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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 108
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Kudos, Steve (& all The Little Lewis [ Wich2@[removed] ]
4-5 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
The Green Ranger [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
releasing a couple uncirc. shows of [ Chargous@[removed] ]
Bob Clark and "A Christmas Story" [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
Murrow Broadcast Time? [ chris chandler <chrischandler84@yah ]
Come visit the Canadian OTR Chat Roo [ "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:53:50 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Kudos, Steve (& all The Little Lewises!)
(Sorry - couldn't resist a riff on another recent thread.)
From: stevenl751@[removed]
Gotham Radio Players recreated an episode of THE ETERNAL LIGHT ... A brief
excerpt of this performance was included in a documentary ... (that) just won
a 2007 Emmy Award for "Best Religious Programming"
Couldn't happen to a nicer buncha [removed] and singularly apropos, this week!
Good Pasach & Happy Easter, all!
-Craig
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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 23:30:02 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-5 births/deaths
April 5th births
04-05-1898 - Everett Crosby - Roslyn, WA - d. 7-13-1966
brother and manager of Bing Crosby
04-05-1900 - Spencer Tracy - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-10-1967
actor: "Good News of 1938"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-05-1901 - Melvyn Douglas - Macon, GA - d. 8-4-1981
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-05-1905 - William Andrews - Oakland, CA - d. 5-2-1985
announcer: "One Man's Family"
04-05-1908 - Bette Davis - Lowell, MA - d. 10-6-1989
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Prudential Family Hour of
Stars"
04-05-1910 - Jim Alderman - d. 12-5-1992
newscaster: Dallas, Texas
04-05-1911 - Gordon Jones - Alden, IA - d. 6-20-1963
actor: Pete Thompson "Meet Mr. McNutley"
04-05-1911 - Martin Denny - NYC - d. 3-2-2005
orchestra leader: Live radio show for Alaskan Air Force Command Radio
04-05-1912 - John Le Mesurier - Bedford, England - d. 11-15-1983
actor: Sergeant Arthur Wilson "Dad's Army"
04-05-1916 - Gregory Peck - Lo Jolla, CA - d. 6-12-2003
actor: "Doctor Fights"; "Sealtest Variety Hour"
04-05-1917 - Robert Bloch - Chicago, IL - d. 9-23-1994
writer: "Stay Tuned for Terror"
04-05-1919 - Ted Liss - d. 3-3-1992
actor: "Destination Freedom"
04-05-1922 - Gale Storm - McDade, TX
actor: Margie Albright "My Little Margie"
04-05-1924 - Lee Stevens - Baltimore, MD
announcer: "Big Sister"
04-05-1926 - Stan Levy - d. 4-19-2005
jazz drummer: "Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra"
04-05-1929 - Nigel Hawthorne - Coventry, England - d. 12-26-2001
actor: Acted for his college radio station at the University of Cape
Town
April 5th deaths
01-01-1917 - Shelby Storck - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-5-1969
actor: Speed Robertson "The Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
01-16-1917 - Brainerd Duffield - Boston, MA - d. 4-5-1979
writer: "The Ford Theatre"
01-26-1880 - Douglas MacArthur - Little Rock, AR - d. 4-5-1964
general: "Special Broadcast from Tokyo"
02-09-1901 - Brian Donlevy - Armagh, Ireland - d. 4-5-1972
actor: Steve Mitchell "Dangerous Assignment"
02-17-1941 - Gene Pitney - Hartford, CT - d. 4-5-2006
singer: "Voices of Vista"
06-01-1898 - Molly Picon - NYC - d. 4-5-1992
actor: "I Give You My Life"; "Molly Picon's Parade"
07-14-1909 - Isabel Jewell - Shoshone, WY - d. 4-5-1972
actor: "Dr. Kildare"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"
07-29-1910 - Joseph Curtin - Cambridge, MA - d. 4-5-1979
actor: Nick Charles "Advs. of the Thin Man"; John Perry "John's Other
Wife"
08-12-1914 - Guy Sorel - d. 4-5-1994
actor: Larry Noble "Backstage Wife"
08-24-1884 - Earl Der Biggers - Warren, OH - d. 4-5-1933
author: Charlie Chan books
09-13-1871 - Alma Kruger - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 4-5-1960
actor: Emily Mayfield "Those We Love"
09-24-1905 - Howard Hughes - Humble, TX - d. 4-5-1976
film producer, bra inventor, billionaire: "Howard Hughes Senate
Hearings"
09-27-1898 - Vincent Youmans - NYC - d. 4-5-1946
composer: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
10-04-1910 - Stanley Farrar - d. 4-5-1974
actor: (Brother of Danny Thomas) Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"
10-31-1887 - Chiange Kai-Shek - Hsikow, Chekiang, China - d. 4-5-1975
world leader: "Free World Theatre"
xx-xx-1892 - Marjorie Mills - Waterville, ME - d. 4-5-1979
columnist: "The Girl from Maine"
Ron Sayles
For Wisconsin radio personalities:
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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:15:32 -0400
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Green Ranger
Raymond B. Druian wrote of the Brace Beemer's speech
patterns as the Lone Ranger: "The way I remember the
radio LR, he used what I considered a very strange
construction, as in "I'll not go into town tonight,"
rather than "I shall not go into town tonight," or "I
won't go into town tonight."
