Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #284
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Date: 10/18/2006 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 284
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      More Lemac                            [ <austhaus1@[removed]; ]
      Cincinnati Radio The Nation's Statio  [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed] ]
      OTR Halloween-related on-line listen  [ Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@sbcgloba ]
      Superman serial                       [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Gildy                                 [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Gildy's Opera episode                 [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
      Happy Halloween, all!                 [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      10-18 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      The Record Covers FOTR and The Mercu  [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      the Gildersleeve strip show           [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:01:17 -0400
    From: <austhaus1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  More Lemac

    With all the recent posts about the Bob Hawk Show I'm surprised that no one
    has mentioned the opening of the show. "Is there A lemac in the house?" This
    was followed by a roar from the audience.
    As a kid I must have listened to the show that was on before the Bob Hawk
    Show because I remember the opening. I didn't understand the program but
    remember that it was a quiz show. I did eventually realize that a lemac was
    camel spelled backward. I thought it was pretty silly, and now I am sure of
    it.

    George Aust

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:01:45 -0400
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cincinnati Radio  The Nation's Station
     (1921-1941)
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    Does anyone know where I can purchase the CD set produced at WVXU called
    Cincinnati Radio - The Nation's Station (1921-1941)?

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:02:02 -0400
    From: Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR Halloween-related on-line listening fun

    Here's a web site that has Halloween-related recordings (including
    Spike Jones and some "Lights Out") available for on-line listening.
    It might be good if you have a high-speed connection rather than
    dial-up. I wasn't able to listen to the "Lights Out", though. I got a
    message from the server that "bandwidth has been exceeded". You might
    have better luck.

    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:03:29 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Superman serial

    Don Dean mentioned the Superman serial being broadcast on TCM.  They are
    broadcasting the serial over their network for publicity and marketing
    reasons.  Warner is releasing both serials together as a special DVD set
    within the next few weeks and airing it on TCM helps promote the serial and
    no doubt TCM will make mention of it's release.

    Small tid bits.  The serial was supposedly destroyed decades ago when the TV
    Superman series became popular.  They falsely advertised the show of
    featuring George Reeves, the first man to portray Superman on the screen
    when in fact, that was false.  Kirk Allen played the man in tights for two
    serials and somehow an attempt was made to destroy the prints to prevent the
    serials from being featured in the theaters while the TV series remained
    popular.

    Sometime during the 1970s, the prints were found and after a few legal
    issues, the matter was resolved and agreed to have them released
    commercially again.  Warner released the films on VHS but altered the film
    on purpose.  The serial was released in box sets with 2 VHS videos per
    serial and they edited the opening serial theme from chapters 2 - 7 and 9 -
    15.

    The VHS videos were the only times the serials were ever commercially and
    since people have transferred the serial to DVD over the past few years from
    this same source, many include the complete music opening for chapters 1 and
    8, and never went back to edit them back into the other chapters.

    The official DVD commercial release coming out shortly will be the COMPLETE
    print, unlike the VHS releases.

    One last note, when TCM airs something that is not owned by them (Turner
    doesn't own the rights to the serial, they are only playing it in
    conjunction with Warners), they don't usually put a TCM logo in the corner
    of their films.  So anyone who has a DVD recorder hooked up directly to
    their satellite or cable network might want to consider taping it for
    themselves to save paying the expensive price the commercial set is going to
    cost (unless one cares about paying for the cardboard packaging).

    Martin

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:45:41 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gildy

    The Great Gildersleeve was indeed heard in quarter-hour serialized
    installments for a brief while, as follows:

    September 27, 1954-June 30, 1955, NBC, Sunday-Thursday, 10:15-10:30 [removed] ET

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:46:22 -0400
    From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gildy's Opera episode

    Jim Murtaugh wants Info on Gildy's Opera  episode. Well the are episodes  #
    187 12/2/45, # 188 12/9/45, & # 189  12/16/45

    Gildy (Harold Peary) becomes a sponsor of the opera and takes tickets. He
    brings his friends to the opera. Gildy becomes head of opera committee

     "GILDY STUCK WITH OPERA TICKETS"         # 187  12-02-45
     "GILDY HEAD OF OPERA COMMITTEE"         # 188  12-09-45
     "A NIGHT AT THE OPERA"                                 # 189  12-16-45

    Above is from  Jerry Haediges Gildersleeve Log.

    Hope this helps

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:46:50 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Happy Halloween, all!

    From: "Stuart Lubin" StuartLubin@[removed]

>     I say "you lucky people"  because I will not be able to make Newark this
>     year.

    Sorry to hear  that, Stuart! ...

>     I will never forget everyone I met there last  year.

    ... Back atcha! It was great, last year, to match a face to  your persona
    from Cyberspace!

