Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #130
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 130
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  4-29 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  The Ride Back - Plot of a Missing Gu  [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]
  Re:Hindenburg Disaster                [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  Re: Hindenburg Broadcast              [ Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed]; ]
  "The Golden Age of Radio" and "A One  [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
  Reference material for recording      [ fangle <fangle@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:39:05 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-29 births/deaths

April 29th births

04-29-1870 - Cosmo Hamilton - d. 10-14-1942
lecturer: "Unwritten History"
04-29-1879 - Sir Thomas Beecham - St. Helens, England - d. 3-8-1961
conductor: "Information Please"
04-29-1887 - Robert Cushman Murphy - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-19-1973
ortinthologist: "Information Please"
04-29-1896 - Harry McNaughton - Surbiton, England - d. 2-26-1967
actor, panelist: Higgins "It's Higgins. Sir"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
04-29-1897 - Charles Seel - NYC - d. 4-19-1980
actor: "Romance"; "Four-Star Playhouse"; "The Halls of Ivy"
04-29-1899 - Duke Ellington - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-24-1974
bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Story of Swing"
04-29-1901 - Emperor Hirohito (Showa) - Tokyo, Japan - d. 1-7-1989
emperor: End of war speech
04-29-1903 - Frank Parker - NYC - d. 1-10-1999
singer: "A & P Gypsies"; "Jack Benny Program"; "Frank Parker Show
04-29-1903 - Richard Leibert - Bethlehem, PA - d. 10-22-1976
organist: "Dick Leibert's Musical Revue"; "Organ Rhapsody"
04-29-1904 - Russ Morgan - Scranton, PA - d. 8-8-1969
bandleader: (Music in the Morgan Manner) "Russ Morgan Orchestra"
04-29-1908 - Jack Williamson - Bisbee, Arizona Territory - d. 11-10-2006
writer: "Dimension X"; "Future Tense"
04-29-1912 - Ian Martin - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-25-1981
actor: Horace Sutton "Young Dr. Malone"; Harry Archer "Meet Corliss
Archer"
04-29-1912 - John MacVane - Portland, ME - d. 1-28-1984
newscaster: "United or Not"
04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-29-1913 - Norman Felton - London, England
producer, director: "Author's Playhouse"; "Grand Marquee"
04-29-1914 - Derek Guyler - Wallasey, Merseyside, England - d. 10-8-1999
actor: "It's That Man Again"
04-29-1915 - Donald F. Mills - Piqua, OH - d. 11-13-1999
singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
04-29-1917 - Celeste Holm - NYC
actor: "House on Q Street"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"
04-29-1918 - Tom Rogers - d. 6-25-2005
writer: Wrote for radio in the 1940s
04-29-1925 - Michael Wager - NYC
actor: "And Bravely Walk"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
04-29-1933 - Rod McKuen - Oakland, CA
composer: "We Hold These Truths"
04-29-1935 - Lennie Weinrib - NYC - d. 6-28-2006
actor: "Suspense"
04-29-1936 - Zubin Mehta - Bombay, India
conductor: New York Symphony Orchestra
04-29-1946 - Humphrey Carpenter - Oxford, England - d. 1-4-2005
writer, disc jockey: BBC radio

