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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2014 : Issue 11
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Bill Goodwin and Burns & Allen        [ "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@jun ]
      Re: Deanna Durbin                     [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      Cliff Carpenter                       [ Howard Blue <gerardfreepress@yahoo. ]
      This week in radio history 26 Januar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:28:55 -0500
    From: "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bill Goodwin and Burns & Allen

    My guess as to why Goodwin left the TV show is that on radio, Bill was
    characterized as a real woman's man, and that worked excellently - but on TV,
    his physical looks didn't fit that picture at all, and his character suffered
    for it.

    He did make several movies in the 40s and 50s, both before and after the
    Burns & Allen Show, and he did some voiceover work (Gerald McBoingBoing) and
    some other TV shows later, but he died young (47) in 1958.

    ---Dan, [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:29:11 -0500
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Deanna Durbin

    Thanks to David Quinn for letting me know about Deanna's appearance on
    Screen Guild Theater . . . it didn't occur to me that she would appear on
    any dramatic show other than the Lux Radio Theater. I wonder if she appears
    on Screen Directors Playhouse in anything? I'll have to check the "Up in
    Central Park" production out. Did Vincent Price appear with her in that
    radio play as he did in the movie?

    Jan Bach

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    Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:29:58 -0500
    From: Howard Blue <gerardfreepress@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Cliff Carpenter
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    Cliff Carpenter (1918-14)

    I was very upset by Cliff's death.
    He and I were
    friends for more than 15 years. I first met him at AFTRA meeting
    when I was
    researching my book, WORDS AT WAR. Sometimes with my wife, Debby,
    and
    sometimes by myself I visited him at his amazing log house in Pawling, New
    York. The house was once owned by Edward R Murrow.

    Cliff was one of the
    actors on a
    panel that I ran at the Newark convention a dozen or so years ago.
    I remember
    so clearly how he dramatically showed the audience what it meant to
    be an
    actor. He took a script that I gave him which I assumed he would read in
    just a
    straightforward way. But very much to my surprise he started reading
    his role
    in a whisper, gradually raising the level of his voice. I'm sure I
    was not the
    only one in the room to whom it gave goosebumps.

    Cliff's career
    included not only
    radio but also stage and film. One of his proudest roles was
    with Ralph Bellamy
    in Sunrise at Campobello.

    Cliff's lost both his wife and
    his
    only daughter years ago. But suddenly in his twilight years he renewed a
    friendship from years earlier which blossomed into a real sparkling love which
    was a wonder to behold. Cliff's late wife and he had been friends with Jean
    Rouverol and her late husband decades earlier. The renewal came about perhaps
    half a dozen years ago, when he stopped in to visit Jean in California on his
    way to attend the union of his World War II Army unit in Hawaii. From that
    visit, things moved quickly and the next thing I knew Jean had moved in with
    him. The relation was so good that Cliff even generously changed his will to
    include Jeanbs kids in his bequests. Just speaking for myself, Cliff
    enriched
    my life with his wit, his intelligence, his caring and his amazing
    talent.

    I found this mailing address for Cliff's granddaughter. I
    can't say
    for certain that it is still accurate. But five or six years ago we
    attended a
    party for Cliff at her home in Esopus.

    Katherine Hite
    PO Box 184
    Esopus, NY
    12429

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    Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:30:04 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 26 January to 1
     February

     From Those Were The Days

    1/26

    1947   The Greatest Story Ever Told was first heard on ABC.

    1/27

    1931   NBC introduced listeners to Clara, Lu 'n' Em on its Blue network.
    The show became the first daytime network radio serial when it was moved
    from its original nighttime slot.

    1948   Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first
    magnetic tape recorder. The "Wireway" machine with a built-in oscillator
    sold for $[removed] ($1,4106 in 2012 dollars).

    1956   The CBS Radio Workshop was heard for the first time. This first
    broadcast featured Aldous Huxley narrating his classic, Brave New World.

    1/28

    1940 Beat the Band made its debut on NBC, with the Ted Weems band. Beat
    the Band was where listeners' questions were selected in the hopes of
    stumping the band. If a listener's question was chosen, he or she
    received $10 ($161 in 2012 dollars ) The questions were posed as
    riddles: What song title tells you what Cinderella might have said if
    she awoke one morning and found that her foot had grown too large for
    her glass slipper? If the band played the correct musical answer, Where
    Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, the listener lost.

    When Raleigh cigarettes sponsored Beat the Band, the listener who beat
    the band won $50 ($807 in 2012 dollars) and two cartons of cigarettes
    ... Raleigh's, of course. When the sponsor changed to General Mill's Kix
    cereal, if the listener beat the band, he/she won twenty bucks ($323 in
    2012 dollars ) and a case of Kix cereal.

    1934   As a result of a compliment paid on this day, by Walter Winchell,
    in his newspaper column; a local disc jockey began receiving several
    offers from talent scouts and producers. The DJ became known as the
    Redhead, adored by thousands in Washington, DC and, later, by millions
    across the country on CBS radio and TV. His trademark (strumming a
    ukulele and delivering down home patter) endeared him to fans for many
    years. We remember the broadcasting legend, Arthur Godfrey. "I wanna go
    back to my little grass [removed]"

    1/30

    1933    The Lone Ranger was heard for the first time.

    1/31

    1936   The Green Hornet was introduced by its famous theme song, The
    Flight of the Bumble Bee. The radio show was first heard on WXYZ in
    Detroit, MI on this day. The show stayed on the air for 16 years. The
    Green Hornet originated from the same radio station where The Lone
    Ranger was performed. You may remember that the title character in The
    Green Hornet was really named Britt Reid. He was, in fact, supposed to
    be the great nephew of John Reid, the Lone Ranger. Both popular series
    were created by George Trendle and Fran Striker.

    Joe

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