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Date: 5/24/2007 4:19 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 153
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      MBS and its ratings in radio's golde  [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]
      Making an OTR Smart Playlist in Itun  [ "Richard j Smith" <rjsmith608@chart ]
      Doing the Math                        [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
      Dust and Glory                        [ "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed]. ]
      Mutual's Second Half Hour of Dramas   [ "Morris Joseph" <mjoseph55@hotmail. ]
      5-24 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Re: Reruns                            [ oldtix@[removed] ]
      Vera Vague/Bob Hope Show              [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 16:41:17 -0400
    From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  MBS and its ratings in radio's golden age

    May 23, 2007

    Dear Old Time Radio Digest Readers:

    Another question about the Mutual Broadcasting System
    and its history.

    In radio's golden age in a four-network race for
    ratings and listeners.  Did MBS ever lead its time
    slot with a program?  Did MBS ever have any programs
    in radio's top Ten or top twenty?

    When MBS aired detective programs such as the Shadow
    and Neck Carter Master Detective, did these programs
    lead their time slots on Sundays?

    Many Thanks

    Jim Taylor

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    Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:26:14 -0400
    From: "Richard j Smith" <rjsmith608@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Making an OTR Smart Playlist in Itunes

    Hey all,

      I was wondering if anyone has made a Smart Playlist in Itunes with radio
    shows?  If so, would you be willing to share the Playlist?  I've been wanting
    to make one, but not sure how with OTR.  I was thinking a variety of OTR Gen
    then shuffle different shows of that type maybe 5 shows at a time or so.
      Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Richard j Smith
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    Email: rjsmith608@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:41:43 -0400
    From: Rentingnow@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Doing the Math

    Does anyone else do the math?  I mean look at the birth and death  list,
    subtract one from the other and figure how old they were when they died?

    Then the next step is to be thankful that we or to be more exact I am older
    than they ever got.  Add to this the question of whether I  have had  as
    significant impact as they did.  I won't go into that here.

    So as a tribute to:

    "08-19-1902 - Ogden Nash - Rye, NY - d. 5-19-1971
    poet: "Three Ring  Time"; "Kaleidoscope"

    And as a former Wyoming farm boy with a Holstein dog, "a Landseer
    Newfoundland named Tippo":

    "The cow is of the bovine ilk,
    One end is MOO the other milk.

    Larry Moore

    PS: I still have 3 years to go to equal Ogden. Hopefully I will surpass  him.
    But if I don't, I promise to not tell you.

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    Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 20:33:12 -0400
    From: "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Dust and Glory

    Thanks to Mike Hobart for the info on Evan Green's book Dust and Glory,
    which includes Australian Radio Legend Jack Davey.

    I wasn't aware of the book.  I do have the DVD on the Redex trials because
    of Jack's involvement in them and I look forward to finding a copy of the
    book.

    Ian Grieve

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    Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 20:34:06 -0400
    From: "Morris Joseph" <mjoseph55@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mutual's Second Half Hour of Dramas
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       Jim Taylor remembers Mutual's mystery dramas during the mid to late
       1950's in the dying days of network radio. The programs were broadcast
       Monday to Friday evenings from 8:00PM to 9:00PM
       eastern time. I used to listen over the Buffalo Mutual affiliate at
       the time, WEBR AM970 which is now an NPR outlet (WNED). The following
       is the lineup of programs as I recall:

       Mondays:  True Detective Mysteries;  The Lives of Harry Lime (The
       Third Man)

       Tuesdays:  Treasury Agent;  The Scarlet Pimpernel

       Wednesdays:  Gangbusters;  Horatio Hornblower

       Thursdays:  Official Detective;  It's a Crime, Mr. Collins

       Fridays: Counterspy (later replaced by Crime Fighters);  City Editor.

       I believe that Harry Lime, Scarlet Pimpernel and Hornblower were
       reruns of series produced a few years earlier. Does anyone else have
       any recollections about these programs? Mutual deserves
       credit for broadcasting drama during this period when slowly but
       surely the major network shows
       were disappearing from the airwaves. Incidentally, as I recall, by
       this time, ABC had virtually abandoned nighttime radio.

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    Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 22:11:14 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-24 births/deaths

