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Date: 10/4/2004 1:12 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2004 : Issue 319
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Riley's haunted house                 [ "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed]; ]
  Lux Radio Theatre                     [ Trinapreston3@[removed] ]
  Source For I Love A Mystery Shows     [ tomkle@[removed] ]
  Reveille With Beverly                 [ "Norman G. Cox" <NormanCox@compuser ]
  Jack Benny and Laurel & Hardy on TCM  [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
  10-5 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  FOTR Script Writing Contest           [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:23:01 -0400
From: "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Riley's haunted house

Philip wrote:

I think it would have have been around
1945-46 as the show also dealt with the end of the war.

I have a "Life of Riley" haunted house episode on CD, and I
think the war was still going on. If it's the one I'm thinking
about, Riley was talking to the widow of a soldier, telling her
that rather than hide from the world, that there were many things
that she could be doing to help the war effort.

I liked that episode, and it was interesting to here how the war
effort messages blended in with the program. Another interesting
program with a war effort message was an episode of Fibber McGee
and Molly, where fibber bought a steak on the black market that
would "really make your [removed] water!".

In any case, I love the haunted house stories, but I like them
more if they involve something supernatural, rather than just
being an old house that the crook(s) have decided to hide in.

Happy listening,

-- Tom Kirby

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:23:13 -0400
From: Trinapreston3@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Lux Radio Theatre
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As Lux Radio Theatre approaches it's 70th Birthday on October 14th. I was
wondering a few things about the show.  Can anyone tell me what Hollywood
stars
appeared the most one the show? And What movie adaptation on Lux Radio Theatre
had the highest ratings while Lux Radio Theatre was still on the air?

Trina,

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:23:32 -0400
From: tomkle@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Source For I Love A Mystery Shows
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Can anyone recommend a good OTR vendor as a source for I Love A Mystery shows
on CD's and cassettes? They must be willing to ship overseas to Europe.
Someone I have traded with in the past is looking for copies of the shows and
unfortunately all my tapes are packed up from a recent move and it will be
months before I unpack most of them. Please reply off list to
tomkle@[removed]   thanks.

Tom Kleinschmidt

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:59:19 -0400
From: "Norman G. Cox" <NormanCox@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Reveille With Beverly

Jean Ruth Hay, who used to wake up millions of US troops each morning
during World War II with her radio show "Reveile With Beverly" has died at
87 in the small northern California town of Fortuna.  Her dawn show,
broadcast between 1941 and 1944 reached an estimated 11 million people when
she would play the current hit records of the day.  A welcome alternative
to the regular bugler's 5:30 blast.  The broadcast was beamed into
cockpits, foxholes, and military outposts from Alaska to New Zealand. The
San Francisco Chronicle ran a small article in its Sunday edition headlined
Jean Ruth Hay - Morning DJ During WW II.

This will fill in the blank I have had on who was the west coast, US
version of Tokyo Rose.  The name of the east coast version of Axis Sally is
buried  somewhere around here in my notes.  Hoping to turn out an article
on Axis Sally one of these times,

- 30 -

Norman Cox

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:27:28 -0400
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jack Benny and Laurel & Hardy on TCM

My friend Mark Evanier writes at [removed]:

<<Tuesday morning, Turner Classic Movies is running The Hollywood Revue of
1929, one of the first talkies ever made and a movie with an amazing cast.
How amazing is it? It's this amazing: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jack Benny,
Marion Davies, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Buster Keaton,
Cliff Edwards, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler, Gus Edwards, Polly Moran,
Bessie Love and a number of others. Among other highlights in this plotless
spectacular, Laurel and Hardy do a short but funny magic act, Buster Keaton
dances a ballet, Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards leads most of the cast as he
introduces the song, "Singin' in the Rain"...and Jack Benny makes his screen
[removed];>

THE HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929 airs at 11:15 am EST, 10:15 CST, 9:15 Mountain
and 8:15 am PST.  Mark also points out that the script called for Benny to
deliberately mispronounce the word "conjure" so that Conrad Nagel coulld
correct him, but the comedy follow-up was deleted.

Mark Evanier also includes a very inteesting photo of Jack Benny standing
next to Stan and Ollie on his weblog.  BTW, I strongly recommend Mark's
[removed] blog; it contains an interesting blend of of material on
the voice-over industry (Mark is a leading writer producer of animated TV
series), politics, entertainment and comics news and commentary.  And it
prevents one from missing rare showings such as this one (and today's TCM
tribute to Buster Keaton). --Anthony Tollin

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:27:37 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-5 births/deaths

October 5th births

10-05-1903 - Jimmy Ritz - Newark, NJ - d. 11-17-1985
comedian: (The Ritz Brothers) "Hollywood Hotel"
10-05-1904 - John Hoyt - Bronxville, NY - d. 9-15-1991
actor: "Escape"; "Suspense"
10-05-1905 - Harriet MacGibbon - Chicago, IL - d. 2-8-1987
actress: Lucy Kent "Home, Sweet Home"
10-05-1908 - Josh Logan - Texarkana, TX - d. 7-12-1988
film/stage director: "Biography In Sound"
10-05-1918 - Allen Ludden - Mineral Point, WI - d. 6-9-1981
host: "Mind Your Manners"; "College Bowl"
10-05-1929 - Skip Homeier - Chicago, IL
actor: "Let's Pretend"; Dickie Blake "Portia Faces Life"; "Reg'lar Fellers"

October 5th deaths

02-08-1911 - Judith Allen - NYC - d. 10-5-1996
actress: Margo Lane "The Shadow"
05-24-1878 - Harry Emerson Fosdick - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-5-1969
preacher: "National Vespers"
06-25-1899 - Arthur Tracy - Kaminetz-Podolski, Russia - d. 10-5-1997
singer: (The Street Singer) "Street Singer"; "Music That Satisfies"
07-13-1895 - Sidney Blackmer - Salisbury, NC - d. 10-5-1973
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-14-1899 - Hal B. Wallis - Chicago, IL - d. 10-5-1986
film producer: "Tex and Jinx Show"; "Academy Award Program"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
11-05-1897 - Jan Garber - Norristown, PA - d. 10-5-1977
bandleader: "Jan Garber Supper Club"
11-28-1925 - Gloria Grahame - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-5-1981
actress: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:28:04 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  FOTR Script Writing Contest

Frequent contributor this list Mike Leannah has won his Second first place
award for the Friends of Olde Tyme Radio scrip writing contest.

It was announced that Mike Leannah has won the Friends of Old Tyme Radio's
script writing contest for 2004. This is the second time that he has won, and
he is the first to be a two time winner. The script was an episode from "The
Lone
Ranger" and it was titled "Mama Pays a Visit."

Mike is secretary of the Milwaukee Area Radio Enthusiasts and has been a member
of the club for several years. He has previously served as vice president. We
are
very proud of Mike.

CONGRATULATIONS MIKE, it couldn't have happened to a more talented writer.

Ron Sayles
President
Milwaukee Area Radio Enthusiasts (MARE)

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