April 29th deaths

03-06-1927 - William J. Bell - Chicago, IL - d. 4-29-2005
writer: "The Guiding Light"
05-06-1912 - Bill Quinn - NYC - d. 4-29-1994
actor: Guy Aldis "Against the Storm"; Tom Davis "When a Girl Marries"
06-17-1899 - Benny Krueger - Newark, NJ - d. 4-29-1967
bandleader: "The Rudy Vallee Show"; "Side Walk Cafe"
06-24-1914 - Allan E. Sloane - d. 4-29-2001
writer: "Indictment"; "Bulldog Drummond"; "The Man Behind the Gun"
07-01-1881 - Josef Pasternack - Czenstachown, Poland - d. 4-29-1940
conductor: "Atwater Kent Concert"; "Carnation Contented Hour"
07-24-1853 - William Gillette - Hartford, CT - d. 4-29-1937
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
08-13-1899 - Alfred Hitchcock - London, England - d. 4-29-1980
host: "Murder by Experts"; "Once Upon a Midnight"
08-16-1907 - Mae Clark - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-29-1992
actor: "Family Theatre"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-21-1911 - Anthony Boucher - Oakland, CA - d. 4-29-1968
writer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; "Advs. of Ellery Queen; "Gregory
Hood"
09-06-1909 - Michael Gordon - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-29-1993
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
09-27-1915 - Cy Howard - Wisconsin - d. 4-29-1993
creator, writer, producer: "Life with Luigi"; "My Friend Irma";
"Milton Berle Show"
11-07-1917 - Johnnie Stewart - Tonbridge, England - d. 4-29-2005
sound effects for BBC radio in 1930s, then became a producer
12-25-1893 - Belle Baker - NYC - d. 4-29-1957
actor: "The Eveready Hour"
xx-xx-1892 - Joe Laurie, Jr. - NYC - d. 4-29-1954
comedian: "Can You Top This"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:39:11 -0400
From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Ride Back - Plot of a Missing Gunsmoke
 Episode

The following is the plot summary of the fifth and final 1952 Missing
GUNSMOKE episode.

GUNSMOKE
The Ride Back
06/28/1952
Script by Antony Ellis

EPISODE NOTE:
  A few early GUNSMOKE episodes had no titles on the scripts. The script for
this episode was simply labeled GUNSMOKE #10.  This episode was assigned the
title "The Ride Back" at an unknown, later date; perhaps by Norman
Macdonnell.

PLOT
  Matt is about three days out of Dodge City with his prisoner, Leeds
Martin, when he spots three young Cheyennes nearby.  They were probably
planning to ambush the Marshall and his prisoner, but decided not to when
they realized surprise was no longer on their side.  Martin immediately
demands a gun, the Marshall won't give it to him.  From the clothing the
Cheyennes are wearing, the items they are carrying, and the smell of liquor
when they slowly ride by, it is obvious that they have been on a raid.

  When they make camp that evening Matt and then Martin realize that they
have been followed by Indians, probably those that they had seen earlier.
The agitated Martin again demands his gun to protect himself and again Matt
says no.

  As the two men talk, Matt finds out that Martin has killed at least eight
men including two Indians.  Martin says he's always been forced into the
gunfights.  Doc Adams told Matt that the two men Leeds allegedly killed in
Dodge were shot in the back.

  Dillon and Martin hear noises that indicate that the Indians are moving in
to attack.  Matt moves off to one side, his gun ready, and throws to a rock
to draw the Cheyennes' fire.  One goes for the trick and Dillon fires
several rapid shots at the Indian's muzzle flash.  They have no further
trouble that night.

  The next morning as Dillon and Martin resume their trip to Dodge, they see
a dead Cheyenne, killed by Matt's shots.  Once again Martin demand his gun
and again Dillon refuses.

  Later they arrive at a cabin and when they enter they find the mutilated
victims of the Cheyennes' attack of the previous day:  a man, woman, and
their young daughter.  Martin is particularly unnerved by the sight of the
little girl.

  The Marshal has decided to that he must kill the other two Cheyennes.
Just as Matt and Leeds finish burying the family, it starts to rain and the
Indians open fire, hitting Martin's horse.  Dillon and Martin make a dash
for the cabin.  Inside the cabin the frantic prisoner warns Dillon, if the
Marshal turns his back on Martin, he'll never turn it again.  Later, Dillon
decides that he must tie up Martin because he needs sleep and can't  trust
the prisoner.  Martin tries to fight Matt, but is unsuccessful.

  The next morning the two men restart their journey to Dodge, riding double
on Matt's horse.  As they enter a canyon, the Cheyennes open fire from
ambush.  Matt kills one of them. A crazed Martin begs Matt to give him his
gun so he can kill remaining one.  Dillon doesn't give him a gun and orders
Martin to stay under cover and goes after the last one.

  While closing in on his target, Matt sees Leeds going after the Indian
with some rocks.  The Cheyenne and Martin kill each other.   Dillon takes
the dead prisoner back to Dodge.

