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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 331
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Kryptonite                            [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      Re: Christmas Programs                [ Andrew Godfrey <niteowl049@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 25 Novemb  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Christmas shows & Henry [removed]     [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      Keeping Christmas well                [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Waterman's Gildy years                [ Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed] ]
      Back to Gildersleeve                  [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
      AFTRA/SAG OTR Show                    [ Randylarson999@[removed] ]
      radio spirits                         [ marknichols06@[removed] ]
      Mebbe, mebbe not?                     [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      11-24 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:58:50 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Kryptonite

>     Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:30:02 -0500
>     From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];

>     The story goes that Kryptonite was created so 'Bud' Collyer could
>     have two weeks off, with another actor's moans covering for him.
>     But this storyline only ran for a week and two days, and Collyer's
>     in the one surviving segment.

    I thought Kryptonite was created because Superman was getting more
    and more powerful and needed a nemisis.  And then Batman was brought
    in because Supes needed someone more credible than Lois Lane to
    rescue him from Kryptonite.

    On the other hand, when I was in law school, I wrote a skit in the
    Law School Show in which Superman was sued because his Kryptonian
    super-dog was dissolving fire hydrants all over Metropolis.  He also
    looks at Lois Lane with his X-ray vision.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:53:22 -0500
    From: Andrew Godfrey <niteowl049@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Christmas Programs

    Another special Christmas program was Why the Chimes Rang on Great
    Gildersleeve. It can be heard on the Gildersleeve program of 49-12-14.

    My personal favorite is the show previously mentioned in a post when Amos
    explains the Lord's Prayer to his daughter  Arbadella with Christmas music
    playing in background on Amos and Andy heard on 51-12-21 but was broadcast as
    an annual Christmas show for many years and was later shown on the TV version
    of Amos and Andy.

    In addition the Fibber McGee and Molly program with Marian Jordan being the
    voice of Teeny the little girl next door reciting the words of "Twas the
    Night Before Christmas" while the Kingsmen sing along. The episodes that have
    this song at the end include:

    Listening To Christmas Carols 12/22/42
    Looking For A Christmas Tree 12/21/43
    Early Christmas Gift 12/19/44
    White Christmas Tree 12/18/45
    Night Before Christmas 12/24/46
    Lost Keys 12/23/47
    Best Christmas Decorations 12/20/49
    McGee, the Postman 12/19/50
    Doc's Surprise Party 12/23/52

    My main way of reliving the Christmases of the past is listening to old time
    radio Christmas shows from the past. You can still hear the Great
    Gildersleeve worrying about what present to give Fibber McGee and trying to
    make sure it he didn't spend one penny more on Fibber than what Fibber spent
    on his gift.

    You can hear Lum N' Abner walking on Christmas Eve on a cold night to help a
    man and his wife who are down on their luck and the lady has to have a baby
    in a a remote house that night. This show can be heard many times around
    Christmas  and started in the 1940's. You can hear Amos on Amos and Andy
    telling his daughter Arbadella about the Lord's Prayer while a Christmas
    carol is being played softly in the background.

    The funniest Christmas show from old time radio days was Fred Allen running a
    department store in one of his earliest shows from 1932 and the highlight was
    Roy Atwell delivering a pep talk to the employees. That talk is the funniest
    thing I have ever heard on an old time radio program.

    You can hear "A Daddy for Christmas" on Family Theater on 48-12-15 a story
    about a lady and her son who lost their dad in World War II. A department
    store Santa Claus and the boy's mom fall in love and get married and even
    though there are some parts in the story when things go wrong it ends with
    them being very happily married. You cannot listen to this story without
    being wrapped up in the story emotionally.

    So even though Christmas will never be like it was back in the 50's it still
    can be relived through these wonderful Christmas stories that were heard on
    old time radio years ago.

    Andrew Godfrey

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    Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:53:32 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 25 November to 1
     December

     From Those Were The Days --

    11/25

    1920 - The first play-by-play coverage of a football game was broadcast
    by WTAW in College Station, TX. Texas University beat the Aggies of
    Texas A&M, 7-3.

    1944 - CBS presented The FBI in Peace and War for the first time. It
    became one of the longest-running crime shows on radio -- lasting 14 years.

    1945 - A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, [removed] Pinafore, was
    broadcast on The Fred Allen Show. The spoof was titled, The Brooklyn
    Pinafore. Joining actress Shirley Booth in the skit was baseball great
    Leo 'The Lip' Durocher.

