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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 53
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  3-25 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  What's this western series?           [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  BBC World Service Archives            [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  3-26 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:15:38 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-25 births/deaths

March 25th births

03-25-1867 - Arturo Toscanini - Parma, Italy - d. 1-16-1957
conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
03-25-1887 - Raymond Gram Swing - Cortland, NY - d. 12-22-1968
commentator: "Voice of America"
03-25-1892 - Andy Clyde - Blaingowrie, Scotland - d. 5-18-1967
actor: California Carlson "Hopalong Cassidy"
03-25-1897 - John Laurie - Dumfries, Scotland - d. 6-23-1980
actor: James Fraser "Dad's Army"
03-25-1899 - Bella Spewack - Bucharest, Romania - d. 4-27-1990
writer: "The Radio Guild"
03-25-1901 - Ed Begley - Hartford, CT - d. 4-28-1970
actor: Walt Levinson "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
03-25-1901 - John Earl Fetzer - Decatur, IN - d. 2-21-1991
broadcast pioneer: "WKZO Fiftieth Anniversary Broadcast"
03-25-1903 - Binnie Barnes - London, England - d. 7-27-1998
panelist: "Leave It to the Girls"; "Breakfast with Binnie and Mike"
03-25-1903 - Frankie Carle - Providence, RI - d. 3-7-2001
bandleader, pianist: "Pot o' Gold"; "Treasure Chest"
03-25-1905 - George Burt Cole - South Portland, ME - d. 12-xx-1980
composer, arranger for CBS 1941-1956
03-25-1906 - Jean Sablon - Nogent-sur-Marne, France - d. 2-24-1994
baritone/composer: (French Troubadour) "Shell Chateau"; Magic Key of
RCA"
03-25-1906 - Margaret Daum - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-23-1977
singer: "American Album of Familiar Music"
03-25-1908 - David Lean - Croydon, Surrey, England - d. 4-16-1991
screenwriter, film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-25-1908 - Philip Reed - NYC - d. 12-21-1996
actor: Ross Barrington "Society Girl"; Brian Wells "David Harum"
03-25-1909 - Frank James Damico - Jersey City, NJ
aranger: "Texaco Radio"
03-25-1909 - Jay Blackton - NYC - d. 1-8-1994
composer, conductor, pianist: "Stu Erwin Show"; "Broadway Showtime"
03-25-1910 - Jack Carlton - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-17-1991
staff singer, actor, announcer: WCAU Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
03-25-1913 - Prescott Robinson - Montreal, Canada - d. 5-19-1999
newscaster: "Eight O'Clock Morning News on Mutual"
03-25-1914 - Forrest Bartlett - d. 7-3-2006
newscaster: KGER Long Beach, California
03-25-1914 - Robert Rounseville - Attleboro, MA - d. 8-6-1974
singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
03-25-1916 - Jean Rogers - Belmont, MA - d. 2-24-1991
actor: Elaine Dascomb "Those We Love"
03-25-1917 - Don Gibson - Waynesburg, PA - d. 10-xx-1987
actor: "New World A' Coming"
03-25-1919 - Jeanne Cagney - NYC - d. 12-7-1984
actor: (Sister of James Cagney) "Movietone Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
03-25-1920 - Howard Cosell - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 3-23-1995
sportscaster: "Speaking of Sports"
03-25-1921 - Nancy Kelly - Lowell, MA - d. 1-15-1995
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Free Company"; "Suspense"
03-25-1924 - Harold Neal - Michigan - d. 2-27-1980
announcer: "Challenge of the Yukon"; "Green Hornet"; "Lone Ranger"
03-25-1925 - Len Dressler - d. 10-16-2005
voice of the Jolly Green Giant
03-25-1926 - Paul Leder - Springfield, MA - d. 4-8-1996
singer: "Molly Goldberg Show"
03-25-1940 - Anita Bryant - Barnsdall, OK
singer: "Guard Session"; "Let's Go To Town"
03-25-1948 - Bonnie Bedelia - New York, NY
actor: "Empire of the Air"
03-25-1964 - Greg Smith - Bay Springs, MS
talk show host: "On a Roll"
03-25-1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker - Nelsonville, OH
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

