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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 118
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Cincinnati Airport [ Booksteve@[removed] ]
Hy Averbach [ "Lois Culver" <loiseula@[removed] ]
4-16 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Gunsmoke episode [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
First Nighter thanks [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
Convention-ally speaking [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
BBC Archives article [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
The Cisco Kid [ "Robert Birchard" <bbirchard@earthl ]
VONNEGUT TALE ON A SUNNY DAY IN NEW [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
Cincy Conventioneers [ mmartini@[removed] ]
ABC, ABS, FDR, Morro Castle Mystery! [ <verotas@[removed]; ]
Cincinnati Convention [removed] [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
Cincy Request [ ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen) ]
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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:18:22 -0400
From: Booksteve@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cincinnati Airport
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Hey, it occurs to me if any of you fine folks are coming to next weekend's
Cincy convention by air on Thursday, drop in and see me at the BORDERS I
manage in Concourse B at the Cincinnati Airport! We even have a few signed
copies
of IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN 3 left featuring my JOHNNY DOLLAR at DUFFY'S TAVERN
story! I'm working 1 to close on Thursday so I hope to see some familiar
faces!
Steve Thompson
("Booksteve" from BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY)
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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:02:50 -0400
From: "Lois Culver" <loiseula@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Hy Averbach
Richard J. Smith asks re this actor/announcer. Look for him under correct
spelling: Hy Averbach.
Lois Culver
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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:18:21 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-16 births/deaths
April 16th births
04-16-1889 - Charles Chaplin - London, England - d. 12-25-1977
actor: "Dodge Brothers Hour"
04-16-1895 - Mischa Mischakoff - Proskourov, Russia - d. 2-1-1981
violinist: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "NBC String Trio"
04-16-1897 - Milton J. Cross - NYC - d. 1-3-1975
announcer, commentator: (The Voice of the Met) "General Motors Concerts"
04-16-1898 - Marian Jordan - Peoria, IL - d. 4-7-1961
commedienne: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"
04-16-1904 - Fifi D'Orsay - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 12-2-1983
singer: "Folies De Paris"; "This Is Your Life"
04-16-1909 - Dick Wynn - d. 8-24-1996
announcer: "Count of Monte Cristo"; "The Lone Wolf"
04-16-1913 - Les Tremayne - London, England - d. 12-19-2003
actor: Nick Charles "Advs. of the Thin Man"; Michael Waring "The Falcon"
04-16-1914 - Frank Vass - Greenville, SC
singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phenix Program"
04-16-1914 - John Hodiak - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-19-1955
actor: L'il Abner "L'il Abner"; Butch Cavendish "Lone Ranger"
04-16-1917 - Jean Holloway - d. 11-11-1989
writer: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Mayor of the Town"; "Mr. President"
04-16-1918 - Joan Alexander - St. Paul, MN
actor: Lois Lane "Advs. of Superman"; Ellen Deering "Philo Vance"
04-16-1918 - Spike Milligan - Ahmednagar, India - d. 2-27-2002
comedian: Eccles the Idiot, Miss Minnie Bannister, Count Moriarty
"Goon Show"
04-16-1920 - Barry Nelson - San Francisco, CA
actor: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Treasury Salute"; "Monitor"
04-16-1921 - Peter Ustinov - London, England - d. 3-28-2004
actor: "Freedom Forum"; "Mitch Miller Show"; "In Any Direction"
04-16-1924 - Henry Mancini - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-14-1994
orchestra leader: "Family Theatre"; "Voices of Vista"
04-16-1927 - Edie Adams - Kingston, PA
singer, actor: "Stewart Foster Show"
04-16-1930 - Herbie Mann - NYC - d. 7-1-2003
jazz flutist: "Voices of Vista"; "Sounds of Freedom"
04-16-1935 - Bobby Vinton - Canonsburg, PA
singer: "Christmas Seal Campaign"
04-16-xxxx - Mark Smith - NYC - d. 5-9-1944
actor: Jiggs "Bringing Up Father"; "Uria Calwalder "Show Boat"
April 16th deaths
01-04-1910 - Ann Jamison - Belfast, Ireland - d. 4-16-1961
singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "The Packard Hour"
01-05-1916 - Alfred Ryder - NYC - d. 4-16-1995
actor: Sammie Goldberg "The Goldbergs"; Carl "Easy Aces"
