Subject: [removed] Digest V2012 #72
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 5/2/2012 9:24 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 72
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 29 April   [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Boston Blackie Disappearing Train     [ "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@jun ]
      4-30 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Born 100 years ago in May             [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Missing locomotives                   [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
      Gomer Cool                            [ Stewart Wright <otrwash@[removed]; ]
      Lost Special on Suspense              [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      Radio's Famous Theme Songs            [ "Wesley Tom" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      The Lost Special                      [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      05-01 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 02:12:02 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:21:37 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 29 April to 5 May

     From Those Were The Days

    4/30

    1945   "How would you like to be queen for a day!" That opening line,
    delivered by host, Jack Bailey, was first heard on Mutual on this day.
    The first Queen for a Day was Mrs. Evelyn Lane.

    1945   Arthur Godfrey began his CBS morning show. His theme was Seems
    Like Old Times. Arthur Godfrey Time ran until this very same day in
    1972. Godfrey's show used live talent and not records. His popularity
    with listeners was the major reason that several sponsors gave Godfrey
    the freedom to ad lib their commercials and, from time to time, joke
    about the products as well.

    5/1

    1931   Singer Kate Smith began her long and illustrious radio career
    with CBS on this, her birthday. The 22 year old Smith started out with
    no sponsors and a paycheck of just $10 a week ($139 in 2009 dollars) for
    the nationally broadcast daily program. However, within 30 days, her
    salary increased to a more respectable $1,500 a week ($20,934 in 2009
    dollars).

    5/5

    1935   The program, Rhythm at Eight, made its debut. The star of the
    show was 24 year old Ethel Merman. Though Merman would become a legend
    years later, she didn't fare so well on radio. Her show was taken off
    the air after 13 weeks and Miss Merman returned to her first love, Broadway.

    Joe

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    Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:21:44 -0400
    From: "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Boston Blackie Disappearing Train

    The Boston Blackie "Disappearing Train" episode was from Sept 24, 1947 - "Old
    86 is Missing."

    Thanks to all who replied!

    ---Dan

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    Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:21:49 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-30 births/deaths

    April 30th births

    04-30-1870 - Franz Lehar - Romorn, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-24-1948
    operetta composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Showtime"
    04-30-1886 - Dick Elliott - Boston, MA - d. 12-22-1961
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-30-1894 - Vernon Bartlett - Westbury, Wiltshire, England - d.
    1-18-1983
    lecturer on foreign affairs
    04-30-1903 - Fulton Lewis, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-21-1966
    commentator: "News and Comments"
    04-30-1907 - Sidney Harmon - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 2-29-1988
    writer, director: "The Life of Riley"; "Honest Abe"
    04-30-1909 - Bud Linn - Indianapolis, IN - d. 7-31-1968
    singer: (The King's Men) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    04-30-1910 - Al Lewis - NYC - d. 2-3-2006
    actor: hosted weekly radio program on WBAI-FM New York
    04-30-1911 - Orin Tovrov - Boston, MA - d. 8-16-1980
    writer: "The Brighter Day"; "Ma Perkins"; "Manhattan Mother"
    04-30-1912 - Eve Arden - Mill Valley, CA - d. 11-12-1990
    actor: Connie Brooks "Our Miss Brooks"; Libby Collins "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    04-30-1914 - Vermont Royster - Raleigh, NC - d. 7-22-1996
    teacher of journalism: "Spectrum"
    04-30-1916 - George Salverson - St. Catherines, Canada - d. 4-9-2005
    script writer for the CBC
    04-30-1916 - Phil Brown - Cambridge, MA - d. 2-9-2006
    actor: "Arch Obolor's Playes"
    04-30-1916 - Robert Shaw - Red Bluff, CA - d. 1-25-1999
    choral director: "Radio Hall of Fame"; "American School of the Air"
    04-30-1917 - Bea Wain - The Bronx, NY
    singer: (The Reverie Girl) "Your Hit Parade"; "Your All-Time Hit Parade"
    04-30-1919 - Jack Haskell - Akron, OH - d. 9-26-1998
    singer: "Dave Garroway Show"; "Music from the Heart of America"
    04-30-1924 - Sonny Day - d. 2-7-2005
    singer: (Smokey Mountain Boys) "Grand Ole Opry"
    04-30-1925 - Corinne Calvert - Paris, France - d. 6-23-2001
    actor: "Martin and Lewis Show"
    04-30-1926 - Cloris Leachman - Des Moines, IA
    actor: Local radio as a teenager
    04-30-1926 - Lou Cioffi - d. 5-2-1998
    news reporter: "The Warning Bell"; "Big News of 1957/58"
    04-30-1926 - Ward Chase - Chicago, IL - d. 8-22-1996
    newscaster: WOKY Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    04-30-1948 - Perry King - Alliance, OH
    actor: Han Solo "Star Wars"

