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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 51
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      When did Kato become Filipino?        [ Jason Loviglio <loviglio@[removed]; ]
      Who was that Masked Man?              [ "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@char ]
      Kato - Japanese or Filipino?          [ Bob Scherago <rscherago@[removed] ]
      Red & Green, Schizophrenic Indiana    [ <verotas@[removed]; ]
      The Green Hornet's servant Kato       [ "[removed]@[removed]" <[removed] ]
      2-13 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Re: Kathy and when did Kato of The G  [ Joemartelle@[removed] ]
      Kato, Jap or Phil?                    [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Cincinnati OTR Convention             [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Re: mp3                               [ Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@rocketmai ]
      Lone Ranger's First name              [ "[removed]@[removed]" <[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:45:12 -0500
    From: Jason Loviglio <loviglio@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  When did Kato become Filipino?
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    For an excellent discussion of this transformation, see Alex Russo's
    article, "A dark(ened) Figure on the Airwaves" in
    *Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio* Michele Hilmes,
    and myself, editors, (Routledge, 2002).

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    Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:49:07 -0500
    From: "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Who was that Masked Man?
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    In regard to mistakes made by the New York Times in relation to the Lone
    Ranger:  A couple of years ago, a friend, writer Richard O'Brien sent me a
    then current Times article on J. Edgar Hoover with a photo of him with a
    tall, heavy-set man in a business suit wearing a black mask.  He was
    identified as "Clayton Moore, who played the Lone Ranger".

                I wrote the Times that the photo was in error.  The man in the
    photo was Brace Beemer who played the Lone Ranger on radio.

    I pointed out that I had met both men, and in fact Beemer was a distant
    relative of mine.  The man in the photo was far taller and heavier than
    Moore.  Furthermore, the date on the photo was of a time before Moore had
    anything to do with the role, before the TV series began.  It was a
    well-known and publicized fact that Hoover was a fan and friend of Beemer as
    the Masked Man.  The Times never ran my letter or in other way acknowledged
    their mistake.

                The discussion about the first name of the Lone Ranger has so
    far as I have read misses the point.  His first name was DELIBERATELY not
    given to add to an air of mystery about the phantom rider.  No name at all,
    either first or last was given for many years, nor was any specific origin
    given.  My late friend, Redd Boggs, older than I,  remembered very early
    episodes that suggested the Lone Ranger without his mask could be recognized
    as a famous man.  Could he be one of the heroes of the Alamo who had somehow
    escaped, someone like Davy Crockett or Jim Bowie?  Could he be a reformed
    Billy the Kid who had also somehow escaped?  He couldn't be Wild Bill Hickok
    or someone whose then present whereabouts were well known.  This concept was
    obviously dropped, in favor of the one about the lone survivor of Bryant's
    Gap with which we are all familiar.

                -- JIM HARMON (I only use Barbara's email setting)

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    Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:51:01 -0500
    From: Bob Scherago <rscherago@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Kato - Japanese or Filipino?
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>     when did kato become filipino

       Kato became a Filipino when the US was attacked by the
       Japanese and we entered World War II! Don't know the
       date, however.

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    Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:27:51 -0500
    From: <verotas@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Red & Green, Schizophrenic Indiana

    Has the Green Hornet been looking over my shoulder?

    Working through a lot of my things I came across a box of  WLS "Stand By"
    magazines from the 1930s.  Most of the covers are printed with red and black
    ink.  Actually there are two shades of red on different covers - one more
    orange than the other red ones.  Perhaps this is supposed to be orange?

    A few are Green and black (notably but not solely, the week of St. Patrick's
    Day - clever these Midwestern Chicagoans, yes?).

    And then I came across a Yellow and black one.

    I also ran into an article that years back Chicago was considering switching
    to Eastern Standard time.  I guess nothing came of it except to confuse their
    neighbors to the south in Indiana, who've had split time personalities for
    years.  Did I hear recently that with April's  time zone changes, Indiana is
    going to make up its mind and go with either Eastern or Central?  And which?

    Reminds me of the old wag's tale -
    Roses are Red, Violets are Blue
    I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

    Any WLS guru have a comment?  Thanks - Lee Munsick

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    Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:46:10 -0500
    From: "[removed]@[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Green Hornet's servant Kato

>     when did kato become Filipino?

