Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #369
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Date: 12/31/2006 9:35 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 369
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Was my Times your Times?              [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Re: Cooper and Oboler                 [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
      100 Year Anniversaries                [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:33:40 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Was my Times your Times?

    On numerous occasions I have been reminded how dependent many of us
    investigators are on the wealth of material published and archived by The
    New York Times.  Speaking strictly for me, I know of no other newspaper as
    comprehensive, reliable and accurate for confirming little known and obscure
    details that are a boon to researchers in diverse fields, including vintage
    radio.  I'm grateful that the journal launched as "The New-York Daily Times"
    in 1851 has remained healthy in an era of rapidly diminishing print media.

    My first exposure to that invaluable resource (with which I have no direct
    link, incidentally) occurred a century after its birth.  I had just entered
    junior high school and had frequent opportunities to visit a very well
    stocked school library in the nation's hinterland.  On those shelves I
    discovered the Sunday editions of The Times.  I returned to the library
    weekly to devour the pages of that fascinating publication, imagining what
    big city life was all about.  There were stories about people and events and
    advertisements I never would have known about otherwise in the era in which
    they were occurring.

    Undoubtedly, however, the thing that caught my attention every time was the
    daily radio listings for the various networks.  I don't recall if this was
    the first time I had seen them or if I had already run across the logs for
    the four webs printed in Radio and Television Mirror, but together they
    opened a new world to me.  While we had stations affiliated with the four
    chains in my town, sometimes those outlets replaced the regular network fare
    with local and syndicated programming.  My avid interest in broadcasting
    continually made me wonder what people in other towns might be hearing that
    we didn't.  In those two publications, I found out.

    I think reading The Times from then on through high school helped in
    convincing me that I wanted to be either a radio actor or writer when I grew
    up.  It wasn't to be, of course; the golden age had passed when I claimed my
    college baccalaureate degree, a possibility unthinkable in junior high.

    I've often wondered if published stories about radio personalities, industry
    decisions, listings and logs had as much effect on others as it did me.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:34:59 -0500
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Cooper and Oboler

    My hero, Martin Grams, Jr., wrote about "Quiet, Please":

>     Yes, the prose is first person narrative so it rarely is written
>     masterful and frankly, had Wyllis Cooper actually wrote the plot
>     ideas and Arch Oboler create the prose, the series would have
>     been top-notch.  But the story is the most important part.

    I generally agree with the rest of the post but -- wow, that's some
    ungrammatical literary criticism.

    The strange thing is that I always thought it should have been the
    opposite, with Oboler pitching the plots and Cooper writing the
    scripts. Mr. O often had the wild, attention-grabbing ideas (Synthetic
    beast with vacuum cup feet created by gem thieves to climb up to a
    penthouse? Hitler as a hitch-hiker? Chicken heart destroys the world?)
    but his characters and dialogue are usually as subtle as a rock to the
    head and could have used some of Cooper's thoughtful restraint.

    In fact, Oboler is probably the least "writerly" of all the major OTR
    writers -- maybe because he improvised most of his scripts into
    Dictaphones and other recording devices. It's both a strength and a
    weakness of his work -- he avoids formula and goes where his
    imagination takes him, but he also sacrifices details and subtleties
    by not keeping to the old adage that "the best writing is rewriting."
    His stuff often plays better than it reads because he's not really a
    conventional literary artist at all but a go-for-the-throat teller of
    tall tales.

    Cooper is sort of the reverse. He doesn't think "the story is the most
    important part." He once said, "I don't believe in too strong a story
    line because it's apt to be too hard for the listener to keep in mind
    ... The charm in radio consists of good characterization. Plot should
    consist of a twist rather than a formalized structure." He tends to
    stress character and atmosphere, often at the expense of other things
    -- including clarity, pace, and logic -- and that sometimes puts
    people off.

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    Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:35:23 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  100 Year Anniversaries

    People born 100 years ago this year.

