Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #16
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Date: 1/20/2009 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 16
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      [removed]                [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      The Chicago Pause                     [ Jim Harmon <jimharmonotr@[removed] ]
      1-19 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Arthur Anderson Goes Irish!           [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Smoking                               [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      1-20 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:05:32 -0500
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  [removed]

    I applaud the courage of the Digester who ate his Sen-Sens from over
    sixty years ago!

    For years, I've wondered what would happen, if one ate the bubblegum,
    from an unopened pack of early 1980s baseball [removed]

    ;-)

    Jim Burns

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    Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:05:38 -0500
    From: Jim Harmon <jimharmonotr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Chicago Pause

    The Chicago Pause was a pause in dialogue as Craig Wichman states.  To
    expound on the point a bit further, the pause was explained to me by the late
    Jack Lester, who played Sky King, and characters on many soap operas.

    The scripters for some soap operas were lazy, or overworked, writing many
    soapy tear-jerkers.   Sometimes a script for a daily episode was only some
    seven pages, less than half as many as would be used on a fast-moving kid
    adventure serial like Jack Armstrong.   So the actors would have to stretch
    it out.

    JILL: Coffee?

    (pause)

    JACK: Yes, thank you.

    (pause)

    JILL:  Cream?

    (pause)

    JACK: Please.  (pause)  And two sugars, if you will.

    Or that's the way Jack Lester told it to me. -- JIM HARMON

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    Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:05:47 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-19 births/deaths

    January 19th births

    01-19-1809 - Edgar Allan Poe - Boston, MA - d. 10-7-1849
    author: Several of his works adapted for radio
    01-19-1866 - Harry Davenport - NYC - d. 8-9-1949
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
    01-19-1886 - May Day - Isle of Jersey - d. 7-8-1945
    Gave beauty talks on KF0X Long Beach, California
    01-19-1886 - Samuel Pettengill - Oregon - d. 3-20-1974
    conservatice commentator: Weekly 15 minute program on ABC
    01-19-1887 - Alexander Woollcott - Phalanx, NJ - d. 1-23-1943
    commentator: "Early Bookworm"; "Town Crier"
    01-19-1905 - Anne Hummert - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-5-1996
    producer: "Backstage Wife"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    01-19-1905 - Oveta Kulp Hobby (Hobbe) - Killeen, TX - d. 8-16-1995
    first commanding officer of the wacs: "Meet the Press"
    01-19-1906 - Lanny Ross - Seattle, WA - d. 4-25-1988
    singer: "Lanny Ross Program"; "Maxwell House Show Boat"
    01-19-1908 - Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) - Erie, PA - d. 6-4-1994
    comedian: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    01-19-1909 - Hans Hotter - Offenback am Main, Germany - d. 12-6-2003
    bass-baritone: "Metropolitan Opera"
    01-19-1909 - Merrill E. Joels - Hartford, CT - d. 9-5-2001
    actor: "Counterspy"; "Aunt Jenny"; "The Big Story"
    01-19-1909 - Norman Barry - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-25-1997
    announcer: "Dan Harding's Wife"
    01-19-1910 - Jaime Del Valle - d. 9-16-1981
    producer, director: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Count of Monte
    Cristo"
    01-19-1913 - Edward M. Asherman - d. 7-1-2005
    composer/guitarist/singer: Xavier Cugat Orchestra
    01-19-1916 - Marion Sweet - d. 7-17-1978
    actor: Dragon Lady "Terry and the Pirates"
    01-19-1919 - Ray Eberle - Hoosick Falls, NY - d. 8-25-1979
    singer: "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra"; "Glenn Miller's Moonlight
    Serenade"
    01-19-1922 - Guy Madison - Pumpkin Center, CA - d. 2-6-1996
    actor: Wild Bill Hickok "Wild Bill Hickok"
    01-19-1927 - Nancy Dickerson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 10-18-1997
    newswoman: "784 Days That Changed America (Watergate Scandal)
    01-19-1927 - Peter Fernandez - NYC
    actor: George Bigelow "The Aldrich Family"; "Skip "Right to Happiness"
    01-19-1928 - "Little" Jimmie Sizemore
    singer with father Asher: "Grand Ole Opry"
    01-19-1931 - Robert MacNeil - Montreal, Canada
    newscaster: CBC Canada
    01-19-1931 - Tippi Hedren - New Ulm, MN
    actor: "World's Fair Holiday"
    01-19-1932 - George Mann MacBeth - Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. 2-16-1992
    poet, producer: BBC Radio
    01-19-1939 - Phil Everly - Chicago, IL
    singer: (The Everly Brothers) "March of Dimes"; "Country Hoedown"

