Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #91
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Date: 3/22/2005 11:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 91
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Lucky Strikes                         [ "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Re: Correll's House                   [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      ted brown                             [ "Joseph" <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      Eddie Carrol                          [ OTRadiofan@[removed] (Stuart Lubin) ]
      new book re Orson Welles: a review (  [ "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed]; ]
      3-22 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: getting in contact                [ edcarr@[removed] ]
      exceedingly early radio               [ BH <radiobill@[removed]; ]
      Ted Brown                             [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]

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    Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:26:52 -0500
    From: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lucky Strikes

    I've been watching a lot of old Jack Benny TV shows and have been really
    struck by the commercials (which are very similar to the radio show
    commerical, giving this post on-topic cover).  Specifically, I'm astounded by
    all the different slogans and jingles used by Lucky Strike, and how they'd
    cram as many of them as possible into one commercial.  Slogans/jingles
    include:

    - LS/MFT
    - So round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw.
    - It's toasted (to taste better).
    - Luckies taste better - cleaner, fresher, smoother.

    I'm sure I've missed a couple.  Modern advertising seems to take only a
    single theme/slogan/jingle in each spot, and it's interesting to compare it
    to these Lucky Strike TV/radio commericals that seem to work in every theme
    into each spot.

    -chris holm

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    Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:27:01 -0500
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Correll's House

    On 3/21/05 11:14 AM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

>     As the house was designed in the 30's for Correll, early radio was
>     apparently  most kind to the "Amos 'n' Andy"  star. I would hope the
>     current buyer respects the property and lights a candle for the great
>     comedian once  in awhile.

    I think the most interesting thing about the Holmby Hills house is the
    fact that all of the brickwork around the property -- retaining walls,
    walkways, patios, etc. -- was laid by Charles Correll himself. As
    prosperous as he became over the course of his life, he remained, at
    heart, a working-class stonemason from Peoria, and for as long as he
    lived he liked nothing better than putting on a pair of overalls and
    going out in the yard to lay bricks. Most of this work remains on the
    property to this day, including some very attractive tilework made of
    Belgian tile which Correll was given during an unpublicized wartime USO
    tour.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:27:26 -0500
    From: "Joseph" <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  ted brown

    ted was also famous for purposely getting drunk on the air on holiday
    weekends as a reminder to people to not drink and drive. i don't know how
    effective it was, but he seemed to have a good time.

    william b williams, who would occasionally jokingly call himself "gulliermo b
    gulliermo" had the 10am slot and would have a visit from "the chairman of the
    board" which meant he was playing a sinatra record. he was followed in the
    afternoon by julius la rosa. funny, arthur godfrey would never be mentioned.
    then julie was followed by ted brown in the afternoon. brown was also on wnbc
    for a while (which is now wfan, the sports station; wnew is now bloomberg
    business news -- the wnew and wnbc am call letters are gone). i think howard
    stern replaced ted brown in 1983 on wnbc.

    for those who are interested, there is a nice nostalgia site for the old wabc
    music station in ny [removed] and also a great site for
    cuts of top 40 dj's nationwide at [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:27:35 -0500
    From: OTRadiofan@[removed] (Stuart Lubin)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Eddie Carrol

    To those of you who live in the Los Angeles area, Eddie Carrol, the
    greatest Jack Benny impersonator ever, will be doing his one man show at
    the La Mirada Performing Arts Theater, one day only, Friday, April 8,
    2005.
    Stuart Lubin

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    Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:27:52 -0500
    From: "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  new book re Orson Welles: a review (Part II)

     The Medium and the Magician: Orson Welles, the Radio Years, 1934-1952.
    (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) by Paul Heyer (255 pp---- $[removed])

     Reviewed by Howard Blue--Part II

    (part I of this review appeared in vol. 2005, #90 of the Digest)

     Heyer obviously spent many hours listening to tapes of Welles' broadcasts.
    His analyses of the shows are often quite insightful. In discussing Welles'
     production of Dracula, for example, he writes "The musical segue to [Dr.]
    Seward's first speech consists of crashing minor chords accompanied by
     chimes. It anticipates the opening sequence of [Citizen] Kane which itself
    plays like the introduction to a Gothic horror story."

     Heyer does a particularly fine job in showing the continuity of certain
    facets of Welles' radio work, for example Welles' masterful use of music and
    sound effects. In a passage about an episode of The Shadow, Heyer writes "We
    then flash forward to a program of organ music, which is soon interrupted by
    news that a doctor has treated the Shadow for a bullet wound . . . then back
    to the music, a technique that directly anticipates the first part of the
    infamous War of the Worlds broadcast a year later.
     Like William Robson, Welles was an innovator with sound. In Les Miserables
    which Heyer cites as one of radio's most successful adaptations of a
    literary classic, to achieve the right sound of a chase scene through the
    sewers of Paris, Welles played the scene in a washroom with the actors at
    floor level.

    Heyer also makes an interesting contrast between the production of Lux Radio
    Theatre and Welles' work. In the Lux productions, there was overt attempt to
    give the illusion that radio was transmitting a stage play. "Ladies and
    Gentlemen, the curtain is going up," listeners heard from "host" Cecil B.
    DeMille. But for Welles, Corwin and other radio greats, radio did not need
    to pretend it was merely conveying the work of another medium. No, it
    developed its own conventions and was to be accepted in its own right.

