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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 42
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  re: gildersleeve question             [ "Michael J. Laurino" <mlaurino@[removed] ]
  2-25 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Cincinnati OTR show                   [ Jonathan Sweet <sweetedit@sbcglobal ]
  My Stories                            [ [removed]@[removed] ]
  Re: Information, Please!              [ Peter Boe <boe5650@[removed]; ]
  KALAK WATER                           [ "Ken Lanza" <klanza@[removed]; ]
  Re: Information please                [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  OTR-related license plates            [ "Fred Hillman" <fshillman@[removed]; ]
  Need info on OTR/New Radio Drama in   [ Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@sbcglob ]
  Information Please sponsors           [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
  Re: Not everyone had a radio during   [ Kristi Phillips <kayen78@[removed]; ]
  Radio ownership rates before the War  [ rand@[removed] ]
  OTR License Plate                     [ david rogers <david_rogers@hotmail. ]

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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:59:02 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The
Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
[removed]
=======================================

SAME TIME, SAME STATION

Abraham Lincoln at 200

COLUMBIA WORKSHOP
"COLUMBIA PRESENTS CORWIN"
Episode 3    03-21-44    "The Lonesome Train"
Dedicated to Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln.
Stars: Raymond Massey, Burl Ives.
Narrator/Composer: Earl Robinson
CBS Sustained
Special 22 part series by Norman Corwin

AMERICAN PORTRAITS
Episode 8    08-28-51    "Keepsake"
NBC Sustained Tuesdays 8:00 - 8:30 Pm
Producer/Director: Dee Engelbach
Music: Milton Keagan
Announcer: Ben Grauer
Writer: George H. Falkner
Summer Replacement for CAVALCADE OF AMERICA and done much in the same
manner as that program.

RECOLLECTIONS AT 30
Episode    34 02-13-57    "Abraham Lincoln"
NBC Sustained Wednesdays 8:30 - 8:50
Host: Ed Herlihy
Announcer: Fred Collins
Special Series Celebrating NBC's 30th year of brodcasting. Exellent
programs chronicling the history of radio through NBC's vast library of
shows dating back to 1926.

AMERICAN ADVENTURE
Episode 10    09-29-55    "Appointment At Fords"
NBC in cooporation with the University of North Carolina
Thursdays 8:30 - 9:00pm
"A Study of Man in the New World"
Director: John Clayton
Writer: John Ehle
==================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

DARK FANTASY
(NBC)    1/2/42    "Resolution 1841"
7th show of the series.

LIGHTS OUT
(CBS)    7/27/43   "Little People"
Original complete version

LASSIE
(NBC)    11/19/49   "Reprieve"
A delightful story!
====================================

THE GLOWING DIAL

Quiet Please - "Beezer's Cellar"
originally aired October 10, 1948 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Lotte Staviski, Warren Stevens, Charles Egelston.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.

Quiet Please - "Shadow Of The Wings"
originally aired April 17, 1949 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.

Quiet Please - "The Oldest Man In The World"
originally aired May 21, 1949 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Don Briggs, Nancy Sheridan.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.

Quiet Please - "And Jeannie Dreams Of Me"
originally aired October 17, 1948 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Murray Forbes, Ruth Last, Arthur Cole.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.

Quiet Please - "Good Ghost"
originally aired October 24, 1948 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Anna Maude Morath, Sarah Fussell, Claudia Morgan (Mrs. Ernest Chappell).
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.
==================================

If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

      Jerry Haendiges

      Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
      The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
      Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net

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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:02:15 -0500
From: "Michael J. Laurino" <mlaurino@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re: gildersleeve question

Michael Leannah asked:

I've been listening to the Great Gildersleeve lately and have heard several
references to Judge Hooker drinking something called "kaylack water" or
"K-lak water"--I'm sure I'm spelling it incorrectly. Does anybody know what
that is? I imagine it was some kind of diet or health drink. No one but the
judge ever seemed interested in it. Thanks.

After trying a few spelling variations, Google led me to this,
from the January, 1916 issue of the Medical Council,
as scanned by Google Books:

Kalak Water
===========
This is an artificial carbonated water rich in calcium and [removed] is
devised to promote the rapid alkalinization of persons suffering from
the various manifestations of acidosis.  We find it a particularly palatable
water.  Most alkaline waters are disagreeable; this one is not.  The makers,
The Kalak Water Co., of [removed], Inc., 19 Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, [removed],
supply to physicians free of charge a reliable set of acid indicators
which give an approximate quantitative estimation of total acidity in the
urine.

(Remember, Mike, Google is your friend!)