    January 19th deaths

    01-20-1898 - Norma Varden - London, England - d. 1-19-1989
    actor: "Crime Classics"; "NBC University Theatre"
    01-22-1914 - Joy Hodges - Des Moines, IA - d. 1-19-2003
    vocalist; "The Joe Penner Show"
    01-28-1886 - Hidetsugu Yagi - Osaka, Japan - d. 1-19-1976
    radio antenna designer
    03-01-1917 - Cliffie Stone - Stockton, CA - d. 1-19-1998
    host: "Hollywood Barn Dance"; "The Cliffie Stone Show"
    03-10-1918 - Laddie Seaman - Reading, PA - d. 1-19-1942
    actor: Scoop Ward "News of Youth"; Biff Bradley "Pepper Young's Family"
    04-18-1908 - Irra Petina - Petrograd, Russia - d. 1-19-2000
    singer: "The Railroad Hour"
    04-22-1920 - Hal March - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-19-1970
    comedian: Matt Henshaw "December Bride"; Mr. Cook "Too Many Cooks"
    05-16-1916 - Adriana Caselotti - Bridgeport, CT - d. 1-19-1997
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-26-1884 - Charles Winninger - Athens, WI - d. 1-19-1969
    actor: Captain Henry "Show Boat"; Uncle Charlie "Uncle Charlie's Tent
    Show"
    05-31-1904 - Clifton Utley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-19-1978
    newsman: (Father of Garrick) "Comments by Clifton Utley"
    06-07-1893 - Lillian Althouse - d. 1-19-1979
    saxophonist: KFI Los Angeles
    07-08-1917 - Glenn Langan - Denver, CO - d. 1-19-1991
    actor: "Chuck Morgan "Stand By For Crime"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-04-1898 - Hugh O'Connell - d. 1-19-1943
    actor, comedian: "Vanity Fair"
    09-05-1879 - Harold Sanford - Florence, MA - d. 1-19-1945
    conductor: "Philco Hour"; "Exploring America with Carveth Wells"
    09-05-1939 - John Stewart - San Diego, CA - d. 1-19-2008
    singer: (Kingston Trio) "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; "Guest Star"
    09-11-1887 - Gus Arnheim - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-19-1955
    orchestra leader: "Woodbury Soap Show"
    10-18-1913 - Martin Blaine - Illinois - d. 1-19-1989
    actor: Adam Sheppard "FBI in Peace and War"; Scott 'Tubby' Truman
    "Valiant Lady"
    11-09-1913 - Hedy Lamarr - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-19-2000
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-17-1917 - Byron Keith - Illinois - d. 1-19-1996
    Started his career in radio in Boise, Idaho in the 1930s
    12-28-1887 - Charles Dingle - Wabash, IN - d. 1-19-1956
    actor: Employer "Meet the Dixons"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:23:16 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Arthur Anderson Goes Irish!

    Let's Pretend star and official biographer Arthur Anderson will do a live
    radio interview on Wednesday January 21 at 10:00 [removed] ET on Irish Radio
    105-107, which can be heard on the internet at [removed].

    They'll be talking about Let's Pretend and the Mercury Theater, but of course
    also Arthur's role as the world's most famous fake Irishman, Lucky the
    Leprechaun from Lucky Charms commercials.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:01:21 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Smoking

>     From: Wich2@[removed]
>     To: [removed]@[removed]

>     But it's also true that many people, for much the last 200 years,
>     smoked tobacco. So, in the interest of realism, it is only right that
>     actors portraying those people do the same. (I'm not a smoker, and
>     I've done it; for  instance, playing Sherlock Holmes.) Not always lazy
>     writing - pragmatic  writing.

    Quite true.  But I wonder whether the same effect could be gotten
    some other way.  For example, when one has a drink in a movie or TV
    show, it's not necessary that they actually drink something with
    alcohol.  Is there some way to make a fake cigarette or cigar?

    I know when I went to see Frank Ferante's "Groucho: A Life in
    Review," I didn't like the fact that he lit up a real cigar, whose
    fumes I found quite obnoxious, and I know people who won't go to see
    the show because if it.  An unlit cigar would have been sufficient.

    On radio, of course, no one had to really smoke because we didn't see
    them anyway.  But in the otr era, the health effects were largely
    unknown.

>     Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:33:47 -0500
>     From: rand@[removed]

>     Of course, way back then, manufacturers didn't understand addiction
>     and the health effects. They just knew that if someone started
>     smoking, they stayed pretty loyal to the habit, sort of like people
>     who enjoyed a little opium or cocaine on occasion at the turn of
>     the century.

    I'm not so sure they didn't.  Some of the information revealed in
    recent lawsuits shows that the cigarette companies knew a lot more
    than people thought and actively concealed quite a bit from the
    public.

