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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 362
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      So who's Bulldog?                     [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
      A new tome is available               [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Another new release                   [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Eternal Light: A Radio Recall Exclus  [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
      Advertising Comes Full Circle         [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Bulldog Drummond & The Big Show       [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
      Harold Stone RIP                      [ "Jed Dolnick" <jdolnick@[removed] ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Cinnamon Bear and other XMAS serials  [ Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@yahoo ]
      11-23 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      One Researcher in Praise of Another   [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      Re: Leo Is On the Air                 [ alo <alo@[removed]; ]
      Jerry Salley                          [ "Jerry Salley" <jlsalley@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:49:19 -0500
    From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  So who's Bulldog?

    On Tuesday, November 22, 2005, at 12:18 PM,Kenneth Clarke wrote:

>     does anyone have any information on "Bulldog Drummond"?
>     I'm attempting to discover who played him on OTR.  I listened to an
>     episode
>     of it last night called "Death Uses Disappearing Ink" and the voice
>     sounded very familiar.

    You can amaze all your OTR buddies by answering ANY question on network
    detectives merely by turning to the pages of Jim Cox's "Radio Crime
    Fighters" (McFarland, 2002)

      In this series, the actors are: George Coulouris (Apr 41 to Mar 42),
    Santos Ortega (May 42 to Mar 43), Ned Wever (Mar 43 to Jan 49) and Sir
    Cedric Hardwicke (Oct 53 to Mar 54).

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL

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    Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:53:04 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  A new tome is available

    Rowman & Littlefield through its Scarecrow Press publishing imprint has --
    this week -- released my newest book:  "Historical Dictionary of American
    Radio Soap Operas."  It's a 300-page hardback priced at $70 providing
    detailed information alphabetically arranged on 293 ongoing network and
    syndicated narratives, plus biographical/anecdotal entries on 70 key
    individuals who worked in the genre, along with many other topics that
    impinged on and impacted the development of continuing sagas.

    The book includes a chronology of the audio serial from 1925 to 1960, a
    20-page introduction giving an overview of the breed, photographs from
    several of the major daytime dramas, the dictionary itself with more than
    500 entries, and an extensive bibliography.  I believe it is the most
    comprehensive work on the radio soap opera to date.  For anyone who's into
    radio drama, it will provide lots of information to supply numerous gaps.
    Enjoy!

    The book may be ordered today from [removed] and 800-462-6420.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:53:19 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Another new release

    Fellow Louisvillian David M. Inman, who pens a syndicated TV
    question-and-answer column titled "The Incredible Inman" distributed
    nationally by Gannett News Service, is the author of "Television Variety
    Shows:  Histories and Episode Guides to 57 Programs" released this week by
    McFarland.  I'm pleased to commend it to you.  While the book's focus is
    video series, so many of those personalities were derived from other venues
    and some had radio in their backgrounds including Steve Allen, Milton Berle,
    Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Jerry Lewis, Garry Moore,
    Red Skelton, Perry Como, Eddie Fisher, Dean Martin, Dinah Shore, Jimmy Dean,
    Bing Crosby and others.

    The book includes most of the memorable favorites from the early days of TV
    with a brief introduction of each of the 57 shows and then season-by-season,
    show-by-show data on what transpired each week.  It's a complete dossier on
    the series of all of the above plus Carol Burnett, Sid Caesar, Jackie
    Gleason, The Smothers Brothers, Ed Sullivan, George Gobel, Don Knotts, Flip
    Wilson, Jonathan Winters, Glen Campbell, Andy Williams, Sonny and Cher,
    Julie Andrews, Judy Garland, Mary Tyler Moore, Donny and Marie Osmond, Tony
    Orlando and Dawn and more.

