Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #319
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Date: 8/21/2003 10:10 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2003 : Issue 319
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Lee Trent                         [ "RBB" <oldradio@[removed]; ]
      Re: NY Times article on Audio Drama   [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
      5 Jack Benny Shows needed.            [ gad4@[removed] ]
      Re: Old expressions                   [ hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed]; ]
      Hair Rugs and Jolson                  [ Bob Fells <rfells@[removed]; ]
      crime classics                        [ kathleen grams-gibbs <grams46@bloom ]
      Article on Desilu Documentary         [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:12:25 -0400
    From: "RBB" <oldradio@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Lee Trent
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    A Google search produced these results for answers about Lee Trent as "The
    Lone Ranger:"

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    and from [removed] has this information:

    "Who is that mysterious masked man from out of the West? It probably was Brace
    Beemer, who was "The Lone Ranger" between 1941 and 1955. This 1:28 Lone Ranger
    intro is from a broadcast made in late 1951. The announcer was Fred Foy. The
    original Lone Ranger, in 1933, was George Seaton. Jack Deeds and James Jewell
    also played the part in that year. Earl Graser was the masked man from mid '33
    to April, 1941 (when he died in an auto accident). [according to Dunning,
    "Jack Deeds" was apparently a businessman named Lee Trent] "

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:46:39 -0400
    From: StevenL751@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: NY Times article on Audio Drama

    In a message dated 8/20/2003 9:23:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

>     I missed this article on the modern state of audio drama in a recent New
>     York Times (a member of the Gotham Radio Players noted with pique that they
>     aren't mentioned, nor is Max Schmid's NYC Golden Age of Radio show).
>     Did anyone on this list get interviewed for this article?  It looks like the
>     only outlets this reporter cares about XM Satellite Radio (a worthy topic to
>     explore as the service continues to grow in popularity) and NPR.

    The article focused only on the state of new audio drama in this country and
    really had nothing to do with the golden age of radio.  They did interview my
    friend Sue Zizza, executive director of the National Audio Theatre Festival,
    who was in the process of producing a multi-performance audio drama show at
    Hofstra University for NATF.  (There was also a picture of Sue at her mixing
    board accompanying the article.)   I recognized several other names in the
    article
    as people who are very active in the modern audio drama world.
    Unfortunately neither Max's show nor most of the work of the Gotham Radio
    Players really
    qualified us to be included.

    Steve Lewis
    director, Gotham Radio Players

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:48:28 -0400
    From: gad4@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  5 Jack Benny Shows needed.

    The following are needed to complete a new Jack Benny set Im working on.
    These shows needed are:

    1. 53/12/27  network date  not afrs date  it was rerun on 57/12/29.

    2. 53/04/05   30 Easter Parade-  is usually a misdated (53/01/18) the
    correct version will have cimaron rolls in it

    3. 54/01/03   Rose bowl- not packing for palm springs (53/12/06)

    4. upgrade for 45/03/11 How Jack Found Rochester- Not  (50/12/03). We need
    the version where the commercials and song are missing but show is intact.
    The copy we have has the commercials but the first half is unlistenable. It
    should have amos and andy and Larry Stevens.

    5. A Rehersal of 11/21/54 show.

    Any format is accepted. I am guessing they need to come from a tape
    collector though. Dealers or collectors may reply.

    Thanks in advance to anyone who is kind enough to respond.

    Sincerely,
    George

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:16:36 -0400
    From: hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Old expressions

     "Penne Yingling" recently posted

>     This is just to say "I'm glad to see Hal Stone's back."  He never fails to
>     tickle my funny bone, regardless of what kind of day I've had and I've had
>     some "doozie's" lately.  ("Doozie" was one of my Mother's favorite and
>     well-used words - never hear it much, anymore).

    Thanks for the encouragement Penne. But you sure jogged my memory about
    "Mothers" and their favorite expressions. Here's two I'll share with you.

    Whenever I'd be told something, and I'd happen to say "So"?... my Mothers
    retort would [removed] "Sew buttons on milk bottles".

    My all time favorite was her comment whenever (as a child) I would get mad
    at something, or someone. I'd clench my fists, and act [removed] and she'd
    [removed]"You think you're so tough your spit bounces". :)

    Go figure.

    Hal(Harlan)Stone
    Jughead

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:17:38 -0400
    From: Bob Fells <rfells@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hair Rugs and Jolson

    I have noticed that on the Jack Benny shows from the mid 30s he is
    sometimes referred to as "gray-haired," which he was in real life.
    Obviously, the older he got, the need to make himself appear more
    youthful for his movie and then TV work became an issue.

    One of Mr. Benny's colleagues, Al Jolson, was most inconsistent in his
    use of hairpieces for his films.  Jolie apparently went without one for
    the the historic Jazz Singer in 1927.  His left hairline is receding and
    his hair is rather straight and flat.  In his next few films, The
    Singing Fool (1928), Say It with Songs (1929), and Mammy (1930), he
    wears a wavy hairpiece for a youthful effect - he was in his mid 40s by
    1930.  But in his next film, Big Boy (1930), he appears in a blackface
    character until the end when he appears as himself.  There he not only
    does without the hairpiece but his hair is tinged with gray on the
    sides.

    For his next two films, Hallelujah I'm A Bum (1933) and Wonder Bar
    (1934), he uses no hairpiece.  Then for his final two starring vehicles,
    Go Into Your Dance (1935) and The Singing Kid (1936), it's back to the
    hairpiece yet both films use photos of Jolie within the film where he's
    NOT wearing a hairpiece.  Jolie also wore a dental appliance in films to
    fill in a gap between his two upper front teeth, but that's another
    story.

    Bob Fells

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:17:00 -0400
    From: kathleen grams-gibbs <grams46@[removed];
    To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  crime classics

    knx los angeles is running crime classics on wednesday nights/thursday
    mornings.   last night's program was about the death of "general ketchum".
    i have heard that these stories were taken from actual events.   were real
    names used?
    thanks from kathy

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:45:59 -0400
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Article on Desilu Documentary

    This New York Daily News article on the upcoming Desilu documentary mentions
    "My Favorite Husband," in passing.

    Interestingly, it calls the show "theirs" meaning Lucy and Desi, when in
    fact he wasn't involved in it, based on my knowledge.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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