Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #287
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 10/22/2006 9:32 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 287
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  10-22 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  SUPERMAN SERIAL ONLY ON VHS           [ "Glenn Mueller" <durangokid@adelphi ]
  The Clitheroe Kid and The Life Of Ri  [ "Charles Salt" <charles_salt@hotmai ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
  new radio books are in!               [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
  "Break the Bank"                      [ David Ballarotto <[removed]@ ]
  Re: Fred Allen: an Appreciation       [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Re: Grant's tomb                      [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Re: Topical Humor                     [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
  Fred Allen                            [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  TCM Child Stars                       [ Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed]; ]
  Radio Icon Fred Allen                 [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
  Fred Allen not funny?                 [ Illoman <illoman@[removed]; ]
  Fred Allen and funniness              [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:19:48 +0000
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-22 births/deaths

October 22nd, births

10-22-1876 - Cecilia Loftus - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-12-1943
actor: Sarah Wright "Roses and Drums"
10-22-1884 - George Washington Hill - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-13-1946
President of American Tobacco Company, sponsor of many radio programs
10-22-1891 - Parker Fennelly - Northeast Harbor, ME - d. 1-22-1988
actor: Titus Moody, "Fred Allen Show"; Dan Tucker, "Lawyer Dan Tucker"
10-22-1893 - Clarence Menser - d. 10-xx-1975
director: "Tom Mix"; "Vic and Sade"
10-22-1905 - Constance Bennett - NYC - d. 7-24-1965
interviewer, panelist: "Constance Bennett Calls on You"; "Leave It to
the Girls"
10-22-1905 - Edward Byron - Newport, KY - d. 11-21-1964
writer, producer: "Moon River"; "Mr. District Attorney"
10-22-1906 - Sidney Kingsley - NYC - d. 3-20-1995
writer: "Pulitzer Prize Plays"
10-22-1907 - Roger DeKoven - Chicago, IL - d. 1-28-1988
actor: Professor Allen, "Against the Storm"
10-22-1913 - Jay Owen - d. 6-27-2005
worked in radio in Washington [removed] and New York City
10-22-1915 - Laurette Fillbrandt - Zanesville, OH
actor: "Girl Alone"; "Affairs of Anthone"; "One Man's Family"
10-22-1916 - Sidney Miller - Shenandoah, PA - d. 1-10-2004
actor-director-songwriter: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Jeff Regan, Private
Investigator"
10-22-1917 - Joan Fontaine - Tokyo, Japan
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"
10-22-1920 - Mitzi Green - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-24-1969
actor: Girl "Passport to Romance"
10-22-1938 - Sir Derek Jacoby - Leytonstone, London, England
actor:  Renaissance Theatre Company in association with BBC Radio Drama
10-22-1939 - Jim Cox - Pineville, KY
author: "Radio Crime Fighters"; "Great Radio Soap Operas"
10-22-1939 - Tony Roberts - NYC
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

October 22nd deaths

01-02-1925 - Richard Jessup - d. 10-22-1982
writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
01-23-1884 - George McManus - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1954
"Bringing Up Father" based on his comic strip
02-17-1908 - Walter "Red" Barber - Columbus, MS - d. 10-22-1992
sportscaster: (The Old Redhead) "Schaefer Star Revue"
04-07-1905 - Murray Bolen - Minnesota - d. 10-22-1995
producer, director: "Father Knows Best"; "Mayor of the Town";
"Railroad Hour"
04-11-1921 - Dorothy Shay - Jacksonville, FL - d. 10-22-1978
singer: (Park Avenue Hillbilly) "The Spike Jones Show"
04-29-1903 - Richard Leibert - Bethlehem, PA - d. 10-22-1976
organist: "Dick Leibert's Musical Revue"; "Organ Rhapsody"
05-22-1916 - Rupert Davies - Liverpool, England - d. 10-22-1976
actor: "Afternoon Theatre"
06-13-1916 - Mary Wickes - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1995
actor: Louise "Meet Corliss Archer"; Irma Barker "Lorenzo Jones"
06-22-1901 - Charlie Agnew - Illinois - d. 10-22-1978
bandleader: "Yeast Foam Program"; "Armandes Face Cream Program"
06-27-1862 - May Irwin - Whitby, Canada - d. 10-22-1938
actor: "The Eveready Hour"
07-05-1899 - Tim Ryan - Bayonne, NJ - d. 10-22-1956
actor: "Tim and Irene Show"
08-02-1899 - Earle Larimore - Portland, OR - d. 10-22-1947
actor: "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; "Life Can Be Beautiful"
10-26-1918 - Ivor Francis - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1986
actor: "Secret Missions"; "The Chase"
10-30-1910 - Francia White - Greenville, TX - d. 10-22-1984
singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Fred Astaire Show";
"Telephone Hour"
11-22-1904 - Roland Winters - Boston, MA - d. 10-22-1989
actor: Russell Bartlett "My Best Girls"; "Milton Berle Show";
"Highways in Melody"
11-25-1905 - Will Osborne - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1981
bandleader, singer: "Abbott and Costello"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:19:48 +0000
From: "Glenn Mueller" <durangokid@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  SUPERMAN SERIAL ONLY ON VHS

