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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 187
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Sherlock Holmes                       [ "Sammy Jones" <sjones69@[removed] ]
      Halls of Ivy project                  [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
      professor collection                  [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
      need substitute series                [ "Ralph W. Moss, [removed]" <ralphwmoss@ ]
      7-10 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      round robbin                          [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
      The end of Radio [removed] anyone  [ "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed]; ]
      Amzie Stickland                       [ "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed] ]
      Re: Tony Curtis on Radio              [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
      A "Lone Ranger" approach              [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      Escape "Bird of Paradise"             [ William Brooks <webiii@[removed]; ]
      Tony Curtis on Radio                  [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
      re: Amzie Strickland as "the lovely   [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:57:43 +0000
    From: "Sammy Jones" <sjones69@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sherlock Holmes
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     > Johnny Dollar and Suspense ended their runs in New [removed] What were the
     > last Hollywood dramas for CBS, NBC, [removed] did Mutual ever have anything
     > in Hollywood?

    The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes came from Hollywood when Rathbone was
    starring in the mid-40s.  I think it moved to ABC in fall 1946, and was off
    the air by 1960.

    Sammy Jones
    sjones69@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:58:00 +0000
    From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Halls of Ivy project

    Hi Everybody,

    in the last OTR digest Norman ask if I have the mp3 cd collection that he
    put together of the Halls of Ivy shows.  I do and if you still have the wire
    recordings or the non mp3 audio file  the Halls of Ivy project would like to
    work on them to try to produce the best audio cd with that materials.  Take
    care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:58:23 +0000
    From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  professor collection

    Hi Everybody,

    professor Benson ask a very good question about what to do with his archive.
    I would hope the archive be transferred   to one of the OTR clubs or dealer.
    That way the collection will be available to the public.  I believe we have
    four OTR club that would be a good fit for the collection.  They are
    SPERDVAC, REPS, First Generation, and RHAC.  Maybe a spoke person of all
    four archive can post some ideas in this news group.  I know Dan of SPERDVAC
    and Harlan of First Generation do a lot of work with transcription.  The
    group in RHAC is working on some shows for there cd library, and REPS is
    currently going through reel to reel checking to see what need to be
    transferred on to audio cd.  It would be a shame not to preserve shows that
    is not in the hobby on audio cd.  I know Ted of Radio Memories is working on
    large collection of Reel to be transferred to tape.  The other dealers that
    I personally do business  with are making shows available on audio cd.  Take
    care,

    Walden

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:58:43 +0000
    From: "Ralph W. Moss, [removed]" <ralphwmoss@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  need substitute series

    My wife and I have listened to Gunsmoke every night
    for the past year.
    It even got us though a most difficult period in our
    life, centered around a medical emergency. We are
    completely taken with the wonderful ambiance created
    by producer Norman McDonnell and writer John Meston,
    and  by the acting of William Conrad, Parley Baer and
    John Dehner, et al.

    But, alas, we have listened to all of those wonderful
    shows now and that period in our life is drawing to an
    end. So where do we go next? We are looking for
    another series in which the writing and the production
    values are as consistently high as in Gunsmoke. (We
    have already listened to Frontier Gentleman). Any
    suggestions would be most appreciated. --Ralph (and
    Martha) Moss

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:58:59 +0000
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-10 births/deaths

    July 10th births

    07-10-1877 - Caroline Crockett Ellis - d. 5-17-1963
    actor: Mary Ward "Travels of Mary Ward"; "Caroline's Golden Store"
    07-10-1889 - Graham McNamee - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-9-1942
    announcer: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Fire Chief"; "Treasury Hour"
    07-10-1889 - Noble Sissle - d. 12-17-1975
    songwriter, orchestra leader: "Freedom's People"
    07-10-1894 - Jimmy McHugh - Boston, MA - d. 5-23-1969
    song writer: "Cavalcade of Music"; "It's Time to Smile"; "The Navy
    Sings"
    07-10-1896 - Slim Summerville - Albuquerque, NM - d. 1-5-1946
    actor: "Hollywood Star Time"
    07-10-1905 - Thomas Gomez - NYC - d. 6-18-1971
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-10-1909 - Bernard Katz - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-22-1992
    pianist: (Cousin of Mel Blanc) "Katz on the Keys"
    07-10-1910 - Helen Pickens - Macon, GA
    singer: (Pickens Sisters) "The Pickens Sisters"; "The Magic Key"
    07-10-1913 - Joan Marsh - Porterville, CA - d. 8-10-2000
    actor: "Calling All Cars"; "Good News of 1939"
    07-10-1914 - Joe Shuster - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - d. 7-30-1992
    co-creator (with Jerry Siegel): "Advs. of Superman"
    07-10-1918 - Ernest Ricca - d. 10-10-1987
    director: "Lorenzo Jones"; "Valiant Lady"; "Stella Dallas"; "Romance
    of Helen Trent"
    07-10-1920 - David Brinkley - Wilmington, NC - d. 6-11-2003
    newscaster: WRC Washington [removed]; "Nightline"
    07-10-1921 - Jeff Donnell - South Windham, ME - d. 4-13-1988
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-10-1923 - Earl Hamner, Jr. - Schuyler, VA
    writer: "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
    07-10-1923 - John Bradley - Antigo, WI - d. 1-11-1994
    Iwo Jima flagraiser: "Interview programs"
    07-10-1926 - Fred Gwynne - NYC - d. 7-2-1993
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    July 10th deaths

