Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #317
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Date: 10/15/2005 7:57 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 317
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Mr. Kitzel's Mugg                     [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
      Random Follow-Up Thoughts             [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      Horsing around                        [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      HELLLLLLLP                            [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      Boston Blackie curiosity              [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
      The Hitch-hiker                       [ MIC1GH@[removed] ]
      books coming to FOTR                  [ benohmart@[removed] ]
      Another "Good Night, Good Luck" Revi  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      10-15 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Deaths in September                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 16-22 Oct  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Joe Pine's Radio Show                 [ "Ronnie Wise" <rwise@[removed]; ]
      Thanx to Jim & Jack                   [ "bobb lynes" <iairotr@[removed]; ]
      Day the Earth Stood Still             [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]

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    Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:52:56 -0400
    From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mr. Kitzel's Mugg

    Joe Mackey talking about what Mr. Kitzel really looked
    like.

    Here's Arty Auerbach during his Mr. Kitzel heyday.

    [removed]

    Whether he's short, thin, a bit on the mousey side is
    up, as usual, to the beholder.

    Apologies if this post is a duplicate.

    Conrad Binyon

    ---
    conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
    Encino, CA
    Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms

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    Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:53:16 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Random Follow-Up Thoughts
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    CLOONEY FILM
    As a follow-up to my original review for "Good Night, And Good Luck," I'm
    happy to report that this is truly an intelligent narrative. George Clooney
    does not "dumb it down" in the least. If you have a working knowledge of the
    era being played out, you're really going to enjoy the film. There are passing
    references to persons like Senator Wayne Morse, G. David Schine, and other
    authors and public figures who are largely forgotten today. I guess in order
    to keep the story flowing, Clooney & Co. have chosen not to slow down the
    plot-line with added explanations and qualifications. Another name that's
    thrown around is "O'Brian." The film makes mention of NY TImes TV critic Jack
    Gould when he writes praiseworthy columns about Murrow broadcasts. In the same
    breath, there's mention of Hearst TV critic "O'Brian," who is referenced as a
    pro-McCarthy, anti-Murrow detractor. I can only imagine they mean notorious
    Red-baiter JACK O'Brian, who I remember having his "Voice of Broadway"
    syndicated column in "The (Neawrk, [removed])  Star-Ledger"  and radio show  over
    NYC's WOR-AM in the late 1970s. Problem is, at no time do I remember O'Brian's
    first name, "Jack<" ever being said.  Things like this  are really going to
    throw the non-initiated latter-day moviegoer for a [removed] that's not such
    a bad thing. It's also good to know that Rosemary's nephew had the insight
    and the clout to depict this story in B&W, which, apparently, is an instant
    turn-off to many in the under-40 crowd.

    DUPLICATED CALL LETTERS
    There was much discussion here about several Florida stations going by the
    call-letters WFLA. Here in the NYC area, there are two AM srarions
    broadcasting Christian radio content owned by Salem Communications going by
    the letters WMCA--the original home of the "Good Guys" at 530 AM & its sister
    station alternately called WWDJ at 970 AM [that's where I hear "Advs. in
    Odyssey"]. They have been billing themselves as the "station" with a 48-hour
    broadcast day by taking into account the overall non-duplicated output of
    both stations.

    "PRIVATE EYELASHES"
    In my last post about the upcoming Talking Book version of Jack French's
    "Private Eyelashes," I inadvertently neglected to put in a disclaimer about mu
    name being in Jack's acknowledgments. Although I have no financial stake in
    the sales or promotion of this book,  I feel I should have stated this from
    the [removed] since there is a certain professorial OTR historian
    here on the list who took a young newlywed OTR historian to task for plugging
    a book he was involved in without menyioning said involvement.

