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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 62
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
4-8 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
CBS & NBC standards for radio drama [ "Matthew Killmeier" <mkillmeier@usm ]
4-9 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Mike Wallace [ "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@ ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
Myron Leon Wallace, RIP [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
Myron Leon Wallace, RIP [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:10:52 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-8 births/deaths
April 8th births
04-08-1881 - Arthur B. Allen - Gowanda, NY - d. 8-25-1947
actor: "Snow Village Sketches"; "Kate Smith Show"; Stebbens Boys"
04-08-1882 - Lulu McConnell - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-9-1962
comedian: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
04-08-1887 - Walter Connolly - Cincinnati, OH - d. 5-28-1940
actor: Charlie Chan "Charlie Chan"
04-08-1888 - Thornton Fisher - Cincinnati, OH - d. 8-13-1975
sports reporter: "The Briggs Sports Review"
04-08-1889 - Adrian Boult - Chester, England - d. 2-23-1983
writer: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Casebook of Gregory Hood"; "Sherlock
Holmes"
04-08-1896 - Yip Harburg - NYC - d. 3-5-1981
lyricist: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
04-08-1900 - Bert "Mad Russian" Gordon - NYC - d. 11-30-1974
comedian: "Eddie Cantor Show"; Yasha "Duffy's Tavern"
04-08-1905 - Ilka Chase - NYC - d. 2-15-1978
panelist, hostess, actor: "Leave It to the Girls"; "Luncheon at the
Waldorf"
04-08-1906 - Max Afford - Parkside, Australia - d. 11-2-1954
writer: "Murder's Not for Middle Age"
04-08-1908 - Tito Guizar - Guadalajara, Mexico - d. 12-25-1999
vocalist: (Isham Jones Band) "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hollywood Showcase"
04-08-1911 - Ichiro Fujiyama - Tokyo, Japan - d. 7-21-1993
enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"
04-08-1912 - Sonja Henie - Kristiania, Norway - d. 10-12-1969
skater, actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Bill Ster's Colgate Sports
Newsreel"; "Shell Show"
04-08-1915 - Carlyle Austin - d. 10-30-1985
sportscaster: KEVR Seattle, Washington
04-08-1915 - Fred Flowerday - d. 4-6-1989
director: "The Lone Ranger"; "The Green Hornet"; "Challenge of the
Yukon"
04-08-1915 - R. Norwood Smith - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-24-1999
singer: "Norwood Smith Sings"
04-08-1916 - Carl Cotner - Indiana - d. 11-14-1986
steel guitar: "Gene Aurty's Melody Ranch"
04-08-1919 - Virginia O'Brien - Los Angles, CA - d. 1-23-2001
actor: "Blue Ribbon Town"
04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
operatic tenor: "Gala Performance"
04-08-1922 - Carmen McRae - NYC - d. 11-10-1994
jazz singer: "Woolworth Hour"; "Newport Jazz Festival"
04-08-1923 - Jimmie Osborne - Winchester, KY - d. 12-26-1958
singer: "WLS Barn Dance"; "WLW Midwestern Hayride"
04-08-1928 - Eric Porter - London, England - d. 5-15-1995
actor: "Landscape"
04-08-1930 - Dorothy Tutin - London, England - d. 8-6-2001
actor: "Before the Party"
04-08-1931 - John Bartholomew Tucker
host (communicator) "Monitor"
04-08-1937 - Bernelda Wheeler - Saskatchewan, Canada - d. 9-11-2005
worked as a disc jockey in Churchill, Manitoba
04-08-1941 - Peggy Lennon - Los Angeles, CA
singer: (The Lennon Sisters) "Music on Deck"; "Voices of Vista";
"Guest Star"
April 8th deaths
01-02-1920 - Charles Douglass - Mexico - d. 4-8-2003
radio engineer for the CBS radio network
01-21-1914 - George A. Putnam - Middletown, NY - d. 4-8-1975
announcer: "Can You Top This?"; "Vic and Sade"; "Portia Faces Life"
01-28-1914 - Nelson Olmsted - Minneapolis, MN - d. 4-8-1992
actor: Joe Huston "Bachelor's Children"
02-12-1893 - Omar Bradley - Clark, MO - d. 4-8-1981
general of the army: "What Are We Fighting For?"; "[removed] Campaign"
02-27-1897 - Marian Anderson - South Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-8-1993
singer: "Ford Evening Sunday Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "New World A'
Coming"
03-08-1909 - Claire Trevor - NYC - d. 4-8-2000
actor: Lorelei Kilbourne " Big Town", Theresa Travers "Results, Inc."