    01-04-1907 - Floyd Christy - NYC - d. 5-21-1962
    writer: "The Johnson Family"
    01-06-1907 - Helen Kleeb - South Bend, WA - d. 12-28-2003
    actor: Sarah Tuttle "Dr. Kate"; "Gunsmoke"
    01-16-1907 - Alexander Knox - Strathroy, Ontario, Canada - d. 4-25-1995
    actor: "Document A/777", BBC
    01-16-1907 - John Hiestand - Madison, WI - d. 2-5-1987
    announcer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Cinnamon Bear"; "Feg Murray Show"
    01-20-1907 - L. A. "Speed" Riggs - Silverdale, NC - d. 2-1-1987
    tobacco auctioneer: "Jack Benny Show"; "Kay Kyser Show"
    01-22-1907 - Douglas 'Wrong-Way' Corrigan - Galveston, TX - d. 12-9-1995
    intrepid pilot: "Believe It or Not"
    01-23-1907 - Dan Duryea - White Plains, NY - d. 6-7-1968
    actor: Lou Dana "Man from Homicide"
    01-26-1907 - Eddie Ballentine - Chicago, IL - d. 11-14-1995
    orchestra leader: "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club"
    01-26-1907 - Rita Ascot - d. 3-6-1988
    actor: "Fay "Ma Perkins"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    01-30-1907 - Lois Wilson - Iowa - d. 1-8-1983
    actor: "Jack Benny Program"
    02-03-1907 - James Michener - NYC - d. 10-16-1997
    author: "You and the World"
    02-03-1907 - Paul Laven - d. 5-1-1950
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    02-08-1907 - Phil Davis - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-xx-1985
    musician: "Avalon Time"; "Scramby Amby"
    02-08-1907 - Ray Middleton - Chicago, IL - d. 4-10-1984
    actor: Abraham Lincoln "Honest Abe"
    02-14-1907 - Art Hern - Mannington, WV - d. 8-4-1997
    actor: Ichabod Mudd "Captain Midnight"; "Richard Stone "Today's
    Children"
    02-15-1907 - Cesar Romero - NYC - d. 1-1-1994
    actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
    02-17-1907 - Larry "Buster" Crabbe - Oakland, CA - d. 4-23-1983
    actor: "George Jessel Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    02-18-1907 - Billy de Wolf -  Wollaston, MA - d. 3-5-1974
    actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-20-1907 - Nadine Conner - Compton, CA - d. 3-1-2003
    singer: "Show Boat"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
    02-21-1907 - W. H. Auden - York, England - d. 9-29-1973
    writer: "Columbia Workshop"
    02-22-1907 - Robert Young - Chicago, IL - d. 7-21-1998
    actor: Jim Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Doug Adams "Passport for Adams"
    02-22-1907 - Sheldon Leonard - NYC - d. 1-10-1997
    comedian: Tout "Jack Benny Program"; Joe Crunchmiller "Judy Canova Show"
    02-26-1907 - Hal Fimberg - d. 4-6-1974
    writer, director, producer: "Abbott and Costello"; "Spike Jones"
    02-27-1907 - Kenneth Horne - England - d. 2-14-1969
    comedian: "Round the Horne"; "Ack Ack Beer Beer"; "Beyond Our Ken"
    02-27-1907 - Mildred Bailey - Tekoa, WA - d. 12-12-1951
    singer: (Rockin' Chair Lady) "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Camel Caravan"
    02-28-1907 - Milton Caniff - Hillsboro, OH - d. 4-3-1988
    Creator of "Terry and the Pirates"
    03-03-1907 - Canada Lee - NYC - d. 5-9-1952
    actor: "New World A' Coming"; "Lest We Forger"; "The Free Company"
    03-04-1907 - Edgar Barrier - NYC - d. 6-20-1964
    actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"
    03-04-1907 - Pat McGeehan - Steelton, PA - d. 1-3-1988
    announcer, actor: "Abbott and Costello"; "The Red Skelton Show"
    03-11-1907 - Jessie Matthews - London, England - d. 8-19-1981
    actor: Mrs. Mary Dale "The Dale's"
    03-13-1907 - Frank Wilcox - DeSoto, MO - d. 3-3-1974
    actor: Father "Central City"
    03-15-1907 - Jimmy McPartland - Chicago, IL - d. 3-13-1991
    jazz artist: "Doctor Jazz"; "Town Hall Concert"
    03-19-1907 - Kent Smith - NYC - d. 4-23-1985
    actor: "NBC University Theatre of the Air";"Radio Reader's Digest"
    03-22-1907 - Bernice Claire - Oakland, CA - d. 1-17-2003
    vocalist: "Waltz Time"
    03-26-1907 - Clarence Stroud - Kaufman, TX - d. 8-15-1973
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Chaarlie McCarthy Show"
    03-26-1907 - Claude Stroud - Kaufman, TX - d. 10-16-1985
