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Date: 3/19/2008 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 71
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      ***Requesting Return Receipt          [ "Dave Amaral" <lnesbitt@[removed] ]
      Re: Templeton Cigarettes              [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      How about re-enacting Quiet Please?   [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      Re: Florence Williams                 [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      3-19 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      re: Reenactment Groups                [ Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@amerit ]
      RE: Blissful thinking?                [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed] ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      No Cincy Trip                         [ "randy story" <hopharrigan@centuryt ]

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    Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:58:09 -0400
    From: "Dave Amaral" <lnesbitt@[removed];
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    Martin Grams,

    Without checking, My first guess would be that there were two Big Town Themes,
    as there were two distinct series:   ---The Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor
    series from CBS Hollywood (in the late 30's ?), ---and the longer running
    series from [removed] in the 40'[removed]
    Dave Amaral.

    Dave@Lloyd's

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    Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:28:50 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Templeton Cigarettes

    I can't fill in the history, but Templeton Cigarettes, I believe are
    mostly European cigarettes and are still sold. They are owned by Austria
    Tabak, a large corporate group based in Austria, who also own Benson &
    Hedges cigarettes among others. There are two brands of Templetons -
    Filtered and Lights. Being a non-smoker, I can't say if they are sold
    over here, though I doubt it.

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:29:08 -0400
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  How about re-enacting Quiet Please?

    Talk about re-enactments makes me yearn for someone to do the lost "Quiet
    Please" shows. I have the log by Randy Eidemiller and Chris Lambesis.  There
    are scripts for each of the 15 shows for which there are no recordings.  It
    would take some remarkable actors to do these shows well, but it might be
    worth the effort.  There are also some shows that are in such poor audio
    that they are almost unlistenable.

    The citation for the log [removed]

    Eidemiller, Randy
            Quiet Please, one of radio's most thought provoking series.  The
    background and complete log of all 106 broadcasts with remembrances by Frank
    Thomas, Jr.  Revised edition 2000.  Now containing all story lines.
    Researched and prepared by Rand Eidemiller and Chris Lambesis.
        [Published by the authors, July 2000.]

    Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401
    Phone:  605-226-3344. Email: tkneebone1@[removed]
    OTR:  [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:29:33 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Florence Williams

    On 3/18/08 6:18 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

>     I'm seeking specific birth/death info on prolific radio actress Florence
>     Williams.  Can anybody supply any part of the data, or point me to a source
>     I might have overlooked?  I believe her to have been born in 1910 in St.
>     Louis and to have died in 1994 but can't guarantee authenticity of that yet.
>     I'm seeking specific dates and her place of death.  Any help directly to me
>     will be sincerely appreciated and earn a mention in the credits of an
>     upcoming tome.

    Florence was a close personal friend of mine. She lived in my town for
    the last twenty years or so of her life, and I had the privilege of
    acting with her in various community theatre productions in her final
    years. She was born in St. Louis on October 17, 1910, and died of ovarian
    cancer at Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport, Maine on March 30,
    1995. She's buried in Presque Isle, Maine, with her third husband, Philip
    Christie, who predeceased her in 1990.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:48:21 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-19 births/deaths

