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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 361

Table Of Contents: 

	 Re:cassettes/OTR convention
	 Re: cassette tapes / software for OTR
	 Radio Spirits
	 Don't Buy This Book
	 Whistler question
	 on "The Whistler"
	 
	 Bill Johnstone and the Saint
	 Superman as a baseball player
	 Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge
	 Paul Weston/Jo Stafford alter-egos
	 Net & web OTR compilation

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:36:52 +0000
From: "F. Charles Simar" <FCharlesSimar@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:cassettes/OTR convention
Message-ID: <[removed]@DEFAULT>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I would like to thank everyone for their great responses to my question
about the tapes.  I went with Sony
Type I 60 min.  They are nice enough tapes (although I do miss Memorex).
When I looked at these tapes, I
found no screws, but that welding techniques whose name I can't recall at
this moment.  

BTW:  During the convention, is this newsletter going to be continued or
going on hiatus?

Thanx. 8'>

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 06:37:21 -0500
From: "Andrew C. Green" <acg@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: cassette tapes / software for OTR
Message-Id: <[removed]@dlogics>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Platecap@[removed] (Bob Burnham) writes:
>I don't use any of the above.  For years, for masters I've used custom loads
>from suppliers like Polyline (1233 Rand Road Des Plaines, IL [removed]
>874-390-6464).
 ^^^
A minor correction: that should be Area Code 847, not 874. But in the
course of doublechecking the above, I found that _I_ had reposted a
completely out-of-date number for Polyline a few days ago, and what
Bob has posted above is the current correct number.

Andrew C. Green            (312) 266-4431
Datalogics, Inc.
441 W. Huron               Internet: acg@[removed]
Chicago, IL  60610-3498    FAX: (312) 266-4473

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:50:45 -0400
From: Charles Mazza <flash@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed], [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio Spirits
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hello everyone,

I received the Radio Spirits catalogue and was hoping for some input from
those that have already ordered from them. Specifically, i was wondering
about the service as well as the quality of the recordings. I'm considering
beginning my "Suspense" collection with the purchase of their 2 sets
containing 30 episodes each. Has anyone ordered these? Satisfied? Any
feedback would be graetly appreciated.

Charles Mazza
(admittedly, a relatively new OTR collector)

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:47:38 -0400
From: "Michael A. Carraher" <carraher@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Don't Buy This Book
Message-Id: <m0v7i17-0004CmC@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I've had an opportunity to look at Clayton Moore's "I was that Masked Man."
Bottom Line:  A very light weight and superficial ghost-written from
interviews celebrity bio.  Almost no new information or insights for anyone
interested in the LR or in OTR.
Moore reports he was a fan of the Lone Ranger radio show, although he was
18 in 1933 when the show was first broadcast (it would have been two or
three years later before the program was heard on the West Coast).  Despite
implying he listened to the show from beginning, he does not seem familiar
with Earl Grazier.  He reports that George W. Trendle and others encouraged
him to imitate Brace Beemer's voice and he describes the vocal exercises he
did.  According to Dick Osgood,. in Wixie Wonderland (The History of WXYZ),
people involved in the production of the radio show thought Moore's voice
resembled Grzier's, not Beemer's.
Moore does not know why he was fired.  He does not know why Hart was fired
and he was re-hired.  He does not know why Wrather Corp. decided to let him
wear the mask in public again (although he guesses Jack Wrather on his
death-bed had a change of heart).
Moore works very hard at not saying anything remotely critical of anyone
and the result is bland.
Despite the title, the Lone Ranger part of his life takes up maybe a
quarter of the book.  The larger portion deals with work in serials.
He lists actors who worked on the program -- from Doctor McCoy to Matt
Dillion.  Chuck Connors hung around trying to get work but never was hired.
 A still unknown Marilyn Monroe visited the set once but Clay remembered he
was a married man.

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:09:14 -0500 (CDT)
From: Troy Burnham <dburnham@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Whistler question
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Hi Everyone,

In a recent issue of the digest, it was mentioned that the Wistler's song 
was played on a flute.  I assume that this was the whistling heard.  I 
have something interesting that I don't know if it is true or not, maybe 
someone can tell me.  Really I don't expect it to be true.

