Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #4
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Date: 1/4/2011 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 4
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      LONE RANGER STORY                     [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      Re: The Green Hornet                  [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      re: Margot Stevenson                  [ Fass Martin <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
      1-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Anne Francis & OTR                    [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      "Radio's Golden Age: Live Onstage" -  [ Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:32:18 -0500
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  LONE RANGER STORY

    For a hilarious true story about Clayton Moore at a car  dealer opening as
    the Lone Ranger go here:

    [removed]

    I was a disc jockey for years and know how this  must have felt.
    I fall down every time I hear  this.
    Enjoy.
    Michael C. Gwynne

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:32:44 -0500
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: The Green Hornet
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    In a message dated 1/3/2011 4:51:58 [removed] Central Standard Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

>     His only  reply to me via e-mail was that he was informed that THE GREEN
>     HORNET began  as a TV series and that I "must be mistaken."

    Did you consider sending him links to an episode or two of the radio show
    online ([removed] has a few), and asking him to explain why they don't  exist?

    Sometimes I get so embarrassed for my profession, but know there are a few
    of us in journalism who wouldn't be caught dead making an error that big,
    much  less fighting for my right to do so ("...must be [removed]").

    Dixon

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:39:37 -0500
    From: Fass Martin <watchstop@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re: Margot Stevenson

    Margot Stevenson's stage work included a season (or maybe two) as
    leading lady at the Elitch Summer Theatre in Denver.  Other people
    with radio and film in their credits who trod the boards at Elitch's;
    Raymond Burr, Donald Woods, John Archer, Donald Cook, Edward G.
    Robinson, Patricia Neal, Whitfield Connor, Grace Kelly, William
    Woodson, Joyce and Dick Van Patten, and many more.

    --Martin Fass

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:39:50 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-4 births/deaths

    Januray 4th births

    01-04-1881 - Norman Field - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 9-11-1956
    actor: Glen Hunter "One Man's Family"
    01-04-1889 - Pat Kelly - North Queensland, Australia - d. 12-23-1967
    announcer: "Dog Heroes"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
    01-04-1896 - Everett Dirksen - Pekin, IL - d. 9-7-1969
    [removed] senator: "Meet the Press"; "American Forum on the Air"
    01-04-1905 - Sterling Holloway - Cedartown, GA - d. 11-22-1992
    actor: "Railroad Hour"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    01-04-1907 - Floyd Christy - NYC - d. 5-21-1962
    writer: "The Johnson Family"
    01-04-1910 - Ann Jamison - Belfast, Ireland - d. 4-16-1961
    singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "The Packard Hour"
    01-04-1911 - Fred Killian - d. 4-25-1994
    producer, director: "Those Sensational Years"
    01-04-1916 - Lionel Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-3-1989
    conductor, composer: (Brother of Alfred) "Hollywood Star Time"
    01-04-1917 - Jane Wyman - St. Joseph, MO - d. 9-10-2007
    actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"
    01-04-1918 - Buddy Baker - Springfield, MO - d. 7-26-2002
    musical director: Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny
    01-04-1918 - Palmer Thompson - Patterson, NY - d. 12-15-1969
    writer: "David Harding, Counterspy"
    01-04-1919 - Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins - NYC - d. 9-30-1997
    disc jockey: "Collins on a Cloud"; "Happy Al"
    01-04-1920 - Rosalie Crutchley - London, England - d. 7-28-1997
    actor: "Advice to a Queen"; "Looking After Ourselves"
    01-04-1925 - Johnny Lujack - Connellsville, PA
    all-american football player, actor: Himself "Johnny Lujack of Notre
    Dame"
    01-04-1927 - Barbara Rush - Denver, CO
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-04-1927 - John Drury - Peoria, IL - d. 11-25-2007
    staff announcer: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    01-04-1935 - Floyd Patterson - Waco, NC - d. 5-11-2006
    boxer: "Life and the World"; "Tops in Sports"
    01-04-1936 - David Allen - Birmingham, England
    writer: "Cheapside"