    01-17-1914 - Ann Loring - NYC - d. 7-10-2005
    actor: "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "X Minus One"
    02-18-1924 - Sam Rolfe - NYC - d. 7-10-1993
    writer, creator: "Suspense"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    05-30-1908 - Mel Blanc - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-10-1989
    actor: Professor Pierre La Blanc "Jack Benny Program"; August Moon
    "Point Sublime"
    06-27-1875 - Reginald Mason - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-10-1962
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-01-1886 - Sam Taub - d. 7-10-1979
    boxing writer and broadcaster
    09-20-1885 - Jelly Roll Morton - Gulfport, LA - d. 7-10-1941
    jazz musician, songwriter: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin
    Street"; "Americana"
    10-06-1887 - Maria Jeritza - Brunn, Austria-Hungary - d. 7-10-1982
    singer: "General Motors Concerts"
    12-17-1896 - Arthur Fiedler - South Boston, MA - d. 7-10-1979
    conductor: "Robert Merrill with the Boston Pops Orchestra"; "Boston
    Pops"
    xx-xx-xxxx - William Ford Manley - d. 7-10-1954
    writer: "Snow Village Sketches"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of Fredric March
    Racine, Wisconsin

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:57:09 +0000
    From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  round robbin

    Hi Everybody,

    I would be interested in knowing about some of the round robbin groups that
    take low generations of reel to reel or transcriptions and issue great
    sounding  audio cd.  I am a ware of a few in the hobby, but would like to
    find out if there are more groups doing that type of work.  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:59:19 +0000
    From: "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The end of Radio [removed] anyone
      listening??

    The past posts about the last days of radio drama got me to thinking.  And
    sometimes, that's not a good thing.

    This is my understanding of how things were way back when.  Please correct
    me if I am wrong.  In many instances, I hope I am.

    During the heyday of the 30's and into the middle 40's, the networks
    primarily broadcast their programming on powerful "clear channel" stations.
    Lower power stations were out there, but, if I am correct, they didn't have
    very long range during the daylight hours and probably less at night.  I
    remember my aunts and uncles all stating that during the daytime here in
    Middle Ga there was only one station to listen too.  Unfortunately, they
    never 100% agreed on whether the station was WSB or WMAZ.  Most stated that
    it was WSB in Atlanta.  Since it was clear channel and 50,000 watts, I have
    always believed that WSB was the more probable.  All my relatives agreed
    that nighttime was when you got the majority of the entertainment.  Given
    the dynamics of AM radio, it makes sense that they simply were tuning in
    stations from Chicago, New York or whatever was coming in that night.
    Unfortunately, they are all gone now, so I have no one to ask.

    [removed] ahead a few years.

    By the 1950's, television was on the way into most American homes, so to
    speak.  Due to higher costs, the networks were putting more money into
    television, rather than radio.  Moreover, many radio stations here in Ga
    seemed to be separating themselves from network programming.  Once Macon
    got its own TV stations for example, the local radio stations appeared to
    carry less and less network [removed] least during prime night time
    hours. But, since the late 1940's, there were a great many newer, lower
    powered stations that were now serving small towns.  Unfortunately, I can't
    find programming guides for these stations.  At least the stations in my
    area. When you look at the newspapers, by the end of the 50's, most
    programming seemed to be in the late afternoon hours instead of night
    time.  At least that's the way it looks in the Ga papers I have looked
    at.  Most of the prime shows, such as Gunsmoke and Suspense have early
    afternoon, rather than evening hours listened as airtimes, also.

    Is there anyone on here that lived in a rural area during the last days of
    radio that remembers trying to listen to programs?  Or was the spell of
    television so well cast that not only did the smaller stations not carry
    the programs, but no one was there to listen??

    Thanks,

    Bob

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:00:39 +0000
    From: "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Amzie Stickland

    Thanks to the Digest, I would not have been aware of the death of this very
    marvelous and prolific performer, Amzie Strickland.  In the last years of
    her life, she moved to Spokane, WA, to be with her son.

