Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #251
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Date: 9/16/2006 4:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 251
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      The Whistler locally in Chicago       [ "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@run ]
      Poe, Folks!                           [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Casebook of Gregory Hood              [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      Re: Molly McGee                       [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
      9-16 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:30:24 -0400
    From: "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Whistler locally in Chicago

    Hello, Phillip Chavin said there was a locally produced version of the
    Whistler sponsored by Meister Brau beer. I've only heard one show sponsored
    by this company, and it was a surprise to hear it and then go back to the
    Signal programs. For how long were these local shows done, and does only the
    one recording, about a trip to the Grand Canyon, exist? Was this same
    script, and the others done locally, also done nationally?
    Thanks a lot.
    Matthew

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    Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:43:36 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Poe, Folks!

    Guys-

    I know Boris Karloff worked a lot in radio (including acting in DRAMAS  by
    [removed])
    and I know he did many records (including stories by great  authors)
    but:

    Does anyone know if he was ever recorded doing a READING of a Poe  piece?
    -Craig W.

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    Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:47:21 -0400
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Casebook of Gregory Hood

    I just stumbled upon the Crippen & Landru "Lost Classics" series,
    reprinting collections of (often previously uncollected) pulp stories
    by masters of the genre. ([removed])
    There's a lot of great looking stuff there, including some collections
    of non-Perry Mason stories by Erle Stanley Gardner. (Wonder if any of
    them were ever dramatized?) One forthcoming book that caught my eye is
    "The Casebook of Gregory Hood" by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green. I
    hadn't thought that series had a literary origin, and Thrilling
    Detective doesn't mention one
    ([removed]). Also, Boucher and Green
    wrote the radio series (along with tons of others, such as Sherlock
    Holmes). Does anybody know if they also churned out Gregory Hood
    stories based on their scripts? Or is this possibly a collection of
    radio scripts? I see elsewhere on their website that Crippen and Landru
    has published other radio scripts (by Ellery Queen and John Dickson
    Carr, among others). So perhaps that's the most likely outcome here.

    Kermyt

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    Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:46:40 -0400
    From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Molly McGee

    At the risk of beating a dead horse, while   Googling the Archives for OTR, I
    came across an article dated April, 22,  1940,  about Fibber & Molly. It
    stated
    that Molly suffered a  Nervous Breakdown at  age 40, and was off the show for
    about two years.

    Something  interesting in the article was the fact that Fibber  & Molly owned
    a couple  of business's. One was a company that  manufactured sand blasting
    equipment, and  the other was a Hire's Root  Beer bottling plant in Kansas
    City,
    Missouri.

    Charlie

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    Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:43:37 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-16 births/deaths

    September 16th births

    09-16-1881 - Jack Harvey - Cleveland, OH - d. 11-9-1954
    writer: "Joan Davis Time"
    09-16-1893 - Alexander Korda - Pusztaturpaszto, Hungary - d. 1-23-1956
    director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-16-1899 - Sam Spewack - Ukraine, Russia - d. 10-14-1971
    writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-16-1902 - Philip Reep - d. 1-xx-1985
    singer: (Elm City Four) "The Gay Nineties Revue"
    09-16-1903 - Joe Venuti - d. 8-14-1978
    jazz violinist: "Friendly Five Footnotes";"Paul Whiteman Show";
    "Jubilee"
    09-16-1908 - Neil Reagan - Tampico, IL - d. 12-11-1996
    director,announcer: (Brother of Ron) "Dr. Christian"; "Straight Arrow"
    09-16-1911 - Paul Henning - Independence, MO - d. 3-25-2005
    writer: "Burns and Allen"
    09-16-1914 - Allen Funt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-5-1999
    host: "Candid Microphone"
    09-16-1919 - Andy Russell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-16-1992
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"
    09-16-1919 - Larry Dobkin - NYC - d. 10-28-2002
    actor: Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Ellery Queen "Advs. of
    Ellery Queen"
    09-16-1921 - Korla Pandit (Juan Rolando) - New Delhi, India - d.
    10-1-1998
    organ: "Chandu the Magician", "Jubilee"
    09-16-1922 - Janis Paige - Tacoma, WA
    actor: "MGM Theatre of the Air"; "Theatre of Romance"
    09-16-1924 - Lauren Bacall - NYC
    actor: Sailor Duval "Bold Venture"
    09-16-1925 - [removed] King - Itta Bena, MS
    disc jockey: "Boogie for Breakfast"
    09-16-1925 - Charlie Byrd - Chuckatuck, VA - d. 12-1-1999
    jazz guitarist: "Voices of Vista"
    09-16-1926 - Tommy Bond - Dallas, TX - d. 9-24-2005
    actor: Randolph Foster "A Date With Judy"
    09-16-1927 - Jack Kelly - Astoria, NY - d. 11-7-1992
    actor: "Suspense"
    09-16-1930 - Anne Francis - Ossinging, NY
    actor: Kathy Cameron "When a Girl Marries"

    September 16th deaths

    01-01-1905 - Richard Keith - NYC - d. 9-16-1976
    actor: Ray Hunt "Myrt and Marge"; Frank W. Brock "Special Investigator"
    01-18-1920 - Constance Moore - Sioux City, IA - d. 9-16-2005
    singer, actor: Gloria Dean "Hollywood Mystery Time"
    01-19-1910 - Jaime Del Valle - d. 9-16-1981
    producer, director: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Count of Monte
    Cristo"
    03-06-1942 - David Cleve - England - d. 9-16-2005
    actor: "Out of School"
    03-18-1902 - Doris Dalton - Sharon, MA - d. 9-16-1984
    actor: Voice of Romance "Romance"; "One Foot in Heaven"
    06-11-1906 - Frank Woodruff - Columbia, SC - d. 9-16-1983
    director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-14-1884 - John McCormack - Athone, Ireland - d. 9-16-1945
    singer: "The Atwater-Kent Hour"; "The Vince Program"
    09-07-1910 - Don Ried - d. 9-16-1996
    vocalist: "The Jack Kirkwood Show"
    09-28-1881 - Pedro de Cordoba - NYC - d. 9-16-1950
    actor: John Marshall "Those We Love"; Jose Alvarado "Romance of the
    Ranchos"
    11-05-1887 - Ralph Moody - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-16-1971
    actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Roy Rogers Show"; "Wild Bill Hickok"
    11-28-1906 - Helen Jepson - Titusville, PA - d. 9-16-1997
    singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Show Boat"
    11-29-1912 - Alan Courtney - NYC - d. 9-16-1978
    host: "Calling All Girls"; "Korn Kobblers"
    12-02-1923 - Maria Callas - NYC - d. 9-16-1977
    opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
    12-23-1911 - James Gregory - The Bronx, NY - d. 9-16-2002
    actor: Captain Vincent Cronin "21st Precinct"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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