Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #176
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Date: 7/17/2008 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 176
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Alcohol                           [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
      7-16 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Fred Allen's spontaneous wit          [ Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed] ]
      Re: Earplay                           [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      Radio Report on Roswell UFO Crash     [ George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@hotmai ]
      7-17 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Nickodemus                            [ "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@yahoo ]
      More on Earplay and Mind's Eye        [ James Meadows <walthamus@[removed]; ]
      Reminders of the past                 [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:06:31 -0400
    From: <georgewagner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Alcohol

         "Isopropyl alcohol" is what I intended by "rubbing alcohol." The 90
    percent when I can find it.

         Sincerely,

         George Wagner
         georgewagner@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:06:36 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-16 births/deaths

    July 16th births

    07-16-1882 - Charles Egelston - Covington, KY - d. 10-31-1958
    actor: Shuffle Shober "Ma Perkins"; Humphrey Fuller "Just Plain Bill"
    07-16-1887 - Floyd Gibbons - Washington, [removed] - d. 9-23-1939
    commentator: "Headline Hunter"; "World Adventures"; "Nash Program"
    07-16-1888 - Percy Kilbride - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-11-1964
    actor,host: "Paul Whiteman Presents"; "Melody Round-Up"; "Stars in
    the Air"
    07-16-1891 - Blossom Seeley - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-17-1974
    song and dance trouper: "The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
    07-16-1902 - Andrew Stone - Oakland, CA - d. 6-9-1999
    film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-16-1903 - Carmen Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 4-17-1971
    saxophonist: (Guy's brother) "Guy Lombardo and His Orchestra"; "Esso
    Marketer"
    07-16-1903 - Edith Walton - d. 3-1-1975
    journalist: "Speaking of Books"; "Author Meets the Critics"
    07-16-1906 - Asakusa Ichimaru (Mitsue Goto) - Japan - d. xx-xx-1997
    singer: "Mitsukoshi Calendar of Songs"
    07-16-1906 - Vincent Sherman - Vienna, GA - d. 6-18-2006
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    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"
    07-16-1908 - Frank Singiser - Montevideo, MN - d. 5-28-1982
    newscaster: "Mutual News"
    07-16-1911 - Ginger Rogers - Independence, MO - d. 4-25-1995
    actor: "Star and the Story"; "Packard Hour"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-16-1911 - Sonny Tufts - Boston, MA - d. 6-4-1970
    actor: "Harold Lloyd's Comedy Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-16-1912 - Raphael (Ray) Barr - NYC - d. 3-17-1983
    composer, arranger, pianist: "Cliquot Club Eskimos"
    07-16-1915 - Elaine Barrie - NYC - d. 3-1-2003
    actor: (Wife of John Barrymore) "Streamlined Shakespeare"
    07-16-1915 - Joe O'Brien - Yonkers, NY - d. 7-24-2005
    announcer: "Jack and Cliff"; "Rosemary"
    07-16-1916 - Lionel Baxter - d. 11-11-2000
    sportscaster: WAPI Birmingham, Alabama
    07-16-1917 - William Woodson - Los Angeles, CA
    actor: John Britton :Just Plain Bill"; Narrator "This is Your FBI"
    07-16-1920 - Shirley Thomas - d. 7-21-2005
    producer: "Hopalong Cassidy"
    07-16-1925 - Cal Tjader - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-5-1982
    jazz vibrophonist: "Music for Moderns"; ""Ass-Star Parade of Bands"
    07-16-1926 - Stanley Clements - Long Island, NY - d. 10-16-1981
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-16-1927 - Mindy Carson - NYC
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    07-16-1928 - Robert Sheckley - NYC - d. 12-9-2005
    writer: "X-Minus One"
    07-16-1932 - Max McGee - Saxton City, NV - d. 10-20-2007
    color commentator for the Green Bay Packers
    07-16-1948 - Stella Kent - United Kingdom
    writer: "Because"

