Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #238
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Date: 9/1/2006 9:19 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 238
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  History Detectives (was pbs superman  [ "Dave Adams" <daveadams-hollywood@c ]
  Glenn Ford                            [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  9-1 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Re: Hackberry Hotel                   [ Larry Groebe <lgroebe@genericradio. ]
  Passing of a great lady               [ JJLjackson@[removed] ]
  Trav-ler Radio                        [ "Bill Harris" <nbcblue@[removed]; ]
  Ed Sullivan bio                       [ Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@earthlin ]
  Campaign signs                        [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Radio influence in other countries    [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]

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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:02:13 -0400
From: "Dave Adams" <daveadams-hollywood@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  History Detectives (was pbs superman)

From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
HISTORY DETECTIVES
Monday, September 4, 2006 9 - 10:00 pm
The Detectives journey to Ohio, New York and New Jersey to
investigate the early days of Superman and how this comic icon
was used to inspire American GIs during wartime.

This may get axed for irrelevancy, but since Joe brought up History
Detectives, I want to recommend it
and especially recommend catching, if possible (and they recycle the show a
lot) an episode concerning a guy
who believes he owns one of the cameras used at RKO to shoot King Kong.
While not OTR related specifically I feel King Kong has a sort of honorary
relevance.
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The site describes the episode, with a transcript in pdf:
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The Detectives investigate the camera and deliver the results to it's owner
along with tidbits
of production trivia.

-Dave

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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:02:54 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Glenn Ford
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Hi Gang:

Not too long ago here on OTR/D, a person was looking for radio appearances of
the recently departed Gkenn Ford. Would this author/researcher please contact
me off-list? I've clipped all the G Ford obits from NYC-area newspapersm and
I'd like to send them along. I'm at derek@[removed]. Thanks.

Yours in the ether--

Derek Tague

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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:23:01 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-1 births/deaths

September 1st births

09-01-1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1950
author: Creator of Tarzan
09-01-1877 - Frank Tours - London, England - d. 2-2-1963
orchestra leader: "Will Rogers"; "The Vince Program"
09-01-1886 - Regina Wallace - Trenton, NJ - d. 2-13-1978
actor: Alice Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
09-01-1886 - Sam Taub - d. 7-10-1979
boxing writer and broadcaster
09-01-1887 - William Daly - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-4-1936
condctor: "Raleigh Review"; "Voice of Firestone"
09-01-1893 - Betty Blythe - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-7-1972
actor: "The Whistler"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Let George Do It"
09-01-1899 - Richard Arlen - Charlottesville, VA - d. 5-28-1976
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-01-1900 - Don Wilson - Lincoln, NE - d. 4-25-1982
announcer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Good News of 1941"
09-01-1901 - Clyde Lucas - Minneapolis, KS - d. 1-15-1982
bandleader: "Spotlight Bands"; "Rendezvous Music"
09-01-1902 - John J. Anthony - NYC - d. 7-16-1970
moderator: "Good Will Hour"; "John J. Anthony Hour"
09-01-1904 - Johnny Mack Brown - Dothan, AL - d. 11-14-1974
actor: "Straight Arrow Pow Wow"
09-01-1907 - Cliff Howell - Hattiesburg, MS - d. unknown
announcer: "Gateway to Hollywood; "The Euclid Ballot Box"
09-01-1922 - Yvonne De Carlo - Vancouver, Canada
actor: " Screen Guild Theatre"; "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
09-01-1925 - Art Pepper - Gardena, CA - d. 6-15-1982
jazz artist: "Jazz Alive"
09-01-1928 - George Maharis - Astoria, NY
actor: "Zero Hour"
09-01-1935 - Seiji Ozawa - Shenyang, China
conductor: Boston Symphony Orchestra

September 1st deaths

01-27-1912 - Benay Venuta - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-1-1995
singer: "Benay Venuta's Program"; "Shell Chateau"
03-28-1892 - Philip Loeb - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-1-1955
actor: Jake Goldberg "The Goldbergs"
07-18-1916 - Irene Winston - NYC - d. 9-1-1964
actor: Myra Gordon "Valiant Lady"; Rosemary Hemingway "Woman In White"
08-03-1915 - Hugh Douglas - Chicago, IL - d. 9-1-1993
announcer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
08-17-1904 - Ann Harding - Fort Sam Houston, TX - d. 9-1-1981
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
08-24-1875 - Frank Craven - Boston, MA - d. 9-1-1945
actor: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Cavalcade of America"
09-05-1897 - Doris Kenyon - Syracuse, NY - d. 9-1-1979
actor: Ann "Crossroads"
09-05-1897 - Morris Carnovsky - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-1-1992
actor: Adam Bassett "Prairie Folks"; Mr. Kriss "Into the Light"
09-18-1873 - Charles K. Field - Montpelier, VT - d. 9-1-1948
host: (Cherrio) "Cherrio"; "Arco Birthday Party"
10-31-1896 - Ethel Waters - Chester, PA - d. 9-1-1977
blues singer: "American Revue"; "Command Performance"; "Jubilee"
11-02-1901 - James Dunn - NYC - d. 9-1-1967
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-13-1897 - Drew Pearson - Evanston, IL - d. 9-1-1969
investigative reporter: "Listen America"; "Drew Pearson Comments"
xx-xx-xxxx - Fanny May Baldridge - d. 9-1-1961
actor: "Miracles of Magnolia"; "Ellen Randolph"; "The Man I Married"

