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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 157
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      radio program search                  [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      9-7 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      exposed                               [ Larry Gassman <lgsinger@[removed] ]
      9-8 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Dance Bands on the Air, 1929-1934     [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:30:46 -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," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," John and Larry
    Gassman's "Same Time Station" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
    Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
    [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
    [removed]
    =======================================

    SHELL CHATEAU
    Episode 1 4-4-36 Guest: Buster Keaton
    First show hosted by Smith Ballow
    Guests: Mary Ellis, songs; Buster Keaton, comedy; Max Terrs Chorus;
    Willie Hunter, golfer
    NBC Shell Oil Co
    Host: Smith Ballow
    Music: Victor Young And His Orchestra

    HOBBY LOBBY
    8-2-39 Guest Host: Eleanor Roosevelt
    The Hobbies of Connee Boswell
    HOST: Dave Ellman
    NBC Sustained

    CASE DISMISSED
    Episode 2 2-6-54 Pitfalls Of Buying A House
    NBC/WMAQ Chicago Bar Association Saturdays 5:00 - 5:30 pm
    Announcer: Lee Bennett
    Producer: Betty Ross
    Director: Herbert Latow
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    BOB AND RAY
    (WOR-NYC) 3/22/73
    A half hour edited sample of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on their local
    afternoon show.

    THE CBS RADIO WORKSHOP
    (CBS) 4/13/56 A superb restoration of Aldous Huxley's "Jacob's Hands"
    introduced by the co-author. A uniquely unusual story with a
    distinguished CBS cast proving how moving a radio drama can be.

    LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
    (Summer 1940) MBS Includes promotion for OVALTINE "Shake-Up" Mug.
    ====================================

    THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

    YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR (CBS)
    Title: "Fatal Filet Matter"
    Original Air: 5/10/59
    Starring: Bob Bailey

    I Love a Mystery (Mutual)
    Title: "Bury Your Dead, Arizona -- Episode 11"
    Original Air: 12/2/49
    Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall

    OUR MISS BROOKS (CBS)
    Title: "School on Saturday"
    Original Air: 1/29/50
    Starring: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler, Richard Crenna
    Sponsor: Colgate Palmolive

    GUNSMOKE (CBS)
    Original Air: 9/20/54
    Title: "FU"
    Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, and Georgia Ellis
    Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    We begin with one of the first police shows during radio's golden age,
    CALLING ALL CARS
    09-08-38 eppisode 250 Murder on the left.

    The next two shows are celebrations!

    Joe E Brown's 40th anniversary in show business was celebrated on his
    quiz show STOP OR GO
    11-26-44. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Jack Benny, Rudy Vallee,
    and dorothy LaMour.

    In the second hour of Same time, Same Station, we'll hear the sixth
    anniversary of TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
    from 03-23-46. Guests include: Jack Benny

    And finally the ADVENTURES OF THE FALCON
    10-15-50 eppisode 303. The Case of the Careless Client.
    ====================================

    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, 7 Sep 2010 16:31:00 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  radio program search

    Little Women
    (4/21/1935) Lux
    Radio Theater drama # 28 with Lillian Gish and Dorothy
    Gish.
    Way Down East
    (11/25/1935)
    Lux Radio Theater drama #56 with Lillian Gish and Richard
    Barthelmess.
    Peter Pan, starring Maude
    Adams, a three-part NBC Pond's Program broadcast during the 1933-1934
    season.
    The Little Minister, starring Maude
    Adams, a NBC Pond's Program broadcast on radio during the 1933-1934
    season.
    Rosemary, starring Maude Adams, a NBC Pond's Program
    broadcast on radio during the 1933-1934 season.
    Secrets, starring Maude Adams, a three-part NBC Pond's Program
    broadcast on radio during the 1933-1934 season.
    Marching Song, starring Maude Adams, a NBC Pond's Program
    broadcast on radio during the 1933-1934 season.
    Author David W. Menefee is looking for the following radio shows, if they
    exist.
    davemenefee@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:31:52 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-7 births/deaths