 > From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
 > Subject: Superman serial
 >
 >The VHS videos were the only times the serials were ever commercially and
 > since people have transferred the serial to DVD over the past few years from
 > this same source, many include the complete music opening for chapters 1 and
 > 8, and never went back to edit them back into the other chapters.

See how quickly everybody forgets about Laser Disc's ? ? ? IMAGE ENTER-
TAINMENT issued a three disc set of "SUPERMAN: The Serial" . . . It's 
Copyrighted
1988 for program and content but states copyright 1998 by Warner Home Video for
package and design and copyright 1998 by DC Comics . . .
I would swear I was into DVD's in 1998 and Laser Disc's had gone by the wayside
except for some stores in the Hollyweird area selling them as OUT OF PRINT as
collector items . . I made a note on the disc sleeve I paid $[removed] for the 
set but it
had to have been in late 1980's . . . . . . I think I'll go lay down for a 
while . . .
  Glenn E. Mueller
  Rowland Heights, CA

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:19:49 +0000
From: "Charles Salt" <charles_salt@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Clitheroe Kid and The Life Of Riley

The Clitheroe Kid and The Life Of Riley

Dear all,
I have a couple of questions for the group if I may, apologies if they do 
not meet with protocol- I'm still new here.

Firstly, I was wondering if anyone knows if the following episode of The 
Life Of Riley exists and, if possible, where it could be obtained please:

481105 218 Comic Books

Secondly, I would like to ask for your help with the following project please:

I'm part of a team searching for lost episodes of The Clitheroe Kid. It's 
the Clitheroe Kid's 50th Anniversary next year & we are trying to get 
information relating to whatever 'lost' shows of the Kid that we can.
If you would be kind enough to access the following site link, we are 
interested in information concerning any of the episodes highlighted in red:
[removed]
If you think that you can help please feel free to contact me, many 
[removed] is an ongoing project for 2006/7.

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:19:50 +0000
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,
NOTE: Because of the many requests we've received, we are now making "Same
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Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
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Halloween Special - Part 1

VINCENT PRICE HALL OF HORRORS
Episode 1    "Fraternity Initiation"

THE HALLS OF IVY
Episode 77    11-7-51    "Halloween"
NBC SCHLITZ BREWERY Fridays 8:00 - 8:30 pm
Stars: Ronald Colman & Benita Hume (Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Colman), Williard
Waterman, Herbert Butterfield, Gloria Gordon
Guests: Hanley Stafford and Gale Gordon
CREATOR/WRITER: Don Quinn
DIRECTOR: Nat Wolff

VINCENT PRICE HALL OF HORRORS
Episode 2    "Father Weber's Rescue"

MURDER AT MIDNIGHT
Episode 3    7-27-57
Guest: Web Pierce

VINCENT PRICE HALL OF HORRORS
Episode 4    "The Woman in Black"

LUX RADIO THEATER
Episode 910    2-8-55    "War if the Worlds"
Stars: Dana Andrews and Pat Crowley

==================================

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THE GREEN LAMA
CBS    6/26/49    with Paul Frees and Ben Wright in "The Million-Dollar
Chopsticks"

THE BLACK MUSEUM
SYND/BBC    1951-52   with Orson Welles in "The Raincoat"

FIBBER McGEE & MOLLY
NBC    10/23/53   - 15 min. episode with the McGee's ready to leave for Aunt
Sara's

====================================

THE GLOWING DIAL

Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "The Black Sea Gull"
originally aired March 7, 1943 on The Blue Network
Starring: Peter Lorre.  Raymond Edward Johnson as Raymond, your host.
Sponsor: Carter's Little Liver Pills

Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "The Melody Of Death"
originally aired April 22, 1944 on CBS
Starring: Mary Astor.  Raymond Edward Johnson as Raymond, your host.
Sponsor: Palmolive Brushless & Palmolive Lather Shaving Cream

Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "The Creeping Wall"
originally aired January 8, 1946 on CBS
Starring: Irene Wicker.  Paul McGrath as your host.
Sponsor: Lipton Tea & Lipton Soup

Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "The Ghost In The Garden"
originally aired February 2, 1947 on CBS
Armed Forces Radio Service "Mystery Playhouse" version presented here.
Starring: Leslie Woods.  Paul McGrath as your host.
Sponsors: AFRS version has no sponsorship

Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "Till Death Do Us Part"
originally aired October 27, 1947 on CBS
Starring: Everett Sloane, Mercedes McCambridge, Dwight Weist announcing.
Paul McGrath as your host.
Sponsor: Bromo Seltzer (Emerson Drug Company of Baltimore, Maryland)

==================================

If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

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      Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
      The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
      Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:22:29 -0400
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  new radio books are in!

