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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 476

Table Of Contents: 

	 Leonard Autobio
	 "The Shadow in Print"
	 Another "War of the Worlds"
	 Al Jolson in Korea
	 Regional sponsorship of THE SHADOW
	 Radio Days
	 Philip Marlowe Reviews
	 Boris Karloff
	 Re: Can anyone help here?

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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 12:59:07 -0500
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Leonard Autobio
Message-ID: <961208125906_1986580244@[removed]>

Since my wife works at Cody's Books, the leading bookstore here in Berkeley,
she kindly checked out the Sheldon Leonard autobiography for me in "Books in
Print." According to BiP, it's still available (hurray!) and I shall promptly
order a copy and eagerly await the book, as a sort of  Christmas Gift from
the universe.

Many thanks to the several people on the Digest who furnished information on
the Leonard autobio.

I should finish reading "Roger Ebert's Book of Film," a *brilliant* anthology
of short essays, interviews, etc., etc., on movies just in time to move on to
the Leonard book. Yes, yes, it isn't OTR. So order up a pie-hit on me. There
is certainly enough breadth of cultural interest in this gang that I expect
the majority of us are interested in cinema as well -- and there is *major*
overlap in the people who worked in both industries.

We're all familiar with the literally hundreds of radio shows based on
movies, movies based on radio shows, movies-*and*-radio shows based on stage
productions, pulp characters or novels or comic strips, and other cross-media
events that *involve* OTR without necessarily "being" OTR. Plus people like
Bogie, Bacall, Jack Webb, Jack Benny, Alice Faye, etc., *ad infinitum* who
worked in both.

Including, not just incidentally, Sheldon Leonard.

Well, enough, enough. Please forgive me for wandering off the trail. But
there are glorious sights to be seen out there in the woods, you know!

Bob Lupoff (Dick Lupoff's evil twin)

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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 10:11:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Krabacher <tsk@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "The Shadow in Print"
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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LBoHall inquired about the availability of the Shadow stories in print:
  
Between 1931 and 1949, 325 Shadow novels were published in The Shadow 
magazine.  Since then, a total of 44 of them have been reprinted in 
various formats (paperback, trade paperback, and hardback), mostly during 
the 60s and 70s.  None remain in print today and all of the reprints have 
become collector's items, some becoming quite pricey.  The most likely 
place to track down copies is through the pulp magazine 
collecting/trading community. (Contact me directly for some dealer names 
if you are interested.)

There also exists an informal network of collectors who swap photocopies 
of Shadow pulp titles that have never been reprinted.

Tom Krabacher

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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:16:11 -0500
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Another "War of the Worlds"
Message-ID: <961208131610_1119690560@[removed]>

Well, wouldn't ya know . . .

I'd no sooner given "Roger Ebert's Book of Cinema" my rave review, than my
producer at KPFA phoned to say that we had a chance to tape a show with Ebert
about the book.

We're sitting in his hotel suite, my producer is setting up the portable
taping gear, and Ebert is reminiscing about his teen-age years, and about his
life-long obsession with Orson Welles.

He says, "When I was in high school, I was such a Welles fan that I produced
an amateur version of Welles's broadcast version of *War of the Worlds.* The
production starred my high school classmate, David Ogden Stiers."

Isn't that amazing?!

Ebert says that he still has the tape of that production around, "somewhere."
If there's interest, I will try and keep after him to locate the thing, and
see if he'll make a dub for me. In which case I'll make additional copies for
interested parties.

Will keep you all posted.

Dick Lupoff (Bob Lupoff's virtuous twin)

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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:32:01 -0500
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Al Jolson in Korea
Message-ID: <961208133200_741456614@[removed]>

The story that Jolson's tour of Korea caused his death is repeated so often
that everybody seems to have accepted it as ordained truth.

I'm not so sure.

The man was elderly, he had a heart attack (I *believe* that was the cause of
death), he died. 

As Kurt Vonnegut would say, So it goes.

But the fact that Jolson's heart attack followed his tour of the war zone in
Korea, doesn't logically prove that the tour caused the attack. Lemme see if
I can dredge up my Philosophy 101 (which I studied during the Korean War, by
the way).

Isn't there a saying to the effect that, "Post hoc, ipso propter hoc."
Meaning, "After the thing, therefore caused by the thing." [If I'm a little
off, please pardon my very, *very* limited Latin.]

Of course this is *not* a valid proposition.

Listen here: My alarm clock goes off at 6:30 each morning, and two minutes
later the #51 bus roars past my house headed for San Francisco.

A naive interpretation might suggest that my alarm clock causes the bus to
roar past my house, but in fact it just ain't so.

How do I know it just ain't so? Easy. One night recently I forgot to set the
alarm. Next morning I was awakened by the sound of the #51 bus roaring past
my house. I turned to look at my alarm clock and there it was, 6:32 AM!

By golly!

