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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 209


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Re:  Remembering the past
	 Redmond Nostalgia Company
	 Re: Reed Family & Green Hornet sequel to EXPOSED
	 Re: OTR?
	 Re: Ducks
	 Re: Radio Showcase
	 Remember WENN Fantasyland?
	 Whitehouse Sawyer
	 Gildersleeve' actor Waterman dead at 80

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:13:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: barrym <barrym@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:  Remembering the past
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

In response to the request for remeniscenses from people who attended
otr shows, I thought I'd tell about attending on the other end of the
show.

In the 70's I recorded a few OTR shows from the radio.  I don't think
they were called that back then but otr they were.  I recorded 2 Lone
Ranger shows.

I had a friend who was a cousin of Clayton Moore's and who got an
occasional phone call from him.  He had 3 small children and he was
always trying to explain to them that their uncle was the Lone
Ranger, but they were too young to remember him.  At this time there
weren't even any re-runs of the tv show on.  So he asked me to bring
over the tapes I had of the radio show (we didn't know that was
actually Brace Beamer) and play them for the kids, which I did.

I've never seen such an excited bunch of kids.  They're uncle (or so
they thought) was saving people, shooting bad guys, being so noble,
and doing all this with a voice that could only be the voice of God.

I repeated this the following weekend and they had all their friends
over to listen as well.  It was really a thrilling thing to watch.
I finally found a way to make copies and give them to them and I
suppose they still play them and think it's their uncle.

I've lost track of them over the years.  I hope they still remember.
I also hope they've still never heard of Brace Beamer.

Barry

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:18:58 -0600 (MDT)
From: dogfish@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Redmond Nostalgia Company
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

A few issues back, someone mentioned that they were having difficulty 
getting their order from Redmond Nostalgia Company. I don't recall seeing 
any follow-up to that article. Does anyone know if Redmond Nostalgia 
Company is still in business?

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:00:12 +0000
From: "C. HENDRIX" <chendrix@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Reed Family & Green Hornet sequel to EXPOSED
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Reed Family Tree- a company called Radio Spirits has a tape called
"Journey Into Adventure" which gave the origin of the Lone Ranger,
Silver and his finding Dan Reed. There were only two people that he
revealed his true identity to: Grandma Frisby on this tape and Butch
Cavendish who was also the only man the Ranger ever killed. These 
stories are on a tape "The Return of Butch Cavendish". In neither is 
his name John, spoken of.

Radio Yesteryear, Box C, Sandy Hook, CT  06482
 PH: 800-243-0987    FAX: 203-797-0819
has a service they call a Research Report. For $2 they will run a list
of all the shows they have on a given program with show titles, dates
aired and a short plot description. I have the Green Hornet and several
other shows (and was delayed getting this on in reply to your June 3rd
query). I cannot find them right now, but you can contact the above for
the information.

Dan Hendrix

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:13:00 +0000
From: "C. HENDRIX" <chendrix@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: OTR?
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

My father loves OTR (I subscribed to this for him and print out the
digests for him- he loves it! Thanks to all out there!), but has lost
his local broadcast for it. We live in N. California right under the
Sutter Buttes between Yuba City and Chico. He used to get it out of
Oroville, but the station there changed formmat. Any suggestions where
and when he might try tuning his dial? Thank you.

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 04:00:37 -0400
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Ducks
Message-ID: <960612040036_554554227@[removed]>

In a message dated 96-06-11 08:53:13 EDT, you write:

>Then there's the Mad Magazine parody of the Walt Disney characters in 
>which everyone keeps telling Donald to duck.  
>
>
I hope he didn't let that ruffle his feathers.

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:50:17 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Marcus Antonsson <marc-a@[removed]>
To: Old time radio digest <otr@[removed]>
cc: jmann@[removed]
Subject: Re: Radio Showcase
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Jack Mann asked about the E-mail address to Steve Kelez, the owner of
Radio Showcase in Santa Rosa (not Santa Cruz). Steve can be reached at:
stevek1425@[removed], and his catalogue can be downloaded from the otr web
site: [removed] There's also a toll free phone/fax number:
1-800 500 8086. I've bought many tapes from him and I'm very pleased with
them.