    The 421-page paperback may be ordered now at $[removed] from
    [removed] and 800-253-2187.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:54:37 -0500
    From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Eternal Light:  A Radio Recall Exclusive

    Sometime after Thanksgiving the Jewish Theological Seminary will
    formally announce that in January 2006, most of the ABC stations in the
    country will broadcast a documentary on the history of "The Eternal
    Light." This series ran on NBC from 1944 to the 1990s and dealt with
    subjects of Jewish literature, music, and history. Approximately 1,000
    audio copies survive and the seminary is in the process of digitalizing
    them, which will be made available to the public in the coming months.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL

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    Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:32:29 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Advertising Comes Full Circle

    As more and more people find ways to skip commercials in standard television,
    sponsors are moving back to the OTR model of incorporating themselves into
    the entertainment itself.

    A review of this trend from Reason Magazine mentions Jack Benny as a pioneer
    of keeping the sponsor in the script.

    Benny never did anything on television as fall-down funny as playing a police
    captain beating the Lucky Strikes commercial out of Humphrey Bogart in
    interrogation (Benny: "How do you know it was a lucky strike?" - slap- Bogart
    "It was round, and firm, and fully packed, and so free and easy on the
    draw").  His writers made the commercials just as funny as the rest of the
    script so you didn't mind watching them.

    It still happens - there are commercials that are quite effective and clever
    - but oh so rarely.

    The article follows.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:17:49 -0500
    From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bulldog Drummond & The Big Show
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    All the reference books I have seen ,says that "George Coulouris" played
    "Bulldog Drummond. It seems like Jackson Beck was the announcer on some of
    the shows and I may be very badly mistaken but I think Jackson Beck may have
    done a few Bulldog [removed] I don't have a reference book at my
    fingertips at this moment, I can't be for [removed] least, it sounds like
    him as one of the announcers, or at least narrator on the show. If wrong I
    will submit from a momentary lapse of stupidity. Come on Jack and help me out
    of this! You can get 28 "The Big Shows" with Tallulah Bankhead on CD or mp3.
    Just click on "OTRCAT."Good luck!    Bob Slate

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    Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:54:25 -0500
    From: "Jed Dolnick" <jdolnick@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Harold Stone RIP

    One of the true great character actors of radio, motion pictures, and TV has
    passed away. I enjoyed him on "21st Precinct" as Sgt. Waters.

    November 22, 2005
    Harold Stone, 92, Character Actor, Dies
    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21 (AP) - Harold Stone, a veteran character actor who
    worked with everyone from Humphrey Bogart to Jerry Lewis over a 40-year
    career in television and films, died here on Friday. He was 92.

    He died of natural causes, his son Michael said.

    Known for his chiseled features, Mr. Stone appeared in 30 films, including
    "Spartacus," "The Big Mouth," "The Wrong Man" and "The Greatest Story Ever
    Told."

    He also had more than 150 roles on television, mostly in crime shows and
    police dramas, according to Internet Movie Database. In 1964, he earned an
    Emmy nomination for his portrayal of an Army medic who becomes a nurse in an
    episode of the CBS drama "The Nurses."

    Mr. Stone studied medicine at the University of Buffalo but turned to acting
    after he was forced to drop out to support his mother.

    In 1956, he appeared with Bogart in "The Harder They Fall." Mr. Lewis
    directed him in three films, including "The Big Mouth," "Which Way to the
    Front?" and "Hardly Working."

    In addition to his son Michael, Mr. Stone's survivors include another son,
    Robert; a daughter, Jennifer Bosserman; and four grandchildren.

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    Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:12:01 -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, 23 Nov 2005 10:05:28 -0500
    From: Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cinnamon Bear and other XMAS serials/FBI log?

    I sure hope that Cinnamon Bear Cruise is a success.  I
    sure would take a ride if I were anywhere near there.

    The Cinnamon Bear is such a great Christmas serial,
    much better in my opinion than the other serials like
    Jonathan Harris and His Christmas on the Moon, and
    Jump Jump, the dreadful Aus series Adv. in Toyland,
    and the like.

    I am fortunate to own two complete sets of the
    Cinnamon Bear ETs. I traded a copy of the War of the
    Worlds discs (cause I could never liked the show for
    the first set). I shared the better quality set on
    hi-q mp3s a year or two ago so many could enjoy.  I
    think the original Transco discs are the neatest
    because of the Cinnamon Bear design.