    MORE AUTHORS:
    In my on-going litany of OTR authors attending FOTR next week, I have yet
    again forgot to mention two of my favourites: the OTR guru himself, Chuck
    Schaden, author of "Speaking of Radio," and "Mr. Dragnet," , Michael Hayde,
    author of "My Name's Friday."  Mike's also a leading authority on "Superman,"
    & was quite influential in getting  Noel "Lois Lane" Neill to attend this
    year's festivities.

    I truly hope to  see a large contingent of Digest subscribers next week in
    Newark. Hey, Charlie, what's the secret password?  Somebody's already used
    "Ugga-ugga-boo, ugga-boo-boo-ugga!"

    Yours always in the ether,

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:53:42 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Horsing around
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    "Jack Feldman" qualitas@[removed] wrote:

>     We would like to do the A&C horse routine for a particular group. Does

    anyone know where we could get the script?

    I remember this routine  involving plays of the words "mother" & "father"
    being included, at least in part, in the book "The Abbott & Costello Book" by
    one-tine "Tonight Show" writer  Jim Mulholland, which  came out circa
    1975-76.

    When Jack finally obtains a copy, will he say "Hello, Mudder, Hello Fodder"?

    Sorry about that. The Allan Sherman-fan in me couldn't resist. "There! I said
    it and I'm glaaaaaaddd!"

    Ether!

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:53:54 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  HELLLLLLLP

    Legendary broadcaster, Eddie Hubbard, [KAAM] told me he found some of my
    shows archived on a 'broadcast museum' [removed] know about
    [removed]

    [removed]
               Sandy
    [removed]
            [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:58:56 -0400
    From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Boston Blackie curiosity

    Last Monday, I bought a number of radio shows at a
    used bookstore. One of them was "Radio's Missing
    Masters", and in looking at the selection of programs
    in that collection, I notice an episode of _Boston
    Blackie_ from  Nov. 19, 1945. According to the capsule
    summary of the show, Richard Kollmar was unavailable,
    so an unidentifed actor affected Blackie with
    laryngitis to cover Kollmar's absence.

    (Not unlike Brace Beemer's first outing as the Lone
    Ranger (which is the preceding episode on the tape),
    in which he barely spoke- and only in whispers- for
    his first few broadcasts, to make the transistion from
    the late Earle Graser less startling)

    What I find curious about the decision regarding
    Kollmar's absence is that I already own a _Boston
    Blackie_ episode dated April 22, 1947 in which the
    character of Boston Blackie isn't heard _at all_. Even
    in a phone call from Blackie (who's out of town), we
    only hear the other party's (Shorty's) side of the
    conversation. In fact, Shorty (Blackie's sidekick) is
    the "star" of the episode, called "Missing Millicent
    Bromley."

    Interesting that Richard Kollmar's absence in a 1945
    episode resulted in someone else affecting a sick
    Blackie, but his absence in a 1947 episode was
    explained by the fact that Blackie was out of town on
    another case. According to Dunning, the Kollmar era of
    _Boston Blackie_ was transcribed. It's curious that
    Kollmar didn't pre-record some generic comments for
    his side of a telephone conversation to cover for his
    absence. Something like this:

    "Oh, hello, Shorty? How's everything?

    "Really? Sounds like quite an interesting case. Wish I
    could lend you a hand, but this case of mine is
    keeping me pretty busy.

    "Thanks, Shorty. And say 'hi' to Lt. Farraday for me."

    Something like that would have been generic enough to
    have worked in pretty much any situation (except if
    Farraday himself was calling). Since we never heard
    Kollmar's voice, does that mean his absence was very
    sudden (an injury or illness), so there wasn't time to
    record a few lines of phone conversation; or does it
    mean no one thought of doing that?

    Or did the technology not exist to insert pre-recorded
    lines into the episode? I suppose that might be the
    case, if transcription discs can't be edited. If
    that's the case, and Kollmar wasn't there at the
    actual recording, his lines would have been on a
    separate disc. Could the contents of the two discs
    have been recorded onto a third, for distribution; or
    would individual radio station engineers have had to
    manually try to cue up "Blackie's" comments at just
    the right time to match with "Shorty's"? If the
    latter, I can see a _lot_ of potential for error.

