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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 51
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Candy Matson Family Tree, PT 2        [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Further on hobby assessment           [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
      2-17 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      cincy dates                           [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]

      The Lone Ranger's Range               [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      Re: Radio Digest publisher, [removed] Ray  [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
      More Complete Broadcast Days          [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      Theatre Five - Stereo ?               [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
      Gale Gordon Centennial                [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      OTR in the News                       [ seandd@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:52:04 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Candy Matson Family Tree, PT 2

    Through the help of Barbara Watkins, who guided me through the thickets
    of the Los Angeles Civil Court record system, I was recently able to
    buy a copy of the 90 page probate file of Natalie Park Masters. As most
    Digesters know, she had the title role of "Candy Matson, YU 2-8209"
    which her husband, Monty Masters wrote and directed for NBC in San
    Francisco, 1949-51.

    In my book, "Private Eyelashes: Radio's Lady Detectives" I wrote of
    this duo's wedding "It was her first marriage and his second."  My
    information was based upon data from the Park family historian. Turns
    out we were both wrong.

    In her 1979 will, Natalie attests that she was first married to Melvin
    Vickland, that the marriage ended in a 1942 divorce, and there were no
    children born to their union.

    The only son of Natalie and Monty was Thomas Kirk Masters (nicknamed
    Topper), born 5-25-44. By the time he was five he had appeared on his
    first "Candy Matson" show as the kid talking to Santa Claus in the
    surviving episode of "Jack Frost." Since he could not yet read, his
    mother helped him memorize his lines. He appears in a few other CM
    episodes, including "The Black Cat," usually billed as George Splevin,
    Jr.

    Later when the family relocated to LA in the mid 50s, Natalie and
    Topper had reoccurring roles on the TV series, "Buckskin." He
    eventually got out the acting business and apparently had an unhappy
    adult life. He was married twice (and maybe three times) and fathered
    two daughters (one of whom Nataline dis-inherited, for some yet unknown
    reason.) At the age of only 43, he died of alcohol poisoning in October
    [removed] one year after his mother passed away.

    Ace researcher Irene Heinstein is working now, as we speak, trying to
    get more information on Natalie's mysterious first husband, Melvin
    Vickland.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL

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    Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:42:39 -0500
    From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Further on hobby assessment

    We must also not forget those people who spend countless tedious hours
    researching and writing books on OTR history to preserve the stories of that
    era for all time.  I, for one, appreciate them very much.

    Ted

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    Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:42:48 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-17 births/deaths

    February 17th births

    02-17-1871 - Donald Brian - St. John's, Canada - d. 12-22-1948
    singer, actor: "The Philco Hour"
    02-17-1881 - Arthur Judson - d. 1-28-1975
    executive: Founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System
    02-17-1897 - Ben Alley - West Virginia - d. 2-8-1970
    singer: (the Golden Tenor) "Melody Lane"; "Sweethearts Of the Air"
    02-17-1897 - Harry Tugend - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1989
    writer: "The Fred Allen Show"
    02-17-1906 - Charlie Spivak - New Haven, CT - d. 3-1-1982
    orchestra leader: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    02-17-1907 - Larry "Buster" Crabbe - Oakland, CA - d. 4-23-1983
    actor: "George Jessel Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    02-17-1908 - Staats Cotsworth - Oak Park, IL - d. 4-9-1979
    actor: David Farrell "Front Page Farrell"; Mark Trail "Mark Trail"
    02-17-1908 - Walter "Red" Barber - Columbus, MS - d. 10-22-1992
    sportscaster: (The Old Redhead) "Schaefer Star Revue"
    02-17-1910 - Marc Lawrence - New York, NY - d. 11-28-2005
    actor: "Let George Do It"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Scout About Town"
    02-17-1910 - Mark Hawley - New Jersey - d. 9-5-1986
    announcer: Guy Lombardo's New Year's Eve broadcast
    02-17-1911 - Orrin Tucker - St. Louis, MO
    bandleader: "Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"
    02-17-1914 - Arthur Kennedy - Worcester, MA - d. 1-5-1990
    actor: "Best Plays"
    02-17-1914 - Larry Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-15-1996
    actor, singer: "Here's to Romance"
    02-17-1914 - Wayne Morris - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-14-1959
    actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"; "NBC university Theatre of the Air";
    "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-17-1919 - Kathleen Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-24-2001
    actress: California Artists Radio Theatre"
    02-17-1923 - Buddy De Franco - Camden, NJ
    bandleader: "Glenn Miller Orchestra"
    02-17-1924 - Margaret Truman - Independence, MO
    soprano: "The Big Show"
    02-17-1925 - Hal Holbrook - Cleveland, OH
    actor: Grayling Dennis "Brighter Day"
    02-17-1929 - Patricia Routledge - Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
    actress: "Saturday Play"
    02-17-1949 - Don Scardino - New York, NY
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    02-17-1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips - Philippines
    actor: "Twilight Zone"