Of those three, "I shall not go into town tonight"
sounds the most stilted. "I won't go into town
tonight" sounds the best, but "I'll not go into town
tonight" is nowhere near as stilted as "I shall
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And, in fact, all three are incorrect, because the
Lone Ranger doesn't go into town. He sends Tonto.
Until Tonto got sick of it (because the bandits always
beat him up), as Bill Cosby once related:
"Tonto?"
"Yes, Kemosabe?"
"You go to town."
"You go to hell, Kemosabe."
"I want you to get the information."
"What is information? Information say Tonto no go to
town. That's what information say."- "The Lone Ranger"
by Bill Cosby, on his comedy album, _I Started Out as
a Child_.
Turning to another member of the Reid family, the Reid
genealogy Martin Grams provided comes from the Now
Comics _Green Hornet_ series of the late 1980s and
early 1990s. Actually, there were two volumes of that
series. The first volume ran 14 issues; the second 40
issues. There were also several ancillary mini series
related to one or more of the Hornets, or Kato, or in
one case, a future Hornet and Kato.
The entire first volume was collected in a hardcover
edition which features an introduction by Van
Williams, who played the Green Hornet on TV.
Inexplicably, however, 11 pages from the second issue
are missing from that hardcover collection. Nothing
all that important happens in them, however. Well,
nothing except revealing _why_ Britt II decided to
pick up the mantle of the Green Hornet.
What's more, the collection is also missing the first
14 pages of issue 3. The missing pages all revolve
around a flashback to 1968 and his first case that
Britt II reminisces about while on what turns out to
be his last case in 1979. But why the publishers cut
those pages out of the collection makes no sense.
As to the series as originally published, I thought it
was very well done. Except for one glaring error which
they kept repeating again and again. The phrase is
"all right." There is no such word as "alright."
At least that even more asinine term, "proactive"
hadn't come into vogue yet. ("We must be proactive,
not reactive," the clueless say. To which I say, "no,
the opposite of "reactive" is "active.")
But I digress. I enjoyed the Now Comics _Green Hornet_
series, and I liked the continuing Uncle/Nephew theme.
And for the record, Alan Reid was killed his first
time out as the Hornet. For the bulk of the run the
"present day" Hornet was his younger brother, Paul, a
concert pianist, who initally wanted nothing to do
with the job. As he tells Britt II shortly after
Alan's death, "I want no part of this family's sick
obsession with vigilante justice."
He changed his mind after an attack on the Reid
homestead.
Paul's original Kato was Mishi Kato, sister to Hayashi
Kato (the Bruce Lee character on the TV series) and
daughter of Ikano Kato (who, in the stories set in the
1930s and 1940s resembled Keye Luke, who portrayed
Kato in the _Green Hornet_ serials). For some reason
the license holders nixed the idea of a female Kato
after a few issues and Mishi was later replaced by
Hayashi behind the wheel of the Black Beauty.
She would return in the vol. 2 of the Now Comics
series as a vigilante called The Crimson Wasp. She
made it her personal mission to go after a criminal
named Johnny Dollar.
No relation.
By the way, in the Now Comics series, Paul Reid's
contact within the law enforcement community was
District Attorney Diana Reid, Brit the Elder's
daughter, and Paul's first cousin once removed. And,
as in the TV series, Britt II's contact was District
Attorney Frank Scanlon.
