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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 213


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 SPERDVAC / Old Scripts
	 [Fwd: Plantagent]
	 Re: Remember WENN Sound Effects Man
	 Re: SPERDVAC
	 Re:Herb Morrison/"Radio" Movies
	 Ducks
	 Reid Family Tree
	 Lone Ranger's Family
	 Picking a Few Nits
	 another source of OTR tapes and books
	 SEATTLE CONVENTION
	 Select-A-Tenna
	 Know any good FTP sites???
	 Radio to the Movies
	 LET'S PRETEND

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 96 01:53 PDT
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: SPERDVAC / Old Scripts
Message-Id: <m0uUr6U-0006NJC@[removed]>

       Please send me and  all information you may have as to where WE can 
>     find transcriptions of OTR. Also I have heard about 
>     SPERDVAC 'Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama'
>     box 7177, Van Nuys, California 91409
>     but was told that they were destroyed in a flood in [removed] Can 
>     anyone confirm this or does anyone belong to SPERDVAC and can tell US 
>     what they charge to join them.
>
The SPERDVAC dues are $25 for the first year and $15 for renewals, which
includes the "Radiogram" newsletter.  They had earthquake damage to the
first 500 reels in their general library, and the Archives Library first
reels are not available.

Address for information and official business:  PO Box 7177, Van Nuys, CA
91409-7177, (310)947-9800.

Membership:  Carrolyn Rawski, PO Box 2236, Chino Valley AZ 86323-2236.

Printed Materials Library:  Tom Brown, 1402 S Kahuna Dr, Spokane WA 99212.
I donated stacks of old scripts to their library after my husband Howard
Culver died.  He was superstitious, and carried home a copy of a script of
each show he did, with the idea that he would then be called back for
another show.  Our garage abounded with scripts, many falling to pieces.

Lois Culver
Grants Pass OR

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 02:29:49 -0700
From: Jack Mann <jmann@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: [Fwd: Plantagent]
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 02:16:28 -0700
From: Jack Mann <jmann@[removed]>
Reply-To: jmann@[removed]
X-Mailer: Mozilla [removed] (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: [removed]
To: otr@airwaves
Subject: Plantagent
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I've re-listened to the "Plantagent Matter" and I'm now inclined
to believe the hotel was named "Plantagent", as Steve said.
The majority of the mail I recieved also leans toward "Plantagent".
Of course, Jim Widner may be correct when he says that they might
be saying "plantagion", Southern for "Plantation". Does anybody
have a copy of John Dawson's script?
Regards, Jack Mann

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 06:47:54 -0400
From: GOpp@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Remember WENN Sound Effects Man
Message-ID: <960615064753_328921019@[removed]>

Regarding the following recent post:

>I do hope that, at the end of the series, we are spared the sight of Mr.
>Foley as an old sound-effects man, working for  Radio c. 1990, cuing up
>tracks of a CD to produce the few sound effects that WENN NewsRadio or WENN
>RockRadio or WENN TalkRadio, etc. requires! 
>
>Jan Bach

I would have thought that before too long such a talented sound effects 
artist as Mr. Foley would  have abandoned radio to be one of those people 
who add sound effects to motion pictures.  What do they call them again?

- Gregg Oppenheimer

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 06:48:19 -0400
From: RLINSURF@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: SPERDVAC
Message-ID: <960615064816_414707578@[removed]>

 << Hi,
        I am a member of an OTR group that put on performances of OTR at 
     nursing homes, churches, schools, etc, WE  are always typing our 
     fingers to the bone transcribing OTR programs. The few places we 
     contacted for transcribed scripts turned out to have very poor 
     selections.
        Please send me and  all information you may have as to where WE can 
     find transcriptions of OTR. Also I have heard about 
     SPERDVAC 'Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama'
     box 7177, Van Nuys, California 91409
     but was told that they were destroyed in a flood in [removed] Can 
     anyone confirm this or does anyone belong to SPERDVAC and can tell US 
     what they charge to join them.>>

To all my OTR friends -- SPERDVAC is alive and well and living in Los
Angeles!!! Neither floods nor earthquakes nor dark of night can stop our
Libraries from lending or our Newsletter from being delivered!

