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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 71
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Carrington Playhouse                  [ "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@run ]
      Superman's clothes                    [ "G. Morgan Watkins" <morgan@watkins ]
      Hal Stone Obituary                    [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      Paul Temple                           [ "david rogers" <david_rogers@hotmai ]
      "Hit It, Hal!"                        [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      Hal Stone                             [ Don Strong <donsplace@[removed] ]
      3-1 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Every Day in Every Way                [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
      Re: Jack Benny                        [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
      Paul Temple                           [ "david rogers" <david_rogers@hotmai ]
      Latest Met Matinee                    [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
      FW: Clark's suit/new "It's That Time  [ "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@char ]
      Microphones for everyone              [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
      Jim Cox's latest                      [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:37:30 -0500
    From: "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Carrington Playhouse

    Hello, I was listening to the interview with Mason Adams provided by the
    Golden Age Of Radio, a program for which I'm thankful to be able to listen,
    and they played an excerpt from a Carrington Playhouse with Mason, but of
    course not the whole episode, due to time constraints. Assuming I've spelled
    Carrington correctly, Google pulls up nothing. Is this show in wide
    circulation, and how many episodes exist?
    Thanks a lot.
    Matthew

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    Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:40:09 -0500
    From: "G. Morgan Watkins" <morgan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Superman's clothes

    I've not read the entire Superman clothing thread, so please forgive
    if repetitive:

    Superman, according to the comic books of the 1960s, if memory
    serves, had a pouch in
    his cape where he could put his Clark Kent apparel.  Just squish them
    good and slip them in there.  I'm sure it left them wrinkled, a rather
    simple problem for Superman to solve.

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    Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:47:08 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hal Stone Obituary

    Folks;

       The obituary that Dorothy wrote for Hal is available at:

    [removed];SubSectionID=5&ArticleID=21370&TM=[removed]

       ...from the Verde Independant.

             Charlie

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    Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:19:46 -0500
    From: "david rogers" <david_rogers@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Paul Temple
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       I am being a bit of a "Johnny-Come-Lately" here but I recently heard
       the BBCs recreation of "Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery" and I
       really enjoyed it.  My wife kept asking me how old it was.  I also
       hear some interviews with the technicians about how they made a new
       recording sound old (sorry I can't think of a better way to express
       it).

       Does anyone know if the BBC plan to (re) record any other Paul Temple
       shows or in fact any other old shows?
       Love as always, David Rogers

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    Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:21:35 -0500
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "Hit It, Hal!"
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    Hal Stone concluded his last OTR Digest posting  from issue # 47 with:

>     [removed] off sending me any personal e-mails for the next few
>     weeks. I have to go into the hospital in a few days (Feb 12th) for an
>     operation on my heart. No big [removed] a new Aortic valve. The Arteries
>     are all okay. I fully expect to be up and around (more ornery than ever) in
>     time for the Cincy Convention  April 20/21, and of course REPS in June.

>     Hal(Harlan)Stone
>     "Jughead"

    A couple of Wednesdays ago, I was absolutely rendered speechless when my pal
    Steve Thompson phoned me to tell me the sad news of Hal Stone's passing.  I
    made several phone calls that night to folks I knew who didn't have immediate
    access to this forum--including FOTR favourites Arthur Anderson and Will
    Hutchins. When I told Arthur that Hal was downplaying the extent of his heart
    surgery, Arthur, speaking out of his experiences with his pacemaker, told me
    there was no such thing as "routine heart surgery."

    I really cannot add to all the accolades that have already been posted about
    what a swell guy Hal Stone was. Like other post-ers, I've acted in
    re-creations with him in Cincinnati, I've shared panels with him at both the
    Newark and Cincinnati conventions I''ve been seated at the same banquet table
    as Hal, and I've joked around with him in the corridors at various
    conventions.  The year he was selling his book, he actually took the time to
    read aloud from it to my blind friend and conventioneer Joan Leonard.  One
    cannot mint such a dgree of kindness.