The original Hornet's secret partner within the law
enforcement community was Police Commissioner Walter
Higgins, according to the Now Comics continuity. Does
anyone know if this was ever established on the radio
show, or did they just invent that? I know there's a
statement in the episode "Road to Ruin" (broadcast
12/30/1948, according to my records) that Lenore Case
knows the Hornet's identity; and, of course, there's
the woman who uncovers his identity in the three
parter in which Britt admits he's the Hornet to his
father (I forget her name); but I don't recall any
episode that states anyone in law enforcement was
working with Britt on the sly.
Rick
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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:16:14 -0400
From: Chargous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: releasing a couple uncirc. shows of The Thin
Man and the Falcon
They're too noisy to be of much trade value, so I'm going to freely release
a couple of uncirc. shows I've had for a while - one each of The Thin Man,
and the earlier version of the Falcon (pre-Les Damon). The Thin Man is
440611 - Mystery Playhouse #02 - The Caprini Necklace - the AFRS disc was
horribly worn and noisy - noise reduction in Waves knocked it down some.
The Falcon is 451113 - AFRS, replacing Suspense #144 - "Murder Knows No
Borderline" - it cleaned up much better. I worked with Waves, which is a
pretty powerful restoration plugin, not quite as powerful as the new
version of CEDAR, but still pretty decent. Even CEDAR wouldn't save the
Thin Man.
I'm releasing them freely in hi-q mp3 form on the usenet group
[removed] Those that are usenet-savvy
can share it with those who don't know how to access usenet.
I figure it's a win-win, people get to hear the shows, and if someone wants
the .wavs, it still has a little bit of trade value. I encourage others
that are sitting on good uncirc. shows to release them to the public (ti's
perfectly acceptable to recoup your investment by having a round robin
initially).
The Thin Man is an extremely poorly preserved series and hardcore fans will
find the new episode welcome. And no, I don't have any more unric.
episodes of the Thin Man.
I'm especially looking for Secret City 12-8-41, or any obscure mystery shows.
Travis
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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:20:07 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Bob Clark and "A Christmas Story"
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As we all know by various discussions on this venue over the years, the
vintage 1930s and 1940s Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes' and "Merrie Melodies"
cartoons are rife with contemporaneous OTR references. Now that one can no
longer readily see them unless one is able to access the digital satellite TV
"Boomerang" channel, it's safe to say--IMHO--that there is one commodity
keeping the glories of OTR alive for newer generations and that's the film "A
Christmas Story."
Among the points this film contains showing off facets of OTR cachet are: 1)
Ralphie's quest for the "Red Ryder" BB-gun; 2) Ralphie's fascination with
decoder rings and the secret message announcer Pierre Andre intones at the end
of the "Little Orphan Annie" programme; 3) the father reading newspaper filler
featuring trivia questions about the Lone Ranger; 4) the fact that the whole
story originated in the mind of the great radio humourist Jean Shepard.
It's good to know that vestiges of OTR are kept alive--if only briefly during
the Christmas season--thanks to the ever-growing popularity of "A Christmas
Story."
Naturally, I'm saddened by the news of the wanton and needless death of its
director Bob Clark and his 22-year old son in an automobile collision in
Pacific Palisades CA in which the other driver has been alleged to have been
driving unlicensed and under the influence of alcohol. This can be further
explored with the following link.
[removed]
As an individual whose life has been severely affected by the deleterious
effects of alcohol abuse, I think I'd better adjourn this missive before I go
off on a rant.
God bless you, Bob Clark.
Derek Tague
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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:06:06 -0400
From: chris chandler <chrischandler84@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Murrow Broadcast Time?
Wondering if anybody might have access to information
or materials that would help me figure out the time of
day for an Ed Murrow broadcast on May 8, 1945.
It's a complete 15-minute [removed] recounts the
war by imagining a slow stroll through the streets of
London. Parts of the broadcast were quoted in the
Sperber biography: "Tonight, trying to realize what
has happened, one's mind takes refuge in the past.
The war that was seems more real than the peace that
has come."
Am estimating late afternoon, possibly 3:15 or 3:30
PM. I've turned up a complete CBS recording of this
broadcast, and some other [removed] the time
out on this one out would make some other puzzle
pieces fall into place, so any help would be
appreciated. :)
Chris
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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:08:56 -0400
From: "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@[removed];
To: "oldtime radio digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Come visit the Canadian OTR Chat Room this
Friday.
I would like to invite you to come by and take part in our OTR Canadian Chat
Room to be held Fridays at 7 pm Eastern time. Write me for more information
or go to: [removed].
Robert Acosta
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