03-24-1906 - Julian Funt - d. 4-8-1980
writer: "Young Doctor Malone"
03-25-1926 - Paul Leder - Springfield, MA - d. 4-8-1996
singer: "Molly Goldberg Show"
05-02-1897 - J. Fred Coots - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-8-1985
composer, pianist: "Ray Shield's Revue"
05-03-1874 - Louis Dean - Wilmington, DE - d. 4-8-1933
announcer: "Stoopnagle and Budd"
05-04-1924 - Gene Klaven - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-8-2004
new york morning personalty: "Klaven and Finch"; "Klaven in the Morning"
06-11-1918 - Jane Bryan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-8-2009
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"
06-13-1920 - Ben Johnson - Pawnee, OK - d. 4-8-1996
actor: "Francis Burke for Attorney General"
08-30-1879 - Fritzi Scheff - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-8-1954
prima donna: "Lavender and Old Lace"; "The Philco Hour"
12-19-1894 - Ford Frick - Wawaka, IN - d. 4-8-1978
baseball comissioner: "Baseball: An Action History"; "Play Ball";
"Tribute to Babe Ruth"
12-20-1928 - Donald Adams - Bristol, England - d. 4-8-1996
opera singer: BBC Repertory Company
Ron
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:11:12 -0400
From: "Matthew Killmeier" <mkillmeier@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: CBS & NBC standards for radio drama
I'm looking for information on CBS & NBC's standards or policies for radio
drama from the mid-1930s through mid-1940s. Specifically, I'd like to know
what sort of taboos or 'red lines' were in place for scripts. I have some
correspondence from an agency to a writer during the early 1940s requesting
changes in his scripts because of the network's "no insanity rule." However,
these scripts were broadcast during the mid-1930s on a sustained program
without any fuss. I have Mutual's 1945 Program Standards, which don't have
such a prohibition: "scripts dealing with deformity or insanity will be
individually examined and approved only if within the bounds of good taste,"
and that "mental afflictions should inspire sympathy rather than ridicule."
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:11:16 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-9 births/deaths
April 9th births
04-09-1883 - Frank King - Cashton, WI - d. 6-24-1969
cartoonist: Created Gasoline Alley comic strip
04-09-1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. - Rostov-on-Don, Russia - d. 2-22-1985
violinist: "The Magic Key"
04-09-1892 - Mary Pickford - Toronto, Canada - d. 5-29-1979
actor: "Mary Pickford Dramas"; "Parties at Pickfair"
04-09-1895 - Frank H. Anderson, Jr. - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1952
pianist/singer: had his own program for 8 years
04-09-1897 - John B. Gambling - Norwich, England - d. 11-21-1974
host: "Your Personal Program"; "John B. Gambling Club"; "Rambling with
Gambling"
04-09-1898 - Paul Robeson - Princeton, NJ - d. 1-23-1976
singer: "Pursuit of Happiness"
04-09-1900 - Allen Jenkins - NYC - d. 7-20-1974
actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
04-09-1903 - Ward Bond - Denver, CO - d. 11-5-1960
actor: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
04-09-1904 - Joseph "Sharkey" Bonamo - New Orleans, LA - d. 3-27-1972
conductor: (Sharkey Bonamo and His Sharks of Rhythm) "Saturday Night
Swing Club"
04-09-1904 - Mickey Alpert - d. 9-22-1965
orchestra leader: "Amalgamated Broadcasting System Inaugural Program"
04-09-1905 - Brewster Morgan - d. 12-26-1960
director: "Columbia Workshop"; "Men Against Death"; "Report to the
Nation"
04-09-1905 - James Fulbright - Summer, MO - d. 2-9-1995
[removed] senator: "Information Please"
04-09-1906 - Antal Dorati - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 11-13-1988
conductor"; "CBS Symphony Orchestra"
04-09-1910 - Alan Melville - Berwick-upon-Tweed, England - d. 12-24-1983
scriptwriter: "BBC Radio Newsreel"; "London Column"
04-09-1911 - Jim Bannon - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-28-1984
announcer, narrator: "Joe Penner Show"; "Eddie Bracken Show"