    Also, does anyone have any plans to make a log for The
    FBI in Peace and War?  I have a ton of this series on
    AFRTS discs, which I've only transferred a tiny
    fraction so far, but it would be nice to have dates.

    Thanks,
    Trav

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    Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:06:45 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-23 births/deaths

    November 23rd births

    11-23-1887 - Boris Karloff - London, England - d. 2-2-1969
    actor, host: "Starring Boris Karloff"; "Creeps by Night"
    11-23-1888 - Al Bernard - New Orleans, LA - d. 3-6-1949
    singer: "Dutch Masters Minstrels"; "Molle Merry Minstrels"
    11-23-1888 - Harpo Marx - New York, NY - d. 9-28-1964
    comedian: (First Marx Brother to speak on radio) Occasional guest spots
    11-23-1888 - Nana Bryant - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-24-1955
    actress: Miss Tilsey "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"
    11-23-1894 - Ken Christy - Pennsylvania - d. 7-23-1962
    actor: Police Chief Gates "Great Gildersleeve"; "Ed Kremer "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    11-23-1896 - Ruth Etting - David City, NE - d. 9-24-1978
    singer: "Music That Satisfies"; "Oldsmobile Show"; "Kellogg College Prom"
    11-23-1903 - Victor Jory - Dawson City, AK - d. 2-11-1982
    actor: "Matinee Theatre"; "Crisis in War Town"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    11-23-1912 - George O'Hanlon - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-11-1989
    actor: Husband "George O'Hanlon Show; Me and Janie"
    11-23-1912 - Tyree Glenn - Corsicana, TX - d. 5-18-1974
    trombonist, vibraphonist: "Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concert"
    11-23-1913 - Maurice Zolotow - New York, NY - d. 3-14-1991
    writer: "Information Please"
    11-23-1915 - Ellen Drew - Kansas City, MO - d. 12-6-2003
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
    11-23-1915 - John Dehner - Staten Island, NY - d. 5-4-1992
    actor: Paladin "Have Gun, Will Travel"; [removed] Kendall "Frontier Gentleman";
    "Gunsmoke"
    11-23-1915 - Natalie Park Masters - San Francisco, CA - d. 2-9-1986
    actress: Candy Matson "Candy Matson
    11-23-1916 - Julie Stevens - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-26-1984
    actress: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"; Kitty Foyle "Kitty Foyle"
    11-23-1917 - John Newland - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-10-2000
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
    11-23-1925 - Jeffrey Hunter - New Orleans. LA - d. 5-27-1969
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-23-1930 - Bob Easton - Milwaukee, WI
    actor: "Family Theatre"

    November 23rd deaths

    02-19-1911 - Merle Oberon - Calcutta, India  - d. 11-23-1979
    actress: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Stars Over Hollywood"
    02-22-1910 - Gene Hamilton - Toledo, OH - d. 11-23-2000
    announcer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
    03-15-1887 - Billy Jones - New York, NY - d. 11-23-1940
    singer: (The Happiness Boys)
    06-05-1920 - Cornelius Ryan - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-23-1974
    d-dat war correspondent, novelist: "Hearing Highlights"
    06-10-1889 - Sessue Hayakawa - Chiba, Japan - d. 11-23-1973
    actor: Freelance NHK Tokyo, Japan
    07-23-1915 - Frances Chaney - Odessa, Ukraine - d. 11-23-2004
    actress: (One of Hollywood Ten) Marion Kirby "Advs. of Topper"; Burma "Terry
    and the Pirates"
    08-19-1916 - Marie Wilson - Anaheim, CA - d. 11-23-1972
    actress: Irma Peterson "My Friend Irma"
    08-24-1933 - Bobby Ellis - Chicago, IL - d. 11-23-1973
    actor: Henry Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Chester A. Riley, Jr. "Life of Riley"
    09-13-1916 - Roald Dahl - Llandaff, Wales - d. 11-23-1990
    writer: "Escape"
    09-15-1903 - Roy Acuff - Maynardsville, TN - d. 11-23-1992
    singer: (The King of Country Music) "Grand Ole Opry"
    10-07-1905 - Jean Ellyn - New York, NY - d. 11-23-1989
    actress: Margie 'Cookie' Cook "Valiant Lady"; Dr. Watson "Strange Dr. Karnac"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:07:47 -0500
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  One Researcher in Praise of Another
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    My pal Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
    recently posted:

>     If anyone needs help with gathering OTR-related

    research in and around the metro Detroit area, I would
    be able to assist with that. Contact me off list to
    discuss details.

