Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #234
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Date: 7/17/2004 10:12 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 234
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Horizons West                         [ dltnkt@[removed] (Dennis/Nancy Town ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
      "Inside the Doctor's Office"          [ StuartLubin@[removed] (Stuart Lubin ]
      Newbie                                [ "Philip Railsback" <philiprailsback ]
      Re: Arthur Godfrey                    [ jodie <raisingirl@[removed]; ]
      7-18 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Family Theater series available in r  [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
      Jack Benny -- M*A*S*H anachronism?    [ snopes <snopes@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:48:53 -0400
    From: dltnkt@[removed] (Dennis/Nancy Townsend)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Horizons West

    I just finished listening to this fine series that starred our late
    friend Harry Bartell. I wondered if anyone could tell me a bit  more
    about it? I know its an AFRS production but when was it produced? I seem
    to recall Mr Bartell addressing it on the digest once but forget his
    comments. Also the costar was John Anderson familiar on the screen but
    had he done radio before. All the actors did well including another I
    did not think about in terms of radio Sebastian Cabot who was listed in
    the credits but I still have not  figured out what role he played. was
    Cabot involved in radio? Thanks for any insights. Dennis

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    Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 01:11:20 -0400
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi friends,

    	Here is this week's line-up for the week of 7-11-04 on my Olde Tyme
    Radio
    [removed] Featuring Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio Theatre," Big John
    Matthews and Steve Urbaniak's "The Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same
    Station" broadcasts, being broadcast on demand 24/7 in high quality
    streaming RealAudio at [removed]

    Past archived broadcasts are also available there.

    We look forward to having you join us!

    	Jerry

    Here's this week's lineup:

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges

    SAN FRANCISCO FINAL
    7-26-54  "Chinatown"
    Stars: Jeff Chandler, Harry Bartell, Jerry Hausner, Olan Soule', Lillian
    Biaff, Virginia Gregg, Herb Butterfield, Vic Perren, Barney Phillips and
    Tony Barrett.
    Producer: Michael Meshnikoff
    Directors/Writers: David Friedkin and Morton Fine
    Music: Walter Schuman and Walter Scott

    THE CISCO KID
    Episode 535  "Chinook"
    MUTUAL DON LEE    SYNDICATED
    STARS: Jack Mather and Harry Lang

    THE AMAZING MR. TUTT
    Episode 1  7-5-48  "Advice To A Young Lawyer"
    CBS   SUSTAINED
    STARS: Will Wright, John Beal
    WRITER: Arnold Pearl
    MUSIC: Marlin Styles, Lud Gluskin
    PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Tony Leader

    MIND YOUR MANNERS
    6-26-48  "Should Young Girls Travel Alone?"
    NBC   SUSTAINED
    HOST: Allen Ludden.
    Teenage Panel Answers Questions Troubling Other Teens
    =======================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood

    THE GREEN HORNET
    ABC    6-25-46   "Revenge For Melikin"

    INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES
    CBS    1-31-49   "The Devil's Fortune"
    Stars: Karl Swenson

    THE NEW ROY ROGERS SHOW
    AFRS    1951   "New River Rodeo"
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    THE GLOWING DIAL with Big John Matthews and Steve Urbaniak

    The Adventures of the Falcon - "The Case of the Careless Client"
    originally aired October 15, 1950 on NBC
    Starring: Les Damon, Ed Herlihy announcing.
    Sponsor: Kraft Foods Company

    The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective - "The Hot Hundred Grand Caper"
    originally aired September 19, 1948 on CBS
    Starring: Howard Duff, Lurene Tuttle, John McIntyre, June Havoc, Joseph
    Kearns,
    Wally Maher, Dick Joy announcing.
    Sponsor: Wild Root Creme Oil Hair Tonic

    Nick Carter, Master Detective - "The Make-Believe Murder"
    originally aired July 22, 1945 on MUTUAL
    Starring: Lon Clark, Charlotte Manson, Ed Latimer, Ken Powell announcing.
    Sponsor: Lin-X Home Brighteners

    The Adventures of Philip Marlowe - "The Black Halo"
    originally aired January 15, 1949 on CBS
    Starring: Gerald Mohr, Joan Banks, Jeff Corey, Paul Frees, Peter Leeds, Jack
    Kruschen,
    Lois Corbet, Roy Rowan announcing.
    Sustained

    Richard Diamond, Private Detective - "The Betty Moran Case"
    originally aired May 29, 1949 on NBC
    Starring: Dick Powell, Virginia Gregg, Ed Begley, Wilms Herbert, Jack
    Petruzzi, Herbert Butterfield,
    Tol Avery, Eddie King announcing.
    Writer: Blake Edwards
    Sustained
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    Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for upcoming
    shows.