    February 17th deaths

    01-10-1896 - Frances Lockridge - d. 2-17-1963
    writer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"
    02-12-1904 - Joseph Kearns - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 2-17-1962
    actor, host: Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"; Man in Black "Suspense"
    03-13-1908 - Paul Stewart - New York, NY - d. 2-17-1986
    actor: Gyp Mendoza "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Richard Rogue "Rogue's
    Gallery"
    03-17-1901 - Alfred Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-17-1970
    composer, conductor: "Hollywood Star Time"; "Radio Hall of Fame";
    "Silver Theatre"
    05-01-1919 - Dan O'Herlihy - Wexford, Ireland - d. 2-17-2005
    actor: Nicholas Lacey "One Man's Family"
    06-17-1922 - Jerry Fielding - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-17-1980
    conductor: "Hardy Family"; "Jack Paar Show"; "You Bet Your Life"
    07-17-1905 - William Gargan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-17-1979
    actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Eye"; Barrie Craig "Barrie
    Craig, Private Investigator"
    09-15-1876 - Bruno Walter - Berlin, Germany - d. 2-17-1962
    conductor: "Salzburg Music Festival"; "Word from the People"; "New
    York Philharmonic"

    Ron Sayles
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:56:02 -0500
    From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  cincy dates
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    My understanding is that the Cincinnati convention has traditionally been
    held the third Friday/Saturday of April.

      By the way, I have PDF files of the flyers if anyone needs them.

      Rodney Bowcock

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    Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:08:13 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Lone Ranger's Range

>     Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:26:39 -0500
>     From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];

>     Chief Thundercloud ... was supposedly Tonto's tribal chief, and he
>     helps the masked man and his companion out of many scrapes.  His
>     tribe must have been nomadic, because he appears all over the west
>     at various times.

    I wonder just how far did the Lone Ranger travel.  He was supposed to
    have been a Texas Ranger (though he speaks like a Northerner), so I
    assume that Texas (a pretty big place in itself) was the center of
    his operations.  A lot of the towns he rode into seemed pretty
    generic Western towns, with no state or territory identified.  Just
    how far away from Texas did he go?

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:08:31 -0500
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Radio Digest publisher, [removed] Rayner

    ***
    [Obit from the August 19, 1952 New York Times]

    EARL C. RAYNER, 63, A TRADE PUBLISHER

    Earl Clemons Rayner, publisher of radio and advertisng trade papers,
    died Sunday night of a lung ailment at his home, 41-42 Forty-second
    Street, Sunnyside, Queens. His age was 63.

    Mr. Rayner, who had worked early in his career for The Dayton Daily
    News, The Louisville Herald, The Chicago Examiner and The Chicago
    American, was born in Xenia, Ohio, attended public schools there and
    was graduated from Ohio State University.

    In 1921, he began publication of The Radio Digest, one of the first
    trade weeklies in that field to attain national circulation.
    Subsequently Mr. Rayner founded and published The Post War Digest, The
    Advertising Agency and The Advertising Daily.

    He leaves his wife, Ada E.; a son, Jack of Chicago, and a daughter,
    Mrs. Betty Hoover of Dayton, Ohio.

    ***
    [An excerpt from Drew Pearson's syndicated column The Washington
    Merry-Go-Round as it appeared in the December 10,  1943 Chillicothe
    (MO) Constitution-Tribune]

    ONE MAN - WENDELL WILLKIE

    Here are the inside facts behind the isolationist book, "One Man -
    Wendell Willkie," a critical take-off on Willkie's "One World,"
    brought out as a part of the Stop-Willkie campaign.

    The author, C. Nelson Sparks, former Mayor of Akron, Ohio, did most of
    the writing, but the office of Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota and
    a former secretary of Herbert Hoover had a hand in the book's
    preparation.

    Gerald W. ("Spike") Movius, long-shanked magazine writer secretary of
    Senator Nye, ghost-wrote the first chapter and part of another, also
    assisted in editing the book. The original manuscript was submitted
    for suggested changes to both Movius and Ray Richmond, executive
    secretary of Hoover's "National Committee on Food for Small
    Democracies," which folded up just before Pearl Harbor.

    Another who had a hand in the actual writing was George Briggs, a
    Minneapolis free-lance writer who served on Spark's publicity staff
    while the latter was promoting the campaign of Frank Gannett, New York
    newspaper publisher, for the GOP Presidential nomination in 1940.

