Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #396
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Date: 10/8/2002 9:06 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2002 : Issue 396
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Jacob Tarshish - The Lamplighter      [ "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed]; ]
      Gene Twombly / KEHE                   [ BryanH362@[removed] ]
      FRANK SINATRA~~U S STEEL HOUR         [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      More Godfrey                          [ "rcg" <revrcg@[removed]; ]
      Doorway to Life                       [ Harry Bartell <bartell@[removed] ]
      F&M SOUND EFFECTS MAN                 [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      House of Mystery                      [ RICFAS@[removed] ]
      Superman on Radio                     [ "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed]; ]
      Who killed radio                      [ ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Fun ]
      Doc Savage                            [ marklambert@[removed] ]
      TUNE IN Magazine                      [ SacChief@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 11:35:26 +0000
    From: "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jacob Tarshish - The Lamplighter

    Elizabeth asked:

>     does anyone know of a collection housing the papers of Jacob Tarshish? He
>     was a liberal/Reform rabbi based inOhio, who broadcast regularly over WLW
>     and later Mutual for much of the
>     1930s, usually under the title "The Lamplighter." I'm specifically looking
>     for a printed transcript of his
>     1/13/35 broadcast, devoted to a summary of the moral lessons taught in
>     "Amos 'n' Andy." Anyone out there happen to have a copy of this pamphlet?
>     I'm not sure if it ever showed up in one of his hardcover collections,but
>     it was definitely issued in booklet form.

    Elizabeth:
      Some (probably remote) possiblities:
      The most intriguing item I found in the OCLC database
    [removed]
      was a three volume set [removed], something, called:

    _"The lamplighter" : broadcast over stations WOR, WLW, and
    WGN, 1935-37_ .
    Author:  Tarshish, Jacob.
    Description: 3 v.

    Located only at:
    University of Iowa Library
    [removed]
      No details as to what's _in_ those three volumes (scripts, I assume) but
    an online catalog search there reveals it's stored in
    Special Collections, as part of the Bollinger Lincoln Collection at the
    University.
      I doubt this title will be up for interlibrary loaning, but its OCLC id
    number (used when contacting your library to ask them to ILL
    something)  is:  41396010
      You can go ahead and contact the library staff about it, via e-mail, to
    see if you can get them to pull the volumes, and contact you back with more
    information on their contents by going to:
    [removed]
      [removed]
    Two book collections, narrowed down via publication dates that make them a
    possibility (could not
    find any listings of their contents) are:
    [1]
    Jacob Tarshish's _Little journeys with The Lamplighter_
    (F. J. Heer, 1936 / 128 pages / "second in a series")
    OCLC identification number:  9262556
    Libraries owning it include:
    AL's Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
    CA's Glendale Public Library
    CO's Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
    LA's Louisiana State Library
    NY's Jewish Theological Seminary
    OH's Trinity Lutheran Seminary
    and the Library of Congress
    [2]
    Jacob Tarshish's _Prelude to Happiness _
    (F. J. Heer, 1937 / 108 pages / "contains 25 of his most wanted talks")
    OCLC identification number:  3857750
    Libraries owning it -
    AL's Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
    CA's Loma Linda University
    CA's Univ. of San Diego
    IL's Western Illinois Univ.
    NC's Winston-Salem State University
    NY's NYPL's Research Library
    OH's Capital University
    OH's Historical Society
    OH's Trinity Lutheran Seminary
    and the Library of Congress.
      And [removed]
      the following got my attention:
    OH's Hebrew Union College, in Cincinnati,
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    has two sets of scripts for the series,
    1939-40
    and 1940-41, under the title,
    _Scripts for Lamplighter sermons_
      Go to their online catalog, at:
    [removed]
    and do an Author Search.
      It'[removed] a long shot, but e-mailing their reference
    dept. might reveal whether they have M-O-R-E sets
    of scripts, perhaps filed away in folders, that weren't
    ever offically cataloged.
      There's also the  -
    Ohio Historical Society, as a longshot.
      Their online catalog
    [removed]
      reveals some of the same book collections as above, and a 1993 one, _Half
    [removed], that's too early,
    but [removed] [removed]
    have uncataloged booklets of his broadcats, perhaps,too.
      Contact information for them is at:
    [removed]

    Jan Willis

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    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:00:37 +0000
    From: BryanH362@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gene Twombly /  KEHE

    10-08-2002

    To the one asking about Gene Twombly:

    If my memory is correct was not Gene Twombly married to Bea Benadaret and
    passed away around 1968 just shortly after she died from Cancer?

    Also Harry Bartell spoke of working at station KEHE in Los Angeles when it
    was part of the blue network . I don't recall this station . I remember
    station KECA  ( ECA for Earl C Anthony ) being the blue network outlet in
    LA.  Of Course KEHE could   have preceeded KEHE.

    -Bryan

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    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:02:20 +0000
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  FRANK SINATRA~~U S STEEL HOUR

    This was the title of the episode of a regular Sunday night show entitled
    "House of Mystery".  This particular episode stared Frank Sinatra as
    private
    eye Donald Lam, Jeanne Cagney and Betty Garde.  It aired between ten and
    eleven PM.  I am not aware that a copy of the show exists.

           [removed]
           A DATE WITH SINATRA

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    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:03:11 +0000
    From: "rcg" <revrcg@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  More Godfrey

    Many thanks to Lee Munsick for his bountiful memories of Arthur Godfrey.
    Also, thanks for reminding me that, to the very end, he did, indeed, attract
    big name sponsors.

