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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 283
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Show titles                           [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
      The Body Snatchereers                 [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
      Script titles                         [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      10-17 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Hidden Voices on Radio                [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
      "We also [removed]"                    [ "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed] ]
      Body Snatchers                        [ ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen) ]
      Great Gildersleeve                    [ "Jim Murtaugh" <jayeffemm@[removed] ]
      "The Golden Age of Radio" and "A One  [ "Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
      Maisie                                [ "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@ezlinknet ]

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    Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:54:16 -0400
    From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Show titles

    I'm no expert, but I do have photo copies of several different scripts.  In
    looking them over, I find the comedies (Fibber Mc and Gildersleeve) do NOT
    have any show title.  But the mysteries (Let George Do It, Suspense) do have
    a title typed right on page one.

    Ted

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    Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:54:28 -0400
    From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Body Snatchereers

    Mike Kerezman wanted info. on "TheBody Snatchers". It was done on Suspense
    episode #19 on Nov. 24, l942
    My notes says "A well written Tale of Old England (1832) at a time when
    doctors bought human bodies to experiment on" the author was John Dickson
    Carr. A good story.

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    Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:26:17 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Script titles

    On Monday, October 16, 2006, at 04:49 PM, Frank McGurn wrote:

>     The question to script collectors is, did the author or someone write
>     on the
>     script "The Great Gildersleeve"title "Waterworks Break Down" Or another
>     title "Low Water Pressure" or would it just be labeled  episode #97
>     10/24/43 ? I assume that the 16" disk would have the same labels.

    My script collection isn't that large, but I can provide some
    observations on how scripts got, or didn't get, titles, and how these
    names apply to our hobby.

    To be simplistic, some script had titles and some didn't. Depending on
    the series, it could be the decision of the writer, the producer, the
    sponsor, etc. Sometimes the title appears only at the top of the first
    page, near the broadcast date or episode number.  Other times it was
    incorporated into the scripts so the announcer (or the hero-narrator)
    would say the title in the introduction, a la "Sam Spade" and
    "Adventures of the Abotts."

    Jim Shean, who wrote "Bobby Benson," titled every script of his and
    usually had the announcer give the title in the introduction. On the
    other hand, Monty Masters, who wrote "Candy Matson, YU 2-8209," titled
    only his first two scripts and not the remaining 91 shows.

    Just as OTR dealers assign titles to newly discovered shows which have
    none, OTR researchers (like Stewart Wright and Jack French) have
    assigned titles to all of the Candy Matson scripts.

    Looking through the scripts in my archives demonstrates:
    1)  Soap Operas seldom had titles
    2)  Anthologies like "Suspense" and "Escape" usually had titles
    3)  Some series made involved titles part of the plot summary, like
    "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"
    4)  Variety shows seldom had titles
    5)  About half of the juvenile adventure shows had titles, frequently
    stated by the announcer
    6)  The same script might have a different title if it was done again
    on a different series.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:10:10 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-17 births/deaths
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    October 17th births

    10-17-1893 - Spring Byington - Colorado Springs, CO - d. 9-7-1971
    actor: Lily Ruskin "December Bride"
    10-17-1903 - Irene Noblette Ryan - El Paso, TX - d. 4-26-1973
    actor: "Tim & Irene Sky Road Show"; "Royal Crown Revue"
    10-17-1905 - Jean Arthur - NYC - d. 6-19-1991
    actor: "Ford Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-17-1909 - Minnabelle Abbott - Covington, KY - d. 10-9-1981
    actor: Mary Sothern "The Life of Mary Sothern"
    10-17-1912 - Jack Owens - Tulsa, OK - d. 1-xx-1982
    vocalist: Cruising Crooner "The Breakfast Club"; "Tin Pan Alley"
    10-17-1914 - Jerry Siegel - Cleveland , OH - d. 1-21-1996
    co-creator (with Joe Shuster): "Advs. of Superman"
    10-17-1915 - Arthur Miller - NYC - d. 2-10-2005
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "The Doctor Fights"
    10-17-1917 - Marsha Hunt - Chicago, IL
    actor: Blanche Bickerson "Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Document A/777"
    10-17-1918 - Rita Hayworth - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-14-1987
    actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Bob Elson on
    Board the Century"
    10-17-1920 - Montgomery Clift - Omaha, NE - d. 7-23-1966
    actor: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Ford Theatre"
    10-17-1921 - Tom Poston - Columbus, OH
    comedian: "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    10-17-1923 - Barney Kessel - Muskogee, OK - d. 5-6-2004
    jazz guitarist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"; "Just Jazz"
    10-17-1926 - Beverly Garland - Santa Cruz, CA
    actor: Worked in radio early in her career
    10-17-1926 - Julie Adams - Waterloo, IA
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

