Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #111
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Date: 4/9/2007 3:24 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 111
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  4-8 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Inner at your own risk                [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Lone Ranger Trivia                    [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
  To Eat, Perchance To ... ?            [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
  Bud Collyer and Joan Alexander        [ LSMFTnolonger@[removed] ]
  I also met a man who knew the James   [ "Harry Machin Jr" <harbev5@earthlin ]
  Felix-Stanly-Milwaukee radio singer   [ James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed] ]
  John Freedom                          [ "Larry Siskind" <lasisk@[removed] ]
  mr. and mrs. north                    [ Grams46@[removed] ]
  4-9 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  did the Lone [removed]               [ "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@earthli ]
  THE LONE RANGER                       [ CHET <voxpop75@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:10:06 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-8 births/deaths

April 8th births

04-08-1881 - Arthur B. Allen - Gowanda, NY - d. 8-25-1947
actor: "Snow Village Sketches"; "Kate Smith Show"; Stebbens Boys"
04-08-1882 - Lulu McConnell - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-9-1962
comedienne: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
04-08-1887 - Walter Connolly - Cincinnati, OH - d. 5-28-1940
actor: Charlie Chan "Charlie Chan"
04-08-1888 - Thornton Fisher - Cincinnati, OH - d. 8-xx-1975
sports reporter: "The Briggs Sports Review"
04-08-1889 - Adrian Boult - Chester, England - d. 2-23-1983
writer: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Casebook of Gregory Hood";
"Sherlock Holmes"
04-08-1896 - Yip Harburg - NYC - d. 3-5-1981
lyricist: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
04-08-1900 - Bert "Mad Russian" Gordon - NYC - d. 11-30-1974
comedian: "Eddie Cantor Show"; Yasha "Duffy's Tavern"
04-08-1905 - Ilka Chase - NYC - d. 2-15-1978
panelist, hostess, actor: "Leave It to the Girls"; "Luncheon at the
Waldorf"
04-08-1906 - Max Afford - Parkside, Australia - d. 11-2-1954
writer: "Murder's Not for Middle Age"
04-08-1908 - Tito Guizar - Guadalajara, Mexico - d. 12-25-1999
vocalist: (Isham Jones Band) "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hollywood Showcase"
04-08-1912 - Sonja Henie - Kristiania, Norway - d. 10-12-1969
skater, actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Bill Ster's Colgate Sports
Newsreel"; "Shell Show"
04-08-1915 - Carlyle Austin - d. 10-xx-1985
sportscaster: KEVR Seattle, Washington
04-08-1915 - Fred Flowerday - d. 4-6-1989
director: "The Lone Ranger"; "The Green Hornet"; "Challenge of the
Yukon"
04-08-1916 - Carl Cotner - Indiana - d. 11-14-1986
steel guitar: "Gene Aurty's Melody Ranch"
04-08-1919 - Virginia O'Brien - Los Angles, CA - d. 1-23-2001
actor: "Blue Ribbon Town"
04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
operatic tenor: "Gala Performance"
04-08-1930 - Dorothy Tutin - London, England - d. 8-6-2001
actor: "Before the Party"
04-08-1931 - John Bartholomew Tucker
host (communicator) "Monitor"
04-08-1937 - Bernelda Wheeler - Saskatchewan, Canada - d. 9-11-2005
worked as a disc jockey in Churchill, Manitoba
04-08-1941 - Peggy Lennon - Los Angeles, CA
singer: (The Lennon Sisters) "Music on Deck"; "Voices of Vista";
"Guest Star"

April 8th deaths

01-21-1914 - George A. Putnam - Middletown, NY - d. 4-8-1975
announcer: "Can You Top This?"; "Vic and Sade"; "Portia Faces Life"
01-28-1914 - Nelson Olmstead - Minnesota - d. 4-8-1992
actor: Joe Huston "Bachelor's Children"
02-12-1893 - Omar Bradley - Clark, MO - d. 4-8-1981
general of the army: "What Are We Fighting For?"; "[removed] Campaign"
02-27-1897 - Marian Anderson - South Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-8-1993
singer: "Ford Evening Sunday Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "New World A'
Coming"
03-08-1909 - Claire Trevor - NYC - d. 4-8-2000
actor: Lorelei Kilbourne " Big Town", Theresa Travers "Results, Inc."
03-24-1906 - Julian Funt - d. 4-8-1980
writer: "Young Doctor Malone"
05-04-1924 - Gene Klaven - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-8-2004
new york morning personalty: "Klaven and Finch"; "Klaven in the Morning"
06-13-1920 - Ben Johnson - Pawnee, OK - d. 4-8-1996
actor: "Francis Burke for Attorney General"
08-30-1879 - Fritzi Scheff - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-8-1954
prima donna: "Lavender and Old Lace"; "The Philco Hour"
12-19-1894 - Ford Frick - Wawaka, IN - d. 4-8-1978
baseball comissioner: "Baseball: An Action History"; "Play Ball";
"Tribute to Babe Ruth"
xx-xx-1876 - Louis Dean - Wilmington, DE - d. 4-8-1933
announcer: "Stoopnagle and Budd"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:10:38 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Inner at your own risk

