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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 128
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OTR poker                             [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      Over at the Billy [removed]             [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      border blasters                       [ "bcockrum" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
      border radio                          [ "Frank Absher" <fabsher@[removed]; ]
      WOTW call letters                     [ Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed]; ]
      Mary Pickford appearances             [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@VintageRad ]
      4-23 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      The Much-Heralded (and even Arthured  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Call Letter Database                  [ HK Hinkley <parpark280@[removed]; ]
      Faulty research                       [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Radio station WOTW                    [ Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@earthlin ]
      Inner Sanctum: The Judas Clock/The C  [ "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:20:58 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR poker
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    Years ago at an FOTR conference here in NJ, OTR fan & scriptwriter and Michael
    Giorgio and I tried
    devising an OTR variety of poker. It  would play the same way as conventional
    poker except with one
    catch: players need to say what their hands are by incorporating OTR-variants
    of the regular names
    of the cards. Failure to do so means a player would be required to "sweeten
    the pot," by throwing in
    another nickel or dime or whatever the predetermined amount is [hey, I can
    pnly afford to play nickel-dime
    ante anyway].  For example, "I have a full house: Easy Aces over
    Six-Shooters."

    Here's what Michael and I have so far. We need help in naming the missing
    tricks and suits:
    For the tricks: A = "Easy Aces"; K = "Sky King" (or "Yukon King"); Q = "Ellery
    Queen";  J =
    "Jack Benny" (or "Jack Armstrong"; conceivably: "I jave a pair of jacks, a
    Benny and an
    Armstrong"); 8 = "Eight-to-the-Bar" (as in the Andrews Sisters' ranch; do
    desire something less
    clunky-sounding  tho'); 7 = "Sunday Nights at Seven"; 6 = "Six Shooter"; 3 =
    "Three Skeleton Key."
    As you can see, we still need names for cards 2 (or deuce), 4, 5, 9, & 10.

    Similarly, two of the suits are called "Sam Spades" & "Richard Diamonds." We
    still need names for the
    Hearts and the Clubs ("Cliquot Club" just doesn't do it for me).

    In event Charlie disallows further discussion of this topic, please contact me
    off-list, & I'll compress
    everything into a single follow-up posting.

    Thanks in advance from the ether,

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:37:08 -0400
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Over at the Billy [removed]

    Derek, what an odd coincidence:

    I went walking through the Billy Rose Library at about 7:45, Thursday
    night,  to see if my old associate John Cocci was around--I had just
    wound up with an extra ticket for DESSA ROSE, next door, at the Vivian
    [removed] John (who many of you wil know as a long time film
    historian) WAS there, but, alas, couldn't go. (Derek, I'd say too bad
    you couldn't get the ticket, but the play wound up being pretty
    dreadful--a great Rachel York (a Broadway muicals vet, she played Lucy
    in that TV movie, a few years ago), but DESSA ROSE was sort of like
    ROOTS, as written by MAD MAGAZINE, with an unhealthy, ACT II rip-off  of
    the terrific James Garner-Louis Gossett flick, SKIN [removed])

    Joe Bolton WAS a radio announcer, for nearly twenty years, beginning I
    gues, at some point. in the 1930s. A newspaper article I have from 1972
    says that he became a baseball announcer for WOR in the 1930s and in
    1937, "actually appeared in a movie with Babe Ruth." Another reference
    says that he spent time as an executive producer of specal events for
    the Office of War Infomation, and also worked at New York's WNEW. Bolton
    went to work for WPIX TV in 1948, as a newsman, or news reader. He later
    became the "Tastee Cake Weatherman." (Bolton wound up taking the
    weatherman stuff VERY serously. His daughter once told me that he
    studied ASSIDUOUSLY, went to meteorology conferences, and once wrote a
    book,  for adults, on meteorology (a copy of which, I picked up, a few
    years ago). This was all before Bolton became "Officer" Joe Bolton  in
    those halcyon days of WPIX/Channel 11, showing the Little Rascals, and
    the the 3 Stooges [removed]

    Here's an intresing tidbit--

    INTO the 1960s, Joe Bolton would don suit and tie to do an afternoon
    news broadcast, SIMULTAENOUS to his appearing as a kid-shows host.