Ron Sayles
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 00:16:04 -0400
From: Larry Groebe <lgroebe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Hackberry Hotel

On Aug 31, 2006, at 5:44 PM, [removed]@[removed] wrote:

I seem to recall this program originated in Dallas, or Ft. Worth.  I
used to listen to it fairly regularly in the 1940's era.  Does anyone
recall it, or have information about it?
Thanks,
Ralph

I don't recall it (personally) but I did salvage a collection of
"Hackberry Hotel" scripts a few years ago, so I can fill you in .

"Hackberry Hotel" was a local production of WFAA in Dallas which was
on the air in the 1940s and 1950s. Times varied, but it usually was
broadcast in the late lunch hour (12:30, 12:45, or 1pm) for 15
minutes.   Some shows were sponsored by Armstrong's "Bird Brand"
shortening and sausages, later shows were sustaining.

The premise centered on daily life at the 14-room Hackberry Hotel
where the owner Mr. Hack Berry and the porter "Little Willie" Botts,
told jokes, read the news, waited for the train to arrive, and
discussed various topics. It was almost always just the  two
characters, although other characters would appear occasionally.

The characters of Hackberry Hotel also made many guest appearances on
other WFAA shows -- most notably the well-remembered "Early Birds"
breakfast program which aired for about 30 years.

At least a couple of recordings survive.

Hackberry Hotel seems to me to be one of a large number of comic two-
person shows which seem to fall in a genre bounded by  Amos 'n Andy,
Lum 'n Abner, and minstrelsy. "Little Willie" is written as a
completely stereotyped "colored boy," speaking in a no-longer-
politically-correct dialect  (sentences like"Yassuh - I'se supprisin'
myself") -- and of course he was played by a white man. At this
distance in time, it's certainly hard to grasp why so many stations
featured a regular  "colored" character for laughs.

--Larry Groebe

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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 00:48:04 -0400
From: JJLjackson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Passing of a great lady
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Mike Wheeler, of the Great Gildersleeve project, received  word that Mary Lee
Robb (Marjorie on The Great Gildersleeve) passed away  suddenly on Monday
afternoon, Pacific time (Aug 28).
Her daughter, Sandy,  had spent several hours with her that day and said
that they were laughing  and having a good time.  Apparently Mary Lee
collapsed only a few  minutes after Sandy left to return home to [removed]
She was taken to the  hospital but died two hours later without regaining
consciouslness.

There aren't that many actors left from the Great Gildersleeve Show. I'm
sorry I never got to meet her, although I can always dream of "might have
beens". To many, Mary Lee was the best Marjorie bar none. She'll be  missed.

Joy Jackson
American Radio Theater
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:31:41 -0400
From: "Bill Harris" <nbcblue@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Trav-ler Radio

 Illoman <illoman@[removed]; posted:

I recently acquired an antique radio and I am trying to research it.
There is no model number on it, but the brand name Trav-ler is on the
front dial. It is a cathedral style with a flat top.

Actually the table models with flat tops (taller then wide) are referred to
as "tombstones", the cathedral style has a rounded top.
The Trav-er Radio & Television Corp., 571 West Jackson Blvd, Chicago, Ill
was founded in 1921. They began manufacturing television sets in 1951 until
1965.
If yours is the model 53, the model year would be 1935. If you plan on
operating the set I suggest you have all the capacitors replaced and a good
going over by someone who can service vintage radios. Attempting to operate
it before doing this may cause damage to the set.

Bill H.

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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:32:08 -0400
From: Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Ed Sullivan bio

Does anyone know to whom I can write to obtain copies of Ed Sullivan shows on
which Arthur Godfrey appeared?  He did so a number of times - on one
Christmas show he appeared as Santa Claus.  I appreciate the tip on the new
Sullivan book, which I am trying to obtain.

Please be advised re our new Email address in Vero Beach (Indian River County
FL), which will become effective about mid-October:

verotas@[removed]

Our old earthlink addy will overlap for a month or so.

Thanks to all who wrote to support Charlotte and me in our move from VA to
FL, and who have purchased many of my memorabilia. We will appreciate your
prayers and thoughts to get through this ordeal!  Once we settle into our new
digs, I hope to concentrate on the Arthur Godfrey book - finally!

Bestus - Lee Munsick

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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:18:46 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Campaign signs

The other day while traveling to my appointed destination I saw a
political sign which read, Rick Nelson for County Clerk. Does anyone
else know of other OTR people who are running for office?

Ron Sayles

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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:07:18 -0400
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio influence in other countries

The other evening I was watching a new show on PBS called Rosemary & Thyme.
It is a British mystery show.  In it, one of the characters refers to living
"The Life of Riley."  I wonder if the author and/or actor knew where the
phrase came from?

Ted

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