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Chaarlie McCarthy Show"
    03-26-1907 - Leigh Harline - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 12-10-1969
    music: "Eddie Bracken Show"; "Ford Festival of American Music"
    03-26-1907 - Phil Rapp - d. 1-23-1996
    creator, writer, director: "The Bickersons"; "Baby Snooks"; "Old Gold
    Time"
    03-27-1907 - Mary Treen - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-20-1989
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-28-1907 - Jon Dodson - Richland, MO - d. xx-xx-1963
    singer: (Member of the King's Men) "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "King's
    Men"
    03-31-1907 - James L. Saphier - d. 4-9-1974
    producer: "The Saint"; "Somebody Knows"
    03-31-1907 - Ray Arvin - d. 12-xx-1977
    sportscaster: KORN Fremont, Nebraska; WREN Topeka, Kansas
    04-01-1907 - Stanley Joseloff - d. 10-1-1989
    writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    04-02-1907 - Luke Appling - High Point, NC - d. 1-3-1991
    baseball great: "Tops in Sport"
    04-11-1907 - Paul Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-11-1959
    announcer, sportscaster, actor: Lawyer Feldman "Meyer the Buyer"
    04-12-1907 - Ivan Ditmars - Olympia, WA - d. 9-10-1997
    music: "Advs. of Frank Race"; "Dr. Christian"; "Escape"
    04-13-1907 - Harold E. Stassen - West St. Paul, MN - d. 3-4-2001
    presidential candidate: "Meet the Press"; "The People's Platform"
    04-15-1907 - Theodore Granick - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-21-1970
    moderator: "American Forum of the Air"
    04-18-1907 - Miklos Rozsa - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-27-1995
    composer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-19-1907 - Lin Basquette - San Mateo, CA - d. 9-30-1994
    actor: "Whatever Became of  . . . "
    04-21-1907 - Beatrice Kay - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-8-1986
    singer: "Gaslight Gayeties"; "Beatrice Kay Show"
    04-27-1907 - Matty Matlock - Paducah, KY - d. 6-14-1978
    jazz musician: (Member of the Big 7 Band) "Pete Kelly's Blues"
    04-30-1907 - Sidney Harmon - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 2-29-1988
    writer, director: "The Life of Riley"; "Honest Abe"
    05-01-1907 - Kate Smith - Washington [removed] - d. 6-17-1986
    singer, emcee: (Songbird of the South) "Kate Smith Revue"; Kate Smith
    Speaks"
    05-02-1907 - Pinky Lee - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-3-1993
    comedian: "Hoagy Carmichel Show"; "Carefree Carnival"
    05-03-1907 - Earl Wilson - Rockford, OH - d. 1-16-1987
    columnist: "Earl Wilson's Broadway Column"
    05-10-1907 - Pee Wee Hunt - Mount Healthy, OH - d. 6-22-1979
    composer: "The Hoagy Carmichael Show"
    05-11-1907 - Kent Taylor - Nashua, IA - d. 4-11-1987
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    05-12-1907 - Kathrine Hepburn - Hartford, CT - d. 6-29-2003
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-12-1907 - Leslie Charteris - Singapore - d. 4-14-1993
    mystery writer: "The Adventures of the Saint"
    05-13-1907 - Daphne du Maurier - London, England - d. 4-19-1989
    author: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Matinee Theatre"; "Romance"; "Escape"
    05-17-1907 - Horace McMahon - South Norwalk, CT - d. 8-17-1971
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    05-17-1907 - Jack Petruzzi - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-1-1967
    actor: "Ann Worth, Housewife"; "The Lone Ranger"; "Joe Palooka"
    05-18-1907 - Clifford Curzon - London, England - d. 9-2-1982
    pianist: "March of Dimes"
    05-22-1907 - Laurence Olivier - Dorking, England - d. 7-11-1989
    actor: "Biography in Sound"; "Document A/777"; "Hour of Mystery"
    05-23-1907 - Kenneth Griffin - Enid, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-3-1951
    actor: Larry Noble "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"
    05-24-1907 - Bill Bouchey - Clare, MI - d. 9-27-1977
    actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"
    05-25-1907 - Barbara Luddy - Helena, MT - d. 4-1-1979