    (And, the irony here: some of the information I quoted above is from a
    few newspaper articles   read in the "Joe Bolton" clippings file, one
    year ago--

    (AT the Billy Rose [removed])

    :-)

    Here's some more fun info, on the wel beloved, Offocer Joe:

    [removed]

    Best, Jim Burns

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    Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:37:27 -0400
    From: "bcockrum" <rmc44@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  border blasters

    I'm not sure, but I guess the interview on "Fresh Air" was to publicize the
    release of the CD "Los Super 7: I Heard It on the X," more than anything
    else ... or to give the book new life, because the book is not new -- it was
    published in 1987 by Texas Monthly Press, Inc., Austin, Tex. It is
    interesting to any of us who grew up in the 1950s listening to Wolfman Jack
    and Rev. Ike and on and on and on. I first read of Dr. Brinkley in college
    from a book that came out in 1960 by Gerald Carson, "The Roguish World of
    Doctor Brinkley," from Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.

    Bob Cockrum

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    Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:37:42 -0400
    From: "Frank Absher" <fabsher@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  border radio
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    Dan Dunfee asked about the flamethrowers from Mexico.
    Recommended reading: Border Radio by Fowler and Crawford. It's a very
    enlightening look at this AM radio niche with lots of excellent vignettes.

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    Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:38:08 -0400
    From: Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WOTW call letters

    Derek Tague wondered (Digest 2005:127) if there is a radio station with
    the call letters WOTW (as in "War of the Worlds"), and if anyone
    maintains a call letter database.

    Thanks to your tax dollars, the FCC maintains such a database.

    AM and FM stations can be searched (separately) by frequency, call sign,
    or location at [removed]. My search did not return
    any current station WOTW.

    I believe I have seen other websites with their own front ends to this
    database. They might be more user-friendly.

    This database appears to have only current information.

    The Media Bureau, which oversees broadcasters, has a number of Public
    Database Files at  [removed], including a
    file called [removed], which has some history in a delimited
    file. (Not sure if any of this history pertains to the OTR era. You'll
    want to look at
    [removed] to help
    you make sense of this history file.)

    It appears that WOTW and WOTW-FM have been assigned to stations in
    recent years.

    For example, a station at 900 kHz in Nashua, NH, now known as WSNH, was
    known as WOTW from 07/23/2002 until 08/04/2003. Before that it was WMVU
    since at least 09/14/1987.
    [removed]
    ility_id=41256&Callsign=WSNH

    Also in Nashua, there is a record of an FM station whose (construction?)
    permit was cancelled. It was to be WOTW-FM.
    [removed]
    ity_id=41435

    It thus appears that WOTW and WOTW-FM are now available should anyone
    think an all-OTR, all-the-time format might be viable. As to WOTR, it's
    on the FM band at [removed] MHz in Lost Creek, WV.  KOTR serves Hollister,
    CA, on [removed] FM.

    Regards,
    =Art=

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 06:12:07 -0400
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mary Pickford appearances

    	I was told that someone on this list was looking for radio
    appearances by
    Mary Pickford.  Here is a list of programs in our collection in which Miss
    Pickford appeared:

     86251        09-29-40  :59:50 E   "CANADIAN RED CROSS BENEFIT SHOW"

        Series: CHASE AND SANBORN ANNIVERSARY SHOWS ...
     92963    100 11-15-64  :60:00 VG

        Series: THE FRED ALLEN SHOW ...
     99830A    45 01-16-44  :29:30 E

        Series: LUX RADIO THEATER ...
     83204    405 07-12-43  :60:00 EX  "AIR FORCE"

        Series: MARY PICKFORD AND COMPANY ...
     98950A     1 10-03-34  :30:30 E-  "THE CHURCH MOUSE"

