Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #280
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 10/14/2006 9:56 AM
To: [removed]@[removed]

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 280
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  TOTM Show                             [ ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen) ]
  Re: Halloween Mystery                 [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
  A Halloween Mystery                   [ Brightstar2761@[removed] ]
  "We also [removed]"                    [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  A Halloween Mystery                   [ "Charles Salt" <charles_salt@hotmai ]
  Re: spelling in advertising           [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Gildersleeve Question                 [ Brightstar2761@[removed] ]
  Still 39                              [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
  Quote Quest                           [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]
  Detective Set                         [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
  Two Similar Programs using same scri  [ "John Southard" <jsouthard@[removed] ]
  New Book on Dead End Kids             [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
  10-14 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 15-21 Oct  [ "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@adelphia ]

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:37:21 -0400
From: ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen)
To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
Subject:  TOTM Show

Here's a little "head's up" for you OTR fans in the northern Illinois area -
our radio recreation group "Theatre Of The Mindless" will be having our
annual Halloween show on Saturday Oct 21st, at the Jack Benny Center For The
Arts in Waukegan at 3pm.  This is a nice batch of horror, crime and hilarity
- an all-ages show - and since it's "theater of the mind", if anyone gets
offended by the audio gore, it's their own fault!

We've been doing recreations for 9 years, now, and our shows have never been
better - we perform in 1940's costumes, have live organ accompaniment, OTR
memorabilia, actual old radios, and slyly mix in some radio history along
with the entertainment - if you're not careful, you might learn [removed]

A splendid time is guaranteed for all!

More info and pictures at

[removed]

We hope to see you there!

Stephen Jansen

--
Old Time Radio never dies - it just changes formats!

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:37:36 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re:  Halloween Mystery

Karen, oddly enough, I did hear this program once, broadcast in Palermo.

It was the summer, and, of course, there, it was Italian [removed]

;-)

Jim Burns

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:38:04 -0400
From: Brightstar2761@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  A Halloween Mystery

I have someone who is hunting for a program about an archeologist that opened
up a tomb only to have Isis try to lure him to open up her sarcophogis.

Karen, the show is called "Whence Came You" from the Quiet Please [removed]
and also one of my favorites

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:39:22 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "We also [removed]"

Dear Hal-

From: Hal Stone _otrjug@[removed]_ (mailto:otrjug@[removed])

Sorry I  haven't been heard from for quite some time. Nothing wrong here.
Just a major  corruption of my software

Welcome back, kemo sabe!

Next item. jim taylor did a piece "In rememberance of Larry Robinson".  What
the heck happened to my childhood friend Larry. Did he pass  away?

Alas, yes. (Please contact me off-list.)

... at FOTR ... There will be so many OTR
veterans in  attendance, that every role, in every recreation, will be filled
by a pro who  has OTR credits up the ying yang.

(Point of order: can we broaden the Ying-Yang Stuffing to include folks  with
exhaustive [removed] credits, leavened with the blessing of much time-at-mic
with said vets?)

See you there!
-Craig Wichman
Quicksilver Radio Theater, et al.

([removed] (... Now, it's off to rehearse Arthur Anderson's JULIUS  [removed]!)

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:40:07 -0400
From: "Charles Salt" <charles_salt@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  A Halloween Mystery

I have someone who is hunting for a program about an archeologist that opened
up a tomb only to have Isis try to lure him to open up her sarcophogis.

In response to the above, I think this episode might be 'Whence Came You?' 
from Quiet Please.

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:40:22 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: spelling in advertising
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In a message dated 10/12/06 10:15:00 PM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

E N O  Eno.
Are you feeling low?  Eno.
It's mild and gentle, and good, good tasting.
E N O

Here's another one that seeped into movies in parody form, it was so popular:

"Serutan, S-E-R-U-T-A-N, that's 'natures' spelled backwards!"

I noticed a lot of advertisers spelled their products in song too, not just
Jell-O but also Colgate (on Bill Stern's show) and Camels.

Dixon

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:38:12 -0400
From: Brightstar2761@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Gildersleeve Question

I've been wondering who did the voice of Leroy's friend "Piggy" Banks? Was
it just one person throughout the [removed] or was there more than one person?

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:40:43 -0400
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Still 39

In response to the thousands of inquiries I've
received-

[removed], hundreds.

[removed] dozens.