    The answer is simple. When it was very unpopular to be Japaneses in the
    United States. So lets say about the end December of 1941 or shortly there
    after. "Remember Pearl Harbor" December 7, 1941 the sneak attack. Japanese
    Americans were round up and sent to detainment camps for security.

    Changing to Filipino's was the politically correct thing to do. We Lost the
    lost the Phillipines to Japanese shortly after the war started. At that time
    the Phllppines were a Territory of the United States.

    Frank McGurn

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    Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:00:32 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-13 births/deaths

    February 13th births

    02-13-1877 - Sidney Smith - d. 10-20-1935
    comic strip writer: "The Gumps" based on his comic strip
    02-13-1900 - Wingy Manone - New Orleans, LA - d. 7-9-1982
    orchestra leader: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Young Man with a Band"
    02-13-1904 - Erwin D. Canham - Auburn, ME - d. 1-3-1982
    news commentator: "Christian Science Monitor Views the News"
    02-13-1905 - Fred Jeske - Ferguson, MO - d. 11-24-1957
    actor: Uncle Remus "Uncle Remus"
    02-13-1906 - Pauline Frederick - Gallitzin, PA - d. 5-9-1990
    newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "Pauline Frederick News"; "Second
    Sunday"
    02-13-1908 - Lennie Hayton - NYC - d. 4-24-1971
    conductor: "Your Hit Parade"; "Ipana Troubadors"
    02-13-1912 - Art Rollini - d. 12-31-1993
    saxophone: (The Benny Goodman Orchestra) "Let's Dance"
    02-13-1912 - Margaretta Scott - London, England - d. 4-15-2005
    actor: "The Merchant of Venice"
    02-13-1915 - Lyle Bettger - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-24-2003
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
    02-13-1916 - Albert Harris - London, England - d. 1-14-2005
    conductor, composer: "Four-Star Playhouse"; "NBC University Theatre"
    02-13-1916 - James Griffith - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-17-1993
    actor: "Gunsmoke"
    02-13-1917 - Clara Antonetti - d. 10-27-1995
    broadcaster on WTSA Brattleboro, Vermont
    02-13-1919 - Joan Edwards - NYC - d. 8-27-1981
    singer: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"
    02-13-1919 - "Tennessee" Ernie Ford - Bristol, TN - d. 10-17-1991
    singer: "Tennessee Ernie Ford Show"
    02-13-1920 - Eileen Farrell - Willimantic, CT - d. 3-23-2002
    singer: "Eileen Farrell Sings"; "Prudential Family Hour"
    02-13-1923 - Gene Ames - Malden, MA - d. 4-26-1997
    singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
    02-13-1930 - Frank Buxton - Wellesley, MA
    author: "Golden Age of Radio"; "KIRO Mystery Playhouse"
    02-13-1932 - Susan Oliver - NYC - d. 5-10-1990
    actor: "Zero Hour"
    02-13-1933 - Kim Novak - Chicago, IL
    actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"

    February 13th deaths

    04-03-1918 - Sixten Ehrling - Malmo Skane Ian, Sweden - d. 2-13-2005
    conductor: "Metropolitan Opera"
    04-12-1898 - Lily Pons - Draguignan, France - d. 2-13-1976
    singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
    05-29-1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr. - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-13-2003
    producer-director: "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
    06-04-1900 - Dan Golenpaul - NYC - d. 2-13-1974
    producer: "Information, Please"
    07-15-1910 - Ken Lynch - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-13-1990
    actor: Lt. Matt King "Twenty-First Precinct"; Christopher Gard "Cafe
    Istanbul"
    09-01-1886 - Regina Wallace - Trenton, NJ - d. 2-13-1978
    actor: Alice Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
    10-09-1911 - Michael Allman - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-13-1989
    arranger for such bands as Mitchell Ayres, Freddy Martin and Harry James
    10-29-1908 - Robert K. Adams - d. 2-13-1981
    actor: "Dr. Susan"; Hilltop House"; Your Family and Mine"
    11-04-1919 - Martin Balsam - NYC - d. 2-13-1996
    actor: "Cloak and Dagger"
    12-24-1910 - John Bagni - NYC - d. 2-13-1954
    writer: Suspense"; "Family Theatre"; "Escape"
    12-25-1908 - Helen Twelvetrees - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-13-1958
    actor: "The Campbell Playhouse"
    12-30-1903 - Owen Crump - d. 2-13-1998
    producer: " The Grouch Club"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:54:34 -0500
    From: Joemartelle@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Kathy and when did Kato of The Green
     Hornet become   Filipino?
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    In reference to Kathy's [removed] 'The Green Hornet and when did
    his faithful valet change from being Japanese to Filipino?

