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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2011 : Issue 84
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Return with us [removed] [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
5-27 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
BBC radio drama [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
Radio in the Cold War era [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
The Whistler [ JayHick@[removed] ]
5-28 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 29 May to [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
5-29 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 14:29:28 -0400
From: <radioaz@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Return with us [removed]
......comes word that they are planning a new Lone Ranger movie. ArmIe
Hammer is to portray the masked man and, in a slap in the face to native
Americans, Tonto will be played by Johnny Depp. I hear that the story will
be from the viewpoint of Tonto. Wonder if they know that Tonto means
"stupid?"
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 14:29:55 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-27 births/deaths
May 27th births
05-27-1880 - Joseph C. Grew - Boston, MA - d. 5-25-1965
[removed] ambassador to japan: "Report from Tokyo"; "Cavalcade of America"
05-27-1894 - Dashiell Hammett - St. Mary's County, MD - d. 1-10-1961
author: "Fat Man"; "Adventures of Sam Spade"
05-27-1902 - Cedric Adams - Magnolia, MN - d. 2-18-1961
commentator: In 1953 filled in for Arthur Godfrey for 13 weeks
05-27-1904 - Marlin Hurt - Du Quoin, IL - d. 3-21-1946
actor: Beulah "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Bill Jackson "Beulah"
05-27-1910 - Sidney Slon - Chicago, IL - d. 1-21-1995
actor: Solly "The Goldbergs"; Mr. Trent "Valiant Lady"
05-27-1911 - Evelyn Morin - Dunn, IN - d. 9-10-2000
singer: (Morin Sisters) "World of Music"; "Breakfast Club"
05-27-1911 - Herb Meadow - d. 3-1-1995
creator, writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
05-27-1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey - Wallace, SD - d. 1-13-1978
politician: "Meet the Press"; "University of Chicago Round Table"
05-27-1911 - Vincent Price - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-25-1993
actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-27-1912 - John Cheever - Quincy, MA - d. 6-18-1982
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
05-27-1912 - Slammin' Sammy Snead - Ashwood, VA - d. 5-23-2002
golf legend: "Kraft Music Hall"
05-27-1915 - Frank Crane - d. 7-25-1992
one time president of the Southern California Broadcasters Association
05-27-1915 - Herman Wouk - NYC
writer: "Town Hall Tonight"; "Fred Allen Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-27-1916 - Analee Whitmore - Price, UT - d. 2-5-2002
panelist: (Wife of Clifton Fadiman) "Information Please"
05-27-1919 - Ray Montgomery - d. 6-4-1998
actor: Noel Chandler "Dear John"
05-27-1920 - Portia Nelson - Brigham City, UT - d. 3-6-2001
jazz singer: "Sunday in New York"
05-27-1921 - Franklin Adams, Jr. - Chicago, IL - 8-9-2006
actor: Skippy "Skippy"; Davy Jones "Davy Jones"
05-27-1921 - Redd Stewart - Ashland City, TN - d. 8-2-2003
lyricist: "Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys"
05-27-1924 - Eric Lauder - Rugby, England - d. 10-28-1999
actor: "Violent Shore"
05-27-1925 - Tony Hillerman - Sacred Heart, OK - 10-26-2008
writer: "The Zero Hour"
05-27-1926 - Peter Ling - Croydon, Surrey, England - d. 9-14-2006
adapter: "Casebook of Sherlock Holmes"; "Return of Sherlock Holmes"
05-27-1928 - Jack Baker - d. 4-26-2002
disk jockey: "Sunday Sound Stage"
05-27-1934 - Harlan Ellison - Cleveland, OH
writer: "[removed] 68"
May 27th deaths
02-05-1908 - Bob Dunn - Fort Gibson, OK - d. 5-27-1971
steel guitar: "The Musical Brownies"
02-16-1915 - Leah Ray - Norfolk, VA - d. 5-27-1999