04-09-1913 - Fay Helm - Bakersfield, CA - d. 9-27-2003
actor: "Shell Chateau"; "Cavalcade of America"
04-09-1913 - George Lowther - NYC - d. 4-28-1975
narrator, writer: "Advs. of Superman"; "Terry and the Pirates"
04-09-1914 - Frank Bingham - Athens, OH - d. 8-21-1988
announcer: "Straight Arrow"; "Phantom Pilot"
04-09-1916 - Ann Morrison - Sioux City, IA - d. 4-18-1978
actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Escape"
04-09-1916 - Bill Leonard - NYC - d. 10-23-1994
interviewer: "This Is New York"; "In Town Today"
04-09-1916 - Julian Dash - Charleston, SC - d. 2-25-1974
saxophonist: "Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra"
04-09-1916 - Louise Larabee - Bremerton, WA - d. 3-30-1988
actor: "Calvacade of America"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
04-09-1920 - Art Van Damme - Norway, MI - d. 2-15-2010
jazz accordionist: (Art Van Damme Quintet) "Dave Garroway Show"
04-09-1921 - Frankie Thomas, Jr. - NYC - d. 5-11-2006
actor: Tom Corbett "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
April 9th deaths
01-02-1917 - Vera Zorina - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-9-2003
ballet dancer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "I'm An American"
02-11-1907 - Art Millet - Chicago, IL - d. 4-9-1943
announcer: "American Album of Familiar Music"; "Popeye"
02-17-1908 - Staats Cotsworth - Oak Park, IL - d. 4-9-1979
actor: Casey "Casey, Crime Photographer"; David Farrell "Front Page
Farrell"
02-17-1911 - Orrin Tucker - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-9-2011
bandleader: "Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"
02-19-1922 - Sandy Becker - NYC - d. 4-9-1996
actor, announcer: Jerry Malone "Young Dr. Malone"; "Backstage Wife"
03-31-1907 - James L. Saphier - d. 4-9-1974
producer: "The Saint"; "Somebody Knows"
03-31-1909 - Earle Graser - Kitchener, Canada - d. 4-9-1941
actor: Lone Ranger "Lone Ranger"
04-17-1927 - Graziella Sciutti - Turin, Italy - d. 4-9-2001
operatic soprano: "Meetropolitan Opera"
04-30-1916 - George Salverson - St. Catherines, Canada - d. 4-9-2005
script writer for the CBC
05-16-1908 - Ed Prough - d. 4-9-1993
announcer: WXYZ Detroit
05-28-1902 - "Little" Jack Little - London, England - d. 4-9-1956
singer: (Cheerful Little Earful) "Little Jack Little Show"
06-08-1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright - Richland Center, WI - d. 4-9-1959
architect: "Bob Elson on Board the Century"
06-16-1908 - Grace Albert - d. 4-9-2003
singer: "The Honeymooners"; "Time Out"; "Cavalcade of America"
06-22-1915 - Robert Soderberg - Ohio - d. 4-9-1996
writer: "Junior Miss"
06-25-1924 - Sidney Lumet - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-9-2011
actor: "Let's Pretend"
06-30-1896 - Wilfred Pelletier - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-9-1982
conductor: "Roses and Drums"; "Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air"
07-01-1914 - Michael Wilson - McAlester, OK - d. 4-9-1978
blacklisted screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-21-1913 - John Faulk - Austin, TX - d. 4-9-1990
humorist, writer: "Forecast"; "Says Who?"; "Hootenanny"
10-07-1931 - Gordon Terry - Decatur, AL - d. 4-9-2006
fiddler: "Country Music Time"; "Country Style [removed]"
10-16-1886 - Will Harridge - Chicago, IL - d. 4-9-1971
american league president: "Memorial Program for Colonel Jocob Rupert"
11-03-1913 - Harry Babbitt - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-9-2004
singer: "Kay Kyser's Surprise Party"; "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical
Knowledge"
11-12-1911 - Clay Bryant - Madison Heights, VA - d. 4-9-1999
baseball analyst: "Baseball with Clay Bryant"
Ron
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:12:14 -0400
From: "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Mike Wallace
CBS announced on CBS Sunday Morning this morning that Mike Wallace has
died. While still in his teens, Mike began his career in radio when he
became an announcer for the Green Hornet. He was 93. There was no
additional information given.