March 25th deaths

01-15-1899 - Goodman Ace - Kansas City, MO - d. 3-25-1982
comedian, writer: "Easy Aces"
02-25-1906 - Warren Hymer - NYC - d. 3-25-1948
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
03-12-1921 - Earl Nightingale - d. 3-25-1989
actor, announcer: Sky King "Sky King"
05-03-1924 - Ken Bailey - East Cleveland, OH - d. 3-25-2008
producer: "Morning Midway"; "Breakfast With the Baileys"
05-06-1899 - Billy Cotton - London, England - d. 3-25-1969
bandleader: "Wakey Wakey!!"
05-10-1921 - Nancy Walker - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-25-1992
actor: "Mail Call"
06-01-1905 - Robert Newton - Shaftesbury, England - d. 3-25-1956
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-02-1921 - Bob Arthur - Kansas - d. 3-25-1997
newscaster: "Bob Arthur Show"
06-12-1917 - Wendell Barcroft - d. 3-25-1974
newscaster: KGGM Albuquerque, New Mexico
07-01-1920 - Alexander Lepak - d. 3-25-2009
percussionist: "Hartford Symphony Orchestra"
08-06-1932 - Jerry Girard - Chicago, IL - d. 3-25-2007
disk jockey, record librarian, news writer, sportscaster
08-12-1929 - Buck Owens - Sherman, TX - d. 3-25-2006
singer: "Here's to Veterans"
08-16-1915 - Gloria Blondell - NYC - d. 3-25-1986
actor: Gerry Booker "I Love A Mystery" Gloria Dean "Hollywood Mystery
Time"
09-08-1902 - Welcome Lewis - d. 3-25-1999
singer: "Singo"; "The Singing Bee"
09-15-1911 - Grace Carney - Hartford, CT - d. 3-25-2009
actor: Freelance
09-16-1911 - Paul Henning - Independence, MO - d. 3-25-2005
writer: "Burns and Allen"
09-27-1887 - Pat "Uncle Ezra" Barrett - Holden, MO - d. 3-25-1959
actor: "National Barn Dance"; Uncle Ezra "Uncle Ezra"
11-22-1906 - Trezzvant W. Anderson - Charlotte, NC - d. 3-25-1963
newscaster: "Pittsburgh Courier News"
11-29-1910 - Al Schwartz - Passaic, NJ - d. 3-25-1988
writer: "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Bob Hope Show"
12-08-1916 - Richard Fleischer - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-25-2006
film director: "The TM Radio Program"
12-11-1922 - Robert Arden - London, England - d. 3-25-2004
actor: "America Looks Abroad"
12-12-1915 - Bea Fontane - New Milford, NJ - d. 3-25-2002
singer: (The Fontane Sisters) "Chesterfield Supper Club"

Ron

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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:15:45 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  What's this western series?

David Siegel and I are trying to identify a western series of which he
acquired a few episodes, but all beginnings and endings were chopped off a
few generations ago and his source has no idea of the title of the series.

It's a remarkable narrative of a poor family from Indiana (John and Maggie
Sargeant with children Jeremy and Sarah) who pull up stakes, take the
railroad and later a wagon train, to land they've bought in Nebraska. But
their land is occupied by long-term claim jumpers who drive off the Sargeant
family. So the Sargeants make their way to Wyoming and become "sod-busting"
homesteaders where they face all the dangers of the frontier, including a
prairie fire.

Let me confirm this is one of the best westerns I've ever heard. The script
is [removed] a woman writer, perhaps Kathleen Hite. Acting is very
good (though I can't identify a single performer) and the story is both
well-paced and compelling. Sound effects are very good. It's historically
accurate, akin to "Fort Laramie."