    Hal was fiercely loyal to his many OTR friends. My fondest memory of him was
    the time he led the charge in defending Martin Grams here on the Digest when a
    certain person took Marty to task for something too trivial to even recount.
    My funniest memory of Hal was at last year's Cincinnati OTR & Nostalgia
    Convention. That convention's impresario Bob Burchett had asked me to host a
    get-acquainted panel with guests Hal Stone, Rosemary Rice, Bob Hastings, and
    Fred Foy. It was an informal panel in which these OTR cinvention perennials
    told humourous stories from their respective careers. Bob had concluded a
    story about having worked on a film with Rock Hudson while having to fend off
    intruders from various scandal-sheets who were plying him for some dirt about
    Hudson's lifestyle.

    Ever the gentleman, Mr. Hastings said that at the time he didn't care about
    what Rock Hudson did on his free time, said he had heard the rumours, and
    asserted "[Hudson] never tried anything with me." After a well-timed pause,
    Hal blurted out to Bob, "CAN YOU BLAME HIM?!"

    That's what I'm going to miss most about Hal--his good-natured ribbing of Bob
    Hastings. Aw, relax, Bob, re-laxxxx!

    You know what I liked best about Hal Stone? He was my pal.

    Wishing everybody comfort and solace from the ether,

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:22:27 -0500
    From: Don Strong <donsplace@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hal Stone

    I've not posted anything about Hal yet simply because I couldn't find
    the words to say what I [removed] I still can't; fortunately many of
    you have said it faster and better.

    I had communicated via email with Mr. Stone for almost two years
    before I finally got to meet him in person at REPS. I had jokingly
    told him that I'd named my first born kid of the year after him, and
    would bring a picture. He was delighted to be presented with a
    picture of a goat - and referred to me as an 'old goat' forever
    after. :-)

    I think the best illustration of what an energetic, gracious and kind
    man Hal was is the following story:

    My mother had been quite excited to get to meet 'Jughead', so as the
    banquet was winding down, I went over to Hal's table to get him - and
    when we got to our table at the other end of the room, Mom had left!
    After a quick hello to my wife, he grabbed my and, and off we went in
    search of Mom!  We didn't find her then, but after the next
    recreation, Hal bounded off the stage, grabbed me again, and asked
    'have you found her yet?'  I pointed her out and off we were!  She
    beamed when up bounded Hal Stone with me in tow, almost shouting "Hi,
    Mom! Can I have a hug?"

    That, to me, is the best example of the the gentleman wrapped up in
    an imp costume that was Hal Stone.

         -- Don

    "Power corrupts.  Powerpoint corrupts absolutely."
             --- Brian Braunschweiger

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    Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:22:36 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-1 births/deaths

    March 1st births

    03-01-1885 - Lionel Atwill - Croydon, England - d. 4-22-1946
    singer: "Eveready Hour"
    03-01-1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos - Athens, Greece - d. 11-2-1960
    conductor: "The NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    03-01-1896 - George Frame Brown - d. 11-19-1979
    actor: Gus "Tony and Gus"
    03-01-1903 - Charlie Lyon - Detroit, MI - d. 5-11-1985
    announcer: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Lum and Abner"
    03-01-1904 - Glenn Miller - Clarinda, IA - d. 12-15-1944
    bandleader: "Moonlight Serenade"; "USO Matinee"
    03-01-1904 - Paul Hartman - d. 10-2-1973
    actor: "Tony Awards"
    03-01-1906 - Lester Grffith - Illinois - d. 11-20-1991
    announcer: "Dan Harding's Wife"; "Candid Microphone"
    03-01-1910 - David Niven - Kirriemuir, Scotland - d. 7-29-1983
    actor, panelist: "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Transatlantic Quiz"
    03-01-1914 - Gil Doud - Minnesota - d. 12-17-1957
    writer, director: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "One out of Seven"; "Pat
    Novak for Hire"
    03-01-1915 - Cy Harrice - Chicago, IL
    announcer: "Big Story"; "Cavalcade of America"
    03-01-1917 - David Dunhill - England - d. 3-20-2005
    announcer: "BBC Light Programme"; "Take It From Here"
    03-01-1927 - Harry Belafonte - NYC
    singer, actor: "Imaage Minorities"; "Stagestruck"
    03-01-1933 - Mary Linn Beller - d. 4-13-2000
    actor: Barbara (Babby) "The Brighter Day"

