Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #28
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 28
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Meet Corliss Archer                   [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Quiet Please Missing Episodes         [ Neal Ellis <bstenor@[removed]; ]
      seeking Whistler info                 [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
      Corliss and Ma                        [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      CHANDU Questions!                     [ Ljk2476@[removed] ]
      2-5 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Fw: Quiet Please                      [ "AVPRO" <avprotr@[removed]; ]
      Quiet Please - Camera Obscura         [ "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@yahoo ]
      Meet Corliss Archer                   [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
      Roosevelt Fireside Chats              [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
      RE: Fireside Chats, 20th amendment    [ "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed] ]
      Meet Corlis Archer                    [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]
      Gunsmoke                              [ "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@earthli ]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:55:49 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Meet Corliss Archer

    Kenneth Clarke asked about MEET CORLISS ARCHER. It was a situation comedy
    about a teenager named Corliss, who had a boyfriend named Dexter. It's the
    radio show that made Janet Waldo famous among old-time radio fans (her voice
    as Judy Jetson makes her famous for TV fans). Shirley Temple played the role
    in two major movies (of which I found, like the radio show, an average
    situation comedy).

    Yes, Ma Perkins is a soap opera in serial form.

    Ken,
    I don't mean to sound sarcastic, but it doesn't sound like you have John
    Dunning's ON THE AIR. If I may be candid, I don't know of anyone who is a
    true fan of old-time radio who doesn't have that book. It would have answered
    the questions you asked. When the book was first made available at FOTR at
    the 1998 or 1999 Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention, they sold out almost
    as fast as they were put on the table. While it is agreed upon by many OTR
    fans and researchers that it's not perfect, it is perhaps the VERY first book
    everyone turns to when they have a question about a radio show. First
    retailed between $40 and $55 years ago, I bought my copy for $30 many years
    ago and as a number of postings in recent issues of the Digest suggest, you
    can get a copy for as low as $15. The book is a 820 page hardcover book that
    features every major (and minor) radio program that we all frequently listen
    to, offering cast, directors, writers, dates the show was broadcast, and
    background material that makes pleasant reading if you want a brief
    background on the program before listening to the episodes, or while
    listening to them. Considering I spent $95 last month for a McFarland book
    that was 256 pages thick, fifteen dollars is a bargain.

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:56:41 -0500
    From: Neal Ellis <bstenor@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Quiet Please Missing Episodes

    The following episodes of Quiet Please are not in circulation.

    #09  08/17/47  A Mile High and a Mile Deep
    #10  08/24/47  Mirror, Mirrow on the Wall
    #11  08/31/47  A Ribbon of Lincoln Green
    #12  09/03/47
    #13  09/10/47  Three Sides to a Story
    #15  09/15/47  The Big Box
    #16  09/22/47  (Only Pt. 1 of this show exists)
    #17  09/29/47  The Low Road
    #20  10/20/47  The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
    #29  12/22/47  Berlin 1945 (although the repeat of this show does exist)
    #41  03/15/48  Meeting at Ticcndaroga
    #43  03/29/48  Quiet Please (although the repeat of this show does exist)
    #52  05/31/48  Below 5th Ave.
    #53  06/07/48  100,000 Diameters
    #63  08/30/48  Motive
    #78  12/12/48  Read Me This Riddle
    #79  12/19/48  The Gothic Tale
    #95  04/03/49  The Venetian Blind Man

    This is a total of 18 shows.  The figure given of 15 is actually correct.
    They are counting the 1/2 show and the two repeats mention above.

    Neal Ellis
    Old Time Radio On MP3
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:56:48 -0500
    From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  seeking Whistler info

    My friend and fellow author Dan Van Neste is working on a book about The
    Whistler films, but he's falling down in the J. Donald Wilson department.

    If you have any significant information for him on the Whistler's creator,
    please email him directly at DVann2800@[removed]. Thanks much.

    Ben Ohmart

    Old radio. Old movies. New books.
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:57:18 -0500
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Corliss and Ma

    Ken asked about "Meet Corliss Archer."  This was a teenage comedy, something
    like The Aldrich Family and Archie Andrews, but from a girl's viewpoint.
    Another girl's show was "A date with Judy."
    I have some of both these shows.  Here is what Hickerson says about [removed]

    "Meet Corliss Archer", 1943-56, CBS, ABC, NBC.  7 episodes available.

    "A date with Judy", 1941-50, NBC & ABC.  39 episodes available.

    As a kid, I listened to both of these, as well as the boy's counterpart
    shows.