                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, 17 Jul 2004 01:12:09 -0400
    From: StuartLubin@[removed] (Stuart Lubin)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Inside the Doctor's Office"

    I am a very new subscriber to the Digest, so I do not know if this
    question has ever come up before.  In the late 40's or perhaps the early
    50's, does anyone recall hearing a program called "Inside the Doctor's
    Office"?  During that time I lived both in New York and Los Angeles, so
    I cannot remember where I picked it up.  The program consisted of a
    daily dramatization of a patient, usually a woman, in her doctor's
    office, being treated for a specific illness.  I was familiar with
    many radio actors, but an actress appeared on the show daily whom I'd
    never heard of elsewhere:Adeline McNeary.  To my best recollection,
    Charles Irving was the announcer.  The sponsor was KYRON, a diet aide
    that was popular at the time.  Pushing the sponsor's product was someone
    they referred to as a New York physician, Dr. Frederick Dameron (?).  I
    have often wondered if he were a real doctor, or an actor.  If anyone
    has any further information on this 15-minute show, please reply.  Was
    Ms. McNeary known to do other radio shows? Was this a nationally heard
    show, or was it just regional?  I have been asking OTR fans in SPERDVAC
    about this for many years, but no one claims to have ever heard this
    show.  Thanks!

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    Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 02:27:02 -0400
    From: "Philip Railsback" <philiprailsback@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Newbie

>     My wife's grandmother is 90 years old and blind, but sharp as a tack. This
>     weekend we got her an MP3/CD boombox for her birthday!  And now she's
>     listening to the Jack
>     Benny Show and Grand Old Opry and loving it!

    This may be more NTR (NewTimeRadio) than OTR, but I tell you what I got my
    90 year old blind grandmother -- Garrison Kiellor's Lake Wobegone Stories.
    There are many collections available on tape and CD.  Your library very
    likely would have some.  The entire shows for the last seven or eight years
    are archived on the net (I recently lost my favorites, but the site
    shouldn't be hard to track down. I think it's at Minnesota Public Radio.
    You can either listen to the whole thing or specific segments.   What you
    can't do is download them.  However you can record the streaming audio to
    MP3 if you use program like Total Recorder (there are several out there that
    will record streaming audio).  I remember my grandmother tellling me that
    Kiellor had the most wonderful voice she had ever heard.   She absolutly
    loved him.

      - Philip

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    Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 03:17:22 -0400
    From: jodie <raisingirl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Arthur Godfrey

    hello all (says she in her best Meredith Willson voice) --

    Due to some personal business I wasn't able to respond to Lee Munsick's
    excellent Arthur Godfrey essay of the other day, but it was most
    enjoyable, and I've also been interested in the follow-up threads of the
    last few days too.

    Godfrey died when I was 10 but I grew up knowing who he was and
    appreciative of his place in broadcasting history.  I attribute that to
    being born in a time warp.  Sure, I knew about the firing of Julius
    LaRosa, about how many people complained that Godfrey could be demanding
    and difficult.  But it also became clear to me that American
    broadcasting wouldn't have been the same without Godfrey, and that he
    deserves to be remembered for more than what little he's remembered for
    now.

    (I also know that Godfrey was one of the best ambassadors for flying
    that there could have been, which means we airplane fanatics are in his
    debt too.)

    Lee thanked me the other day for giving him a chance to talk about
    Godfrey.  It's me, however, who should be thanking him for a post that
    was nothing short of priceless, on a person I find endlessly
    fascinating.  I'm glad Lee has kept the Godfrey story alive, but I wish
    he had more company than he did.  His legacy (and his DC-3, too) deserve
    a much better fate.

    Jodie Peeler

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    Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:46:39 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-18 births/deaths