        Series: THE MITCH MILLER SHOW ...
     88262B       07-29-61  :43:50 VG+ "FINAL SHOW"

        Series: THE SCREEN GUILD THEATER ...
     98102B    83 04-20-41  :30:00 E-  "HIRED WIFE"

        Series: STAGE STRUCK ... CBS  Sustaining
      77704      04-18-54  :60:00 E   "HOW THE STAGE HELPED MAKE HOLLYWOOD
    HISTORY"

    	These are all available for purchase.  If you have any questions,
    please
    feel free to contact me.

    		Jerry

                Jerry Haendiges CET <Jerry@[removed]; 562-696-4387

      [removed]  The Vintage Radio Place
      Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:09:38 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-23 births/deaths

    April 23rd births

    04-23-1564 - William Shakespeare - Stratford-upon-Avon, England - d.
    4-23-1616
    playwright, poet: "Julius Caesar"; "Hamlet"
    04-23-1884 - Edwin C. Hill - Aurora, IN - d. 2-12-1957
    news commentator: "Human Side of the News"; "Your News Parade"
    04-23-1893 - Frank Borzage - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 6-19-1962
    film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    04-23-1901 - George Harmon Cox - Olean, NY - d. 1-30-1984
    novelist: "Casey, Crime Photographer" based on his novels
    04-23-1910 - Simone Simon - Bethune, Pas-de-Calais, France - d.
    2-22-2005
    actress: "Inner Sanctum"
    04-23-1921 - Janet Blair - Altoona, PA
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre", "Abbott and Costello"
    04-23-1921 - Warren Spahn - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-2003
    hall of fame pitcher: "Tops in Sports"
    04-23-1928 - Shirley Temple - Santa Monica, CA
    actress: Judy Graves "Junior Miss"
    04-23-1931 - Tom Pettit - d. 12-22-1995
    nbc reporter: "Meet the Press"

    April 23rd deaths

    01-08-1908 - William Hartnell - London, England - d. 4-23-1975
    actor: The Doctor "Doctor Who"
    02-15-1905 - Harold Arlen - Buffalo, NY - d. 4-23-1986
    composer: "Songs By Arlen"; "Kraft Program"; "Good New of 1940"
    02-17-1907 - Larry "Buster" Crabbe - Oakland, CA - d. 4-23-1983
    actor: "George Jessel Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    03-10-1900 - Peter de Rose - NYC - d. 4-23-1953
    pianist, singer: "Sweethearts of the Air"
    03-19-1907 - Kent Smith - NYC - d. 4-23-1985
    actor: "NBC University Theatre of the Air";"Radio Reader's Digest"
    04-23-1564 - William Shakespeare - Stratford-upon-Avon, England - d.
    4-23-1616
    playwright, poet: "Julius Caesar"; "Hamlet"
    05-19-1894 - Henry Busse - Magdeburg, Germany - d. 4-23-1953
    orchestra leader: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Spotlight Bands"
    07-04-1907 - Tommy Carr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-23-1997
    actor: Jerry Hall "Magic Island"
    07-07-1913 - Verne Smith - NE - d. 4-23-1968
    actor, announcer: Bill Hartley "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; "Adventures
    of Ozzie and Harriet"
    08-14-1879 - Edna Fisher - NB - d. 4-23-1978
    actress: "The Al Pearce Show"
    09-13-1883 - Lewis E. Lawes - Elmira, NY - d. 4-23-1947
    commentator: "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing"
    10-24-1879 - Benjamin Albert "[removed]" Rolfe - Brasher Falls, NY - d.
    4-23-1956
    conductor: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Believe It or Not"
    11-06-1904 - Selena Royle - NYC - d. 4-23-1983
    actress: Hilda Hope "Hilda Hope, [removed]"; Kathy Marsh "Portia Faces
    Life"
    12-05-1906 - Otto Preminger - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-23-1986
    actor, film producer, director: "Fun In Print"; "Listen to the People"

    12-17-1902 - House Jameson - Austin, TX - d. 4-23-1971
    actor: Sam Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Inspector Douglas Renfrew
    "Renfrew of the Mounted"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:42:02 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Much-Heralded (and even Arthured and
     Craiged!) Mini-Lecture/Recreation!