Yes, Don, there is a SPERDVAC!

Actually, SPERDVAC really is up and running, and is probably the major OTR
organization in the world today. It has monthly meetings, mostly consisting
of live talks with the major stars of OTR, the likes of Stan Freeberg, Steve
Allen, June Foray, and many others (this is Hollywood after all). There's the
convention held each November, four days of dining and radio recreations,
performed and directed by many of the original stars, writers, directors,
engineers, and sound effects people. And, of course, the vast lending
library. Thousands of tapes, of wonderful quality, many donated by the
original performers.

And, Don, there are plenty of original scripts!

For information on joining SPERDVAC, write to:

MEMBERSHIP AND RADIOGRAM SUBSCRIPTIONS
Carrolyn Rawski
[removed] Box 2236
Chino Valley, Arizona 86323-2236

or call

(310) 947-9800. 

Dues are $[removed] for the first year and $[removed] for renewals.

Yours,
Jeffrey Ellis

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 09:24:48 -0400
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: HKHinkley@[removed]
Subject: Re:Herb Morrison/"Radio" Movies
Message-ID: <960615092446_556827430@[removed]>

To Andy Blatt: I am under te impression that, at the time of the Hindenburg
disaster, Herb Morrison was on assignment to Lakehurst NJ by WLS, Chicago.
Also, he was RECORDING his discription for later broadcast. This can be
confirmed by his frantic yelling to his engineer: "Get this Charlie! Get this
Charlie!"

Bill Knowlton, "Bluegrass Ramble",WCNY-FM, Syracuse NY

PS: To H K Hinkley: does your San bruno movie dealer have a listing on these
two radio-oriented movies: "Grand Ole Opry" (Republic), 1940; "National Barn
Dance" 9Paramount), 1944. Thanks!

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 01:41:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ducks
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 04:00:37 -0400
> From: JackBenny@[removed]
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: Re: Ducks
> Message-ID: <960612040036_554554227@[removed]>
> 
> >Then there's the Mad Magazine parody of the Walt Disney characters in 
> >which everyone keeps telling Donald to duck.  
> >
> >
> I hope he didn't let that ruffle his feathers.

Actually, it did.  He gets into a tirade at Goofy for being so goofy (or
"Goony" in the parody), whereupon "Goony" says, essentially, "You should
talk, you aren't wearing pants!"  "Oh no, I forgot again!" says Donald.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 01:36:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Reid Family Tree
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:00:12 +0000
> From: "C. HENDRIX" <chendrix@[removed]>
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: Re: Reed Family & Green Hornet sequel to EXPOSED
> Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
> 
> Reed Family Tree- a company called Radio Spirits has a tape called
> "Journey Into Adventure" which gave the origin of the Lone Ranger,
> Silver and his finding Dan Reed. 

That is a re-recording of a series of phonograph records that originally
were out in the 1950s or earlier on 78s or 45s.  I don't know who
originally packaged them together, but it has been around on tape and
vinyl as "Journey to Adventure," sometimes purporting to be the first LR
radio show, which it certainly is not (For one thing, it features Brace
Beamer as the LR.).

======================================================================
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 01:21:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lone Ranger's Family
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 13:36:17 -0700
> From: [removed]@[removed] (Donald Dortmund)
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: re : Lone Ranger's Family
> Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
> 
>      I have the same information that Steve Lewis posted, but I was 
>      wondering where Dan Reid (SR.) is mentioned by name. All the tapes I 
>      have only mention him as Captain Reid. Does anyone have an episode 
>      name ?