    1960 - Radio actors were put out of work when CBS axed five serials
    (soap operas) from the airwaves. We said so long to The Second Mrs.
    Burton (after 14 years), Young Doctor Malone, Whispering Streets (after
    8 years), Right to Happiness (after 21 years) and Ma Perkins (after 27
    wonderful years.) In 1940, the high point for these radio programs,
    there were as many as 45 on the air each day!

    11/26

    1945 - The program, Bride and Groom, debuted on the NBC Blue network. It
    is estimated that 1,000 newly-wed couples were interviewed on the
    program before it left the airwaves in 1950.

    11/27

    1930 - Broadcasting from "...the little theatre off Times Square,"
    according to the shows introduction, The First Nighter was first heard.
    The program, which actually originated from Chicago, then from
    Hollywood, aired for 23 years and featured dramas and comedies.

    11/28

    1932 - Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.

    11/29

    1950 - "I Fly Anything", starring singer Dick Haymes in the role of
    cargo pilot Dockery Crane, premiered on ABC. With a title like that, is
    it any wonder the show only lasted one season? Haymes went back to
    singing and did very well, thank you.

    11/30

    1940 - Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.

    Joe

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    Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:54:15 -0500
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Christmas shows & Henry [removed]
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      Someone asked about favorite Christmas shows.  Here is my short [removed]

      Columbia Workshop:  The day they gave babies away.  12/46.
      Quiet, Please:  Berlin 1945.  12/26/48.
      CBSRadio Mystery Theater:  Holiday visit.  12/25/80.
      --Very Private Miricle.  12/24/74.

      And, of course, the Christmas Carol in Lionel Barrymore's reading of
    12/24/39.

      Another topic:  I would like to get a few more Henry Morgan shows, either
    the monologs or the ABC prime time shows.  They are still a delight 60 years
    later!
      Cassette or CD and will trade for anything I have.  My catalog is on the OTR
    link below.

      Ted Kneebone /  1528 S. Grant Street, Aberdeen, SD  57401
      Phone: 605-226-3344 / OTR: [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:54:48 -0500
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Keeping Christmas well

    suelhamilton@[removed] writes:

>     I'd like  something that  maybe touched a person's heart strings or brought
>     home  the  Christmas message in a dramatic and memorable way.

    Dear  Sue-

    What a great thread, and noble goal!

    Well, as lifelong  fan/sometime purveyor of Mr. Dickens' CAROL (aka "the
    fifth gospel"), I'd of  course recommend the classic 1939 Mercury/Campbell
    Barrymore production of that.  Though the story's cut a lot for time to allow
    Welles'
    usual gassing on, it is  quite wonderfully performed by all hands.

    Then, for a bit more  modern grit in the telling, but still with deep, deep
    meaning, there are  the two DRAGNET holiday staples, THE BIG LITTLE JESUS and
    THE BIG 22  RIFLE.

    If you able to touch "The Origin Story", which I know might be  problematic
    if you're in a public school, I believe THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD  covered
    that ground.

    Holiday best,
    -Craig " sometime 'Scrooge' "  Wichman

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    Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:15:45 -0500
    From: Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed];
    To: Old Radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Waterman's Gildy years

    I recently wrote that in two recorded interviews, Willard Waterman said he
    had portrayed Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve for nine years, from 1950-1959.
    Jim Cox, who says the last broadcast on record was in 1958,  responded:

>     Could Waterman be taking editorial license and rounding up the portion of
>     1958 he broadcast to 1959?  Is that one plausible explanation?  Not sure
>     when those interviews were recorded but minds have been known to slip
>     after a while, too.

        Anything is possible. One interview was recorded in 1982; I'm not sure of
    the date of the other. In both, Waterman took care to note that he and Harold
    Peary had played Gildy for the same length of time -- nine years. So who
    knows.

    Richard Carpenter

    [removed] In answer to Mr. Cox's   other question, I am not the singer. Truth be
    told, I am unable to carry a tune.

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    Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:13:51 -0500
    From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Back to Gildersleeve

    I posted, on OTRD #328 , 11/20/2007, info on Willard Waterman as Gildy
    Here is  what wrote:

>     Gildy's last full network half  hour prime time show was #551  on
>     06-02-54 :30:00 mi .Final show of the main series.
>     On 9/27/54 until 6/30/55 Gildy was on 4 nights a week ( Monday through
>     Thursday) with multi sponsors for 15 minutes
>     Then Gildy was back on 10/20/55 until 3/21/57 on Thursdays for 25
>     minutes with multi sponsors.