[removed], none, but I'm sure someone must have idly
wondered about it in a moment of sheer boredom-

yes, I am still in my Jack Benny year of 39.

For now.

Don't be the last to say "who cares?" Jump on this
pointless bandwagon before it's too late. The next
opportunity won't come until my 39*2 year at age 78.

Rick

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:40:59 -0400
From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest (E-mail)" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Quote Quest

Hello, again.

This time I have a customer on a Jack Benny quote quest.  He heard an
episode in which Jack apparantly paid Rochester's salary in British
pounds.  He is looking for an exact quote for possible inclusion his my
next book on foreign exchange.

Any chance any of you can help us out?

Karen Lerner
Radio Spirits, Inc.

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:41:19 -0400
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Detective Set

Does anyone here have the CD set of Radio Spirits collection called Old Time
Radio's Greatest Detectives?  There item #4559.   If so, please contact me
off-digest.  I have a question about it.

Ted

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:41:31 -0400
From: "John Southard" <jsouthard@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Two Similar Programs using same script.

I like OTR detective shows best. This week I was listening to two shows I
recently acquired. The first was the "Adventure of the Abbotts" starring
Claudis Morgan and Les Damon. The other was "It's a Crime, Mr. Collins"
starring Gail Collins and Mandel Kramer. Both shows are about a San
Francisco Private Detective and his interfering wife. She is jealous of her
husband's female clients. Both shows were from the mid-1950's.
While similar I was surprised to hear both shows using the exact same script
with the names changed. The show was "The Clue of the Ivory Thread."  It is
about a multi-colored coat with a map to hidden treasure in the Ivory
threads.
Does anyone know if these shows were produced by the same people? Dunning
does not give production credits for Collins show.

John A. Southard

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:42:08 -0400
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  New  Book on  Dead End Kids
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Theres a new hardcover book out on the market that has some OTR references in
it of Bobby Benson Of
  The B-Bar-B, Let's Pretend, Pabst Blue RibbonTown, etc;The book is called:"
>From Broadway To The Bowery" by Len [removed] you are a fan of The Dead End
Kids, The East Side Kids,Little Tough Guys, and The Bowery Boys, then you
will love this [removed] reveals the OTR side of the gang, like Leo Gorcey,(
Papst Blue Ribbon Town), Billy Halop and his sister Florence Halop(Bobby
Benson and The B-Bar-B )etc; It is mostly about the boys from the 1930's to
the 1970's in films. There is more information in it that you will never see
anywhere [removed] Lenz has done his homework [removed] off the set photos are
well worth the price of the book, which is $[removed], which is including the
[removed] is well worth the [removed] Lenz was lucky to have made friends
with most all of rhe gang's sons, nieces,nephews and fiancee'[removed] Foreword
is done by Leo Gorcey,Jr. who also had a book out on his father, Leo Gorcey,
a couple of years ago, called "Me And A Deadend Kid."Go out and buy it, you
will
 be glad you [removed] can buy it from the author, Len Getz, or from McFarland
Press.       Bob Slate

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:42:15 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-14 births/deaths

October 14th births

10-14-1890 - Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhower - Abilene, KS - d. 3-28-1969
general, president: "War Production Drive Program"
10-14-1891 - Joseph M. White - NYC - d. 2-28-1959
singer: (The Silver Masked Tenor) "Goodrich Silvertown Orchestra"
10-14-1893 - Hal Burdick - Osceola, WI - d. 6-12-1978
actor, writer: "Do You Believe In Ghosts"; "Dr. Kate"
10-14-1893 - Lillian Gish - Springfield, OH - d. 2-27-1993
panelist: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Texaco Star Playhouse"; "Suspense"
10-14-1896 - Bud Flanagan - Whitechapel, London, England - d. 10-20-1968
singer, actor: Sang signature tune for "Dad's Army"
10-14-1906 - Benita Hume - London, England - d. 11-1-1967
actor: Victoria Cromwell Hall "Halls of Ivy"; "General Electric Theatre"
10-14-1906 - Russell Thorson - Wisconsin - d. 7-6-1982
actor: Jack Packard "I Love A Mystery"; Paul Barbour "One Man's Family"
10-14-1907 - Karl Schlichter - d. 2-xx-1979
writer: "California Caravan"
10-14-1907 - Pert Kelton - Great Falls, MT - d. 10-30-1968
actor: Agnes "Magnificent Montague"; Lolita "We Are Always Young"
10-14-1908 - Allan Jones - Old Forge, PA - d. 6-27-1992
singer: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"; "New Old Gold Show"
10-14-1914 - Norma Ransom - Chicago, IL - d. 9-24-1998
actor: "Destination Freedom"
10-14-1925 - Vance McCune - d. 11-3-1989
comedian, actor: Wash "Tom Mix"; "The Sinclair Wiener Minstrels"
10-14-1932 - Enrico Di Giuseppi - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-31-2005
operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"