    As Heyer aptly observes, Welles also transposed to film some important
    techniques from radio. Thus the author spends nearly forty pages discussing
    Citizen Kane in the light of Welles' learnings about radio, as well as the
    relationship between the Mercury Theater and the film.

    Some, although not all OTR fans will share my fascination with this
    important book.  Heyer is an academic and The Medium and the Magician is
    more challenging reading than some of the lighter fare aimed at the OTR
    hobbyists. But it'snevertheless quite readable. Heyer's discussion of the
    Panic Broadcast, for example, was hard to put down, even though I have read
    lengthier accounts. A few detailed discussions of some other individual
    shows and/or series got a bit tedious. But that was a small price to pay for
    the often well-written account of the mutual impact of a unique artistic
    genius and the medium of radio.

    Some OTR readers of The Medium and the Magician may decry its omission of a
    log of shows with which Welles was affiliated. Others, this reviewer
    included, would have preferred that Heyer did some of his own interviews for
    the book; in particular, although Heyer does briefly discuss the
    incomparable Arthur Anderson, a regular at the FOTR Convention in Newark who
    worked for Welles beginning when Anderson was 14, he missed the opportunity
    to speak to Anderson. But these small complaints aside, Heyer's book has
    done broadcasting, Welles, and history a service in publishing The Medium
    and the Magician.

    [In the interests of full disclosure, I feel the need to mention that
    several years ago, Paul Heyer did a review of a book that I wrote. [removed]]

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    Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:35:48 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-22 births/deaths

    March 22nd births

    03-22-1886 - Chico Marx - Yorkville, NY - d. 10-11-1961
    comedian: Emmanuel Revelli "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel"
    03-22-1886 - Thomas J, Cowan - Newark, NJ - d. 11-11-1969
    announcer: WNYC New York City
    03-22-1893 - Tito Vuolo - Italy - d. 9-14-1962
    actor: Uncle Carlo "The Goldbergs"
    03-22-1895 - Joseph Schildkraut - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-21-1964
    actor: "Intrigue"; "Best Plays"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Hollywood
    Hotel"
    03-22-1913 - James Westerfield - Nashville, TN - d. 9-20-1971
    actor: "Mystery Theatre"; "Gunsmoke", "Have Gun,Will Travel"
    03-22-1913 - Karl Malden - Chicago, IL
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Our Gal Sunday"; "Aldrich Family"
    03-22-1917 - Virginia Grey - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-31-2004
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-22-1918 - Robert Carroll - NC - d. 11-19-1994
    actor: Inspector Mark Sabre "Molle Mystery Theatre"
    03-22-1920 - Ross Martin - Grodek, Poland (R; NYC) - d. 7-3-1981
    actor: Soap Opera "Janice Grey"
    03-22-1924 - Bill Wendell - NYC - d. 4-14-1999
    announcer: "Ten Troubled Years"; "Biography In Sound"
    03-22-1931 - William Shatner - Montreal, Canada
    actor: "The Curse"; "No Love Lost"; "The Secretariat"

    March 22nd deaths

    06-22-1907 - Mike Todd - Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-22-1958
    film producer: "Closing the New York World's Fair"
    07-13-1906 - Harry Sosnick - Chicago, IL - d. 3-22-1996
    conductor: "Pennzoil Parade"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Beat the Band"
    07-17-1915 - Cass Daley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-22-1975
    comedienne: "New Fitch Bandwagon"; "Cass Daley Show"; "Maxwell House
    Coffee Time"
    09-05-1908 - Gloria Holden - London, England - d. 3-22-1991
    actress: Janet Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"
    10-07-1870 - "Uncle Dave" Macon - Smart Station, TN - d. 3-22-1952
    banjo player: "Grand Ole Opry"
    10-11-1918 - Olive Deering - NYC - d. 3-22-1986
    actress: Nita Bennett "Lone Journey"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:32:44 -0500
    From: edcarr@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: getting in contact

    hi
    i have to use this forum to let everyone know
    i am out of the hosp, the operation went well
    if i don't contact you please give me a wk
    then get back with me and iwill make up with
    all who have contacted me.
    many thanks
    ed

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    Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:34:24 -0500
    From: BH <radiobill@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  exceedingly early radio

    Mark Kinsler wonders:

>     Now, I know that the date and place of the first radio broadcast is an
>     endless subject for discussion, and I'm not concerned with it.  What I'd
>     like to know is the date that the earliest well-known,
>     presently-broadcasting radio station went on the air and stayed there.

     Well for starters, Charles Herrold began transmitting voice from San
    Jose in 1909, by 1912 he was maintaining a regular scheduled broadcase.
    In 1916 he was assigned the call 6XE which was changed to KQW in 1921
    later to become KCBS.

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    Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:40:48 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ted Brown

>     Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:40:37 -0500
>     From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];

>     I'd like to take this opportunity to comment on and show my
>     appreciation for the newly deceased Ted Brown,  age unreported, who
>     died yeaterday (20) of long-term complications of  a recent stroke.

    Was this the same Ted Brown who, as "Bison Bill," hosted the Howdy Doody show
    for
    several months while Buffalo Bob Smith was recovering from a heart attack?

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 lawyer@[removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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