    I would like to add a few things, which have not been readily known. Ms.
    Strickland did not begin in radio as an actor.  She had several writing gigs
    for WOR-Mutual, including Brownstone Theatre, where she became a friend of
    Jock MacGregor and Jackson Beck.  She approached the powers-that-be in radio
    to allow her to do acting performances, and they told her that she was too
    good and valuable a writer to be acting.  Fortunately for all of us, that
    spell broke, and I still recall the Friday nights, even at a single-digit
    age, listening to "The Fat Man", where Ms. Strickland was on, almost every
    week.  The announcer of that show was Charles Irving, and being an actor
    also, had a personalized delivery that singers and Italians would describe
    as "glissando", or gliding over certain words.  The sponsor was Pepto
    Bismol, and he effected the glissando delivery when he said"...and feel
    gooooooood again." When Amzie was on, he would announce her name last, with
    the same delivery: "Aaaaaamzie Strickland."  How many of you remember that?

    She told me that she played Margo Lane only when the regular actress was
    pregnant.  I don't know if it was Gertrude Warner, Grace Matthews, or Leslie
    Woods.

    Recently we have had some mention here of married couples, and Kenneth
    Clarke must have been referring to Cathy Lewis and Elliott Lewis.  As I was
    told, each was named Lewis before the marriage, so Cathy did not have to
    change her name upon marrying.  Amzie Strickland married an actor in radio
    as well: Frank Behrens, a well known, very talented actor, and together they
    had one son: actor Tim Behrens.

    When radio was on its way out, Amzie decided that she could get more
    television work by coming to Hollywood, especially because a non-recurring
    role was waiting for her on "I Love Lucy".  As was pointed out earlier, she
    had no trouble getting many television jobs, as well as commercials.

    Stuart---OTRadiofan

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:01:07 +0000
    From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Tony Curtis on Radio

    "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed]; recalled:

     > I remember Curtis did a Benny show where they did a parody of The All
     > American, one of Tony Curtis's movies. Must have been in the 50's.
     > I used to have it, and maybe still do.

    For those who =don't= have it, or are equally uncertain as Mr. Scherer
    as to their ownership thereof <g>, a copy is available in Tony Tollin's
    fine TOO HOT FOR RADIO box, for sale at all your favorite online
    audiobook retailers. (Standard disclaimers, 'course.)

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:01:41 +0000
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  A "Lone Ranger" approach

     > Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:03:24 +0000
     > From: seandd@[removed]

     > It appears that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg doesn't
     > understand The Lone Ranger any more than she understands the
     > takings clause, based on recent reporting that she calls using only
     > [removed] law to make Supreme Court decisions a "Lone Ranger" approach.

    The Lone Ranger may have worked with law enforcement (when they were
    willing), but he wasn't a member of law-enforcement.  He was
    essentially a deserter from the Texas Rangers, who operated outside
    the established law-enforcement channels.  This has given rise to
    this expression, conoting a "go it alone" approach to problems.  The
    LR was a vigilante, whose cooperation was always on his own terms.

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

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:02:02 +0000
    From: William Brooks <webiii@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Escape "Bird of Paradise"

    In the July 8th posting "jazmann" stated that "Last night we listened to
    "Bird of Paradise", an episode of Escape."
    That episode didn't ring a bell with my memory of Escape shows, so I
    checked three separate sources and I didn't find that show listed anywhere
    as an Escape show.

    Can "jazmann" supply and additional info on the show. Might it have come
    from the first incarnation of Escape. The first show known as Escape was
    aired a few years prior to the CBS version which ran from July 1947 to Sept
    1954. The first shows, which had nothing to do with the higher quality CBS
    version, where not nearly as well received and I have yet to find a log of
    it. Just curious, maybe "jazmann" has found one of the earlier shows.

    WEB

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:02:16 +0000
    From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tony Curtis on Radio

    Well Bill, you are correct, Tony was on Jack Benny's Lucky Strike Program
    #360 on [removed], [removed] CBS. There is an AFRS rebroadcast That I think is
    what I have. Tony does "All American  " Benny sketch about college
    Football. What I have is a version of the program that was sponsored by The
    Home Insurance Co. Don't know anything more than that or when or who I got
    the episode from, probably  got it in about 1975. I search my data base and
    I don't have another Curtis appearances on OTR.

    Frank McGurn.

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    Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:02:35 +0000
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  re: Amzie Strickland as "the lovely
      Margot Lane"

    Thanks to Anthony Tollin for clarifying in which two episodes Amzie
    Strickland took over from Grace Matthews. I had mentioned that the
    information out there on the web was contradictory on this point. I was
    specifically referring to the commercial release "The Shadow - The Lost
    Shows" ("painstakingly assembled by Anthony Tollin, the foremost
    authority on The Shadow"), which claims Amzie also starred in "Death Is
    A Colored Dream" (9-26-48). I assume that is incorrect?

    Kermyt

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