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Date: 9/3/2006 10:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 240
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Radio influence in other countri  [ Alan Bell <alanlinda43@[removed]; ]
  9-3 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  marriage, but not quite OTR           [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
  Re: Ken [removed]                  [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
  Bernard Lenrow                        [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
  Omni Radio Experience                 [ Larry Gassman <lgsinger@[removed] ]
  The name's the same                   [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Boston's Cocoanut Grove Fire          [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
  Brian Gari personal appearance        [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Avant-garde Benny                     [ "karl tiedemann" <karltiedemann@hot ]

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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 23:15:01 -0400
From: Alan Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Radio influence in other countries--take 2

Actually, I just answered my own question about the
origin of the phrase, "the life of Riley." If you're
interested, here's where you can find some bacjground:

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Alan

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Alan/Linda Bell
Grand Rapids, MI

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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 23:15:12 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-3 births/deaths

September 3rd births

09-03-1876 - Dick Teela - Wisconsin - d. 3-xx-1971
singer: "The Breakfast Club"
09-03-1893 - Anthony Collins - Hastings, England - d. 12-11-1963
composer: "Ceiling Unlimited"
09-03-1897 - David Rubinoff - Grodno, Russia - d. 10-6-1986
violinist, conductor: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Rubinoff and His Violin"
09-03-1897 - Sally Benson - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-19-1972
writer: "Junior Miss"
09-03-1901 - Mantan Moreland - Monroe, LA - d. 9-28-1973
actor: "Rudy Vallee Presents the Drene Show"
09-03-1910 - Grace Matthews - Toronto, Canada - d. 5-15-1995
actor: Ruth Evans Wayne "Big Sister"; Margo Lane "The Shadow"
09-03-1910 - Kitty Carlisle - New Orleans, LA
singer: "Song Shop"; "RCA Magic Key"
09-03-1910 - Michael Eisenmenger - d. 3-14-2003
sound effects: "Captain Midnight"; "Backstage Wife"
09-03-1912 - Peter Capell - Berlin, Germany - d. 3-3-1986
actor:"Dimension X"; "Romance"; "Secret Missions"
09-03-1913 - Alan Ladd - Hot Springs, AR - d. 1-29-1964
actor: Dan Holliday "Box 13"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We Hail"
09-03-1918 - David Harmon - NYC - d. 8-28-2001
writer: "America in the Air"; "Now Hear This"
09-03-1918 - Donna King - Salt Lake City, UT
singer: (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"; "Al
Pearce and His Gang"
09-03-1918 - Tom Dillon - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-2005
actor: "NBC University Theatre"
09-03-1920 - Jackson Weaver - d. 10-20-1992
actor: "A Bright Tomorrow"
09-03-1922 - Burt Kennedy - Muskegon MI - d. 2-15-2001
writer: Wrote for radio in late 1940s
09-03-1926 - Irene Pappas - Chiliomodion, Greece
actor: Greek Radio

September 3rd deaths

04-15-1900 - Eddie Garr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-3-1956
actor: (Father of Teri Garr) "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
05-18-1897 - Frank Capra - Bisacquino, Sicily - d. 9-3-1991
film director: "Gulf Screen Theatre"; "NBC Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-07-1903 - Joseph Kahn - NYC - d. 9-3-1998
pianist: "Voice of Firestone"; "Story of Mary Marlin"
06-19-1919 - Pauline Kael - Sonoma County, CA - d. 9-3-2001
film critic: Broadcast for Pacifica radio station
07-08-1889 - Eugene Pallette - Winfield, KS - d. 9-3-1954
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
10-20-1905 - Frederic Dannay - NYC - d. 9-3-1982
writer: "Adventures of Ellery Queen"; "The Shadow"; "Ford Theatre"
11-04-1900 - Arthur Schwartz - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-3-1984
composer: "The Gibson Family"
11-10-1909 - Johnny Marks - Mount Vernon, NY - d. 9-3-1985
songwriter, lyricist: "Great Moments in Music"
12-13-1917 - David Street - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-3-1971
actor, singer: "Music Depreciation"
xx-xx-xxxx - Graham Harris - d. 9-3-1946
orchestra leader: "There Was a Woman"; "WPA Federal Music Concerts"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 00:34:16 -0400
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  marriage, but not quite OTR