    actor: Carol Evans "Road of Life"; Janet Munson Adams "Woman in White"
    05-26-1907 - John Wayne - Winterset, IA - d. 6-11-1979
    actor: Dan O'Brien "Three Sheets to the Wind"
    06-04-1907 - Rosalind Russell - Waterbury, CT - d. 11-28-1976
    actor: "Four-Star Playhouse"; "Silver Theatre"
    06-05-1907 - D'Artega - Silao, Mexico - d. unknown
    conductor, composer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"
    06-08-1907 - Craig McDonnell - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-1956
    actor: Dinty Moore "Bringing Up Father"; Jolly Rogers "Valiant Lady"
    06-08-1907 - Roy Lockwood - Bristol, England - d. 4-25-2002
    director: "Valiant Lady"
    06-14-1907 - Nappy Lamare - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-19-1988
    jazz guitarist: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    06-15-1843 - Edvard Grieg - Bergen Norway - d. 9-4-1907
    composer: "Against the Storm"; "Life and Love of Dr. Susan"
    06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
    actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade
    of America"
    06-16-1907 - Stuart Allen - NYC - d. 10-xx-1978
    baritone: (Richard Himber Orchestra) "The Monday Night Show"
    06-21-1907 - Charles 'Bud' Dant - Washington, IN - d. 10-31-1999
    music: "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"; "Glamour Manor"
    06-22-1907 - Mike Todd - Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-22-1958
    film producer: "Closing the New York World's Fair"
    06-23-1907 - Eddie Pola - NYC - d. 11-3-1995
    director: "Blondie"
    06-26-1907 - Ynez Seabury - Oregon - d. 4-11-1973
    actor: Libby Collins "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-27-1907 - John McIntire - Spokane, WA - d. 1-30-1991
    actor: Benjamin Ordway "Crime Doctor"; Lt. Dundy "Advs. of Sam Spade"
    06-29-1907 - Joan Davis - St. Paul, MN - d. 5-22-1961
    comedienne: "Sealtest Village Store"; "Joan Davis Show"
    07-01-1907 - Bill Stern - Rochester, NY - d. 11-19-1971
    sportscaster: "Carnival of Champions"; "Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    07-04-1907 - Tommy Carr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-23-1997
    actor: Jerry Hall "Magic Island"
    07-07-1907 - Elton Britt - Marshall, AR - d. 6-23-1972
    singer: "Tennessee Jed"
    07-07-1907 - Robert Heinlein - Butler, MO - d. 5-8-1988
    science fiction writer: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "Dimension X"; "X Minus One"
    07-09-1907 - Eddie Dean - Posey, TX - d. 3-4-1999
    actor: Larry Burton "Modern Cinderella"
    07-16-1907 - Barbara Stanwyck - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-20-1990
    actor: "Prudential Family Hour of Stars"; "This Is My Story"
    07-16-1907 - Ned Calmer - Chicago, IL - d. 3-9-1986
    news analyst: "World News Roundup"
    07-20-1907 - Art Jarrett - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-23-1987
    singer, bandleader: "Coca Cola's Spotlight Parade"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
    07-24-1907 - Glenn Riggs - East McKeesport, PA - d. 9-12-1975
    announcer: "Musical Varities"; "Hop Harrigan"; "Boston Blackie"
    07-25-1907 - Jack Gilford - NYC - d. 6-4-1990
    comedian: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-26-1907 - Galen Drake - Kokomo, IN - d. 6-30-1989
    commentator: "Galen Drake"
    08-03-1907 - Adrienne Ames - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-31-1947
    film star: WHN New York, New York
    08-03-1907 - Irene Tedrow - Denver, CO - d. 3-10-1995
    actor: Janet Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"; Dorothy Regent "Chandu,
    the Magacian"
    08-08-1907 - Benny Carter - NYC - d. 7-12-2003
    saxaphonist, songwriter (Professor) "Chamber Music Society of Lower
    Basin Street"
    08-12-1907 - Joe Besser - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-1-1988
    comedian: ("No so faaaast! . . . oh, you craaaaze you!) "Jack Benny
    Program"
    08-13-1907 - Mabel Todd - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-2-1977
