Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #333
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Date: 10/15/2001 9:06 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2001 : Issue 333
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Looking for somebody who can print C  [ "[removed]" <swells@[removed]; ]
      Re: The Carter/Kearns Organ           [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      GRANDCENTRAL STATION GOOF             [ "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
      Join us at FOTR Convention!           [ "Peter Kenney" <pkenney@bostonpete. ]
      MARY SMALL :Little girl with great b  [ StepToons@[removed] ]
      Re: Grand Central Station and the Tw  [ Gerry Wright <gdwright@[removed]; ]
      Manhattan Transfer                    [ Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      Professor Quiz                        [ otrbuff@[removed] ]
      221B Baker Street, London             [ "Phil Watson" <philwats@[removed]; ]
      Like a bad [removed]                 [ "David Phaneuf" <otr_fan@[removed]; ]
      Afflictions                           [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
      New York, A Tapestry                  [ JJLjackson@[removed] ]
      Re: Dreft                             [ "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed] ]
      Re: Louella Parsons on radio          [ "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed] ]
      OTR People with Disabilities          [ "jstokes" <jstokes@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:04:14 -0400
    From: "[removed]" <swells@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Looking for somebody who can print CD-ROMS

    Chad:
        Th e type of printer you mention is a thermal printer. They are very,
    very expensive and that is the reason they are hard to find services for. As
    with ink jet, and laser printers the quality is going to vary, from looing
    like old dot matrix printout to brilliant color. If you try searching for
    "thermail printers" or "CD printers" you may come across a company that
    handles that, but I would assume the cost would be rather high.
    Shawn

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:05:06 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: The Carter/Kearns Organ

    Harlan Zinck noted,

>     True enough - in fact the organ was the *same one* on which Gaylord Carter
>     performed the opening and closing themes for "Amos & Andy" for many years.
>     Kearns bought it in the early 1950's and had it installed in his new home;
>     after his death, it was sold and eventually made its way to a theater where
>     I believe it still is located.

    This organ -- built by Wurlitzer in 1928 -- was originally owned by the
    Warner Brothers studio, and beginning in 1929, it was regularly heard
    over the Warners station KFWB. When Correll and Gosden permanently moved
    to the west coast in 1937 after several years of splitting time between
    Chicago and Palm Springs, they were a bit upset to learn that NBC didn't
    yet have a theatre organ available in Hollywood -- and Gosden insisted
    that it had to be a real *theatre* organ, not some cheesy Hammond
    electric. By Carter's account, it was he who recommended the KFWB organ
    as the best-sounding instrument in Hollywood, and Gosden negotiated an
    arrangement with Warner Brothers allowing it to be used. While Correll
    and Gosden and Bill Hay broadcast from the NBC studios, the theme music
    was patched in from KFWB by line. Carter himself had no direct contact
    with the rest of the broadcast other than a director who signaled him
    when to begin -- and he was alloted exactly sixty seconds to perform the
    opening theme, hence the need for the stopwatch hanging off the board.

    This arrangement lasted for about a year, until the program moved to the
    newly-built NBC Sunset and Vine studios, which were equipped with a
    proper organ of their own, and the entire program could finally be placed
    under one roof. The organ remained at KFWB until Joe Kearns bought it in
    1958, and it was installed in his home.

    Nearly twenty years after Kearns' death, the organ was sold to the
    non-profit Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield Ohio, where it remains to
    this day. Kearns had modified the instrument somewhat during his years of
    ownership, so it isn't precisely the same organ that Carter played in the
    1930s -- but the stopwatch-hook hole, at least, is still there.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:05:26 -0400
    From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  GRANDCENTRAL STATION GOOF

    Thank you Bill Murtaugh, for the reply to my original post about the GSS
    blooper.  Like I said "liberties are sometimes taken for dramatic effect."
    [removed]: six shooters on Westerns firing at least a dozen shots before
    reloading, Tommy guns that never seem to run out of ammo, etc.
    BTW, iI read Bob Mott's excellent book on SFX, so when can we expect one
    from you?

