Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #49
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Date: 2/15/2006 5:38 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 49
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  2-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  January 2006 Deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  The Shadow Editoralizes               [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
  The Shadow and the Sniper             [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
  Re: The Rochester Show                [ "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@run ]
  Re:Lone Ranger                        [ "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed]; ]
  Private Life of Rochester Show        [ "Larry Siskind" <lasisk@[removed] ]
  The Lone Ranger's disguise            [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Follow-Up Thoughts                    [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  A hobby assessment                    [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Speaking of Theater 5                 [ "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed]; ]
  WJRZ                                  [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
  Little Black Hole Radio Script        [ Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed] ]
  post lone ranger career of Fred Foy   [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:08:20 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-15 births/deaths

February 15th births

02-15-1882 - John Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-29-1942
actor: (The Great Profile) "Streamlined Shakespeare"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
02-15-1883 - Sax Rohmer - London, England - d. 6-1-1959
writer: "Fu Manchu detective novels
02-15-1893 - Walter Donaldson - New York, NY - d. 7-15-1947
songwriter: "Fitch Bandwagon"
02-15-1896 - Arthur Shields - d. 4-27-1970
actor: (Brother of Barry Fitzgerald) "Cavalcade of America"
02-15-1899 - Gale Sondergaard - Litchfield, MN - d. 8-14-1985
actress: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
02-15-1905 - Harold Arlen - Buffalo, NY - d. 4-23-1986
composer: "Songs By Arlen"; "Kraft Program"; "Good New of 1940"
02-15-1907 - Cesar Romero - New York, NY - d. 1-1-1994
actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
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 - New York, NY - d. 12-22-1992
actor: Gary Haven "We are Always Young"; Howie Wing "Howie Wing"
02-15-1910 - Vladimir Selinsky - Kiev, Russia - d. 9-6-1984
music: "The Doctor Fights"; "The FBI in Peace and War"; "The Electric
Theatre"
02-15-1912 - Howard Harris - d. 3-22-1986
writer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Amazing Mr. Smith"; "Mr. and
Mrs. North"
02-15-1914 - Kevin McCarthy - Seattle, WA
actor: Richard Lawless "Richard Lawless"; Sherlock Holmes "CBS Radio
Mystery Theatre"
02-15-1914 - Roland Kibbee - Monongahela, PA - d. 8-5-1984
writer: "The Fred Allen Show"
02-15-1916 - Mary Jane Croft - Muncie, IN - d. 8-24-1999
actress: Sandra Martin "Story of Sandra Martin"; Alice Henderson
"Beulah"
02-15-1919 - Frank Behrens - Sheboygan, WI - d. 12-15-1986
actor: Billie "Billie the Brownie"; Jack Armstrong "Jack Armstrong"
02-15-1923 - Keene Curtis - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 10-13-2002
actor: NPR Playhouse "Star Wars"
02-15-1924 - Kingsley Colton - New York, NY
actor: Buddy Watson "My Son and I"; Hancey Nielsen "Prairie Folks"
02-15-1930 - Mary Lee Robb - Chicago, IL
actress: Marjorie Forrester "Great Gildersleeve"
02-15-1931 - Claire Bloom - London, England
actress: "Kaleidoscope"

February 15th deaths

01-16-1909 - Ethel Merman - Astoria, NY - d. 2-15-1984
singer" "Ethel Merman Show"; "Home Front Matinee"
02-03-1915 - Helen Hall - d. 2-15-1984
hostess: "One Woman's New York"
02-05-1918 - Tim Holt - Beverly Hills, CA - d. 2-15-1973
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-25-1921 - Patricia Ryan - London, England - d. 2-15-1949
actress: Amy March "Little Women"; Claudia Naughton "Claudia and David"
03-13-1905 - Louis Roen - d. 2-15-1993
announcer: "Today's Children"; "The Breakfast Club"
03-17-1919 - Nat "King" Cole - Montgomery, AL - d. 2-15-1965
singer: "King Cole Trio Time"
03-27-1906 - Pee Wee Russell - Maple Wood, MO - d. 2-15-1969
clarinet: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
04-08-1905 - Ilka Chase - New York, NY - d. 2-15-1978
panelist, hostess, actress: "Leave It to the Girls"; "Luncheon at the
Waldorf"
04-10-1827 - Lew Wallace - Brookville, IN - d. 2-15-1905
author: (Ben Hur) "Favorite Story"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
05-12-1914 - Howard K. Smith - Ferriday, LA - d. 2-15-2002
newsman: "World News Today"; "News Roundup"; "Howard K. Smith News"
06-07-1908 - Boris Goldovsky - Moscow, Russia - d. 2-15-2001
commentator: "Metropolitan Opera"
06-22-1901 - Jack Whiting - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-15-1961
singer: "MGM Radio Club"
07-07-1888 - John Frank - Missouri - d. 2-15-1961
actor: Jimmie Allen "Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
07-08-1912 - Donna Dameral - Chicago, IL - d. 2-15-1941
actress: Marge Mintere "Myrt and Marge"
07-30-1912 - Charles Irving - Minnesota - d. 2-15-1981
actor: Tex Mason "Bobby Benson's Advs."; Jerry Malone "Young Dr. Malone"
09-03-1922 - Burt Kennedy - Muskegon MI - d. 2-15-2001
writer: Wrote for radio in late 1940s
09-28-1914 - Lou Derman - d. 2-15-1976
writer: "Life with Luigi"
10-15-1917 - Jan Miner - Boston, MA - d. 2-15-2004
actress: Ann Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "Lora Lawton "Lora
Lawton"
12-06-1924 - Wally Cox - Detroit, MI - d. 2-15-1973
comedian: "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Wally Cox Show"

