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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 360
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Craig [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
Chuck Webster [ "alanladdsr" <alanladdsr@sunflower. ]
Charles Webster [ "Jim Harmon" <jimharmonotr@charter. ]
A Shoe that [removed] [ Wich2@[removed] ]
William Claude [ NightMaster <nightmaster@[removed] ]
Cruise with Paddy [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
[removed] shocking [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
maxwell [ "erest@[removed]" <erest@bel ]
substitute for Floyd the barber [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
Theatre Of The Mind [ "Austotr" <austotr@[removed]; ]
11-21 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Golden Age of Radio and A One Night [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
Computer [ "Mike & Judy" <dudemth@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:03:59 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Craig
Hi Everybody,
I just wanted to follow up on Craig thoughts. I personally been to 22 OTR
convention around the USA and help plan or arrange for guest to be at
some of the convention. A major reason why we do not have as many guest is
strictly cost. I know that for sure because My family had to cover cost
when convention can not or will not do so. Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:04:16 -0500
From: "alanladdsr" <alanladdsr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Chuck Webster
I join in the curiousity expressed about Chuck Webster. A favorite of mine
as well.
I'm sure it his voice I hear on a few Lone Ranger's. I've always wondered
what became of him. He, like so many others, don't get mentioned in the same
breath with greats like Baer, Conrad, McCambridge, Dehner, Gregg but they
should be. I am thinking of people like Herb Butterfield, Elspeth Eric,
Lawson Zerbe and the great Ralph Bell and Chuck Webster!
Even William Johnstone who did so much and was on for decades seems
overlooked as far as bio is concerned.
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:04:45 -0500
From: "Jim Harmon" <jimharmonotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Charles Webster
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In reply to Stuart Lubin, Charles "Chuck" Webster did work in Detroit at WXYZ.
There was a column by Art Ronnie in the old [removed] Herald-Express interviewing
Webster, about 1963. (I still have it somewhere in my files.) He not only
spoke of his work on Gangbusters and other [removed] shows, but his at WXYZ. In
fact, he claimed to have substituted for Brace Beemer as the Lone Ranger when
Beemer was "on tour with a circus".
Quite a number of people played the Masked Man once as a substitute. I
have a brief home-recorded except from one of those old coated cardboard
records of Jay Michael as the Lone Ranger. We all know about the great Fred
Foy substituting for both the Ranger and Sgt. Preston.
Newsman Mike Wallace is doing quite a few interviews lately to promote his
latest book.
He has several times mentioned substituting as the announcer on the Lone
Ranger and the Green Hornet. He often speaks fondly and respectfully of Brace
Beemer.
JIM HARMON
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:05:10 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: A Shoe that [removed]
From: Illoman <illoman@[removed];
Wouldn't it be great if people like Craig Wichman would perform and
record episodes of Quiet, Please that are considered lost? Then
completists like myself would have all the episodes!!<
Dear Mike-
You're very kind, in implying that you'd find the folks in Quicksilver up to
the task.
To be honest though, we're kinda like what used to be called "Shanty Irish"
(having a smidge of green blood, I can use the term) - in other words, though
we don't have much, we like to be able to claim full-title to what we do
have.
There IS a long-standing group, though, whose Mission Statement is
specifically the one you mention: committing Lost Episodes to tape* (they
may have
even done a QP before?)
Over to you, Steve or [removed]
Best,
-Craig
[removed] Worthy of mention here, too, are Lister Jim Harmon's "replaced"
ILAM'[removed]
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:02:28 -0500
From: NightMaster <nightmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: William Claude
"a bottle in front of me" quote was, of course, spouted by [removed] Fields.
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:14:49 -0500
From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Cruise with Paddy
As I announced two weeks ago, the Portland, Oregon Cruise Line -- The
Portland Spirit -- is offering weekend cruises in December, continuing
until Christmas Eve [[removed]], in honor of Paddy
O'Cinnamon, a beloved holiday tradition in the City of Roses (and Bridges)
since 1937.