A friend of mine used to always tell me that the high-pitched whistling 
on the show was done by one of the studios secretaries.  According to 
him, the producers couldn't find anything with a sound high-pitched 
enough to sound like a whistle, so they decided to let one of thir 
secretaries, who could whistle very well, do that part.  Is there any 
truth to this?  I don't know where my friend ever heard that, but at the 
time I believed him.

Also, I am fairly new to the digest.  Maybe someone can tell me what the 
reasoning is behind putting the previous issue of the digest write in the 
middle of the current one.  It has happened a couple of times since I 
have been subscribing.

Troy Burnham

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 08:35 CDT
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: on "The Whistler"
Message-Id: <m0v7iVZ-000k0DC@[removed]>

Michael Berger said:
>The stories often had an [removed] feel about them, with unexpected, often
>paradoxical endings.

It took a while for "The Whistler" to hit its stride.  At the beginning, it
didn't have the orientation towards surprise endings that was so
characteristic later.  The first season or two were pure melodrama, and the
show was decidedly on the slow side, with lots of talk that advances
nothing.
I found this out when my local station, which used to run daily OTR,
broadcast nearly the entire first season, before running another dozen or
so of the later shows.  There's quite a difference.
The first season was produced and mostly written (and the show created by?)
J. Donald Wilson, who later worked on The Fat Man.  Not to take anything
away from his talent, but as the first season progresses, you can almost
hear him struggling to keep up the pace.  Towards the end of the season,
they do a truly outrageous episode called "The Brick Wall" or something
like that.  Its plot turns out to be identical to a show from earlier in
the season, except that the protagonist is put into an impossible dilemma -
and the end of the show is the writer's (Wilson's) confession that he's
written himself up against "a brick wall."
It also appears, from the closing announcements, that the show was tried on
nearly every day of the week during those first 2 years.

John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 08:29:53 -0500
From: welsa@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

It seems to me that for the longest time the information on subscribing 
and unsubscribing to OTR was at the bottom of every digest.  Now it is 
not there.  In the process of moving I find that:
    
    1)  I no longer have the initial FAQ I got when I subscribed.
    
    2)  I will be changing my e-mail service.  Thus I need to 
unsubscribe here and re-subscribe at the new domain.  Any info on how to 
do this will be apppreciated.
    
    (Sorry to take up disgest space with this.)
___
* UniQWK #5138* Uh--uh--uh!  Don't touch that dial!

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 09:54:57 -0400
From: IDickerson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bill Johnstone and the Saint
Message-ID: <960930095456_533568690@[removed]>

'Scuse the delay but I've been on holiday and only just managed to plough
through all the [removed]

I did enjoy Anthony Tollin's capsule biography of Bill Johnstone; he also did
a number of  episodes of THE SAINT (Bill Johnstone that [removed]):

On CBS (with Vincent Price as the Saint)
22nd October 1947     A Schitzophrenic Psychiatrist (as Dr Norman)
(Okay [removed]'s see if you've been paying attention. Who played Dr Norman
in the 1949 version of this story?)
29th October 1947      Greed Causes Murder (as Ritchie)
26th November 1947   The Case of the Five Hundred Lemons  (as Marlatt)
14th January 1948      The Second Case of the Chilly Corpse (as Butcher)
11th February 1948     The Case of the Warmblooded Ghost (as Oliver)
18th February 1948     Retribution (as Steele)
25th February 1948     The Case of the Cigar Store Indian (as Willard)
10th March 1948         The Death of a Fighter (as Claud Ford)

On NBC (but still with Vincent Price as the Saint)
2nd July 1950		A Real Gone Guy (as the doorman and an unnamed voice)

Best wishes,

Ian Dickerson,
Author of A SAINT I AIN'T--the authorised biography of Leslie Charteris

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:29:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Superman as a baseball player
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:14:00 -0400
> From: Bigkids@[removed]
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: I've Been Silent Lately; Bester; Baseball
> Message-ID: <960925171400_293129292@[removed]>
> 
> (2) Baseball. Pardon me if someone has mentioned this during my recent
> absence, but there was a terrific Superman sequence involving baseball, circa
> 1950. My recollection is that Lex Luthor had got his hands on some
> Kryptonite, rendered Supie helpless with it, and while Superman was weakened,
> Luthor managed to induce amnesia in him. (Ah, what a wonderful chestnut
> amnesia was!)
 