The series is certainly not from "old-time radio" era; I suspect it's one of
those later ones in the 1960s that AFTRA had produced for them, like "When
the West Was Young." The music is quite "modern," with many instruments.
Generous use of silent spots. Terrifying, realistic scenes, like the husband
being nearly drowned by three claim-jumpers while the wife suffers a
miscarriage. Making the wife the narrator, along with her diary entries, is
very effective.

Does this sound like anything in your collection?  If so, what's the name of
the series?

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Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:17:05 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  BBC World Service Archives
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Hi Folks.
An interesting article about the BBC WS Archives. Best way to see it
is just to Google the title :

'BBC Research and Development tagging the World Service archives'

Cheers ! Graeme ( ORCA / UK )

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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:17:21 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

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  Episode 53 10-8-49 "The Open Window"
  Stars: Gerald Mohr, Betty Lou Gerson, Harry Bartell, Jay Novello, Ed
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  Episode 46 05-09-46 "Snowbound"
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  Episode 488 6-11-45 "Murder, My Sweet"
  Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, June Duprez, Mike Mazurki, Gerald Mohr,
Doris Singleton
  Host: Irving Pichel
  Announcer: John Milton Kennedy
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THE ADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN
  (NBC) 1/7/43 "The Signing Rat"

THE SEALED BOOK
  (Synd. WOR/MBS) 9/2/45 "You Only Die Once"

THE ADVENTURES OF BABE RUTH
  (Synd. US Navy) 7/2/34 With Steve Martin and Jackson Beck. Ep. #12
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NIGHT BEAT (NBC)
  Title: World All of His Own
  Original Air: 2/20/50
  Starring: Frank Lovejoy

THE JACK BENNY SHOW (NBC)
  Title: The Mean Old Man Radio Show
  Original Air: 7/18/54
  Starring: Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Don Wilson

GUNSMOKE (CBS)
  Title: Gentleman
  Original Air: 3/6/54
  Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis
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We begin with an interview with Robert VanDeventer who was the teen-ager
on Twenty Questions. His fictional book, " THE STORY OF TWENTY
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  The showed aired on 06/01/46 with Lucille Ball as guest. The remainder
of the show this week features our actor of the month, Ralph Bell.

GANG BUSTERS" 12/11/48 Episode (0559) The Case Of The Thornberry Brothers.

MURDER BY EXPERTS 04/17/50 Episode (045) Two Can Die as Cheaply as One.
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"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

Episode 20

  This Command Performance of 09-06-45 features Bing Crosby, Bob Hope,
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Bob acts as judge to choose the winner. Then in a Classics & Curios
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:17:26 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-26 births/deaths

March 26th births

03-26-1894 - Will Wright - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-19-1962
actor: Ed Kremer "Fibber McGee and Molly"; George Honeywell "My Little
Margie"
03-26-1900 - Creighton Allen - Macon, MS - d. 7-18-1969
pianist for NBC in 1935
03-26-1907 - Clarence Stroud - Kaufman, TX - d. 8-15-1973
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie 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"
03-26-1908 - Hank Sylvern - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-4-1964
orchestra leader: "Beyond Tomorrow"
03-26-1911 - Hank Booream - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-9-2006
director: "March of Time"; "Burns and Allen"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
03-26-1911 - Tennessee Williams - Columbus, TN - d. 2-25-1983
author: "Drama Critics Award"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-26-1912 - Al Sloey - d. 12-15-1975
singer: (Riders of the Purple Sage) "Roy Rogers Show"; "Hollywood Barn
Dance"
03-26-1915 - Flip Phillips - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-17-2001
jazz saxophonist: "Woody Herman Show"; "Saturday Night Swing Session"
03-26-1916 - Sterling Hayden - Montclair, NJ - d. 5-23-1986
actor: "We the People"
03-26-1916 - Vic Schoen - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-5-2000
music: "The Andrews Sisters"
03-26-1918 - William Hardcastle - Newcastle, England - d. 11-10-1975
newscaster: "The World At One"
03-26-1920 - Junior Blizzard - d. 2-2-2005
disk jockey: WMJM Cordele, Georgia
03-26-1923 - Bob Elliott - Boston, MA
comedian: "Bob and Ray Show"; "Back Bay Matinee"
03-26-1923 - Charles Wheeler  Bremen, Germany - d-. 7-4-2008
news correspondent: "Transatlantic Call"; "A Tribute to Alistair"
03-26-1924 - Jean M. Brooks - Brighton, England - d. 1-3-2003
writer: "Gregory of the Outback"; "Opal Witch"
03-26-1924 - Marcia Van Dyck - Grants Pass, OR
actor: Marcia Barry "It's the Barrys"
03-26-1925 - Barry Letts - Leicester, England - d. 10-11-2009
actor/director: "The Paradise of Death"; "The Ghosts of N-Space"
03-26-1928 - Carole Carr - London, England - d. 1-8-1997
singer, actress: "Calling All Forces"
03-26-1928 - Patsy Lee - Alameda, CA
singer: "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club"
03-26-1931 - Leonard Nimoy - Boston, MA
actor: [removed] Theatre Works "War of the Worlds"