    July 16th deaths

    01-01-1905 - Dick Aurandt - d. 7-16-1984
    orchestra leader: "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"; "Steve Canyon"
    01-16-1910 - Dwight Weist - Palo Alto, CA - d. 7-16-1991
    actor: Mr. District Attorney "Mr. District Attorney"
    01-17-1904 - Patsy Ruth Miller - d. 7-16-1995
    silent film star: "Arthur Godfrey and His Talent Scouts"
    01-30-1885 - Ida Bailey Allen - Danielson, CT - d. 7-16-1973
    homemaker: Told listeners her favorite recipies and household hints
    on CBS
    02-16-1933 - Rod Trongard - d. 7-16-2005
    announcer: Minnesota radio
    02-18-1901 - Wayne King - Savannah, IL - d. 7-16-1985
    bandleader: (The Waltz King) "Lady Esther Serenade"
    02-19-1896 - Eddie Jackson - d. 7-16-1980
    comic: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Mail Call"; "Big Show"
    03-30-1896 - Samson Raphaelson - NYC - d. 7-16-1983
    playwright: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-15-1909 - Gordon Bambrick - d. 7-16-1977
    announcer: "Reading Is Fun"
    06-18-1913 - Harold Alberghini - d. 7-16-1993
    disk jockey and newscaster: Maine
    07-11-1884 - Howard Estabrook - Detroit, MI - d. 7-16-1978
    screen writer: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-12-1884 - Edgar Stehli - Lyons, France - d. 7-16-1973
    actor: Dr. Huer "Buck Rogers"; Rex A. Starr "It's Murder"
    07-27-1928 - Barbara Eiler - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-16-2006
    actor: Babs Riley "Life of Riley"; Millie Anderson "Day in the Life
    of Dennis Day"
    09-01-1902 - John J. Anthony - NYC - d. 7-16-1970
    moderator: "Good Will Hour"; "John J. Anthony Hour"
    09-02-1918 - Laurinda Almeida - Sao Paulo, Brazil - d. 7-16-1995
    guitarist: "Stan Kenton and His Orchestra"
    10-23-1904 - Margaret Speaks - Columbus, OH - d. 7-16-1977
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"
    11-03-1880 - Pearl King Tanner - Eureka, CA - d. 7-16-1980
    actor: Mothere Sherwood "Hawthorne House"; "Eno Crime Clues"
    11-10-1893 - John P. Marquand - Wilmington, DE - d. 7-16-1963
    writer: "Information Please"
    11-19-1913 - Blue Barron - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-16-2005
    bandleader: "Blue Barron and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"
    12-03-1916 - Whitfield Connor - Rathdowney, Ireland - d. 7-16-1988
    actor: Harry Davis "When a Girl Marries"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:06:56 -0400
    From: Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fred Allen's spontaneous wit
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    I just wanted to make sure that subscribers to this newsletter are
    aware that in recent weeks, the reruns of the old "What's My Line?"
    TV show being aired nightly on the Game Show Network include radio
    legend Fred Allen as a panelist.

    As an OTR fan, I of course was familiar with Fred, but I have to
    admit I didn't realize what a true wit he really was until I started
    seeing him on these old reruns.

    I had heard that he was described as a "master ad-libber" and boy oh
    boy, he sure didn't disappoint on "WML." His spontaneous humor was
    just fantastic and he was very fast with a quip. But not overbearing
    in the sense of wanting to hog the camera, or talk too much. Much of
    his humor was quite self-effacing. He seemed to me to be a rather
    gentle man with a twinkle in his eye at all times.

    He was capable of being a genuine show-stopper, with a quip or two
    that would be so funny that you couldn't help but laugh. Tonight's
    show was a good example, and even host John Daly got into the act and
    traded some barbs with him to hilarious effect. Despite the fact that
    Fred was certainly not photogenic, he made a terrific panelist. The
    reruns are being shown chronologically and tonight's was originally
    broadcast on March 13, 1955. Mr. Allen was a regular each week until
    his death around St. Patrick's Day in 1956.

    His famous quip about TV: "You know, television is called a new
    medium, and I have discovered why they call it a medium  because
    nothing is well done." He also wrote a couple of best-selling books,
    including on classic radio itself, called "Treadmill to Oblivion."

    Of course, everybody knows about his long-running gag that he was
    feuding with Jack Benny, but when Benny's tenor, Dennis Day, was on
    "What's My Line?" (as aired last week), it was clear that they were
    friendly.

    I hope that anybody who only knows Fred Allen through his scripted
    radio shows will set your VCR or DVR to record some of these "WML?"
    segments while you can, because Fred's humor is really in a class by
    itself.

    Larry Jordan

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    Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:41:40 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Earplay

    Earplay was a product that came out of the public radio group in Madison
    Wisconsin somewhere around 1977-83. I have a letter received from its
    Project Director Karl Schmidt, who is still around from 1978 in which he
    explained at that time that contractual obligations with writers and
    actors forbade distribution to non-commercial radio stations at that
    time. He also included a list from the 1979 upcoming season.

