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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 29
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Margaret Truman                   [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
      2-1 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      100 Years in February                 [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      John Roeburt                          [ "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed]. ]
      Co-Op sponsorship                     [ Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed]; ]
      Margaret Truman                       [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]

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    Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:53:40 -0500
    From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Margaret Truman

    I would love to know where Alan Hubin got his  information about Margaret not
    writing her novels. I have checked everywhere I  know to check, and I do not
    find that fact mentioned any place. Even Mr. Bain  himself says it is simply
    not true.

    Charlie

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    Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:22:03 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-1 births/deaths

    February 1st births

    02-01-1859 - Victor Herbert - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-24-1924
    composer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Railroad Hour"
    02-01-1891 - Alexander Kipnis - Schitomir, Ukraine - d. 5-14-1978
    wagnerian basso profundo: "Outpost Concert Series"; "Metropolitan Opera"
    02-01-1894 - James P. Johnson - New Brunswick, NJ - d. 11-17-1955
    pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"; "This is Jazz"
    02-01-1895 - John Ford - Cape Elizabeth, ME - d. 8-31-1973
    director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    02-01-1901 - Clark Gable - Cadiz, OH - d. 11-16-1960
    actor: "So Proudly We Hail"; "Silver Theatre"
    02-01-1902 - Langston Hughes - Joplin, Mo - d. 5-22-1967
    writer: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
    02-01-1903 - Donald Thompson - Albia, IA - d. unknown
    actor/announcer: "The Right to Happiness"; "Those Happy Gilmans"
    02-01-1904 - S. J. Perelman - NYC - d. 10-17-1979
    humorist: "Information, Please"; "Author! Author!"; "Railroad Hour"
    02-01-1906 - Hildegarde - Adell, WI - d. 7-29-2005
    singer, pianist: (The Dear that Made Milwaukee Famous) "Hildegard
    Program"
    02-01-1908 - George Pal - Cegled, Austria-Hungary - d. 5-2-1980
    film producer, director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    02-01-1912 - Clete Roberts - Portland, OR - d. 9-30-1984
    news correspondent: Covered both World War II and Korea
    02-01-1916 - Helen Walpole - Birmingham, AL - d. 5-26-1992
    actor: Sylvia Bardine "Just Plain Bill"; Frances "Lorenzo Jones"
    02-01-1922 - Miriam Wolfe - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-29-2000
    actor: Nancy "Witch's Tale"
    02-01-1922 - Renata Tebaldi - Pesaro, Italy - d. 12-19-2004
    lyric soprano: "Bell Telephone Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera
    02-01-1926 - John Blashill - d. 2-21-2006
    disk jockey: KVOE Santa Ana, California
    02-01-1926 - Nancy Gates - Dallas, TX
    actor: "Masquerade"; "Orson Welles Theatre"
    02-01-1926 - Stuart Whitman - San Francisco, CA
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    02-01-1937 - Don Everly - Brownie, KY
    singer: (The Everly Brothers) "March of Dimes"; "Country Hoedown"
    02-01-1941 - Marian Hailey - Portland, OR
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    February 1st deaths

    02-18-1907 - L. A. "Speed" Riggs - Silverdale, NC - d. 2-1-1987
    tobacco auctioneer: "Jack Benny Show"; "Kay Kyser Show"
    02-21-1881 - Dr. Jonah B. Wise - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-1-1959
    preacher: "Message of Israel"
    02-25-1912 - Richard Wattis - Wednesbury, England - d. 2-1-1975
    actor: "Brothers In Law"
    04-16-1895 - Mischa Mischakoff - Proskourov, Russia - d. 2-1-1981
    violinist: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "NBC String Trio"
    05-02-1885 - Hedda Hopper - Hollidaysburg, PA - d. 2-1-1966
    actor, columnist: Portia Brent "Brenthouse"; "Hedda Hopper Show"
    05-29-1909 - Mary Jane Higby - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-1-1986
    actor: Joan Davis "When a Girl Marries"; Nora Drake "This is Nora Drake"
    05-30-1892 - Raymond Clapper - LaCygne, KS - d. 2-1-1944
    commentator: (Killed During WWII) "News and Commentary for White Owl
    Cigars"
    06-10-1920 - Anne Burr - Boston, MA - d. 2-1-2003
    actor: Regina Rawlings "Backstage Wife"; "Nona Marsh "Wendy Warren
    and the News"
    07-07-1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti - Cadegliano, Italy - d. 2-1-2007
    opera composer: "Best of All"
    07-23-1908 - Ernest Dudley - Dudley, England - d. 2-1-2006
    writer: "Enter Sexton Blake"; "Dr. Morelle"
    08-12-1921 - Marjorie Reynolds - Buhl, ID - d. 2-1-1997
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Silver Theatre"
    08-16-1888 - Marion Sayle Taylor - Louisville, KY - d. 2-1-1942
    advisor: "Voice of Experience"
    08-25-1903 - Michael Bartlett - North Oxford, MA - d. 2-1-1978
    singer: "The Jack Benny Show"
    08-30-1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - London, England - d. 2-1-1851
    creator of Frankenstein
    09-15-1907 - Jack Bailey - Hampton, IA - d. 2-1-1980
    emcee: "Queen for a Day"; "Truth or Consequences"
    10-04-1895 - Buster Keaton - Piqua, KS - d. 2-1-1966
    comedian: "Shell Chateau"; "Voices from the Hollywood Past"
    11-03-1928 - Wanda Hendrix - Jacksonville, FL - d. 2-1-1981
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Stars Over Hollywood"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    12-01-1918 - Thomas Hayward - Kansas City, MO - d. 2-1-1995
    singer: "Serenade to America"; "Name Speaks"
    12-28-1909 - Olan Soule - La Harpe, IL - d. 2-1-1994
    actor: Sam Ryder "Bachelor's Children"; Kermit Hubbard "Joan and Kermit"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:22:26 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  100 Years in February