vocalist: (The Phil Harris Band) "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
02-16-1932 - Gretchen Wyler - Bartlesville, OK - d. 5-27-2007
singer-actor: "Sounds of Freedom"
03-11-1930 - Lana Morris - Ruislip, England - d. 5-27-1998
actor: "The Forces Show"
04-14-1929 - Ray Mathew - Leichhardt, Australia - d. 5-27-2002
writer: "The Medea of Euripides"
05-29-1916 - Forrest Perrin - d. 5-27-2005
host: "Piano Playhouse"
07-03-1908 - Robert B. Meyner - Phillipsburg, NJ - d. 5-27-1990
governor new jersey: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
08-07-1904 - Herbert Colin Rice - Guilford, England - d. 5-27-1991
creator, writer, producer: "Bobby Benson"
08-12-1904 - Kay Campbell - d. 5-27-1985
actor: Evey Perkins Fitz "Ma Perkins"
08-14-1909 - Frank Papp - d. 5-27-1996
director: "The Bartons"; "Words at War"; "Right to Happiness";
"Eternal Light"
09-13-1895 - Ruth McDevitt - Coldwater, MI - d. 5-27-1976
actor: Jane Channing "This Life is Mine"; Mother "Keeping Up with
Rosemary"
09-13-1918 - Ernie Winstanley - England - d. 5-27-1992
actor, sound effects: Scrub Troy "Secretary Hawkins' Fair and Supper
Club"; "The Lone Ranger"
09-27-1927 - Red Rodney - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-27-1994
jazz trumpeter: "Saturday Night Swing Session"
10-10-1909 - Florida Friebus - Auburndale, MA - d. 5-27-1988
actor: "Great Plays"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
10-12-1900 - Ted Collins - NYC - d. 5-27-1964
announcer, host: (longtime manager of Kate Smith) "Kate Smith Speaks"
11-07-1902 - Ed Dodd - Lafayette, GA - d. 5-27-1991
comic creator: "Mark Trail"
11-25-1925 - Jeffrey Hunter - New Orleans. LA - d. 5-27-1969
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-28-1925 - Robert Readick - NYC - d. 5-27-1985
actor: (Son of Frank) Bill Roberts "Rosemary"; Don Cornwell "Second
Mrs. Burton"
11-29-1902 - Cecil (Charles) Madden - Mogador, Morocco - d. 5-27-1987
creator: "Variety Band Box"
12-02-1895 - Jesse Crawford - Woodland, CA - d. 5-27-1962
organist: "Paramount Publix Hour"; "Counterspy"
12-03-1889 - Ferdinand Munier - San Diego, CA - d. 5-27-1945
actor: Rene Michon "Count of Monte Cristo"
12-12-1908 - Mary Lou Cook - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-27-1944
singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "New Old Gold Show"
12-19-1910 - Thelma Bernstein - NYC - d. 5-27-2006
singer: (Wife of Harry Einstein) Sang on radio
12-25-1893 - Robert L. Ripley - Santa Rosa, CA - d. 5-27-1949
emcee: "Colonial Beacon Light"; "Baker's Broadcast"; "Believe It or Not"
Ron
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 21:21:05 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: BBC radio drama
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Hi Folks.
Those of you in the States who listen to BBC radio drama on-line might be
interested to know that next Wednesday 1st June BBC Radio 4 has a drama titled
'The Big Broadcast'. According to the schedule, its set in a Chicago radio
station in 1932. It is on from 1415 - 1500UK time.
Cheers ! Graeme ( ORCA / UK )
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 21:21:12 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Radio in the Cold War era
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Hi Folks.
I see a new site has been set up called 'Cold War Broadcasting Research'. I
got the link to it by going in through [removed]
Cheers ! Graeme ( ORCA / UK )
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 21:22:43 -0400
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Whistler
I received The Whistler: Stepping into the Shadows by Dan Van Neste. Cost is
$[removed] from Bear Manor Media, 421 pages. Most of the book describes the 8
movies with much behind the scenes information and many pictures, with one
chapter talking about the radio program. Robert Dix, son of the star, Richard
Dix, writes the forward.