He is mentioned by name in a phonograph record of the LR's origin and also
in the comic book story of the LR's origin which was distributed by
General Mills in the 1950s.  I don't know of his being mentioned by name
in any actual radio episode, but I'll check one that I have.  One of these
days I'll also check the TV origin story to see if his name is mentioned
there.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
======================================================================

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 13:42:21 -0400
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Picking a Few Nits
Message-ID: <960615134221_556923641@[removed]>

Pardon me, I certainly don't want to be one of those crabby 'netsurfers who
lurks around newsgroups and listservers, waiting for anybody to make the
tiniest error, and then pounces on the poor unsuspecting individual, ripping
away with fang and claw.

But . . .

Surely, Herb Morrison was not sent to Lakehurst, New Jersey, to cover the
explosion of the Hindenberg. Unless there was a conspiracy and he or his
bosses were in on it. He went to Lakehurst to cover the arrival of the great
zep. He just happened to be there, like Abraham Zapruder in Dealy Plaza, when
the disaster took place.

"Oh, the humanity!"

---------------

As for the Great Depression being discussed, on WENN, in the "past tenths" --
surely you mean the past tense -- that's a debatable point. 

The Depression hit in 1929, inaugurated by the great stock market crash of
October of that year (although it struck farmers several years earlier).
Things got worse and worse, bottoming out around 1933.

At that point, either Roosevelt's New Deal policies began to kick in -- or,
if you prefer the revisionist version, natural economic forces took hold --
and some improvement could be seen.

Largely on the strength of this economic recovery, FDR was overwhelmingly
re-elected in 1936. But in 1937, there was another downturn, sometimes knows
as the Roosevelt (or "Little") Depression. 

But the big war in Europe was looming on the horizon, and US war industry
started revving up. WWII began in Europe 1939 (it had begun in Asia in
1933!); a peacetime draft was instituted in 1940 (for the first time in US
history), and the economy picked up again. December '41, the US was fully in
the war, and things have never returned to "normal" since.

Come to think of it, I don't think anybody even kknows what "normal" would
be, any more. Certainly we've never had any lengthy period of stability.

But to get back to the "past tenths" (actually, I kind of like that!)... one
could reasonably claim that the Great Depression was (sort of) over by 1938
or '39. But the point is open to debate.

-----------------------

By the way, and again please pardon me if I'm raising a point that has
already been dealt with -- I'm a recent arrival on the list -- has anyone
noted that the setting, cast, and story-line of WENN bears a strong
resemblance to a book called WLT?

That book was written by Garrison Keillor (of Prairie Home Companion and Lake
Woebegone fame) and is actually a cycle of short stories that take place in a
radio station in the Midwest, from its founding in the 1920s to its takeover
by a network several decades later.

For some reason, I don't think the book ever quite caught on. Maybe the
probem was its unusual format -- it's almost a novel, but not quite -- but I
absolutely loved it, and I think any OTR fan will do the same.

Dick Lupoff

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 13:40:58 -0700
From: [removed]@[removed] (Donald Dortmund)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: another source of OTR tapes and books
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

     If you don't have the catalog, I would suggest you ask for 
      "Chuck Schaden's Audio Cassette Tape Catalog" from 
     Metro Golden Memories,
      5425 W. Addison St.
     Chicago. Il 60641-3203
     1-800-538-6675
     They feature reasonable prices on many packages,
     
     There are several tapes sets featuring WWII news and entertainment,
     most single tapes are $[removed],
     60 program assortments are $[removed], a dollar a show!
     they even have the WJSV sept 21,1939 set, (that is one entire day that 
     WJSV recorded all its programming) for $[removed]!
     it can get a bit pricey, the 26 volume Sherlock Holmes set are prices 
     at $[removed] each.
     

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Date: 15 Jun 96 14:59:49 EDT
From: "Stephen L. Sala" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: otr <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: SEATTLE CONVENTION
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

re: Seattle OTR  convention, June 28-29


I'm going to the convention put on by the REPS in Bellevue.  Any of the regulars
on this forum also going?

I do not see much conversation on this convention as compared to the New Jersery
or Cincinnati ones.