You know the gathering room or foyer sometimes found in churches just before
you enter the main auditorium?  In our church we call that the narthex while
in some churches it's referred to as a vestibule.  I'm assuming it probably
has other labels in other denominations.

My wife was attending an event the other day in a church of another faith.
Telling me about it, she was attempting to recall what that church applies
to its "great room" for receiving guests.  To make sure I understood the
area she designated, she allowed, "You know, it's not a narthex.  But what
do they call their outer sanctum?"  I grinned.  There was no way I could not
relate that innocent depiction to radio.

Jim Cox

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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:42:08 -0400
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lone Ranger Trivia

To Frank McGurn, who wonders about some of the daily trials of living on the
prairie and fighting outlaws.

Fran Striker and the other writers on The Lone Ranger naturally constructed
their stories around events, rather than everyday tasks.  However, there
were many times the Ranger and Tonto shared meals with the Padre and Mustang
Mag and Clarabelle Hornblow.  They often had to quickly abandon a campsite
as they were eating a meal.  Tonto taught Dan Reid how to cook and fish, and
when Dan was spending his summer vacation with his famous uncle, he did a
lot of the cooking.
Although I don't have a specific citation for this, I do believe that Tonto
carried the cooking equipment which consisted of both a coffee pot and a
frying pan, since he often purchased flour and coffee when he bought
supplies at the local stores.
There is no mention of a tent in the shows.  They often sought shelter in a
handy cave when it stormed, or Tonto built a lean-to which was amazingly
waterproof.
They certainly took good care of their horses.  Food and water was paramount
for them, and Beemer often mentions rubbing down Silver after a long trek.
If not Tonto, the Ranger would occasionally use a disguise to buy food in
town, or they would approach a local rancher to make a purchase.  As for
bathing, that's never discussed.  But they both carried changes of clothing,
although the Ranger used many disguises and Tonto seldom did.  His buckskins
had to be pretty gamey.

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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:42:50 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  To Eat, Perchance To ... ?

Frank McGurn asks whether The Lone Ranger and Tonto ever ate meals,
changed clothes, or did many other things we do routinely.

Sure they did.  But with only a half-hour to get the whole story in, much
of that stuff went without saying.  The only things that were mentioned
in a Lone Ranger story were things that affected the plot.  For that
matter, hardly any OTR character ever entered a bathroom, even just to
wash his or her hands.

Besides, The Lone Ranger was sponsored by General Mills.  Imagine a
mention of a breakfast without Cheerios or Kix.  It was easier just to
sidestep the eating business.

Did they feed and groom Silver and Scout?

Silver and Scout had a far easier time than Straight Arrow's golden
Palomino, Fury, who just stood around in a cave until needed.  Poor
equine ...

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:46:06 -0400
From: LSMFTnolonger@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bud Collyer and Joan Alexander

When Filmation made "The New Adventures of Superman" Saturday morning
cartoon series in 1966, they reunited Bud Collyer and Joan Alexander,
the radio voices of Clark Kent/Superman and Lois Lane, to reprise their
famous roles.

Warner Home Video will release "The New Adventures of Superman" on June
26th. It will be a 2-disc DVD set with 36 6-minute cartoons.  The
suggested retail price will be $[removed] but, of course, places like
[removed] and [removed] will sell the set for much less.

For more information:

[removed]

Gregory R. Jackson, Jr.

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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:46:51 -0400
From: "Harry Machin Jr" <harbev5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  I also met a man who knew the James gang

Reading a posting to the OTR  prompted
a memory concerning not just Jesse James,
but a man who told me about knowing the
gang.  I would never have recalled my
hearing about the man's connection with
the James gang otherwise.  I have no clear
memory of the man except he appeared
very old to me (I was perhaps no older
than 8 yrs but probably younger.)

I know this won't count as a genuine piece
of history, since I don't remember the man's
name, but I remember when very young a
man told me about knowing the James
gang.  He was a customer at my dad's
chicken hatchery, and I was enthralled at
his stories.  That was around 68-70 yyears
ago, and while I remember the incident, I
was just too young to keep a memory of
the man's [removed] even anything more
than that the man was old.

