago radio. Together they ran the
"Little Theatre of the Air," listed in a 1938 Directory of Transcription,
Producing and Talent Services (and located at 154 E Erie St., Chicago). The
managers are listed as Adela Kay and Gale Maritano, and I'm fairly confident
Adela Kay became Adela Kay Maritano. She was identified as "program and
continuity editor of WHIP, Hammond, Indiana, and formerly with WHAM,
Cleveland, and KOIL, Omaha." He was identified as "formerly of WXYZ and WMBC
Detroit." I 've had no success in tracing birth/death dates for Gale Maritano.
I've found an Adela Maritano, born 10/13/1918 (which makes her pretty young
for all that radio activity by 1938), died 2/5/2002 in Santa Cruz, California
(with SS# issued in Indiana). I'm interested in these folks not only for their
radio involvement, but also (as I'm a crime fiction bibliographer) because
together (as Adela Gale) they published 3 paperback mysteries in the 1960s and
she published a mystery in 1974 as Kay Martin (she also published a bunch of
romances as Jane Converse).

Have I got the right Adela Maritano, and has anyone more information on Gale
Maritano?

Al Hubin

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:40:11 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-25 births/deaths

November 25th deaths

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 - d. 5-15-2012
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 - d. 1-14-2009
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"
06-24-1925 - Louis Jean Brunelli - NYC - d. 11-25-2010
assistant conductor: "Longines Symphonette"
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"
10-10-1918 - Bobby Byrne - Columbus, OH - d. 11-25-2006
trombonist, bandleader: big band remote from Glen Island
11-06-1935 - Judy Lewis - Venice, CA - d. 11-25-2011
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-19-1905 - Eleanor Audley - NYC - d. 11-25-1991
actor: Elizabeth Smith "Father Knows Best"
11-30-1931 - Teddy Wilburn - Hardy, AR - 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, 27 Nov 2012 12:40:18 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Women in Radio - Followup

On 11/24/2012 3:04 PM, Vince Long wrote:

I mentioned that after I did a short presentation on Women in Radio at
the Western Heritage Center, they asked me to be their noon time
lecturer last [removed]

And my plan, last June, when I retired, was to slip into [removed]

Hi Vince,

Good people never "slip into obscurity."  Great article.  Keep up your
excellent work!

Jerry Haendiges

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:40:26 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-26 births/deaths

November 26th births

11-26-1889 - H. I. Phillips - Connecticut - d. 3-15-1965
writer, composer: "Information Please"
11-26-1891 - Anne Nichols - Dales Mill, GA - d. 9-15-1966
writer: "Abie's Irish Rose"
11-26-1894 - Ruth Cornwall Woodman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-2-1970
creator, writer: "Death Valley Days"; "Cavalcade of America"
11-26-1905 - Emlyn Williams - Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales - d. 9-25-1987
actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
11-26-1907 - Frances Dee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-26-1907 - Henry "Hot Lips" Levine - London, England - d. 5-6-1989
trumpeter, conducter: "Chamber Music of Lower Basin Street"; "Strictly
from Dixie"
11-26-1908 - Lefty Gomez - Rodeo, CA - d. 2-17-1989
baseball pitcher: "Information Please"
11-26-1910 - Cyril Cusack - Durban, South Africa - d. 10-7-1993
actor: "Great Expectations"
11-26-1911 - Robert Donley - Carmichaels, PA - d. 1-20-2004
actor: "Lieutenant Carpenter "Front Page Farrell"
11-26-1912 - Eric Sevareid - Velva, ND - d. 7-9-1992
correspondent: "Eric Sevaried and the News"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
11-26-1913 - Bill Baldwin - Pueblo, CO - d. 11-17-1982
announcer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Mario Lanza Show"
11-26-1915 - Earl Wild - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-23-2010
pianist: KDKA Pittsburgh; "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
11-26-1917 - Adele Jergens - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-22-2002
actor: Carol Curtis "Stand By For Crime"
11-26-1919 - Frederick Pohl - NYC
writer: "X-Minus One"
11-26-1922 - Terry Ryan - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-5-2001
comedy writer: "Fred Allen Show"
11-26-1933 - Louis Turenne - Montreal, Canada
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-26-1933 - Robert Goulet - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-30-2007
singer-actor: "Guard Session"; "Voices of Vista"