03-03-1896 - Willie Fung - Canton, China - d. 4-16-1945
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-25-1908 - David Lean - Croydon, Surrey, England - d. 4-16-1991
screenwriter, film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-15-1926 - Regis J. "Rege" Cordic - Hazelwood, PA - d. 4-16-1999
Replaced Bob Crane on station KNX in Los Angeles, California
05-26-1908 - Vera Van - Marion, OH - d. 4-16-1992
singer: "The George Jessel Show"; "The Vicks Open House"
08-04-1921 - Herb Purdum - d. 4-16-1993
writer: "Gunsmoke"
08-11-1912 - Alan Kent - Chicago, IL - d. 4-16-1991
announcer: "Jane Arden"; "Pepper Young's Family"
08-15-1885 - Edna Ferber - Kalamazoo, MI - d. 4-16-1968
author: "Cavalcade of America"; "Cables from Lisbon"; "Campbell
Playhouse"
09-10-1904 - Emery Deutsch - Budapest, Hungary - d. 4-16-1997
conductor: "Arabesque"; "Let's Pretend"
09-13-1924 - Scott Brady - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-16-1985
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-16-1919 - Andy Russell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-16-1992
singer: "Your Hit Parade"
09-19-1912 - William Abramchik - d. 4-16-1998
newscaster: Chicago, Illinois
12-07-1892 - Fay Bainter - Los Angeles, CA, - d. 4-16-1968
actor: "Nobody's Children"; "Cavalcade of America"
12-16-1946 - Robert Urich - Toronto, OH - d. 4-16-2002
salesman: WGN Chicago, Illinois
Ron Sayles
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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:19:41 -0400
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Gunsmoke episode
Matt makes a decision and has Chester count out a thousand dollars:
Krocker's no questions asked reward for the return of the money. He
gives the money to Jerry and Janet for a fresh start in Wyoming.
Thus affirming that crime does indeed pay.
I knew there must be a reason that I grew up with no moral bearings
whatever.
M Kinsler
noted criminal
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:45:48 -0400
From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: First Nighter thanks
Hi,
Thanks all for sending the First Nighter shows. I got them now. I
thought I posted a note here but I guess it didn't go
through. Anyway, thanks all for your help and it looks like the CD
set will be good. I'm impressed with it anyway. My grandpa grew up
in the OTR era so remembers some shows. I included a couple Benny
Goodman, the First Nighter of course and some other music. I am
still interested in getting non-mp3 copies but I'm not in such a huge rush now.
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Tony Baechler
Baechler Productions
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:05:40 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Convention-ally speaking
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A book I was proofreading the other day here at Talking Books contained the
sentence "In the purity of her home she conformed to old-time convention but
was affable beyond what the females of antiquity approved;". I focused on the
phrase "old-time convention" and showed it to a colleague, who suggested that
maybe I could locate the word "radio" elsewhere in the narrative and
digitally graft it into the foregoing and come up with the phrase "old-time
radio convention' (for our own amusement, of course; we'd never compromise
the text of an end-product talking book).
As for finding the word "radio: doubtful. The sentence came from Book 5, part
1, line 3 of "The Annals" by Roman historian Tacitus, written circa [removed] 68. I
did however find a specious radio connection, howver. The translation we're
recording is by A. J. Woodward, who happens to be the Basil L. Gildersleeve
[whoever he is] Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.
I'll be at Cincinnati later this [removed] only in spirit and in the ether.
Have fun, everybody!
Derekus Tagus
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:09:36 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: BBC Archives article
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Hi Folks. This mornings Daily Telegraph ( London ) carried an article about
the future of the BBC Archives going online. Best way to see the article is
to go to [removed] and in the search box type in ' bbc archives ' .
It should then take you straight to the April 16th report.
Graeme Stevenson Editor : Tune into Yesterday newsletter, UK
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:39:20 -0400
From: "Robert Birchard" <bbirchard@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Cisco Kid
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Jack French wrote:
Fortunately most people had forgotten about this story
when the first film was made in 1929 with Warner Baxter as the hero.