    People born 100 years ago in February

    02-01-1908 - George Pal - Cegled, Austria-Hungary - d. 5-2-1980
    film producer, director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    02-02-1908 - Cal Tinney - Pontotoc County, OK - d. 12-2-1993
    actor: Binnacle Barnes "Robinson Crusoe, Jr."
    02-04-1908 - Jack Fraser - Lawrence, MA - d. 1-1-2000
    newscaster: "John Gordon Fraser and the News", "Monitor"
    02-04-1908 - Manny Klein - NYC - d. 5-31-1994
    trumpet: "The Ipana Troubadors"
    02-07-1908 - Bill Johnstone - Paisley, Scotland - d. 11-1-1996
    actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"; Sam Young "Pepper Young's
    Family"
    02-08-1908 - Myron McCormick - Albany, IN - d. 7-30-1962
    actor: Christopher Wells "Advs. of Christopher Wells"
    02-11-1908 - Hiram Sherman - Boston, MA - d. 4-11-1989
    actor: "Les Miserables"; "Mercury Theatre on the Aie"
    02-11-1908 - Philip Dunne - NYC - d. 6-2-1992
    screenwriter, director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-13-1908 - Lennie Hayton - NYC - d. 4-24-1971
    conductor: "Your Hit Parade"; "Ipana Troubadors"
    02-13-1908 - Pauline Frederick - Gallitzin, PA - d. 5-9-1990
    newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "Pauline Frederick News"; "Second
    Sunday"
    02-14-1908 - Lonnie Glosson - Judsonia, AR - d. 3-2-2001
    country music harmonica player: "Grand Ole Opry"
    02-15-1908 - Hartzell Spence - Clarion, IA - d. 5-9-2001
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-15-1908 - Hugh Wedlock, Jr. - d. 12-13-1993
    writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Lum and Abner"; "That's My Pop"
    02-15-1908 - William Janney - NYC - d. 12-22-1992
    actor: Gary Haven "We are Always Young"; Howie Wing "Howie Wing"
    02-17-1908 - Staats Cotsworth - Oak Park, IL - d. 4-9-1979
    actor: David Farrell "Front Page Farrell"; Mark Trail "Mark Trail"
    02-17-1908 - Walter "Red" Barber - Columbus, MS - d. 10-22-1992
    sportscaster: (The Old Redhead) "Schaefer Star Revue"
    02-22-1908 - John Mills - North Elmham, England - d. 4-22-2005
    actor: "A Christmas Carol"; "Charlie Chaplin"
    02-25-1908 - George Duning - Richmond, IN - d. 2-27-2000
    composer: "Bud's Bandwagon"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:18:17 -0500
    From: "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  John Roeburt

    G'Day folks,

    I guess one of the reasons I took to OTR like a duck to water, when I
    finally discovered OTR that is, is because I love reading.  I find both
    reading and listening requires a similar amount of imagination.

    I have always collected books.  Apart from books on Australian History or
    family histories covering discovery and settlement and early life in various
    regions of Australia, I enjoy crime pulps.  Discovering that many Australian
    Pulp writers were also radio scriptwriters, was a bonus and the two hobbies
    work well together.

    A lot of American Pulps were republished in Australia just as Radio shows
    were.  Whilst I have been documenting Australian scriptwriters and the books
    they wrote, I hadn't really taken a lot of notice of the same tie-in with
    American pulps.  I knew there was such a tie-in and comments have been made
    on this list and other OTR places, about authors who wrote for many
    different OTR series, though not a lot of comment about their littery works.

    I just finished a pulp called Tough Cop by John Roeburt, published in
    Australia by Invincible Press who published a series of mysteries called
    Invincible Mysteries, around 1944 to 1952.  The series was drawn from [removed],
    [removed] and Australian Authors.  What made this book stand out for me was the
    Dedication "For HIMAN BROWN A SWELL GUY" with HIMAN BROWN in bold.  A few
    years ago it would have meant nothing to me, but now I took the time to do a
    little googling and found quite a few instances of Himan Brown as Director
    and John Roeburt as Scriptwriter in Inner Sanctum Mysteries as well as Barry
    Craig.  I am sure if I looked further I would find other instances of them
    working together.  It was a nice dedication and an indication of the high
    regard Roeburt had for Himan Brown and I was glad I saw it.

    If anybody else collects pulps and is interested in the tie-in with radio
    broadcasts, please let me know.  Yes I know about The Shadow, but I was
    thinking of lesser known instances.

    Ian Grieve

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    Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:57:24 -0500
    From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Co-Op sponsorship

    I'm currently researching a network radio program that
    was, for a time, sponsored on a "co-op" basis.  Could
    someone please clarify what that means from an OTR
    perspective?

    Does it mean the network has left it to their
    individual affiliates to secure local sponsorship, or
    something more complicated?

    Michael

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    Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:29:38 -0500
    From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Margaret Truman
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    The statement that Ms. truman was not a mystery writer is mis-leading.
    According to my research 8 of her mystery novels as "said" to be wriiten by
    Donald Bain. The posting gives the impression that all of her books were
    ghost written. If the poster wishes to continue this thread let's do it
    off-digest.
      Larry Albert

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