Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #149
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Date: 5/13/2005 8:04 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 149
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-12 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      navy pharmacist mate dies: inspired   [ "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed]; ]
      The Name's The Thing                  [ Art Chimes <achimes@[removed]; ]
      Copyright Confusion                   [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
      Bright Star                           [ Joe Schmitt <djjoebgcat@[removed]; ]
      JACK BENNY IN NEW YORK                [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      SPERDVAC meeting and the movies       [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]

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    Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:31:15 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-12 births/deaths

    May 12th births

    05-12-1892 - John Barclay - Blethingly, Surrey, England - d. 11-21-1978
    singer, actor: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Richard Gaylord "The Guiding
    Light"
    05-12-1894 - Leora Thatcher - Logan, UT - d. 3-5-1984
    actress: Mrs. Kramer "Right to Happiness"
    05-12-1901 - Harold "Scrappy" Lambert - New Brunswick, NY - d. 11-30-1987
    singer: Mark "Smith Brothers: Trade and Mark"; "Town Hall Tonight"
    05-12-1901 - Whitey "Duke" Ford - De Soto, MO - d. 6-20-1986
    comedian: (Duke of Paducah) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Plantation Party"
    05-12-1902 - Philip Wylie - Beverly, MA - d. 10-25-1971
    writer: "This Is War"; "Sportsman's Club"; "Tomorrow"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-12-1907 - Kathrine Hepburn - Hartford, CT - d. 6-29-2003
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-12-1907 - Leslie Charteris - Singapore - d. 4-14-1993
    mystery writer: "The Adventures of the Saint"
    05-12-1910 - Gordon Jenkins - Webster Groves, MO - d. 5-1-1984
    conductor, composer: "Everything for the Boys"; "Bob Burns Show"
    05-12-1910 - Jack Jenney - Mason City, IA - d. 12-16-1945
    trombonist: "The Saturday Night Swing Club"
    05-12-1914 - Howard K. Smith - Ferriday, LA - d. 2-15-2002
    newsman: "World News Today"; "News Roundup"; "Howard K. Smith News"
    05-12-1924 - Tony Hancock - Birmingham, England - d. 6-25-1968
    comedian: "Hancock's Half Hour"; "tutor to ventriloquist's dummy Archie
    Andrews "Archie Andrews"
    05-12-1927 - Suzanne Dalbert - Paris, France - d. 12-31-1970
    actress: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"; "Command Performance"

    May 12th deaths

    02-19-1895 - Louie Calhern - NYC - d. 5-12-1956
    actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"
    02-26-1918 - Theodore Sturgeon - Staten Island, NY - d. 5-12-1985
    science fiction writer: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "X Minus One"; "Future Tense"
    05-18-1912 - Perry Como - Canonsburg, PA - d. 5-12-2001
    singer: "Perry Como Program"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    08-22-1897 - Elisabeth Bergner - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-12-1986
    actress: "Radio Hall of Fame"
    10-11-1884 - Albert Stoessel - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-12-1943
    conductor: Oratorio Society of New York, Chautauqua Symphony
    10-19-1911 - George Cates - NYC - d. 5-12-2002
    orchestra leader: "Full Speed Ahead"; "Guest Star"; "Stand By for Music"
    10-19-1932 - Robert Reed - Highland Park, IL - d. 5-12-1992
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    11-18-1888 - Frances Marion - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-12-1973
    screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-24-1918 - Lee Bonnell (Terry Belmont) - Royal Center, IN - d. 5-12-1986
    actor: (Husband of Gale Storm) "Gateway to Hollywood"
    12-13-1910 - Lillian Roth - Boston, MA - d. 5-12-1980
    singer, speaker: "Pleasant Sunday Afternoon"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Raymond Ditmars - d. 5-12-1942
    curator bronx zoo: "Adventures in Reading"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:14:59 -0400
    From: "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  navy pharmacist mate dies: inspired film &
     radio show

    Wheeler Lipes, the Navy pharmacist's mate who performed a successful  an
    emergency  appendectomy using makeshift instruments in a sub 120 feet below
    the Pacific Ocean has died. Snipes used bent spoons for retractors  and
    alcohol from torpedoes for sterilization. He and an assistant wore pajamas
    instead of operating room gowns.

