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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 270
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      11-25 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Fanny Barbour's Memory Book           [ Conrad Binyon <cbinyon@[removed]; ]
      New Radio website                     [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      Irving                                [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
      Even more Miss Pinkerton              [ Al Lingley <fpdw3@[removed]; ]
      Formal language                       [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Weird Circle                          [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
      OTR in today's comics                 [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:33:36 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-25 births/deaths

    November 25th births

    11-25-1871 - Kate McComb - Sacramento, CA - d. 4-15-1959
    actor: Mrs. Kerrigan "The Goldbergs"; Nannie "Lora Lawton"
    11-25-1886 - Rex Maupin - St. Joseph, MO - d. 7-28-1966
    orchestra leader: "Breakfast Club"; "National Farm and Home Hour"
    11-25-1887 - William Steinke - Slatinton, PA - d. 1-29-1958
    host: "Jolly Bill and Jane"; "No School Today"
    11-25-1893 - Jack Frost - Boston, MA - d. 10-21-1959
    producer: "The National Barn Dance"
    11-25-1894 - Laurence Stallings - Macon, GA - d. 2-28-1968
    writer: "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt" based on his play "What
    Price Glory?"
    11-25-1896 - Virgil Thomson - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1989
    composer: "Columbia Workshop"
    11-25-1897 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith - Goshen, NY - d. 4-18-1973
    jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    11-25-1899 - Kay Strozzi - Swan's Point Plantation, VA - d. 1-18-1996
    actor: Shelia Blade "I Love Linda Dale"; Victoria Lorring "Young
    Widder Brown"
    11-25-1899 - Pierre Andre - d. 7-21-1962
    announcer: "Little Orphan Annie"; "Captain Midnight"
    11-25-1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas - Boonton, NJ - d. 6-28-1980
    actor: (Wife of Melvin Douglas) "Hollywood Fights Back"; "A Report to
    the Nation"
    11-25-1904 - Jessie Royce Landis - Chicago, IL - d. 2-2-1972
    actor: "We Are Always Young"
    11-25-1905 - Will Osborne - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1981
    bandleader, singer: "Abbott and Costello"
    11-25-1908 - Ray Carter - Chicago, IL - d. 9-xx-1982
    composer, conductor: "The Goal Beyond"
    11-25-1909 - Verne Smith - NYC - d. 3-4-1978
    announcer: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
    11-25-1912 - Francis Durbridge - Hull, Yorkshire, England - d. 4-11-1998
    writer: Creator of Paul Temple
    11-25-1912 - Henry Denker - NYC
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Greatest Story Ever Told"
    11-25-1914 - Joe DiMaggio - Martinez, CA - d. 3-8-1999
    baseball superstar: "Joe DiMaggio Show"
    11-25-1919 - Norman Tokar - Newark, NJ - d. 4-6-1979
    actor: Henry Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"
    11-25-1920 - Ricardo Montalban - Mexico City, Mexico
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "As Easy as [removed]"
    11-25-1922 - Patricia Foy - London, England - d. 7-26-2006
    vocalist: "Shep Fields Orchestra"
    11-25-1925 - Jeffrey Hunter - New Orleans. LA - d. 5-27-1969
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-25-1926 - Poul Anderson - Bristol, PA - d. 4-1-2001
    scifi author: Works adapted for "X Minus One" "Exploring Tomorrow"

    November 25th deaths

    01-04-1927 - John Drury - Peoria, IL - d. 11-25-2007
    staff announcer: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    02-22-1879 - Philip F. Lord - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-25-1968
    actor: Pop Gunn "Great Gunns"; Frazier Mitchell "Mary Marlin"
    03-04-1909 - Harry Elders - d. 11-25-1993
    actor: Dr. Bill Evans "Road of Life"; David Houseman "Stepmother"
    04-04-1914 - Rosemary Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 11-25-1974
    singer: (The Lane Sisters) "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hollywood Parade"
    04-13-1916 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner - Kansas City, MO - d.
    11-25-2006
    writer of radio soap operas
    04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
    actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade
    of America"
    07-13-1889 - Frank M. Thomas - St. Joseph, MO - d. 11-25-1989
    actor: Police Captain "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
    07-20-1908 - Fritz Littlejohn - Paculet, SC - d. 11-25-2005
    news writer/supervisor for NBC radio (1945-1952)
    07-30-1912 - Edward L. Bliss - Fizhou, China - d. 11-25-2002
    cbs news correspondent: (One of Morrow's Boys) CBS News Twentieth
    Century Roundup"
    08-01-1918 - Bill Shipley - Ottawa, KS - d. 11-25-1996
    announcer: "The Jimmy Dorsey Show"; "Look Your Best"
    08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958
    narrator: "Gangbusters"
    09-21-1930 - John Morgan - Aberdale, Wales - d. 11-25-2004
    writer: "It's All in the Mind of John Morgan"
    11-19-1905 - Eleanor Audley - NYC - d. 11-25-1991
    actor: Elizabeth Smith "Father Knows Best"
    11-30-1931 - Teddy Wilburn - Hardy, MO - d. 11-25-2003
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Style [removed]"
    12-08-1933 - Flip Wilson - Jersey City, NJ - d. 11-25-1998
    comedian: "Voices of Vista"
    12-25-1907 - Matt Brooks - NYC - d. 11-25-1990
    writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    12-31-1913 - Ted Meyers - d. 11-25-1996
    announcer: "People Are Funny"; "Yarns for Yanks"; "Calling All Cars"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:50:49 -0500
    From: Conrad Binyon <cbinyon@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fanny Barbour's Memory Book

    Joe Salerno's question

>     "Who are these people in the Standard Brands promotional Memory Book
>     photographs?  Are they the actors who portrayed those roles, or just models
>     posing as?