Marc Antonsson

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 15:14:04 -0400
From: GOpp@[removed]
To: Rick_Botti@[removed], jhenley@[removed]
cc: otr@[removed]
Subject: Remember WENN Fantasyland?
Message-ID: <960612151403_554832943@[removed]>

I just can't help but interject my two cents about the "fantasyland" 
aspects of "Remember WENN," which is my favorite show on TV right now.   
Radio stations in the 1930s were far crazier places than most folks might 
imagine.  Here's just one example, from my late father's memoirs, of the 
kind of wild characters that populated radio station KFRC (San Francisco) 
in 1934 (Dad wrote radio comedy  for Fred Astaire, Jack Benny, Edgar 
Bergen, Al Jolson, Rudy Vallee, John Barrymore, Fanny Brice, and Lucille 
Ball, among others):

"Arnold MacGuire was a writer, actor, newscaster--he could do anything 
that needed to be done around the studio, as well as a lot of things that 
were better left undone.  Drunk or sober, his greatest kick was making 
faces or holding up signs to actors while they were on the air, 
attempting to break them up.  When Mac walked in the door of a studio 
that was on the air, all the actors turned away from him with the 
precision of a marine drill team.  When he was sober, he had a deadly 
ability to make actors laugh when they shouldn't.  When he was loaded, 
his attacks were much more brutal and primitive, but just as effective.

"He always seemed to be working on Christmas Day. He might walk in one 
studio door and out the other while a newscast was going on, singing 
Christmas carols at the top of his voice, leaving whoever was on mike at 
the time to explain or to try to ignore it.  The ones who were able to 
explain it, and perhaps make a joke in the process, got off easy.  They 
were people who could roll with the situation.  The ignorers didn't 
really ignore it.  They just didn't say anything about it out loud.  But 
Arnold MacGuire well knew the inner turmoil they were going through.  A 
couple of minutes after one of Arnold's stunts, their tongues would 
invariably cease to take orders from their brains, while Arnold, 
listening delightedly in another room, would rock with glee at their 
verbal goofs.

"On more than one occasion, Arnold walked through the studio during the 
course of a broadcast wearing nothing but a hat.  Some of the world's 
most misplaced guffaws came in the middle of religious programs visited 
by Arnold MacGuire in the buff on Christmas Day.

"Mac was also responsible for one of radio's most unintelligible moments. 
 It wasn't Christmas, but New Year's Day.  He was set to read the morning 
news, but he had been out making the evening's news, and he had come 
directly to the studio without a moment's rest or recuperation.  He was 
many sheets to the wind, but assumed an air of ultrasophistication and 
exaggerated control in an attempt to hide his intoxicated condition.  He 
sat in the studio and read the copy he was going to deliver, dutifully 
looking up the hard-to-pronounce foreign names and places in the 
newscasters' reference books.  Suddenly, with only forty-five seconds to 
go until airtime, he became violently ill.  He had no choice but to dash 
for the men's room, hoping he could empty his stomach and get back to the 
mike in time.

"Off he ran to the privy, where he fell to his knees on the tile floor 
and delivered his goods in record time.  He sped back to the studio, 
coming to a brake-screeching, cartoon-type halt at the microphone, with 
just enough time to compose himself, pick up his script with exaggerated 
aplomb, and look over at the engineer, who raised his hand, finger 
extended, and lowered it to point at Mac.

"Those who had the privilege of hearing the beginning of that newscast 
will never know what words Mac's brain instructed his mouth to 
articulate.  What came out is difficult to describe.  It was definitely 
human, yet it had a strange, moist, muffled quality, as though the words, 
if words they were, were riding in a bubble making its way to the top of 
a container of bottled water.

"What had happened was that along with his undigested stomach contents, 
Mac had unknowingly deposited his full set of dentures into the toilet 
bowl.  The harder he tried to articulate meticulously, the more slobbery 
the sound came out.  It sounded like a man whose lips have suddenly 
turned into noodles.  The engineer grabbed the first person he saw, who 
happened to be Harry, the janitor, and had him read the rest of the news. 
Phrasing and pronunciation suffered a bit, but at least one could 
recognize the words."

