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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 46
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Nick Harris, Podcasting Detective     [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      Re: Ed Wynn                           [ FabFicBks@[removed] ]
      Nick Harris                           [ "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@m ]
      Hound of the Baskervilles             [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]
      Hound of the Baskerville Scripts      [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
      Stereotypical accents                 [ Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed] ]
      Sherlock Holmes on ET                 [ Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed] ]
      Jewish Radio Broadcast From Germany   [ George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@hotmai ]
      SPERDVAC Convention and Election      [ Jerry Williams <mrj1313@[removed] ]
      News clips                            [ "Wayne Johnson" <wayne_johnson@mind ]
      Fw: Old radio show                    [ David Ballarotto <[removed]@ ]
      Re: This week in radio history        [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
      2-18 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Sergeant Preston Cards                [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:15:09 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Nick Harris, Podcasting Detective

    Folks;

       Currently on the podcast at [removed] is an episode of
    the much-discussed Nick Harris, Detective series; the show is available for
    download or streaming with the built-in player, and of course if you add the
    blog's RSS feed to your podcasting client, the shows will automagically be
    downlaoded to your computer or MP3 player!

       This week, if the fates are kind in the beginning of the week, I should be
    running more episodes of Nick Harris, Detective, continuing the Empire
    Builders series, and knock-on-wood even include another program from what I
    am calling the "Haendiges Series."

       And, of course, I'm always interested in your requests - if there's a show
    you want to hear on the Podcast, please contact me directly. If I have it,
    I'll play it!

             Charlie

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:15:33 -0500
    From: FabFicBks@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Ed Wynn

    Hi all;
        Uh, I believe Joe MacKey made a typo in his  historic events postings.
    Ed Wynn signed on as a radio star in 1932, not  1922.  There were no national
    networks in 1922, or sponsors interested  in broadcasting nationwide yet.

    ---Bob Jennings

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:51:20 -0500
    From: "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@[removed];
    To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Nick Harris
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    Jim Hiiliker asked if any NICK HARRIS shows exist. We are running one of them
    this week on Heritage Radio Theatre on The Olde Tyme Radio Network
    at
    [removed]<[removed]
    t>   24/7 streaming.

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:05:50 -0500
    From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hound of the Baskervilles
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    Campbell Connell asked

>       By the way, how long will your Hound be?

      Our Hound will be done in three 45 minute scripts over three weekends in
    March. I want to thank all of the digesters who've answered my inquiry
    regarding OTR & NTR productions of the story. You folks came up with some
    info that surprised me.
      Larry Albert

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:26:26 -0500
    From: <radioaz@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hound of the Baskerville Scripts

    I do not have any recordings of that 6-part Hound series by Edith Meisner.
    But I do have the next best thing -- photocopies of all 6 scripts, complete.
    FYI, scripts for all of the Meisner shows are archived at the Wisconsin
    State Historical Society in Madison.

    Ted

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:56:26 -0500
    From: Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Stereotypical accents

    Recently Elizabeth, in discussing stereotypical accents on the radio, quoted
    from Peter Dixon's 1930 book RADIO WRITING:

    "Too much originality in the treatment of characters is not advisable in
    [removed] Your policemen must talk as policemen are supposed to [removed] You
    can help that image by having your actors speak as the listener imagines they
    ought to [removed]"

    Apropos of that "dictum," Orson Welles once mentioned that he had encountered
    difficulties when he did Chinese characters on THE MARCH OF TIME. Welles was
    familiar with China, had travelled there with his father, and knew something
    of the language and the patterns of speech. But when he attempted to impart
    an authentic Chinese accent to the parts that he was playing on TMOT,
    supposedly the listeners complained that they "didn't sound Chinese enough"
    and he was instructed to henceforth revert back to the old stereotypical
    sing-song "no tickee no washee" pidgen-English way of representing the
    Chinese on the air.

    But here at least was one actor who knew better and who was "put in his
    place" for attempting to convey that knowledge.

    Mike Ogden

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:37:44 -0500
    From: Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sherlock Holmes on ET

    Travis recently wrote:

>     A few years ago, someone on the message board claimed to have some ETs of
>     early 30s Sherlock Holmes - I>haven't seen them in circulation - have they
>     ever turned up?

    Not to my knowledge. The most recent early Holmes to have come into
    circulation (by "recent" I mean within the last decade or so) is "The Jewish
    Breastplate" from the 1934-35 season when Louis Hector replaced Richard
    Gordon as Holmes.

