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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 73
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-10 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      5-11 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Frank Luther                          [ "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser@[removed]; ]
      Tchaikovsky's themes                  [ "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@ ]
      Harry Shearer on radio                [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
      new BearManor Media books             [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
      The Shadow                            [ Jandpgardner@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 21:39:55 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-10 births/deaths

    May 10th births

    05-10-1882 - Thurston Hall - Boston, MA - d. 2-20-1958
    actor: Jim Hanvey "The Townsend Murder Mystery"
    05-10-1883 - Helen Jerome - London, England - d. xx-xx-1958
    writer: "The Cricket on the Hearth"
    05-10-1884 - Olga Petrova - Tur Brook, England - d. 11-30-1977
    actor, writer: "Mary Margaret McBride"
    05-10-1888 - Max Steiner - Vienna, Austria - d. 12-28-1971
    composer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-10-1889 - Mae Murray - Portsmouth, VA - d. 3-23-1963
    actor: "Your Unseen Friend"
    05-10-1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 11-11-1979
    composer, conductor: "Last Man Out"; "1947 March of Dimes Campaign"
    05-10-1894 - Frank Knight - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada - d.
    10-18-1973
    actor, announcer: Dr. Billbert "Arabesque"; "Literary Digest"
    05-10-1899 - Fred Astaire - Omaha, NE - d. 6-22-1987
    dancer, actor: "Fred Astaire Show"
    05-10-1899 - Lois Holmes - Galion, OH - d. 3-12-1986
    actor: Jane Waters "Second Mrs. Burton"
    05-10-1902 - David O. Selznick - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-22-1965
    film producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
    05-10-1907 - Pee Wee Hunt - Mount Healthy, OH - d. 6-22-1979
    composer: "The Hoagy Carmichael Show"
    05-10-1909 - Maybelle Carter - Nickelsville, VA - d. 10-23-1978
    singer: (Queen of Country Music) "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-10-1910 - Louis Buck - Bessemer, AL - d. 5-18-1971
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Sunday Down South"
    05-10-1911 - Lee Sullivan - NYC - d. 5-29-1981
    singer: "Vest Pocket Varieties"; "Serenade to America"
    05-10-1911 - Paul Taubman - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 5-30-1994
    organist/pianist: "Perry Mason"; "Mysterious Traveler"; "Family Doctor"
    05-10-1911 - Tony LaFrano - NYC - d. 9-12-1961
    announcer: "Family Theatre"; "Johnny Modero: Pier 23"
    05-10-1914- Frank Martin - Oklahoma - d. 12-22-1994
    actor: Hashknife Hartley "Hashknife Hartley"
    05-10-1914 - Charles McGraw - NYC - d. 7-30-1980
    actor: Ken Thurston "Man Called X", "Dragnet"; "Suspense"
    05-10-1917 - Margo - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 7-17-1985
    actor: (Wife of Eddie Albert) "Suspense"; "Free Company"; "Texaco Star
    Theatre"
    05-10-1921 - Nancy Walker - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-25-1992
    actor: "Mail Call"
    05-10-1922 - Mary Small - Baltimore, MD
    singer: (Little Miss Bab-O) "Little Miss Bab-O's Surprise Party"
    05-10-1922 - Ric Throssell - Greenmount, Western Australia - d.
    4-20-1999
    writer: "The Day Before Tomorrow"
    05-10-1923 - Herb Carneal - Richmond, VA - d. 4-1-2007
    voice of the Minnesota Twins
    05-10-1930 - June Knox-Mawer - Wrexham, England - d. 4-19-2006
    host: "The Women's Hour"
    05-10-1930 - Pat Summerall - Lake City, FL
    cbs sportscaster: "Pat Summerall on Sports"
    05-10-1930 - Scott Muni - Wichita, KS - d. 9-28-2004
    disc jockey: "Scott Muni's World of Rock"; "Ticket to Ride"
    05-10-1936 - Gary Owens - Mitchell, SD
    announcer: "Empire of the Air"
    05-10-1937 - Arthur Kopit - NYC
    writer: "Earplay"
    05-10-1947 - George Taylor Morris - King City, CA - d. 8-1-2009
    disk jockey: "Deep Tracks"
    05-10-1965 - Catherine Castellani - Solvay, NY
    writer: "Girl Friday"