--
Joe Salerno
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:12:32 -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," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," John and Larry
Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios"
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]
Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
[removed]
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
*Easter Special*
FAMILY THEATER
Episode 367 4-7-54 "The Story of Little Tree"
Host: Dick Cantino
Star: Edmond Gwenn
Announcer: Tony La Frano
Creator: Father Patrick Peyton
Mutual Sustaining
LIFE WITH LUIGI
Episode 172 4-8-52 "Easter Birthday Party"
Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Alan Reed, Jody Gilbert, Gil Stratton, Mary
Shipp, Hans Conried, Joe Forte, Ken Peters
Creator/Producer: Cy Howard
CBS Wrigley's Gum
OUR MISS BROOKS
Episode 87 4-9-50 "Dyeing Easter Eggs"
Connie Brooks: Eve Arden
Philip Boynton: Jeff Chandler
Walter Denton: Dick Crenna
Stretch Snodgrass: Leonard Smith
Mrs. Davis: Jane Morgan
Harriet Conklin: Gloria McMillan
Osgood Conklin: Gale Gordon
CBS Sustaining
AMOS AND ANDY
Episode 27 4-7-44 "Dating Club Disaster"
STARS: Freman Gosden and Charles Correll, Ernestine Wade, Amanda
Randolph, Harriett Widmar, Elinor Harriot, Terry Howard, Madeline Lee,
Lou Lubin, Eddie Green, Johnny Lee
NBC RINSO Fridays 10:00 - 10:30pm
==================================
HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
THE WHISTLER
(CBS) 4/21/48 "The Silent City" starring Wally Maher.
AMOS AND ANDY
(NBC) 11/5/43 With Guest: Peter Lorre. "The Sealed Trunk"
BLACKSTONE, THE MAGIC DETECTIVE
(Synd) Episode from January, 1949 - "The Midway Murders"
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THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW
FRONTIER GENTLEMAN (CBS)
Title: The Lost Mine
Original Air: 3/2/58
Starring: John Dehner
AMOS 'N' ANDY (NBC)
Title: Andy Goes to a Psychiatrist
Original Air: 11/12/43
Starring: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll
GUNSMOKE (CBS)
Title: Old Friend
Original Air: 3/20/54
Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
*Easter Special*
We split time this week between our actors of the month, Lum And
Abner, and Easter programming.
We begin with a chat we had with the President of The Lum and Abner
Society, Uncle Donnie Pitchford. We learn how this society formed and
about its newsletters, and conventions. Donnie will also talk about how
the Lum And Abner Comic Strips recently became a reality.
For more information about joining The Lum And Abner society go to:
[removed]
Next we hear a special trans-Atlantic program from Chicago and London
featuring both Lum And Abner from 07/21/38 After our look at the radio
calendar we move to Easter programming.
"THE BABY SNOOKS SHOW"
from 03/20/51 Easter Outfit
And our last offering is a very powerful play courtesy of
THE COLUMBIA WORKSHOP
from 04/16/38 Episode (086) The Terrible Meek.
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CLASSICS & CURIOS
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
*Easter Special*
Episode 22
It's Drene Time from 1947 featuring Francis Langford with Don Ameche
and Danny Thomas in the Bickersons. Francis was one of the classiest
performers of the 20th century with appearances in many great radio
shows and movies. Several of her songs are highlighted here as Classics
& Curios Extras, including perhaps her signature song "I'm in the Mood
for Love" from the 1935 film "Every Night at Eight."
