Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #78
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 78
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: no radio growing up               [ dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      4-24 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      The best playwrite is a dead playwri  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Convention door prize: favorite show  [ Herb Harrison <[removed]@yahoo. ]
      Phil Harris Galveston Q.              [ "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@earthli ]
      A Good List Is Worth Repeating!       [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Chuck Schaden Announces Retirement    [ seandd@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:52:50 +0000
    From: dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: no radio growing up
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    ***I suppose some
    did not listen because their churches did not approve of "Devil Boxes"
    "Evil movies" and the like.***

    I'm wondering if anyone knows of anyone who came from that kind of
    background, and
    if so, did they grab up tapes and records, or listen to shows in the waning
    days of
    the '50's, to make up for it?  I've known people who were like that with
    television.
    One guy I knew was deprived of TV until he grew up because his parents
    forbade it in
    their home, and instead of inheriting their attitude, he watched so much TV
    that he
    became a trivia expert and a finalist in the TV Land Ultimate Fan Search.

    As for me, I was born two years after the last "Suspense" and "Johnny
    Dollar" and was a
    baby when "Theatre Five" ran.  But I know older people not permitted to go
    to the movies,
    but still allowed to listen to the likes of "Grand Old Opry," "National
    Barn Dance,"
    "Amos 'n' Andy," "Lum 'n' Abner" and daytime soaps, and of course war news.

    Dixon

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    Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:54:25 +0000
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-24 births/deaths

    April 24th births

    04-24-1871 - Blanche Ring - Boston, MA - d. 1-13-1961
    actor/singer: "Fight Camp"; "Jumbo"
    04-24-1894 - Norman Sweetser - d. 8-28-1980
    director: "Just Plain Bill"; "Stella Dallas"
    04-24-1897 - Alfred Brown - d. 1-28-1978
    actor: Og "Og, Son of Fire"
    04-24-1905 - Robert Penn Warren - Guthrie, KY - d. 9-15-1989
    author: (All the King's Men) "NBC University Theatre"
    04-24-1906 - William "Lord Haw Haw" Joyce - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-3-1946
    propagnadist for Nazi Germany during World War II: Hung for treason
    04-24-1907 - John Frank Anders - Upward, NC - d. 12-18-1983
    composer, singer: live radio program in Knoxville, Tennessee
    04-24-1910 - Albert Zugsmith - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 10-26-1993
    film producer/director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    04-24-1911 - Arval Hogan - Robbinsville, NC - d. 9-12-2003
    country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
    04-24-1916 - Eldon Shamblin - Weatherford, OK - d. 8-5-1998
    guitarist: "Bob Wills and the Texax Playboys"
    04-24-1922 - Aaron Bell - Muskogee, OK - d. 7-28-2003
    singer: "Steve Lawrence Show"
    04-24-1924 - Clement Freud - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-15-2009
    panelist: "(Grandson of Sigmund) Just a Minute"
    04-24-1926 - Marilyn Erskine - Rochester, NY
    actor: Gail Carver "Lora Lawton"; Janey Brown "Young Widder Brown"
    04-24-1928 - Brian Clewer - London, England - d. 4-16-2008
    host: "Cynic's Choice"
    04-24-1928 - Ted McKay - Raised in North Avondale, OH - d. 12-22-2005
    talk show host: "Party Line"; Created first talk show on WKRC
    Cincinatti in 1955