Ron Sayles
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:08:31 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  January 2006 Deaths

11-29-1917 - George Walsh - Cleveland, OH - d. 1-5-2006
announcer: "Gunsmoke"; "Music 'Til Dawn"
12-01-1933 - Lou Rawls - Chicago, IL - d. 1-6-2006
singer: "Here's to Veterans"
08-22-1922 - Shelley Winters - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-14-2006
actress: "Hollywood Star Preview"
10-20-1914 - Fayard Nicholas - Mobile, AL - d. 1-24-2006
dancer: (The Nicholas Brothers) "Big Broadcast of 1936"; "Ben Bernie
Show"
01-17-1926 - Moira Shearer - Dunfermine, Scotland - d. 1-31-2006
worked briefly as a radio announcer in the 1980s

Ron Sayles
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:12:00 -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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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:46:01 -0500
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Shadow Editoralizes

on 2/14/06 10:08 PM, George Kelly asked:

In a recent episode of The Shadow on XM, a criminal while awaiting
execution asked his brother, who was trained as a sniper in the army
and who emerged from WWII shell shocked, to assassinate those
responsible for his conviction.
<SNIP>
Was such asides by the Shadow common on this program and was the
concern expressed by the Shadow an issue following the war?

THE SHADOW series occasionally editorialized, usually against crime
though sometimes about other social issues.  This particular episode
starred Orson Welles and originally aired in 1938, so it actually aired
before the United States entered the second World War. --Anthony Tollin

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:46:54 -0500
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Shadow and the Sniper

George Kelly wrote:

In a recent episode of The Shadow on XM, a criminal while awaiting
execution asked his brother, who was trained as a sniper in the army
and who emerged from WWII shell shocked, to assassinate those
responsible for his conviction.

Actually, the sniper was a World War I veteran. The
show, entitled, "Silent Avenger", was broadcast on
March 13, 1938, and starred Orson Welles as the
Shadow. World War II didn't begin until the following
year.

As to whether the Shadow would editorialize about
various shortcomings of society, the answer is yes, he
would, from time to time. And in this case, he's
right. The man was taught to kill in the Army, but no
one thought to help him obtain useful civilian skills.

This doesn't mean that had the character lived, he
should have received a small fine and a slap on the
wrist. Nor does it mean that he should have been
absolved of any and all blame. Had he lived and gone
to trial, he should have received life in prison. But
it does mean that training people to kill, but not
subsequently helping them re-assimilate into a culture
where killing is generally frowned upon, is going to
lead to trouble.

What's particularly interesting about Welles' Shadow
is  how _unforgiving_ he can be, compared to either
the Bill Johnstone or Brett Morrison Shadows. If
someone is forced or tricked into working for the bad
guy, and he or she runs afoul of Welles' Shadow, the
poor sap is pretty much screwed. Depending on the
circumstances, Johnstone or Morrison might cut the guy
or gal a break.

I should clarify that I'm not saying Welles' Shadow
_never_ showed mercy, pity or sympathy for someone who
got himself into a bad situation, just that it seems
he less often showed such sympathy than the Johnstone
or Morrison Shadows.

Presumably this harsher, "no mercy" attitude of the
early shows is due in large part because the pulp
version of the character (though different from the
radio version in many ways) was also not one to show
much mercy to those who went afoul of the law.

Rick

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:47:30 -0500
From: "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: The Rochester Show

Hello, there were four programs: two called The Private Life Of Rochester
Van Jones, and two called The Rochester Show. These were all auditioned, but
never produced for a running series.