    October 17th deaths

    02-01-1904 - S. J. Perelman - NYC - d. 10-17-1979
    humorist: "Information, Please"; "Author! Author!"; "Railroad Hour"
    02-13-1919 - "Tennessee" Ernie Ford - Bristol, TN - d. 10-17-1991
    singer: "Tennessee Ernie Ford Show"
    03-03-1902 - Ruby Dandridge - Memphis, TN  - d. 10-17-1987
    actor: Mammy Brown "Gallant Heart"; Geranium "Judy Canova Show"
    03-28-1915 - Jay Livingston - McDonald, PA - d. 10-17-2001
    composer: "Hollywood Calling-George Fisher Interviews"
    04-01-1895 - Alberta Hunter - Memphis, Tn - d. 10-17-1984
    blues singer: "Jazz at the Simthsonian"
    04-10-1902 - Mark Warnow - Monastrischt, Russia - d. 10-17-1949
    conductor: "We, the People"; "Your Hit Parade"
    05-04-1909 - Ed Max - Georgia - d. 10-17-1980
    actor: Mr. Gallagher "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"
    12-11-1911 - Beecher Pete Kirby - Sevierville, TN - d. 10-17-2002
    dobro, guitar, banjo player: (Member Smokey Mountain Boys) "Grand Ole
    Opry"
    xx-xx-1942 - Susan Odin - d. 10-17-1975
    actor: "Elizabeth Sharon Ann Barbour "One Man's Family"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Arthur Hale - d. 10-17-1971
    announcer, newscaster: "Confidentially Yours"; "The Richfield Reporter"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:23:04 -0400
    From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hidden Voices on Radio

    Martin Grams, Jr. mentioned that Ginny Simms was the Auto-Lite
    operator at the end of Suspense.
    That jogged my memory a bit. As follows:
    During the Golden Age of Radio, the networks would hire announcers
    and radio actors whose job was to do similar things, just as Ginny
    Simms did the voice of the special Auto-Lite phone operator. Though I
    do not recall the names of those who were hired for this service,
    there were different announcers/actors who did service such as simply
    saying "This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company." Or, "This is
    the Mutual-Don Lee Network." in between each half hour show.
    The point is --- many of those who were hired by the networks (or
    radio shows) were hired to ONLY do that job. Not act, not play any
    part, just simply to say things like "This is NBC --- " or "For the
    watch of a lifetime, buy Bulova. That's B-U-L-O-V-A. (pause) Time now
    for Life with Luigi."
    That's all they did, that's all they were hired for. Some staff
    announcers would work all day saying "This is The Columbia
    Broadcasting System." and only occasionally get a 10 second
    commercial to air between radio broadcasts.
    It's amazing, AND they were paid well!
    Here's my final point on all this ---
    Now, radio is dead as a dramatic/comedic medium. BUT, there is a
    clause in the present day AFTRA contract that is a left over from the
    old radio days . And it states that anyone who is hired to give a
    network cue must be paid separately, if they are not a part of the tv
    program.
    I know this because a friend of mine, Corrie Burton, was hired to
    substitute for an NBC network announcer. All Corrie had to do was
    say, in between each tv show, on the half hour or hour (depending on
    the length of the show): "This is NBC, The National Broadcasting
    Company." He did this two times a day, for only one week -- and for
    this he got paid $5,000!
    Wow! Times certainly have changed.
    Ken Greenwald

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:23:33 -0400
    From: "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "We also [removed]"

    Thanks to Craig for bringing us the words of one of OTR's best friends, the
    warm, multi-talented Hal Stone.  I have missed his postings in the Digest of
    late, and I am so happy that he is well and will be joining you lucky people
    in Newark.