Add $5 for shipping; Bearmanor Media, Box 1129, Duncan, OK 73534;
<[removed];
Legendary film director Robert Wise called the Whistler features, "examples
of budget filmmaking at its very best." Noted B movie historian Don Miller
cited them as, "the best B pics of the period from Columbia." Famed film
critic/historian Leonard Maltin referred to the series as "one of the most
unusual- and one of the best mystery series of the 30's and 40's. . ." Based
on J. Donald Wilson's hit radio suspense program featuring ironic tales of
terror spun by a mysterious host, The Whistler film series consisted of eight
motion pictures produced by Columbia Pictures between 1944 and 1948 starring
legendary, Academy Award-nominated actor, Richard Dix. Although manufactured
quickly and cheaply to fill the bottom half of a mandatory double bill, The
Whistler films were suspenseful and well made, engendering wide popularity
and surprising critical acclaim. Today historians and movie aficionados
frequently cite them for their innovation and style-and as early examples of
film noir. This is the story of the making of this landmark Columbia series,
and the many extraordinary individuals who pooled their singular talents to
make eight low budget movies into film classics. Included are rare profiles
of 50 Whistler filmmakers: actors, directors, writers, and technicians.
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 21:23:02 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-28 births/deaths
May 28th births
05-28-1888 - Jim Thorpe - Prague, Indian Territory - d. 3-28-1953
all around athelete: "Shell Chateau"; "Bill Stern Colgate Sports
Newsreel"
05-28-1898 - Andy Kirk - Newport, KY - d. 12-11-1992
bandleader: (Clouds of Joy) "Andy Kirk and His Orchestra"
05-28-1899 - Richard Lane - Rice Lake, WI - d. 9-5-1982
actor: Inspector Faraday "Boston Blackie"
05-28-1902 - "Little" Jack Little - London, England - d. 4-9-1956
singer: (Cheerful Little Earful) "Little Jack Little Show"
05-28-1906 - Phil Regan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-11-1996
singer: (The Singing Cop) "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
05-28-1907 - Don Becker - Covington, KY - d. 10-18-1991
script writer: "Life Can Be Beautiful"
05-28-1910 - Rachel Kempson - Dartmouth, Devon, England - d. 5-24-2003
actor: "The Archers"; "Tom's Midnight Garden"
05-28-1911 - Lynn Biggler - d. 10-7-2003
newscaster: KWFT Witchita Falls, Texas
05-28-1912 - Dave Barbour - Flushing, NY - d. 12-11-1965
orchestra leader, composer, actor: "Electric Hour"; "Chesterfield
Supper Club"
05-28-1912 - Tom Scott - d. 8-12-1961
folk singer, writer: "American School of the Air"; "Golden Gate
Quartet Sings"
05-28-1912 - Violet Dunn - d. 11-14-1982
actor: Peggy O'Neill "The O'Neill's"
05-28-1918 - Elizabeth Harrower - Alameda, CA - d. 12-10-2003
actor: "NBC University Theatre"
05-28-1918 - Johnny Wayne - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-18-1990
comedian: (Wayne and Shuster) "Army Show"; "March of Time"
05-28-1919 - Frank Middlemass - Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 9-8-2006
actor: "Too the Manor Born"
05-28-1919 - Ola Masters - Pambula, Australia - d. 9-27-1986
writer: "The Penny Ha'penny Stamp"
05-28-1920 - Gene Levitt - NYC - d. 11-15-1999
writer: "Advs. of Philip Marlowe"
05-28-1922 - Scott McKay - Pleasantville, IA - d. 3-16-1987
actor: John Nelson "Barry Cameron"
05-28-1928 - Billy Roy - Detroit , MI - d. 9-2-2003
actor: "Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang"
05-28-1928 - Maynard Ferguson - Montreal, Canada - d. 8-23-2006
trumpeter: "Bud's Bandwagon"
May 28th deaths
01-03-1891 - Gaston Anderson - d. 5-28-1978
disk jockey: WGWD Gasden, Alabama
01-11-1886 - George Zucco - Manchester, England - d. 5-28-1960
actor: "Encore Theatre"