    March 19th births

    03-19-1883 - Louis Hector - d. 10-xx-1968
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
    03-19-1889 - George L. "Doc" Rockwell - Providence, RI - d. 3-3-1978
    comedian: "Camel Pleasure Hour"
    03-19-1890 - Gayne Whitman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1958
    actor, announcer: Frank Chandler "Chandu the Magician"; "Cavalcade of
    America"
    03-19-1891 - Earl Warren - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-9-1974
    governor, supreme court justice: "Edgar bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-19-1892 - James Van Fleet - Coytesville, NJ - d. 9-24-1992
    4 star army general: "A Tribute to Jack Benny"
    03-19-1900 - Frank Chapman - d. 7-26-1966
    singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
    03-19-1906 - Pat Adelman - d. 12-xx-1982
    sportscaster: Austin, Texas
    03-19-1907 - Kent Smith - NYC - d. 4-23-1985
    actor: "NBC University Theatre of the Air";"Radio Reader's Digest"
    03-19-1909 - Louis Hayward - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 2-21-1985
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "This
    Is My Best"
    03-19-1912 - Russ Case - Hamburg, IA - d. 10-10-1964
    orchestra leader: "On a Sunday Afternoon"; "Peggy Lee Show"; "Your
    Hit Parade"
    03-19-1915 - Patricia Morison - NYC
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Railroad Hour"
    03-19-1916 - Eric Christmas - London, England - d. 7-22-2000
    actor: "CBC Wednesday Night"
    03-19-1916 - Irving Wallace - Chicago, IL - d. 6-29-1990
    writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    03-19-1919 - Alfred Apaka - Honolulu, HI - d. 1-30-1960
    vocalist: "Hawaii Calls"
    03-19-1920 - Tige Andrews - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-27-2007
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    03-19-1923 - Gordon Connell - Berkeley, CA
    actor: Billy Sherwood "Hawthorne House"
    03-19-1923 - Pamela Britton - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-18-1974
    actor: "Luncheon at Sardi's"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-19-1927 - Richie Ashburn - Tilden, NE - d. 9-9-1997
    sportscaster: "Philadelphia Phillies Play by Play"
    03-19-1933 - Phyllis Newman - Jersey City, NJ
    actor: "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Tonight at 9:30"
    05-17-1906 - Carl McIntire - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 03-19-2002
    evangelist: "Twentieth Century Reformation Hour"

    March 19th deaths

    01-16-1895 - Irene Bordoni - Ajaccio, Corsica, France - d. 3-19-1953
    singer: (The Coty Playgirl) "The RKO Hour"
    02-26-1898 - Fiddlin' Sid Harkreader - Wilson County, TN - d. 3-19-1988
    banjo player: "Grand Ole Opry"
    03-28-1927 - Marguerite Campbell - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 3-19-2003
    singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    04-18-1912 - Al Hodge - Ravenna, OH - d. 3-19-1979
    actor: Britt Reid/Green Hornet "Green Hornet"; "Columbia Workshop"
    04-29-1887 - Robert Cushman Murphy - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-19-1973
    ortinthologist: "Information Please"
    05-14-1868 - "Big Bill" Thompson - Boston, MA - d. 3-19-1944
    mayor of chicago: "The March of Time"
    06-12-1917 - Constance Ernst Bessie - NYC - d. 3-19-1985
    producer: "Theatre [removed]"; "Voice of America"
    08-28-1900 - Diana Bourbon - NYC - d. 3-19-1978
    producer, director: :Double or Nothing"; "Life Begins"
    09-01-1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1950
    author: Creator of Tarzan
    09-09-1908 - Ed Prentiss - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1992
    actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"; Ned Holden
    "The Guiding Light"
    09-16-1919 - Ralph Barco - d. 3-19-1993
    orchestra leader: WHK Cleveland, Ohio
    10-04-1880 - Nora Bayes - Joliet, IL - d. 3-19-1928
    singer: "General Motors Family Party"
    12-07-1909 - Arch Oboler - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1987
    writer: 'Lights Out"; "Adam and Eve skit on Bergen/McCarthy"
    12-13-1913 - Jimmy Carroll - NYC - d. 3-19-1972
    singer: "Pot O' Gold"
    12-16-1917 - Arthur C. Clarke - Minehead, England - d. 3-19-2008
    science fiction writer: "The Long John Nebel Show"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:48:48 -0400
    From: Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@[removed];
    To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  re: Reenactment Groups