    I say "you lucky people" because I will not be able to make Newark this
    year.  I will never forget everyone I met there last year.  Hal, sorry you
    have had computer trouble.  Join the club, at least MY club.

    Stuart

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:20:01 -0400
    From: ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen)
    To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
    Subject:  Body Snatchers

>     I am looking to listen Old Time Radio adaptation of the Robert Louis
>     Stevenson story "The Body Snatcher". I know this has been done
>     a number times on Old Time radio including Suspense. I was wondering which
>     version(s) dramatized that were most faithful to the original story by
>     Robert Louis Stevenson.

    If I'm not mistaken, the excellent 1980's CBC series "Nightfall" did an
    adaptation of "The Body Snatchers" - quite a chilling show, very well done as
    I recall.  I haven't read the original story, so I don't know how faithful it
    was, but it sure was GOOD!  [removed] - Aug 29, 1980
    was the broadcast date.

    A nice site for Nightfall info:

    [removed]

    Stephen Jansen

    --
    Old Time Radio never dies - it just changes formats!

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:15:31 -0400
    From: "Jim Murtaugh" <jayeffemm@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Great Gildersleeve

    Hello to all!

    I am a fan of the Great Gildersleeve, and recently I downloaded a show from
    the news groups whose title I didn't recognize.  It was called "The Opera
    Committee" and its length was a little over 13 minutes.  The commercials
    were omitted and the show only had a date of 1954.  At the end of the show,
    Williard Waterman says tune in tomorrow night for the Great Gildersleeve,
    "Opening Night of the Opera".

    My question is this:  "Was Gildersleeve changed to a nightly series?"  I
    checked Jerry's log, but it only lists the show as a half hour, with the run
    ending in the spring of 1954.

    Thanks for any help you can provide.

    Jim Murtaugh

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:16:06 -0400
    From: "Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "The Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night
     Stand with the Big Bands."

    The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with Dick Bertel
    and Ed Corcoran, and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"
    with Arnold Dean can be heard at [removed].

    Each week we feature three complete shows in MP3 format
    for your listening pleasure or for downloading; two "Golden
    Age of Radios" and one "One Night Stand." We present new
    shows every week or so. The current three programs will be
    available on line at least until the morning of October 24, 2006.

    Program 3 - June, 1970 - Jack Bishop

    Jack Bishop was a Network Radio research writer and the
    creator of Mr. District Attorney.

    Mr. District Attorney was first heard on NBC radio on April
    3, 1939. It began as a nightly 15-minute serial broadcast.
    Thomas E. Dewey, New York's famous racket-busting
    district attorney in the late 1930s, was the inspiration for the
    character. Ed Byron, once a radio script writer, was in the
    process of developing his own radio production when District
    Attorney Dewey was making headlines. Byron, motivated by
    Dewey's activities, decided to develop the Mr. District
    Attorney character and to write shows around the headlines.
    The program began with Dwight Weist playing the unnamed
    district attorney who was a vigorous prosecutor of criminals.
    In the opening episode, the [removed] had just been elected after a
    tough campaign against racketeers. His sidekick, Harrington
    (who was never given a first name), and his secretary, Miss
    Miller, always called him "Chief" or "Boss". Throughout the
    network run, the [removed] remained nameless.