    I'm a bit rushed now, and can't find the title, but I am fairly sure that
    the radio show inspired by Lipes action was a Cavalcade of America
    broadcast.

    Howard Blue

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    Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:47:25 -0400
    From: Art Chimes <achimes@[removed];
    To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Name's The Thing

    Joe Webb asked,

>     Anyone else have the experience of having one's own name
>     as a character on a show you were listening to? (Digest 2005:148)

    Well, not my name, but there's at least one example of a fictional name
    that, I presume, the writers invented out of whole cloth having
    post-broadcast significance. The March 29, 1959, episode of YOURS TRULY,
    JOHNNY DOLLAR was "The Jimmy Carter Matter." I would suspect there were
    others.

    - Art -

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    Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:48:06 -0400
    From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Copyright Confusion

    If Charlie will permit one more observation on OTR copyrights, it is
    not uncommon for certain venues to create the impression they have
    copyright protection over certain audio materials, when in fact they do
    not.

    One example may suffice:

    About ten years ago, I was contacted by the manager of the gift shop at
    Ft. Laramie, a property run by the National Park Service. He had read
    my article on  "Ft. Laramie", a excellent CBS radio series with Raymond
    Burr in the lead and produced by virtually the same crew that did
    "Gunsmoke." The gift shop wanted to obtain audio copies of this series
    and reproduce them for sale in their gift shop.

    With the help of another generous collector in Arizona, Jim Snyder, we
    were able to furnish the Ft. Laramie requesters with every episode of
    this series. I made it clear to the gift shop manager that CBS probably
    still owned the copyrights to the series but they might waive the
    royalties on these sales since it was the National  Park Service and
    the profits would be used to make the fort more attractive to tourists.

    He made a formal request to CBS and got a series of "stall' letters
    from them, but implying they probably would not ultimately grant his
    request. After a few months, the headquarters of the National Park
    Service in Washington, DC sent a couple of legal assistants over to the
    Copyright Office. Within a few days, they discovered that CBS had never
    copyrighted the show, nor had any of the writers or production staff.

    Needless to say, cassettes of "Ft. Laramie" have been sold in that gift
    shop ever since.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL

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    Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:48:34 -0400
    From: Joe Schmitt <djjoebgcat@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bright Star

            Bright Star, a Ziv syndication, aired in '52-'53 and starred Irene
    Dunne and Fred MacMurray as Susan Armstrong and George Harvey, editor and star
    reporter of the Hillsdale Morning Star.
            The writing is first rate and the talent, of course, is splendid.
    What's lacking are credits for other regulars "Sammy" the office boy, and
    "Patience" cook and factotum for Armstrong, as well as guest talent and
    writers.
            Anyone have any knowledge of these players? Thanks.

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    Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:26:26 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  JACK BENNY IN NEW YORK
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    But this  shul was  in Hell's
    Kitchen (lower East side) and Jack generally lived  [removed]

        Laura writes of Jack's NYC life and I must add to  her suggestions of his
    peripatetic nature by mentioning that 'Hell's  Kitchen' and the 'Lower East
    Side' of New York City are two very different and  widely spaced apart areas
    of
    Manhattan.
        He would have been using the subway a lot!
        The former being that area west of Eighth Avenue  roughly between
    Fortieth and Forty-Seventh Streets, now very posh and yuppified  where there
    is not
    only several schuls but a Catholic Church (Forgot the Saint's  name which is a
    crime because he's the patron Saint of actors and that's me)  devoted to 'show
    biz people' and their weird hours.
        The Lower East Side is a horse of another color and  very much unchanged
    in many ways. Like it was the last place in New York where  horses actually
    still delivered things well into the 1940s.
        It lies where it says, on the lower east side of  Manhattan. Some miles
    away from the 'Theater District' by 'Hell's  Kitchen.'
        There is a museum there now on Ludlow Street I  think, that has a
    tenement building that has been allowed to remain as it was  since the days
    of the
    wave of immigrants made it a melting pot for some of  America's finest talents.
        Up until a few years a go I used to go to Sammy's,  a downstairs
    hole-in-the-wall on Chrystie Street, just south of Delancey, east  of The
    Bowery.
        It's not the original location which goes back  to the latter part of the
    Nineteenth Century, but the atmosphere is right  out of the old school.
        Izzie Balin was a waiter there for some time until  he changed his name
    to Irving Berlin and the last time I was there for the  fabulous Rumanian
    Steak, complete with a jar of schmaltz at the table, there was  a wandering
    comedian guy walking around like Henny Youngman, zinging the  customers and
    punctuating it with a few crazy phrases on a weathered old  violin.
        He got me good a few times because I was alone  trying to read a book.