    Owens

    <br><br><br>"Old-Time Radio is like vintage wine. . . it grows better with
    age!"
    "nostalgia is like a grammar lesson:. . . you find the PRESENT TENSE. . .
    but the PAST PERFECT!"

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:12:10 -0400
    From: "Peter Kenney" <pkenney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Join us at FOTR Convention!

    Join us at the 26th Friends of Old-time Radio Convention, October 25 - 28,
    2001 at the Holiday Inn, Newark NJ!  [removed] invites you to drop by
    Convention Room #3 to say howdy to Will Hutchins and me.

    We look forward to seeing you;-)
    Pete Kenney
    pkenney@[removed]

    For more information visit: [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:14:11 -0400
    From: StepToons@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  MARY SMALL :Little girl with great big voice
     :OTR

    Hey, Gang!

    I'm working on a project which involves the subject of MARY SMALL. She was
    the "Little Girl with the Great Big Voice" on Radio.
    She was featured on the Rudee Valle Hour. I'm having difficulty finding some
    good recordings of any of these shows where she was featured.
    If anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

    Thanks!

    Step

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:13:38 -0400
    From: Gerry Wright <gdwright@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Grand Central Station and the Twilight
     Zone

    Andy Ryan posted the following question:

>     All the good info about Grand Central Station lately invoked a memory,

    that Rod >Serling wrote the intro to that otr show.  Just a rumor, or
    true?

    First - "Grand Central Station" first aired October 8, 1937 and ended
    April 2, 1954.

    Second - Rod Serling was born in 1924 (so would only have been 13 at the
    time the show began) and only after serving in WWII did Serling attend
    college as a physical education major, later changing his major to
    English literature and drama and then it wasn't until his senior year in
    1948 that he first won an award for a television script, and from this
    point on he began to write for television and radio.

    So, Rod Serling may have written for "Grand Central Station", but he did
    not write the introduction to the show.

    Source: PBS American Masters series found at:
    <[removed];

    Gerry Wright
    ZoneZebra Productions
    San Francisco

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:18:35 -0400
    From: Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Manhattan Transfer

    Photo of the New Jersey Manhattan Transfer station --
    [removed] -- accompanies article
    mentioning lawyer John Randolph Dos Passos (1844-1917).

    On sign are the small words "Manhattan Transfer" to the right of the
    words "Jersey City." This station supplied John Roderigo Dos Passos
    (1896-1970) with the title of his modernist novel, MANHATTAN TRANSFER
    (1925).

    Hear Manhattan Transfer sing "Another Night in Tunisia":
    [removed]
    050104

    Numerous articles and liner notes about the vocal group state Tim Hauser
    borrowed the group's name from Dos Passos' novel:
    [removed]
     .Bhob @ FUSEBOX @ [removed]
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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:19:21 -0400
    From: otrbuff@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Professor Quiz

    Not sure where digest poster Joe Mackey gets his substantiation.  He
    tells us in volume 332 that Professor Quiz, "the first national quiz
    show" (which is correct), premiered in October 1936.  I'll have to
    disagree; a host of reputable authorities cite Saturday, May 9, 1936 over
    CBS as the launch date and chain for this first-of-many series, radio's
    initial true brain-teaser.  And the second show in that long line of
    followers was Uncle Jim's Question Bee, which debuted Saturday, Sept. 26,
    1936 over NBC Blue.  Thus, two such shows were already on the air before
    any October date.  One of the more interesting developments is that G.
    Washington coffee was in the enviable spot of sponsoring both series.
    Coincidence?  I think not.

    Something else:  While law school graduate and ex-circus magician Carl
    Earl would earn a reputation on Professor Quiz as "the King Midas of
    radio" during a lengthy reign as quizmaster (1936-41 and again 1946-48),
    a man whose name will surprise most readers was the "host" of the program
    in its formative days, a man whom most of us would never associate with
    quiz shows in their purest sense--Arthur Godfrey, who would become a
    foremost player in the larger genre of personality-driven features and in
    radio itself.