    April 24th deaths

    02-03-1924 - Leslie Stevens - Washington, [removed] - d. 4-24-1998
    film director: "Stagestruck"
    02-12-1923 - Mel Powell - NYC - d. 4-24-1998
    pianist, composer: "Jam"; "I Sustain These Wings"; "Grand Roundup"
    02-13-1908 - Lennie Hayton - NYC - d. 4-24-1971
    conductor: "Your Hit Parade"; "Ipana Troubadors"
    03-08-1889 - Rosario Bourdon - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-24-1961
    conductor: "Cities Service Concert"; "Great Personalities"
    04-26-1920 - Frankie Scott - Georgia - d. 4-24-2004
    performer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-07-1896 - Gale Binkley - d. 4-24-1979
    banjoist: (Binkley Brothers Barn Dance Orchestra" WSM Nashville, TN
    05-14-1925  Tristram Cary - Oxford, England - d. 4-24-2008
    musician: "Dr. Who"
    06-04-1921 - Harvey Bullock - Oxford, NC - d. 4-24-2006
    writer: "Breakfast with Burrows"
    06-17-1913 - Bob Allen - Allendale, OH - d. 4-24-1989
    singer: (Hal Kemp Band) "Phil Baker Show"; "Calling America"
    06-27-1914 - Noboru Kirishima - Iwaki City, Japan - d. 4-24-1984
    enka singer: "This Week's Star"
    07-17-1906 - John Carroll - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-24-1979
    actor: "Hello Mom"; "Suspense"
    08-03-1904 - Clifford Simak - Millville, WI - d. 4-24-1988
    writer: "Dimension X"
    08-16-1915 - Al Hibbler - Tyro, MS - d. 4-24-2001
    jazz singer: "A Date with the Duke"; "Jubilee"
    08-21-1890 - Bill Henry - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-24-1970
    commentator: Chief CBS Correspondent
    10-02-1895 - Bud Abbott - Asbury Park, NJ - d. 4-24-1974
    comedian: "Abbott and Costello Show"
    10-29-1897 - Hope Emerson - Hawarden, IA - d. 4-24-1960
    actor: Henrietta Topper "Advs. of Topper"; Elsie the Cow "Happy Island"
    10-30-1912 - Preston Lockwood - Leyton, England - d. 4-24-1996
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes"
    11-15-1924 - Mike Raven - London, England - d. 4-24-1997
    actor: "Raven Around Show"

    Ron

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    Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:55:17 +0000
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The best playwrite is a dead playwrite -

    (- said my acting teacher Stella Adler - because  he won't pester you
    during rehearsal!)

      From: jack and cathy french  <otrpiano@[removed];
    Subject: [Approved: tmW7iTu] Happy Birthday to the  Bard

     > Many programs, even series, in the Golden Age of Radio drew  heavily
     > upon Shakespeare's plays.

    You bet they did! Not only for  the reason stated above, but because he's
    royalty-free. Oh, yes - and just about  the best at it that ever was.

    Welles' Mercury put their famous "Caesar"  on stage (I was honored to be in
    original cast member Arthur Anderson's FOTR  recreation); Jack Barrymore
    headlined a series, including his signature  "Hamlet," in '37 (which was
    matched by one with Hollywood stars); and even  SUSPENSE did "Othello".

    And it's kept on since. For a free listen with  sign-up, here's a  Modern:
    [removed]

    Best,
    (Will's  pal) Craig W.

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    Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:55:37 +0000
    From: Herb Harrison <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Convention door prize: favorite shows

    Ted Kneebone asks what other OTR shows we suggest for his CDs (in .wav
    format - nice touch).
    How about some 'Philip Marlowe' episodes? Since these are retired teachers,
    they might have read some of Raymond Chandler's books, and would appreciate
    listening to some tales of the "hardboiled detective"... and wait for the
    part of each show in which Marlowe gets knocked out by the villain!

    Herb Harrison

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    Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:53:10 +0000
    From: "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Phil Harris Galveston Q.

    Hi Yall from Texas,

    I have just acquired a 3 cent postcard, measures 7 X 10. Phil Harris "Back
    in his home port Galveston"

    Hollywood Dinner Club - Galveston, Texas. What's this about? What
    connection did PH have with Galveston?

    "Casanova Harris - all the fish you catch, you can put in the bags under
    your eyes!" - Jack Benny

    -Joe Salerno-

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    Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:54:08 +0000
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  A Good List Is Worth Repeating!

    (With apologies to Universal [removed])

      From: "Ted Kneebone" _tkneebone1@[removed]_
    (mailto:tkneebone1@[removed])

     > Our door  [removed] will be some of my favorite [removed]  I have chosen from
     > Quiet  Please, Suspense, Mysterious Traveler, some Jack Benny, Escape.  Now
     > tell  me what I have [removed]

    Adding to your smorgasboard: wonderful shows, and I think, accessible  to
    all: Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Dimension X, and select Mercury Theater/Campbell
    Playhouse and Lux Radio Theater.

    Great cause!
    -Craig W.

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    Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:32:47 +0000
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Chuck Schaden Announces Retirement

    The long-time Chicago OTR host announces he's giving up his show on June 27
    -- and it's covered in The Chicago Sun Times.

    Good luck to Steve Darnall in taking over - a great choice.

    Details here:
    [removed],[removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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