    Program 4 - July, 1970 - Peg Lynch and Margaret Hamilton

    Peg Lynch is a radio pioneer - some call her the "Lady Who
    Invented Sitcom." Her warm, fast and funny creation, Ethel &
    Albert -- the everyday life of an average middle-class couple
    living in small-town America -- became one of the country's
    most popular husband-and-wife comedies from the day it was
    first heard in 1938. Starting as a three-minute filler between the
    Women's Hour and the weather, it zoomed from a small radio
    station in Minnesota to ABC in New York, where it was
    expanded to 15 minutes and later to a half hour. From 1963
    to 1965, it reprised its original three-minute format on NBC
    Radio Monitor. It was revived as a syndicated radio feature
    in the mid-70s as The Little Things in Life.

    Margaret Hamilton played Aunt Effie on "Ethel and Albert."
    A kindergarten teacher in her native Cleveland, Ms. Hamilton
    began her acting career there in community theater and with
    the prestigious Cleveland Playhouse. Her most famous film
    assignment was the dual role of Elvira Gulch and the Wicked
    Witch of the West in the imperishable 1939 gem The Wizard
    of Oz -- a role which nearly cost her her life when her green
    copper makeup caught fire during one of her "disappearance"
    scenes.

    "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" With Arnold Dean

    Program 4 - July, 1971 - Bob Eberly

    Popular big band singer Bob Eberly spent much of his career
    with Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra. His younger brother, Ray Eberle,
    sang with Glenn Miller and later led his own band.

    In his early days, Bob, who changed the spelling of his last name
    because the announcer of the Milton Berle radio show kept
    mispronouncing it, gained prominence by winning the ''Allen
    Amateur Hour'' on Fred Allen's radio show. He began his
    professional career singing in clubs around his hometown of
    Hoosick Falls, in upstate New York, where the Dorsey Brothers
    discovered him and later hired him to replaced the departing
    Bob Crosby.

    Eberly started work in the spring of 1935, just before Tommy
    walked out on the orchestra. He stayed with Jimmy for eight
    years and became one of the top male vocalists of his day,
    rivaling Bing Crosby and later Frank Sinatra for that title.

    In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
    the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
    and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
    Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
    Big Bands."

    Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
    Ed Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
    and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
    with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
    from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
    Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970; Ed was
    Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
    of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
    Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

    Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
    era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
    the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
    When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
    of big band music. In 1971, encouraged by the success
    of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
    series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
    with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters,
    etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
    eras of music history.

    Bob Scherago
    Webmaster

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:17:15 -0400
    From: "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Maisie

    Hi Gang;

    I've been out of town for a couple of weeks and just getting caught up
    on all the Digest's. There has been a lot of discussion of
    Ann Southern in her role of Maisie on radio & TV. Turner Classic
    Movies still play these from time to time. This past August 24th they
    featured 24 hours of Ann Southern movies from 6am Thursday till
    6am Friday. A lot of her Maisie movies were featured - Maisie from
    1939 -  Congo Maisie from 1940 - Maisie Gets Her Man from 1942
    - Maisie Was A Lady from 1941 - Maisie Goes To Reno from 1944.
    In August the past few years TCM have what they call Summer Under
    The Stars in which movie stars are featured each day of the month for
    24 hours.

    In November these OTR related features will be showing.
    Saturday Nov. 4 - 10am  -  SUPERMAN chapters 6 - 10 from 1948
    Saturday Nov. 11 - 10am - SUPERMAN chapters 11 -15 from 1948
    Saturday Nov. 18 - 10am - ATOM MAN VS. SUPERMAN - chapters 1-4 (1950)
    Saturday Nov. 25 - 10am -      "
         "                    -   "        5-8   (1950)
    Monday Nov. 6 - 5am - HEAVENLY DAYS (1944) Fibber McGee & Molly movie
    Monday Nov. 6 - 6:15am - SO THIS IS WASHINGTON (1942) Lum & Abner movie

    On the TCM website you can see what's showing for the next 3 months.

    Don Dean - N8IOJ

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