November 26th deaths

01-26-1922 - Michael Bentine - Watford, Hertfordshie, England - d.
11-26-1996
comedian: "Goon Show"
02-04-1909 - Robert Coote - London, England - d. 11-26-1982
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
02-26-1915 - Eddie Gallaher - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-26-2003
disc jockey: "Moon Dial"; "On a Sunday Afternoon"
02-28-1879 - Julian Noa - d. 11-26-1958
actor: Perry White "Advs. of Superman"; Judge Scott "The O'Neills"
04-03-1913 - Mel Tolkin - Odessa, Russia - d. 11-26-2007
comedy writer: wrote jokes for Bob Hope
04-12-1902 - John White - d. 11-26-1992
country/western singer: Lonesome Cowboy "Death Valley Days"
05-06-1906 - Mathilde Ferror - d. 11-26-1990
writer: "Lorenzo Jones"
05-23-1910 - Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers - Terre Haute, IN - d.
11-26-1986
jazz musician: early radio into the 40s
06-14-1913 - Stanley Black - London, England - d. 11-26-2002
conductor: BBC Dance Orchestra
06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-23-1883 - Albert Warner - Poland - d. 11-26-1967
co-founder of warner brothers: "Warner Brothers Academy Theatre"
09-23-1908 - Tiny Bradshaw - Youngstown, OH - d. 11-26-1958
orchestra leader: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
10-15-1898 - Ransom Sherman - Appleton, WI - d. 11-26-1985
actor: Uncle Dennis "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Hap Hazard "Hap Hazard"
10-16-1903 - "Wild Bill" Elliott (Gordon Nance) - Pattonsburg, MO - d.
11-26-1965
actor: Wild Bill Elliott "Wild Bill Elliott"
11-19-1905 - Tommy Dorsey - Shenandoah, PA - d. 11-26-1956
bandleader: "Jack Pearl Program"; "Fame and Fortune"; "Tommy Dorsey
Show"
12-01-1904 - Jimmy Lytell - NYC - d. 11-26-1972
bandleader, clarinetist: "Cavalcade of America"; "Songs by Morton
Downey"
12-09-1932 - Bill Hartack - Ebensburg, PA - d. 11-26-2007
jockey: "Tops in Sports"

Ron

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:40:32 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."  Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

UP FOR PAROLE
Episode 10 5-12-50 "The Case Of Clarence Hogan"
Host: Harry Marble
Producer/Director: Mitchell Greyson
Music: Harry Salter
Writers: Arnold Pearl, Allan Sloane
CBS Sustained Fridays 9:00 - 9:30 pm

WE CAME THIS WAY
"NBC University Theater Of The Air"
Episode 5 11-3-44 "Valley Forge"
Narrator: Clifton Utley
Stars: Frank Dane, Norman Gottschalk, Johnny Coons, Arthur Sedgewick,
Arnold Robertson, Jess Pugh
NBC Sustained Fridays 11:30 - Midnight

WHITE FIRES OF INSPIRATION
2-1-38 "The Story of Clara Barton"
Stars: Lurene Tuttle, Ted Osborne, Frederick Shields, Howard McNear
Announcer: Art Gilmore
Music: Wilber Hatch
CBS Sustained

THEATER OF ROMANCE
Episode 30 1-23-45 "Ball of Fire"
Stars: Shirley Booth, Sydney Smith
Announcer: Del Sharbutt
CBS Colgate, Halo Shampoo Tuesdays 5:30 - 6:00 pm
==================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

T-MAN
(CBS) 4/29/50 Directed by Norman MacDonald with Dennis O'Keefe starring
in "The Case of the Bleeding Gold"

ARCH OBOLER'S PLAYS
(NBC) 4/1/39 "Mirage" Another very unusual tale from Oboler.

AUNT JENNY'S REAL LIFE STORIES
(CBS) 6/5/46 Aunt Jenny and Dan Seymour present a daily tale and a
recipe made with SPRY.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

John and Larry Gassman wish you all a very happy and safe Thanksgiving
for 2012.

Our performer of the month is Harlow Wilcox.

AMOS & ANDY
from 11/19/43 "Turkey Trouble" The guest is Spring Byington.

BOSTON BLACKIE
from 07/21/44 Black Market Meat Ring.
Boston Blackie was the summer replacement show for Amos And andy with
Chester Morris as Blackie.

On October 29, 2012 John and Larry chatted with David Koenig, author of
5 books about Disney, plus a excellent new book on Danny Kaye.
You'll hear that interview as we begin hour 2 of the program.