    vocalist: "The Al Pearce Show"; "Your Hollywood Parade"
    08-15-1907 - Margaret Brayton - d. 5-29-1992
    actor: "Burns and Allen"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-16-1907 - Mae Clark - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-29-1992
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-17-1907 - Bernard Schoenfeld - d. 4-25-1990
    writer: "Brave New World"; "This is Our Eneny"
    08-18-1907 - Enoch Light - Canton, OH - d. 7-31-1978
    bandleader: "BMI Pin Up Platter"
    08-20-1907 - Alan Reed (aka Teddy Bergman) - NYC - d. 6-14-1977
    actor: Falstaff Openshaw "Fred Allen Show"; Pasquale "Life with Luigi"
    08-22-1907 - Sherling Oliver - Kipling, AL - d. 8-23-1971
    actor: Dudley Trowbridge "Valiant Lady"
    08-26-1907 - Jack Berch - Sigel, IL - d. 12-10-1992
    singer: "Kitchen Pirate"; "Sweetheart Serenade"; "Jack Berch Show"
    08-26-1907 - Lester Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-27-2004
    bandleader: "Lester Lanin and His Orchestra"; "Here's to Veterans"
    08-28-1907 - Roy Chamberlain - NYC - d. 5-xx-1981
    old gold rhythmaires: "The New Old Gold Show"
    08-28-1907 - Sam Levene - NYC - d. 12-17-1980
    comedian: "Fred Allen Show"
    08-29-1907 - Lurene Tuttle - Pleasant Lake, IN - d. 5-28-1986
    actor: Effie Perrine "Advs. of Sam Spade"; Ellie Connors "Lum and Abner"
    08-31-1907 - Winifred Cecil - Staten Island, NY - d. 9-13-1985
    singer: "Show Boat"
    09-01-1907 - Cliff Howell - Hattiesburg, MS - d. unknown
    announcer: "Gateway to Hollywood; "The Euclid Ballot Box"
    09-02-1907 - Irving Miller - NYC - d. 4-xx-1986
    musician: "Mel Blanc Show"; "Garry Moore Show"
    09-05-1907 - Jimmy Wallington - Rochester, NY - d. 12-22-1972
    announcer: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Texaco Town/Star Theatre"; "Alan
    Young Show"
    09-05-1907 - Sybil Chism Bock - Carrolton, IL - d. 5-28-1980
    organist: "One Man's Family"; "Lum and Abner"
    09-07-1907 - Johnny McAfee - d. 10-xx-1982
    vocalist: (Harry James Band) "Chesterfield Time"
    09-08-1907 - Eleanor Phelps - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-29-2001
    actor: Susan Chandler "Life and Loves of Doctor Susan"
    09-08-1907 - Tom McAvity - d. 10-xx-1972
    producer, director: "A Date with Judy"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "The Saint"
    09-10-1907 - Alvin Childress - Meridian, MS - d. 4-19-1986
    actor: "New World A-Coming"
    09-10-1907 - Fay Wray - Alberta, Canada - d. 8-8-2004
    actor: Rosemary "Keeping Up with Rosemary"
    09-14-1907 - Cecil Brown - New Brighton, PA - d. 10-25-1987
    newscaster: "CBS European News"; "Sizing Up the News"
    09-15-1907 - Jack Bailey - Hampton, IA - d. 2-1-1980
    emcee: "Queen for a Day"; "Truth or Consequences"
    09-17-1907 - Alice Yourman - d. 10-28-2000
    actor: Mary Andrews "Archie Andrews"; [removed] Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
    09-17-1907 - Warren Burger - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-25-1995
    chief justice of the supreme court: "We Hold These Truths"
    09-21-1907 - Jack Mather - d. 8-15-1966
    actor: Cisco Kid "Cisco Kid"
    09-22-1907 - Sheppard Strudwick - Hillsboro, NC - d. 1-15-1983
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Odyssey of Homer"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-23-1907 - Rudd Weatherwax - Engel, Sierra County, NM - d. 2-25-1985
    dog trainer: "Lassie"
    09-29-1907 - Gene Autry - Tioga, TX - d. 10-2-1998
    singer, actor: "National Barn Dance"; "Melody Ranch"
    09-29-1907 - Richard Harkness - Artesian, SD - d. 2-16-1977
    newscaster: NBC network, occassionally filled in for [removed] Kaltenborn
    10-03-1907 - Paul Nugent - Brooklyn, NY - d. unknown
    actor: Paul Strong "Mother O' Mine"; "Just Plain Bill"
    10-06-1907 - Owen Davis, Jr. - NYC - d. 5-21-1949
    actor: Allen McCrea "Those We Love"
    10-09-1907 - Henry Hunter - Rahway, NJ - d. 5-25-1985
    actor: Anthony J. Marleybone "Affairs of Anthony"; Terry Regan
    "Attorney at Law"
    10-12-1907 - Bob Ancell - d. 12-5-1988
    disk jockey: WTVN Columbus, Ohio