    Joe, In all but very rare cases when the actor wasn't available, at least re
    One Man's Family, they WERE the actors who portrayed the roles in question.
    Otherwise a suitable model substitute was used. I remember one photo shoot
    where one of the photographers "stood in" as the physical body of "Clifford"
    in a family group photo. The photo lab later on "photoshopped" Barton
    Yarbourough's head onto the print for later reproduction.

    Conrad Binyon

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    Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:51:11 -0500
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  New Radio website
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    British collector Brian Reynolds now has a website for those interested in the
    old BBC Radio orchestras from the 1930s -1960s. The website is:

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    Cheers !B  Graeme ( ORCA / UK )

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    Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:51:17 -0500
    From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Irving

    I was Very sorry to hear of Irving Breecher's passing. I was in touch with
    him about 5 years ago to get his permission to do a Life of Riley book. He
    gave it and even wrote a foreword to the book, which I'm ashamed to say I
    haven't even started yet. I just didn't have the time as more and more books
    kept piling up that I had to put out. He was a nice guy. Almost blind,
    though. I had to send him VERY LARGE sheets of the foreword for him to proof.
    I also wanted to publish his autobiography VERY much, but I guess he just
    wanted to put it out himself. I hope it does well. He was one of the Best
    comedy writers.

    Ben Ohmart

    Old radio. Old movies. New books.
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:51:30 -0500
    From: Al Lingley <fpdw3@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Even more Miss Pinkerton

    I also have a Radio Recorders pressing of the Miss Pinkerton Inc audition.
    The labels are typewritten with "AUD" penciled in for the program number.

    The matrix numbers are 7499 for part 1 (side 1), and 7500-D for part 2 (side
    2).  What is interesting, is that I have a another single sided pressing of
    part 2 with matrix number 7500.  This version had a messed up telephone
    effect.

    My [removed]

    Why would Radio Recorders press a flubbed version?  Were audition discs as a
    rule actually broadcast by networks or local radio stations?

    - Al Lingley

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    Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:00:01 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Formal language

       With the discussion on the formal language used on OMF, I have a
    comment about language on radio that is seldom used any longer.
       The polite way of referring to people as "Mr", "Mrs" or "Miss".
       On Let George Do It, in the early '50s, his assistant is always
    introduced as "Miss Brooks" but in private is called Brooksie by George.
       On Our Miss Brooks, Connie always referred to as Miss Brooks even by
    fellow teachers and Mr Conklin.  The only person who seems to address
    Conklin by his first name is Miss Davis, the landlady, since they had
    known each other for years.
       This reminds me of when I was growing up and adults were always
    called Mr or Mrs.  Single women were called "Miz" here in the South, a
    slurring of Miss, and when MS came along, pronounced Miz, there was no
    problem with me using the new term.  :)
       Today adults tell children to call them by their first name.
    Something unthought of years ago.
       Joe

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    Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:00:23 -0500
    From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Weird Circle

    Kenneth Clarke asked about the series "Weird Circle." I have eight episodes
    of that series, which based on context clues from some of those episodes, may
    have been a Canadian series. It appears to have aired from at least 1945 to
    at least Sept. 29, 1947.

    The episodes I have appear in a collection of radio shows on tape called
    "Mystery Mania"; in the Radio Spirits collection "Old Time Radio's Greatest
    Mysteries"; in "Smithsonian OTR Mysteries"; and among the tapes released by
    the Media Bay subsidiary "World's Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows."

    The episodes I own are "Bride of Death", "Cask of Amontillado", "Dr. Jekyll
    and Mr. Hyde", "Fall of the House of Usher", "Markheim", "Middle Toe of the
    Right Foot", "Murder of the Little Pig" and "Pistol Shot."  "Middle [removed]"
    and "[removed]" were sponsored by Ogden's Playhouse/Ogden's fine-cut tobacco.

    Rick

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    Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:32:31 -0500
    From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR in today's comics

    Last week I got the new five DVD set of Howdy Doody TV programs just
    issued by Mill Creek.  The programs are all or mostly not the ones in
    circulation on previous DVDs and videocassettes, are in excellent,
    complete condition, and date as far back as early 1949.  They did not
    include any of the radio programs, but in the very large photo gallery
    on disc 5 there are two photographs that can only be production shots of
    the radio show.

    Which leads me to the topic of this posting.  In today's (Tues Nov 25)
    Mother Goose and Grimm, Howdy appears, sitting at a committee table
    between Pinoccicho and Charlie McCarthy.  Charlie is the star of this
    single-panel strip, and he is saying into an array of three microphones
    in front of him: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the
    Ventriloquist Society?"   The punchline, down on the lower right of the
    panel, "Charlie McCarthyism".

    When I just called my daughter, Leah, about it, she said, "Oh that's
    such an old joke.  Even 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000' used it."   I
    should have asked her what episode number.  But maybe all over the
    country there will be kids asking their parents what this means?  (And
    then those parents will have to ask their parents!  That's what
    Thanksgiving dinners are for.)

    The comic is on line.  [removed]
    and put in 11/25/08 in the date pull-down.

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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