    Dear Folks-

    As promised, here  'tis:

    WOBM and WADB
    present the
    SENIOR LIFESTYLE AND HEALTH  EXPO

    At the
    RITACCO CENTER
    in
    TOM'S RIVER, NJ

    (FREE  ADMISSION!)

    This TUESDAY, April 26th, at 2:00PM:

    "Friends Of Old  Time Radio Theater"
    will showcase live performances of classic scenes from  the Golden Age Of
    Radio featuring Arthur Andersen ("Let's Pretend"), Craig  Wichman (Quicksilver
    Radio Theater), and Bernadette Fiorella (New York City  Opera.)

    More info  at:
    [removed]

    Hope to  see you there!
    Best,
    -Craig

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:42:24 -0400
    From: HK Hinkley <parpark280@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Call Letter Database

    Derek asks:

>     Does anybody maintain a  "call letter" database.

    Try [removed]

    Stay tuned,  HK

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:42:53 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Faulty research

    A few days ago in the birth/death list I had Greta Garbo listed as
    appearing on "Hollywood Hotel." Someone questioned it because of her
    well know eccentricities. That got me thinking, he way well be right. I
    researched it again and lo and behold . . . he was right. The hostess
    of "Hollywood Hotel" was Louella Parsons at her most powerful. As the
    article that I read stated, "The biggest celebrities in America came
    when "invited," with Ginger Rogers, Katherine Hepburn, and Greta Garbo
    among the few to ignore Parsons's call."

    I misread the article, for that I apologize. Garbo has since been
    dropped from my list until I can find a radio show that she has
    appeared on. Does anyone know of any?

    Ron Sayles
    Keeper of the Lists

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:43:26 -0400
    From: Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio station WOTW

    Derek Tague, coming out of the ether, asked if there is a radio station with
    call letters WOTW.
    Oh, where is "Whites Radio Log" when we need it?

    A net search showed the following -

    WOTW, Nashua NH  900 KC  News and Talk.
    and, oddly enough
    WOTX, Concord NH [removed]    Country

    Different towns, area codes, addresses, phone numbers, so perhaps not related.

    Perverse as Derek is, I suppose he doesn't really want to know if there is a
    KOTW.  Narrow-mindedness if I ever heard it.  There is a firm called KOTW,
    Inc. which advertises technical "video solutions" which include video
    streaming on the Internet.

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    Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 19:47:31 -0400
    From: "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Inner Sanctum: The Judas Clock/The Cleopaetra
     Clock
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    I recently purchased an mp3 collection of Inner Sanctum episodes.  On the
    first disc, there is an episode that is listed as an AFRS version of the
    4/17/45 story, THE JUDAS CLOCK.  However, upon listening to the episode, it
    appears to be a later retelling of the same story.  The episode is introduced
    by the "host" in the same manner as the episodes were introduced after the
    departure of Raymond Edward Johnson.  But the "host" doesn't sound quite like
    Paul McGrath, but maybe it is the speed of the source material.  The star of
    this episode is Berry Kruger.  The announcer announces the story as being "The
    Judas Clock", but the "host" indicates that the name of the story is "The
    Cleopaetra Clock".  Indeed, the clock is referred to throughout the story as
    the Cleopaetra Clock.  I have referrenced my copy of the Inner Sanctum book,
    as well as the online log on the OTR webpage, but can't find where the episode
    was repeated or a title that might be the story retitled.  Of course, I could
    have overlooked the episode in both the logs.  Is this an Inner Sanctum
    episode, or is it a doctored version of the script from a different series?

    Thanks in advance.

    Bob

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