So . . . Jolson goes to Korea. Jolson comes home from Korea. Jolson suffers
heart attack. Tragic, yes, but this does *not* prove that his going to Korea
caused the heart attack or in fact had anything to do with it.

Max Lupoff (Dick and Bob's arrogant triplet)

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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:57:09 -0500
From: BCH66@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Regional sponsorship of THE SHADOW
Message-ID: <961208145709_2017205102@[removed]>

I know we have been over this before. But it has been posted that while BLUE
COAL 
sponsored in the New England areas other regions were sponsored by other
products
such as Karey Salt,[removed]
It was implied that the commercial material for all regions came out of the
same NY studio but each was sent to the appropriate region of the country.
The drama part of 
the program , of course , being sent to the whole network. 

during split network broadcasts I thought it was more typical to have a
chicago station do the commercial copy for the midwest, LA for the coast ,and
so on ...
but four different announcers were in the same studio ????

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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 15:39:40 -0600
From: Joe Salerno <jsalerno@[removed]>
To: "'OTR LIST'" <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Radio Days
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Can the Radio Days itenerary be posted on this list?

Joe Salerno
jsalerno@[removed]

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Date: 08 Dec 96 20:24:22 EST
From: "Norman G. Cox" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Philip Marlowe Reviews
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Philip Marlowe, Adventures of.  Review #15 0f 15
Starring Gerald Mohr.  From the cassette lending library of North American Radio
Archives (NARA)

NARA Cassette 7228. Side A, 8/18/51.  The Young Man's Fancy

A Moscow Mule sounds like a good idea to Philip on a hot smoggy day in Hollywood
but he is out of limes and ginger beer.  Off to the grocery store to pick up his
supplies, and just minding his own business, he still manages to get his car
sideswiped and get into a bar fight.  We find out (don't let it get around) that
Philip is really a soft hearted guy.  Tonight he is helping protect the kindly
old gent running the produce stand from some of life's hard knocks.  There is a
gap of a few weeks between this cassette and the show on side b.  I would like
to think that there are more of these fine shows for me to listen to sometime in
the future.

NARA Cassette 7228 Side B, 9/15/51.  The Sound and the Unsound

One of Philip's former clients has him investigating some mysterious tappings
coming from one of her rental bungalows.  Next week, we are told, Hoppy and
Topper will return from vacation and reclaim their time slot.  In spite of
Gerald Mohr's statement at the end of the show that he will be seeing us again
and soon, this is the last of the series and one of the better private eyes
rides off into the brown tinted Hollywood sunset for the last time.  Norman
Macdonnell, who began producing and directing Philip Marlowe when he was only
28, is going to be busy next year in 1952, starting a new show called Gunsmoke.
I hope it is a success."CBS's new winter season starts tomorrow night with Jack
Benny, My Friend Irma and The Contented Hour with Tony Martin".  How about that
for a good lineup.  The producer/ director, Macdonnell and the Marlowe writer
Kathlene Hite, will continue their collaboration on something called Romance for
Jergens Lotion in 1952. This show will bring with it most of the fine performers
from the Escape and Philip Marlowe shows but in an entirely different format:
light romantic comedy.

That's 30 for tonight
NGC
Norman Cox  

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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 00:35:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Gene Brown <gbrown@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Boris Karloff
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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>
>Hello.  My name is John M. Eccles, Jr. and I am a new subscriber to the
>OTR Digest.  .....
>I am also currently working with Sara Karloff (Boris' daughter) and
>Scott Allen Nollen on a biography of her dad and am preparing the radio
>material for the book.  I am preparing a detailed log of Karloff's
>appearances on radio.  Anyone with information, large or small, please
>contact me at jeccles@[removed]  I have information on his
>appearances on "Inner Sanctum" "Suspense" and the shows in circulation
>available from dealers and collectors.  Anyone with information on his
>appearances in the 1930s or on variety shows would be of help.  Any
>assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>



Karloff was on the Jimmy Durante Show, with Peggy Lee, on December 10, 1947.
Hope this helps, John.  I'm the author of Movie Time: A Chronology of
Hollywood (Macmillan), and would personally welcome a good, detailed
biography of one of the screen's greats.  Good luck on your project.



Gene Brown
gbrown@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 01:54:21 +0000
From: "Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!" <mached16@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Can anyone help here?
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Wayne Caldwell wrote:

> I received the following email can anyone help them? If so please email them.
> 
> [removed]
> >
> > The company that I represent owns music from the radio show called "The
> > Cuckoos" it was based on The Ramblers. I was wondering if you have a
> > copy that we could purchase, or if you knew where I might be able to get
> > a copy from.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> > Seth Zowader
> > --
> > MPL Communications, Inc.
> > 39 West 54th Street
> > New York, NY 10019
> > tel (212) 246-5881
> > fax (212) 977-8408
> > mplcom@[removed]
> > [removed]

...that's an interesting [removed] company in question here is owned by 
a kid from Liverpool named James Paul [removed], *that* James Paul 
[removed]

paix au naturel.
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