    March 1st deaths

    01-20-1895 - Roscoe Ates - Grange, MS - d. 3-1-1962
    stuttering comedian: "Shell Chateau"; "Comedy Stars of Hollywood"
    02-17-1906 - Charlie Spivak - New Haven, CT - d. 3-1-1982
    orchestra leader: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    02-20-1907 - Nadine Conner - Compton, CA - d. 3-1-2003
    singer: "Show Boat"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
    03-15-1904 - Pat O'Malley - Burnley, Lancashire, England - d. 3-1-1985
    actor: "Cavalcade of America";"Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-27-1937 - Sandy Dennis - Hastings, NE - d. 3-1-1992
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-17-1907 - Jack Petruzzi - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-1-1967
    actor: "Ann Worth, Housewife"; "The Lone Ranger"; "Joe Palooka"
    05-27-1911 - Herb Meadow - d. 3-1-1995
    creator, writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    06-14-1915 - Kay Sutton - Irvington, NJ - d. 3-1-1988
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-16-1915 - Elaine Barrie - NYC - d. 3-1-2003
    actor: (Wife of John Barrymore) "Streamlined Shakespeare"
    08-12-1907 - Joe Besser - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-1-1988
    comedian: ("No so faaaast! . . . oh, you craaaaze you!) "Jack Benny
    Program"
    08-31-1917 - Burleigh Robbins Downey, Jr. - d. 3-1-2000
    news director: "You are the Jury"
    09-17-1905 - Dolores Costello - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-1-1979
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"; "Second Sunday"
    10-04-1892 - Kathryn Card - Butte, MT - d. 3-1-1964
    actor: Grandmother Barton "The Bartons"; Mrs. Wiggins "Uncle Walter's
    Dog House"
    10-26-1914 - Jackie Coogan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-1-1984
    actor: Ernest Botch "Forever Ernest"
    11-03-1903 - John Sylvester - Mississippi - d. 3-1-1995
    actor, host: "Now Hear This"; "One Thousand Dollars Reward"
    12-09-1903 - Brace Beemer - Mount Carmel, IL - d. 3-1-1965
    actor: Lone Ranger "Lone Ranger"
    12-26-1893 - Vladimir Golschmann - Paris, France - d. 3-1-1972
    conductor: New York Philharmonic
    xx-xx-xxxx - Edith Walton - d. 3-1-1975
    journalist: "Speaking of Books"; "Author Meets the Critics"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:00:48 -0500
    From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Every Day in Every Way

    Hi Gang,
    In issue 47, Randall F. Miller, Jr. asks about a broadcast from the 1920's
    in which
    Emile Coue  used his famous catch-phrase, " Every day in every way I'm
    getting
    better and better."
    While I don't have this broadcast in my collection, I was reminded of one  of
    Jean
    Shepherd's broadcasts (from the 1970's?) in which Jean opened his show with
    this
    slight variation: "Every day in every way, I am growing more  magnificent."
    Shepherd's broadcast I have - somewhere.

    See you in Cincinnati -- Ken Piletic - Streamwood,  Illinois

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    Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:48:39 -0500
    From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Jack Benny

    Does anyone know which Jack Benny shows has the following:

    I am looking for any of the shows that has the famous "Oh,
    Rochester."  "Yes, Mr. Benny" or "Yes, Boss."

    ======

    I'm hoping someone here knows the shows by heart and could point me
    to a date. Thanks.

    Fred
    Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:09:08 -0500
    From: "david rogers" <david_rogers@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Paul Temple
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>     I am being a bit of a "Johnny-Come-Lately" here but I recently heard
>     the BBCs recreation of "Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery" and I
>     really enjoyed it.

    Does anyone know if the BBC plan to (re) record any other Paul Temple
    shows or in fact any other old shows?
    Love as always, David Rogers

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    Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:31:13 -0500
    From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Latest Met Matinee

    Would a fellow opera lover help me recover from a major mistake?  We
    went to the HDTV cinema presentation of Eugene Onegin last Saturday,
    but I neglected to set equipment to record the audio from the radio or
    the Internet.  If anyone would be willing to share their mp3 file or a
    set of conventional cds, that would be marvelous.  MORE than marvelous.

    And if I can return the favor with something like the audio from the
    opening night of The First Emperor, I'd be glad to oblige.