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW
from 01/06/45 Episode (01) Guest Eddie Cantor.
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CLASSICS & CURIOS

"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

Episode 55

EDDIE HUBBARD & THE BROWSERS: "OLD FOLKS"

This is one of my favorite Browsers shows. We're talking tunes like
1940's "Darn That Dream," 1928's "My Blue Heaven," 1941's "Let Me Off
Uptown," "Harbor Lights," "I Wonder," "My Baby Just Cares for Me,"
"Jingle Jangle Jingle," "You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart," "The
Music Makers," "One Dozen Roses," and the wonderfully touching "Old Folks."

All songs are great, but probably topping off the show for me is the
song "Old Folks" by Bing Crosby. Perhaps that's because I'm in the
winter of life. Touching lyrics in this song about an old fellow with
the name "Old Folks" include "Like the seasons he comes and he'll go/
Just as free as a bird and as good as his word/That's why everybody
loves him so." Close behind as a favorite is "Straighten Up & Fly Right"
by Nat King Cole. Among other artists featured are Benny Goodman and the
"Liltin" Miss Martha Tilton, Glenn Miller, the Dorseys, Bing Crosby,
Sammy Kaye, Eddie Howard, Kay Kyser and Harry Babbit, Gene Austin, and
Gene Krupa and Anita O' Day together with Roy Eldridge.

And the Browsers challenge each other and you with musical trivia. Do
you know, for example, if Nat King Cole's "Straighten Up & Fly Right"
was his first recording? And can you explain how Bing Crosby got his
name "Bing?" Or how about naming a spinoff band from Glenn Miller's big
band group? What were the 2 hits from the movie "The Big Broadcast of
1938," and what vocalists sang them? What were some recordings that sold
more than 5 million in the big band era? What American band first
recorded "Harbor Lights" and what other bands recorded it? Can you
identify the film that the 1943 tune "Nevada" was written for? Here's a
good one: Name some songs that have 3 alliterating words in the title
like "Jingle Jangle Jingle." And do you know the vocalist who sings "As
If I Didn't Know?" (This song was a "filler" in place of a commercial,
and I had to look that one up myself to find the name Adam Wade.)

Interesting about Glenn Miller's spinoff bands -- not just the one
mentioned in this show -- is that they also included the larger American
Band of the Supreme Allied Command, the Swing Shift (a seventeen-piece
dance band led by Ray McKinley), Uptown Hall (a smaller seven-piece jazz
band led by Mel Powell), and Strings with Wings with a complete string
section led by George Ockner. All of these units added to Glenn's
popularity so that by 1943 there were over 500 Miller fan clubs in the
USA and Canada. As you may know, in 1940 alone Glenn recorded 45 songs
that reached the top of the charts, something that Elvis or even the
Beatles never achieved!

While Glenn was born in Iowa, when he was 5 his family moved to Tryon,
NE where they lived for 5 years in a sod house and then moved to North
Platte, NE before moving on to Missouri and later to Colorado. So at
least Glenn and yours truly share a Nebraska heritage of sorts along
with our love of big bands.

At any rate Glenn, of course, became a world renowned perfectionist band
leader who combined a little jazz, lots of swing, professional
showmanship, and great arranging, along with the unique Miller sound --
a clarinet lead backed by 4 saxophones -- to lead perhaps the most
popular big band of all time.

Thanks, Browsers, for this wonderful big band show. And now the curtain
is going up, and it's show time. First on the bandstand is Eddie Howard
and his orchestra with his 1947 hit "I Wonder." So, old folks and young
folks, enjoy!
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Make Believe Ballroom Time

Episode 5

In December 1946 Tommy Dorsey was one of eight big band leaders who shut
down their bands for good. They believed the big band era had come to a
close. Two tears later, Tommy Dorsey began a come-back aimed at "the
kids of America who deserved a chance to dance to the big bands again".
This program starts with the Dorsey band of 1946 with Tommy broadcasting
from Los Angeles with his special [removed] Ellington. The program
goes on to 1953 with the Dorsey band "alive and well" in New York City
broadcasting from The Stattler Hotel on NBC. You'll find all this with
facts about Tommy and stats about the year [removed] you know the
microwave oven was introduced at that time? Check us out on " It's Make
Believe Ballroom Time"
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

      Jerry Haendiges

      Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
      The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
      Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:40:42 -0400
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Groucho Marx on radio

Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:04:22 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

11/28

1932   Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.

I suppose I should know the answer, but what was the show? Was it
Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel (originally Beagle, Shyster & Beagle) or
was it another show?

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]|92 State Street|Suite 700|Boston, MA 02109-2004
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