    For those who can't make Newark, please  meet me THERE:

    [removed]

    All best,
    -Craig  Wichman

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    Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:46:58 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-18 births/deaths

    October 18th births

    10-18-1892 - Leo G. Carroll - Weedon Northants, England - d. 10-16-1972
    actor: Lux Radio Theatre
    10-18-1902 - Barbara Brown - d. 7-7-1975
    actor: "Land of the Free"
    10-18-1902 - Miriam Hopkins - Bainbridge, GA - d. 10-9-1972
    actor: "Exploring the Unknown"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"; "These Are Our Men"
    10-18-1906 - Adele Ronson - d. 10-31-2000
    actor: Wilma Deering "Buck Rogers"; Sally Gibson "Gibson Family"
    10-18-1908 - Rene Garriguenc - d. 6-22-1998
    composer: "Rogers of the Gazette"; "Advs. of Sam Spade, Detective"
    10-18-1910 - Addy Richton - d. 3-31-1995
    writer: "Valiant Lady"; "Hilltop House"; "This Life is Mine"
    10-18-1910 - Annette Hanshaw - NYC - d. 3-13-1985
    singer: "Show Boat"; "Camel Caravan"
    10-18-1911 - Helen Claire - Union Springs, AL - d. 1-12-1974
    actor: Virginia Lansing "Backstage Wife"; Joyce Jordan "Joyce
    Jordan,[removed]"
    10-18-1912 - Gerta Rozan - Vienna, Austria-Hungary
    actor: Eleta "Terry and the Pirates"
    10-18-1913 - Evelyn Venable - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-15-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars of Tomorrow 1934"
    10-18-1913 - Martin Blaine - Illinois - d. 1-19-1989
    actor: Adam Sheppard "FBI in Peace and War"; Scott 'Tubby' Truman
    "Valiant Lady"
    10-18-1914 - David W. Dole - Minneapolis, MN
    sound effects, animal imitator: "Bob Becker's Chats About Dogs"
    10-18-1914 - Louise Fitch - Iowa - d. 9-11-1996
    actor: Dale Locke "Manhattan Mother"; Carol Evans Martin Brent "Road
    of Life"
    10-18-1918 - Bobby Troup - Harrisburg, PA - d. 2-7-1999
    singer, actor: "Navy Swings"; "Bobby Troup Program"; "Bobby Troup Trio"

    October 18th deaths

    01-13-1925 - Gwen Verdon - Culver City, Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-18-2000
    actor, singer, dancer: "Stagestruck"; "WOR Diamond Jubilee"
    01-19-1927 - Nancy Dickerson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 10-18-1997
    newswoman: "784 Days That Changed America (Watergate Scandal)
    01-29-1902 - Florence Rinard - d. 10-18-1984
    panelist: "Twenty Questions"
    02-02-1909 - Purv Pullen - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-18-1992
    bird and animal imitator: Horatio G. Birdbath "The Spike Jones Show"
    04-14-1898 - Lee Tracy - Atlanta, GA - d. 10-18-1968
    actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Detective"
    05-10-1894 - Frank Knight - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada - d.
    10-18-1973
    actor, announcer: Dr. Billbert "Arabesque"; "Literary Digest"
    07-13-1922 - Lois Kibbee - Rhinelander, WI - d. 10-18-1993
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-22-1910 - David Victor - d. 10-18-1989
    writer: "Joan Davis Time"; "Let George Do It"; "The Mel Blanc Show"
    09-26-1926 - Julie London - Santa Rosa, CA - d. 10-18-2000
    torch singer: "Guest Star"; "Here's to Veterans"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:12:01 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:38:02 -0400
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Record Covers FOTR and The Mercury
      Theater

    A great article on the approaching Friends of Old Time Radio Convention in Newark (October 19-22) ran in Sunday's Bergen Record.

    It features a long interview with Arthur Anderson and Bill Herz, surviving Mercury Players who will be part of the Julius Ceaser Recreation on Saturday night at FOTR as well as a preview of the convention.

    You can read the coverage here: [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:35:13 +0000
    From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  the Gildersleeve strip show
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     > 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.

    What many "logs" (lists of shows on websites) omit is that The Great
    Gildersleeve *did* spend a period of time as a nightly 15 minute series
    before returning to a more familiar weekly half an hour (actually 25
    minutes or less) show before the actual end of it's run in 1957.

       What is news to me however, is that I was unaware of any episodes of the
    strip show existing!  I assumed that they did exist, as so many episodes of
    the Fibber McGee and Molly strip show exist (and have for many years), but
    I did not think that any were circulating. If anyone has a lossless copy of
    this show I'd be VERY interested in hearing it!

       For reliable information on The Great Gildersleeve, Ben Ohmart and
    Charles Stumpf have written an excellent book, and Terry Salomonson has
    prepared the log that all others have been based on.  While not infallible,
    I've found these sources more reliable than most information available on
    the internet.

       Rodney

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