 The entire story was also done in the comic book a year or two later.  It
 happened to be in the first Superman comic book I ever had -- which was
 where I first heard of Superman.  The book opened with a story which
 re-told the story of Superman's origin on Krypton, a big help to me as a
 first-time reader.
 
 At least in the comic-book version, it wasn't Luthor (the first name Lex
 hadn't been introduced yet.), just some generic villains, who got hold of
 some kryptonite and tried to kill Superman with it.  And the name he used
 was "Bud Mack," mainly because, after he escaped from the kryptonite, not
 knowing who he was, but not liking this weird costume he was wearing, he
 changed clothes with a scarecrow and came upon some hobos who called him
 "Bud."  Later, someone called him "Mack," so he figured his name must be
 Bud Mack.  Somehow, Supes got his memory back every night when the moon
 was out.  He even returned to his apartment as Clark Kent, went to bed,
 and woke up in the morning not knowing what he was doing there.
 
 The story was reprinted sometime in the early 1980s or so.
 
 ======================================================================
 A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
 15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
 Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:31:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:57:09 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Bruce Toews <toews@[removed]>
> To: otr@[removed]
> Subject: Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge
> Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> I believe Lionel Barrymore was a Christmas-time staple on the Mercury 
> Theatre as Scrooge. Our local OTR-broadcasting station broadcast an 
> incredibly high-quality copy of the 1939 version of this show on 
> Christmas Eve as part of their Christmas Eve OTR special. Actually, come 
> to think of it, I think it was the Campbell's theatre or something to 
> that effect. It was hosted by Orson Wells, I know that.

I have a tape of Barrymore as Scrooge on the Campbell Playhouse.  I
suspect that his playing Scrooge was an annual tradition that continued
under a number of sponsors over the years.  I remember hearing him as
Scrooge on the Hallmark Hall of Fame sometime around 1954 or 1955. 

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:08:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Henry A. Campbell-Ickes" <hacickes@[removed]>
To: OTR mailer <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Paul Weston/Jo Stafford alter-egos
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

A few days ago, Max Schmid mentioned seeing an obit for Paul Weston which 
apparently only alluded to an album for which they won a Grammy.  Now - 
can anyone confirm that this Grammy went to the "Sing Along with 
Jonathan and Darlene Edwards" album?  I've heard anecdotal mention that 
that album was theirs, but no independent confirmation.

Separately -

Can anyone point me toward any "Suspense" scripts?  My father (Don Ickes) 
used to work for CBS radio in NYC in the late 40s and 50s, and directed a 
few of those shows (amongst others), and it'd be a kick to run across 
some that he might have (or actually did) directed.

Thanks in advance!

Hank C-I

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 20:39:06 -0400
From: JRayb71827@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Net & web OTR compilation
Message-ID: <960930203906_533993531@[removed]>

Tom Heathwood's question as to whether anyone has the time and information
(and I assume, inclination) to compile a list of OTR sources on the net and
web strikes a responsive chord.  As mentioned previously, I'll be part of a
panel at the SPERDVAC convention in November concerning OTR activity on both.
 Certainly I'll be mentioning the Digest, Lou Genco's web pages, and Marvin
Bensmann's Univ. of Memphis site.  However, in order to do as much good as
possible in helping disseminate information about OTR and encourage new
enthusiasts, I, too, would appreciate such a list as Tom mentioned.  So, if
one way of doing it is for various postings here on the Digest, so be it.  I
think that would be an excellent way to spread the information around, not
just for subscribers but perhaps for many who don't know diddily about our
great hobby.  Any related info is always happily accepted.  If this sounds
somewhat like a call for help, it IS.  HELP!!!!
                     John Rayburn

Just for the heck of it, here's a "Gracie-ism" for you.

Gracie:  What causes sneezing?

Doctor:  Well, sneezing is usually merely symptomatic of an underlying cause.
 It may be a momentary irritation of mucous membrane, it could be a
psychosomatic manifestation, or it may be due to an infection in the
respiratory system.

Gracie:   My goodness!

Doctor:   I'm afraid that's a little difficult to understand.

Gracie:   Well, say it again slowly and I'll try to explain it to you.




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