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

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    Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:06:50 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-20 births/deaths

    January 20th births

    01-20-1878 - Finlay Currie - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 5-9-1968
    actor: John H. Watson "BBC Home Theatre"
    01-20-1894 - Harold Gray - Kankakee, IL - d. 5-9-1968
    cartoonist: Creater of "Little Orphan Annie"
    01-20-1895 - Roscoe Ates - Grange, MS - d. 3-1-1962
    stuttering comedian: "Shell Chateau"; "Comedy Stars of Hollywood"
    01-20-1896 - George Burns - NYC - d. 3-9-1996
    comedian: "Advs. of Gracie"; "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
    01-20-1896 - Rolfe Sedan - NYC - d. 9-15-1982
    actor: "Escape"; "Suspense"; "Mystery in the Air"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-20-1898 - Norma Varden - London, England - d. 1-19-1989
    actor: "Crime Classics"; "NBC University Theatre"
    01-20-1898 - Tudor Owen - Wales, UK - d. 3-13-1979
    actor: Jocko Madigan "Pat Novak for Hire"; Editor "Alias Jane Doe"
    01-20-1899 - Joseph Buloff - Vilnius, Lithuania - d. 2-27-1985
    actor: Barney Glass "House of Glass"
    01-20-1900 - Colin Clive - [removed], France - d. 6-26-1937
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    01-20-1903 - Leon Ames - Portland, IN - d. 10-10-1993
    actor: "Earplay"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    01-20-1912 - Paula Stone - NYC - d. 12-23-1997
    moderator: "Leave It to the Girls"
    01-20-1914 - Roy Plomley - Kingston-upon-Thames, England - d. 5-28-1985
    announcer: Desert Island Discs"; "We Beg to Differ"; "One Minute Please"
    01-20-1919 - Tony Shryane - St. Austell, England - d. 9-22-2003
    BBC radio producer
    01-20-1920 - DeForest Kelley - Atlanta, GA - d. 6-11-1999
    actor: "Suspense"
    01-20-1920 - Derek Bond - Glascow, Scotland - d. 10-15-2006
    actor: "A Christmas Carol"
    01-20-1921 - Connie Haines - Savannah, GA - d. 9-22-2008
    singer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Rhapsody in Rhythm"
    01-20-1922 - Ray Anthony - Bentleyville, PA
    band eader: Band remotes for CBS 1951-1952
    01-20-1924 - Slim Whitman - Tampa, FL
    singer: "Louisiana Hayride"
    01-20-1926 - Patricia Neal - Packard, KY
    actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"
    01-20-1927 - Dawn Lake - Sydney, Australia - d. 1-1-2006
    singer: "The Jack Davey Program"

    January 20th deaths

    01-27-1914 - Alexander Albert Avola - Boston, MA - d. 1-20-2000
    guitarist/arranger: Artie Shaw Orchestra; Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
    02-18-1903 - Jacques Fray - Paris, France - d. 1-20-1963
    pianist, disc jockey: "Fray and Braggiotti"
    03-17-1918 - Bill Felton - Greenland, MI - d. 1-20-2005
    newscaster, disc jockey: "Valley Varieties"; "Recreation Room"
    04-06-1927 - Gerry Mulligan - NYC - d. 1-20-1996
    jazz saxophonist: "Sound of Jazz"; "White House Jazz Festival"; "Voice
    of Vista"
    05-01-1924 - Dennis Main Wilson - Dulwich. London, England - d.
    1-20-1997
    producer: "Goon Show"; "Hancock's Half Hour"; "Citizen Smith"
    05-03-1880 - Horace Murphy - Finley, TN - d. 1-20-1975
    actor: Buckskin Blodgett "Red Ryder"
    05-04-1929 - Audrey Hepburn - Brussels, Belguim - d. 1-20-1993
    actor: "[removed] Story"; "Stagestruck"
    05-29-1894 - Beatrice Lillie - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-20-1989
    commedienne: "Beatrice Lillie Show"
    06-02-1904 - Johnny Weissmuller - Windber, PA - d. 1-20-1984
    actor: Movie Tarzan and Jungle Jim
    06-05-1907 - D'Artega - Silao, Mexico - d. 1-20-1998
    conductor, composer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"
    07-11-1922 - Bernard Punsly - NYC - d. 1-20-2004
    actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
    07-16-1907 - Barbara Stanwyck - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-20-1990
    actor: "Prudential Family Hour of Stars"; "This Is My Story"
    08-05-1917 - Don Stanley - Stoughton, WI - d. 1-20-2003
    announcer: "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "Out of the Deep"; "The Saint"
    08-18-1902 - Joseph Catizone - Italy - d. 1-20-1973
    trumpeter
    09-14-1890 - Anthony Frome - Bellaire, OH - d. 1-20-1962
    as "The Poet Prince" he sang and read poetry over NBC Blue in early
    1930s
    10-24-1891 - Nila Mack - Arkansas City, KS - d. 1-20-1953
    director: "Helen and Mary"; "Let's Pretend"
    11-14-1906 - Mercer McCloud - d. 1-20-1993
    actor: Fran Cummings "Second Husband"
    11-14-1913 - George Smathers - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 1-20-2007
    [removed] senator from florida: "Meet the Press"
    11-26-1911 - Robert Donley - Carmichaels, PA - d. 1-20-2004
    actor: "Lieutenant Carpenter "Front Page Farrell"
    12-05-1922 - Alan Freed - Johnstown, PA - d. 1-20-1965
    disc jockey: "Moondog Show"; "Alan Freed Show"; "Camel Rock and Roll
    Party"

    Ron

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