[ADMINISTRIVIA: Yeah, so long as you are careful in never accepting Goole's
cookies, using proxies for your searches ([removed] [removed]), and not
having additional accounts there that would allow your searches to be tied to
your name, address, and credit card number. Then Google is your friend.
--cfs3]

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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:02:21 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-25 births/deaths

February 25th births

02-25-1879 - Frank McIntyre - Ann Arbor, MI - d. 6-8-1949
actor: Captain Barney "Maxwell House Showboat"; Captain Henry "Showboat"
02-25-1895 - George Schuyler - Providence, RI - d. 8-31-1977
host: "The Negro World"
02-25-1896 - John Parrish - Lindenhurst, NY - d. 4-18-1988
actor: "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; "Life Can Be Beautiful"
02-25-1896 - Victor Bay - Lodz, Poland - d. 10-12-1988
orchestra leader on the CBS network
02-25-1899 - Wini Shaw - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-2-1982
actor: Air Trailers "Good News of 1935 and In Caliente"
02-25-1901 - Zeppo Marx - NYC  - d. 11-30-1979
comedian: (Marx Brothers) "American Review"
02-25-1904 - Adelle Davis - Lizton, IN - d. 5-31-1974
nutritionist, author: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
02-25-1904 - Marion Claire - Chicago, IL - d. 2-24-1988
singer: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
02-25-1904 - Warren Parker - Alton, IL - d. 7-31-1976
actor: Jesus Christ "The Greatest Story Ever Told"
02-25-1906 - Warren Hymer - NYC - d. 3-25-1948
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
02-25-1908 - George Duning - Richmond, IN - d. 2-27-2000
composer: "Bud's Bandwagon"
02-25-1912 - David Roberts - Jacksonville, FL - d. 12-24-1996
NBC staff announcer
02-25-1912 - Richard Wattis - Wednesbury, England - d. 2-1-1975
actor: "Brothers In Law"
02-25-1912 - Wally Ausley - d. 12-19-1994
play-by-play for the North Carolina State Wolfpack
02-25-1913 - Jim Backus - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-3-1989
comedian: Hubert Updike "Alan Young Show"; Chester Fenwick "Sad Sack"
02-25-1914 - Berkley Mather - Gloucester, North Wales - d. 4-7-1996
author: "Bird's Eye View"
02-25-1914 - John Arlott - Basingstoke, England - d. 12-14-1991
BBC radio cricket commentator
02-25-1915 - Brenda Joyce - Excelsior Springs, MO
actor: "Good News of 1940"; "Stars Over Hollywood"; "AmericanShowcase"
02-25-1917 - Michael Morris - Russia - d. 6-20-2003
writer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"; "Hollywood Story"
02-25-1918 - Bobby Riggs - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-25-1995
overbearing tennis player: "National Guard Show"
02-25-1921 - Andy Pafko - Boyceville, WI
baseball player: "Quiz Kids"
02-25-1921 - John Wainwright - d. 9-xx-1995
writer: "Death in a Sleeping City"
02-25-1921 - Patricia Ryan - London, England - d. 2-15-1949
actor: Amy March "Little Women"; Claudia Naughton "Claudia and David"
02-25-1925 - Lisa Kirk - Charleroi, PA - d. 11-11-1990
vocalist: "The Henry Morgan Show"
02-25-1927 - Dickie Jones - Snyder, TX
actor: Henry Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"
02-25-1928 - Larry Gelbart - Chicago, IL
writer: "Bob Hope Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"; "Jack Parr Show"
02-25-1932 - Faron Young - Shreveport, LA - d. 12-10-1996
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Style [removed]"
02-25-1937 - Bob Schieffer - Austin, TX
news correspondent: "CBS News Twentieth Century Roundup"
02-25-1938 - Diane Baker - Hollywood, CA
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
02-25-1951 - Don Poier - d. 1-21-2005
sports announcer

