Subject: [removed] Digest V01 #157
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Date: 5/26/2001 3:10 PM

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                          The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                             Volume 01 : Issue 157
                       A Part of the [removed]!
                               ISSN: 1533-9289

                               Today's Topics:

     Remembering                          ["Harry Bartell" <bartell@[removed]]
     Texas Rangers                        ["Ryan Osentowski" <rosentowski@neb.]
     The FBI in Peace & War               [otrbuff@[removed]                   ]
     Shane on Lux                         ["Mike Kerezman" <philipmarlowe@eart]
     Wendy Warren and the News            [Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];       ]
     Photo Gallery                        ["Ken Kay" <kenwyn@[removed];   ]
     Frank Lovejoy in NORTH BY NORTHWEST? ["igsjr@[removed]" <igsjr@[removed];  ]
     Re: Bob & Ray                        [Udmacon@[removed]                    ]
     Welcome to Harry Bartell             [GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@]

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    Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:08:54 -0400
    From: "Harry Bartell" <bartell@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Remembering

        Owens Pomeroy asks a question about a  Gunsmoke episode called " The
    Badge ".   I worked on 85 Gunsmoke broadcasts,  including the first, and the
    actors almost never paid any attention to show  titles. Also, the show was
    done several weeks ago and my memory  [removed]   Thanks for the welcome, and
    all  the  kind words. As Andy Griffith so eloquently put it, " Ah 'preciate!
    "     Harry Bartell

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    Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:08:53 -0400
    From: "Ryan Osentowski" <rosentowski@[removed];
    To: "old time radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Texas Rangers

    Hi all,
    Just a quick note to the gentleman who composed a log of the TTR broadcasts.
    The entire series of Tales of the Texas Rangers is in circulation, including
    the pilot broadcast that did not star Joel McCrea.  I have the entire series
    and it is one of the better quality programs out there.  I think of it as
    the Texas version of DRagnet.
    RyanO

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    Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 17:48:09 -0400
    From: otrbuff@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The FBI in Peace & War

    Not long ago I was in the supermarket and found myself in the soap aisle.
     There I spied bars of Lava soap, a commodity I hadn't seen in years and
    didn't know was still on the grocer's shelves.  You know what tune
    filtered through my mind, don't you?  It was L-A-V-A, L-A-V-A, with that
    deep male voice barking the letters before the orchestra rolled into the
    March from Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev.  Is that familiar
    to anybody or not?

    Alas, when I picked up a package and examined it closely, to my
    astonishment printed there was the name of some manufacturer other than
    Procter & Gamble -- Armour-Dial, I think.  We knew that P&G was selling
    off some of its most popular brands for we have discussed this here
    previously.  Still it seems ironic that the goods that made that firm a
    household name, and helped bring billions of dollars each year to it,
    aren't in demand any more.  Isn't there almost an incongruous similarity
    to vintage radio itself?

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:59:45 -0400
    From: "Mike Kerezman" <philipmarlowe@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Shane on Lux

    I was wondering if there is circulating copy of the Lux version of the 1953
    movie SHANE in decent sound quality. I have obtained two versions of it in
    MP3 which were made from poor quality sources. If anyone knows if decent
    quality version is available in either cassette or MP3, this would be most
    appreciated. The versions I have listened to have considerable sound
    problems in parts of the show that make it almost unlistenable.

    Thanks

    Mike Kerezman

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    Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:52:36 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Wendy Warren and the News

    Joe Ross recalled:

>     I remember hearing Wendy Warren a couple of times circa 1954. It involved
>     the adventures of Wendy Warren, a female radio news reporter. At the end
>     of the show, after a commercial, the announcer would say, "And now, Wendy
>     Warren and the News!" and "Wendy Warren" would come on and do a real
>     newscast

    Actually, as I recall, Wendy never did a "real" newscast. Douglas Edwards
    usually read "real" news, then ended with the "And now Wendy, what's the
    news from the ladies point of view" or some such. She would then "read"
    some news, which I think was mostly bogus, then break for commercial and
    return as Wendy Warren off mike.

    It was never an actual newscast except for Doug Edwards - again, as best as
    I can recall.

    Jim Widner
    jwidner@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:18:04 -0400
    From: "Ken Kay" <kenwyn@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Photo Gallery

    I've been collecting OTR for about seven years now and I'm still looking for
    a book which has photos of ALL the old players.  I know that "ALL" is
    impossible to hope for but I'd love to see the "also in tonight's cast"...
    performers included.  Every once in a while I come across a picture of a
    voice I've heard many times and it is always a kick to put a face to the
    voice.  One of my favorite OTR actors was John Dehner.  I just recently saw
    a picture of him and could not believe that he was the same actor I'd seen
    in countless movies over the years.  I'm sure there are others like him.
    Anyone know a source?

    Ken Kay

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    Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 01:04:17 -0400
    From: "igsjr@[removed]" <igsjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Frank Lovejoy in NORTH BY NORTHWEST?

    Ted Meland in a recent post mentioned that radio actor Frank Lovejoy has
    a role in NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959 MGM)...having seen NORTH too many
    times to go into here, I can honestly say without fear of contradiction
    that Lovejoy does not appear in that film.

    I think he may have confused actor Edward Binns, who is in the film,
    with Lovejoy.  Binns sounds a little like Lovejoy, when you think about
    it.

    Ivan

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    Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 01:04:19 -0400
    From: Udmacon@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Bob & Ray

    I had the occasion of meeting Ray Goulding when he was visiting his sister in
    law at her home in Fairborn, Ohio. He struck me as a polite, average person;
    he certainly was not "on."

    On another occasion, his sister in law's son was visiting Ray and Liz
    Goulding in their Plandome, Long Island home, and he invited me out for a
    visit. The house was a real castle with a turret-like front door. The first
    thing you saw in the medieval-like vestibule was a painting of one of the
    three Musketeers with Ray Goulding's face painted on it.

    Sadly, Ray was not at home at the time, but I did meet his sons, and
    Gouldings were an average suburban family.

    By the way, Ray and Liz Goulding also had a "compound" in Hyannisport, right
    next door to the Kennedys.
    Bill Knowlton, "BLUEGRASS RAMBLE," WCNY-FM: Syracuse, Utica, Watertown NY
    (since Jan. 1973). Sundays, 9 pm est: [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 01:43:47 -0400
    From: GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Welcome to Harry Bartell

         Somehow I managed to miss Harry Bartell's posting
    to this list!
         That's doubly ironic, since Mr. Bartell has
    always been one of my very favorite audio, radio and
    golden age TV actors - both years ago in the 1950s
    when I had no idea of his name and again during these
    past 36 years that I've been collecting and archiving
    OTR.
         Thanks for joining us!

         George Wagner
         GWAGNEROLDTIMERADIO@[removed]

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