2-15-50: Actor Auditions for The Rochester Show
2-18-50: two shows, both called The Rochester Show
5-12-50: two shows, both called The Private Life Of Rochester Van Jones

Also, there was an audition for the Kitzel show, dated 12-27-50, but that
never took off. I hope this info has helped you.
Thanks a lot.
Matthew

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:47:48 -0500
From: "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re:Lone Ranger
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Bethany:
     Most of the Lone Ranger episodes I have heard in recent months come from
XM Satellite airings of the program.  The episodes airing are from the 1950's.
As far as a disguise, I can only refer to the TV series, when Clayton Moore's
or John Hart's LR went into town disguised, It was almost always as a grizzled
old [removed]

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:48:05 -0500
From: "Larry Siskind" <lasisk@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Private Life of Rochester Show

Jim Murtaugh asked about the Rochester show. What is available is
strictly audition. When new programs were created , audition
discs were made in the hope of selling the show to a sponsor.
Hoped for sponsors were sometimes included in the audition. This
may explain the reference to Franco-American spaghetti. "The
Private Life of Rochester"  never made it to radio.  Too bad, it
would have been a great show.

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:48:50 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Lone Ranger's disguise

Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:26:26 -0500
From: Bethany Rutledge <bsr_mmr@[removed];

What kind of disguise does the Lone Ranger use when he's "in town"?
Does he wear a beard? A mustache? At first I thought he must be
made up or something, but he remarked in a recent episode that he
was "taking his disguise off" after leaving town. Any ideas?

I guess they didn't describe it much on the radio show, but in the
comics and TV show, the LR usually used a beard, presumably since
that hid his face as well as a mask, in case Butch Cavendish happened
along and might recognize him.

On the other hand, in one episode, where the LR joined the Ace
Lattimer gang, he was recognized by a Federal agent who knew him in
the Texas Rangers 'way back when, so perhaps that time he chanced not
using any fake facial hair.  Most of the LR's disguises were pretty
short-term things, just for a few hours, but if he was joining an
outlaw gang and living with these guys, there might not be all that
much privacy, and there would be too much danger of fake facial hair
being discovered.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 15 Court Square, Suite 210                 Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:09:30 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Follow-Up Thoughts
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"Theater Five":

"Irene Heinstein" IreneTH@[removed] concluded her posting about
"Theater Five":

A few of the actors who appeared on 'Theater Five' are:  Elaine May, Arlene
Francis, Mel Allen, Martha Scott, Bethel Leslie, Martin Gabel, Mildred
Dunnock, Joan Lovejoy, Wendy Barrie, Eileen Heckart, David Burns, Sammy
Davis Jr. (who is quoted as saying 'I like to do radio - it's color blind')
These names appeared in columns by Gould in the NY Times and Wolters in the

Closer to home, I'd like to add the names of some other New York-based actors
who appeared on the show:
Arthur Anderson, Larry Robinson, Donald Buka, the late Gilbert Mack, Teri
Keane, Rosemary Rice, Elliott "Ted" Reid,
Jeff David, the late Jackson Beck, Cliff Carpenter, the show's announcer Fred
Foy, and the "Speed Racer" voice triumvirate: Peter Fernandez, Corinne Orr,
and Jack Grimes. What do all these folks have in common? They've all been
invited guests at FOTR conventions in New Jersey at one time or another.
Up-and-coming stars who put in time at "T-5" include Alan Alda and Yaphet
Kotto.

WJSV Broadcasting Day:

Like most folks here on the Digest, I'm grateful that somebody had the
foresight to take on such an ambitious exercise in preserving one radio
station's entire broadcast day back in 1939--despite the tedium of some that
day's programming. However,
it's hard to believe that nobody else--as far as I know--attempted to
replicate this concept over the past 60 + years. Does anybody know of any
other similarly preserved broadcast days?

I remember back in the mid-1980s, there were concerted efforts to dispatch
photographers all around this country in order to chronical a typical American
day. The result was a picture book called "A Day in the Life of
America"--which spawned many off-shoots and knock-offs.  Did anybody ever try
this concept by putting together a "day in the life of American radio," which
could potentially bring together samples of radio programming from diverse
parts of the country?  Judging by the way the satellite-radio folks keep
telling us that "terrestrial radio" is doomed, this might be a worthwhile
project for somebody to assemble in the event those satelliters are right.

"The Shadow" editorializes:

George Kelly gkelly1@[removed] posted:

In a recent episode of The Shadow on XM, a criminal while awaiting
execution asked his brother, who was trained as a sniper in the army
and who emerged from WWII shell shocked, to assassinate those
responsible for his conviction.