    I haven't listened to the 1945 episode yet, but I'm
    assuming the writers made Blackie being in a sick bed
    relavent to the plot. Otherwise, why not just send him
    out of town?

    But then, maybe Blackie with laryngitis didn't go over
    too well, so the next time Kollmar was unavailable,
    they just didn't have Blackie in the episode at all.

    Rick

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    Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:00:25 -0400
    From: MIC1GH@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Hitch-hiker
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    Martin Grams wrote:

>     Actually, Paul, there were three version but what you are describing isn't
>     one recording but two.  Allow me . . .

>     First  broadcast
>     SUSPENSE
>     Episode #11  Broadcast September 2, 1942

    <snip>

>     Second broadcast
>     PHILIP MORRIS PLAYHOUSE
>     Episode #62   Broadcast October 15, 1942

    <snip>

>     Third broadcast
>     THE MERCURY SUMMER THEATER ON THE  AIR
>     A short-run summer series of various dramas, basically a revival of the
>     hour-long 1938-1939 THE MERCURY PLAYHOUSE series.
>     Episode #3   Broadcast June 21, 1946

    Respectfully, Martin, you're incorrect.   The first broadcast was  11/17/41,
    on "The Orson Welles Show".  The second was on "Suspense" 9/2/42,  and it is
    in 'this' broadcast that Welles talks about did the script  for "the first
    time
    last year", which would have been '41, and about how  he's glad to be back in
    the US (RKO Pictures had recalled from Brazil,  where he had spent the
    previous eight months working on the abortive  goodwill film-documentary
    "It's All
    True").  At the end of the "Suspense"  version, Welles gives the anti-Nazi PSA
    for buying war bonds.

    Best,

    Garo Hagopian

    (PS--Love the CBSRMT handbook.  Wonderful  resource!)

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    Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:01:05 -0400
    From: benohmart@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  books coming to FOTR

    A friend of mine suggested I give a list of books from BearManor Media that
    will be
    available at the FOTR convention in Newark next week, so here's what you'll
    be able to
    ruffle through:

    Edgar Kennedy
    Life at the Top (celebrities in NYC hotels)
    Agnes Moorehead
    Fibber & Gildy's Scrapbooks
    The Great Gildersleeve
    Heavenly Days
    Hollywood's Golden Age by Edward Dmytryk
    The Bickersons biography & 2 books of scripts
    Paul Frees biography & The Writings of Paul Frees (with cd)
    Daws Butler biography & Scenes for Actors & Voices by Daws
    Archives of the Airwaves vol. 1 & 2
    Guy Williams
    Alias Smith and Jones
    Sybil Jason
    Russell Arms
    Underdog (written by the creators)
    Private Eyelashes by Jack French
    June Foray's book
    It's That Time Again 1 & 2
    Bob & Ray & Tom
    Let's Pretend by Arthur Anderson
    Information Please by Martin Grams Jr.
    Forgotten Gems from the Twilight Zone vol. 1 (TV scripts)
    Jane Kean
    Walter Tetley
    Tom Schiller (Saturday Night Live writer)

    That's it - for now!

    Ben

    Old radio. Old movies. New books.
    [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:04:34 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Another "Good Night, Good Luck" Review

    This one is from the Detroit Free Press.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:04:56 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-15 births/deaths

