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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 315
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Simple questions                      [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
  Well!                                 [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  COLD CASE/WAR OF THE WORLDS           [ "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@m ]
  11-7 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:08:53 -0500
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Simple questions
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       Much has been mentioned lately about the upcoming Writer's Guild
strike.  My questions are simple:

       [removed] there any writers strikes by radio writers during the golden
age of radio?

       [removed] there even a union for radio writers then?

       Contact me off list if necessary.

Another OTR Fan,

Kenneth Clarke

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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:22:09 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Well!

I have just completed the best book I have ever read about Jack
Benny, and I have several Jack Benny books on my shelves. "Well!
Reflections on the Life and Career of Jack Benny." Edited by Mike
Leannah, a frequent contributor to this digest, and published by Ben
Ohmart's BearManor Media.

I just got the book on Monday and finished reading it on Tuesday.
Admittedly it is not a big book, but it is so interesting that it was
impossible for me to put down once I started to read it.

Where else can you find what the news was on the day that Jack was
born, or died? Where else could you find the dialogue on the Benny
show compared to fine music. You can in this book. This is not your
run of the mill Jack Benny book, it is different. Jack even wrote two
chapters himself.

The book is not a long read, but it is a read jammed packed with
interesting little tidbits about Jack and his cast.

Come Christmas morning this book should be under every Christmas tree
in the nation, or at the very least under ever Christmas tree of
people who know and remember Jack Benny.

Right about here you might expect the usual disclaimer that I have no
vested interest in this book, not this time. I had the privilege and
honor to coauthor a chapter with the editor Mike Leannah, so I DO
have an interest in the book. But, that does not negate one iota from
what I said about the book.

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:48:09 -0500
From: "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  COLD CASE/WAR OF THE WORLDS
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Like Jack French, I also watched the "Cold Case" episode aired the other
night, but reacted to the presentation a bit differently than Jack.  I think
that the reproductions of the original CBS radio show were accurate and well
done, but
the alleged reaction of the public was greatly exaggerated and blown out of
proportion and reality.
There is a lot of material available about the actual "reaction" of the 1938
show, and it does not include thousands of people being misled to the the
point of disasters and death.  There was a huge influx of telephone calls to
CBS in NYC following the broadcast, and an alleged NYPD investigation, but
nothing nearly as drastic as alleged on the
"Cold Case" broadcast.  A small percentage of the listening public who heard
only a portion of the show were under
the erroneous impression that a disaster was occurring, but there were no
massive evacuations or military actions
as have been rumored over the 69 years.  Orson gave a complete explanation at
the end of the program, and
further documented the program as a "story" adapted from the famous [removed] Wells
work, the following day in a press
conference.   The "reaction" in 1938 has been repeatedly inflated for all
those years, and the "Cold Case" TV show
only served to reiterate that mistaken (but more interesting) impression.
With that all said, it was nice to see someone
work a famous OTR program into a modern-day TV show on a major network.  It
was entertaining!
Tom Heathwood

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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:48:47 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-7 births/deaths

