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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 130
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      His name is Washington?               [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Retro-Hugo Awards and 1938 radio dra  [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 14-21 Dec  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Christmas on the Radio                [ "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:36:50 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  His name is Washington?

    I've been researching the Tom Mix radio show for decades, including the
    supporting casts, which included caucasian Forrest Lewis playing the
    African-American handy-man and cook at the T-M Bar Ranch, who was always
    called "Wash". (Prior to Lewis, another caucasian,Vance McCune, portrayed
    "Wash".)

    As David Siegel and I reveal in our new western book, RADIO RIDES THE RANGE,
    Lewis also portrayed a virtually identical character for comic relief on two
    other Curley Bradley radio shows. Lewis voiced "Fireball" on the series
    "Ranch House JIm" and he was called "Prosperity" in early episodes of "The
    Singing Marshal."

    Now it turns out that "Wash" may have been a nickname for "Washington." In
    the 2008 book "The Classic Era of American Comics" written by Nicky Wright,
    he says that the Tom Mix comic books featured secondary characters including
    "Sheriff Mike Shaw and Washington, Tom Mix's cook."

    I'm not very knowledgable about comic book history. Can any one verify
    Wright's assertion and/or confirm from other sources that "Wash's" full name
    was "Washington"?

    Much obliged,

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
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    Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:36:57 -0500
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Retro-Hugo Awards and 1938 radio dramas
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    Here's something to think about.

    Nominations open next month for the Hugo Awards, to be handed out at the 2014
    World Science Fiction Convention in London next August. In addition,
    Retro-Hugo Awards will go to science fiction and fantasy literature and drama
    from 1938. Here's a link for an overview:

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    Films, plays, and broadcast drama from '38 can be nominated for Best Dramatic
    Presentation. A list of potential nominees is here:

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    And a more detailed discussion is here:

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    Among the radio programs mentioned are The Shadow, Jungle Jim, Jonathan
    Thomas and His Christmas on the Moon, George Edwards' Frankenstein serial,
    several episodes of The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and The Lux Radio
    Theatre's adaptation of Disney's "Snow White."

    Not mentioned are:

    Lights Out - Not many recordings survive from that calendar year, but quite a
    few of the scripts do, including "The Dark," "Oxychloride X," "Spider," and a
    rebroadcast of "Chicken Heart." That was the year Boris Karloff guested for
    several weeks and a rebroadcast of Wyllis Cooper's "Three Men" script was
    apparently scheduled for December.

    The Columbia Workshop - Not much science fiction that year ("The Wedding of
    the Meteors"), but the series did at least ten or so episodes featuring
    supernatural and fantasy themes, including Irwin Shaw's "Bury the Dead,"
    adaptations of Wilde's "The Fisherman and His Soul," Benet's "The Devil and
    Daniel Webster," Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," and a rebroadcast of Charles
    Tazewell's "J. Smith and Wife," among others.

    Great Plays - Versions of Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and Shakespeare's "A
    Midsummer's Night's Dream."

    On a slightly lower artistic plane were horror shows like The Witch's Tale
    and The Hermit's Cave, and fifteen-minute shows like Dick Tracy, Front Page
    Drama (an occasional ghost story), and Blair of the Mounties (usually a
    police show, but its first episode, "Fire Valley," includes some weirdness).

    Variety hours like Rudy Vallee's occasionally used dramatic sketches with
    fantasy content. For Vallee, Karloff appeared in Arch Oboler's "Danse
    Macabre," an abbreviated Lights Out script; Maurice Evans starred in a
    version of Poe's "William Wilson"; Walter Hampden played the hypnotist
    Svengali in "Trilby"; and Milton Geiger wrote weird pieces like "Professor
    Gossamer's Experiment" and "The Twilight Shore."

    What other radio shows might be eligible?

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    Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:37:05 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 14-21 December

     From Those Were The Days

    12/16

    1949   After a decade on radio, Captain Midnight was heard for the final
    time.

    12/17

    1936   Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen kidded around with his pal, Charlie
    McCarthy (who was a bit wooden, we [removed]), for the first time on
    radio. The two debuted on The Rudy Vallee Show on NBC. Soon, Bergen
    became one of radio's hottest properties, and was called Vallee's
    greatest talent discovery.

    12/19

    1932  The British Broadcasting Corporation began transmitting overseas
    with its Empire Service to Australia.

    Joe

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    Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:37:14 -0500
    From: "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Christmas on the Radio

    The Golden Age of Radio was the creation of WTIC personality Dick Bertel and
    radio collector-historian Ed Corcoran, and was first broadcast in April of
    1970. For the next seven years the program featured interviews with radio
    actors, writers, producers,  engineers and musicians from radio's early
    days.

    During the period we refer to as the Golden Age of Radio, Christmas Stories
    tended to be repeated year after year and became a memorable part of that
    era. On WTIC's "Golden Age of Radio," the program from December 1974 devoted
    to Christmas programming includes excerpts from "Grand Central Station,"
    "The Couple Next Door," and Fred Allen's memorable Christmas show about
    Santa's elves going on strike. In addition, there are two shows that
    predated the WTIC program, from 1967 and 1968, that recalled Christmas
    programs on radio.

    Go to <[removed]; to hear these and over 90 one-hour radio
    shows chronicling Radio's Golden Age, plus many other features, along with
    42 one-hour programs celebrating the Big Band Era.

    Bob Scherago
    Webmaster and former WTIC engineer

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