Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #124
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Date: 4/20/2005 6:45 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 124
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      4-19 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      LIVE HORROR RADIO ON THE AIR AGAIN    [ "Hand R J (HLaSS)" <rhand@[removed] ]
      "Empire of the Air"                   [ Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@earthlin ]
      Garbo                                 [ udmacon@[removed] ]
      Cincinnati report                     [ "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Museum of Broadcasting in Los Angele  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Joiseys Tune In!                      [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      war news                              [ BH <radiobill@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:18:42 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-19 births/deaths

    April 19th births

    04-19-1897 - Vivienne Segal - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-29-1992
    actress: "Jantzen Radio Program"
    04-19-1900 - George O'Brien - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-23-1985
    actor: "Anchors Aweigh"
    04-19-1907 - Lin Basquette - San Mateo, CA - d. 9-30-1994
    actress: "Whatever Became of  . . . "
    04-19-1913 - Sylvia Froos - NY - d. 3-28-2004
    singer: "Sylvia Froos Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
    04-19-1914 - Betty Winkler - Berwick, PA
    actress: Joyce Jordan "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; Rosemary Levy "Abie's
    Irish Rose"
    04-19-1920 - Frank Fontaine - Cambridge, MA - d. 8-4-1978
    comedian: John L. C. Sivoney "Jack Benny Program"
    04-19-1937 - Elinor Donahue - Tacoma, WA
    actress: "The Search"

    April 19th deaths

    01-05-1910 - Lumpy Brannum - Sandwich, IL - d. 4-19-1987
    bass: "Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians"
    03-06-1917 - Frankie Howerd - York, England - d. 4-19-1992
    comedian: "Frankie Howerd Show"
    04-22-1900 - Joan Blaine - Fort Dodge, IA - d. 4-19-1949
    actress: Joan Houston "Tale of Today"; Mary Marlin "Story of Mary
    Marlin"
    05-13-1907 - Daphne du Maurier - London, England - d. 4-19-1989
    author: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Matinee Theatre"; "Romance"; "Escape"
    06-18-1910 - Russ Hodges - d. 4-19-1971
    announcer, sportscaster: "Madame Chaing Kai-Shek"; NY/SF Giants
    play-by-play
    09-10-1907 - Alvin Childress - Meridian, MS - d. 4-19-1986
    actor: "New World A-Coming"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:00:48 -0400
    From: "Hand R J (HLaSS)" <rhand@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  LIVE HORROR RADIO ON THE AIR AGAIN

    Dear Friends,
    LIVE HORROR RADIO ON THE AIR AGAIN!
    Hopefully, many of you will be interested in a live horror radio show I
    will be producing on Saturday 23 April at [removed] (GMT): which is about
    10am EST (I think). It will be live on air and webcast as well as having
    a studio audience. My collaborator, Mary Traynor, is a former BBC
    producer and we have a professional live musician so the technical
    standard will be high. The actors (including horror host) and sound
    effects team have been enjoying intensive training too: and all of them
    will even be in 1940s costume too. It will be broadcast via:
    w [removed]
    We have developed an old-style show called The Train of Terror and our
    opening show will be a 30-minute all-new horror play called IN THE PIT
    and is filled with blood, guts and irony. It aims to be pure radio as it
    is set in a deep, dark coalmine. It is a brand new script in the OTR
    style and owes a lot to Lights Out, Mysterious Traveler, ISM and The
    Witch's Tale!
    At a later date we will have a CD with recordings of the live event and
    rehearsal, interviews, a short documentary and some photographs - I will
    post information about that upon release.
    I hope as many of you as possible can listen!
    If any of you will be in South Wales and want to be in the studio
    audience, places can be booked via: w [removed] Any feedback will
    be welcome too.
    Best wishes,
    Dr Richard J. Hand,
    Reader in Theatre and Media Drama,
    University of Glamorgan,
    Pontypridd.
    CF37 1DL. Wales. UK.
    (00144)1443-482862=20
    rhand@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:01:33 -0400
    From: Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Empire of the Air"

    Recent references to David Ossman's dramatic production of "Empire of the
    Air" intrigue me.  I am ashamed to say that this is something of which I have
    not been aware.  I have both the video and the original book, two special
    parts of my personal archives, which now definitely should include the radio
    version!