November 7th births

11-07-1868 - Royal Copeland - Dexter, MI - d. 6-17-1938
commentator: "Health Talk"; "Fleischmann Hour"
11-07-1883 - Solomon Lightfoot Michaux - Newport News, VA - d.
10-20-1968
preacher: "Elder Michaux's Happiness Church Service"
11-07-1890 - Phil Spitalny - Odessa, Russia - d. 10-11-1970
conductor: "Nestles Chocolateers"; "Blue Coal Revue"; "Hour of Charm"
11-07-1893 - Margaret Leech - Newburgh, NY - d. 2-24-1974
author: "Information Please"
11-07-1895 - Jerry Belcher - Austin, TX - d. 6-3-1962
interviewer: "Vox Pop"; "Our Neighbors"
11-07-1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz - NYC - d. 3-5-1953
screenwriter, producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-07-1902 - Ed Dodd - Lafayette, GA - d. 5-27-1991
comic creator: "Mark Trail"
11-07-1903 - Dean Jagger - Lima, OH - d. 2-5-1991
actor: "Crisis in War Town"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Cavalcade of America"
11-07-1906 - Red Ingle - Toledo, OH - d. 9-7-1965
vocalist: (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) "The Spike Jones Show"
11-07-1907 - Tom Hanlon - Kansas - d. 9-29-1970
announcer: "Jane Endicott, Reporter"; "That's My Pop"; "Beulah Show"
11-07-1910 - Charles Carroll - Jackson, MI - d. 6-xx-1978
actor: "Margo of Castlewood"; "Valiant Lady"
11-07-1911 - Dick Stark - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-12-1986
announcer: "It Pays to be Ignorant"; "Perry Mason"; "Walter
Winchell's Jergens Journal"
11-07-1913 - Margorie Anderson - London, England - d. 12-14-1999
disc jockey: "Forces Favourites"; "Woman's Hour"; "Home for the Day"
11-07-1916 - Joe Bushkin - NYC - d. 11-3-2004
jazz pianist: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
11-07-1917 - Johnnie Stewart - Tonbridge, England - d. 4-29-2005
sound effects for BBC radio in 1930s, then became a producer
11-07-1918 - Billy Graham - Charlotte, NC
preacher: "Hour of Decision"
11-07-1921 - Virginia Kaye - d. 3-18-2005
actor: Rosemary Dawson "Rosemary"
11-07-1922 - Al Hirt - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-27-1999
dixieland trumpeter: "Voices of Vista"; "The Navy Swings"; "Here's to
Veterans"
11-07-1926 - Joan Sutherland - Sydney, Australia
soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"

November 7th deaths

01-21-1915 - Alan Hewitt - NYC - d. 11-7-1986
actor: Ken Martinson "This is Nora Drake"; Karl Dorn "Romance of
Helen Trent"
01-21-1925 - Charles Aidman - Frankfort, IN - d. 11-7-1993
acotr: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
02-19-1902 - Eddie Peabody - Reading, MA - d. 11-7-70
banjoist: (The Banjo King) "National Barn Dance"
03-13-1892 - Janet Flanner - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-7-1978
reporter: "Listen, The Women"
03-14-1925 - Sonny Cohn - Chicago, IL - d. 11-7-2006
trupeter: Count Basie Orchestra
03-24-1910 - John V. Ambrose - d. 11-7-1995
sportscaster: WTAG Worcester, Massachusetts
03-30-1914 - Stu Novins - Boston, MA - d. 11-7-1989
writer: "The City"
04-13-1919 - Howard Keel - Gillespie, IL - d. 11-7-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-17-1905 - John Patrick - Louisville, KY - d. 11-7-1995
writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air";"Lux Radio Theatre"
05-25-1898 - Gene Tunney - NYC - d. 11-7-1978
heavyweight boxing champion: "National Guard Show"; "The Navy is Fit
to Fight"
08-15-1903 - Jerry Cady - d. 11-7-1948
writer: "Major Hoople"
08-18-1879 - Gus Edwards - Hohensaliza, Germany - d. 11-7-1945
songwriter: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
08-25-1885 - Chick Sale - Huron, SD - d. 11-7-1936
humorist: "General Motors Family Party"; "RCA Victor Hour"
09-16-1927 - Jack Kelly - Astoria, NY - d. 11-7-1992
actor: "Suspense"
09-20-1918 - Peg Phillips - Everett, WA - d. 11-7-2002
actor: "Studio One"; "The Big Show"
10-04-1905 - Ruth Lyons - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-7-1988
talk show host: "50-50 Club"
10-10-1911 - George Mathews - NYC - d. 11-7-1984
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-11-1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt - NYC - d. 11-7-1962
commentator: "Eleanor Roosevelt Chats/It's a Woman's World/Talks by
Eleanor Roosevelt"
10-11-1914 - Buddy Twiss - St. Paul, MN - d. 11-7-1952
producer: "I Love A Mystery"; "One Man's Family"
10-16-1900 - Lloyd Corrigan - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-7-1969
actor: Judge Hunter "One Man's Family"
10-21-1905 - Carleton Young - NYC - d. 11-7-1994
actor: Dick Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"; Ellery Queen "Advs of Ellery
Queen"
11-05-1885 - Will Durant - North Adams, MA - d. 11-7-1981
historian: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
12-11-1883 - Victor McLaglen - Tunbridge Wells, England - d. 11-7-1959
actor: Captain Flagg "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"; Mountie Eric
Lewis "Red Trails"
12-14-1915 - Jerry Daniels - d. 11-7-1995
singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
Nightclubbing"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 02:12:01 -0500
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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