    As someone who has performed OTR-  & other pop culture-related research for
    about 15 years now, I can highly recommend Rick's services. He has helped me
    out more than once, has done some similar "legwork" for Martin Grams Jr., and
    is quite comprehensive, IMHO,  when he answers somebody's questions here on
    the Digest.  I'm particularly grateful when Rick helped me out of a bind by
    being able to  chase down articles pertaining to Detroit-area OTR performers
    in the WXYZ/Mutual/Trendle stable.  Some of these actors never really hit the
    radar NYC-wise, & somebody like me in NYC  has little or nothing to work with
    at thevenerated, yet Big Apple-centric,  Billy Rose Collection at the NYPL for
    the Performing Arts.

    Rick is very diligent and quite conscientious. Above all, he's very passionate
    about old time radio. In 2003, an original "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    adaptation he wrote was performed at the Cincinnati OTR & Nostalgia
    convention. Rick's many years as a journalist have proven time and again to be
    an added asset in his research endeavours.

    There are several researchers who have the NYC, Chicago, and LA areas, the big
    pockets of OTR activity, covered. So if you're in need of OTR/pop culture
    research with a Detroit connection, let Rick Keating be your go-to guy in the
    Motor City area.  Here's raising a toast of Vernor's Ginger Ale (Rick's
    favourite brand; he brings it to Cincinnati) to my good pal & fellow
    researcher Rick Keating, a really nice guy who won't disappoint.

    Happy Thanksgiving, One and All!

    Yours always in the ether,

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:08:41 -0500
    From: alo <alo@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Leo Is On the Air

    At 12:34 PM 11/19/2005, Ted wrote in part:

>     A very nice person recently gave me the newly released "Thin Man" DVD set.
>     Great fun if you haven't seen them.

>     Among the extra features on one of the DVDs are two radio shows.  The first
>     is the 6/17/40 Lux Presents Hollywood version of "After the Thin Man."  The
>     other is a little oddity called "Leo Is on the Air."

>     Anyone know anything more about this program?

    Leo Is On The Air were pre-recorded promotional discs sent out to radio
    stations, from approximately 1936 (Broadway Melody of 1936 is the earliest
    one I know of) and on through the 1940s (at least). Most of them were
    essentially 15 minute commercials or trailers for a specific film. Indeed,
    they're often referred to as air trailers. Sometimes though they deviated
    from this basic format. In November 1940, for example, MGM recorded a Leo
    Is On The Air "Holiday Broadcast" which was a peculiar gallimaufry of
    secular Christmas motifs crossed with a general promoting of Mickey Rooney
    & Judy Garland & their films. The secular boundaries were crossed somewhat
    when Garland sings "Silent Night" with an Episcopal boys' choir.
    (Coincidentally *film footage* for this also exists, and was used years
    earlier in a Metro holiday *short.* Recycling is always in fashion.)

    Other film studios created similar promotional material. 20th Century Fox,
    for example, had "20th Century Fox Presents <insert film title here>."

    An effective and cheap way to spread the word, especially in the radio-rich
    1930s, even for B pictures.

    hth,
    Amanda
    PS: Got to see the original Thin Man on a big screen recently & it was a
    gas. :-)

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    Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:53:10 -0500
    From: "Jerry Salley" <jlsalley@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jerry Salley

    I am not sure if anyone will read this that knows him, but Jerry Salley of
    Meridan, MS prescribe to this newsgroup.  His wife, Peggy (my mother) wanted
    me to make a posting to all the newsgroups in which he precribe to let
    everyone know of his death.  Attached is a copy of his obituary.  We just
    wanted to share to news. Thanks for taking time to read this.

    --
    Jerry S. (Carol Borgognoni)
    donya@[removed]

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