-from "Laughs, Luck . . . and Lucy," by Jess Oppenheimer, with Gregg 
Oppenheimer
published by Syracuse University Press
scheduled publication date: October, 1996

My father's memoirs paint a vivid picture of radio in its early, 
relatively unorganized days (as well as its "more mature" period later 
on).  Using the book as a  frame of reference by which to judge "Remember 
WENN", I would have to say that although the show takes some dramatic 
license, it is really not that much of a stretch.   (And I would never 
equate "I Love Lucy" with "Radioland Murders", but of course I'm biased 
on that particular subject).

One thing I'm sure we can all agree on, though -- "Remember WENN" is a 
real treat for all of us old time radio buffs.

- Gregg Oppenheimer

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 22:19:47 -0600
From: "Chester L. Cox" <CHCox@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Whitehouse Sawyer
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Max asks whatever happened to David Whitehouse, who played Russell
of Vic & Sade.  I just listened to a nice li'l adaptation of Tom Sawyer by
something called NBC Literary Books or something like [removed] by a
young Hugh Downs.  David appears to have played Tom, and he was
quite serviceable.  No date on this.	

*jeep!
~~~~~Chet
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Man is that he might have joy," so pull a practical joke on a co-worker
today.  (Lorenzo Snow & Chet-EL)
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:56:36 -0400
From: "Robert E. Yellen" <ryellen@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Gildersleeve' actor Waterman dead at 80
Message-ID: <1bf03cf0@[removed]>

I don't remember seeing this before. From the San Matero County Times June 7-14


'Gildersleeve' actor Waterman dead at 80



He is best known as the deep voice of the bombastic politician in the
1950s radio show ``The Great Gildersleeve.''

As Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Willard Waterman gave listeners a window into
the life of an uncle and his orphaned niece and nephew living in the fictional
town of Summerfield.

``He entertained an awful lot of people, besides being a very nice guy,'' said
Waterman's wife, Mary Anna.

Waterman, a Burlingame resident since 1979, died early Thursday morning in his
home after a long illness. He was 80.

At 6 feet 4 inches tall, Waterman had a deep, resonant voice much like
Gildersleeve's creator, Harold Peary. That voice made Waterman the perfect
choice to take over as the boastful commissioner when Peary, a good friend,
decided to call it quits in 1950.

When ``The Great Gildersleeve'' moved to television in 1955, Waterman went with
it. The 30-minute show ran on television in 1955-56.

Waterman began his career in Chicago in 1934 after graduating from the
University of Wisconsin. In Chicago he performed on radio in soap operas,
children's programs and evening radio dramas, including ``First Nighter'' and
``Grand Hotel.''

Waterman moved to Hollywood in 1946 with a show he was working on at the time
called ``Those Websters.''

It was in Hollywood that Waterman began to play the role of the Great
Gildersleeve. Following his work on the Gildersleeve, show, Waterman played
roles on such series as ``Dennis the Menace,'' ``The Real McCoys'' and ``Lucy.''

In the early '60s, Waterman co-starred in the national production of ``How to
Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.''He toured around the country with
the production for two years.

He moved on to an even bigger production in 1966, when he played Mr. Babcock in
the Broadway Company of the muscial``Mame'' with Angela Lansbury. Waterman
worked again with Lansbury in 1983 in a revival of the musical.

In the 1970s, television viewers heard Waterman's voice in commercials for Alka
Seltzer, New York Life, Florsheim Shoes, A-1 Sauce and Kellogg's cereal. And in
1982, Bay Area radio listeners heard his voice in commercials for KGO radio and
the San Francisco Symphony.

Residents of Burlingame for the past 15 years, the Watermans moved to the area
to be with their daughter and grandchildren.

Waterman is survived by his wife; two daughters, Lynne Ansara of Burlingame and
Susan of Canoga Park; three granddaughters; and one great grandchild.

Burial will be private and memorial services have not yet been scheduled. The
family asks that contributions be sent to the
Actor's Fund, 1501 Broadway, Suite 518, New York, NY 10036.

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