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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 9
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      1-18 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Green Hornet question                 [ mikennancy2001@[removed] ]
      Shadow Author Question                [ "Ryan O" <ryano218@[removed]; ]
      Lights Out fan club                   [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      1-19 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:47:57 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-18 births/deaths

    January 18th births

    01-18-1882 - A. A. Milne - London, England - d. 1-31-1956
    author: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    01-18-1889 - Brad Barker - Hempstead, Long Island, NY - d. 9-29-1951
    animal sounds: Sandy "Little Orphan Annie"
    01-18-1892 - Oliver Hardy - Harlem, GA - d. 8-7-1957
    comedian: "Ruth Lyons Show"
    01-18-1896 - Art Kassel - Chicago, IL - d. 2-3-1963
    bandleader: "Kassels in the Air"; "Elgin Campus Revue"
    01-18-1899 - Lucille Wall - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1986
    actor: Portia Blake "Portia Faces Life"; Belle Jones "Lorenzo Jones"
    01-18-1902 - Helen Lynd - New Jersey - d. 4-1-1992
    actor: Miss Duffy "Duffy's Tavern"
    01-18-1904 - Cary Grant - Bristol, England - d. 11-29-1986
    actor: Jim Blandings "Mr. and Mrs. Blandings"
    01-18-1906 - Ruth Lyon - Bloomington, IL - d. unknown
    vocalist: "Romance Melodies"; "Words and Music"
    01-18-1910 - Arthur Howard - London, England - d. 6-18-1995
    actor: "Whack-O!)
    01-18-1912 - Bob Sabin - Illinois - d. 1-15-1959
    announcer: "Modern Romances"
    01-18-1913 - Danny Kaye - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-3-1987
    comedian: "Danny Kaye Show"
    01-18-1914 - Rod O'Connor - Houston, TX - d. 5-5-1964
    announcer: "Red Skelton Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"; "Count of Monte Cristo"
    01-18-1915 - Bob Mosher - d. 12-15-1972
    writer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Henry Morgan Show"; "Harry Von Zell Show"
    01-18-1915 - Lesley Midgley - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 6-19-2002
    producer cbs news: "The Twentieth Century"
    01-18-1918 - Peter Hobbs - Etretat, France - d. 1-2-2011
    actor: "You Are There"
    01-18-1918 - Richard Lane - Sydney, Australia - d. 2-20-2008
    writer: "The Remittance Man"
    01-18-1920 - Constance Moore - Sioux City, IA - d. 9-16-2005
    singer, actor: Gloria Dean "Hollywood Mystery Time"
    01-18-1920 - Sid Newman - California - d. 4-10-2001
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-18-1939 - David French - Canada
    writer

    January 18th deaths

    01-14-1891 - Maurice Black - Queens, NY - d. 1-18-1938
    tuba: "The Clicquot Club Eskimos"
    01-27-1904 - Frankie Marvin - Butler, Indian Territory, Oklahoma - d.
    1-18-1985
    actor: "Gene Autry's Melody Rance"
    02-04-1898 - Art Balinger - California - d. 1-18-1980
    announcer: "Here Comes McBride"; "Mr. and Mrs. North"
    02-23-1925 - Niels Robinson - d. 1-18-1994
    actor: "Coast-to-Coast on a Bus"
    03-09-1921 - Carl Betz - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-18-1978
    disk jockey: WCAE Pittsburgh
    03-13-1911 - James T. Quirk - d. 1-18-1969
    announcer, station program director Philadelphia, PA
    03-31-1918 - Charles Russell - NYC - d. 1-18-1985
    actor: Johnny Dollar "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    04-04-1894 - Ed East - Bloomington, IN - d. 1-18-1952
    actor, writer, pianist, composer: "The Ed East and Polly Show"
    04-07-1895 - Bert Wheeler - Paterson, NJ - d. 1-18-1968
    comedian: "Frank Sinatra Show"; "New Old Gold Show"
    04-30-1894 - Vernon Bartlett - Westbury, Wiltshire, England - d.
    1-18-1983
    lecturer on foreign affairs
    05-04-1896 - Dr. Frank Baxter - Camden, NJ - d. 1-18-1982
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-07-1905 - George E. Stoll - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-18-1985
    orchestra: "Jack Oakie's College"; "Bing Crosby Show"; "Eddie Cantor
    Show"
    05-18-1913 - Charles Trenet - Creteil, France - d. 1-18-2001
    singer: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Discoparade"
    06-12-1890 - Junius Matthews - Chicago, IL - d. 1-18-1978
    actor: Grandpa Eph "David Harum"; Ling Wee "Gasoline Alley"
    06-25-1893 - Charlotte Greenwood - South Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-18-1978
    comedian: "Life with Charlotte Greenwood"; "Charlotte Greenwood Show"
    07-04-1911 - Dwight Hauser - Idaho - d. 1-18-1969
    producer, director: "Defense Attorney"; "I Fly Anything"; "Man from
    Homicide"
    07-09-1901 - Jester Hairston - Belews, NC - d. 1-18-2000
    calypso singer: King Moses "Bold Venture"
    08-16-1929 - Lois Nettleton - Oak Park, IL - d. 1-18-2008
    actor: Patsy Dennis "Brighter Day"
    09-02-1933 - James Villiers - London, England - d. 1-18-1998
    actor: Roderick Spode "The Code of the Woosters"
    09-18-1919 - Diana Lewis - Asbury, NJ - d. 1-18-1997
    actor: "G. I. Journal"; "Radio's Reader Digest"
    10-10-1920 - William David Adams - Chicago, IL - d. 1-18-1989
    writer/producer: "Story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt"
    10-28-1910 - Arthur Altman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-18-1994
    CBS staff violinist and librarian
    10-30-1918 - Joan Banks - NYC - d. 1-18-1998
    actor: Arline Harrison Manning, "Portia Faces Life"; Carlotta Lagorro
    Armour, "Today's Children"
    11-20-1916 - Virginia Verrill - Santa Monica, CA - d. 1-18-1999
    blues singer: "The Jack Haley Show"; "Show Boat"; "Uncle Walter's
    Doghouse"
    11-21-1902 - Arthur Schutt - Reading, CA - d. 1-18-1965
    pianist: "The Ipana Troubadors"
    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"
    11-30-1926 - Dick Crenna - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-18-2003
    actor: Oogie Pringle, "A Date with Judy"; "Walter Denton, "Our Miss
    Brooks"
    12-04-1889 - Elsie Mae Gordon - Anderson, IN - d. 1-18-1951
    actor: (girl with a hundred voices) "When a Girl Marries"
    12-15-1917 - Raymond Morgan - Utah - d. 1-18-1975
    announcer: "Chandu, the Magician"; "Murder at Midnight"
    12-27-1879 - Sidney Greenstreet - Sandwich, England - d. 1-18-1954
    actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "Hollywood Star Preview"
    12-30-1912 - Nancy Coleman - Everett, WA - d. 1-18-2000
    actor: Alice Hughes "Young Dr. Malone"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:48:44 -0500
    From: mikennancy2001@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Green Hornet question
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    Hi everyone:

    Can someone tell me who the actor was that played Sgt. Burke in most of the
    Green Hornet episodes?  And also, whether that person had a career in film or
    show business outside of radio?

    Thanks,

    Mike Messner

    Mountain View, CA

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    Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:49:58 -0500
    From: "Ryan O" <ryano218@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Shadow Author Question

    This question was inspired by Anthony Tollin, who's post made me wonder
    about this. Who were the authors for the 1937/1938 Blue Coal Shadow season
    with Orson Welles? I ask because I've always found the writing in that
    series to be the best of the Shadow programs. I listen to stories like, "the
    Silent Avenger," and "The Phantom Voice," and find them a bit more complex
    than the stories that came later; even in the Goodrich 1938 Welles season.
    Any info is much appreciated.

    RyanO

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    Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:50:57 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lights Out fan club

    Matthew Killmeier commented:

>     I recently read a 1940 profile of Arch Oboler in The Christian Science
>     Monitor that claimed Lights Out had "some hundred fan clubs around the
>     country." Does anyone have any personal knowledge of such clubs, or know of
>     sources that would corroborate them.

    The answer lies in where they got their information. I have a copy of that
    same article and I suspect they took the word of Oboler (from his mouth to
    their ears) as the gospel. Oboler, of course, would not known unless he
    received a copy of a letter mailed direct to him (or a copy of a letter sent
    to the network) requesting permission from a radio listener for his
    "blessing" to do a fan club. Seriously, anyone can have a fan club without
    the need of a blessing, but it was not uncommon (I've seen a few in archives
    and reprinted a couple of those fan-club-request letters in books I've
    written). As for the exact number, or whether it hit the 100 mark, is
    probably impossible. How many people right now can verify at least ten of
    them? I can verify two from archival searches at University Archives, nothing
    more. So Oboler probably told them and whether he exaggerated or was stating
    a fact is something that cannot be 100 percent verified.

    Articles like the one about Arch Oboler in THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR have
    been used as "facts" for other write ups about LIGHTS OUT such as John
    Dunning's ON THE AIR and an article in FILMFAX back in the late 1980s. But
    without verifying CHRISTIAN's sources, one has to take it with a grain of
    salt.

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    Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:51:04 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-19 births/deaths

