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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 89


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 What did people sound like?
	 Alec Baldwin as The Shadow
	 Need a few shows
	 Radio Theatre
	 classic Fibber
	 PAGING:  From Massachusettes?
	 Re: otr Digest V96 #88
	 Closure to Matinee House Saga

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:43:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Kinsler <kinsler@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: What did people sound like?
Message-Id: <[removed]@bobcat>

   A lot of my interest in old radio shows is historical: I'm interested
in what people used to think about and how they talked.  This sounds
somewhat silly, I suppose: why shouldn't people have always talked like
they do now? 
   But movie dialogue, radio scripts (including "man on the street"
interviews) and even early television all make people sound quite
different from what they do now.  Of course, everything was scripted, and
in the early days nobody quite knew what to do in front of a
microphone--but that's the case at present. 
   Before I ramble on any further, I'd like to ask the opinions of my
sharper and more experienced collegues on this list, especially the people
who've done radio acting:  How closely does radio speech resemble common
colloquial speech at present?  And if there's a certain similarity, can we
assume that the old shows reflect common colloquial speech of the '30's
and '40's? 
   As an additional question, and one that's perhaps easier to answer:  
compare the way that police on radio shows: say, "Tales of the Texas 
Rangers", spoke into their radios.  It was always a flat, strange sort of 
monotone.  Would that have been the actual way that police spoke over the 
radio at that time?  It certainly isn't the style now, and I get the 
impression that it wasn't the style that they used in "Dragnet", though 
I don't recall hearing Joe Friday on the police radio much in that show 
anyway.  
                                     Mark Kinsler    

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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 96 07:46:22 EST
From: TBARNETT@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Alec Baldwin as The Shadow
Message-Id: <m0tuf5L-000Y6vC@[removed]>

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From:    Tom Barnett

Subject: Alec Baldwin as The Shadow

I heard on these pages a little while ago that Orson Welles was almost
as bad as The Shadow as Alec Baldwin was.

I take exception to this comment for the simple reason that. . . .

at least here was a character from the radio days who was being portrayed

on today's big screen with todays special effects. I viewed it as more of
a tribute to The Shadow than an imitation or replacement.

The fact that todays big Entertainment industry would push something
like the Shadow through should be a hufe boost to Shadow fans everywhere.

Just my two cents. . .

Tom Barnett
EDS/VDTO Finance and Personnel Systems Support
(810)986-0389 (8-226) Internet:TBARNETT@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 07:36:44 -0600 (CST)
From: caldwell@[removed] (Wayne Caldwell)
To: otr@[removed] (otr mailing list)
Subject: Need a few shows
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I need a few episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. I need these:

The Salt City Matter   part 2 & 3
The Shephard Matter    part 5

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:30:59 -0500
From: Radio41@[removed]
To: Otr@[removed]
Subject: Radio Theatre
Message-ID: <960307093058_343777987@[removed]>

Hello again,
This is The Radio Theater Hour. We are a daily one-hour radio drama and skit
program aired throughout the US on commercial radio. As a year long series
(network is talking years) we are looking for any radio theatre groups,
scripts, existing productions, anything that we would be able to air on our
show. It is picking up tremendous response and it is a perfect vehicle for
getting all types of radio drama back on the air. If you own the broadcast
rights to any new or old material, get back with me. It's a lot of fun.
Thanks,
Jan Hodges

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:11:24 -0600
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: classic Fibber
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

dave wrote:
>Does anyone out there believe that the Fibber McGee & Molly show of
>12-30-41 the one where Fibber has "fixits" and includes a fabulous gag about
>Fibber fixing the doorbell, as one of the all time greats of the show.

Now that you mention it, you're quite right.  That _is_ a very, very funny
episode, and that running gag about the doorbell is not only hilarious, but
to my thinking rather sophisticated.  Didn't it go on for several more
episodes?

A gag very much like it ran throughout the final episode of The Cosby Show
tv series.

John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 12:23:24 EST
From: bedtime@[removed] ( DAVID ALLAN BOUCHER)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: PAGING:  From Massachusettes?
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

-- [ From: Me/Radio * [removed] #[removed] ] --

<<<Please pardon the [removed] is [removed]>>>

Awhile back someone posted a note about YUSA.  

Their tag/signature line said they were from MASSACHUSETTS and worked
for 'Fred C. Church Insurance'.  

Could you be kind enought to E-Mail me privately?  I have been trying
to get in touch with you.

Thanks!  (And once again sorry for the off-topic [removed])

Dave in Boston (E-Mail:  Dave@[removed])

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:42:56 -0500
From: Joelsiegel@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Re: otr Digest V96 #88
Message-ID: <960307144254_344095954@[removed]>

i believe the hartz mountain canaries and the radio warblers were competing
shows. and the reason canaries went out of favor as [removed] quit
singing. marijuana seed was part of the bird feed. when they took that out,
the birds quit singing.
quit listening to the grateful dead, too.

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 07:08:23 -0600
From: "Joe C. Foster" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: Otr <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Closure to Matinee House Saga
Message-Id: <H0000b3f023ef34a>

OTR gang:

Last week, I posted a note in regards to difficult situation with Matinee
House. I would like to report due to several OTR-digest readers that contacted
[removed] (especially Alan Chapman) on my behalf, the error has been cleared up.

Evidently, [removed] had neglected to mail my package or the package was lost in the
mail. Kert Gary rushed out my package and even added free tapes with a note of
apology. Heaven only knows why they did not respond to my queries into the
matter. I am just glade that everything worked out.

Thanks for everyone’s help!

Carey

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