    "Ma Perkins" was a soap opera that lasted from 1933 to 1960.  NBC & CBS.
    Virginia Payne starred as Ma for the entire run of the program.  280+, 17
    shows available.

    Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:57:45 -0500
    From: Ljk2476@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  CHANDU Questions!
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    Hello, everybody! Long time, no  see!
    Outside of the  fact that I'm going to be a "daddy" - hopefully - at the end
    of April of this  year, I've been pretty darn busy! My co-author Kristin Dewey
    and I were hoping  to have our CHANDU THE MAGICIAN book finished by the tail
    end of last year. It  didn't happen, but we're hoping that all will go well
    that it will be finished  by the spring, and ready to send to Ben Ohmart and
    BearManor Books!
        Our biggest  setback has been the fact that a gentleman by the name of
    George Vander has  seemed to vanish from the face of the earth. George - we
    learned - was an  old-time radio collector, and a very good friend of Martin
    Grams, Jr. Through  Martin's help, George contacted us - after several months
    of
    waiting (he was  working on a project overseas, apparently) - and stated that
    he
    had over a  thousand CHANDU radio scripts, memos, etc. Well, this was PERFECT
    for our  project, as nobody seemed to have a complete log of the 1930s CHANDU
    syndicated  broadcasts anywhere. After a few e-mails to try to set up a
    meeting, we never  heard from George Vander again. The last time I contacted
    Martin
    Grams, even he  hadn't heard from his friend, George. If anybody here knows
    anything about the  health of Mr. Vander, or how we could contact him, PLEASE
    let me know!
        Regarding all  of that, we've gone about as far as we can tracing the
    correct dates for all the  CHANDU shows known to exist, as well as the
    short-lived Chicago series in 1935.  What we haven't found is anything close
    to a final
    date for the last 1930s  broadcast of CHANDU. When I was a youngster - and I'm
    sure this goes for just  about all of you here - the TV season ended for the
    summer, and then started  again around Labor Day in September. the following
    year. I am assuming that  this was generally true "back in the day" for radio
    programming as well. I've  scanned just about every page - on microfilm - of
    BROADCASTING magazine from  1934 until my eyeballs have yet to recover from
    the
    strain. Nothing whatsoever  could I find!
        Would a fan  magazine like RADIO MIRROR or RADIO DIGEST generally have an
    article or snippet  about the last broadcast of such a popular show? As
    CHANDU was syndicated, I've  been told that newspapers really are not to be
    trusted
    re: listings of programs.  We've gotten plenty of other info. on CHANDU, it
    would be a "crying shame" not  to pinpoint the last syndicated broadcast by
    date, for sometime - we think - in  the Summer of 1934. We've found that a
    lot of
    available broadcasts with 1935  dates appear to be later transcription dates
    for syndication, but that the  actual recording dates or first broadcast dates
    were later in 1933, or very  early in 1934. These so-called 1935 shows
    feature Chandu and Co. in the lost  island of Lemuria, and we know that these
    adventures took place later in 1933  and may have continued into 1934, but
    certainly
    before production began on the  1934 movie serial version starring Bela
    Lugosi. If anybody can help us  here, please let me know as soon as possible!
        Also, try as we  might, we haven't been able to contact any relatives of
    the CHANDU copyright  owner, Harry A. Earnshaw. We know that his son, Harry
    Lewis Earnshaw, had the  copyright transferred to him around 1948, and that he
    passed away in Hawaii some  years ago. Another son - and I don't have the name
    handy right now - was a  writer and - I believe - a producer - in TV during
    the late '50s and early '60s.  But we've found no relatives yet. Anybody here
    have a clue to how we might go  about this? We've located CHANDU writer Vera
    Oldham's grandchildren. We've  located CHANDU director Cyril Armbrister's son.
    We've talked to CHANDU producer  Raymond Morgan's son, and other people
    connected with the show, but an Earnshaw  relative would be key to wrapping
    everything
    up together. Any leads, again,  please let me know! In the words of Charlie
    Chan: "Thank you, so much!" -  Leonard Kohl

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:59:05 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-5 births/deaths