    October 15th births

    10-15-1879 - Jane Darwell - Palmyra, MO - d. 8-13-1967
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-15-1879 - Sara Allgood - Dublin, Ireland - d. 9-13-1950
    actress: "Radio Guild"; "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-15-1881 - P. G. Wodehouse - Guildford, Surrey, England - d. 2-14-1975
    author: (Jeeves and Wooster) "Forecast"; "Stagestruck"
    10-15-1893 - Ina Claire - Washington, [removed] - d. 2-22-1985
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-15-1896 - Joe Sanders - Thayer, KS - d. 5-14-1965
    bandleader: (The Ole Left Hander) "Nighthawks Frolic"
    10-15-1898 - Ransom Sherman - Appleton, WI - d. 11-26-1985
    actor: Uncle Dennis "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Hap Hazard "Hap Hazard"
    10-15-1900 - Fritz Feld - Berlin, Germany - d. 11-18-1993
    actor: "NBC Uinversity Theatre"; "Nightbeat"; "Advs. of the Saint"
    10-15-1900 - Mervyn LeRoy - San Francisco,CA - d. 9-13-1987
    film director: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Songs By Sinatra"
    10-15-1903 - William "Wild Bill" Elliott - Pattonsburg, MO - d. 11-26-1965
    actor: Wild Bill Elliott "Wild Bill Elliott"
    10-15-1908 - Robert Trout - Wake Country, NC - d. 11-14-2000
    commentator: "Headlines & Bylines"; "Robert Trout with the News Til Now"
    10-15-1909 - Johnny Messner - New York, NY - d. 1-xx-1986
    bandleader: "Spotlight Bands"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
    10-15-1917 - Jan Miner - Boston, MA - d. 2-15-2004
    actress: Ann Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "Lora Lawton "Lora Lawton"
    10-15-1918 - Robert Lee - Elyria, OH - d. 7-8-1994
    writer: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    10-15-1921 - Allan Drake - Massachusetts - d. 3-8-1986
    actor: "The Ethel Merman Show"
    10-15-1921 - Robert Rockwell - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
    actor: Philip Boynton "Our Miss Brooks"
    10-15-1926 - Jean Peters - Canton, OH - d. 10-13-2000
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"

    October 15th deaths

    03-08-1912 - David Friedkin - d. 10-15-1976
    writer: "Bold Venture"; "Broadway Is My Beat"; "The Front Page"
    05-07-1900 - Ralph Truman - London, England - d. 10-15-1977
    actor: John H Watson "BBC Home Theatre"
    05-21-1923 - Rick Jason - New York City, NY - d. 10-15-2000
    actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
    06-09-1891 - Cole Porter - Peru, IN - d. 10-15-1964
    composer: Theme for "My Friend Irma"
    07-09-1917 - Ted Steele - Hartford, CT - d. 10-15-1985
    bandleader: "Ted Steele's Studio Club"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    09-25-1905 - Carl Hoff - Oxnard, CA - d. 10-15-1965
    bandleader: "Al Pearche and His Gang"; "Your Hit Parade"
    10-09-1916 - Jack Boyle - Illinois - d. 10-15-1965
    actor: Andy Gump "The Gumps"
    10-13-1918 - Cornel Wilde - New York City, NY - d. 10-15-1989
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-11-1899 - Pat O'Brien - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-15-1983
    actor: Dan Carson "Dan Carson"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
    12-18-1919 - Ralph Levy - Phildelphia, PA - d. 10-15-2001
    director: "Burns and Allen"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:05:04 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Deaths in September

    xx-xx-xxxx - Oswald Hoffman - Nebraska - d. 9-8-2005
    preacher: "The Lutheran Hour"
    04-18-1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Vinton, LA - d. 9-10-2005
    singer, guitarist: "Newport Jazz Festival"
    08-21-1923 - Chris Schenkel - Bippus, IN - d. 9-11-2005
    sportscaster: "Campy's Corner"; "11:30 Clubhouse"
    09-15-1915 - Al Casey - Louisville, KY - d. 9-11-2005
    guitarist: "One Night Stand"; "New World A' Coming"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz
    Concert"
    01-18-1920 - Constance Moore - Sioux City, IA - d. 9-16-2005
    singer, actress: Gloria Dean "Hollywood Mystery Time"
    04-13-1923 - Don Adams - New York City, NY - d. 9-25-2005
    comedian: "Kraft Music Hall"; "A Salute to Humble Howard"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:35:47 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 16-22 October

