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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 311
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: OTR cancellation                  [ stewwright@[removed] ]
  Johnny                                [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Johny Got His Gun                     [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
  11-2 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  More on Peter Salem                   [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  Mercury Theater - Alive and Well      [ Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@amerit ]
  Re: FOTR CONVENTION DVDs              [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
  Live radio play in New Jersey         [ James Yellen <clifengr3@[removed] ]
  Late Halloween, War of the Worlds in  [ James Yellen <clifengr3@[removed] ]
  Re: march 11 1940                     [ Grams46@[removed] ]
  Definition of radio.                  [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:42:15 -0400
From: stewwright@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: OTR cancellation

Martin Grams Jr. asked,

Digging through research and I came up with a mystery.  On March 11, 1940, I
suspect a bunch of radio programs were pre-empted (not broadcast) as
scheduled due to a special broadcast (major news event?) during the evening
hours but cannot find anything to validate what it was.

Any history buffs know of anything that might have caused some radio shows
to be pre-empted off the networks on March 11, 1940?

On March 11, 1940, the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union ended.
The Finnish Government announced that it would accept the Soviet Union's
peace terms.

The Treaty officially ending the War was signed on March 12, 1940.

Signing off for now,

Stewart Wright

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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:40:21 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Johnny

What a coincidence. On tonight's "Jeopardy," "Johnny Got His Gun" was
one of the questions.

Ron

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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:49:09 -0400
From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Johny Got His Gun

In reference to Johnny Got His Gun ---

When I was researching my book about radio in the WWII era I interviewed an
actor (a regular at FOTR in Newark)who appeared in the broadcast. As I
discuss in the book, he was amazed at Cagney's performance -- Cagney, the
consummate professional, stood by the microphone even after he gave his lines.

Howard Blue
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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:52:30 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-2 births/deaths

November 2nd births

11-02-1886 - Philip Merivale - Rehuta, Manickpur, India - d. 3-12-1946
actor: Reverend Spence "One Foot in Heaven"
11-02-1892 - Alice Brady - NYC - d. 10-28-1939
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
11-02-1896 - Walter Woolf King - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-24-1984
emcee, host, actor: :Beatrice Lillie Show"; "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
11-02-1897 - Dennis King - Coventry, England - d. 5-21-1971
announcer: "When a Girl Marries"
11-02-1899 - Evelyn MacGregor - Pittsfield, MA - d. 7-xx-1967
singer: " American Melody Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
11-02-1899 - Glenn Rowell - Pontiac, MI - d. 10-9-1965
singer, comedian: "Quaker Early Birds"; "Gene and Glenn"
11-02-1901 - James Dunn - NYC - d. 9-1-1967
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-02-1901 - Paul Ford - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-12-1976
actor: "Suspense"; "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
11-02-1906 - Joseph Ruscoll - d. 1-xx-1956
writer: "The Molle Mystery Theatre"; "Murder at Midnight"
11-02-1906 - Peggy Conklin - Dobbs Ferry, NY - d. 3-18-2003
actor: Kitty Archer "McGarry and His Mouse"; Barbara 'Babs' Riley
"Life of Riley"
11-02-1908 - Bunny Berrigan - Hilbert, WI - d. 6-2-1942
bandleader: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Tim and Irene"
11-02-1909 - Fred Lowery - Palestine, TX - d. 12-11-1984
whistler: (The Blind Whistler) "New Fred Lowrey Show"; "Horace Heidt
Show"
11-02-1911 - Johnny Richards - Schenectady, NY - d. 10-7-1968
orchestra leader: "The Jack Carson Show"
11-02-1913 - Burt Lancaster - NYC - d. 10-20-1994
actor: "Ford Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-02-1917 - Janette Davis - Memphis, TN - d. 4-25-2005
singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Avalon Time"; "RedSkelton Show"
11-02-1919 - Warren Stevens - Clark's Summit, PA
actor: "Quiet Please"
11-02-1920 - Ann Rutherford - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
actor: Blondie Bumstead "Blondie"; Connie Menihan "Eddie Bracken Show"
11-02-1920 - Kay Armen - Chicago, IL
singer: "Stop the Music!"; "Pet Milk Show"; "Bob Crosby Show"
11-02-1921 - Shep Menken - NYC - d. 1-2-1999
actor: "Six Shooter"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Four-Star Playhouse"
11-02-1929 - Judith Ames - Portland, OR
actor: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"