The Cisco Kid now was a Mexican and a more kind, generous, and happy
soul one could scarcely ask for in a saddle companion. The picture, "In
Old Arizona," produced by Fox Film Corporation, was a big success,
Baxter won an Oscar, and he went on to make two more movies of the
Cisco Kid.
Not quite correct. There was some sort of dispute over the
character/remake rights and Warner Baxter's second film in the trilogy, "The
Arizona Kid" (1930) made no reference to the Cisco Kid at all, even though
the character was essentially the same as the one he played in "In Old
Arizona" (1929) and "The Cisco Kid" (1931).
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:50:09 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: VONNEGUT TALE ON A SUNNY DAY IN NEW YORK
Now that we're telling stories about great men who loved the radio, let me
recreate a day some years ago on the streets of New York. Specifically the
street outside the fabled Players Club where I was awaiting the arrival of
Paul
Krassner, publisher of the REALIST to speak about his new book to a gathering
of the world press and fans.
A sad day whenever any author leaves the planet, especially one who seems to
have altered that very planet's outlook.
This from 1997-8
I was standing outside the Players Club having a smoke with a small group of
people waiting for Paul's arrival when I was approached by a woman from
either a Japanese or Eastern European news group and her camera man. Reason I
can't recall is, as you will see, that she was indeterminate both of
background
and motive.
She asked me in thick accent if I could spare a moment and talk to her. I
wondered why but the presence of the camera and the innocent look on her face
and me being an actor and all, well it was just too tempting for me as I knew
it might be a chance to talk about you and have some fun with obvious foreign
press questions!
She signaled the camera guy, he snapped into action and a small light
appeared over the lens and I knew I was on and I was ready.
I noticed a few people look my way and a wiry man, also smoking, was leaning
on a car to my immediate left and in my eye line. He looked like he might
have been a homeless guy just hanging around the crowd.
She began like this:
"I'm speaking with the renowned author Kurt Vonnegut about his new novel and
what he [removed]"
My brain reeled. I didn't hear much else of what she was saying.
What could I do [removed] was ON.
I was about to straighten her out but she kept talking on and on in the
manner of most on-camera reporters who are eager to impress the audience
rather
than actually talk to the guest.
So with giddy laughter possibilities birthing in my brain I kept my mouth
shut.
I noticed a few people chuckling as they knew she was in error and no one
seemed to be enjoying it more than the guy leaning on the car smoking a Lucky
about four feet to my left.
She wheeled on me, back to the camera and asked a series of questions that
were blindingly ignorant and impossible to answer no matter who I [removed]
I
heard your name in the mess of verbiage.
"Yes," I said, "Paul Krassner. That's why I'm here," which was no lie, "He
is truly one of our greatest authors plus he's also a very funny guy if
you've
ever gone shopping with him. I once saw him try on a sweater that was way to
big for him and of a very suspicious color. When I expressed my reserve
about the purchase he bought it anyway and made ME wear it for days. I almost
wore it here today but I thought it might be too distracting from his
appearance
here today which is also about HIS new book. Do you know about HIS book?
Out of the corner of my eye I noticed the old dude buckling with laughter
and that's when I paid him a closer scrutiny and saw the curly-headed and
lean
frame [removed] Vonnegut himself!
She must have sensed at that point that I was not who she thought I was and
signaled the camera guy to stop and they both scuttled away amidst a few
chuckles in the crowd.
I walked over to Vonnegut and before I could say anything he saw me patting
my pockets looking for another smoke from a non-existent pack, offered me a
cigarette, lit it and smiled a 'No need to apologize' look.
The smile on his face was enough for me. A long ramble about the press
ensued and we both agreed my interview was an example of the media's
accuracy,
comical and embarrassing to me but he was the one that said it was the the
interview he'd like to have seen!
"I assume by your speaking voice that you might be a media guy?" he
asked. "I had a story done on the radio once and it was delightful to hear
rather
than see my words."
Funny guy.
Michael C. Gwynne
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:50:15 -0400
From: mmartini@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cincy Conventioneers
Hello,
If you're attending the Cincy Convention and would like to take a break
Friday afternoon at around 1-pm to drive up and see the former VOA Betheny
Relay Station and the WLW 500-KW transmitter site (it's about seven miles
away), drop me an email. I offered this the last two years and it seemed to
go over okay.