I know this ain't exactly OTR, but I thought this
might be the easiest way to spread the word about
something important to many of the kind people I know.
I'm getting married at the top of next month in Japan
to the greatest lady in the world, Mayumi. Yes, she's
Japanese, and if you want a preview of what the happy
couple will look like, take a gander at the About Us
page on my site, and you'll see us in the lovely
bamboo forest there. We're just signing the marriage
papers this time. We wanted a little ceremony in Tokyo
Disneyland (yes, I'm a BIG Disney fan; and that's part
of the reason I moved closer to Disneyworld lately!),
but they're booked for the rest of the year. So, we're
gonna go back for a ceremony next year, depending on
when the chapel in DisneySea is free. :)

Mayumi is very supportive of what I do, and helps
quite a lot. True, she's not completely enamored of
b&w movies and OTR Yet, but she laughs at the
Bickersons already, she likes Paul Frees, and she
doesn't fall asleep during silent movies! We've known
each other almost 2 years now and I couldn't be
happier. So, I just wanted to share the good news.

Oh, and don't worry, this won't hold up the Joan Davis
book, which will be shipped to everyone while I'm
away.  Wish me luck!

Ben Ohmart
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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 10:51:25 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Ken [removed]

No explanations needed, Ken:

Keep those stories coming!

The more, the more to be appreciated!

Best, Jim

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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 10:51:55 -0400
From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bernard Lenrow

I realized I should ask.  I have a neighbor whose uncle was Bernard
Lenro.  I have given her a CD with one radio program on which he
appeared, and I just found another.  Can any of you out there give me
some tips on available material?  He appeared in radio drama frequently
in the forties and fifties.

He was known as "Geoffrey Barnes" as host for the Molle Mystery
Theater.  (Knowing of that one already, and hoping now for tips on
other material which made wider use of his talents.)

Thanks very much.

--Martin Fass

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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:10:51 -0400
From: Larry Gassman <lgsinger@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Omni Radio Experience

Hi all,
I have a friend who remembers a science fiction radio show from about
1982 which was distributed by Omni Magazine and produced by the
BBC.  It is a 4 part radio show and he is looking for it. It was
called, "The Omni Radio Experience".
  He saw it on e bay years ago and is still interested in receiving it.
Does anyone have any ideas as to where it can be found?
Thanks.
Larry Gassman

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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:59:20 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The name's the same
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Ron Sayles wrote:

The other day while traveling to my appointed destination I saw a
political sign which read, Rick Nelson for County Clerk. Does anyone
else know of other OTR people who are running for office?

Where did Professor Sayles see this sign? "Lonesome Town"?

It'd be safe to guess that since there is a long-term California congressman
named "Jerry Lewis," that there had to have been, at one time or another,  a
campaign sign with his name emblazoned thereupon.

This reminds me of the time I was looking through the entertainment/showbiz
books at the Hoboken Barnes & Noble when I read a spine facing out in which
the name "Nick Carter" appeared. Boy, was  I disappointed!  I was hoping it
would be a book of the famed "Master Detective," but it was a quickie
biography of a teenaged singer with a popular boy-band the Backstreet Boys.
Then I thought about all the teenaged girls who might've had to put up with
some "ancient history" detective character with the same name while searching
the Internet for their "Nick Carter."

This, in turn, reminded me of when I was about ten years old & quite taken
with an early 1970's publishing trend: large coffee-table books which
reprinted comic strips from the 1930's and 1940's.  There were books
collecting up Dick Tracy, Krazy Kat, Little
Orphan Annie, Buck Rogers, and a pair of books "Superman from the 1930's to
the 1970's" & a similarly titled anthology for Batman. I couldn't get enough
of these books and went through the card catalogue drawers  in search  for
more along the same lines. Under the subject heading "Superman," was something
titled "Man and Superman," which I promptly asked the librarian for. She
assured me this title had nothing to do with the Man from Krypton.

Oh, p-Shaw!

Derek Tague
Orange, NJ (two town away Newark, NJ, birthplace  of the other Jerry Lewis)

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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 14:47:48 -0400
From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Boston's Cocoanut Grove Fire

I'm helping my son work on a project related to the fire at the Boston
Cocoanut Grove night club fire of 11/28/1942. Nearly 500 people died, one of
them being famous western movie actor Buck Jones.

Some background of the fire is at:
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We are looking for the following and wondered if some of the fellow OTR folks
might be able to assist us.

1) Band remotes broadcast from that site on or prior to that date (please
note that there was a similarly named nightclub in Hollywood, but we are
searching only for the one in Boston)

2) News broadcasts that might mention the fire (we already have the CBS news
of 11-29-1942) <<226>><<128>>" maybe there were some on Nov. 30, Dec. 1, etc.

3) Recordings of Dotty Myles (Columbia recordings), who was the performer
there at that time.