    February 5th births

    02-05-1884 - Joan Harvey - Bangalore, India - d. 11-5-1965
    writer: "The Hidden Valley"
    02-05-1893 - Carlton Coon - Rochester, MN - d. 5-4-1932
    bandleader: (Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) "Florsheim Frolic"
    02-05-1898 - Sidney Fields - d. 9-28-1975
    comic, comedy writer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "It's Time to Smile"
    02-05-1901 - Arthur Sheekman - Chicago, IL - d. 1-12-1978
    writer: "The Marx Brothers"
    02-05-1906 - John Carradine - NYC - d. 11-27-1988
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-05-1908 - Bob Dunn - Fort Gibson, OK - d. 5-27-1971
    steel guitar: "The Musical Brownies"
    02-05-1911 - Bert Wilson - d. 11-5-1955
    chicago cubs play-by-play announcer 1944-1955
    02-05-1912 - Tex Atchison - Rosine, KY - d. 8-4-1982
    singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Smile-a-While"
    02-05-1918 - Tim Holt - Beverly Hills, CA - d. 2-15-1973
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-05-1919 - Red Buttons - NYC - d. 7-13-2006
    actor: "Guest Star"; "Friar's Club Roast"
    02-05-1934 - Hank Aaron - Mobile, AL
    baseball legend: "Baseball: An Action History"; "Tops In Sports"
    02-05-1941 - David Selby - Morgantown, WV
    actor: "Empire of the Air"
    02-05-1942 - Susan Hill - Scarborough, England
    writer: "Miss Lavender Is Dead"

    February 5th deaths

    01-16-1907 - John Hiestand - Madison, WI - d. 2-5-1987
    announcer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Cinnamon Bear"; "Feg Murray Show"
    02-11-1909 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 2-5-1993
    screenwriter, film director: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    02-14-1905 - Thelma Ritter - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-5-1969
    actor: "Aldrich Family"; "Big Town "; "McGarry and His Mouse"
    02-17-1905 - Kuda Bux - Kashmir, India - d. 2-5-1981
    magician: "Believe It or Not"
    02-18-1907 - Griffing Bancroft - d. 2-5-1999
    newscaster: "The Big News of 1957"
    03-13-1909 - Herbert Kline - Davenport, IA - d. 2-5-1999
    worked for a loyalist radio station in Madrid during the Spanish
    revolution
    04-10-1868 - George Arliss - London, England - d. 2-5-1946
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-11-1902 - Carroll Carroll - NYC - d. 2-5-1991
    writer: "Over Here"; "Guest Star"
    05-04-1913 - Carroll Moore, Jr. - Somerville, MA - d. 2-5-1977
    writer: "The Henry Morgan Show"
    05-09-1912 - Rupert Pray - d. 2-5-1973
    writer: "Forever Ernest"
    05-27-1916 - Analee Whitmore - Price, UT - d. 2-5-2002
    panelist: (Wife of Clifton Fadiman) "Information Please"
    06-10-1909 - Larry LeSueur - NYC - d. 2-5-2003
    CBS news correspondent: "This Week in Europe"; "The World Today"
    06-29-1908 - John Hench - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 2-5-2004
    actor: Stanley Gilman "Those Happy Gilmans"
    07-06-1905 - Pauline Drake - Denver, CO - d. 2-5-1981
    actor: Bessie "Great Gildersleeve"; "Miss Duffy "Duffy's Tavern"
    07-22-1912 - Orren Allen - d. 2-5-1993
    sportscaster: WKAN Kankakee, Illinois
    11-04-1914 - Court Benson - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-5-1995
    announcer, narrator: "Tennessee Jed"; "Backstage Wife"
    11-07-1903 - Dean Jagger - Lima, OH - d. 2-5-1991
    actor: "Crisis in War Town"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Cavalcade of America"
    12-01-1896 - Ethel Shutta - NYC - d. 2-5-1976
    singer-comedienne: "Jack Benny Program"
    12-08-1910 - Ruth Matteson - San Jose, CA - d. 2-5-1975
    actor: Nicole Scott "Against the Storm"
    12-10-1893 - Lew Brown - Odessa, Russia - d. 2-5-1958
    producer: "Music for Millions"
    12-13-1914 - Tiger Haynes - Fredriksted, St. Croix - d. 2-5-1994
    guitarist: (The Three Flames) "Scout About Town"; "Peter Donald Show"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:59:25 -0500
    From: "AVPRO" <avprotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Fw: Quiet Please
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    Ted,

    Randy Eidemiller is no longer able to be an active part in Old Time Radio.  He
    no longer lives at the Lampson Avenue address, but is in a limited facilty
    home.  He has been there for a few [removed] did not know this when you
    published his address in Radio Digest.

    Randy's Collection is in storage and is being looked after by his daughter and
    his colleagues in the West Coast Syndicate. There are 6 of us still around.
    Who are we?  We formed in 1972 and were instrumental in putting much of the
    OTR available today into circulation.

    I found the Quiet Please episodes at the University of Florida.  A work Study
    student dubbed the discs.  The University would not allow any outside people
    to touch them.  The Work Study Student did not clean or even bother to wipe
    off the discs,.  He just put them on a turntable and dropped the needle.  That
    is the reason so much noise is on many of the early surving episodes.