    But there are early Sherlock ETs known to exist in the Library of Congress.
    According to the OCLC database, the LOC has the following (all from the
    Richard Gordon-Leigh Lovell or Louis Hector-Leigh Lovell years):

    "The Empty House"--Oct. 5, 1932--73775-1 (matrix number)

    "His Last Bow"--Oct. 12, 1932--73807-1, 73808-1

    "The Golden Pince-Nez"--Oct. 19, 1932--73838-1, 73839-2R

    "The Missing Three-Quarter"--Oct. 26, 1932--73869-1, 73870-1R

    "The Three Students"--Nov. 2, 1932--73908-1, 73909-1

    "The Blue Carbuncle"--Dec. 28, 1932--74739-1, 74740-1

    "Death in the Club Window"--Jan. 4, 1933--74765-1, 74766-1A

    "The Haunted Bagpipes"--Jan. 11, 1933--74901-1, 74902-1

    "Murder by Proxy"--Jan. 18, 1933--74925-1, 74926-1

    "The Musgrave Ritual"--Program No. 5--86342-1, 86343-1

    "The Man with the Twisted Lip"--Program No. 6--87126-1, 87127-1

    "The Case of the Poisoned Stick"--Program No. 7--87153-1, 87154-1

    This is a veritable treasure trove--8 Doyles and 4 Edith Meiser originals,
    and none of them in circulation except for "Murder by Proxy." A treasure
    trove not only for Sherlockians but for anyone genuinely interested in the
    history of radio drama. What is needed is a Carl Amari or someone else with
    the wherewithal to obtain the rights to these shows and release them
    commercially. That they are inacessibly mouldering away (figuratively
    speaking) is a loss to us all.

    And, who knows, the LOC may have more as well. I believe that it's still an
    ongoing project to catalog all the thousands of NBC discs that they have.

    Mike Ogden

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:38:03 -0500
    From: George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jewish Radio Broadcast From Germany in 1944

    The audio of the above broadcast is on the American Jewish Committees
    website, along with a script and the script (w/out audio) of a 1944 broadcast
    from a synogauge in Rome.

    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:47:33 -0500
    From: Jerry Williams <mrj1313@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  SPERDVAC Convention and Election
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    Greetings All,
    I have been a member of SPERDVAC since Day One.  My SPERDVAC membership number
    is 7, that is an original number, not one acquired after a member left
    SPERDVAC.  I have served on the Board Of Directors, as Vice President and as a
    Librarian.
    One of the finest gentlemen I know, Jerry Haendiges, and two other gentlemen,
    Kevin Stern and Jim Coontz, were the founders of SPERDVAC.  Without Jerry
    Haendiges there would not have been a library of OTR when we started this
    organization, as he shared his personal collection with us.
    We have some good people being untruthful and mean spirited to achieve their
    goals.  When we started having conventions we wanted to honor the people that
    brought us so much pleasure.  That was the purpose for our conventions, not as
    a money maker!  SPERDVAC is in excellent financial shape!
    I was also part of the group that started the building fund so that SPERDVAC
    could have a place to store our collections and also to have a small museum
    that members could visit when in the area, this did not happen.
    The luncheon in November 2007 was a great success, over 300 guests can attest
    to that!  The technical problems we had became one of the highlights of the
    recreation when Chuck McCann became Mel Blanks' Maxwell, which was excellent.
    If you are a SPERDVAC member, please read the candidates statements and
    contact them and ask for clarification of their statements.  This is important
    to our hobby.
    Please contact me at mrj1313@[removed] if you have any questions.
    Thank You
    Jerry Williams

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:22:32 -0500
    From: "Wayne Johnson" <wayne_johnson@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  News clips

    Greetings all!

    Once again I turn to the vast riches of fellow digest members with a
    request.  As many of you may remember, I am the webmaster for the 2nd
    Infantry Division Association, a group for veterans of the 2nd Infantry
    Division.

    What I am in need of is news clips (30 seconds or less) of progress made in
    the European theater of WW2 especially D-Day +1 and for the month following,
    reports concerning the Battle of the Bulge and also any news bulletins of
    the Korean conflict.

    Any over-seas USO shows (WW2 or Korea) would be great.

    What I am doing is to have these clips play when one brings up the home
    page.  Let me know if you have anything that you would like to share.  I am
    sure that the vets would get a real kick out of it.

    Thanks in advance for all the help past and any help present/future.

    Wayne

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:22:54 -0500
    From: David Ballarotto <[removed]@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Fw: Old radio show

    A friend of mine sent this to me, and I can't find out any information,
    either.
    Does anyone here have any information?