    December 7th 1941------a day that will live in infamy!

    God Bless

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:55:26 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Kato, Jap or Phil?

    Kathy asked:

>     i was listening to a may 5, 1938 episode of the green hornet entitled "the
>     political racket".
>     the intro by the announcer includes:
>     "...only kato, his  faithful japanese valet knows the dual role the young
>     millionaire plays to  strike at [removed]"
>     when did kato become filipino?

    Kato was originally described as a Japanese on the radio program, and before
    the [removed] entry into WWII, his ethnic changed to Filipino (sp?) because of
    recent events involving the Japanese.  The urban myth that Kato's ethnic
    changed right after the bombing of the Hawaiian naval base is simply that -
    an urban myth.

    Terry Salomonson is an expert on the Green Hornet, and talked about it at
    MANC back in September before playing an un-circulated episode of the Green
    Hornet for the audience.

    It also occured to me, regarding a previous posting that started a long
    thread of postings, the Green Hornet combatted Communist agents during the
    1950s in many episodes, a few of which I believe do exist in circulation.
    Martin

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    Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:56:01 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cincinnati OTR Convention

    At Bob Burchett's Cincinnati OTR convention, I will be hosting an hour-long
    presentation Friday morning at 10:30 featuring old-time radio in cinematic
    form.  These will include the following:

    KORN PLASTERED IN AFRICA (1931) - A strange early sound cartoon featuring
    Uncle "Don" Carney, the famous children's radio show host.

    COMMAND PERFORMANCE (1944) - one of the radio broadcasts was filmed for the
    theater-going audience to watch just how the skits and perormances were done
    behind a microphone.  Will feature Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Lana Turner, and
    Judy Garland.

    PAUL FREES who will lend his voice in a few commercial advertisements.

    A WWII War Bond Drive film short with Harold Peary playing the Great
    Gildersleeve.

    and a couple others.  A couple of the film shorts I intend to play came from
    16 and 35 mm masters that have never been seen in over 60 years and have
    recently been transferred to DVD making them truly, "rarely-seen."  I will
    also bring equipment to ensure the program will be featured on a big screen
    in the room, theater style, and not on a small TV screen so everyone will be
    able to watch the film shorts.

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    Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:11:26 -0500
    From: Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: mp3

    I bought a Zen Juke box 40 gig for a fraction of the cost of an ipod. then I bought
    a 60 gigabyte fujitsu laptop hard drive on ebay for around $60, installed it and
    now I have a great 60 gigabyte mp3 player. i've got 42 books on tape, music, complete
    Lord Buckley, Complete Firesign Theater, Brother Theodore, tons of Old Radio Shows,
    Coyle and Sharpe, Complete BBC Lord Wimsey and then some, My Music, My Word and other
    BBC shows, and untold other stuff. I've filled the thing up.

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    Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:11:49 -0500
    From: "[removed]@[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lone Ranger's First name

    The Ranger has a first name thati is for sure. I suppose someone could
    go to the headquarters of the Texas Rangers to find out  , but that is
    not [removed] did his nephew, Dan Reid, call him? Just go back and
    listen to episodes that Dan was in and you will get the answer - [removed]
    Did Dan call him Uncle Hay You? Did Dan call him Uncle anything? I don't
    think so.

    Who, for years , spent days and nights traveling all over the South West
    and they slept together at their camp sites. TONTO. Tonto must have know
    the Rangers name. Tonto found the dead and wounded [removed] He buried
    the dead  and even had an empty grave that was suppose the Lone Ranger.
    Did Tonto put names on the Grave marker? If he did what were the names?

    I suggest that those who want to know the the Lone Range's name listen
    to all the episodes and listen very carefully and you will find out.
    I'll save you time his first Name is "Kemosabe" .That is what Tonto
    called him. Maybe I spelled wrong, but that's it Kemoasbe Reid.

    Frank McGurn

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