    May 10th deaths

    01-02-1918 - Joan Merrill - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-10-1992
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-05-1901 - George Price - NYC - d. 5-10-1964
    actor: "Hildegarde's Raleigh Room"
    01-25-1920 - Roy Rowan - Encino, CA - d. 5-10-1998
    announcer: "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "Rogers of the Gazette"; "Young Love"
    02-03-1883 - Clarence Mulford - Streator, IL - d. 5-10-1956
    creator of Hopalong Cassidy
    02-06-1913 - John Lund - Rochester, NY - d. 5-10-1992
    actor: Johnny Dollar "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; Chaplain Jim
    "Chaplain Jim"
    02-07-1895 - Irving Aaronson - NYC - d. 5-10-1963
    bandleader: "Irving Aaronson and His Orchestra"
    02-13-1932 - Susan Oliver - NYC - d. 5-10-1990
    actor: "Zero Hour"
    03-01-1878 - Dr. Louis K. Anspacher - d. 5-10-1947
    lecturer, host: "True Ghost Stories"
    03-04-1903 - Harold Berens - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 5-10-1995
    actor: "Ignorance Is Bliss"
    03-23-1905 - Joan Crawford - San Antonio, TX - d. 5-10-1977
    actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Everyman's Theatre"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    04-04-1906 - Johnnie Athaide - d. 5-10-1988
    tenor: KGB San Diego, California
    04-14-1919 - Dennis Ballant - d. 5-10-1970
    disk jockey: WJAG Norfolk, Virginia
    04-19-1891 - Ralph Jewell - d. 5-10-1964
    Played cornet for various bands around Detroit and WXYZ
    06-14-1905 - Wallace Deuel - d. 5-10-1974
    author: "Information Please"
    06-28-1914 - Lester Flatt - Overton County, TN - d. 5-10-1979
    bluegrass guitarist: (Flatt and Scruggs) "Martha White Biscuit Time";
    "Grand Ole Opry"
    07-08-1918 - Craig Stevens - Liberty, MO - d. 5-10-2000
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    07-17-1881 - Artur Argiewicz - d. 5-10-1966
    violinist: "Everyready Hour"
    08-05-1906 - Allen C. Anthony - Buffalo, NY - d. 5-10-1962
    announcer: "Dr. [removed]"; "Dr. [removed], Jr."
    08-11-1867 - Joe Weber - NYC - d. 5-10-1940
    comedian: (Weber and Fields) "The Eveready Hour"; "George Jessel Show"
    08-18-1920 - George Wright - Orland, CA - d. 5-10-1998
    organist: "George Wright-Hammond Organ"; "Nick Carter"
    08-25-1916 - Guy Hall - NYC - d. 5-10-2009
    saxophonist: "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye"
    10-04-1929 - Scotty Beckett - Oakland, CA - d. 5-10-1968
    actor: Chester A. Riley, Jr. "Life of Riley"
    11-11-1917 - Paul Masterson - Montana - d. 5-10-1996
    announcer: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
    11-22-1910 - Ethel Smith - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 5-10-1996
    organist: "Your Hit Parade"
    12-02-1917 - Sylvia Syms - NYC - d. 5-10-1992
    actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Suspense"
    12-31-1905 - Dick Chevillat - NYC - d. 5-10-1984
    writer: "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Rudy Vallee Show"

    Ron
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    Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 21:40:03 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-11 births/deaths