Just a note to say that the day after I returned from
my 3 weeks in Japan, the Joan Davis and Vic & Sade
books arrived! So they're shipping out to you all this
week. Thanks for your patience, especially with the
long delay on Joan Davis.

Upcoming books: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. The
Railroad Hour. Straight Arrow.

Japan is a Lovely country, by the way. You should all
visit it! But cds and dvds are Too expensive, so watch
out!

Ben Ohmart
Radio books
[removed]

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:22:45 -0400
From: David Ballarotto <[removed]@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Break the Bank"

I've recently listened to a few of these programs and would like to hear
more. The questions can become pretty challenging, and the format is
engrossing. This show could easily be done again today on television.
Unfortunately, it seems there are only a handful of shows in circulation.
Does anyone know how much of this radio series still exists?

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:23:23 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Fred Allen: an Appreciation
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In a message dated 10/22/06 7:32:58 AM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

but I have only
listened to a few of them. They are just not funny. It could be
because he is very topical and his humor just doesn't hold up today.

That's probably it, the topicality, because Fred almost always makes me
[removed] when he's on someone else's show.  Don't know why, he just
does.
I heard him on "The Big Show" and on "Information Please" and he made me
laugh out loud multiple times (especially on IP where he stumped the panel
with a
really tough but legit astronomy question and bragged about the Encyclopedia
Britannicas he was about to get).

Another sure laugh getter: Fred addressing or appearing with Jack Benny.  I
also always loved his morning radio couple bit with Tallullah Bankhead.
("Only
the hearts of the tender pussy willows are used!")

Dixon

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:23:44 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Grant's tomb
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In a message dated 10/22/06 7:32:58 AM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

By the way, who is buried in Grant's tomb?

Former president [removed]**and** his first lady.

Dixon

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:24:24 -0400
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Topical Humor

In Ron Sayles post, he says:

Many of you  know of my aversion to those radio icons "Amos 'n' Andy."
I feel nearly the  same way about Fred Allen, another icon of old-time
radio. I have many of his  shows in my collection, but I have only
listened to a few of them. They are  just not funny. It could be
because he is very topical and his humor just  doesn't hold up today.
He may have been funnier when originally broadcast, I  sure hope
because he certainly isn't funny today.

I also find that  to be true in other OTR shows. Topical humor, in a lot of
instances, does not  hold up simply because you have no reference as to what
they are talking about,  and in most cases, no way to look it up. In other
cases, I find the speaking  voices of the entertainers annoying to the point
that I
don't care to listen to  them. For me at least, George Burns is one example
of what I mean. I do not find  the Burns and Allen show particularly funny.
Thick accent's, and brogues, are a  turn off for me unless they are affected,
such as William Bendix's accent in The  Life of Riley. or Chester Lauck, and
Norris Goff, as Lum and  Abner.

Speaking of Lum and Abner, which I love by the way, is the  Kingfish on Amos
N Andy any more of a conniver than say Squire Skimp on that  program? Or
Frankie, on Phil and Alice's show. Weren't those two characters  always
looking for
ways to take advantage of either Lum and Abner, or Phil  Harris, or a
situation? I think it was part of the schtick, and not meant to  portray
anyone as
being weak minded, or weak in character. Just a  thought.

Charlie

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:24:53 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Fred Allen

Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:20:55 +0000
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];

Many of you know of my aversion to those radio icons "Amos 'n'
Andy." I feel nearly the same way about Fred Allen, another icon of
old-time radio. I have many of his shows in my collection, but I
have only listened to a few of them. They are just not funny. It
could be because he is very topical and his humor just doesn't hold
up today. He may have been funnier when originally broadcast, I
sure hope because he certainly isn't funny today.

Fred Allen was very topical. and unless you have some familiarity
with the current events of the time, it's hard to even understand the
jokes.  I do find him funny, but not as funny as Jack Benny, whose
humor holds up much better.

That said, I once played a Jack Benny radio show for my parents, and
they kept interrupting with "Do you know what that means?"  And they
would proceed explain a reference that I didn't even know was a
reference to something which was then current.  So Jack Benny did
have =some= topical humor, but there is enough else to make him still
funny today.