    April 30th deaths

    01-11-1923 - Jerome Bixby - Lincoln, NE - d. 4-30-1998
    author: "History of Rapture/Trace"
    02-02-1922 - Norman Marrgraff - Wisconsin - d. 4-30-2006
    disk jockey: "Fritz the Plumber"
    03-02-1918 - Elmira Roessler - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-30-1975
    actor, singer: Jennifer Davis "Backstage Wife"; Tweetsie Herringbone
    "Ma Perkins"
    03-12-1888 - Hall Johnson - Athens, GA - d. 4-30-1970
    choral director: (Hall Johnson Choir) "Paducah Plantation"; "Show Boat"
    03-17-1938 - Zola Taylor - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-30-2007
    singer: (The Platters) "Camel Rock and Roll Dance Party"
    04-04-1912 - Charles Cliff - Asheville, NC - d. 4-30-2000
    orchestra leader: NBC, CBS and MBS
    04-17-1898 - Howard Claney - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 4-30-1980
    announcer: "American Album of Familiar Music"; "NBC Symphony"
    04-17-1909 - Rex Rienits - Dubbo, Australia - d. 4-30-1971
    author: "A Matter of Life or Else"
    04-20-1889 - Adolf Hitler - Braunau, Austria - d. 4-30-1945
    dictator: Propaganda broadcasts
    06-06-1918 - Peter Donald - Bristol, England - d. 4-30-1979
    actor, emcee: Ajax Cassidy "Fred Allen Show"; "Can You Top This?"
    06-15-1909 - Mickey Katz - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-30-1985
    clarinetist: (Father of Joel Grey) "Here's to Veterans"
    07-31-1900 - Elmo Roper - Hebron, NE - d. 4-30-1971
    pioneering polster: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"; "Word from
    the People"
    08-03-1927 - Gordon Scott - Portland, OR - d. 4-30-2007
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
    08-04-1905 - Luther Roundtree - d. 4-30-1990
    banjo player: "The Bob Burns Show"
    09-12-1916 - William Anderson - Greenville, SC - d. 4-30-1981
    trumpeter: Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra
    10-27-1908 - DeWitt "Snuffy" Jenkins - Harris, NC - d. 4-30-1990
    strings: (Jenkins String Band) "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
    11-24-1877 - Alben Barkley - Lowes, KY - d. 4-30-1956
    [removed] vice president: "Information Please"
    12-06-1900 - Agnes Moorehead - Clinton, MA - d. 4-30-1974
    actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow";  Marilly "Mayor of the Town"
    12-31-1908 - Jonah Jones - Louisville, KY - d. 4-30-2000
    jazz trumpeter: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "Army Bandstand";
    "Manhattan Melodies"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:21:54 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Born 100 years ago in May