    September 7th births

    09-07-1886 - Alan Devitt - d. 1-28-1955
    actor: "Famous Jury Trial"; "The March of Time"
    09-07-1888 - Alec Harford - London, England - d. 3-31-1955
    actor: "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"; "Romance"
    09-07-1891 - Roscoe Karns - San Bernadino, CA - d. 2-6-1970
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    09-07-1900 - Emerson Treacy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-10-1967
    actor: Fred Thompson "One Man's Family"
    09-07-1903 - Margaret Landon - Somers, WI - d. 12-4-1993
    author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-07-1903 - Milton Brown - Stephenville, TX - d. 4-13-1936
    singer: "The Musical Brownies"
    09-07-1905 - Ivy Maude Baker Priest - Kimberly, UT - d. 6-23-1975
    treasurer of the united states: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    09-07-1907 - Johnny McAfee - d. 10-18-1982
    vocalist: (Harry James Band) "Chesterfield Time"
    09-07-1908 - Max Kaminsky - Brockton, MA - d. 9-6-1994
    jazz musician: :This Is Jazz"
    09-07-1908 - Paul Brown - Norwalk, OH - d. 8-5-1991
    football coach: "Greatest Sports Thrills"
    09-07-1909 - Elia Kazan - Constantinople, Turkey - d. 9-28-2003
    film director, actor: "Free Company"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
    09-07-1910 - Don Ried - d. 9-16-1996
    vocalist: "The Jack Kirkwood Show"
    09-07-1913 - Anthony Quayle - Ainsdale, England - d. 10-20-1989
    actor:  Guest Panelist "[removed]"
    09-07-1918 - Al Christy - Kansas City, KS - d. 3-3-1995
    started his career in radio
    09-07-1919 - Louise Bennett - Kingston, Jamaica - d. 7-26-2006
    poet, folklorist: commented on social matters as Aunty Roachy
    09-07-1920 - Mende Brown - d. 2-2-2002
    director: "The Affairs of Peter Salem"
    09-07-1921 - Art Ferrante - NYC - d. 9-19-2009
    pianist: (Ferrante and Teicher) "The Zero Hour"; "Hollywood Radio
    Theatre"
    09-07-1923 - Peter Lawford - London, England - d. 12-24-1984
    actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"; "Suspense"
    09-07-1927 - Don Messick - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-24-1997
    actor: "Let George Do It"; "Horizons West"; "NBC University Theatre"
    09-07-1930 - Sonny Rollins - Harlem, NY
    jazz saxophonist: "White House Jazz Festival"
    09-07-1936 - Buddy Holly - Lubbock, TX - d. 2-3-1959
    singer: "Sunday Party"; "Buddy and Bob Show"

    September 7th deaths

    01-04-1896 - Everett Dirksen - Pekin, IL - d. 9-7-1969
    [removed] senator: "Meet the Press"; "American Forum on the Air"
    03-15-1916 - Frank Coghlan, Jr. - New Haven, CT - d. 9-7-2009
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Doctor Christian"
    03-29-1919 - Robert Enders - Pennsylvania - d. 9-7-2007
    producer: "Our Land Be Right"
    05-04-1923 - Godfrey Quigley - Jerusalem - d. 9-7-1994
    producer: "The Kennedys of Castleross"
    05-18-1912 - John Campbell Crosby - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-7-1991
    radio critic: New York Herald Tribune
    05-20-1934 - Ken Boyer - Liberty, MO - d. 9-7-1982
    baseball player: "Tops in Sports"
    05-29-1911 - Vivi Janiss - Nebraska - d. 9-7-1988
    actor: (Married to John Larch) Kit Calvert "Aunt Mary"
    06-06-1917 - Maria Montez - Barahona, Dominican Republic - d. 9-7-1951
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-20-1924 - Billie Lou Watt - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-7-2001
    actor: "Land of the Free"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-29-1892 - Horace Braham - London, England - d. 9-7-1955
    actor: Charles Lang "Wendy Warren and the News"; Ernest Benning "Big
    Sister"
    09-14-1918 - Mike Stokey - Shreveport, LA - d. 9-7-2003
    announcer: "One Night Stand"
    09-24-1900 - Ham Fisher - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 9-7-1955
    cartoonist: (Creator of Joe Palooka) "Raleigh Room"; "Philco Radio Time"
    09-26-1889 - Frank Crumit - Jackson, OH - d. 9-7-1943
    singer, emcee: "Blackstone Plantation"; "Battle of the Sexes";
    "Singing Sweethearts"
    10-13-1900 - Georgia Backus - Columbus, OH - d. 9-7-1983
    actor: Peg Riley "Life of Riley"; Portia Brent "Brenthouse"; Doris
    Foster "A Date with Judy"
    10-17-1893 - Spring Byington - Colorado Springs, CO - d. 9-7-1971
    actor: Lily Ruskin "December Bride"
    11-07-1906 - Red Ingle - Toledo, OH - d. 9-7-1965
    vocalist: (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) "The Spike Jones Show"
    11-27-1890 - Gladys Rice - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-7-1983
    singer: "Roxy's Gang"; "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Voice of
    Firestone"
    12-17-1900 - Norman Cloutier - Hartford, CT - d. 9-7-1962
    orchestra leader: "Cloutier Calling"; "Cosmopolitan Melodies"
    12-20-1920 - Dennis Morgan - Prentice, WI - d. 9-7-1994
    actor, singer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:32:00 -0400
    From: Larry Gassman <lgsinger@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  exposed

    	Actually you have parts 2 and 3 of this mini series. Part 1 hasn't
    been added yet.
    Larry

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    Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:38:08 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-8 births/deaths