    The book, a colored narrative of alleged incidents in Wilkie's
    political career - including his story-book nomination by the
    Philadelphia Republican convention in 1940 - is aimed at stamping
    Willkie as a political accident. It is published by E. C. Rayner, a
    small New York publisher who went to high school with Sparks in Ohio,
    according to friends.

    Sparks tried to get Publisher Gannett to "angel" the work, but Gannett
    apparently didn't consider it a good business proposition. The author
    finally had to put up about $4,000 of his own money. The rest of the
    initial publishing cost was supplied by the Rayner firm.

    ***
    [February 11, 1929 Oakland (CA) Tribune]

    RADIO 'FILMING' METHOD FOUND

    CHICAGO, Feb. 11. - AP) - A plan for the recording of complete radio
    programs for simultaneous use over a number of stations had been
    announced by E. C. Rayner, editor of the Radio Digest.

    A system, similar to that employed in the "talking pictures" is
    employed, and Rayner said the new method would reproduce vocal and
    orchestral music electrically with more sharpness and precision than
    is obtained by the broadcasting programs carried distances over
    telephone wires into the several stations.

    "Editing"  of programs also is possible under the Rayner method so
    that programs once recorded maybe trimmed or done over if necessary.
    The system also permits of obtaining natural sound effects when
    needed, by taking the artist "on location."

    The plan, Rayner said, will serve broadcasting stations much the same
    as film companies now serve theaters.

    ***
    [January 2, 1927 Iowa Press-Citizen]

    WLW to Honor Radio Editors

    Editors have been the "men behind the gun" in developing and
    maintaining interest in radio transmission, reception, and as a
    mercantile venture during the last few years, and now they are to take
    a place, "out in the open", for one hour, at least. WLW, Cincinnati,
    has invited radio editors to get in the spotlight on the night of
    Wednesday, January 26th. Each will suggest his favorite number, or, at
    least, the one he wants played that night, and he will hear it
    accordingly. Some ot the biggest men in the field have filed their
    requests already - including S. Gernback, [sic] Walter Schilling,
    Kendall Banning, George Baxter Howe, and E. C. Rayner, editor of the
    Radio Digest. WLW, in the near future, will also devote a special
    broadcast to the preferences of radio editors.

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    Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:09:32 -0500
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  More Complete Broadcast Days

    NBC recorded everything aired over WEAF from June 6, 1944 to August 16,
    1944, and this over two-month-long continuous recording survives, give or
    take the occasional broken disc, at the Library of Congress.

    Memovox recordings exist of the entire output of NBC Red and Blue from
    2pm on December 7, 1941 thru the full day of December 8.

    The Federal Communications Commission had recordings made of the entire
    broadcast days of all six stations active in Washington DC on July 6,
    1945, for use in a study of the percentage of time devoted to advertising
    in a typical broadcast day. These recordings were analyzed and discussed
    in "Public Service Responsibility of Broadcast Licensees," the famous
    "Blue Book" report released by the commission in 1946. It's not known if
    these recordings still exist in some deep-storage National Archives file
    box, or even the format in which they were made -- it's likely they were
    not high-quality discs, but rather Memovoxes or some such low-grade
    system.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:10:00 -0500
    From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Theatre Five - Stereo ?

    Hi Gang -

    I'm catching up on some past issues of the otrdigest.  Before the  "Theatre
    Five"
    discussion disappears, I have a few comments:

    I recorded most (all?) broadcasts of Theatre Five off the air from WLS-FM
    and I should
    have some excellent sound.  As I recall, I ran the tapes at 7-1/2 ips  and I
    think
    the program may have been broadcast in stereo.  There may be station  breaks
    and
    newscasts on the tapes as well.

    My tapes are all in Illinois, and I'm in Arkansas.  When I get back to
    Illinois I'll
    check my library.  Meantime, does anybody recall whether these  programs were
    in stereo?  My memory is not as good as it once was.

    I hope see many of you in Cincinnati, and we can talk about Theatre  Five and
    other
    not-quite-so-old-time Radio.

    Happy Taping --  Ken Piletic - Stereamwood, Illinois -- Alma, Arkansas

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    Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:10:24 -0500
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Gale Gordon Centennial

    If I'm not mistaken, Gale Gordon's 100th birthday is coming up in a few
    days, on 02-20-2006. I always seem to miss these things (like Hal
    Peary's centennial last year, or William Bendix's last month)--by the
    time they hit the digest it's often the next day. So I'm sending this
    out a couple of days early, in case anybody wants to organize their
    listening habits on Monday to honor Mayor LaTrivia and Osgood Conklin!

    Kermyt

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    Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:13:12 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR in the News

    The Lawrence Eagle Tribune in Massachusetts runs an article on a local radio recreation group up there -

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

    [removed]+fn-radioplayers0217-20060217-

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