    Mrs. Chappell was going to let us, Randy and Me, copy the discs, but
    negotiations dragged on and on.  Then the discs would up in the OTR Museum in
    New York City.  They do not cooperate with anyone as far as I know.

    If you wish a copy of Chris Lambesis's and Randy's Log, I'll speak to Chris
    and I am sure he would get more printed.  He does not E-Mail.

    Ron Barnett does not have all the epsiodes.  There are 17, as far as I know,
    that have not been located and one 1/2 show.  It is #15 09-11-47 "Be a Good
    Dog Darling."

    Don Aston
    avprotr@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:59:31 -0500
    From: "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Quiet Please - Camera Obscura

    One of my favorite Quiet Please episodes is "Camera Obscura" - maybe because
    I live and work for the City of Santa Monica where the original "Camera
    Obscura" which inspired the episode still exists and is open to the public.

    In fact, the Camera Obscura is now a Senior Citizen's center.   On more than
    one occasion I've stopped in there to chat with the old-timers, asked if
    anyone remembers "Quiet Please" and offered to do a Halloween event where I
    would play the episode for the seniors there.   But so far all I've gotten
    are puzzled looks.

    As I said, I happen to work for the City of Santa Monica.  I wonder if
    there's any local OTR club that might be interested in doing a LIVE
    recreation of the "Camera Obscura" episode AT the Camera Obscura next
    Halloween?   The script for "Camera Obscura" is readily available online.

    If I can get some interest here, I do will contact the person who runs Santa
    Monica's theater arts program and I won't take "no" for an answer!

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:59:42 -0500
    From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Meet Corliss Archer

    Kenneth Clarke asked about Corliss [removed]

    "Meet Corliss Archer" "America's teenage Sweetheart" was was a teenage
    sitcom that was written for teens,  in my opinion. It  started  in
    January  of  1943 and ran of and on until 1956, and was the basis of a
    TV series. The  radio program was sponsored by Anchor -Hocking Glass and
    Campbell's Soups.
    Priscella Lyon and Janet Waldo both were [removed] The program started
    on CBS in 1943, ABC in 1950, & CBS in 1954.
    Yes, there are episodes available,  I have seem them listed on some OTR
    web sites.
    Frank McGurn

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:59:53 -0500
    From: <georgewagner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Roosevelt Fireside Chats

         Please be aware that the [removed] Fireside Chats are VERY
    abbreviated, many or even most of them running only two to four minutes.

         Sincerely,

         George Wagner
         georgewagner@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:00:00 -0500
    From: "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Fireside Chats, 20th amendment
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    FDR  gave a total of 30 fireside chats between 1933 and 1944. The first, on
    March 12, 1933, dealt with the bank crisis and was effective in stemming the
    runs on banks. FDR actually presented similar "chats" on radio as Governor of
    New York beginning in  in 1929 as a means of talking directly to the people to
    counteract the hostility of the Republican dominated New York legislature.
    After he became president, the nationally broadcast fireside chats were
    extremely popular and probably did more to publicize FDR's New Deal policies
    than any other medium. Recordings of the "chats" and their scripts  are
    available on the Web.

    The writer is incorrect when he states that FDR prompted Congress to change
    the date of the presidential inauguration. The 20th amendment to the
    Constitution was proposed by Congress on March 2, 1932, when FDR was Governor
    of New York and, although he was considered to be the front runner in the race
    for the Democratic nomination for President, he would have had no influence on
    Congress at this time. The amendment was ratified by the requisite number of
    state legislatures  on January 23, 1933 and the provision changing the
    inauguration date  (Section 1)  did not become effective until after the 1936
    election, on January 20, 1937.

    James R. Belpedio
    Becker College
    Worcester, MA

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:00:07 -0500
    From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Meet Corlis Archer

    Hi

    In digest #27, Kenneth Clarke asked about Corlis Archer.  The title of the
    program was Meet Corlis Archer and it was a teenage sitcom.
    Per John Dunning's Encylclopedia of Old-Time Radio:c Broadcast history is
    Jan 7, 1943 - Sept 30, 1956.  Also, per Dunning,there were several sponsors,
    Campbell Soup, Anchor Hocking, Toni.

    There are very few in circulation. You can listen to some shows at the
    internet archive.  [removed]

    Anne

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    Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:28:53 -0500
    From: "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gunsmoke

    Exactly how many rehearsals of Gunsmoke are in circulation? Are there
    others that survive that are not in circulation?

    joe salerno

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