    05-01-1912 - Anna Pollak - Manchester, England - d. 11-28-1996
    soprano: (English Opera Group) "BBC Third Programme"
    05-02-1912 - Arnold Auerebach - Manhattan, NY - d. 10-20-1998
    comedy writer: "Fred Allen Show"; "Milton Berle Show"
    05-04-1912 - Louis Brown - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-7-2007
    composer/conductor: "The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show"
    05-05-1912 - Alice Faye - NYC - d. 5-9-1998
    singer, actor: "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
    05-05-1912 - Bret Morrison - Chicago, IL - d. 9-25-1978
    actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"
    05-06-1912 - Bill Quinn - NYC - d. 4-29-1994
    actor: Guy Aldis "Against the Storm"; Tom Davis "When a Girl Marries"
    05-09-1912 - George T. Simon - NYC - d. 2-13-2001
    jazz critic
    05-09-1912 - Rupert Pray - d. 2-5-1973
    writer: "Forever Ernest"
    05-11-1912 - Bob Trendler
    pianist, conductor: "Bob Trendler Orchestra"
    05-11-1912 - Doodles (Winstead) Weaver - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-13-1983
    comedian: (Brother of Pat Weaver) Professor Feedlebaum "Spike Jones
    Show"
    05-11-1912 - Foster Brooks - Louisville, KY - d. 12-20-2001
    disc jockey: "Foster Brooks Show"; "Melody, Inc."; "Million Dollar
    Ballroom"
    05-12-1912 - Everett Clarke - d. 9-10-1980
    actor: Flamond "Crime Files of Flamond"
    05-13-1912 - Helen Craig - San Antonio, TX - d. 7-20-1986
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    05-13-1912 - Phil Alampi - d. 11-4-1992
    farm newscaster: ABC, WJZ New York, New York
    05-16-1912 - Studs Terkel - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-31-2008
    journalist, sometimes actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Ma Perkins"
    05-17-1912 - Grant Turner - Abilene, TX - d. 10-19-1991
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-18-1912 - John Campbell Crosby - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-7-1991
    radio critic: New York Herald Tribune
    05-18-1912 - Perry Como - Canonsburg, PA - d. 5-12-2001
    singer: "Perry Como Program"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    05-20-1912 - Julius Dixon - Barnwell, SC - d. 1-30-2004
    host: "Variety Jive"
    05-21-1912 - Lucille Manners - Newark, NJ
    singer: "Cities Service Concert"
    05-21-1912 - Stephen Estaban Kelen - Budapest, Hungary - d. 5-1-2003
    writer: "Fifty Years from Farrer"
    05-23-1912 - Betty Astell - London, England - d. 7-27-2005
    panelist: "Does the Team Think"
    05-23-1912 - John Payne - Roanoke, VA - d. 12-6-1989
    actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-23-1912 - Marius Goring - Newport, Isle of Wight, England - d.
    9-30-1998
    actor: Sir Percy Blakeney/Scarlet Pimpernel "Scarlet Pimpernel"
    05-24-1912 - Rachel Carlay - Brussels, Belgium
    singer: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"
    05-25-1912 - Eddie Maxwell - Detroit. MI - d. 11-21-1999
    writer: "The Spike Jones Show"
    05-26-1912 - Barbara Lee - Denver, CO - d. 11-11-1986
    actor: "Big Sister"; "Valiant Lady"; "Our Gal Sunday"
    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"
    05-28-1912 - 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"
    05-30-1912 - Jerry D. Lewis - d. 8-7-1996
    writer: "This Is Your FBI"
    05-30-1912 - Julian Symons - London, England - d. 11-19-1994
    crime writer: "Night Driver to Dover"; "Affection Unlimited"
    05-31-1912 - Henry M. Jackson - Everett, WA - d. 9-1-1983
    [removed] senator washington: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:22:19 -0400
    From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Missing locomotives

    Since the subject of stories of missing trains seems to have prompted
    several posts, I thought it appropriate to mention that the Lone Ranger also
    had to solve a case of a "missing train".  In the episode entitled "The
    Missing Locomotive" from July 22, 1949, a special engine starts out from one
    town only to disappear before arriving at its destination.  The Ranger finds
    that an old mine siding switch has been tampered with, which caused the
    engine to be diverted from the main track. The masked man and Tonto discover
    the machine with the steam cocks shut about to explode with a damsel tied to
    the top of the locomotive!  Needless to say, the poor girl is rescued just
    before the boiler explodes and the clever scoundrels who hijacked the engine
    are exposed.  It's a pretty good story, but certainly not original!

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    Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:22:27 -0400
    From: Stewart Wright <otrwash@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gomer Cool

    Writer and musician Gomer F. Cool, 103, passed away on Sunday, March 4, 2012.
    He was perhaps best known as a primary co-writer for the radio series ROCKY
    JORDAN.

    I interviewed Gomer Cool in 2003, but unfortunately the tape was stolen
    before I could transcribe it.