    May 11th births

    05-11-1884 - Alma Gluck - Lasil, Romania - d. 10-27-1938
    opera singer: made one radio appearance in 1929
    05-11-1888 - Irving Berlin - Temum, Russia - d. 9-22-1989
    composer: "Ed Sullivan Show"; "People's Platform"
    05-11-1892 - Margaret Rutherford - London, England - d. 5-22-1972
    actor: "Wisdon of Miss Marple"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    05-11-1894 - Martha Graham - Allegheny, PA - d. 4-1-1991
    choreographer: Miss Hush on "Truth or Consequences"
    05-11-1895 - George Henninger - Binghamton, NY - d. 12-28-1953
    musician: "Brenda Curtis"; "Ladies be Seated"; "Modern Romances"
    05-11-1895 - Maurice Joachim - d. 11-19-1980
    actor: Omar "Omar, the Mystic"; "Unseen Friend "Your Unseen Friend"
    05-11-1899 - Forrest Lewis - Knightstown, IN - d. 6-2-1977
    actor: Richard Q. Peavey "Great Gildersleeve"; Roy Delfeeno "Vic and
    Sade"
    05-11-1900 - Georgia Fifield - d. 3-6-1985
    actor: Mrs. Hipplewater "Frank Watanabe and Honorable Archie"
    05-11-1902 - Bidu Sayao - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - d. 3-12-1999
    sopranist opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"; "The Telephone Hour"
    05-11-1907 - Kent Taylor - Nashua, IA - d. 4-11-1987
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    05-11-1909 - Ocie Stockard - Crafton, TX - d. 4-23-1988
    bango: "The Musical Brownies"
    05-11-1909 - Pattie Chapin - Atlantic City, NJ
    singer: "Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
    05-11-1910 - Johnnie 'Skat' Davis - Brazil, IN - d. 11-28-1983
    trumpet: "The Fred Waring Show"
    05-11-1911 - Phil Silvers - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-1-1985
    comedian: "Phil Silver's Show"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
    05-11-1912 - Bob Trendler
    pianist, conductor: "Bob Trendler Orchestra"
    05-11-1912 - Doodles (Winstead) Weaver - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-13-1983
    comedian: (Brother of Pat Weaver) Professor Feedlebaum "Spike Jones
    Show"
    05-11-1912 - Foster Brooks - Louisville, KY - d. 12-20-2001
    disc jockey: "Foster Brooks Show"; "Melody, Inc."; "Million Dollar
    Ballroom"
    05-11-1913 - John Weigel - Springfield, MO - d. 12-12-2002
    announcer: "The Chicago Theatre of the Air"; "Meet the Meeks"
    05-11-1913 - Tutti Camaratta - Glen Ridge, NJ - d. 4-13-2005
    orchestra leader: "Double Feature"
    05-11-1914 - Bob Atcher - Hardin County, KY - d. 10-30-1993
    singer: "Faultless Starch Time"; "WLS Barn Dance"
    05-11-1915 - Nathan Scott - Salinas, CA - d. 2-27-2010
    composer: "The Log of the Black Parrot"; "Mail Call"
    05-11-1916 - Peg Lynch - Lincoln, NE
    writer, actor: Ethel Arbuckle "Ethel and Albert"; "Couple Next Door"
    05-11-1919 - John Michael Hayes - Worcester, MA - d. 11-19-2008
    writer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Twelve Players"; "Sam Spade"
    05-11-1921 - Dorothy Warenskjold - San Leandro, CA - d. 12-27-2010
    lyric soprano: "The Railroad Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"; "Candy
    Matson, Yukon2-8209"
    05-11-1922 - Eve Boswell - Budapest, Hungary - d. 8-14-1998
    singer: "The Eve Bosewell Show"
    05-11-1927 - Mort Sahl - Montreal, Canada
    comedian: "Mort Sahl Show"
    05-11-1930 - Stanley Elkin - NYC - d. 5-31-1995
    writer: "Earplay"
    05-11-1931 - Marilyn King - Los Angeles, CA
    singer: (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"
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    May 11th deaths