An Easter Parade Special with Andy Griffith, the Gaither Vocal Band, Don
Francisco, and a mystery singer. Songs include "Turn Your Radio On,"
"Let Freedom Ring," "He's Alive," and a song originally called "Smile
and Show Your Dimple," which later became "Easter Parade," performed
here instrumentally by the Lewis Family and also by our mystery singer
who introduced the song in New York in the Broadway show "As Thousands
Cheer."
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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, 10 Apr 2012 14:12:42 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Myron Leon Wallace, RIP
"Mike" Wallace, age 94, died April 7. 2012. The newspapers and TV shows
showered us with lengthy obituaries of this broadcaster. One write-up in the
Washington Post was more than half an entire page. Similar lengthy ones have
appeared in major dailies, setting forth every detail of his television
career, his four wives, his part in the $ 120 million civil suit against CBS
by Army General William Westmorland, and most of the highlights from his "60
Minutes" career.
As is typical of this era, none of them mention his radio career. Some obits
merely summarize that period of his life as "a former actor, cigarette
pitchman, and game-show host."
After his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1939, little Myron
knocked on the door at WXYZ in Detroit and found employment there as an
assistant announcer on "The Green Hornet" and filling in as a WXYZ staff
announcer, sharing duties with Douglas Edwards. Wallace spent WW II working
in AFRS radio and then sought microphone work, successfully, in Chicago,
almost always as an announcer. He announced for the programs "Curtain Time",
"A Life in Your Hands", "The Spike Jones Show", and "You Bet Your Life."
Most OTR fans now get a kick out of listening to audio recordings of "Sky
King" and hearing Mike in all the commercials, exuberantly encouraging
juvenile listeners to eat more Peter Pan Peanut Butter.
He finally got a chance to act when he was cast in the lead of "The Crime
Files of Flamond", a pseudo-dectective series over WGN in 1946. In another
crime show, of which we have the audition copy only, Wallace played Lt.
Llewellyn "Lew" Kagel, a tough but tender cop, assigned to Manhattan's harbor
district. The series was called "Crime on the Waterfront" and his girl friend
was played by Muriel Bremner. (They were also together in "Crime Files of
Flamond" until Wallace left that show in 1948.)
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:13:43 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Myron Leon Wallace, RIP
"Mike" Wallace, age 94, died April 7. 2012. The newspapers and TV shows
showered us with lengthy obituaries of this broadcaster. One write-up in the
Washington Post was more than half an entire page. Similar lengthy ones have
appeared in major dailies, setting forth every detail of his television
career, his four wives, his part in the $ 120 million civil suit against CBS
by Army General William Westmorland, and most of the highlights from his "60
Minutes" career.
As is typical of this era, none of them mention his radio career. Some obits
merely summarize that period of his life as "a former actor, cigarette
pitchman, and game-show host."
After his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1939, little Myron
knocked on the door at WXYZ in Detroit and found employment there as an
assistant announcer on "The Green Hornet" and filling in as a WXYZ staff
announcer, sharing duties with Douglas Edwards. Wallace spent WW II working
in AFRS radio and then sought microphone work, successfully, in Chicago,
almost always as an announcer. He announced for the programs "Curtain Time",
"A Life in Your Hands", "The Spike Jones Show", and "You Bet Your Life."
Most OTR fans now get a kick out of listening to audio recordings of "Sky
King" and hearing Mike in all the commercials, exuberantly encouraging
juvenile listeners to eat more Peter Pan Peanut Butter.
He finally got a chance to act when he was cast in the lead of "The Crime
Files of Flamond", a pseudo-dectective series over WGN in 1946. In another
crime show, of which we have the audition copy only, Wallace played Lt.
Llewellyn "Lew" Kagel, a tough but tender cop, assigned to Manhattan's harbor
district. The series was called "Crime on the Waterfront" and his girl friend
was played by Muriel Bremner. (They were also together in "Crime Files of
Flamond" until Wallace left that show in 1948.)
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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