     From Those Were The Days --

    10/16

    1939 - Radio listeners welcomed The Right to Happiness on the NBC Blue
    network. The 15-minute drama turned out to be one of the longest-running
    shows of its kind. It moved over to CBS in 1941, then back to NBC in
    1942. Fourteen years later Right to Happiness returned to CBS where it
    stayed until its last days in 1960. The shows theme song, Song of the
    Soul, and what seemed like a cast of thousands. It just took a lot of
    different actors to play the continuing roles over a 21-year period.

    1945 - Barry Fitzgerald starred as Judge Barnard Fitz in His Honor, the
    Barber, which debuted on NBC.

    10/17

    1919 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed.

    1938 - This was a big day in Tinseltown. NBC moved to the corner of
    Sunset and Vine, the 'Crossroads of the World'. The new Hollywood Radio
    City drew thousands of visitors ready to fill studio-audience seats for
    popular radio programs.

    10/18

    1922 - As the British observed the wild growth of radio in the [removed],
    they realized the potential of broadcasting in their own country, as
    well as the need for its regulation. The British Broadcasting
    Corporation (BBC) was established on this day to monitor the development
    of the radio biz in Great Britain.

    1943 - The first broadcast of Perry Mason was presented on CBS. In the
    15 minute (Monday-Friday) shows, Perry was played by Barlett Robinson,
    Santos Ortega, Donald Briggs and John Larkin.

    10/19

    1937 - "The freedom of the press is a flaming sword. Use it justly, hold
    it high, guard it well." The radio classic, Big Town, made its debut on
    CBS radio. Star reporters at the Illustrated Press, Steve Wilson and
    Lorelei Kilbourne, were played by Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor.
    Tell the Story was the theme song. Sponsors included Ironized Yeast
    tablets and Lifebuoy soap.

    10/20

    1930 - One of the most memorable of all radio shows, The Adventures of
    Sherlock Holmes, was first heard on the NBC Red network. Its first
    entry, The Speckled Band, featured William Gillette in the role of the
    famous detective. Gillette introduced Holmes to New York audiences as
    early as 1899.

    1932 - Journalist Robert Trout joined CBS.

    Joe

    --
    Visit my home page:  [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:46:13 -0400
    From: "Ronnie Wise" <rwise@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Joe Pine's Radio Show
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    Hi! Does anyone in Radioland have any of  the late Joe Pine's radio shows? If
    so, please contact me.
    Ron Wise

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    Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:37:13 -0400
    From: "bobb lynes" <iairotr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Thanx to Jim & Jack

    Many thanx to Jim Cox & Jack French for their recent posts here.
    Jim & Jack (sounds like  a country duo on the Opry).  Jim, for the wonderful
    thoughts and memories of Jimmie Dickens, a true country music giant (pun
    intended) and a living legend in the music we both grew up on and love so
    much.  Nicely wrote. That's why I love your books!
    Jack, for once more setting the record straight (for the youngsters or
    ill-informed) re the "F" word: "Foley".   So many of today's re-creators of
    OTR make the mistake of calling our beloved "Sound Effects"...."Foley" or
    "Foley Effects".   And Barbara Watkins, Stuart Lubin, myself and others keep
    trying to correct them whenever we can.
    Here's to more posts like these on the Digest!
    See ya-all in Newark,

    Bobb

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    Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:54:43 -0400
    From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Day the Earth Stood Still

    I have a tape with a recording of The Day the Earth Stood Still.  The only
    show I can find that produced this show was Lux Presents Hollywood from
    1/4/54.  But I thought Lux was always one hour long.  The tape I have is
    only 30-minutes.  THere is no opening, closing or commercials of any kind on
    my tape.

    Anyone know if some other show did a thirty-minute version?

    Ted

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