    January 4th deaths

    03-10-1888 - Barry Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland - d. 1-4-1961
    actor: Bernard Fitz "His Honor, the Barber"
    03-14-1912 - Les Brown - Reinerton, PA - d. 1-4-2001
    bandleader: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) "Bob Hope Show"
    03-16-1886 - Howard Pierce - d. 1-4-1973
    Owned a piece of the Lone Ranger
    04-03-1906 - Iron Eyes Cody - Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-4-1999
    actor: "Straight Arrow Pow-Wow
    04-06-1895 - Dudley Nichols - Wapakoneta, OH - d. 1-4-1960
    screenwiriter: "Cavalcade of America"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-09-1895 - Frank H. Anderson, Jr. - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1952
    pianist/singer: had his own program for 8 years
    04-29-1946 - Humphrey Carpenter - Oxford, England - d. 1-4-2005
    writer, disc jockey: BBC radio
    05-26-1909 - Richard Maibaum - NYC - d. 1-4-1991
    screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-14-1925 - George Draper Lewis - d. 1-4-1998
    writer: "The Camel Caravan"
    07-25-1899 - Ralph Dumke - South Bend, IN - d. 1-4-1964
    actor: Willie Tompkins "We, the Abbotts"; Pat Plenty "Quality Twins"
    08-12-1909 - Nat Asherton - NYC - d. 1-4-1987
    composer/pianist: Leo Reisman Orchestra, Lester Lanin Orchestra
    08-26-1904 - Chirstopher Isherwood - High Lane, Cheshire, England - d.
    1-4-1986
    writer: "NBC University Theatre"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    08-31-1912 - Ramon Vinay - Chillan, Chile - d. 1-4-1996
    tenor: "A Critic's Toscanini"
    09-08-1877 - Bide Dudley - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1944
    drama critic: "Around Little 'Ol Broadway"
    09-13-1908 - Mae Questel - The Bronx, NY - d. 1-4-1998
    actor: Betty Boop "Betty Boop Fables"; Olive Oyl "Popeye the Sailor"
    09-24-1901 - Paschal Strong - d. 1-4-1988
    writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
    09-24-1924 - Joan Aiken - Rye, Sussex, England - d. 1-4-2004
    adapter of her short fiction: "Chilredn's Hour"
    09-26-1888 - T. S. Eliot - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-4-1965
    writer: "Columbia Workshop"
    10-16-1912 - Berry Kroeger - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-4-1991
    actor: Michael Waring/The Falcon "The Falcon"; Reed Bannister "Big
    Sister"
    11-29-1932 - John Gary - Watertown, NY - d. 1-4-1998
    singer: "Christmas Music - Spots for the National Guard"

    Ron
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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:41:04 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Anne Francis & OTR

    Derek Tague and I were researching the radio career of Anne Francis
    about four years ago when it looked like she might accept his
    invitation to guest at the Friends of Old Time Radio in Newark. She
    ultimately declined, and more's the pity.

    She may have been one of the most active child actors in radio for
    the ten years prior to her getting a Hollywood contract at age 16,
    based upon some early TV shows. She got on TV  for the first time at
    age 10.

    She started in radio at age 6, having been a child model with the
    Powers Agency in NYC since age 5. She started in 1936 on what was
    nick-named "The Madge Tucker Show" but officially was "Coast to Coast
    on a Bus" a Sunday show of kids singing and acting out fun stories.
    When Nila Mack started "Let's Pretend" in 1939 to dramatize fairy
    tales, Francis starting getting roles on that program. Thereafter
    there were more roles on network shows: "Portia Faces Life," "Big
    Town", "Rosemary" and "Aunt Jenny's True Life Stories." Her longest
    continuous role was a three year stint (1943-46) playing Kathy
    Cameron on "When A Girl Marries," the popular soap by Elaine Carrington.

    Eventually she was dubbed "The Little Queen of Soaps" though in
    adulthood she couldn't recall whether it was her press agent or a
    media reporter that created that title. She once estimated that she
    had appeared on about 3,000 broadcasts before leaving for Hollywood
    in 1947, the year she was featured on the cover of Radio-Mirror.

    She remembered in a 1996 interview that she did a lot of on-air
    audience shows as a kid. Many of those included big celebrities; she
    was on the air with Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Eleanor Roosevelt, etc.
    Anne did a radio show with the First Lady who was talking about her
    charity programs.

    When not working before a microphone, she attended NY's Professional
    Children's School, as most young radio actors did in that era. "They
    were actually very strict there" she recalled, "If you didn't keep
    your grades up, the child welfare board pulled you out of working."

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:42:13 -0500
    From: Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Radio's Golden Age: Live Onstage" - 1/8/11 in
     Woodland Hills, CA

    I'm producing and directing an exciting show this Saturday, Jan. 8,
    from 2pm to 4pm at a theater in Woodland Hills, CA.

    It's called "Radio's Golden Age: Live Onstage!" and will include
    re-creations of "The Great Gildersleeve," "Baby Snooks," and
    "The Bickersons," plus spoofs of "Dragnet" and "The Shadow."
    Performed live onstage by professional actors (including some
    original cast members), with music and live sound effects.

    We've got a phenomenal cast, including Shirley Mitchell
    (re-creating her role as "Leila Ransom" in "Gildersleeve"),
    June Foray, Gloria McMillan, Chuck McCann, Mallory Lewis
    and "Lambchop" (as "Baby Snooks"), Richard Herd, Gregg Berger,
    Pat Crawford Brown, Connie Sawyer, Mark Silverman,
    Ron Cocking, and Dora Pearson (lead female vocalist in Sha Na Na).

    Admission is FREE (as is parking), but seating is limited.
    The reason for the late notice is that it's not really open to the public.
    I'm producing the show for the benefit of a private non-profit group, who
    thought its members would fill the theater, but they overestimated, so
    they're letting me invite another 50 people. The remaining tickets will be
    allocated on a first-come first served basis. If you're interested in
    attending,
    please email me at gopp@[removed] and I'll get you the details and a map
    with directions to the theater (if we haven't run out of seats by the time I
    hear from you).

    Gregg Oppenheimer

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