November 2nd deaths

01-14-1892 - Hal Roach - Elmira, NY - d. 11-2-1992
film producer, actor: Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-28-1925 - Jean Carson - Charleston, WV - d. 11-2-2005
actor: "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Frontier Gentleman"
03-01-1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos - Athens, Greece - d. 11-2-1960
conductor: "The NBC Symphony Orchestra"
04-08-1906 - Max Afford - Parkside, Australia - d. 11-2-1954
writer: "Murder's Not for Middle Age"
06-14-1906 - Gil Lamb - Minneapolis, MN - d. 11-2-1995
actor: Homer Clinker "The Rudy Vallee Show"
07-26-1856 - George Bernard Shaw - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-2-1950
playwright: "Wisconsin College of the Air"; "George Bernard Shaw Speech"
10-01-1914 - Donald Wollheim - NYC - d. 11-2-1990
science fiction writer: "Dimension X"
12-08-1894 - James Thurber - Columbus, OH - d. 11-2-1961
writer: "This Is My Best"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:53:35 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  More on Peter Salem

"The Affairs of Peter Salem" was broadcast on Mutual from May 1949
through April 1953. Santos Ortega played the title lead in this crime
show and Jack Grimes played "Marty", the sleuth's sidekick. For over
half a century, not a single minute of audio material had been
located for this series and it was believed that none had survived.

As some Digesters will recall, in late 2003, a college professor at
Lyon College, Brooks Blevins, was reviewing boxes of tapes donated to
the college by the family of a local minister who recorded all his
radio sermons in the early 50s.  By accident, one of the sermons
recorded included the first five minutes of a "Peter Salem" episode.
It concerned a mysterious mirror in an antique shop.

Now another discovery in this series: not a whole episode, but at
least the first 15 minutes of another "Peter Salem" program has
surfaced. The discovery is that of Mark Lavonier, a producer/host of
a classic radio show at WRVO-FM in upstate New York. While
researching the career of Mende Brown, who produced "Peter Salem,"
Lavonia was going through the electronic catalog of the 11,000 shows
of the station, plus the hand-written catalog of thousands of other
shows. He came upon a recording which contains the first half of this
30 minute show, dated 12-14-49 entitled "The Affair of the Horrible
Hitch" in which Salem and Marty hitch-hike after their car breaks
down and they are taken to a rural house where they are confronted by
a mysterious death.

The audio quality of this "Peter Salem" portion is very good.
Lavonier has generously made a copy of it available to the son of
Louis Vittes (the writer on this series) as well as the Metro
Washington OTR Club.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 00:38:07 -0400
From: Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mercury Theater - Alive and Well

What a week for OTR recreations in Southeastern Wisconsin.  On Tuesday night,
October 30, my wife and I attended a live recreation of The Mercury Theater's
War of the World, on the 69th anniversary of the original, presented at
Discovery world, in Downtown Milwaukee.  The show was ably performed by 6
very talented local actors (including my eldest son, Tim).  The locale of the
story was changed slightly, with this attack coming to Southeastern
Wisconsin, but otherwise, it was a faithful rendition, complete with all the
otherworldly sound effects.  The performance was simulcast on [removed], WMSE, for
those who could not be there in person.  In about 2 weeks, the show will be
available for listening at the Discovery World website
([removed]).  I highly recommend it.
    On Wednesday, Halloween night, we were in Kenosha at Kemper Hall for a
recreation of The Mercury Theater production of Dracula.  This show was
presented by Nita Hunter and her RG Productions group, and once again, they
did a tremendous job.  Our host was Elvira lookalike Jamie Rauth, who gave us
a little history of Kemper Hall, a reportedly haunted landmark of Kenosha,
and a perfect venue for the show.  Before the main event, local actor Doug
Despin gave a fine one man recreation of the famous Vincent Price performance
of The Telltale Heart.
    Appropriately lighted, and boasting great sound effects performed by
Carrie Messersmith and Dean Larson, who demonstrated some of them before the
show, the performances were excellent, including Jan Michalski as Dracula,
and Philip Jaeger as Van Helsing.  I also have to mention Kermyt's uncle,
George Wertke, who once again did a great job on the organ for the main theme
and background atmosphere.  We had a fun evening.  Nita mentioned that local
radio station WLIP AM 1050, will be rebroadcasting.  When I have more
information on this, I will pass it along, as the show is definitely worth a
listen.