Mike Martini
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:50:37 -0400
From: <verotas@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: ABC, ABS, FDR, Morro Castle Mystery!
Hi to everyone that chimed in on this intriguing search through the forest of
radio call letters!
Thanks much to our pal Mike Biel, he came up with all the answers in one
brilliant, terse and factual rundown! Reading farther in the fascinating
Morro Castle book, it turns out I was a year off in estimating when the US
inquiry into the Morro Castle Fire took place. Not 1934-35, but 1935-36.
The bureaucratic bigwigs weren't any more live-wire then than those of today!
Thanks to Prof. Biel's very thorough analysis, we see that both the ABC/FDR
and ABS/Morro photos make sense and the dates are as indicated. But some
history!
Thanks to everyone for their input here, and a special doff of the hat to
Michael Biel! This was fun and a most interesting romp thru our history!
Shouldn't we have known that the answers to all these mike call letters would
be a letter from Mike?
All the best - Lee Munsick
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:59:11 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cincinnati Convention [removed]
Folks;
This note is going to be a little more personal than most of my posts. For
a myrad of reasons, primary among them my own inept disorganization, our
family is not going to make it to the Cincinnati Old Radio and Nostalgia
Convention this year. I can't tell you how sad I am about that, and my
disappointment pales in comparason to Annie and Katie's. For Annie, this
convention is always a welcomed vacation, and for Katie an exciting
adventure. I'm particularly saddened because this year's convention will
likely become a celebration of Hal Stone's life and contributions, something
I am not at all happy about missing. I held out as long as I could, but sadly
last Wednesday cancelled the reservations we made at the Holliday Inn Express
a bit down-the-road from the convention hotel.
Because I managed to organize things so poorly this year and so will be
with many others on the proverbial "outside looking in," I need to ask for
help from those of you who _are_ atteding the convention. For the two days of
the con I am going to try to stay close to my office, and will gratefully
accept any and all photos, recordings, etc. from those folks attending - I'll
post 'em on the blog for those of us unfortunate enough not to be there. If
we could arrange for teleconferences with anyone with a mic and speakers on
their laptop using Gizmo, even better (see [removed] for
information on this free, SIP-compatable VoIP application, kinda like Skype
only more compatable - download, install, and call user
[removed] a message if I'm not around); I can record the chats
on this end and post those as podcasts as well. Send any notes, photos,
audio, etc. to cincycon2007@[removed] (this address has been specifically
designed to bypass the anti-spam filters on the server so there won't be any
inadvertant delays or rejections). Take lots of pictures (but no flash,
please, during the recreations), movies, and audio recordings, folks, and
send them in - I'll get as many posted as possible. That address again:
cincycon2007@[removed]
There's a whole lot I'm going to [removed] stop at Krispy Kream before
leaving southwestern Pennsylvania for a dozen "hot"...the White Castle a few
blocks from the convention hotel (we don't have any in our area)...the
dealer's [removed] [removed] drinks and bull-sessions in the lobby
[removed], you get the idea. I'm just _really_ sad about not attending this
[removed]
And to Bob Burchett, so you know, this _requires_ you to hold another
convention next year. If nothing else comes out of this, I'm determined never
to get myself into the position where I can't spend a week away from here to
get together with folks out there in Cincinnati. And Bob, know that I'll be
thinking about all of you at the con, and you particularly.
Charlie
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:40:10 -0400
From: ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen)
To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
Subject: Cincy Request
Hey! Maybe I'm thinking of this too late, but hopefully [removed]
But if any dealers going to the Cincy OTR Convention happen to have HIGH
QUALITY STEREO versions of the 1985 NPR "Doc Savage" shows, PLEASE BRING THEM
AND LET ME KNOW! I'm so tired of SUFFERING through listens of the crappy
warbly mp3s I've got! I have bought this set FIVE TIMES already, and every
one has been junk. I want to buy a NICE set (it DOES exist somewhere, right?)
I'll be the goof with the goatee with the nametag:
"Stephen Jansen"
THANKS!
--
Old Time Radio never dies - it just changes formats!
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