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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 122
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
4-21 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
col flack [ "EDWARD CARR" <edcarr@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 22-28 Apr [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Howard Hoffman Info.! [ Ljk2476@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:21:09 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-21 births/deaths
April 21st births
04-21-1891 - Dr. Howard W. Haggard - d. 4-22-1959
alcoholism expert: "Devils, Drugs and Doctors"
04-21-1895 - Max Jordan - San Remo, Italy - d. 11-28-1977
correspondent: "NBC News"
04-21-1898 - King Calder - Maryland - d. 6-28-1964
actor: James Anderson "Second Mrs. Burton"; Will Stevenson "Barry
Cameron"
04-21-1905 - Ted Osborne - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 2-12-1987
actor: Dr. Carough "Dr. Kildare"; Professor Whiz the Owl "Cinnamon Bear"
04-21-1907 - Beatrice Kay - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-8-1986
singer: "Gaslight Gayeties"; "Beatrice Kay Show"
04-21-1911 - Leonard Warren - The Bronx, NY - d. 3-4-1960
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Telephone Hour"
04-21-1914 - Norman Panama - Chicago, IL - d. 1-13-2003
writer: "Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-21-1915 - Anthony Quinn - Chihauha, Mexico - d. 6-3-2001
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Your Radio Theatre"
04-21-1916 - Hunter D. Hancock - Uvalde, TX - d. 8-4-2004
disk jockey: Early rhythm and blues rock 'n' roll platter spinner
04-21-1919 - Don Cornell - NYC - d. 2-23-2004
singer: "Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenade"; "One Night Stand"; "The Big
Show"
04-21-1920 - Jim Nabbie - d. 9-12-1992
lead tenor: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's
Go Nightclubbing"
04-21-1921 - Betty Jane Rhodes - Rockford, IL
vocalist: "Meet Me at Parky's"; "The Packard Hour"
04-21-1923 - Tex Antoine - d. 1-12-1983
announcer: "The Eternal Light"; "Jane Pickens Show"
04-21-1930 - Kirby Ayres - d. 11-16-2005
disk jockey: "Bob and Ray Present the CBS Radio Network"
04-21-1932 - Elaine May - Philadelphia, PA
comedienne: "Mike Nicholes and Elaine May"; "Monitor"
April 21st deaths
01-02-1904 - James Melton - Moultrie, GA - d. 4-21-1961
singer" "Palmolive Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "Harvest of Stars"
02-21-1933 - Nina Simone - Tyron, NC - d. 4-21-2003
singer: "Voices of Vista"
03-03-1890 - Edmund Lowe - San Jose, CA - d. 4-21-1971
actor: Sergeant Quirt "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"
04-18-1911 - Louis Vittes - d. 4-21-1969
writer: "Advs. of The Thin Man"; "Affairs of Peter Salem"; "The Lone
Wolf"
05-03-1902 - Walter Slezak - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-21-1983
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Best Plays"; "Studio One"; "Columbia
Workshop"
06-09-1890 - Leslie Banks - West Derby, England - d. 4-21-1952
actor: "Theatre of Romance"
06-25-1915 - Peter Lind Hayes - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-21-1998
actor: "Jack Benny Program"; "Texaco Town"; "Ford Show"; "Lum and Abner"
07-07-1927 - Gloria Mann - New York - d. 4-21-1961
actor: Veronica Lodge "Archie Andrews"
07-22-1894 - Major George Fielding Eliot - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-21-1971
cbs military analyst during World War II
08-13-1904 - Charles "Buddy" Rogers - Olathe, KS - d. 4-21-1999
bandleader, actor: (America's Boyfriend) "Twin Stars"; "Pick-A-Date"
08-21-1908 - Bob Jellison - Des Moines, IA - d. 4-21-1980
actor: Oswald Ching "Story of Mary Marlin"; Buster Gunn "Great Gunns"
08-29-1906 - Joe Sawyer - Guelph, Canada - d. 4-21-1982
actor: Sergant 'Biff' O'Hara "Rin-Tin-Tin"
10-12-1930 - Cyril Tawney - d. 4-21-2005
folk singer: "Folkspin"; "Alan Lomax Show"
10-21-1892 - Gummo Marx - NYC - d. 4-21-1977
comedian: (Marx Brothers) "American Review"
10-31-1909 - Thelma Boardman - Panama Canal Zone - d. 4-21-1978
actor: Minnie Mouse "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
11-05-1895 - Charles MacArthur - Scranton, PA - d. 4-21-1956
playwright: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour"
xx-xx-1882 - Nils Thor Granlund - Korpibomboia, Lapland, Sweden - d.
4-21-1957
broadway producer: "[removed] and His Girls"
Ron Sayles
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:28:56 -0400
From: "EDWARD CARR" <edcarr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: col flack
good afternoon
can someone enlighten me as to who was col. flack.
was this a 15min radio show? or a tv show?
also i find i have many 1/2 shows on 16in disc
dennis day, a fred waring, are just some, do you
have 1/2 shows that we could get together on?
edcarr@[removed]
and thanks for any info on flack as i can't find it
ed
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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:13:56 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 22-28 April
From Those Were The Days --
4/22
1940 - The first all-Chinese commercial radio program was broadcast over
KSAN in San Francisco, CA.
1946 - Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg arrived at WEAF in New York City
with an entertaining morning show called, Hi, Jinx.
4/24
1949 - Dick Powell starred in Richard Diamond, Private Detective on NBC.
The show stayed on the air for four years.
1955 - X-Minus One, a show for science fiction fans, was first heard on NBC.
4/25
1938 - Your Family and Mine, a radio serial, was first broadcast.
4/27
1921 - Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio when
WEW in St. Louis, MO aired weather news.
1931 - NBC presented Lum and Abner for the first time.
1932 - The Texaco fire chief, Ed Wynn, was heard on Texaco Star Theater
for the first time. Wynn, a popular vaudeville performer, demanded a
live audience to react to his humor if he was to make the switch to
radio. The network consented and Wynn became radio's first true superstar.
1937 - The initial broadcast of Lorenzo Jones was heard over NBC.
4/27
Studio One on CBS was first broadcast. The show was full of great stars,
but no sponsors. CBS dropped Studio One after a year on radio.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:19:25 -0400
From: Ljk2476@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Howard Hoffman Info.!
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To Mr. [removed] King - Thanks so much for the information on Howard Hoffman! I
suspected he stayed in Chicago, but as I said, I have not found any
information on him at all from other old-tirme radio reference books,
outside of his
work on the CHANDU show. I was intending to go to the Chicago Public Library
this coming week to do a search on him. I'd like to find out if he is the
same
"Howard R. Hoffman" who worked in Hollywood as an actor in the 1950s into the
'60s. It certainly could be, as the "Howard R. Hoffman" noted in the
Internet Movie Database was born in Ohio in 1893 and died in 1969. That
would have
made him about when he landed the role of "Chandu" in 1935 in Chicago, which
would fit the ages of other "Chandus" like Gayne Whitman and Tom Collins.
(Bela Lugosi was born in 1882, but carried his age well, until the very late
1930s.) Thanks for your help! - Lenny Kohl
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