        The Milwaukee Area Radio Enthusiasts have a group
    called the NightMARE Players, who perform an annual
    live recreation of an OTR program each September.
    While primarily done for our club, we have performed
    for other interested community groups, always to an
    enthusiastic crowd.  Check out our website at
    [removed]
        Another group affiliated with MARE are the Billie
    the Brownie Players.  For the last four years we have
    recreated part of Milwaukee's Christmas Past live in
    the Southeastern Wisconsin listening area.  We were
    joined this past year by a veteran of the actual
    Golden Days of Radio, Maddie Coogan Pritchard, who
    played Mrs. Santa on the original Billie the Brownie
    broadcasts.
        Just to editorialize for a minute, I want to say
    THANK YOU for the interest in groups such as ours.  I
    firmly believe that part of the continuing interest in
    Old Time Radio is due to groups that recreate the
    experience of the radio broadcasts of the 1940's.  I
    have become a fan of Nita Hunter's Kenosha, WI group
    which has previously been mentioned -
    [removed] - they are doing a
    great job in Southeastern Wisconsin. Groups such as
    Nita's, and Craig Wichman's Quicksilver Radio Theater
    are keeping the tradition alive.

    Mark Higgins
    President - Milwaukee Area Radio Enthusiasts

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    Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:17:23 -0400
    From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Blissful thinking?

    Jim Cox asked:

>     . . .
>     Aside from The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater (1977-78), The
>     Sears/Mutual Radio Theater (1979-80), and a handful of black-produced soap
>     operas in the 1950s (at least two decades before this), I'm unaware of any
>     of Julian's projections turning into realities post 1975.  Did they?  I'd
>     like to think I missed them and they are currently circulating on tape,
>     other recordings or are downloadable.  Does anybody know? . .

    	In addition to those national productions, there was at least one
    significant continuing, regional production of radio dramas during the
    1970's.

    	From mid-July 1972 through mid-June, 1978, new radio dramas were
    heard in several markets on the West Coast via the Gene Autry-owned Golden
    West Radio Network.  The shows originated out of Seattle radio station KVI
    and were written and produced by Jim French.

    	During this aforementioned time frame, Jim wrote and produced some
    235 episodes for his TOWER PLAYHOUSE, DAMERON, CRISIS, and THE ADVENTURES OF
    HARRY NILE series.

    	In 1990 Jim resumed writing and producing radio dramas for another
    Seattle radio station, KIRO, under the "umbrella title" THE KIRO MYSTERY
    PLAYHOUSE.  Included were many new stand-alone dramas and additional
    episodes of THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY NILE.

    	In March, 1996 Jim's shows began to be broadcast nationally as
    IMAGINATION THEATRE. This weekly, syndicated program continues to this day
    and presents a mix of Jim's earlier shows, along with new episodes of THE
    ADVENTURES OF HARRY NILE, additional stand-alone dramas, and episodes of new
    series such as
     CALL SIMON WALKER,
     THE CHRONICLES OF ANTHONY RATHE,
     THE CLASSIC ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (adaptations of the Conan Doyle
     stories),
     THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (pastiches),
     THE HILARY CAINE MYSTERIES,
     KERIDES - THE THINKER,
     KINCAID - THE STRANGESEEKER,
     MR. DARNBOROUGH INVESTIGATES, and
     RAFFLES - THE GENTLEMAN THIEF.

    	As of the end of March, 2008, some 718 shows written and/or produced
    by Jim French will have aired on the radio.  Most of these shows are
    available through Jim French Productions at:
    [removed]
    in audio CD and/or downloadable MP3 format.

    Signing off for now,

    Stewart Wright

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    Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:12:01 -0400
    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, 19 Mar 2008 11:42:02 -0400
    From: "randy story" <hopharrigan@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  No Cincy Trip
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    My freinds,
    The gods of finance have again spoken and the answer to my prayer regarding
    Cincy is not good.
    *sigh*
    I cannot make it again this year.
    So, instead of my cheery previous refrain of "We're Off to Cinncinnati", let's
    have a chorus of either "Ol' Man River" or "Nobody Knows the Troubles I've
    Seen".
    [removed]
    It hurts to be in the teaching profession sometime, folks.
    Blessings,
    R. Story
    (Alone again in West Plains come April 10-11)

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