01-20-1914 - Roy Plomley - Kingston-upon-Thames, England - d. 5-28-1985
announcer: Desert Island Discs"; "We Beg to Differ"; "One Minute Please"
03-11-1923 - Terence Alexander - London England - d. 5-28-2009
actor: The Toff "John Creasey Novels"
04-08-1887 - Walter Connolly - Cincinnati, OH - d. 5-28-1940
actor: Charlie Chan "Charlie Chan"
04-14-1889 - Dick Richards - Detroit, MI - d. 5-28-1951
Owned radio stations WJR (Detroit), WGAR (Cleveland), KMPC (Los Angeles)
05-08-1910 - Mary Lou Williams - Atlanta, GA - d. 5-28-1981
jazz pianist, composer: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Andy Kirk and His
Clouds of Joy"
05-14-1926 - Eric Morecambe - Lancashire, England - d. 5-28-1984
comedian: "The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Radio Show"
05-21-1920 - James Plunkett - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-28-2003
writer: "Dublin Fusilier"
06-01-1911 - Erik Rolf - Chicago, IL - d. 5-28-1957
actor: Hans Simon "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; Thor Nielsen "Prairie Folks"
06-20-1924 - Audie Murphy - Kingston, TX - d. 5-28-1971
world war II hero, actor: "Cavalcade of America"
06-23-1894 - King Edward VIII - Richmond Park, England - d. 5-28-1972
king, ex-king, duke: Abdication Speech for the "woman" he loved
07-04-1919 - Shirley Eder - NYC - d. 5-28-2005
entertainment reporter: "Monitor"; "Composite"
07-16-1908 - Frank Singiser - Montevideo, MN - d. 5-28-1982
newscaster: "Mutual News"
07-17-1916 - Irene Manning - Cincinnati, OH - d. 5-28-2004
singer: Night Club Singer "Mr. Broadway"; "Wehmacht Hour"; "Railroad
Hour"
07-28-1912 - Herbert Finn - Boston, MA - d. 5-28-2002
comedy writer: "Duffy'sTavern"; "Amos 'n' Andy"
08-14-1911 - Ethel Payne - Chicago, IL - d. 5-28-1991
commentator: "Spectrum"; "Matters of Opinion"
08-29-1907 - Lurene Tuttle - Pleasant Lake, IN - d. 5-28-1986
actor: Effie Perrine "Advs. of Sam Spade"; Ellie Connors "Lum and Abner"
09-01-1899 - Richard Arlen - Charlottesville, VA - d. 5-28-1976
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-05-1907 - Sybil Chism Bock - Carrolton, IL - d. 5-28-1980
organist: "One Man's Family"; "Lum and Abner"
09-21-1901 - Lloyd Shaffer - Ridgeway, PA - d. 5-28-1999
orchestra leader: "Chesterfield Supper Club"; "Time to Shine"
09-22-1914 - Martha Scott - Jamesport, MO - d. 5-28-2003
actor: Alice Blair "Career of Alice Blair"; "Somerset Maugham Theatre"
09-26-1896 - Vaughn DeLeath - Mount Pulaski, IL - d. 5-28-1943
singer: (The Original Radio Girl) "Voice of Firestone"
10-08-1917 - Billy Conn - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 5-28-1993
prize fighter: "Kraft Music Hall"; "The Pepsodent Show"; "The Eddie
Cantor Show"
11-15-1923 - Robert Barron - NYC - d. 5-28-2002
actor: Flint Blackbeard "Jack Armstrong"
11-24-1906 - Don McLaughlin - Webster, IA - d. 5-28-1986
actor: David Harding "Counterspy"; "Jim Brent "Road of Life"; Chaplain
Jim "Chaplain Jim"
12-06-1895 - Lou Little - Boston, MA - d. 5-28-1979
football coach: "Football Forecasts"; "Friday Night Quarterback"
Ron
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 21:23:09 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 29 May to 4 June
From Those Were The Days --
5/29
1939 - "When a Girl Marries" was first heard on CBS. The serial
continued for eighteen years on radio.
1943 - "The Million Dollar Band" was heard for the first time on NBC
radio. Charlie Spivak was the first leader of the band that featured
Barry Wood as vocalist. The unusual feature of the show was the awarding
each week of five diamond rings!
5/30
1922 - "Smilin" Ed McConnell debuted on radio, smiling and playing his
banjo. McConnell quickly became a legend in the medium.
1935 - "America's Town Meeting" was heard for the first time. The NBC
program continued for 21 years, with a name change to "America's Town
Meeting of the Air".