4) Recording of Boston College - Holy Cross college football game from this
date; strangely, BC was heavily favored to win and had booked the venue for a
party that night; they lost, cancelling the event, and avoiding catastrophic
loss of life

5) Photographs of memorabilia (menus, matchbook covers (ironically), napkins)

If you have anything, such as recordings, please post using [removed]
for download or otherwise contact me offline at this drjoewebb@[removed]
e-mail address. I will share information and recordings with others upon
request.

Thank you very much.

Regards
Joe W

 ***** WARNING! UNHANDLED BAD CHARACTER!!!!!

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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 14:48:38 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Brian Gari personal appearance
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I just wanted to  post an upcoming event involving our friend Brain Gari,
singer/songwriter, archivist of his grandfather Eddie Cantor's radio work, and
"Friends of Old Time Radio" impresario. For subscribers in the NYC area, Brian
will be appearing at the Drama Bookshop on West 40th Street  (near the Port
Authority Bus Terminal)  this coming Tuesday, September 5th at 6PM, signing
copies of his book "We Bombed in New London: The Inside Story of the Broadway
Musical 'Late Nite Comic,'" and performing songs from  "Late Nite Comic" with
Broadway actor/singer Jana Robbins.

Keeping this all in the radio vein, one of the major players in the book
(which I have read) is Gari's friend, radio personality Alan Colmes, late of
cable's "Hannity & Colmes" news programme. Brian was a regular on Colmes's
WNBC-AM radio show in the 1980s.

The book is available via Ben Ohmart's BearManor Media at
[removed]
<[removed];

For more information on the event, go to
[removed], which also
tells of  upcoming events featuring singer/actor Marni Nixon and
actor/biographer Simon Callow who just came out with Volume 2 of his massive
biography of Orson Welles.

By way of full disclosure, my name appears in the acknowledgments for "We
Bombed in New London," simply for being the one who introduced Brian Gari to
Ben Ohmart. I wish to make it abundantly clear that I have no financial
interest whatsoever in the promotion of this book.  Thank you and I hope to
see some OTR fans there on Tuesday.

Yours in the ether,

Derek Tague

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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:35:52 -0400
From: "karl tiedemann" <karltiedemann@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Avant-garde Benny
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   A slightly shortened version of the NY Times review of the John Moran
   piece:

   September 30, 1989
   From Bits of Jack Benny, a Quasi Opera
   By JOHN ROCKWELL

   Some composers struggle for recognition, achieving it only after years
   or not at
   all. Others seem to leap effortlessly to prominence. Something like
   that latter
   career trajectory may be the happy fate of John Moran, a 24-year-old
   from
   Lincoln, Neb., who had the good fortune to be befriended by Philip
   Glass and
   other New Yorkers and who now finds his ''Jack Benny,'' an hourlong
   quasi opera,
   ensconced at the La Mama experimental theater, 74A East Fourth Street,
   through
   Oct. 15.
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   What Mr. Moran has done (and it is apparently representative of his
   work) is
   compose a brooding score with electronic instruments, all built around
   bits
   sampled from popular culture, and then manipulated those bits in
   sometimes
   comic, sometimes eerie ways.

   In this case, the source material is old Jack Benny television
   programs, with
   actors from the Ridge Theater (which co-produced the show with La
   MaMa)
   lip-synching to the dialogue. But Mr. Moran has hardly just recycled a
   funny old
   program. He subjects Benny, Don Wilson, Dennis Day and their guests to
   all
   manner of timbral alterations, repetitions and distortions.

   The result, seen at the opening night on Thursday, consists of three
   scenes with
   a prelude and farewell and actual period commercials shown on monitors
   in
   between. The impression is both funny and disorienting, with the
   oddest, most
   powerful touch of all being two Hindu deities wearing tortoise-shell
   glasses
   writhing and contorting behind the supposedly comic routines.
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   Whether Mr. Moran can evolve this idiom remains to be seen; how many
   lip-synched
   electronic scores with sampling obbligato can we take? But right now
   he has
   certainly made a splash, and deservedly so.

   The Ridge Theater production, directed by Bob McGrath and designed by
   Laurie
   Olinder (sets) and Elizabeth Evers (costumes), is charming. The actors
   were Fred
   Tietz as Benny (no resemblance but properly droll), Jon Hayden as Don
   Wilson, M.
   W. Reid as a particularly funny Dennis Day, Paige Snell, Ann Shea,
   Fred Tumas,
   Billy Bastiani, James Justin, Melissa Weaver and Miss Olinder.

   END.

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