    You can find an article
    THE RADIO CAREER OF GOMER COOL: Cowboy Musician and Script Writer
    by Ryan Ellett
    at
    [removed]

    Signing off for now,

    Stewart Wright

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    Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:22:39 -0400
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lost Special on Suspense

    a nice copy of the Suspense version, from disc, is at [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:22:48 -0400
    From: "Wesley Tom" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio's Famous Theme Songs
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    Perhaps the best albums covering Radio's Famous Theme Songs  Radio's Great Old
    Theme Songs and More of Radio's Great Old Theme Songs.  These were issued in
    the 1960s by Columbia and featured the Frank DeVol Orchestra.  Its too bad
    that Columbia never chose to re-issue the albums on cds.

    Wesley Tom

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    Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:22:54 -0400
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Lost Special

    The missing train story that Dan Hughes inquired about on April 25 is "The
    Lost Special", a non-Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published
    in 1898 (during that decade when Holmes was "dead" and Doyle produced no
    Holmes short stories). "The Lost Special" was adapted for Suspense (broadcast
    9/30/43, starring Orson Welles), and again for Escape (2/12/49, starring Ben
    Wright). Both are more or less faithful to the original story, as I recall.
    (I'm also pretty sure -- going from memory -- that different scripts were
    used for the two series.)

    Dan was kind enough to send me the Boston Blackie episode he mentioned, "Old
    86 Is Missing," from 9/24/47. And it definitely very clearly rips off the
    main story element, that of a train which mysteriously disappears between two
    stations even though there are no side tracks it could be on. The overall
    plot is quite unrelated -- instead of a story of political intrigue, it's
    about stolen diamonds, so the motive is very different. It's no longer a
    "special" but a regularly scheduled train. And of course Boston Blackie's
    presence is forced into the story (somewhat heavy handedly in my opinion). So
    it's not a case, as Dan first suggested, of the same script being reused for
    a different program (though that did happen quite a bit in OTR). Rather, the
    scriptwriter turned to the same source, and produced a less-than-faithful
    version of it to suit the needs of a specific series. It's a rather decent
    yarn, as Boston Blackie tales go. It's certainly interesting to
     listen to it if you've read the original

    A few comments: The Orson Welles' Suspense version of "The Lost Special" was
    itself lost for over 60 years, until Randy recently turned up a copy and
    posted it on his blog. It's still available for download, in a very nice
    sounding copy, here:
    [removed]
    -1943-afrs-pgm-24/

    Second: although this is not a Holmes story -- Conan Doyle having killed him
    off five years previously -- there is an undoubted cameo by Holmes in the
    story. Doyle alludes to a letter published in the Times, which comments on
    the missing train and which was published "over the signature of an amateur
    reasoner of some celebrity at that date". The letter begins:

    "It is one of the elementary principles of practical reasoning," he remarked,
    "that when the impossible has been eliminated the residuum, HOWEVER
    IMPROBABLE, must contain the [removed]"

    Sound familiar?

    Several people have commented that this story was done on the Sherlock Holmes
    radio show, but if it was, it wasn't run under the original title. It
    certainly wouldn't have been difficult to adapt to that show, and such an
    adaptation seems likely. Can anybody confirm if it was indeed adapted as a
    Sherlock Holmes broadcast?

    Lastly, if you're never read the story, it is now public domain and is widely
    available online. It's one of the better of his non-Holmes short stories, in
    my opinion.

    Cheers,
    Kermyt

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    Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:23:17 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  05-01 births/deaths