1938 - "Joyce Jordan, Girl Intern" was first heard interning on CBS
radio. The show became Joyce Jordan, MD, on NBC in the '40s and later
morphed into "The Brighter Day" (1948).
5/31
1943 - A comic strip came to radio as "The Adventures of Archie
Andrews". It was heard on the NBC Blue network. Archie, Veronica and the
gang stayed on radio for about ten years, moving to Mutual Broadcasting
in January 1944, and then to NBC in June 1945. The radio sitcom was
based on Bob Montana's comic strip about Archie Andrews and his teen-age
pals.
1949 - A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary
Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, (one of the five
boroughs that make up New York City). McBride was celebrating her 15th
year in radio.
6/1
1936 The Lux Radio Theater moved from New York City to Hollywood.
Cecil B. DeMille, the program's host on the NBC Blue network, introduced
Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich in The Legionnaire and the Lady.
1938 - The first issue of "Action Comics" was published. In its pages
was the world's first super hero, Superman. Jerry Siegel had a dream
about the baby, Moses, who was abandoned by his parents in order that
his life be saved. This dream prompted Siegel's creation of the "Man of
Steel". Artist Joe Shuster made the comic book hero come alive. The
first story, in this first issue, took place on the planet, Krypton,
where baby Kal-El was born. The infant was shot to Earth in a rocket
just before Krypton exploded.
6/2
1937 The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy was broadcast on NBC for the first time.
Frank Morgan starred as the absent minded Dr. Tweedy.
1937 CBS presented the first broadcast of Second Husband. The show
continued on the air until 1946.
6/3
1946 - Mutual Radio debuted "The Casebook of Gregory Hood". The show was
the summer replacement series for "Sherlock Holmes". The mystery series
became a regular weekly program in the fall of 1946.
6/4
1944 - "Leonidas Witherall" was first broadcast on the Mutual
Broadcasting System. Witherall was a detective who looked just like
William Shakespeare.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 21:24:25 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-29 births/deaths
May 29th births
05-29-1874 - G. K. Chesterton - London, England - d. 6-14-1936
creator: "Advs. of Father Brown"
05-29-1883 - Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe - Canada - d. 6-2-1943
doctor who attended Dionne quintuplets birth: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie
McCarthy Show"
05-29-1892 - Mario Chamlee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-13-1966
singer: Tony "Tony and Gus"; "Arco Birthday Party"; "Swift Garden Party"
05-29-1894 - Beatrice Lillie - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-20-1989
commedienne: "Beatrice Lillie Show"
05-29-1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Brno, Czechoslovakia - d.
11-29-1957
"composer: "Contemporary Composers Concerts"; "Railroad Hour"
05-29-1897 - F. Hugh Herbert - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-17-1958
writer: "Meet Corliss Archer"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-29-1899 - Don Brodie - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-8-2001
grouch: "The Grouch Club"
05-29-1902 - Dr. Harry Hagen - New Haven, CT - d. 2-3-1986
emcee: "True or False"; "Bob Emery's Show"
05-29-1903 - Bob Hope - Eltham, England - d. 7-27-2003
actor, comedian: Taxpayer "Quick and the Dead"; "Bob Hope Show"
05-29-1904 - Saxie Dowell - Raleigh, NC - d. 7-22-1974
saxophonist, vocalist: (Hal Kemp Orchestra) "Music from Hollywood"
05-29-1909 - Bruce Seton - Simla, India - d. 9-27-1969
actor: Flint "Flint of the Flying Squad"
05-29-1909 - Dick Stabile - Newark, NJ - d. 9-25-1980
bandleader: "Martin and Lewis Show"
05-29-1909 - Oliver Wakefield - Mahlabitini, South Africa - d. 6-30-1956
comedian: "The Chesterfield Program"; "Fox Fur Trappers"
