Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #191
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 191
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      More married OTR couples              [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      Lone Ranger                           [ "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@char ]
      Yours Truly Johnny Dollar question    [ <[removed]@[removed]; ]
      7-15 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      June deaths                           [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:53:54 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  More married OTR couples
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    Kenneth Clarke asked about adding to his litany of married couples on the
    radio. How 'bout?

    Elliott and Cathy Lewis
    Guy Sorel and Mary Jane Higby
    Ed Gardner and Shirley Booth

    Hope this helps.

    Yours in the ether--

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:29:45 -0400
    From: "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lone Ranger
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    There has been a lot of discussion about whether the Lone Ranger was a
    deserter from the Texas Ranger.   In the first place, it is always dangerous
    to apply realistic real-world expectations to a fictional character.   How
    many laws did The Shadow break in his long career in pulps, radio and
    movies?  Countless illegal entries, kidnapping, illegal detentions, and some
    killings that might be charged as murder.

    Batman followed suit.  Even Superman is not blameless.   In one radio and
    later TV story, he flew a man and woman who have discovered his secret
    identity to the top of a mountain, and brought in a complete house with
    supplies for them.   However, knowing Clark Kent is Superman is not a crime,
    and kidnapping is.  Moreover, when the two try to escape they fall to their
    deaths.  Superman has placed them in a position where they die.   He is
    responsible.  He could be charged with murder.

                Back to the Lone Ranger and the Texas Rangers.   In those days,
    the Rangers were a military-style organization, not just a police force.
    Young Ranger Reid (who may or may not have had the first name of John) may
    have enlisted.  On the other hand he may have volunteered to help his
    brother, Captain Dan Reid, capture the Cavendish gang for a "dollar a day".
    In fact, that was what happened in the Klinton Spillsbury movie version.
    Dan just gave his brother a badge, implying a deputizing.  It was not
    unusual for volunteers to join the Rangers for shorter periods.  By faking
    his death and not showing up at Ranger headquarters, perhaps the only thing
    he failed to do was to collect his eight bucks for temporary duty.

                If Reid did in fact enlist for a definite period such as one or
    two years, I am not sure how serious an offense failure to report for duty
    was.  Historically, Rangers seem to drift in and out of service, working on
    cattle drives, trying other law enforcement jobs like town marshal or
    railroad detective.

                The bottom line, of course, is that failure to return to
    headquarters is only the first of many rules and regulations the Lone Ranger
    ignored in his personal idea and ideal of justice.   Right-wingers love to
    take such figures as the Lone Ranger and John Wayne to their hearts, but as
    represented in their dramas both figures acted on the most liberal of
    motives, accepting that unjust laws may be ignored.

    Who can deny that the Lone Ranger served a higher purpose by his career as a
    private avenger.   For instance, he worked as a direct representative of
    President Lincoln to assure the success of the Union Pacific railroad.   In
    one story, Lincoln went as far as to say the survival of the United States
    as a nation could be owed to one man - the Lone Ranger!  Better than
    rounding up cattle thieves as a Texas Ranger.

                By the way, there may be some that don't know the Texas Rangers
    still exist, currently about 110 members.   They are considered one of the
    finest law enforcement bodies in the world, the equal of Scotland Yard or
    the Canadian Mounties.

    `           JIM HARMON

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    Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:51:11 -0400
    From: <[removed]@[removed];
    To: Old Time radio Digest  <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Yours Truly Johnny Dollar question
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    It appears acoording to Jerry's log,  Yours Truly Johnny Dollar was not aired
    on October 23, 1956, but there is no missing episode.
    Does any of the Johnny Dollar experts on the digest know what aired instead?
    Thanks!
    Paul Urbahns
    Radcliff, KY

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    Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:42:13 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-15 births/deaths