    May 1st births

    05-01-1888 - Anna Appel - Bucharest, Romania - d. 11-19-1963
    actor: Mrs. Cohen "Abie's Irish Rose"
    05-01-1888 - [removed] Armstrong - Waverley, Australia - d. 11-18-1973
    writer: "Drought"
    05-01-1892 - Howard Barlow - Plain City, OH - d. 1-31-1972
    conductor: "March of Time"; "Voice of Firestone"
    05-01-1906 - Rose Hobart - NYC - d. 8-29-2000
    actor: "Nightbeat"
    05-01-1906 - "Little" Jackie Heller - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-15-1988
    singer: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"
    05-01-1907 - Kate Smith - Greenville, VA - d. 6-17-1986
    singer, emcee: (Songbird of the South) "Kate Smith Revue"; Kate Smith
    Speaks"
    05-01-1912 - Anna Pollak - Manchester, England - d. 11-28-1996
    soprano: (English Opera Group) "BBC Third Programme"
    05-01-1913 - Louis Nye - Hartford, CT - d. 10-9-2005
    comedian: "Louis Nye Show"; "Official Detective"
    05-01-1916 - Glenn Ford - Quebec, Canada - d. 8-30-2006
    actor: Christopher London "Advs. of Christopher London"
    05-01-1918 - Jack Paar - Canton, OH - d. 1-27-2004
    comedian: "Jack Paar Show"; "Take It or Leave It"
    05-01-1919 - Dan O'Herlihy - Wexford, Ireland - d. 2-17-2005
    actor: Nicholas Lacey "One Man's Family"
    05-01-1919 - John Meredyth Lucas - d. 10-19-2002
    film director, producer: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    05-01-1922 - Katy Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 5-25-2005
    gardening expert: "The Green Thumb"
    05-01-1924 - Art Fleming - The Bronx, NY - d. 4-25-1995
    host/announcer: "When Radio Was"
    05-01-1924 - Dennis Main Wilson - Dulwich. London, England - d.
    1-20-1997
    producer: "Goon Show"; "Hancock's Half Hour"; "Citizen Smith"
    05-01-1927 - Bill Byers - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-1-1996
    trombone, arranger: "Count Basie Orchestra"
    05-01-1933 - Joan Hackett - NYC - d. 10-8-1983
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    02-03-1907 - Paul Laven - d. 5-1-1950
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    02-07-1866 - George Ade - d. 5-1-1944
    humorist: WJZ New York City
    03-06-1913 - Ella Logan - Glasgow, Scotlans - d. 5-1-1969
    singer: "The Chase and Sanborn Hour"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    03-27-1930 - Bob Larson - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-1-2002
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-01-1927 - Bill Byers - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-1-1996
    trombone, arranger: "Count Basie Orchestra"
    05-12-1910 - Gordon Jenkins - Webster Groves, MO - d. 5-1-1984
    conductor, composer: "Everything for the Boys"; "Bob Burns Show"
    05-20-1903 - Bob White - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-1-1984
    actor: Eric Cunningham "Ma Perkins"; Dr. Petrie "Fu Manchu"
    05-21-1912 - Stephen Estaban Kelen - Budapest, Hungary - d. 5-1-2003
    writer: "Fifty Years from Farrer"
    06-30-1904 - Glenda Farrell - Enid,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-1-1971
    opposing pitcher: "Quizzer's Baseball"
    07-06-1938 - Luana Patten - Long Beach, CA - d. 5-1-1996
    actor: "Martha Deane Show"; "Radio Reader's Digest"; "Hallmark
    Playhouse"
    08-04-1901 - Arcadie Berkenholz - d. 5-1-1975
    violinist, orchestra leader: NBC Blue Network
    08-20-1916 - Bernard Archard - London, England - d. 5-1-2008
    actor: "The Murder of Walter Raleigh"
    09-03-1918 - Helen Wagner - Lubbock, TX - d. 5-1-2010
    actor: Trudy Bauer "The Guiding Light"; "The Theatre Guild on the Air"
    09-15-1919 - Nelson Giddings - NYC - d. 5-1-2004
    writer: "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon"
    10-09-1912 - John L. Barrett - d. 5-1-1984
    actor: "Covered Wagon Days"; "Lone Ranger"
    11-05-1877 - Henry M. Neely - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-1-1963
    actor, writer, director, producer: "Fitch Bandwagon"
    12-12-1914 - Buzzy Bavasi - NYC - d. 5-1-2008
    baseball executive: "Monitor"; "Top In Sports"
    12-14-1911 - Spike Jones - Long Beach, CA - d. 5-1-1965
    bandleader: "Bob Burns, The Arkansas Traveler"; "Spike Jones Show"
    12-17-1906 - Martin Skiles - d. 5-1-1981
    music: "Mr. Aladdin"
    12-17-1909 - Odile Pope - Mobile, AL - d. 5-1-2009
    singer: (Pope Sisters) NBC Radio

    Ron

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