    September 8th births

    09-08-1877 - Bide Dudley - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1944
    drama critic: "Around Little 'Ol Broadway"
    09-08-1889 - Robert A. Taft - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-31-1953
    us senator: "American Forum of the Air"; "The People's Platform"
    09-08-1896 - Howard Dietz - NYC - d. 7-30-1983
    song lyricist: "The Gibson Family"
    09-08-1897 - Jimmie Rodgers - Meridian, MS - d. 5-26-1933
    singer: "The Singing Brakeman"
    09-08-1902 - Milton Watson - Salinas, CA - d. 1-2-1982
    vocalist: "Burns and Allen"
    09-08-1902 - Welcome Lewis - d. 3-25-1999
    singer: "Singo"; "The Singing Bee"
    09-08-1905 - Henry Wilcoxon - Dominica, West Indies - d. 3-6-1984
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-08-1906 - Orlo Bagley - d. 7-2-1986
    sportscaster: KOMB Cottage Grove, Oregon
    09-08-1907 - Eleanor Phelps - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-29-2001
    actor: Susan Chandler "Life and Loves of Doctor Susan"
    09-08-1907 - Tom McAvity - d. 10-1-1972
    producer, director: "A Date with Judy"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "The Saint"
    09-08-1908 - John Griggs - Chesterfield, SC - d. 2-25-1967
    actor: Capt. Randy Claymore of the Confederacy "Roses and Drums"
    09-08-1910 - Joe Bolton - Flushing, NY - d. 8-13-1986
    announcer: "The 1937 Radio Show"
    09-08-1911 - Christine Johnson - Hopkinsville, KY - d. 6-9-2010
    singer, actress: "The Squibb Show"
    09-08-1913 - Patricia 'Honeychile' Wilder - Macon, GA - d. 8-11-1995
    actor: "Maxwell House Showboat"; "Atlantic Family"; [removed] Jive"
    09-08-1914 - Hillary Brooke - Astoria, NY - d. 5-25-1999
    actor: "Suspense"
    09-08-1915 - Frank Cady - Susanville, CA
    actor: "Gunsmoke"
    09-08-1921 - Harry Secombe - Swansea, Wales - d. 4-12-2001
    comedian: Neddie Seagoon "Goon Show"
    09-08-1922 - Sid Caesar - Yonkers, NY
    comedian: "Voice of the Army"; "Tex and Jinx Show"
    09-08-1925 - Peter Sellers - London, England - d. 7-24-1980
    comedian: Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Major Dennis Bloodnok, others
    "Goon Show"
    09-08-1932 - Patsy Cline - Gore, VA - d. 3-5-1963
    country singer: "Country Hoedown"; "Grand Ole Opry"

    September 8th deaths

    01-03-1898 - Freddie Rich - Warsaw, Poland - d. 9-8-1956
    bandleader: "Friendly Five Footnotes"; "Freddie Rich's Penthouse Party"
    02-28-1915 - Zero Mostel - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-8-1977
    comedian: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
    05-18-1932 - Walter Anglin - d. 9-8-2001
    disk jockey: WJLD Birmingham, Alabama
    05-28-1919 - Frank Middlemass - Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 9-8-2006
    actor: "Too the Manor Born"
    06-18-1908 - Clayton "Bud" Collyer - NYC - d. 9-8-1969
    actor, announcer: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; "Cavalcade
    of America"
    09-30-1922 - Oscar Pettiford - Okmulgee, OK - d. 9-8-1960
    jazz composer, bass player: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Esquire Jazz
    Concert"
    10-09-1905 - Norman Gottschalk - Chicago, IL - d. 9-8-1979
    actor: Joe Palooka "Joe Palooka": "Captain Midnight"
    10-10-1870 - J. V. Barborka - Bohemia, Austria - d. 9-8-1936
    harpist: KMA Shenandoah, Iowa
    11-09-1922 - Dorothy Dandridge - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-8-1965
    actor, writer: "Beulah Show"
    11-27-1882 - Norman Baker - Muscatine, IL - d. 9-8-1958
    vaudevillian: "Mr. Baker Himself"
    12-06-1913 - Oswald Hoffman - Nebraska - d. 9-8-2005
    preacher: "The Lutheran Hour"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:39:10 -0400
    From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Dance Bands on the Air, 1929-1934

    I don't normally talk up a broadcast after the fact, but I wanted to share
    the great time I had during last weekend's "Those Were the Days" program, as
    our friend Karl Pearson joined us for an afternoon of broadcasts featuring
    dance bands from 1929-1934 (featuring the likes of Hoagy Carmichael, Ethel
    Waters, George Olsen, the Dorsey Brothers, Ted Weems, Rudy Vallee, and
    others) and I urge those of you who didn't hear it to check out the streaming
    version that'll be up through this week at [removed].

    Steve

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    Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:12:01 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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