    July 15th births

    07-15-1889 - Marjorie Rambeau - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-6-1970
    actor: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-15-1893 - William Dieterle - Rhein-Palatinate, Germany - d. 12-8-1972
    movie director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    07-15-1897 - Howard Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-26-1991
    bandleader: ((King of Society Dance Music) "Atwater Kent Hour";
    "Campbell Soup Show"
    07-15-1900 - Helen Shields - Champaign, IL - d. 8-7-1963
    actor: Linda Dale "I Love Linda Dale"; Sylvia Meadows "Amanda of
    Honeymoon Hill"
    07-15-1905 - Dorothy Fields - Allenhurst, NJ - d. 3-28-1974
    lyricist: "Music for Millions"
    07-15-1905 - Shirley Povich - Bar Harbor ME - d. 6-4-1998
    sports columnist: "World Series Preview"; "Sonny Liston vs. Cassius
    Clay"
    07-15-1910 - Ken Lynch - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-13-1990
    actor: Lt. Matt King "Twenty-First Precinct"; Christopher Gard "Cafe
    Istanbul"
    07-15-1918 - Joan Roberts - NYC
    singer: "The Texaco Star Theatre"
    07-15-1919 - Eve McVeagh - Ohio - d. 12-10-1997
    actor: Harriet Beatty "Clyde Beatty Show"
    07-15-1923 - Herb Sargent - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-6-2005
    writer: Wrote for radio in the 1940s
    07-15-1927 - Nan Martin - Decatur, IL
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"

    July 15th deaths

    01-09-1899 - Ted Maxwell - Oakland, CA - d. 7-15-1959
    actor: "Captain Ross "Flying Time"; Fred Nino "Masquerade"
    01-23-1923 - Florence Halop - Jamaica Estates, NY - d. 7-15-1986
    actor: Hotbreath Houlihan "Jimmy Durante Show"; Miss Duffy "Duffy's
    Tavern"
    02-02-1899 - Benny Rubin - Boston, MA - d. 7-15-1986
    comedian: Tout "Jack Benny Program"; "Benny Rubin's Whirligig Revue"
    02-04-1905 - Eddie Foy, Jr. - New Rochelle, NY - d. 7-15-1983
    vaudevillian: "Starlight Operetta"; "Mitch Miller Show"
    02-15-1893 - Walter Donaldson - NYC - d. 7-15-1947
    songwriter: "Fitch Bandwagon"
    05-01-1906 - "Little" Jackie Heller - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-15-1988
    singer: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"
    07-08-1913 - Bill Thompson - Terre Haute, IN - d. 7-15-1971
    actor: Wallace Wimple, Horatio K Boomer and others "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    07-26-1897 - Paul Gallico - NYC - d. 7-15-1976
    writer: "Author's Playhouse"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Radio City Playhouse"
    08-05-1914 - David Brian - NYC - d. 7-15-1993
    actor: Mr. District Attorney "Mr. District Attorney"
    09-15-1916 - Margaret Lockwood - Karachi, British India - d. 7-15-1990
    actor: "A Christmas Carol"
    10-28-1906 - Lou Bring - d. 7-15-1951
    orchestra leader: "The Al Jolson Show"; "The Gracie Fields Show"
    11-16-1896 - Lawrence Tibbett - Bakersfield, CA - d. 7-15-1960
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Golden Voices"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of Baron Keyes
    Greenwoods, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:42:19 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  June deaths

    04-18-1918 - Page Gilman - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-1-2006
    actor: Jack Barbour "One Man's Family"; "Memory Lane"
    06-23-1912 - John Milton Kennedy - Farrell, PA - d. 6-11-2006
    announcer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Tidbit Revue"
    xx-xx-1916 - Vivian Smolen - d. 6-11-2006
    actor: Laurel Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"; Sunday Brinthrope "Our Gal
    Sunday"
    02-29-1920 - Arthur Franz - Perth Amboy, NJ - d. 6-17-2006
    actor: In radio following WWII
    07-16-1906 - Vincent Sherman - Vienna, GA - d. 6-18-2006
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    11-24-1927 - Eileen Barton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-27-2006
    singer: "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Eileen Barton Show"; "MGM Musical
    Comedy Theatre"
    04-29-1935 - Lennie Weinrib - NYC - d. 6-28-2006
    actor: "Suspense"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of Dick Teela

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