    01-04-1935 - Floyd Patterson - Waco, NC - d. 5-11-2006
    boxer: "Life and the World"; "Tops in Sports"
    01-29-1874 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-11-1960
    rich person: "The Collier Hour"
    02-04-1927 - Dolores Sutton - NYC - d. 5-11-2009
    actor, writer: "The Author's Studio"; "Radio City Playhouse"
    03-01-1903 - Charlie Lyon - Detroit, MI - d. 5-11-1985
    announcer: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Lum and Abner"
    03-11-1952 - Douglas Adams - Cambridge, England - d. 5-11-2001
    writer: "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
    03-15-1915 - Johnny Frazer - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-11-1945 Died in WWII
    announcer: "Brenthouse"; "The Bob Hope Show"; "The Kool Show"
    03-22-1910 - Bob Kendrick - d. 5-11-1998
    fiddle, clarinet, sax, mandolin: "Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets"
    04-04-1889 - Dorothy Gordon - Odessa, Russia - d. 5-11-1970
    moderator: "Dorothy Gordon's Youth Forum"
    04-09-1921 - Frankie Thomas, Jr. - NYC - d. 5-11-2006
    actor: Tom Corbett "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    05-08-1919 - Lex Barker - Rye, NY - d. 5-11-1973
    actor: "MGM Theatre of the Air"
    06-13-1873 - Jean Adair - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - d. 5-11-1953
    actor: "Radio Guild"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    07-25-1906 - Johnny Hodges - Cambridge, MA - d. 5-11-1970
    alto saxophonist: "Esquire Jazz Concert"; "Duke Ellington and His
    Orchestra"
    08-16-1900 - Walter Kinsella - NY - d. 5-11-1975
    actor: Pat Patton "Dick Tracy"; Sergeant Mullins "Mr. and Mrs. North"
    10-01-1922 - Ernest Altschuler - NYC - d. 5-11-1973
    composer/author/engineer: "Voice of America"
    10-03-1913 - Mark Houston - Ohio - d. 5-11-1971
    announcer: "Queen for a Day"
    11-20-1900 - Chester Gould - Pawnee,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-11-1985
    comic strip artist: "Dick Tracy"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 02:12:01 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:48:13 -0400
    From: "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Frank Luther

    Like many of you who are still around from the OTR era, I was a child in the
    1940s.  There were many personalities who aimed their shows toward kids, but
    the one I most remember is Frank Luther.

    I've been able to find copies of records featuring this master entertainer
    of kids, but does anyone know of a source for his radio shows?  So far, I've
    turned up nothing.

    Paula Keiser,
    Topeka, KS

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    Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:48:22 -0400
    From: "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tchaikovsky's themes

     From the previous issue of the Digest:

    May 7th births

    05-07-1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - St. Petersburg, Russia - d.
    11-6-1893
    composer: Some of his compositions were used as themes
    ===========
    Ah, a special fav composer.

    I know that a theme from the Piano Concerto #1 was used as a cue in the
    opening of the War of the Worlds. I think something from his 5th
    Symphony was used for a program theme but I do not remember where I may
    have heard it. A lot of classical music was used in OTR and we have
    discussed that here.

    Can anyone cite any other uses of Tchaikovsky's music in OTR?

    Of course there were many live performances of his music during
    concerts, but I am hoping to find more examples from traditional OTR shows.

    joe salerno

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    Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:49:37 -0400
    From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Harry Shearer on radio

    While there is no definitive log of Harry Shearer's radio appearances that
    I'm aware, I have heard him on a 1955 episode of "Our Miss Brooks" and a
    couple of appearances on "Lux Radio Theater" toward the end of that show's
    run--most notably in a supporting role to Dan Dailey and Dorothy McGuire in
    1954's "Blueprint For Murder," but also on Edmund Gwenn's last performance of
    "Miracle on 34th Street." And of course, there's "Le Show" every weekend on
    NPR and probably a lot more that I'm not aware of.

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    Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:49:44 -0400
    From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  new BearManor Media books
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    Some new titles on the radio front to alert y'all to:

    Paul Frees letters to and from his first wife, who died at age 21
    [removed]

    Dr. Kildare on radio and TV
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    Kay Kyser
    [removed]

    Mel Simons' new one: Voices from the Philco
    [removed]

    Oh, and the Mel Blanc book is done. Just being edited. I hope to have books
    to sign at FOTR this year.

    Thanks for your support!

    Ben Ohmart
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    Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:50:22 -0400
    From: Jandpgardner@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Shadow
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    I entirely agree with all Dave Siegel said in yesterday's Digest #72  about
    Martin Grams Jr's book on "The Shadow". I received my copy in England
    yesterday and it is definitely the best book on any OTR programme that I  have
    seen. It's also the biggest and everything anyone would want to know  about
    this character can be found in the 800+ pages. It will take me a long  time
    to read it all and I know I shall refer to it often. I have most of  Martin's
    books and this is the best one - so far. I hope one  day Martin will write
    a similar book about "The Whistler". In the meantime,  if you have not yet
    ordered "The Shadow", you can do so online at _[removed]_
    ([removed]) .

    John Gardner

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