        I invited him to sit with me after his 'act' was  finished.
        "Jack Benny used to come to  Sammy's often. Just to watch my act," he
    said. He was about the right  age and I wanted to believe him.
        There's something magical about the place. When in  New York you have to
    go there.
        Maybe the funniest guys in the world are the guys  who HAD to learn how
    to play the violin or their mother's or father's beat them  and so they got
    funny to keep from getting beat up in the schoolyard too!
        I miss Sammy's.
        Rumanian Steak, Yum.
        [removed]!!!
                    Michael  C. Gwynne

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    Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:56:31 -0400
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  SPERDVAC meeting and the movies

    The Saturday, May 14th SPERDVAC meeting will be held in Community Room 'C'
    on the 3rd level of Westside Too at the Westside Pavilion, located at 10800
    West Pico Blvd. (corner of Westwood & Pico) in West Los Angeles. The meeting
    begins at noon and is free and open to the public.

    The guest will be JIM HARMON, old time radio historian, pioneer old time
    radio host, author and radio producer.

    Directions to Room 'C': Enter the surface lot from Westwood Blvd. You will
    see Barnes & Noble on the corner of Westwood and Pico.  Once you enter the
    lot, you will turn to your right and make another right to enter rooftop
    parking and go up the ramp and onto the roof.  Once you are on the roof look
    for parking that overlooks Westside Too.  There is an elevator on the far
    west end. Take the elevator down one level to the third floor.  Exit the
    elevator and go to your right.  You will see Community Room 'C' just past
    Culture Planet.

    And don't head for home after the meeting. Grab something to eat and drive
    over to the Egyptian Theater and catch a double feature.

    The American Cinematheque, as part of its "Not on Video" program will be
    showing "Buck Benny Rides Again" and [removed] Fields' "Man on the Flying
    Trapeze" on Saturday May 14th starting at 5 pm at the Egyptian Theater in
    Hollywood ([removed]).

    BUCK BENNY RIDES AGAIN, 1940, Paramount (Universal), 82 min. Dir. Mark
    Sandrich. Jack Benny adapts his radio show to the big screen bringing along
    nearly the whole cast, including Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, legendary
    scalawag bandleader Phil Harris, emcee Don Wilson, crooner/straight man
    Dennis Day et. al. In this wry spoof of radio westerns, Benny is coerced
    into heading out west from his comfy NYC digs after boasting about his rough
    'n tumble (and non-existent) Nevada ranch. Joan Blackman (Ellen Drew), a
    feisty singer who's quarreled with Benny, ends up out there, too, and he has
    his work cut out for him as he hilariously tries to impress her with his
    cowboy ways.

    MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE, 1935, Paramount (Universal), 65 min. Dir. Clyde
    Bruckman. [removed] Fields made several truly classic comedies, but Fields fans
    agree that this is the one that is equal to the brilliance and laugh
    quotient of his better known masterpiece, THE BANK DICK. Henpecked husband
    Ambrose Wolfinger (Fields) concocts a scheme to leave work early so he can
    go catch the exploits of his favorite wrestler, Kulabosh Mishabob, but is
    sabotaged at every turn by his oddball family, especially his domineering
    wife (Kathleen Howard) and moocher brother-in-law (Grady Sutton).
    Sidesplitting from beginning to end.

    An Egyptian Theatre Exclusive!

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