    [removed]

    My old timer pal, Freddy, keeps talking about a radio show he used to
    listen to as a child but we can't seem to find it. He keeps thinking
    the name was Captain Salty, but nothing really comes up. He said it
    took place on a ship and "bad" things always happened on this ship.
    The captain was peg-legged, and you could hear his peg leg dragging
    behind him, and it was "scary" to a youngster in the late 1930's.

    I can't seem to find anything on the show, and I know he would be so
    thrilled if I found [removed] I am hoping to find an episode
    [removed]

    Any ideas?

    Thanks!

    Sondra

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:23:44 -0500
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: This week in radio history

>     2/19

>     1922 - Ed Wynn became the first big-name vaudeville talent to sign
>     on as a radio talent. Previously, top talent had not considered

    radio a

>     respectable medium.

    I just want to call attention to this item from the February 4, 1922
    Bridgeport (CT) Telegram:

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    RADIO OPERATORS HEAR GOOD CONCERT

    Local radio operators listened to one of the finest programs yet
    produced over the radiophone last night. The program of entertainment
    which included some of the stars of Broadway musical comedy and
    vaudeville was broadcast from the Newark, N. J. station WDY and the
    Pittsburgh station KDKA, both of the Westinghouse Electric and
    Manufacturing company.

    The Newark entertainment started at 7 o'clock: a children's half hour
    of music and fairy stories; 7:[35?], Hawaiian airs and violin solo;
    8:00, news of the day; and at 8:20 a radio party with nationally known
    comedians participating; 9:55, Arlington time signals and 10:01, a
    government weather report.

    G. E. Nothnagle, who conducts a radiophone station at his home 176
    Waldemere avenue said last night that he was delighted with the
    program, especially with the numbers sung by Eddie Cantor.

    The weather conditions are excellent for receiving, he continued, the
    tone and the quality of the messages was fine.
    ***

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:24:18 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-18 births/deaths

    February 18th births

    Happy Birthday Mark!!

    02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
    host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    02-18-1890 - Edward Arnold - NYC - d. 4-26-1956
    actor: President "Mr. President"
    02-18-1892 - Wendell Willkie - Elwood, IN - d. 10-8-1944
    presidential candidate: "Information, Please"
    02-18-1894 - Andres Segovia - Linares, Spain - d. 6-2-1987
    classical guitarist: "The Magic Key"; "Theatre [removed]"; "Concert Hall"
    02-18-1899 - Bruce Kammen - Cincinnati, OH - d. unknown
    actor: August Kaltenmeyer "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"
    02-18-1900 - Zeno Klinker - d. 1-22-1985
    writer: "Edgar Bergen/.Charlie McCarthy Show"
    02-18-1901 - Wayne King - Savannah, IL - d. 7-16-1985
    bandleader: (The Waltz King) "Lady Esther Serenade"
    02-18-1903 - George Givot - Ekatarinaslav, Russia - d. 6-7-1984
    dialectitian: (Greek Ambassador of Good Will) "George Givot Show)
    02-18-1903 - Jacques Fray - Paris, France - d. 1-20-1963
    pianist, disc jockey: "Fray and Braggiotti"
    02-18-1905 - Queenie Leonard - London, England - d. 1-17-2002
    actor: "NBC University Theatre"
    02-18-1907 - Billy de Wolf -  Wollaston, MA - d. 3-5-1974
    actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-18-1907 - Griffing Bancroft - d. 2-5-1999
    newscaster: "The Big News of 1957"
    02-18-1907 - L. A. "Speed" Riggs - Silverdale, NC - d. 2-1-1987
    tobacco auctioneer: "Jack Benny Show"; "Kay Kyser Show"
    02-18-1912 - Earl George - Donora, PA - d. 1-30-2004
    actor: "Curtain Time"; "Girl Alone"; "Mortimer Gooch"
    02-18-1914 - Pee Wee King - Abrams, WI - d. 3-7-2000
    singer, songwriter, accordionist: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Pee Wee King Show"
    02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - Missouri - d. 10-29-1979
    announcer: "House Party"; "You Bet Your Life"
    02-18-1919 - Jack Palance - Lattimer Mines, PA - d. 11-10-2006
    actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    02-18-1920 - Bill Cullen - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-7-1990
    host, announcer: "Winner Take All"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    02-18-1920 - Howard Rodman - New York - d. 12-5-1985
    writer: "The American School of the Air"
    02-18-1922 - Allan Melvin - Kansas City, MO - d. 1-17-2008
    actor: "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    02-18-1922 - Ruth Dean Rickaby - d. 10-xx-1973
    actor: "The Lone Ranger"
    02-18-1924 - Sam Rolfe - NYC - d. 7-10-1993
    writer, creator: "Suspense"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    02-18-1925 - George Kennedy - NYC
    actor: "Suspense"; "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    02-18-1930 - John Patton, Jr. - Garland City, AR - d. 4-18-2005
    tenor: Hosted a popular radio program in Los Angeles
    02-18-1931 - Ned Sherrin - Somerset, England - d. 10-1-2007
    broadcaster; producer: "Loose Ends"; "Counterpoint"
    02-18-1933 - Mary Ure - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 4-3-1975
    actor: Won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award for Radio Drama acting in
    1954.
    02-18-1944 - George American Horse
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    02-18-1951 - Mark Higgins - Milwaukee, WI
    actor: Santa Claus "Billie the Brownie"