    NPR got involved in the productions as a distributor and I am not sure
    if these were separate shows, but they broadcast later something called
    Earplay Weekday Theatre. NPR also would broadcast Earplay as part of
    their generic NPR playhouse. There were a lot of original plays some
    from classic fiction, others original scripts, some were even BBC
    productions re-broadcast. I have a number of them recorded on reels
    though I am not sure the condition of those reels and right now don't
    have time to work with them. Much of what I have was recorded off the
    air between 1978 and 1983.

    If you want to know more, I would suggest you contact the Public radio
    station in Madison.

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:42:00 -0400
    From: George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio Report on Roswell UFO Crash

    A few years ago I saw a documentary on UFO's in which they played a brief
    clip of what they said was a radio news broadcast on which the supposed 1947
    Roswell UFO crash was mentioned.  I always meant to write to the Digest to
    ask if anyone knew about this recording, but I never got around to it.

    Today I came across this site:

    [removed]

    As you can see there is a 18 second clip of what purports to be the 1947
    Roswell announcement.  The problem is that the announcer is "Long John"
    Nebel. His Wikipedia article indicates he didn't get into radio until about
    1953. And of course he had a great interest in UFOs.  In short, the thing has
    "recreation" written all over it. And I think its the same clip used in the
    UFO documentary, though I can't be sure.  Oh well. There looks to be some
    interesting science fiction related audio on the site, although I haven't
    listened to anything else yet.

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    Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:42:09 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-17 births/deaths

    July 17th births

    07-17-1881 - Artur Argiewicz - d. 5-10-1966
    violinist: "Everyready Hour"
    07-17-1883 - James Abbe - d. 11-11-1973
    photographer: "James Abbe Observes"
    07-17-1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner - Malden, MA - d. 3-11-1970
    creator, writer: "Advs. of Christopher London"; "Perry Mason"; "Life
    in Your Hands"
    07-17-1899 - James Cagney - NYC - d. 3-30-1986
    actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-17-1902 - Edward Gargan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-19-1964
    actor: "This Is Your [removed]"; "This Is Our Heritage"
    07-17-1904 - John B. Hughes - d. 11-6-1989
    news commentator: "Hughes Reel"
    07-17-1905 - William Gargan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-17-1979
    actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Eye"; Barrie Craig "Barrie
    Craig, Private Investigator"
    07-17-1906 - Anton Karras - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-9-1985
    composer, zither: "The Third Man"
    07-17-1906 - John Carroll - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-24-1979
    actor: "Hello Mom"; "Suspense"
    07-17-1908 - Jack Douglas - d. 1-31-1989
    writer: "Jack Paar Show"; "The Martin and Lewis Show"
    07-17-1911 - Earl Glade, Jr. - Utah - d. 5-14-2001
    announcer: "Music and the Spoken Word (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)"
    07-17-1912 - Art Linkletter - Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
    emcee: "People Are Funny"; "House Party"
    07-17-1914 - Eleanor Steber - Wheeling, WV - d. 10-3-1990
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "[removed] Fox Trappers"
    07-17-1915 - Cass Daley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-22-1975
    comedienne: "New Fitch Bandwagon"; "Cass Daley Show"; "Maxwell House
    Coffee Time"
    07-17-1916 - Irene Manning - Cincinnati, OH - d. 5-28-2004
    singer: Night Club Singer "Mr. Broadway"; "Wehmacht Hour"; "Railroad
    Hour"
    07-17-1917 - Lou Boudreau - Harvey, IL - d. 8-10-2001
    sportscaster: Chicago Cubs
    07-17-1917 - Phyllis Diller - Lima, OH
    comedian: "Special Delivery: Vietnam"
    07-17-1918 - Red Sovine - Charleston, WV - d. 4-4-1980
    country singer: "Country Music Time"; "Country Hoedown"
    07-17-1920 - Helen Walker - Worcester, MA - d. 3-10-1968
    actor: "Proudly We Hail"; "Suspense"; "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"
    07-17-1926 - Doyle Bladon - d. 6-4-2006
    disk jockey: KFOR Lincoln, Nebraska
    07-17-1935 - Diahann Carroll - The Bronx, NY
    singer: "Army Bandstand"; "Manhattan Melodies"; "Stars for Defense"
    07-17-1951 - Lucie Arnaz - Hollywood, CA
    celebrity interviewer: "Tune In With Lucie Arnaz"
    07-17-1954 - J. Michael Straczynski - Patterson, NJ
    author: "Encounter at Twilight"

