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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2019 : Issue 15
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      [removed] Ron Sayles                     [ Tom Barnett <[removed]@earthlink. ]
      Lady Directors                        [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@veriz ]
      female directors                      [ karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@hotma ]
      Jack Benny                            [ Ronald Reeland <ronreeland@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:52:22 -0400
    From: Tom Barnett <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  [removed] Ron Sayles

    Although I never met Ron Sayles, I do remember his frequent posts on this
    Digest.

    Safe travels, Sir.

    "Eternal Rest grant unto [removed]"

    Tom

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    Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:57:50 -0400
    From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lady Directors
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    Doug Douglas raises an interesting thread about women directors naming two:
    Betty Mandeville and Nila Mack.

    Of course, the ranks of radio directors-and announcers, sound effects
    personnel, and orchestra [removed] slim in terms of the ladies.  In the
    world of the soap operas, while women directors were a minority, there were at
    least a half dozen of them. Since many soap operas lasted at least a decade or
    two, nearly all of these serials had several directors over the years,
    according to Jim Cox's book, "The Great Radio Soap Operas." Martha Atwell
    was one of the directors on four soaps: " Young Widder Brown", "David
    Harum", "Just Plain Bill" and "Lora Lawton." Anne Hummert briefly
    directed "Our Gal Sunday" of which she and her husband oversaw the
    scripts. Beverly Smith was one of directors of "Portia Faces Life" while
    Theodora Yates had the same job on "Rosemary." Olga Druce was one of the
    directors of "When a Girl Marries" and Viola Burns did the same for two
    soaps: "The Second Mrs. Burton" and "Young Dr. Malone." But all told,
    I suspect that at least 85% of the soap opera directors were male.

    Arlene Francis played a private eyelash in "The Affairs of Ann Scotland"
    in the mid 40s and Helen Mack directed. (Sorry, no audio copies have
    survived.) Mack also briefly directed "The Saint", "Alan Young Show"
    and "Meet Corliss Archer." The long-running kids' western, "Tom Mix
    Ralston Straight Shooters" was directed in its last years by Mary Afflict.
    She and Curley Bradley pursued an off-mike romance and she became his third
    wife.

    Jack French

    NOTE: I had the opportunity to interview Mandeville five years before she died
    and we talked about "The FBI in Peace and War." She said they ran through
    the cases in less than a year that author Frederick Collins had in his book.
    After that, Betty said, we had our writers just make up case files and the
    show ran for another 13 years, but we kept crediting Collins in our
    introduction and paying him royalties on the stuff we wrote.

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    Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:58:01 -0400
    From: karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  female directors

    Not to forget the charming movie actress Helen Mack (HIS GIRL FRIDAY).  She
    really got around, being credited as director on THE ALAN YOUNG SHOW, BEULAH,
    A DATE WITH JUDY, THE SAINT, CORLISS ARCHER, etc.

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    Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:58:12 -0400
    From: Ronald Reeland <ronreeland@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jack Benny
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    Hi:
    I have a couple of CD's containing humorous clips from various Jack Benny
    programs. I listen to them to assist in getting to sleep in bed. Since I hear
    the clips over and over, I began to memorize some of the bits and notice
    oddities that I probably would not pay heed to on a first listen.
    It seems that Jack does not always deliver the start of a line smoothly. For
    instance; in  Mel Blanc's bake shop Jack replies " Don't- Don't you mean
    cinnamon rolls?"  And in the corner drugstore Jack arrives and says to his
    cast " Uh What, What did you kids order?" And there are other similar
    instances of repetitions of  starting lines, particularly if the line is a
    question.
    I am curious. Are these lines in the written script or does Jack ad-lib them?
    They do seem to add realism to the bit as opposed to knowing that performers
    are reading straight from a prepared script.

    Thanks,
    Ron Reeland

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