Podcast appearances and mentions of ruth woodman

The OTRNow Radio Program 2024-017The Shadow Of Fu Manchu. July 10, 1939. Program #27. Radio Attractions syndication. Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert. The Three Golden Pomegranates. Hanley Stafford, Gale Gordon. 11007. The Shadow Of Fu Manchu. July 12, 1939. Program #28. Radio Attractions syndication. Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert. Nayland Smith returns with a clue, the trail warms. Hanley Stafford, Gale Gordon. Good News Of 1939. November 17, 1938. NBC net, KFI, Los Angeles aircheck. Sponsored by: Maxwell House Coffee, Bulova (local), Beckman's Furs (local). The first tune is "The Bumpy Road To Love." Frank Morgan relates how he battled burglars in his house. Louis Mayer and Father Flanagan talk about the "Boys Town" movie and appeal for funds. Daddy prepares Baby Snooks for a visit from the boss. Scenes from "The Shining Hour," with Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young. "If Men Played Cards As Women Do." About one minute is missing from the middle of the program. Meredith Willson and His Orchestra, Frank Morgan, Tony Martin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward Flanagan, Fanny Brice, Hanley Stafford, Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Margaret Sullavan, Ted Pearson (announcer).  The Louella Parsons Show. January 05, 1951. ABC net. Sponsored by: Jergens Lotion, Woodbury Soap. Burgess Meredith has been secretly married. The Elizabeth Taylor-Nicky Hilton divorce is proceding. The film "The Miracle" is considered "immoral, irreligious and stupid" by the Catholic Church...and Louella. Faye Emerson and Skitch Henderson are having marital troubles. Louella interviews John Wayne and presents him with a scroll from "Motion Picture Herald." John's interview sounds scripted, but he does mention his anti-communist feelings and his support for "The Motion Picture Alliance.". Louella Parsons, John Wayne, Marvin Miller (announcer).FEDERAL AGENT 1944. Finley syndication. Music fill for local commercial insert. Nick Sarno is up for parole, and it's granted despite the objections of the Feds. Sarno's enemies are wiped out in a gangland massacre, even though Sarno is in France!   Dragnet. March 02, 1950. Program #38. NBC net. "The Big Kill". Sponsored by: Fatima. Jack Carver, just out of Folsom, is suspected of killing a cop for revenge. Friday poses as a criminal in jail to find the missing murder weapon. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough.  Death Valley Days. June 16, 1939. NBC net. "Shoo Fly". Sponsored by: Twenty Mule Team Borax (some commercials deleted). A tough old lady runs her own claim in the Panamint mountains...with a harsh word and a shotgun. Milton Herman, Frank Butler, John McBryde (as "The Old Ranger"), Irene Hubbard, Jeffrey Bryant, George Hicks (announcer), Ruth Woodman (creator, writer), Dorothy McCann (producer), Bob Prescott (sound effects), Keene Crockett (sound effects), Harry Glantz (bugle call), Joseph Bonime (music). 