Mark Higgins

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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 01:23:41 -0400
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: FOTR CONVENTION DVDs

I just finished editing all 17 DVDs, so the DVDs from the October
FOTR convention are ready. Those who ordered at the convention should
be receiving them sometime next week. We will be shipping all the
orders out on Monday. This also includes those who have ordered by mail.

If you were unable to attend the convention, or did attend and are
thinking of reliving some of the convention, you can find an updated
order form on our web site. [removed]

My thanks goes out to Charlie Summers who not only helped me each day
by handling some of the camera work, but also had to get up early
Friday morning to video tape my presentation. For the last few years,
Jay has been putting me in the 8 am or 8:45 am spot on Friday. That's
fine for me since I'm in the room just after 6 am to set up the
camera and other equipment, but I know that Charlie is a night owl
and early mornings are not his usual routine.

Fred
Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:39:00 -0400
From: James Yellen <clifengr3@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Live radio play in New Jersey
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A local theater company is presenting "It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio
Play" this week. Here's the link for those in the greater NYC area.

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Jim Yellen

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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:38:50 -0400
From: James Yellen <clifengr3@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Late Halloween, War of the Worlds info

This is a little late, coming after Halloween, but if you want to read a
nostalgic, humorous story about one young man's experience with Orson's
Welles presentation of War of the Worlds and UFOs,
I invite you to visit my on-line novel of radio nostalgia, "THE WISTFUL RADIO
CHRONICLES, Nostagic Tales of Old Time Radio, Captured for Posterity in an
On-Line Novel of Warmth, Reminiscence and Riotous Pleasure."
 Look for Chapter 4 entitled THE HALLOWEEN HOAXERS MEET ORSON WELLES and feel
free to look around while you're there. Thanks in advance for visiting.

Here's the link

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Jim Yellen

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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 13:02:20 -0400
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: march 11 1940

martin grams writes:

On March 11, 1940, I
suspect a bunch of radio  programs were pre-empted (not broadcast) as
scheduled due to a special  broadcast (major news event?) during the evening
hours but cannot find  anything to validate what it was.

[removed]
this  web page gives some war news for that day.
perhaps the armistice  between finland and the soviet union was the cause of
the special  broadcast.

peace from kathy
support our troops; end the war
john 3:16

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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:16:21 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Definition of radio.

I have been reading, "Don Ameche, The Kenosha Comeback Kid" by Ben
Ohmart. It is an extremely well written and should be of interest to
anyone, but especially to Wisconsinites like myself. In it Ameche
gives his definition of radio, and a better definition you won't find
anywhere.

"Radio is a very distinct medium, one all its own, with more
prerequisites for actors, directors, technicians and the fellow that
foots the bill, than any other related media."

"There can't, for instance, be anything but a perfect 'set' on radio,
for every set is built by the listener in his or her own mind.
There's none of the sweat and strain and staggering cost involved in
building sets on movie and television sound stages. Furthermore,
there can't be anything but very handsome men and very beautiful
women on radio, for the actors, too, are conceived, presumably
without fault, flaw or unfortunate camera angle, in the listeners'
minds. On radio, you can remain forever young. Geographically, you
can be, merely by saying so, in Tibet or on the moon, right here in
New York. Radio is limitless, as limitless as the imagination."

That about says it all.

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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