    July 18th births

    07-18-1872 - Fred Sullivan - London, England - d. 7-24-1937
    actor: Kirby Willoughby "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Mitchell Frazier "Story of
    Mary Marlin"
    07-18-1891 - Gene Lockhart - Ontario, Canada - d. 3-21-1957
    actor: "Nebbs"; "Doctor Fights"; "Abroad with the Lockharts"
    07-18-1893 - Richard Dix - St. Paul, MN - d. 9-20-1949
    actor: "Eveready Hour"
    07-18-1903 - Chill Wills - Seagoville, TX - d. 12-15-1978
    actor: "Armed Forces Radio Theatre"; "Dinner Bell Round-Up Time"
    07-18-1903 - Riza Royce - Lancaster, PA - d. 10-20-1980
    actress: Victoria Lorring "Young Widder Brown"
    07-18-1908 - Lupe Velez - San Luis Potosi, Mexico - d. 12-14-1944
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Speed Show"
    07-18-1909 - Harriet Nelson - Des Moines, IA - d. 10-2-1994
    actress: Daisy June "Red Skelton Show"; "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
    07-18-1911 - Hume Cronyn - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 6-15-2003
    actor: Ben Marriott "Marriage"
    07-18-1913 - Marvin Miller - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-8-1985
    actor: Ben Lyon "Jeff Regan, Investigator"; Gil Whitney "Romance of Helen
    Trent"
    07-18-1913 - Red Skelton - Vincennes, IN - d. 9-17-1997
    comedian: "Avalon Time"; "Red Skelton Show"
    07-18-1916 - Irene Winston - NYC - d. 9-1-1964
    actress: Myra Gordon "Valiant Lady"; Rosemary Hemingway "Woman In White"
    07-18-1918 - Jane Frazee - Duluth, MN - d. 9-6-1985
    vaudeville act with sister
    07-18-1920 - Charlie McCarthy - Chicago, IL - d. 9-30-1978
    dummy: "Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show"
    07-18-1927 - Kurt Masur - Brieg, Germany
    conductor: New York Philharmonic

    July 18th deaths

    02-26-1900 - Jean Negulesco - Craiova, Rumaina - d. 7-18-1993
    film director, screenwriter: "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-01-1910 - Sir Jack Hawkins - London, England - d. 7-18-1973
    actor: "[removed] Steel Hour"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:47:00 -0400
    From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Family Theater series available in remastered
     form

    Five hundred and fifty episodes of Mutual's "Family Theater" series,
    which aired from 1947 to 1969, have just been released in newly
    enhanced recordings. Most of these programs featured top Hollywood
    stars, beginning with the first show on February 13, 1947, "Flight From
    Home" with Loretta Young, Don Ameche, and Jimmy Stewart.

    Modern technology was used to clean up distortion on the original
    acetate discs and magnetic audio tape to remaster them on CDs. "These
    radio programs now exist in better sound condition than the original
    broadcasts" announced Rev. Wilfred Raymond, the national director of
    Family Theater Productions. Most the the stories aired involved family
    unity, importance of faith and love, relationship problems, and
    childhood difficulties.

    Non-profit radio stations in Alaska, Nebraska, Oregon,  Michigan,
    California, New York, Ohio, and Nevada will be airing these programs
    soon. Plans are underway to make them available commercially for sale
    to public.

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    Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:07:55 -0400
    From: snopes <snopes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny -- M*A*S*H anachronism?

    As anyone with a fair background in history and popular culture knows,
    it's not hard to spot anachronisms in the TV show M*A*S*H. The producers
    and writers often threw in elements from the 1950s (and sometimes beyond),
    whether or not those elements were present during the years spanned by the
    Korean War (1950-53), so one can find plenty of references in the show to
    events that hadn't yet taken place or books/films that didn't yet exist.

    I've sort of mentally catalogued these anachronisms over years of watching
    M*A*S*H reruns, and I recall one particular instance of potential
    anachronism that I'm not sure about.

    In the episode I'm thinking of, everyone is gathered in the mess tent to
    watch a movie, and (as usual) the projector breaks down. To while away the
    time as repairs are made, the gang resorts to the usual amusements,
    including performing imitations. Radar gets up in front of the screen and
    does a Jack Benny impersonation, complete with Benny's familiar
    palm-along-the-cheek and outstretched hand mannerisms. My questions are:
    Given that Jack Benny was primarily a radio comedian at the time the
    Korean War began, was he using those stage mannerisms then ([removed], by
    1950), and if so, how likely was Radar to have seen them?

    Although Jack Benny started appearing on television as early as October
    1950, it's probably fair to assume that Radar was already in Korea by then
    and therefore hadn't yet had the opportunity to see Benny in that medium.
    Certainly Radar could have seen Jack Benny in one of the several films
    Benny made during the 1940s, but I don't recall his using the familiar
    palm-along-the-cheek mannerism in any of them (either because he hadn't
    yet developed it, or because he wasn't playing the same character as he
    did on radio). We can probably also rule out the possibility that Radar
    (who apparently had rarely travelled very far from his home in Ottumwa,
    Iowa) had ever had the chance to be part of the studio audience for one
    of Benny's Sunday night radio broadcasts.

    So, how might Radar have been able to imitate Jack Benny's mannerisms
    around 1950-51? Could he have picked them up from newsreels? Did Jack
    Benny make any personal appearances in the Midwest during the 1940s that
    an Iowa farm boy could have attended? Did Benny even use these mannerisms
    that early, or did he only develop them once he was established on
    television?

    - snopes

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