The brother kills several before the Shadow can stop him.  Twice
during the show The Shadow expressed empathy for the assassin because
he was trained as a killer in the army and not properly assimilated
back into society.

Was such asides by the Shadow common on this program and was the
concern expressed by the Shadow an issue following the war?

There is a late-1930s episode in which Lamont and Margot are visiting Haiti.
Cutting to the quick: the voodoo practioneers kidnap Margot and before they
can off her up as a human sacrifice, The Shadow uses his power to cloud men's
minds to convince the
voodooiennes to give up their pagan ways and come into town to embrace "the
true Church."

Personally, I'm not particularly fond of animistic practices that involve
human or animal sacrifice, but in this day and age of political correctness, a
show which equates Christianity as being the "true religion" would never fly
by network standards and practices.

This particular episode is on one of the Great American Audio boxed-sets put
together by the Digest's own Anthony Tollin, the world's leading authority,
collector, and archivist of "Cranston-iana." I hope this posting prompts him
to comment on said episode. Either that and/or how the term "Cranston-iana"
isn't particularly legit because "The Shadow's" true identity  is some other
guy & then that whole can o' worms about how the Shadow was only  "borrowing"
Lamont Cranston's identity, etc.

That's about the size of it.

Derek Tague

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:10:16 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  A hobby assessment

Martin Grams Jr. writes:

The hobby of OTR is made up (in my opinion) of four factors.

1.  Periodicals (magazine and newsletters)
2.  OTR Clubs with monthly meetings
3.  Dealers who sell and collectors who collect
4.  Annual Conventions

If any of these four factions suffer, so does the hobby.  If Cincy is no
more, a big part of the hobby goes away.

I have never seen our hobby more responsibly summarized anywhere at any time
by
anybody.  This perceptive young man has his finger on the pulse of the
components that provide the "fellowship" (a 5th factor?) we enjoy.

He's right, in my estimation:  if any part of the above begins to erode, the
reverberations will be widespread and affect whatever's left.

The camaraderie evident in Cincinnati is worth a great deal.  I'm sure many
suggestions will be proffered on this forum for "fixing" the prospect of no
such
future events.  I trust cool heads will prevail and a workable solution found
to
preserve what has been a worthy effort and sacrifice the Bobs have made for
two
decades.  Grams is right -- we'd be losing a whole lot that binds us together
if
we lose this permanently.  Think SPERDVAC here, folks.  We really don't want
to
see that sad case repeated any time soon.

Jim Cox

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:10:33 -0500
From: "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed];
To: ""old-time radio digest">" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Speaking of Theater 5

Hopefully I won't get in trouble with the List master for this one.  <grinn
I was doing a search for Theater 5 on the trusty WWW to try and purchase some
in MP3.  I didn't come up with any.  Anyone who knows of anyone carrying
this series could write me offlist and i'd appreciate it.
I used to listen to it when I was in grade school and all this talk made me
think I should try and track some of the episodes down.
I loved it at the time.  It was carried on our local University radio station.
Bill

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:11:18 -0500
From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  WJRZ

WJRZ was NOT a small station. I believe it was 5000 watts.

Previously it was WAAT (AM and FM), the radio sisters of WATV, Channel 13,
Newark NJ.

As WAAT it was the longtime home of pioneer country music deejay Don Larkin
and the "Hometown Frolic" show.

Both the AM and the FM covered all of Metropolitan New York including
evenings.

BILL KNOWLTON

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:11:57 -0500
From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];
To: OTRDIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Little Black Hole Radio Script
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Is this the kind of question that could be answered in the Siegel's new book,
_A Researcher's Guide to the Golden Age of Radio_?

I need help finding a radio script  called "The little black hole" by
Allan Gosling.  It was produced by the BBC and once aired on WHA
Wisconsin public radio.

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:12:38 -0500
From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  post lone ranger career of Fred Foy from Jim
 Taylor
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Dear Old Time Radio Digest Readers:

  Many thanks for answering some of my questions about
  Theater Five.  Listening to this program brings up another question about
the post Lone Ranger career of Fred Foy?

  While working at A B C in New York, Mr. Foy narrated a program titled
"voices in the Headlines."

  The program aired from 1961 through 1967, it was a portrait in sound of the
week's news.  The program was done in March of Time stile.  Only the actual
voices of the weeks news makers  were heard.
  This program was the one that got me interested in current events in the
early 1960s mostly because of Fred Foy's  narration.

  Do any digest members have recordings of this program?  Are  their an
reviews of this program written in the press at the time?

  If so please advise.

  Many Thanks

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