    January 19th births

    01-19-1809 - Edgar Allan Poe - Boston, MA - d. 10-7-1849
    author: Several of his works adapted for radio
    01-19-1866 - Harry Davenport - NYC - d. 8-9-1949
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
    01-19-1886 - May Day - Isle of Jersey - d. 7-8-1945
    Gave beauty talks on KF0X Long Beach, California
    01-19-1886 - Samuel Pettengill - Oregon - d. 3-20-1974
    conservatice commentator: Weekly 15 minute program on ABC
    01-19-1887 - Alexander Woollcott - Phalanx, NJ - d. 1-23-1943
    commentator: "Early Bookworm"; "Town Crier"
    01-19-1905 - Anne Hummert - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-5-1996
    producer: "Backstage Wife"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    01-19-1905 - Oveta Kulp Hobby (Hobbe) - Killeen, TX - d. 8-16-1995
    first commanding officer of the wacs: "Meet the Press"
    01-19-1906 - Lanny Ross - Seattle, WA - d. 4-25-1988
    singer: "Lanny Ross Program"; "Maxwell House Show Boat"
    01-19-1908 - Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) - Erie, PA - d. 6-4-1994
    comedian: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    01-19-1909 - Hans Hotter - Offenback am Main, Germany - d. 12-6-2003
    bass-baritone: "Metropolitan Opera"
    01-19-1909 - Merrill E. Joels - Hartford, CT - d. 9-5-2001
    actor: "Counterspy"; "Aunt Jenny"; "The Big Story"
    01-19-1909 - Norman Barry - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-25-1997
    announcer: "Dan Harding's Wife"
    01-19-1910 - Jaime Del Valle - d. 9-16-1981
    producer, director: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Count of Monte
    Cristo"
    01-19-1913 - Edward M. Asherman - d. 7-1-2005
    composer/guitarist/singer: Xavier Cugat Orchestra
    01-19-1916 - Marion Sweet - d. 7-17-1978
    actor: Dragon Lady "Terry and the Pirates"
    01-19-1919 - Ray Eberle - Hoosick Falls, NY - d. 8-25-1979
    singer: "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra"; "Glenn Miller's Moonlight
    Serenade"
    01-19-1922 - Guy Madison - Pumpkin Center, CA - d. 2-6-1996
    actor: Wild Bill Hickok "Wild Bill Hickok"
    01-19-1927 - Nancy Dickerson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 10-18-1997
    newswoman: "784 Days That Changed America (Watergate Scandal)
    01-19-1928 - "Little" Jimmie Sizemore
    singer with father Asher: "Grand Ole Opry"
    01-19-1931 - Robert MacNeil - Montreal, Canada
    newscaster: CBC Canada
    01-19-1931 - Tippi Hedren - New Ulm, MN
    actor: "World's Fair Holiday"
    01-19-1932 - George Mann MacBeth - Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. 2-16-1992
    poet, producer: BBC Radio
    01-19-1939 - Phil Everly - Chicago, IL
    singer: (The Everly Brothers) "March of Dimes"; "Country Hoedown"

    January 19th deaths		01-20-1898 - Norma Varden - London, England -
    d.
    1-19-1989
    actor: "Crime Classics"; "NBC University Theatre"
    01-22-1914 - Joy Hodges - Des Moines, IA - d. 1-19-2003
    vocalist; "The Joe Penner Show"
    01-28-1886 - Hidetsugu Yagi - Osaka, Japan - d. 1-19-1976
    radio antenna designer
    03-01-1917 - Cliffie Stone - Stockton, CA - d. 1-19-1998
    host: "Hollywood Barn Dance"; "The Cliffie Stone Show"
    03-10-1918 - Laddie Seaman - Reading, PA - d. 1-19-1942
    actor: Scoop Ward "News of Youth"; Biff Bradley "Pepper Young's Family"
    04-18-1908 - Irra Petina - Petrograd, Russia - d. 1-19-2000
    singer: "The Railroad Hour"
    04-22-1920 - Hal March - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-19-1970
    comedian: Matt Henshaw "December Bride"; Mr. Cook "Too Many Cooks"
    05-16-1916 - Adriana Caselotti - Bridgeport, CT - d. 1-19-1997
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-26-1884 - Charles Winninger - Athens, WI - d. 1-19-1969
    actor: Captain Henry "Show Boat"; Uncle Charlie "Uncle Charlie's Tent
    Show"
    05-31-1904 - Clifton Utley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-19-1978
    newsman: (Father of Garrick) "Comments by Clifton Utley"
    06-07-1893 - Lillian Althouse - d. 1-19-1979
    saxophonist: KFI Los Angeles
    07-08-1917 - Glenn Langan - Denver, CO - d. 1-19-1991
    actor: "Chuck Morgan "Stand By For Crime"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-04-1898 - Hugh O'Connell - d. 1-19-1943
    actor, comedian: "Vanity Fair"
    09-05-1879 - Harold Sanford - Florence, MA - d. 1-19-1945
    conductor: "Philco Hour"; "Exploring America with Carveth Wells"
    09-05-1939 - John Stewart - San Diego, CA - d. 1-19-2008
    singer: (Kingston Trio) "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; "Guest Star"
    09-11-1887 - Gus Arnheim - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-19-1955
    orchestra leader: "Woodbury Soap Show"
    10-18-1913 - Martin Blaine - Illinois - d. 1-19-1989
    actor: Adam Sheppard "FBI in Peace and War"; Scott 'Tubby' Truman
    "Valiant Lady"
    11-09-1913 - Hedy Lamarr - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-19-2000
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-17-1917 - Byron Keith - Illinois - d. 1-19-1996
    Started his career in radio in Boise, Idaho in the 1930s
    12-28-1887 - Charles Dingle - Wabash, IN - d. 1-19-1956
    actor: Employer "Meet the Dixons"
    Ron

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