    Correction #1 The last series was  for 25 minutes for Kraft Foods

    Correction #2 Willard played Gildy for NINE yeas, BUT not all on radio,
    he played Gildy on TV for 39 syndicated episodes, one season, and they
    did 3 pilots. It did not do well because they couldn't use Walter
    Tetley  (Leroy) it just wasn't the same with out him.

    I went to my vault and dug out my tape of Chuck Schaden's 48 minute,
    March1984, interview with Willard Waterman, and he said he did Gildy for
    9 years.
    I haven't heard the tape in over 23 years. Willard  started  radio in
    Chicago (1935) . He described how he often appeared  in 3 different
    network's soap operas in 45 minutes  in different  building  in down
    town [removed] did  it by  having an elevator standing by and  a taxi
    waiting for him to whisk him to the next studio that he had and elevator
    waiting for him just making it by the time the opening commercial was
    over. He stated that many week he averaged 40 shows a week. His hours
    were 10:00 AM to 10 or 11:00 PM. In those Chicago had live radio on WGN
    (Mutual), WCFL (NBC Blue), WMAQ (NBC Red),  WBBM
    ( CBS)  amd WIND (local) and several others He had worked at all of then.

    Frank McGurn

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    Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:15:40 -0500
    From: Randylarson999@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  AFTRA/SAG OTR Show
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    For those of you in the Chicagoland area (and that includes you
    Milwaukeeans!), the AFTRA/SAG Senior Players next OTR presentation will take place
    Wednesday night, November 28, 2007 at the Claudia Cassidy Theater, in the Chicago
    Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph Street (at Michigan Ave.).  The doors open at 6:30
    for this FREE show at 7:00 [removed], but please plan on arriving early as the 300
    seat theatre fills quickly.

    Our talented professionals, many from the Golden Age of Radio, will perform
    two one-half hour recreations.  First up, will be an episode from Lights Out
    entitled:  "The Poltergeist."  Directed by Connie Foster, this show will thrill
    and chill you!  Next will be a rare comedy from radio's "Theater of
    Thrills"----Suspense.  In an episode directed by Parker Gronwold entitled:  "A Present
    for Benny,"  watch the Christmas cheer that results from one underworld
    character's attempt to make the holiday season less than merry for a competitor.

    Come and enjoy radio drama as it used to be done and discover why the medium
    was called the theater of the imagination.

    Randy Larson

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    Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:16:31 -0500
    From: marknichols06@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  radio spirits
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    I just got a new Radio Spirits catalog in the mail.  I thought they were no
    longer around.  Did someone buy them and keep it going?  Anyone know what
    happened?

    mark

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    Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:38:35 -0500
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mebbe, mebbe not?

    From: mikennancy2001@[removed]

>     ...Conrad dubbed in "...the smell of  HORSESH*T."  ... the announcer really
>     inflected the word "GUNSMOKE" for  many episodes after that because Conrad
>     kept whispering the dirty word under  his breath while they were on the
>     [removed]

    Mike-

    Weren't all GUNSOKES transcribed? In which case, it wasn't on-air, but
    during recording, and not as risky?

    -Craig W.

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    Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:59:50 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-24 births/deaths