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Women's History Month with a tribute to eight women and three radio series that made significant and pioneering contributions to radio storytelling. We sample radio storytelling by Lucille Fletcher, Edith Meiser, Ruth Woodman, Mary MacBride, Jean King, Cathy Lewis, Margaret Lynch, and Gracie Allen, along with the radio series Women in the Making of America, Gallant American Women, and Candy Matson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Women's History Month with a tribute to eight women and three radio series that made significant and pioneering contributions to radio storytelling. We sample radio storytelling by Lucille Fletcher, Edith Meiser, Ruth Woodman, Mary MacBride, Jean King, Cathy Lewis, Margaret Lynch, and Gracie Allen, along with the radio series Women in the Making of America, Gallant American Women, and Candy Matson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Breaking Walls episode 89, we explore the birth of the dramatic radio western show, specifically targeted to adult audiences. This is the first of a three-part mini-series on adult western radio shows. Highlights: • Back to the Very Beginning • What is a Western Show? • The Birth of Western Dramatic Radio Shows • Empire Builders • Death Valley Days • The Western show on local stations • ...And in syndication • Lux Presents Hollywood • The Triumph and Tragedy of Buck Jones • Americana and the Cavalcade of America • Howard McNear and Romance of the Ranchos • The First Western Soap Opera • The War Ends and the Western show grows up • What’s Next? The WallBreakers: http://thewallbreakers.com Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts. To support the show: http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers The reading material used in today’s episode was: • On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio - by John Dunning • Radio Rides The Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929 - 1967 by Jack French and David S. Siegel • Network Radio Ratings, 1932-1953 - by Jim Ramsburg • Hello Everybody! The Dawn of American Radio by Anthony Rudel & • The Network by Scott Woolley On the interview front: • Don Ameche, Joan Fontaine, Hans Conried, Rudy Vallée were with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. The full interviews can be heard at GoldenAge-WTIC.org • Agnes Moorehead and Anne Seymour were with Chuck Schaden. Chuck’s interviews from an over 39-year career can be listened to for free at SpeakingofRadio.com • John Dunkel and William N. Robson were with John Hickman for his WAMU program “Recollections.” A modern version of this program is heard each Sunday evening as “The Big Broadcast.” For more information, please go to WAMU.org • Ruth Woodman was with Ida Blackburn in 1961 for KOCO. The full video clip can be seen on the Oklahoma Historical Society's Youtube page - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOnsye8K4SEsY9Ssi8EzzHg • and journalist Robert Bendiner was with Westinghouse for their 1970 50th Anniversary program. Special thanks to our Sponsors: • The Fireside Mystery Theatre https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com • The Mutual Audio Network http://mutualaudionetwork.com Selected music featured in today’s episode was: • The Colorado Trail Opus 28 by Elizabeth Hainen - http://www.elizabethhainen.com • The Last Rose of Summer by Tom Waits • Morning Prayer by Kenneth Little Hawk • All Mortal Flesh Be Silent by Deirdre Fay • Across the Wide Missouri, by Mathias Gohl, Molly Mason, Jay Unger, and Andy Stein • Jefferson and Liberty by John Owen Lardinois • Amazing Grace by Leta Rector • Across the Alley from the Alamo by the Mills Brothers I’d also like to thank Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman. Listen to their shows on the Yesterday USA radio network. A Special Thank you to: Ryan Kramer Christian Neuhaus Aimee Pavy Terry Wallace WallBreakers Links: Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers Social Media - @TheWallBreakers URL - thewallbreakers.com Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

Metabolic Studio's IOU Theatre presented "Death Valley Scotty" on Sunday September 28, 7pm at the Double L Saloon in Lone Pine, CA. “Death Valley Scotty” is a live radio play that was written by Ruth Woodman in 1931 and originally aired in 1955 in the “Death Valley Days” Series. Walter Scott (a.k.a. Death Valley Scotty) was a prospector, a performer with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, a raconteur, a conman, husband and father. In 1885 he met an Easterner who was told he only had a few weeks to live. Scotty helped him to recover and cemented a secretive, life long partnership. In 1905 he beat the cross-country speed record on a train from L.A. to Chicago. Free with his stories and his cash, he quickly became one of the West’s most prominent and mysterious legends and kept reporters and the country on the edge of its seat for decades. His fabulous stories of secret gold mines and his million-dollar oasis in Death Valley (Scotty’s Castle) kept the public and newspapermen eager for the next story. A troupe of local performers from Bishop to Keeler will read the play and perform live music and sound effects. C A S T : Narrator– Deborah Levin Scotty – Max Rosan Johnson, Cub – Mark Long Old Ranger, Borax Man – Jon Klusmire Old Ranger, Byrne, Caine, – Jayson Lozier Girl 1, Nichols, Metallic Voice, Borax commercial 2 – Jeanie Smith Blackie, Reporter, Borax Commercials 1,3 (Rosemary DeCamp) – Judy Wickman Girl 2, Feely, Bartender, IRS agent, Loafer – Ann Strohm Old Man West, Orderly, Attendant, Waiter – Mary WInchester Ed/Man 2/Padre– Mark W. Long Station Breaks/Community Announcements/Borax Man: Jon Klusmire SFX/Foley artists: Judy Wickman with help from the cast Musicians/Vocalists Mark W. Long (Vocals, guitar) Jayson Lozier (guitar) Sandy Anderson, Victor SIlvas, Bart LAST NAME? (Sandy & the High Country) Director Kristen Luetkemeier HOST Kent Ramlose and the Double L Bar Stabilized Lake Bed Brick Oven Pizza from the IOU Garden Diane Spieth