    May 24th births

    05-24-1878 - Harry Emerson Fosdick - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-5-1969
    preacher: "National Vespers"
    05-24-1883 - Elsa Maxwell - Keokuk, IA - d. 11-1-1963
    society mistress: Roma Wine spokesperson for Suspense; "Texaco Star
    Theatre"
    05-24-1886 - Paul Paray - Treport, Normandy, France - d. 10-10-1979
    conductor: "New York Philharmonic"
    05-24-1896 - Jock MacGregor - d. 2-14-1984
    director, actor: "Cisco Kid"; "Gangbusters"
    05-24-1901 - Lucien Moraweck - d. 10-20-1973
    music: "The City"; "Intrigue"; "Passpoet for Adams"; "Suspense"
    05-24-1902 - Wilbur Hatch - Mokena, IL - d. 12-22-1969
    conductor: "Our Miss Brooks"; "Gateway to Hollywood"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    05-24-1905 - Joe Lindwurm - d. 2-25-1992
    musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
    05-24-1907 - Bill Bouchey - Clare, MI - d. 9-27-1977
    actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"
    05-24-1909 - Howard Snyder - d. 4-13-1963
    writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Lum and Abner"; "That's My Pop"
    05-24-1911 - Lilli Palmer - Posen, Germany - d. 1-28-1986
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-24-1912 - Rachel Carlay - Brussels, Belgium
    singer: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"
    05-24-1914 - Vern Carstensen - Clinton, IA - d. 4-1-1999
    announcer, actor: "Box 13"; "Damon Runyon Theatre"
    05-24-1915 - Harvey Bacal - Quebec, Canada - d. 11-14-1993
    musical director and arranger
    05-24-1916 - Tony Barrett - NYC - d. 11-16-1974
    actor: Charlie Dyer "This Life is Mine"; Biff Bradley "Pepper Young's
    Family"
    05-24-1923 - Frank E. Amole - d. 5-12-2002
    newscaster: KDEN Denver, Colorado
    05-24-1932 - Elaine Malbin - NYC
    singer: "Serenade to America"; "Saturday Matinee with Elaine Malbin"

    May 24th deaths

    01-13-1913 - Paul Birch - Alabama - d. 5-24-1969
    actor: Radio work in St. Louis under the name of Paul (Lowery) Smith
    01-22-1893 - Fulton Oursler - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-24-1952
    writer: "The Greatest Story Ever Told"; "Thatcher Colt Mysteries"
    02-01-1859 - Victor Herbert - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-24-1924
    composer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Railroad Hour"
    03-06-1882 - Guy Kibbee - El Paso, TX - d. 5-24-1956
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-03-1898 - George Jessel - NYC - d. 5-24-1981
    comedian, emcee: (Toastmaster General of the [removed]) "Hollywood Calling"
    04-29-1899 - Duke Ellington - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-24-1974
    bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Story of Swing"
    05-28-1910 - Rachel Kempson - Dartmouth, Devon, England - d. 5-24-2003
    actor: "The Archers"; "Tom's Midnight Garden"
    06-04-1901 - Carlton E. Morse - Jennings, LA - d. 5-24-1993
    writer, producer, director: "One Man's Family"; "I Love A Mystery"
    06-26-1897 - Warren Colston - Great Bend, PA - d. 5-24-1972
    actor: "Young Widder Brown"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-05-1905 - John Abbott - London, England - d. 5-24-1996
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-09-1921 - Joe Anzivin - Youngstown, OH - d. 5-24-2003
    sportscaster: KGMB Honolulu, Hawaii
    10-22-1920 - Mitzi Green - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-24-1969
    actor: Girl "Passport to Romance"
    11-29-1895 - Yakima Canutt - Colfax, WA - d. 5-24-1986
    actor, stuntman: "Daredevils of Hollywood"; "Hollywood Rodea"
    12-09-1897 - Hermione Gingold - London, England - d. 5-24-1987
    actor: "Stagestruck"
    12-25-1913 - Candy Candido - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-24-1999
    comedian: "Sealtest Village Store"; "Jimmy Durante Show"
    xx-xx-1915 - Jack McCarthy - d. 5-24-1996
    actor, announcer, writer: "Connee Boswell Presents"; "The Green Hornet"
    xx-xx-1916 - Maggi McNellis - Chicago, IL - d. 5-24-1989
    hostess: "Maggi's Private Wire"; "Leave It to the Girls"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:43:37 -0400
    From: oldtix@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Reruns
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    Just to add to the string here:

    In fact, Jack Benny's last "live" broadcast wasn't even [removed]  The last
    first-run broadcast aired on May 22, 1955 was recorded in February 1955,
    according to Laura [removed]  I am lucky enough to have the studio audience
    ticket for that performance in my collection!

    Rick Payne
    AOL at [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:59:13 -0400
    From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Vera Vague/Bob Hope Show

    I received this vit of info on Vera Vague/Bob Hope from Gerry Orlando of the
    Syracuse NY Cinefile Society:

    Hi Bill,

    Thanks for forwarding that "Vera Vague" question from the OTR site. I have
    the answer to that person's question.  In 1948, Bob Hope's "Pepsodent" radio
    show was dropping in the ratings, so for his 1948-1949 season, the whole
    show was revamped and given a "makeover".  Former regulars Jerry Collona and
    Vera Vague were dropped and replaced with Jack Kirkwood and Irene Ryan.

    Apparently the revamping didn't seriously harm Hope's relationship with
    Collona, because Collona eventually returned to Hope's radio show in the
    1950's, plus Collona appeared on Hope TV shows and service camp tours for
    years.  However, Vera never worked regularly with Hope again after the 1948
    radio show revamping, so maybe the Hope-Vague relationship suffered more
    from the change than the Hope-Collona relationship did.

    BILL KNOWLTON

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