October 14th deaths

01-29-1874 - Owen Davis - Portland, ME - d. 10-14-1956
writer: "The Gibson Family"; "Pulitzer Prize Plays"
02-08-1888 - Edith Evans - London, England - d. 10-14-1976
actor: "Kaleidoscope"
02-11-1916 - Walter Brown Newman - NYC - d. 10-14-1993
writer: "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "On Stage"; "Robers of the Gazette"
05-03-1903 - Bing Crosby - Tacoma, WA - d. 10-14-1977
singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
06-20-1909 - Errol Flynn - Hobart, Tasmania - d. 10-14-1959
actor: Christopher Casanova "Modern Adventures of Casanova"
07-27-1916 - Keenan Wynn - NYC - d. 10-14-1986
actor: Moe 'Shrevie' Shrevnitz "The Shadow"
07-28-1915 - Frankie Yankovic - d. 10-14-1998
polka king: "Frankie Yankovic and His Yanks"; "Guest Star Time"
08-13-1913 - Melvin Frank - Chicago, IL - d. 10-14-1988
film writer, producer, director: "Pepsodent Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-25-1918 - Leonard Bernstein - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-14-1990
conductor: "Metropolitan Opera"
09-16-1899 - Sam Spewack - Ukraine, Russia - d. 10-14-1971
writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-10-1911 - Zeke Manners - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-14-2000
singer, disc jockey: "Zeke Manners and His Gang"; "Zeke Manners"
10-21-1920 - Hy Averback - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-14-1997
announcer, actor: "Sealtest Village Store"; "Bob Hope Show"
xx-xx-1872 - Cosmo Hamilton - d. 10-14-1942
lecturer: "Unwritten History"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:42:22 -0400
From: "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@[removed];
To: "otrd" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 15-21 Oct

>From Those Were The Days --

10/16

1939 - Radio listeners welcomed The Right to Happiness on the NBC Blue
network. The 15-minute drama turned out to be one of the longest-running
shows of its kind. It moved over to CBS in 1941, then back to NBC in 1942.
Fourteen years later Right to Happiness returned to CBS where it stayed
until its last days in 1960. The show had a theme song, Song of the Soul,
and what seemed like a cast of thousands. It just took a lot of different
actors to play the continuing roles over a 21-year period.

1945 - Barry Fitzgerald starred as Judge Barnard Fitz in His Honor, the
Barber, which debuted on NBC.

10/17

1919 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed.

1938 - This was a big day in Tinseltown. NBC moved to the corner of Sunset
and Vine, the 'Crossroads of the World'. The new Hollywood Radio City drew
thousands of visitors ready to fill studio-audience seats for popular radio
programs.

10/18

1922 - As the British observed the wild growth of radio in the [removed], they
realized the potential of broadcasting in their own country, as well as the
need for its regulation. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was
established on this day to monitor the development of the radio biz in Great
Britain.

1943 - The first broadcast of Perry Mason was presented on CBS. In the
15-minute (Monday-Friday) shows, Perry was played by Barlett Robinson,
Santos Ortega, Donald Briggs and John Larkin.

10/19

1937 - "The freedom of the press is a flaming sword. Use it justly, hold it
high, guard it well." The radio classic, Big Town, made its debut on CBS
radio. Star reporters at the Illustrated Press, Steve Wilson and Lorelei
Kilbourne, were played by Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor. Tell the
Story was the theme song. Sponsors included Ironized Yeast tablets and
Lifebuoy soap.

10/20

1930 - One of the most memorable of all radio shows, The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes, was first heard on the NBC Red network. Its first entry,
The Speckled Band, featured William Gillette in the role of the famous
detective. Gillette introduced Holmes to New York audiences as early as
1899.

1932 - Journalist Robert Trout joined CBS.

Joe

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