  Back in Dodge, Matt tells Chester about Martin and the fight.  While
Chester is going through Martin's effects, he finds a picture of a little
girl.  Perhaps the picture is the only thing that explains Martin's actions.

Comment:
The script for The Ride Back was greatly modified for a 1957 motion picture
of the same name by Antony Ellis and produced by William Conrad.  It starred
William Conrad and Anthony Quinn.  All references to GUNSMOKE were dropped.
It is well worth watching.

Signing off for now,

Stewart Wright

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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:59:33 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re:Hindenburg Disaster

Frank McGurn wrote:
 > Chuck Schaden's "Those Were The Days" will play
 > the Herb's report @ 1:00 PM CST you all can listen on on the web

You can also listen anytime at my web site:
[removed]

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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:01:09 -0400
From: Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Hindenburg Broadcast

A query from our friend in the aether:

I looked up the Hindenburg and Herb Morrison on the Internet. The much
maligned Wikipedia claims Morrison said "Oh, the humanity!" but I have heard
some folks claim the it's actually the plural form "humanities." Once again, I
defer to the Digest's astute assemblage of authorities.

Who can tell exactly what he said?  Herb Morrison had been in radio for
about seven years when he reported the last journey of the dirigible
Hindenburg and he knew that one of the rules in covering an event was
"keep talking".  So his description of the explosion shouldn't be
considered a neat, scripted passage.  Earlier in the report he describes
the crowd as a gathering of "humanity" at Lakehurst, so the word was
part of his active vocabulary and it's natural that the word would well
up at that moment.

Incumbent on my comments about being taken off-the-air, the Wikipedia stated
that, contrary to popular belief, NBC did not fire Morrison for his Hindenburg
-derived "outburst," nor was re-assigned  to a lower-profile job.

NBC couldn't fire him because he didn't work for NBC.  Shortly after he
returned to Chicago and his job at WLS - The Prairie Farmer Station he
was invited to come to New York for a special program on the NBC network
but his bosses at WLS didn't want him to fly.  Too risky.

However, what were some of Morrison's other radio triumphs and
accomplishments?

Herb left WLS around the end of 1937 to go to WOR and the Mutual Network
and was primarily a newscaster.  During World War 2 he served in the
Army as a flight instructor (he was a licensed pilot and before going
into radio had worked for an aircraft company).  He later was the first
news director of WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh and during his tenure there he
also ran for [removed] Congress on the Republican ticket, an unusual
combination of activities.
After retiring as a public information officer for West Virginia
University, Herb Morrison began a career as a public speaker telling
about the Hindenburg and his broadcast.  WLS had never paid him for the
report from Lakehurst (Herb did it as an experiment on his day off --
engineer Charles Nehlsen was paid) so his speaking  tour, an LP
recording of the entire broadcast and his status as an adviser on the
movie "Hindenburg" was the first time Herb made any money from what is
considered the most famous on-the-spot report of all time.

Around 1946 Herb Morrison was invited to appear on "We the People".  He
arrived at the CBS studios to be handed a script in which he was to tell
about how he had been so shocked by the explosion of the Hindenburg that
he was unable to continue working and had fallen on hard times and was
hoping to get his life [removed]  Herb refused to go along with the
distortion and walked out, leaving a potential gap in the program until
the producer relented and allowed him to tell the real story.  Has
anyone ever heard a recording of that "We the People" broadcast?
                                                           --  Bill Jaker

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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:30:03 -0400
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "The Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night
 Stand with the Big Bands"

"The Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with
the Big Bands" has a new web address. But the real news is
that all 89 "The Golden Age of Radio" shows and all 44
"A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" are available at
all times! Check out our new website at
[removed]    - Please bookmark us.

(You can still use the old site, [removed]
for the forseeable future.)

In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
Big Bands."

Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
Ed Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970; Ed was
Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
of big band music. In 1971, encouraged by the success
of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters,
etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
eras of music history.

Bob Scherago
Webmaster

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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:56:06 -0400
From: fangle <fangle@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Reference material for recording

[removed]

Don't know if anyone is interested, but mixed in with all the older
technical books on this page (all for download free) are a few about tape
recorders, their operation and repair, and the recording process.  The
books are from the 1950's.

FWIW,

Ed

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