    10-14-1907 - Karl Schlichter - d. 2-xx-1979
    writer: "California Caravan"
    10-14-1907 - Pert Kelton - Great Falls, MT - d. 10-30-1968
    actor: Agnes "Magnificent Montague"; Lolita "We Are Always Young";
    "Milton Berle Show"
    10-19-1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn - Morristown, NJ - d. 7-12-1962
    bandleader: "Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra"
    10-20-1907 - Arlene Francis - Boston, MA - d. 5-31-2001
    panelist, actor: "What's My Line"; Ann Scotland,"The Affairs of Ann
    Scotland"
    10-21-1907 - Jack Holden - Alba, MI - d. 6-xx-1971
    announcer: "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
    10-22-1907 - Roger DeKoven - Chicago, IL - d. 1-28-1988
    actor: Professor Allen, "Against the Storm"
    10-26-1907 - Tony Pastor - Middletown, CT - d. 10-31-1969
    bandleader: "Tony Pastor and His Orchestra"
    11-07-1907 - Tom Hanlon - Kansas - d. 9-29-1970
    announcer: "Jane Endicott, Reporter"; "That's My Pop"; "Beulah Show"
    11-10-1907 - Jane Froman - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-22-1980
    singer: "Florsheim Frolic"; "Bromo Seltzer Hour"; "Gulf Musical
    Playhouse"
    11-15-1907 - Bill Anson - Chicago, IL - d. 6-18-1983
    quizmaster: "The Hirsch Telephone Quiz"
    11-16-1907 - Burgess Meredith - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-9-1997
    actor: "Red Adams/Red Davis "Red Adams/Red Davis" (the precursor to
    "Pepper Young's Family")
    11-17-1907 - L. Sprague de Camp - NYC - d. 11-6-2000
    science fiction writer: "X-Minus One"; "Future Tense"
    11-18-1907 - Gwen Meredith - Orange, Australia - d. 10-3-2006
    writer: "Blue Hills"; "The Lawsons"
    11-20-1907 - Fran Allison - La Porte City, IA - d. 6-13-1989
    actor, singer: Aunt Fanny, "Breakfast Club"; "National Barn Dance";
    "Uncle Ezra"
    11-21-1907 - Charles Korvin - Postyen, Hungary - d. 6-18-1998
    actor: "Voice of the Army"
    11-22-1907 - Howard Petrie - Beverly, MA - d. 3-24-1968
    announcer: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Judy Canova Show"
    11-26-1907 - Francis Dee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2004
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-26-1907 - Henry "Hot Lips" Levine - London, England - d. 5-6-1989
    trumpeter, conducter: "Chamber Music of Lower Basin Street";
    "Strictly from Dixie"
    11-30-1907 - Happy Felton - Bellevue, PA - d. 10-21-1964
    actor: "Pot 'O Gold"; "Finders Keepers"; "Stop the Music"
    11-30-1907 - Jack Brinkley - Oxford, NC - d. unknown
    announcer: "Aunt Jemima"; "Couple Next Door"
    12-03-1907 - Connee Boswell - New Orleans, LA - d. 10-11-1976
    singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Chesterfield
    Supper Club"
    12-05-1907 - Reid Kilpatrick - Michigan - d. 8-11-1983
    host: "Quiz of Two Cities"
    12-08-1907 - Frank Faylen - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-2-1985
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    12-12-1907 - Allen Massey - Midland, TX - d. 3-3-1983
    singer: (Louise Massey and the Westerners) "National Barn Dance";
    "Show Boat"
    12-15-1907 - Bob Hawk - Creston, IA - d. 7-4-1989
    quizmaster: "Take It or Leave It"; "Thanks to the Yanks"; "Bob Hawk
    Show"
    12-17-1907 - Frank Gill - d. 7-11-1970
    writer, comedian: "Joe E. Brown's Post Toasties Show"
    12-19-1907 - Ray Noble - Brighton, England - d. 4-3-1978
    bandleader: "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"
    12-20-1907 - Al Rinker - Tekoa, WA - d. 6-11-1982
    singer (member of The Rhythm Boys) "Paul Whiteman Presents"
    12-22-1907 - Peggy Ashcroft - London, England - d. 6-14-1991
    actor: BBC "Queen Victoria"
    12-23-1907 - Don McNeill - Galena, IL - d. 5-7-1996
    host: "Breakfast Club"
    12-25-1907 - Cab Calloway - Rochester, NY - d. 11-11-1994
    bandleader: "Quizzical"
    12-25-1907 - Matt Brooks - NYC - d. 11-25-1990
    writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    xx-xx-1907 - Marjorie Irving - d. 7-4-2005
    actor: Australian radio

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