05-29-1911 - Vivi Janiss - Nebraska - d. 9-7-1988
actor: (Married to John Larch) Kit Calvert "Aunt Mary"
05-29-1913 - Iris Adrian - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-17-1994
actor: Abbott and Costello Show"
05-29-1914 - Grace McCarthy - Chapman, KS
singer: (Doring Sisters) "Contented Hour"
05-29-1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr. - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-13-2003
producer-director: "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
05-29-1916 - Forrest Perrin - d. 5-27-2005
host: "Piano Playhouse"
05-29-1917 - John F. Kennedy - Brookline, MA - d. 11-22-1963
[removed] president: "Kennedy-Nixon Debates"; "American Forum of the Air"
05-29-1918 - Herb Shriner - Toledo, OH - d. 2-24-1970
comedian: "Camel Comedy Caravan"; "Herb Shriner Time"
05-29-1918 - Isabel Dean - Aldridge, England - d. 7-27-1997
actor: "The Long Shadow"; "No Name"; "Paul Temple and the Spencer
Affair"
05-29-1918 - Kay Lorraine - St. Louis, MO
singer: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
05-29-1919 - Carol Batdorf - d. 2-7-1995
woman's program on KVOS Bellingham, Washington
05-29-1923 - Winifred Wolfe - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-1981
writer: "Cloak and Dagger"
05-29-1924 - Bob Corley - Macon, GA - d. 11-18-1971
actor: Beulah "Beulah"
05-29-1932 - Rosalyn Borden - Hartford, CT - d. 1-23-2003
singer: (Borden Twins) "The Kiddies Hour"
05-29-1935 - Bryar Martin - Ulverston, Cumbrio, England - d. 3-4-2009
newsreader: BBC Radio 4
05-29-1936 - Arlene McQuade - NYC
actor: Rosalie Goldberg "The Goldbergs"
05-29-1937 - Misora Hibari - Yokohama, Japan - d. 6-24-1989
enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"
May 29th deaths
02-15-1882 - John Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-29-1942
actor: (The Great Profile) "Streamlined Shakespeare"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
02-15-1927 - Harvey Korman - Chicago, IL - d. 5-29-2008
started in radio at the age of 12
03-02-1902 - Moe Berg - NYC - d. 5-29-1972
major league baseball player, world war 2 spy: "Information, Please"
03-18-1911 - Rex Koury - London, England - d. 5-29-2006
orgainst, composere: "Gunsmoke"; "Abbott and Costello's Kid Show"
03-21-1912 - Henry Gibson - NYC - d. 5-29-2003
director, writer: "Burns and Allen"; "Junior Miss"
04-09-1892 - Mary Pickford - Toronto, Canada - d. 5-29-1979
actor: "Mary Pickford Dramas"; "Parties at Pickfair"
05-10-1911 - Lee Sullivan - NYC - d. 5-29-1981
singer: "Vest Pocket Varieties"; "Serenade to America"
06-19-1865 - May Whitty - Liverpool, England - d. 5-29-1948
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-30-1891 - Man Mountain Dean - NYC - d. 5-29-1953
professional wrestler: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
07-31-1913 - Brook Byron - Weakly County, TN - d. 5-29-2006
actor: "Top Secret"; "Suspense"
08-14-1892 - Paul Wing - Tacoma, WA - d. 5-29-1957
producer: "Story Man for Children"
08-15-1907 - Margaret Brayton - d. 5-29-1992
actor: "Burns and Allen"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-18-1914 - Perry Ward - Tulsa, OK - d. 5-29-1989
announcer, emcee: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Scramby Amby"
08-30-1901 - John Gunther - Chicago, IL - d. 5-29-1970
writer: "Information, Please";"America's Town Meeting of the Air";
"Royal Gelatin Hour"
10-04-1897 - Frederick Chase Taylor - Buffalo, NY - d. 5-29-1950
comedian: Lemuel Q. Stoopnagel "Duffy's Tavern, Quixie Doodles,
Stoopnagel and Budd"
10-10-1926 - Oscar Brown, Jr. - Chicago, IL - d. 5-29-2005
singer: "Destination Freedom"
10-29-1891 - Fanny Brice - NYC - d. 5-29-1951
comedian: Baby Snooks Higgins, "Baby Snooks"
11-10-1919 - George Fenneman - Peking, China - d. 5-29-1997
announcer, actor: "You Bet Your Life"; "Dragnet"; Buzz "I Fly Anything"
11-18-1836 - William S. Gilbert - London, England - d. 5-29-1911
composer: (Gilbert and Sullivan) "Several works adapted for radio"
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