    July 17th deaths

    01-11-1910 - Donald 'Red' Barry - Houston, TX - d. 7-17-1980
    actor: "All-Star Western Theatre"; "Forecast"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-16-1910 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean - Lucas, AR - d. 7-17-1974
    baseball broadcaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) "Game of the Day"
    01-19-1916 - Marion Sweet - d. 7-17-1978
    actor: Dragon Lady "Terry and the Pirates"
    03-09-1918 - Mickey Spillane - Brooklyn NY - d. 7-17-2006
    writer: "That Hammer Guy" based on his novels
    04-07-1915 - Billie Holliday - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-17-1959
    singer: "Artie Shaw Band"
    05-10-1917 - Margo - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 7-17-1985
    actor: (Wife of Eddie Albert) "Suspense"; "Free Company"; "Texaco
    Star Theatre"
    06-14-1895 - Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards - Hannibal, MO - d. 7-17-1971
    singer: Jiminy Cricket "Fun and Fancy Free"; "Cliff Edwards, Ukulele
    Ike"
    07-04-1900 - Robert S. Allen - Latonia, KY - d. 7-17-1978
    news commentory: "Listen America"; "News of the World"
    07-19-1901 - Juano Hernandez - San Juan, Puerto Rico - d. 7-17-1970
    actor: Kolu "Jungle Jim"; Lothar "Mandrake the Magician"
    07-21-1912 - Frank Deniz - Cardiff, Wales - d. 7-17-2005
    guitarist: "Harry Parry's Radio Rhythm Club"
    07-23-1924 - Gavin Lambert - East Gristead, England - d. 7-17-2005
    writer: Wrote commercials for radio
    09-25-1912 - Bobby Worth - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-17-2002
    songwriter: Had his own radio program at an early age
    11-11-1872 - Maude Adams - Salt Lake City, Utah - d. 7-17-1953
    actor: "Maude Adams"
    11-24-1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland - d. 7-17-2005
    actor: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Ford Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    12-18-1886 - Ty Cobb - Narrows, GA - d. 7-17-1961
    baseball great: "Coca Cola Top Notchers"; "Baseball: An Action History"
    12-18-1938 - Chas Chandler - Heaton, Newcastle, England - d. 7-17-1996
    rock musician: (The Animals) "Saturday Club"
    12-22-1913 - Dudley Brooks - Los Angles, CA - d. 7-17-1989
    soloist: "On Target"
    12-26-1922 - Harry Choates - Rayne Arcadia Parish, LA - d. 7-17-1951
    performer: "Jesse James and His Gang"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    No longer the home of Miller High Life

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    Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:42:17 -0400
    From: "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Nickodemus

    Nicodemus (Nick Stewart) also can be heard in comedy routines on several
    episodes of "Jubilee", the AFRS variety show aimed at colored troops.

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    Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:42:47 -0400
    From: James Meadows <walthamus@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  More on Earplay and Mind's Eye

       After reading Jan Bach's entry about Earplay and Mind's Eye, I went
    looking online for places where I might buy copies of these programs. Not
    much luck on Earplay (although I haven't checked eBay yet). But I did find
    some mention of the history of Earplay from Wisconsin Public Radio, where the
    program originated. Here's a page about Karl Schmidt, who directed Earplay
    during its first decade:

    [removed]

       On the page is a link to another Schmidt project, his radio adaptation of
    Walter Miller's science fiction novel "A Canticle For Liebowitz", with an
    audio excerpt from the show.

        Highbridge Audio sells CD's of what I believe is the Mind's Eye radio
    versions of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", but doesn't seem to
    have any other Mind's Eye production. However, they also offer the NPR radio
    versions of the first three Star Wars movies. Highbridge is at:

       [removed]

    Jim Meadows

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    Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:43:25 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Reminders of the past

    Sometimes I think I'm nodding off in the twilight zone and that OTR is still
    alive and kicking.

    To wit, on this morning's (7/17) CBS World News Roundup, when they did a
    piece on the modern Federal Bureau of Investigation, anchorman Neil Young
    referred to the unit's illustrious history.  Suddenly, unless my ears were
    deceiving me, I was hearing the unmistakable strains of the March from
    Sergei Prokofiev's "Love for Three Oranges" playing underneath Young's
    revelations, exactly as I used to listen to it in the years between 1944-58
    on CBS.  And then -- there was surely no mistaking this -- there was the
    discerning voice of Warren Sweeney proclaiming:  "The FBI in Peace & War!"
    (And though he didn't say it in that snippet, I added, "Drama!  Thrills!
    Action!")

    Every now and then it seems contemporary radio reaches back and pulls from
    its files one of its most widely celebrated cassettes (with apologies to Mr.
    Keen).  It's like living in a dream world, in -- let's say -- far horizons
    of the unknown ... reminiscent of stories of the past, in which we lived in
    a million could-be years on a thousand may-be worlds.

    Jim Cox

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