    This and other little known anecdotes turn up in "The Great Radio
    Audience Participation Shows" which McFarland (800-253-2187) just
    released.  It's an attempt to fill a void that has existed for too many
    years.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:20:18 -0400
    From: "Phil Watson" <philwats@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  221B Baker Street, London

    Will Nicoll advises that "....if you send a letter to 221B Baker Street you
    would get a [removed], there is no 221b Baker Street."

    The address that would contain 221B Baker Street is the Head Office of The
    Abbey National Building Society, one of our bigger mortgage/loan companies.
    The Biography (TV) Channel run a "biography" of Sherlock Holmes regularly
    here in the UK, made in 1995, and there is a short section showing the
    people that reply to the 100 letters a week Mr. Holmes receives. When you
    think of it, its good that a commercial company makes resources available
    for such a purpose. I believe they say that Mr. Holmes has retired/is away
    on a case/is on holiday, depending on the letter received.

    A few doors away at 230 is the SH Memorabilia Company, with an interesting
    website [removed].

    Regards
    Phil

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:21:38 -0400
    From: "David Phaneuf" <otr_fan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Like a bad [removed]

    Hey, OTR friends!

    After a long absence due to personal reasons, it's good to be back and
    enjoying the many posts of those I've come to respect in this wonderful
    field of OTR.  "What?" you say, "I didn't know he was gone!"  "What?" you
    say, "Who in the world is Dave Phaneuf?" Well, I'm back anyway.  I've
    already voraciously gobbled up the first two issues since my return, and
    looking forward to many more.  I've lost touch with some of you, and it
    will be good to renew contact once again.

    Glad to be home again,
    Dave Phaneuf

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:21:55 -0400
    From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Afflictions

    Anthony Tollin remarks about what medical experts say:

    (Medical experts also note that syphilis can also cause such a
    rapid hearing loss.)

    Do they also say that a propensity for Old Time Radio is caused
    by a herpes virus?

    Geez.

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

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:22:29 -0400
    From: JJLjackson@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  New York, A Tapestry

    I just listened to Orson Welles performing Norman Corwin's play  New York,
    a Tapestry for Radio,   broadcast July 24, 1945.
    It is part of the set  Smithsonian Legendary Performers: The Best of Old
    Time Radio starring Orson Welles.

    Interesting listening, particularly in light of recent current events.

    Joy Jackson
    Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:23:08 -0400
    From: "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:  Dreft

       Dreft detergent is being discussed on the Digest.

       For some historical info on Dreft, including a connection with old-time
    radio, go to:
       [removed]

         -- Phil Chavin

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    Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:23:35 -0400
    From: "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:  Louella Parsons on radio

       There've been several postings on the Digest lately re Louella Parsons,
    including several telling of her appearing as a guest on one radio show or
    another.
       But I haven't spotted any postings mentioning that in the 1930s-40s-50s
    Louella had her own radio show and was hostess on a couple others, Hollywood
    Hotel and Hollywood Premiere.  (Sources: Dunning's and Hickerson's  OTR
    books, with Jay Hickerson writing that recordings of at least 25 different
    broadcasts of Louella's are in circulation.)
      -- Phil C.

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    Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:25:31 -0400
    From: "jstokes" <jstokes@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR People with Disabilities

    Thanks to all who e-mailed me about Rush Limbaugh's hearing problems.   In
    the process, I made two new friends who also are from Minneapolis, my
    current home town.

    That brings me to OTR people with disabilities.   I can think of several.
    Other people have more.   I don't think it has been mentioned, as of late
    anyway, that sportscaster Bill Stern had one leg.   Newsman Floyd Gibbons
    had one eye.   Frank Sinatra, who had a radio detective series for a while,
    and who was rumored to be a singer and a movie actor as well, had one good
    ear.

    Can anyone confirm or deny that famed west coast old time DJ Bobby Dale was
    dyslexic?   He passed away in January, 2001.   He worked at KFGO, Fargo,
    North Dakota, when Jim Stokes was but a lad in high school in Britton, South
    Dakota.

    Jim Stokes,
    an old ex-DJ, who is incurably romantic and thinks he is a movie director,
    actor, and has the audacity to write a musical.  :)

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