Thanks for my recall, even though it's just
an unverifiable claim to anyone else.  I
suspect that living in Kansas made the
man's claim more likely, and my young
years never doubted the man's story.  I
only wish I remembered more.

Harry Machin Jr
harbev5@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:47:21 -0400
From: James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Felix-Stanly-Milwaukee radio singer

04-08-07

A few days ago, Michael Henry wrote, asking if anyone was familiar with
the work of Felix Stanly, a Polish singer on Milwaukee radio stations in
the 1920's and 30's, who had shortened his name from Felix Stanley
Grzeszkiewicz.

Today I had the opportunity to bring this subject up with my wife's
93-year-old uncle who grew up in Milwaukee and who had been a radio
engineer.  As it turns out, Uncle Jerry had helped build WTMJ - which is
where Felix Stanly appeared - and had worked there up until 1934.  He
remembers Felix, and everybody in the station joked about him cuting his
name in half because all of it wouldn't fit on the script pages.

That was all that he remembered about him on the spur of the moment,
having it been a pop-up subject from his past of 73+ years ago.  If Mr.
Henry has specific questions for Uncle jerry, I could put him in e-mail
contact with him.

Regards,

Jim Arva

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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:47:44 -0400
From: "Larry Siskind" <lasisk@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  John Freedom

During World War II when I was in grade school, I remember
listening to an exciting radio drama called "John Freedom". The
hero with that name fought nazis in occupied Europe. I have never
been able to find references to this show anywhere. None of my
most knowledgeable OTR friends ever heard of it. I was about to
dismiss it  as a trick played on a fading memory when I came
across a reference to it in the June 30, 1943 radio column of the
"Chareston Daily Mail" reproduced in Sperdvac's  "Radiogram" of
March 2007 on [removed]  "John Freedom" was a very real radio show
broadcast over the Blue Network, Wednesdays at 9PM Eastern War
[removed] Does anyone know any more about this show and especially
does anyone know of any existing copies?

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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:48:07 -0400
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  mr. and mrs. north

i have been listening to a weeks worth of   fifteen minute episodes of mr.
and mrs. north.  i believe it was broadcast  in 1954.  the title of these five
programs was  "nightwalk".
brief  synopsis of plot is:
laura is married to wade.
laura's sister,  evelyn was living with them when evelyn was stabbed to death.
wade and his  business partner frank are involved in irs tax fraud.
laura was almost run  down by a car that belonged to wade.
at the end of installment  five:
wade apparently confesses to driving the car that almost killed  laura.
and laura confesses to killing her sister, evelyn.
i  don't have any other episodes.   if anyone has info on the conclusion,  i
would appreciate hearing it.
thanks and peace from kathy
support our  troops; end the war
john 3:16

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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:03:10 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-9 births/deaths

April 9th births

04-09-1883 - Frank King - Cashton, WI - d. 6-24-1969
cartoonist: Created Gasoline Alley comic strip
04-09-1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. - Rostov-on-Don, Russia - d. 2-22-1985
violinist: "The Magic Key"
04-09-1892 - Mary Pickford - Toronto, Canada - d. 5-29-1979
actor: "Mary Pickford Dramas"; "Parties at Pickfair"
04-09-1895 - Frank H. Anderson, Jr. - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1952
pianist/singer: had his own program for 8 years
04-09-1897 - John B. Gambling - Norwich, England - d. 11-21-1974
host: "Your Personal Program"; "John B. Gambling Club"; "Rambling
with Gambling"
04-09-1898 - Paul Robeson - Princeton, NJ - d. 1-23-1976
singer: "Pursuit of Happiness"
04-09-1900 - Allen Jenkins - NYC - d. 7-20-1974
actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
04-09-1903 - Ward Bond - Denver, CO - d. 11-5-1960
actor: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
04-09-1904 - Mickey Alpert - d. 9-22-1965
orchestra leader: "Amalgamated Broadcasting System Inaugural Program"
04-09-1905 - Brewster Morgan - d. 12-xx-1960
director: "Columbia Workshop"; "Men Against Death"; "Report to the
Nation"
04-09-1905 - James Fulbright - Summer, MO - d. 2-9-1995
[removed] senator: "Information Please"
04-09-1906 - Antal Dorati - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 11-13-1988
conductor"; "CBS Symphony Orchestra"
04-09-1911 - Jim Bannon - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-28-1984
announcer, narrator: "Joe Penner Show"; "Eddie Bracken Show"
04-09-1913 - George Lowther - NYC - d. 4-28-1975
narrator, writer: "Advs. of Superman"; "Terry and the Pirates"
04-09-1914 - Frank Bingham - Athens, OH - d. 8-21-1988
announcer: "Straight Arrow"; "Phantom Pilot"
04-09-1916 - Ann Morrison - Sioux City, IA - d. 4-18-1978
actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Escape"
04-09-1916 - Bill Leonard - NYC - d. 10-23-1994
interviewer: "This Is New York"; "In Town Today"
04-09-1920 - Art Van Damme - Norway, MI
jazz accordionist: (Art Van Damme Quintet) Dave Garroway Show
04-09-1921 - Frankie Thomas, Jr. - NYC - d. 5-11-2006
actor: Tom Corbett "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
04-09-xxxx - Louise Larabee - Bremerton, WA - d. 3-30-1988
actor: "Calvacade of America"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