March 26th deaths

01-27-1918 - Irving Cummings - d. 3-26-1996
producer, host: "Lux Radio Theater"; "Gulf Screen Theatre"
02-27-1899 - Ian Keith - Boston, MA - d. 3-26-1960
actor "The O'Neill Cycle"
03-04-1904 - Dorothy Page - Northampton, PA - d. 3-26-1961
vocalist: "Paducah Plantation"
04-03-1921 - Jan Sterling - NYC - d. 3-26-2004
actor: "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
05-16-1922 - Larry Glick - Roxbury, MA - d. 3-26-2009
talk show host: Boston, Massachusetts
05-31-1819 - Walt Whitman - Long Island, NY - d. 3-26-1892
writer: "Against the Storm"
06-06-1898 - Walter Abel - St. Paul, MN - d. 3-26-1987
actor: "Columbia Presents Shakespeare"; "Magic Key"; "Voice of the Army"
06-18-1898 - Francis 'Dink' Trout - Beardstown, IL - d. 3-26-1950
actor: Waldo Binney "Life of Riley"; Mr. Anderson "A Day in the Life
of Dennis Day"
06-25-1908 - Hawley Ward Ades - Bloomington, IL - d. 3-26-2008
arranger: "The Fred Waring Show"
07-23-1888 - Raymond Chandler - Chicago, IL - d. 3-26-1959
detective story author: "Phillip Marlow"
08-13-1909 - Tristram Coffin - Mammoth, UT - d. 3-26-1990
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-18-1896 - Alan Mowbray - London, England - d. 3-26-1969
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Forecast"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Screen
Guild Theatre"
08-29-1917 - Eddie Hubbard - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-26-2007
disk jockey: "Music Unlimited"
09-06-1889 - Louis Silvers - NYC - d. 3-26-1954
music director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-26-1897 - William B. Heyne - d. 3-26-1992
choral director: "Lutheran Hour"; "Lutheran Laymen's League"
10-13-1904 - Wilfred Pickles - Halifax, England - d. 3-26-1978
announcer, newsreader: "Have A Go"; "Children's Hour"; "Where Are You
Now?"
10-25-1902 - Eddie Lang - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-26-1933
jazz guitarest: "Music That Satisfies"
12-09-1912 - Bartlett Robinson - NYC - d. 3-26-1986
actor: Walter Manning "Portia Faces Life"; Perry Mason "Perry Mason"
12-13-1894 - Olin Landick - d. 3-26-1972
actor: Cassandra Drinkwater "Cousin Cassie"
12-16-1899 - Noel Coward - Teddington, Middlesex, England - d. 3-26-1973
actor, playwright: "Stagestruck"

Ron

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