    Godfrey was, indeed, a master salesman. His listeners and viewers really
    believed in him. IMHO that kind of trust could only come from the wonderful
    intimacy of radio, the way it once was.

    I liked Godfrey very much and listened to his CBS Radio show when it was at
    it's peak, running 90 minutes each weekday with that great cast of singers
    and general all around "little Godfreys". Like many others, I do have very
    mixed feelings about his off-air personna. There is little doubt that he was
    somewhat of a benevolant despot who kept his troops in line with reminders
    that "I made you and I can break you".

    My beloved late wife Susan worked for CBS news in New York from 1985 until
    her death in 1989. She was a young woman who had no personal recollections
    of Godfrey. She was only 23 at the time of his death in 1983. She told me
    that there were no pictures or other memorabilia to mark Godfrey's once long
    career at CBS. The  few times that she even heard his name uttered were in a
    most unflattering manner. She (and I) never could understand how anyone who
    had done so much for the network could be so reviled and his memory so
    tainted. Despite what Godfrey may have done in his later years, he deserved
    better treatment from those who, like it or not, owe him so much.

    BTW, one of the e-mail replies I received answering my post on finding
    Godfrey's last show suggested that I try public libraries as a possible
    source. BINGO, I remembered a library in another city in this state where I
    had donated several books concerning OTR. I called them and they do have a
    collection of Godfrey tapes which include the last show. I eagerly await
    their arrival via US Mail. Thanks to all who replied.

    Gunner

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    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:01:59 +0000
    From: Harry Bartell <bartell@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Doorway to Life

    alanladdsr  writes

     > I was listening to a show from a series called "Doorway to Life" and heard
     > Harry Bartell in the role of an "unfeeling husband." It was a sustaining CBS
     > series from 1947-48. Does he have any remembering from that series?

    He remembers  Bill Robson directed the show  and that he daddied several
    child actors including Norma Jean Nilson and Anne Whitfield among
    [removed] later, he worked with both of them in re-creations at REPS
    conventions in Seattle. He does not remember whether he was  always
    "unfeeling".

    Harry Bartell

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    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:54:59 +0000
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  F&M SOUND EFFECTS MAN

    On 6/17/41 Fibber McGee & Molly celebrated the 10,000th radio show for
    Billy Mills, who wrote The Sound Effects Man, sung by the Kings Men.

           [removed]
           A DATE WITH SINATRA

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    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:56:48 +0000
    From: RICFAS@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  House of Mystery

    Any chance that a copy of the show dated Jun 23, 1946 might exist?  Please
    advise,

    Thank you,

    Ric Ross

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    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:57:22 +0000
    From: "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Superman on Radio

    Recently there was a brief thread about the TV "Adventures of Superman," a
    subject on which I'm too well acquainted (actually, I was going to say "fed
    up to here").  While researching something else, I came across a surprising
    item.  In the June 1, 1949 issue of VARIETY, there was a brief article
    about how the radio "Superman" will be departing from the Mutual
    Broadcasting System any day now, and that producer Robert Maxwell was
    considering doing the show for television in the fall - provided he could
    find a believable Man of Steel.  Especially surprising was a brief comment
    that "Superman" had been a sustainer on the MBS all year.

    Interesting that this blurb came in between the two "Superman" serials that
    Columbia's Sam Katzman produced.  The second serial, as most of you know,
    was based on the "Atom Man" scenario from the radio show.  Maxwell
    eventually did produce the TV show for its debut season, but that wasn't
    until the summer of 1951.

    I'd like to know more about the radio show's last couple of years.  I'd
    always thought that the MBS and Kellogg's were there to the very end, even
    when it became a weekly half-hour in 1950-51.  Does Mr. Tollin, or anyone
    else, have the real story?

    Michael

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    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:56:36 +0000
    From: ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Funk)
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Who killed radio

    Leonard Fass wrote:

     > someone should write an analysis; those at npr who think they are in
     > radio are in something very different.  we need two [removed] radio in
     > its golden age(s) is not radio [removed] those who can't hear the
     > difference should visit a newspaper archive and check the schedules for
     > radio [removed] and there are no schedules for [removed] because radio does
     > not [removed]

    Someone else made the point that radio is simply not the same as it was
    in what we call the "golden age."  Radio has evolved.  I'd suggest that
    using line of reasoning that Leonard uses, we don't have newspapers
    anymore.  Newspapers are VERY different than they were years ago.  Like
    the radio medium the newspaper medium has evolved.  We may not like the
    result of the evolution, but there is no questioning that radio is at
    least alive if not well.

    Regards to all,
    Art Funk

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    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:55:40 +0000
    From: marklambert@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Doc Savage

    "alanladdsr@[removed]" asked about the
    availabilty of the 147-8 DOC SAVAGE radio
    series.  As far as I know, it's not available
    anywhere -- lots of us fans of the Man of Bronze
    have been searching for copies for years.

    A guy named Will Murray (who wrote the 1990s
    Doc Savage novels) compiled Lester Dent's old
    radio scripts and published them in a book or
    two back in the late 70s, I think.  You'll find
    them offered on e-bay every now and then.  Copies
    of the original radio scripts are housed in the
    Lester Dent Collection, which is located in the
    Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the
    University of Missouri in Columbia, MO.

    --Mark
    marklambert@[removed]
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 23:00:03 +0000
    From: SacChief@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  TUNE IN Magazine

    Anyone out there remember a magazine which appeared in the early and mid 40's
    called TUNE IN? I think it was a monthly, and each issue featured stories and
    glossies of various programs. What ever happened to it?  bob keldgord

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