The Portland Spirit is sponsoring the radio show beginning Thanksgiving Day
at 7:00 [removed] on the city's most popular and profitable radio station,
K103FM. Actor, pianist, and former "Entertainment Tonight" host, John
Tesch, will be providing music for the commercials. Children will have
their pictures taken standing next to Paddy throughout the cruise, and the
show's characters, including the Barton twins and Crazyquilt, will be
interacting with the passengers. A new cinnamon cookie with a special
recipe will be available as will the show tapes and other CB and storybook
items. It is a first-rate event celebrating a little bear whose
adventures have delighted children for nearly seventy years. OTR is alive
and well in Portland!
I hope you send me your mailing address (not e-mail address) today so that
I can place all the Cinnamon Bear songs in the mail to you this week.
There is no cost to you and I ask you please not to offer reimbursement.
It is my way of spreading Christmas joy which, as you already know, reaps
its own reward.
Let's make Paddy's 68th year the best ever! He and I "would be much
obliged to you!"
Dennis Crow
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:15:59 -0500
From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: [removed] shocking
So here's something that I don't talk about too [removed]
With the recent discussion of on-air lobotomies (or at least,
storyline-based), this brings up the question of on-air shock treatment. As
was recently noted, we think of lobotomies as being from the Dark Ages, and
I believe shock treatments are similarly considered. However, my own
grandfather went through a series of shock treatments in the late 1950s to
deal with a condition. They seemed to do no good until they went to the
maximum, and then (I'm told) he turned around. He became sort of a
spokesperson for the treatment, counselling patients on how it helped him
and encouraging them to have it done. When his condition reoccurred in the
1970s, shock treatment was again considered. However, he was also in his
70s and too old to have the treatment. I myself am not a proponent, but
having witnessed the effect of his condition as a fairly young child, I can
understand why people would consider such drastic measures.
So are there any OTR storylines that deal with this? I don't think I'd want
to hear them myself, but am interested from a sociological standpoint.
--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:16:09 -0500
From: "erest@[removed]" <erest@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: maxwell
There was an obit for a highway engineer William R. Kahl in Saturdays
Baltimore Sun. He was a colector and restorer of antique auto. He owed
a 1913 Woods Mobillettes and a 1920's-era Maxwell roadster reportedly
owned by comedian Jack Benny.
Rob
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:25:48 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: substitute for Floyd the barber
I just listened to the 3/29/50 episode of the Great Gildersleeve
(unofficial title: Houseguest Hooker). Arthur Q Bryan does not play
Floyd in this episode; somebody else fills in the role instead. That
somebody is not given credit at the end of the episode, and I can't
identify the voice. Does anybody know who it might be? (I imagine the
reason Arthur wasn't on the show isn't known. Perhaps a last-minute
illness? That seems likely, since the role Floyd plays on the
show--suggesting to Gildy that he take in Judge Hooker while the
judge's house is being fumigated--could easily have been rewritten for
Peavy or Chief Gates if sufficient notice had been given to the
writers.)
Kermyt
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:37:40 -0500
From: "Austotr" <austotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Theatre Of The Mind
G'Day folks, just a reminder that another 4 episodes have been uploaded on
[removed] One of the episodes has Louis Armstrong on one of
Jack Davey's Quiz shows during a visit to Australia.
The Archives were very pleased with the downloads, Smokey Dawson became the
Number one download.