    Can anyone tell me where and how I may obtain a copy and in what format(s)?

    I am intrigued by the anniversary broadcast from Maj. Armstrong's tower in
    Alpine NJ.  Unfortunately, I no longer live in northern New Jersey but in
    southern Virginia!  Drat!  What also intrigues me is the hearty cooperation
    of the FCC in allowing the unique broadcasting situation for the anniversary.
    Bravo to all concerned!

    Bestus, Lee Munsick

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    Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:01:40 -0400
    From: udmacon@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Garbo
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    How could Garbo "vant to be alone" and agree to appear beside Kate Smith?! <g>

    BILL KNOWLTON: "Bluegrass Ramble," WCNY-FM ([removed]) Syracuse, WUNY ([removed])
    Utica; WJNY ([removed]) Watertown NY. On the web: [removed]. Sundays: 9 pm to
    midnight EST (since 1973) 315-457-6100

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    Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:33:26 -0400
    From: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Cincinnati report

    I had a great time at Cincinnati this year.  Highlights include:

    1) Spending way too much in the dealers room.  I brought home cassettes,
    audio-CDs, MP3 CDs, videotapes, books, and comics.

    2) I got cast in a recreation this year!  I was the announcer during the
    production of Our Miss Brooks.  What a thrill to work with the professionals
    and the very talented non-professionals.  I felt a little out of my league up
    there, but everyone was very nice and very helpful.  They even tolerated my
    singing, which should qualify them for sainthood.  (that song is still in my
    head - dream girl, dream [removed])

    3) Seeing old friends and meeting new ones.  There's too many to name all of
    them, so lets just say it was great meeting/seeing all of you.

    4) Cleaning up during the raffle.  I hit on 11 out of 30 raffle tickets -
    almost 37%.  It was a little embarrassing being so lucky, but I did win some
    great prizes.

    4) The soap.  The best part of the whole weekend happened as soon as I got
    there.  I'm sure many of you remember my "cast steel" question from a couple
    of weeks ago.  Well, as soon as I came through the door, Lennell
    Herbert-Marshall presented me with my very own bar of Castile soap.  What
    fun!  Thank you, Lennell!

    A big thanks to everyone involved in the convention, from the organizers, to
    the dealers, to the stars, to the attendees.  I had a great time.

    -chris holm

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    Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:02:01 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Museum of Broadcasting in Los Angeles Damaged
     By Fire

    The LA Times has a repot on a fire near the Museum of Broadcasting in Los Angeles that has damaged many precious OTR artifacts (and other stuff).

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

    [removed],0,[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:34:40 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Joiseys Tune In!

    Dear Folks-

    Following up on Arthur Anderson's visit the other day, I'll be on WOBM
    1160am's "Larry Brennan Show" for a few minutes at around 4:15PM on  Wednesday.

    All buzzing about our lecture/demo/mini-recreation, also featuring The Wife
    (New York City Opera's Bernadette Fiorella), next Tuesday in Tom's  [removed]

    Best,
    -Craig Wichman

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    Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 08:42:12 -0400
    From: BH <radiobill@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  war news

    From: "William Vest III" <tsukasasan@[removed];

>     This is probably a silly question but I'll ask anyway. I realize in the
>     40's that broadcasting was limited (as far as the news was concerned).
>     However, was there ever radio broadcasts from the war? More specifically
>     from the front lines?

    George Hicks of NBC broadcast his  account from London of the D-Day
    invasion as witnessed from an American Naval flagship a few miles off
    the coast of France. The sounds of aircraft and the bombardment can be
    heard in the background. However this was not a live broadcast but a
    wire recording Hicks made while aboard the ship.
    On the morning of D-Day, Ed Haaker, also of NBC in London described his
    flight over the invasion area with the 9th Air Force. Again, not a live
    broadcast of the event.

    There may have been some live broadcast from the front lines, I would
    also be interested to know if there were.

    Bill H.

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