Steve Sala
Spokane,  Wa  

l

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 15:44:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: ERNST@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Cc: ERNST@[removed]
Subject: Select-A-Tenna
Message-id: <01I5XYMA8D2S8YNCLC@[removed]>

I have a Select-A-Tenna which I no longer use and am looking to sell.  Placed
next to your radio it will improve AM reception of distant stations.  The
instructions are printed on it.  I payed about $55 for it, but I will sell it
for $25 plus shipping.  Contact me at  ernst@[removed]
Thanks,
Gordon Ernst

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 17:51:34, -0500
From: DAVE@[removed] ( DAVID ALLAN   BOUCHER)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Know any good FTP sites???
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Does anyone have any FTP sites that would be of interest to OTR
enthusiasts???

Dave

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 18:47:35 -0700
From: PETER GRECO <pgreco@[removed]>
To: radio digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Radio to the Movies
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi,
 In addition to collecting otr shows,I also collect movies based on 
radio [removed] made some 16 serials based on radio [removed] were
good and some very [removed] would like to comment briefly on a few of them.
THE GREEN HORNET-1940 with Gordon Jones,they used the voice of Al Hodges
very good,it was just like watching a radio [removed] caught the mood and
action of the [removed] HARRIGAN-1945 with William Blakewell,ok I mostly
remember listening to Hop as a kid to take place during ww2-the serial
wasn'[removed] [removed] LONE RANGER-1938 with Lee Powell,very good action
western,but the whole concept of the Lone Ranger was [removed] made
it a mystery of which of the Texas Rangers was the real Lone Ranger.
JACK ARMSTRONG-1947 with John Hart,John was too old for the part I 
always pictured Jack about being 17 years old,but they did keep the 
concept of the radio show [removed] SHADOW-1940 with Victor Jory a fine
actor,but this one should not have been made at [removed] with
Kirk Alyn,kept to the radio version all in all very [removed] of the 
others were Chandu,Chick Carter,Terry and the Pirates,Dick Tracy,Buck
Rogers,[removed],Flash Gordon,Don Winslow,The Sea Hound,Red Ryder
Tarzen and Fu [removed] anyone out there remember any [removed]

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 20:38:12 GMT
From: martyj@[removed] (Martin Jukovsky)
To: [removed]@[removed], otr@[removed]
Subject: LET'S PRETEND
Message-Id: <v0213050aade8cf1398fb@[[removed]]>

At 6:09 AM 6/6/96, Bigkids@[removed] wrote:

>When I was about 5 and my older brother was 8, our dad took us to a radio
>broadcast. Alas, after so many years, my recollections are very limited.
>
>I think this show ran on Sunday morning. There was a lot of music involved,
>some comedy and possibly some dramatic skits. I'd heard the show on the
>radio, of course, and was expecting to see a "real show" with actors,
>singers-and-dancers, etc.
>
>When we got the studio/theater we were seated in a medium-sized theater. The
>place was packed with well-dressed and well-behaved people, mostly parents
>with kids in tow. Of course there was a studio orchestra, and the entire cast
>ranged on the stage.
>
>But the entire show, of course, took place in the form of people with scripts
>reading into microphones. I was very let down by this. I don't know exactly
>where this all took place, but I _think_ it was at Rockefeller Center, which
>would make the studios RCA, yes?
>
>Any guess as to what the show was? The year would have been circa 1940 or
>shortly thereafter.
>
>Dick Lupoff
>

I think that show was LET'S PRETEND.  I remember going with my grade-school
class in Brooklyn, New York, across the river to Manhattan to see this show
performed before a studio audience of mostly kids.  This was around 1947.
It was, I believe, a common practice for pupils of my age around New York
to go with their classes to LET'S PRETEND, and the producers solicited
attendance by children.  When I listened to this imagination-intensive show
every week, I could hear the audience of enthusiastic kids.






Martin Jukovsky
Cambridge, Mass.

martyj@[removed]

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