April 9th deaths

01-02-1917 - Vera Zorina - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-9-2003
ballet dancer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "I'm An American"
02-17-1908 - Staats Cotsworth - Oak Park, IL - d. 4-9-1979
actor: David Farrell "Front Page Farrell"; Mark Trail "Mark Trail"
02-19-1922 - Sandy Becker - NYC - d. 4-9-1996
actor, announcer: Jerry Malone "Young Dr. Malone"; "Backstage Wife"
03-31-1907 - James L. Saphier - d. 4-9-1974
producer: "The Saint"; "Somebody Knows"
04-30-1916 - George Salverson - St. Catherines, Canada - d. 4-9-2005
script writer for the CBC
05-16-1908 - Ed Prough - d. 4-9-1993
announcer: WXYZ Detroit
05-28-1902 - "Little" Jack Little - London, England - d. 4-9-1956
singer: (Cheerful Little Earful) "Little Jack Little Show"
06-08-1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright - Richland Center, WI - d. 4-9-1959
architect: "Bob Elson on Board the Century"
06-22-1915 - Robert Soderberg - Ohio - d. 4-9-1996
writer: "Junior Miss"
06-30-1896 - Wilfred Pelletier - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-9-1982
conductor: "Roses and Drums"; "Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air"
07-01-1914 - Michael Wilson - McAlester, OK - d. 4-9-1978
blacklisted screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-21-1913 - John Faulk - Austin, TX - d. 4-9-1990
humorist, writer: "Forecast"; "Says Who?"; "Hootenanny"
10-16-1886 - Will Harridge - Chicago, IL - d. 4-9-1971
american league president: "Memorial Program for Colonel Jocob Rupert"
11-03-1913 - Harry Babbitt - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-9-2004
singer: "Kay Kyser's Surprise Party"; "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical
Knowledge"
11-12-1911 - Clay Bryant - Madison Heights, VA - d. 4-9-1999
baseball analyst: "Baseball with Clay Bryant"
xx-xx-1904 - Grace Albert - d. 4-9-2003
singer: (Wife of Eddie Albert) "Time Out"; "Cavalcade of America"
xx-xx-1909 - Art Millet - Chicago, IL - d. 4-9-1943
announcer: "American Album of Familiar Music"; "Popeye"
xx-xx-1909 - Earle Graser - Kitchener, Canada - d. 4-9-1941
actor: Lone Ranger "Lone Ranger"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:03:43 -0400
From: "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  did the Lone [removed]

eat? I recall eps where either Tonto or Dan bought
supplies at the local general store, or cleaned up
the campfire, so they must have eaten. They might
also offer food to a wounded man, after he recovered
sufficiently from his injuries.

But some things were never discussed on radio, or TV
even today.

Heroes never need to go to the bathroom. They don't
go to church, unless there's a funeral scene, which
most likely happens in the graveyard, or someone
gets married. The LR did contact the Padre at the
Mission, the denomination of which was never
discussed, but it may have been Catholic since
"padre" means "father".

I'm not sure if the LR ever slept. or shaved. That
would be assumed. Neither he or Tonto ever needed or
wanted to have sex, but it was a children's program
so that's understandable.

Joe Salerno

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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:06:00 -0400
From: CHET <voxpop75@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  THE LONE RANGER
X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
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frank mcgurn asked if:
the lone ranger and tonto ever ate or fed their horses etc.
    the answer is definitely NO To those and all the other
questions posed my mr. mcgurn. in fact if someone HAD to enter a
store to buy something it would be tonto as he was an indian and
a [removed] he had to do the errands including feeding
and scrubbing down the horses. (ok it's a [removed]!)
thank you,
chet norris

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