Ian Grieve
Moderator
Australian Old Time Radio Group
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:37:47 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-21 births/deaths
November 21st births
11-21-1882 - Alfred White - d. 8-22-1972
actor: Soloman Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"
11-21-1891 - Edward Ellsberg - New Haven, CT - d. 1-24-1983
writer: "The Mercury Theatre on the Air"
11-21-1894 - Max Miller - Brighton, England - d. 5-7-1963
stand-up comic: "Cheeky Chappie" Spotty BBC career due to blue material
11-21-1902 - Arthur Schutt - Reading, CA - d. 1-18-1965
pianist: "The Ipana Troubadors"
11-21-1902 - Frank Hursley - d. 2-3-1989
writer: "American Women"; "Cousin Willie"; "Those Websters"; "The Truitts"
11-21-1904 - Coleman Hawkins - St. Josephs, MO - d. 5-19-1969
tenor sax: (Father of the tenor sax) "Saturday Night Swing Club"
11-21-1905 - Ted Ray - Wigan, Lanchashire, England - d. 11-8-1977
comedian: "Ray's a Laugh"
11-21-1908 - Mary Young Taylor - Star Lake, NY - d. 12-9-1973
commentator: (The First Lady of Radio) "Martha Deane Show";
11-21-1912 - Eleanor Powell - Springfield, MA - d. 2-11-1982
singing tap dancer: "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
11-21-1912 - Ralph Butler - d. 4-6-1987
director: "Bright Horizon"; "Perry Mason"; "Rosemary"
11-21-1919 - Steve Brodie - El Dorado, KS - d. 1-9-1992
actor: Mike Mallory "Mike Mallory"
11-21-1920 - Ralph Meeker - Minneapolis, MN - d. 8-5-1988
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
11-21-1920 - Stan Musial - Donora, PA
baseball great: "Image Minorities"; "Feature Project: The Game of Baseball"
11-21-1921 - Vivian Blaine - Newark, NJ - d. 12-9-1995
actress, singer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-21-1933 - Joseph Campanella - New York, NY
actor: "CBS Mystery Theatre"; "The Zero Hour"
11-21-1934 - Laurence Lukinbill - Fort Smith, AR
actor: (Son-in-law of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball) "Earplay"
November 21st deaths
01-22-1934 - Bill Bixby - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-21-1993
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
02-11-1909 - Max Baer - Omaha, NE - d. 11-21-1959
heavyweight boxing champion, actor: Lucky Smith "Lucky Smith"
03-02-1909 - Mel Ott - Gretna, LA - d. 11-21-1958
sportscaster: Play-by-Play Detroit Tigers; "Babe Ruth Show"
04-09-1897 - John B. Gambling - Norwich, England - d. 11-21-1974
host: "Your Personal Program"; "John B. Gambling Club"; "Rambling with
Gambling"
05-07-1884 - Gloria Gordon - d. 11-21-1962
actress: (Mother of Gale Gordon) Mrs. O'Reilly "My Friend Irma"
05-12-1892 - John Barclay - Blethingly, Surrey, England - d. 11-21-1978
singer, actor: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Richard Gaylord "The Guiding
Light"
05-25-1912 - Eddie Maxwell - Detroit. MI - d. 11-21-1999
writer: "The Spike Jones Show"
07-11-1906 - Harry Von Zell - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-21-1981
actor, announcer: Bill Smith "Smiths of Hollywood"; "George Burns and Gracie
Allen Show"
07-29-1888 - Niles Welch - Hartford, CT - d. 11-21-1976
announcer: "The Campbell Playhouse"
09-15-1889 - Robert Benchley - Worcester, MA - d. 11-21-1945
comedian: "Buick Program"; "Melody and Madness"
09-17-1904 - Jerry Colonna - Boston, MA - d. 11-21-1986
comedian: "Bob Hope Show"
10-29-1916 - Hadda Brooks - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-21-2002
pianist: "Jubilee"
11-05-1905 - John Whedon - d. 11-21-1991
writer: "The Great Gildersleeve"
11-11-1885 - George S. Patton - San Gabriel, CA - d. 11-21-1945
maverick general: "These Are Our Men"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:15:52 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Golden Age of Radio and A One Night Stand
with the Big Bands
The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with Dick Bertel
and Ed Corcoran, and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"
with Arnold Dean can be heard at [removed].
In the coming weeks we will feature three complete shows
in MP3 format for your listening pleasure or for downloading;
two "Golden Age of Radios" and one "One Night Stand." We
present new shows every week or so. The current three
programs will be available on line at least until the morning
of November 28th.