February 25th deaths

02-20-1914 - John Charles Daly - Johannesburg, South Africa - d.
2-25-1991
newscaster, emcee: "What's My Line"; "CBS Is There"; "Columbia Workshop"
03-13-1919 - William Ormond Mitchell - Weyburn, Canada - d. 2-25-1998
radio dramatist: "Jake and the Kid"
03-17-1884 - Frank Buck - Gainesville, TX - d. 2-25-1950
wild animal hunter: "Bring 'em Back Alive"
03-21-1908 - Vincent Pelletier - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-25-1994
actor: Victor Powell "This is Life"; Robin "Calling All Detectives"
03-26-1911 - Tennessee Williams - Columbus, TN - d. 2-25-1983
author: "Drama Critics Award"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-09-1916 - Julian Dash - Charleston, SC - d. 2-25-1974
saxophonist: "Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra"
04-15-1931 - Florian Zabach - Chicago, IL - d. 2-25-2006
violinist: "Arthur Godfrey and His Talent Scouts"; "Here's to Veterans"
05-15-1917 - Wade Barnes - Alliance, OH - d. 2-25-1999
announcer/pianist: WHBC Canton, Ohio
05-24-1905 - Joe Lindwurm - d. 2-25-1992
musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
06-14-1930 - David Leeson - d. 2-25-1971
writer: "Young Doctor Malone"
07-15-1900 - Ernest Batchelor - d. 2-25-1976
disk jockey: WDAX McRae, Georgia
07-23-1909 - Helen Martin - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-25-2000
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
07-31-1904 - Billy Hillpot - Red Bank, NJ - d. 2-25-1985
singer: Trade "Smith Brothers: Trade and Mark"; "Camel Pleasure Hour"
08-08-1885 - Gene Buck - Detroit, MI - d. 2-25-1957
president of ascap: "World's Fair Concert"
09-08-1908 - John Griggs - Chesterfield, SC - d. 2-25-1967
actor: Capt. Randy Claymore of the Confederacy "Roses and Drums"
09-14-1925 - Bill Christy - Seattle, WA - d. 2-25-1946
actor: Franklin Dexter "Meet Corliss Archer"
09-19-1930 - Derek Nimmo - Liverpool, England - d. 2-25-1999
comic actor: "The Dales"
09-23-1907 - Rudd Weatherwax - Engel, Sierra County, NM - d. 2-25-1985
dog trainer: "Lassie"
10-03-1908 - Johnny Burke - Antioch, CA - d. 2-25-1964
composer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "The Big Show"
11-20-1890 - Otto Tolischus - d. 2-25-1967
correspondent: "Information Please"
12-01-1880 - William Arndt - Mayville, WI - d. 2-25-1957
professor: conducted Bible classes on WFUO St. Louis
12-04-1887 - Louise Ballman - d. 2-25-1970
violinist on experimental staation 5ACW Fort Smith, Arkansas
12-09-1903 - Matty Malneck - Newark, NJ - d. 2-25-1981
bandleader: "Campana Serenade"; "Duffy's Tavern"
12-26-1911 - Hal Bourne - Chicago, IL - d. 2-25-2000
musical director: "A Date with Judy"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:03:38 -0500
From: Jonathan Sweet <sweetedit@[removed];
To: OTR list <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Cincinnati OTR show
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Just trying to find out some more info about the show in April. I know the
dates, but any sort of schedule set yet? I know the organizer of the show has
posted here before, so I was hoping he or someone else would have some more
info.

Thanks!

Jay Sweet
sweetedit@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:04:59 -0500
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  My Stories
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Like Ted Kneebone's grandma, I wonder how many other "grandmas" called the
daily soaps "my stories?"  Jonathan Winters' "Grandma Frikert" was possibly
the best known. Was her first name "Maude" ?
  Tom Heathwood

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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:36:24 -0500
From: Peter Boe <boe5650@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Information, Please!

Lucky Strike cigarettes were, I believe, their first sponsor, and
were for a number of years.

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:08:35 -0500
From: "Ken Lanza" <klanza@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  KALAK WATER
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From: The Medical Council, June 1916
 page 64

Kalak Water.

This is an artificially carbonated water rich in calcium and magnesium. Thus
it is highly alkaline. The base is distilled water, and to it is added a
mixture of the carbonates, bicarbonates, chlorids, and phosphates of sodium,
potassium, calcium and magnesium. It is devised to promote the rapid
alkalinization of persons suffering- from the various manifestations of
acidosis. We- find it a particularly palatable water. Most alkaline waters
are disagreeable; this one is not. The makers, The Kalak Water Co., of N.
Y., Inc.,. 19 Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, N. Y., supply to physicians free of
charge a reliable set of acid indicators which give an approximate
quantitative estimation of total acidity in the urine.

Sincerely yours,
Ken Lanza
klanza@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:08:40 -0500
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Information please

Kenneth Clark asks:
"how many different sponsors did the "Information Please" program have
(and what were they) during the years it was on the air? "

If you invested in Jay Hickerson's outstanding and regularly updated
"Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide to All
Circulating Shows" you could get the answer for this:

According to Jay's guide:

5/17/38-11/8/38 - the program was sustained.
11/15/38-11/5/40 - Sponsored by Canada Dry
11/15/40-2/5/43 - Sponsored by Lucky Strike
2/15/43-2/5/45 Sponsored by Heinz
2/12/45-6/24/46 - Sponsored by Mobil
10/2/46-6/25/47 Sponsored by Parker
9/26/47-4/22/51 Sustained.