    February 18th deaths

    01-31-1904 - Cliff Nazarro - New Haven, CT - d. 2-18-1961
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    02-09-1914 - Bob Hite - Decatur, IN - d. 2-18-2000
    announcer: "Challenge of the Yukon"; "Green Hornet"; "Casey, Crime
    Photographer"
    03-14-1919 - Harry Caray - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-18-1998
    baseball announcer: St. Louis Cardinals; Chicago Cubs
    03-16-1908 - Robert Rossen - NYC - d. 2-18-1966
    film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    04-23-1895 - Ngaio Marsh - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 2-18-1982
    author: "Final Curtain"
    05-03-1911 - Yank Lawson - Trenton, MO - d. 2-18-1995
    trumpet: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    05-27-1902 - Cedric Adams - Magnolia, MN - d. 2-18-1961
    commentator: In 1953 filled in for Arthur Godfrey for 13 weeks
    05-31-1938 - Johnny Paycheck - Greenfield, OH - d. 2-18-2003
    country singer: "Country Sessions"
    06-07-1917 - Kathleen Hite - d. 2-18-1989
    writer: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "Rogers of the Gazette";
    "Romamce"
    07-11-1881 - Clarence Budington Kelland - Portland, MI - d. 2-18-1964
    writer: "Scattergood Baines"
    08-09-1894 - Kathleen Lockhart - Southsea, England - d. 2-18-1978
    actor: "The Nebbs"; "Abroad with the Lockharts"
    08-24-1903 - Claude Hopkins - Alexandria, VA - d. 2-18-1984
    bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Let's Go Nightclubbing"
    10-06-1917 - Rosella Qualey - Donnelly, MN - d. 2-18-2007
    home economist: KWLM-FM Willmar, Minnesota
    10-13-1931 - Eddie Mathews - Texarkana, TX - d. 2-18-2001
    baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
    12-11-1894 - Eddie Dowling - Woonsocket, RI - d. 2-18-1976
    host: "We, the People"; "Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
    12-21-1872 - Albert Payson Terhune - Newark, NJ - d. 2-18-1942
    dog expert: "Dog Dramas"
    12-25-1889 - Nat Shilkret - Queens, NY - d. 2-18-1982
    conductor: "Eveready Hour"; "Music That Satisfies"; "Palmolive Beauty
    Box Theatre"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:34:02 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sergeant Preston Cards

    The set of 36 "trading cards" or "adventure cards" were distributed
    by Quaker Oats, beginning in 1950,  to publicize their radio show,
    "Challenge of the Yukon." In November 1951, the radio series was re-
    named "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon," which as OTR historian Jim
    Harmon has pointed out, juvenile listeners had been calling it by
    that name for several years.

    in 1956, one year after the  TV version debuted, the same set of
    cards was again released, this time promoting the video program. My
    Missus, returning from a visit to St. Louis yesterday, presented me
    with several of these colorful Mountie cards she had purchased in an
    antique shop there. In addition to the age of the respective series
    of cards, there are some other obvious differences.

    The radio version has the phrase "Copyright 1950, Challenge of the
    Yukon, Inc." printed on the bottom of the back of each card. However
    the other set has printed on top of card the encouragement: "See Sgt.
    Preston of the Yukon on television every week" and at the bottom of
    it "Copyright 1956 by Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Inc."

    My bible for all merchandise OTR or TV related has always been
    "Official Hake's Price Guide to Character Toys" of which I currently
    hold the 5th edition.  While it details the 1950 radio set of Sgt.
    Preston cards, it has no information about the 1956 re-issue to
    promote the TV series.

    Any Digester have a later issue of Hake's to see if this omission has
    been corrected yet?

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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