Next week we will begin the rotation of "Golden Age"programs
in order of their original broadcast, starting with the first two
shows in the series; Stanley Quinn, Writer and Producer for
the radio department of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising
Agency, and Charles Harrell, Eastern Program Director for
the NBC Blue and ABC Radio Networks. We will also feature
the third in our new series, "A One Night Stand with the Big
Bands." Arnold Dean's guest will be Ray McKinley.
Here's this week's lineup:
Program 88 - Henry Hull
Henry Hull, radio, stage and motion picture actor who appeared
in "The Pit and the Pendulum" one of the very first "Suspense"
dramas. The Hull family was originally from Connecticut. Henry
Hull's branch moved south, where he was born in Kentucky in
1890. He was well known on the stage, beginning his career in
1909. On Broadway, his most successful role was that of "Jeeter
Lester" in "Tobacco Road" (1933). He was a master of character
roles, and did much of his own make-up on the stage.
Program 89 - John Cromwell
American director John Cromwell recalls several of his famous
motion pictures, which were adapted for radio. Mr. Cromwell
spent the first phase of his career as a romantic stage leading man.
As a theatrical director, he was spirited to Hollywood to "show"
silent filmmakers how to do things right, but his cinematic flair in
such early pictures as The Racket (1928), Close Harmony (1929)
and Tom Sawyer (1931) indicate that Cromwell learned a lot from
the Hollywood veterans. Film critic Andrew Sarris has summed up
Cromwell's career as "cherchez la femme," meaning that he seemed
to have a knack for drawing first-rate performances out of actresses.
Directorial assignments like Ann Vickers (1933) starring Irene
Dunne, Of Human Bondage (1934) starring Bette Davis, and I
Dream Too Much (1935) starring Opera diva Lily Pons would
appear to bear out Sarris' typecasting of Cromwell.
"A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" With Arnold Dean
Artie Shaw - Part 2
This second show (on this website) is the second of two parts: Arnold Dean
interviews and plays the music of Artie Shaw.
In the "Big Band Era" there was no bigger star in the music universe than
Artie Shaw. The jazz clarinetist and bandleader's rendition of Hoagy
Carmichael's "Stardust" was one of the best-known songs of the 20th
century. Shaw's recording of "Begin the Beguine" sold millions.
Arnold Dean is one of the few who are still employed at the WTIC. He has
been a member of the WTIC family since July 1965 and in July 1998, he
celebrated his 50th Anniversary in broadcasting.
Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band era in his pre-teen
years and his decision to study the clarinet was inspired by the style of
Artie Shaw. When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program of big
band music. In 1972, encouraged by the success of his daily program and The
Golden Age of Radio series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews with
the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters, etc. who made major
contributions to one of the great eras of music history.
In the 1970's Dick Bertel created The Golden Age of Radio for WTIC in
Hartford, CT. The idea came to Dick after he interviewed radio collector-
historian Ed Corcoran a few times on his radio and TV shows. "The Golden
Age of Radio was first broadcast in April, 1970; Ed was Dick's co-host.
For the next seven years the program featured interviews with actors,
writers,
producers, engineers and musicians from radio's early days. Each show
featured excerpts from Ed's collection.
"WTIC's Golden Age of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.
Bob Scherago
Webmaster
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:30:10 -0500
From: "Mike & Judy" <dudemth@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Computer
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If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch,
"Who's on First?" might have turned out something like this:
*COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT*
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about
buying a computer.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.
ABBOTT: Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.
ABBOTT: What about Windows?
COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look at the windows?
ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.
ABBOTT: Software for Windows?
COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals
track expenses and run my business.
What do you have?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?
ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what?
ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!
ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, let's just say I'm
sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?
ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue "W".
COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue "w" if you don't start with some
straight answers. What about financial bookkeeping?
You have anything can track my money with?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?
ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer.
COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?
ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.
COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?
ABBOTT: One copy.
COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?
ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.
COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?
ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!
(A few days later)
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?
ABBOTT: Click on "START".......
Mike Hardy
Tucson, AZ
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