    --Martin Fass
    527 Linden Street
    Rochester, NY 14620

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    Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:33:48 -0500
    From: "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  FW: Clark's suit/new "It's That Time Again"
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    Later in the Superman series, it was explained that the Man of Steel using
    super strength and speed compressed Clark Kent's clothes into a small packet
    and put them in a compartment in his cape.  Sort of like those bags they
    sell on TV where you pump all the air out of blankets and get a small flat
    package.

                I am now ready to look at short stories for a fourth edition of
    "It's That Time Again".  This volume is thematic in that we only want
    mystery and detective stories.  Crossovers, where one famous radio character
    meets another, are not required but can be used.  Comedy characters could
    appear but they would have to be involved in a mystery, or connected with
    another mystery character.  However, this type of story involving comedy
    would be much in the minority.   We want real mystery stories.  Please
    consult me first before writing any story in full.

                JIM HARMON (at Barbara's domain)

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    Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:55:57 -0500
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Microphones for everyone

    Ken Greenwald tells of how Harry Bartell's radio drama students

>     thought there had to be a microphone for everyone. Each actor had to
>     have their own mike. The announcer had to have his own mike. Each
>     section of the orchestra had to have a separate mike. All this was to
>     go directly into a mixing board where the sound could be balanced
>     properly. What surprised all the students was (Harry said) that only
>     one or two mikes were needed.

    In late 1929, one of NBC's top drama directors, Gerald Stopp, visited
    the BBC and got a similar reaction from the British professionals.
    Here's part of an article from the 21 December 1929 Christian Science
    Monitor:

    ***
    ... Accustomed to having every type of sound produced in the studio in
    which he is directing and to varying its apparent distance from the
    center of the stage by changing its intensity at the source, Mr. Stopp
    was surprised to find that the British practice is quite different.
    There the director works undisturbed in a room containing only the
    principal actors. Somewhere in the building another chamber contains a
    number of people who upon receiving a prearranged signal will use
    their full voices in producing exactly the cries they would use if
    they were actually witnessing the scene that was in progress. In other
    rooms people and machines are ready to give nearly exact imitations of
    any kind of sound background which may be needed.

    While these sounds are produced in natural volume, the director
    controls their dominance of the actual output by means of "faders"
    which are within easy reach near the signal button.

    The British directors were surprised that anything but confusion could
    result from the practice of controlling all the different elements
    used in a program in one room. Artists appearing in one of the
    radiocasts for the first time often have the same feeling--and perhaps
    do not do their work so well on this account.

    Mr. Stopp, however, points out that this confusion is only apparent to
    the uninitiated. What actually goes upon the air is just as distinct
    and effective as is the director's idea of what it should be. To him
    the thought of relying upon the response to electric signals to
    produce any particular sound at any given moment, presents very grave
    difficulties. He likes to have his players and mechanics within reach
    of his glance and within sight of his meaning gestures.

    "Nothing Goes Wrong"

    "But what happens if anything goes wrong and the signals do not bring
    the sounds you need?" he asked the director who was explaining the
    system to him.

    "Nothing ever does go wrong!" was the reply.

    "But surely sometimes things don't turn out just the way you want
    them?"

    "Nothing has ever gone wrong yet. You know we rehearse each short
    scene for eight or nine hours!"

    "So do we in New York, and still things don't always go just the way I
    should like them to!" replied the unconvinced Mr. Stopp. ...
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    Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:46:13 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jim Cox's latest

    I have been prone to call John Dunning's "On the Air" the bible of
    OTR fandom. I feel compelled to revise that statement. "On the Air"
    is now the old testament. Jim Cox, that wonderful friend to the OTR
    community, has come out with a new book. All books by Cox are, for
    the lack of a better word, magnificent. But, in "Radio Speakers:
    Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters,
    Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of
    the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s - A Biographical
    Dictionary," hereinafter "Radio Speaker," he has outdone himself.
    This is the new testament of OTR fandom. "Radio Speakers" is a book
    for the ages. This book will rank among the best for radio
    researchers of the future. It is about as complete as a work of this
    kind can be. They are all there, from William Perry Adams to Alice
    Yourman. All the major players are there, as expected, but there are
    also one  heck of a lot of minor players. It has already proved
    invaluable to me for my birth/death list. When I want to know
    anything about radio speakers, this will be my go to book. I know
    that JIm has a lot of wonderful books left in him, but he will have
    to go some to top this one.

    Ron Sayles

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