Jay's book is worth every penny paid for anyone interested in otr!

Jim Widner

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:09:02 -0500
From: "Fred Hillman" <fshillman@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR-related license plates

I guess Jack French's license plate "OTR" was a bit too abstruse for
those non-OTR people who saw it!

Mine is "LN RNGR 8" (the "8" is added because others were taken).  Most
people haven't found any difficulty decoding it!

After our Governor was removed from office a few weeks ago, some wag
came out with a suggested IL license plate with former Governors Ryan
and Blagojevich's photos on them and proposing the slogan "Where our
governors make our license plates."  Hear, hear!

Hi-Yo Silver,
Fred Hillman

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:09:25 -0500
From: Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Need info on OTR/New Radio Drama in [removed]

Hi gang,

I have an opportunity to plug OTR and new radio drama based in the
[removed] County area, on an online forum. If anyone has a list of
OTR currently being broadcast, I'd appreciate it.

If it's also available on the Internet, fine (include the link if you
know it), but it must be LA/OC based, that's the catch. I know about
some of it, but not necessarily all of it.

As for new stuff, I'm aware of CART, [removed] Theatre Works, and Native
Voices at the Autry; there may be others.

If you've got a new book out on OTR with a solid Hollywood
connection, and it's not published by BearManor Media, please let me
know about that too. (No promises).

I'll publish the link when the piece runs.

thanks and regards,
Jordan R. Young

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:09:36 -0500
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Information Please sponsors
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Mobil Oil was also a sponsor of "Information Please."Do you remember the
rooster crowing at the beginning of the Mobil oil commercial and the announcer
advising you to'"Wake up america!"' It's time to stump the experts!"It's
Information Please!' At the sign of the Flying Red Horse!Or it went something
like that. Then the red horse was galloping through the sky with electronic
sounding hoofbeats and when he touched the ground it became a real sounding
horses [removed] used to listen mainly, to hear the rooster crowing and the red
horse's
gallop.                                                                    Bob
Slate

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:11:13 -0500
From: Kristi Phillips <kayen78@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Not everyone had a radio during WWII

What an interesting article!  I also assumed everyone had radios back during
the war because the peoeple I've spoken to (relatives, visited residents and
talked with them about the Depression and WWII years) had radios.  They'd
tell me about the shows they listened to.  So, I always thought that at least
by the war, most people in America would have a radio.  But this article
would make sense.  For those who didn't have electricy, well, they wouldn't
have one of course.  I guess for those who didn't have a radio got their war
news from the newspaper (if they even got that) or by word of mouth from
neighbors or folks in town.
-Kristi

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:11:44 -0500
From: rand@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio ownership rates before the War

Herb in the Digest wondered about the percentage of Americans owning
radio before/during World War II.

I did a quick Google search and found some interesting figures in a
book called "Fireside Politics" by Douglas B. Craig.

On page 13, he notes that 74% of American homes owned a radio in 1936.
 However, the rates would vary greatly by region and income level.
Those at the poorest income levels had a radio ownership rate of 50%;
parts of the South averaged around 45%.

My mother and father, who were born in 1939 and 29 respectively, grew
up in a poor part of Appalachia and only one family in their area
owned a radio at the time.  The other families would walk to their
house on Saturdays to listen to the Grand Old Opry or visit to listen
to Amos N' Andy.  My parents didn't get a radio in their home until
the mid to late 50s, a few years after they were married and it was an
early 30's Majestic model they bought second-hand. I don't think they
owned a television until around 1958 or 59 and a color set until 1979
or 80.

So, I'd say it really depended on where you lived.  The economics of
the US varied more from region to region before the War and there
were areas that were fairly well off and others that were in extreme
poverty up until more recent times.

Randy

__________
Randy A. Riddle
Mebane, NC

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:12:31 -0500
From: david rogers <david_rogers@[removed];
To: OTR OTR <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR License Plate
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Jack French wrote:

Well, twelve years ago I had an identical plate issued by Virginia and few
who saw it were tickled pink; in fact, the vast majority who commented on it
had no idea of its significance in our hobby.

If it makes you feel better I run a website for my students at:

[removed]

and nobody has ever commented or asked the meaning of the address.  It is DR
because my name is David Rogers and OTR [removed] you know what that
means.

Now just to clarify my students are Korean so I do not expect them to
understand.  But no one has ever asked.  Also of my friends and family around
the world that know about the site (I have used it for other things like
holiday photos etc) no one has ever asked what the name means.

So if you get strange [removed] least you get some responses.

 Love as always, David Rogers

F681DAD532637![removed]

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