One example that comes to mind -- for which I did happen to know the
reference -- was a St. Patrick's Day show in the early 50s, where
Jack said, "How can St. Patrick's Day be a day for the wearing of the
green when the government just took it all away?"  The Internal
Revenue Code of 1954 changed the filing deadline for income tax
returns to 15 April, where it had previously been 15 March.  If you
didn't know that, the joke would make no sense.

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

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:25:17 -0400
From: Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  TCM Child Stars

I saw this earlier this month.
There is some OTR content, well worth viewing. It's a great show with
wonderful people. Great CB Lux story that Dick Moore told.
It plays again on the 30th and then in Dec:
[removed];mainArticleId=144330

Steve

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:25:33 -0400
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio Icon Fred Allen

When I think of "Radio Icons" Fred Allen is among my favorites. Fred was
topical to a point, but he poked fun at a lot current events in the news. He
as innovated. with his Allen's alley, and he had top stars as guests.

He was on the air for 17 years and must have sold a lot of  Ipana , for the
smile of beauty , and   sold a lot of Sal Hepatica, for the smile of health.
He sold of lot Texaco Gasoline, and Tender Tea plus Ford Cars & Trucks.

You all knew that Fred wrote most of his shows, and he assembled a great
cast characters with Allen Reed (Falstaff Oprnshaw) Kenny Delmar ( Senator
Claghorn) Meriva Pious ( [removed])  and Dennis Day's favorite Parker
Fennelly ( Titus Moody).

Fred was very topical but you see as young kid I knew what was going on in
the world. Fred made jokes about the 1939 New York's World Fair symbol The
Perisphere and [removed] knew what is was even youg kids.  If the
humor was over my head my father explained to me. Fred also had a very quick
mind.

I have about 80 or so Allen show From "The Linit Bath Club Revue" through
Ford Dealers as sponsors and I have lisenedv to every one more than once.

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:26:03 -0400
From: Illoman <illoman@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Fred Allen not funny?

Ron Sayles wrote:

 They are just not funny. It could be
because he is very topical and his humor just doesn't hold up today.
He may have been funnier when originally broadcast, I sure hope
because he certainly isn't funny today.

I have become interested in Fred Allen in the last year or so. While
I agree his shows are not that funny, Mr. Sayles should listen to
some of Allen's appearances on other people's shows. His ability to
ad lib was one of his greatest strengths. His "feud" with Jack Benny
made for some of the funniest OTR I've ever heard. There's a clip
circulating of Allen and Groucho Marx recorded after some show (which
is unnamed) and they just ad lib for the audience for a few minutes.
Great stuff.

Mike Bennett

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:26:33 -0400
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Fred Allen and funniness

Many of you know of my aversion to those radio icons "Amos 'n' Andy."
I feel nearly the same way about Fred Allen, another icon of old-time
radio. I have many of his shows in my collection, but I have only
listened to a few of them. They are just not funny. It could be
because he is very topical and his humor just doesn't hold up today.
He may have been funnier when originally broadcast, I sure hope
because he certainly isn't funny today.

Well, humor is always tricky.  What little I've heard of Fred Allen strikes
me as rather harsh and sarcastic, and I have always attributed that to the
fact that times were harder back then.

Someone observed that funniness generally results when one frame of
reference is superimposed on another, like someone roasting an ox in an art
gallery.  But if enough time has passed such that the audience doesn't know
what an ox roast was like in the '30's, or what art galleries were like back
then, the humor is lost.

Much of the Marx Brothers' work seems based on venues which amplify class
differences that far stricter than those we have now: the opera, or the
ocean liner.  These semi-legal goofballs, whose world and ambitions are very
much their own, are placed in this alien environment, and we can laugh at
them--but only if we understand just how alien that environment was.

Woody Allen has probably done as much to de-construct humor as anyone, and a
look at his movies ('the old, funny ones') has taught me a lot.  His classic
superimposing (superimposition?) of frames of reference was 'What's Up,
Tiger Lily?' in which he bought the rights to a Japanese-language
science-fiction-spy movie and dubbed his own plot into the audio track.

His other movies kept it up, line by line, [removed] "there's a spider the size
of a Buick" in Annie Hall's bathtub, or the paratrooper scene in another one
of his movies which I'm not going to mention further.

And, of course, there was his skit about the world's funniest joke, which
could make you die laughing.  He showed how it was adapted as a weapon of
war, broadcast through olive-drab loudspeakers mounted on tanks (I think) by
ear-muffed troops across enemy lines.

And so, unfortunately, changing times can kill jokes as surely as a language
barrier.  Music transcends both, and good literature as well, but humor is
the most perishable of art forms.

And besides, some things just strike people funny.

M Kinsler

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