The Cavalcade Of America. December 18, 1935. "Defiance Of Nature". Sponsored by: DuPont. Part one: "Erie Canal." Part two: "Holland Tunnel." Ruth Woodman (writer), Dwight Weist (announcer), Frank Singiser (commercial spokesman), Arthur Pryor (producer), Harold Levey (composer, conductor).oldtimeradiodvd.com/sale

The Cavalcade Of America. October 30, 1935. CBS net, WABC, New York aircheck. "The Will To Rebuild". Sponsored by: DuPont. Part one: "The Sacramento Fire." Part two: "The Dust Storm." Frank Craven, Ruth Woodman (writer), Homer Fickett (writer), Kenneth Webb (writer, director), Dwight Weist (announcer), Frank Singiser (commercial spokesman), Harold Levey (composer, conductor), Arthur Pryor (producer). oldtimeradiodvd.com/sale

Affordable Web Hosting $5.99 A month Death Valley Days was a long-running American radio and television anthology about true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. It was created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman and ran on radio until 1945. It ran from 1952 to 1975 as a syndicated television show. The 558 television stories, which had different actors, were introduced by a host. The longest-running was "The Old Ranger" from 1952-1965, played by Stanley Andrews. The hosts following were actors Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, John Payne, Dale Robertson and Merle Haggard. During his time as host, Reagan also frequently appeared in the program as a performer. It has been rerun under other names and with other hosts, since the hosting segment at the beginning and the end could be easily reshot with another performer with no effect on the story. Alternate hosts and titles have included Frontier Adventure (Dale Robertson), The Pioneers (Will Rogers, Jr.), Trails West (Ray Milland), Western Star Theatre (Rory Calhoun) and Call of the West (John Payne). The last title was also often applied to the series' memorable, haunting theme music. Under the Death Valley Days title, the program was invariably sponsored by Pacific Coast Borax Company, which during the program's run changed its name to U.S. Borax Company following a merger. Advertisements for the company's best-known products, 20 Mule Team Borax, a laundry additive, and Boraxo, a powdered hand soap, were often done by the program's host. Death Valley was the scene of much of the company's borax mining operations. The "20-Mule Team Borax" consumer products division of U.S. Borax was eventually bought out by the Dial Corporation, which as of 2006 still manufactures and markets them. U.S. Borax continued to mine and refine the borates and maintained Dial as one of its customers. In 2006, Rio Tinto, the parent company of U.S. Borax. Inc., decided to merge USB with two of its other holdings, Dampier Salt and Luzenac Talc, to form Rio Tinto Minerals and has moved its corporate headquarters to Denver, Colorado. Death Valley Days is, judging from sheer number of episodes broadcast, by far the most successful syndicated television Western, the most successful television Western ever in the half-hour format, and arguably the most successful syndication of any genre in the history of the U.S. television market (Baywatch had a larger international market among U.S.-produced syndicated programs.)

clickhere Visit the Radio America Store web site.Buy your 50 mp3 for &5.00 Death Valley Days was a long-running American radio and television anthology about true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. It was created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman and ran on radio until 1945. It ran from 1952 to 1975 as a syndicated television show. The 558 television stories, which had different actors, were introduced by a host. The longest-running was "The Old Ranger" from 1952-1965, played by Stanley Andrews. The hosts following were future President of the United States Ronald Reagan (before he was elected governor of California), Robert Taylor, Dale Robertson and Merle Haggard. During his time as host, Reagan also frequently appeared in the program as an actor. It has been rerun under other names and with other hosts, since the hosting segment at the beginning and the end could be easily reshot with another performer with no effect on the story. Alternate hosts and titles have included Frontier Adventure (Dale Robertson), The Pioneers (Will Rogers, Jr.), Trails West (Ray Milland), Western Star Theatre (Rory Calhoun) and Call of the West (John Payne). The last title was also often applied to the series' memorable, haunting theme music.