    November 24th births

    11-24-1877 - Alben Barkley - Lowes, KY - d. 4-30-1956
    [removed] vice president: "Information Please"
    11-24-1884 - Jack Jones - Merthyr Tydfil, Wales - d. 5-7-1970
    author of radio scripts
    11-24-1888 - Cathleen Nesbitt - Belfast, Northern Ireland - d. 8-2-1982
    actor: "Philco Radio Playhouse"
    11-24-1888 - Dale Carnegie - Maryville, MO - d. 11-1-1955
    author, lecturer: "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
    11-24-1891 - Ben Gross - Birmingham, AL - d. 8-13-1979
    wrote newspaper column critiquing radio
    11-24-1896 - Alice Remsen - London, England - d. unknown
    actor/singer: "The Musical Story Lady"; "The Palmolive Hour"
    11-24-1900 - Ireene Wicker - Quincy, IL - d. 11-17-1987
    actor: (The Singing Lady) Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"; Eileen Moran
    "Today's Children"
    11-24-1903 - Bernard Lenrow - Binghamton, NY - d. 10-9-1963
    actor: Geoffrey Barnes "Molle Mystery Theatre"
    11-24-1904 - Pegeen Fitzgerald - Norcatur, KS - d. 1-30-1989
    host: "The Fitzgeralds"
    11-24-1905 - Harry Barris - NYC - d. 12-13-1962
    singer (member of The Rhythm Boys) "Paul Whiteman Presents"
    11-24-1905 - Vee Lawnhurst - NYC - d. unknown
    pianist, singer: "The Van Huesen Program"
    11-24-1906 - Don McLaughlin - Webster, IA - d. 5-28-1986
    actor: David Harding "Counterspy"; "Jim Brent "Road of Life";
    Chaplain Jim "Chaplain Jim"
    11-24-1906 - Willard P. Farnum - Mankato, MN - d. 3-29-1994
    actor: Harold Teen "Harold Teen"; John Adams "Woman in White"
    11-24-1908 - Worth Kramer - d. 7-19-1998
    director: "Wings Over Jordan"
    11-24-1911 - Kirby Grant - Butte, MO - d. 10-30-1985
    singer, actor: "Gatewood to Hollywood"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    11-24-1912 - Garson Kanin - Rochester, NY - d. 3-13-1999
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-24-1912 - Teddy Wilson - Austin, TX - d. 7-31-1986
    jazz pianist: "Benny Goodman and His Orchestra"; "Saturday Night
    Swing Club"
    11-24-1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland - d. 7-17-2005
    actor: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Ford Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    11-24-1918 - Lee Bonnell (Terry Belmont) - Royal Center, IN - d.
    5-12-1986
    actor: (Husband of Gale Storm) "Gateway to Hollywood"
    11-24-1918 - Tom Fouts (Captain Stubby) - d. 5-24-2004
    humorist: "National Barn Dance"; "Is Anybody Home?"
    11-24-1927 - Eileen Barton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-27-2006
    singer: "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Eileen Barton Show"; "MGM Musical
    Comedy Theatre"

    November 24th deaths

    01-17-1914 - Howard Marion-Crawford - England - d. 11-24-1969
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "BBC Home Theatre"
    02-13-1905 - Fred Jeske - Ferguson, MO - d. 11-24-1957
    actor: Uncle Remus "Uncle Remus"
    02-16-1909 - Jeffrey Lynn - Auburn, MA - d. 11-24-1995
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hallmark Playhouse:' "MGM Theatre of the
    Air"
    02-26-1916 - Dick Dunham - NYC - d. 11-24-1989
    announcer: "Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters"
    03-10-1909 - Bob Taplinger - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-24-1975
    head of publicity CBS: Credited with idea of Gracie Allen"s lost brother
    04-06-1921 - Arnold Marquis - Dortmund, Germany - d. 11-24-1990
    producer, writer: "Pacific Story"; "Unlimited Horizons"
    04-23-1921 - Warren Spahn - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-2003
    hall of fame pitcher: "Tops in Sports"
    05-06-1908 - Parkyakarkus (Harry Einstein) - Boston, MA - d. 11-24-1958
    comedian: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Al Jolson Show"; "Meet Me at Parkys"
    06-02-1879 - Florence Edney - London, England - d. 11-24-1950
    actor: Aunt Maizie "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    06-06-1906 - Asher Sizemore - Manchester, KY - d. 11-24-1975
    singer with son Jimmie: "Grand Old Opry"
    06-08-1907 - Craig McDonnell - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-1956
    actor: Dinty Moore "Bringing Up Father"; Jolly Rogers "Valiant Lady"
    07-11-1888 - Dr. Lyman Bryson - Valentine, NE - d. 11-24-1959
    moderator: "American School of the Air"; "Invitation to Learning";
    "People's Platform"
    08-02-1902 - Guy Repp - d. 11-24-1986
    actor: Dr. Abernathy "County Seat"; Benito Mussoline "Our Secret Weapon"
    09-26-1895 - George Raft - NYC - d. 11-24-1980
    actor: Rocky Jordan "Rocky Jordan"
    12-23-1893 - Anne O'Neal - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-24-1971
    actor: Cynthia Veryberry "Grapevine Rancho"
    12-24-1895 - Ruth Chatterton - NYC - d. 11-24-1961
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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