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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 113
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Copyright in pre 1972 recordings [ Paul Gough <paulgough@[removed] ]
This OTR Stuff Tickles the Funnybone [ "Penne Yingling" <bp_ying@[removed] ]
Gotham Radio Players present THE MAY [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
4-10 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
WAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
Ivan Snell [ ilamfan@[removed] ]
News coverage of Papal Deaths [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
Re:OTR and Vocabularies [ "Lloyd Harradan" <lharradan@hotmail ]
Daily News Plugs the Gotham Radio Pl [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
uncolored margarine [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 10-16 Apr [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
? Shows that Debut in 1945 [ Trinapreston3@[removed] ]
VUM???? [ osborneam@[removed] ]
What's in a name? [ Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@y ]
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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:38:22 -0400
From: Paul Gough <paulgough@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Copyright in pre 1972 recordings
There has been some some discussion about copyrights
and OTR.
A New York court this week seems to have ruled that
pre-1972 recordings have common law copyright (in NY)
because they were excluded from the federal copyright
act and are NOT in the public domain--even if they are
in the public domain in the UK. (Presumably there
could also be common law copyright in all other states
too!)
The New York State Court of Appeals released the
opinion in the case of Capitol Records, Inc.,
appellant v. Naxos of America, Inc., respondent, on
April 5.
The conclusion in the 36 page opinion is that common
law in the state protects ownership in pre-1972
recordings "that are not covered by the federal
copyright act." The court also stated: "We simply
note that Capitol has a protected property interest in
the performances embodied on the shellac records." The
case involved recordings from the 1930s!
The full opinion is at:
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Once again courts seem to be narrowing the public
domain and tying years-old materials in restrictive
new copyright wrappers.
I'm not a lawyer, but this does not look good for OTR.
Paul Gough
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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:38:37 -0400
From: "Penne Yingling" <bp_ying@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: This OTR Stuff Tickles the Funnybone
I don't know if the sun & moon are in special cycles or what's going on, but
the last few OTR threads have especially tickled the funnybone. With things
like, "I don't recall anyone complaining (Sat nite bath's)"; Jack Benny's
"I'm thinking it over"; "If that don't beat all"; "cast-steel" soap; butter
vs. oleo vs. olive oil; flying butter; Molly "hot tamale"; & non-talking
rice krispies. I think if we got all these comedic letter listers together,
they could go on the road. I'd pay to see 'em. Just havin' fun with the
list, which without it, I would not have a complete day. Thanks,
everybody. Penne
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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:38:44 -0400
From: StevenL751@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Gotham Radio Players present THE MAYOR OF THE
TOWN
The Gotham Radio Players present
a recreation of a lost episode from the comedy series
THE MAYOR OF THE TOWN
"Unaccustomed As He Was"
Live!
This Sunday, April 10
7:00 PM (Eastern)
Head locally in the NYC area on WBAI, [removed] FM
And webcast worldwide at [removed]
The Mayor's housekeeper, Marilly, wants to build a rumpus room in the attic.
Her boyfriend, Ambrose Fenimore, wants to live in the Mayor's spare bedroom.
The Mayor's teenage ward, Butch, wants to go see the football game in Barman
Park. But all the Mayor wants is to be left alone. The Gotham Radio Players
are pleased to present a recreation of this lost 1947 episode from the
fondly-remembered comedy series, THE MAYOR OF THE TOWN, which originally
starred
Lionel Barrymore.
The Gotham Radio Players were formed in 1991 by a group of enthusiasts for
the heyday of radio drama. The mission of our amateur acting troupe is to
bring new productions of classic radio programs of the 30's, 40's, and 50's
to
the airwaves of the new millennium, as well as showcase original scripts
written by the emerging audio dramatists of today. Now under the leadership
of Max
Schmid as producer and Steven Lewis as director, the Gotham Radio Players are
featured regularly in live performances on WBAI-FM, at the annual "Friends
of Old-Time Radio" Convention, and at other personal appearances in the New
York City metropolitan area. Coming up in August of 2005, we will be making
our
Lincoln Center debut, as part of their Summer Outdoor Festival.
Steven Lewis
director
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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:29:50 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-10 births/deaths
April 10th births
04-10-1827 - Lew Wallace - Brookville, IN - d. 2-15-1905
author: (Ben Hur) "Favorite Story"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
04-10-1868 - George Arliss - London, England - d. 2-5-1946
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-10-1885 - Sigmund Spaeth - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-11-1965
commentator: "Tune Detective"; "Fun in Print"
04-10-1902 - Mark Warnow - Monastrischt, Russia - d. 10-17-1949
conductor: "We, the People"; "Your Hit Parade"
04-10-1906 - Lilie Darvas - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-23-1974
actress: Madame Sophie: We Love and Learn/As the Twig is Bent"
04-10-1910 - Peg La Centra - Boston, MA - d. 6-1-1996
singer, actress: "Court of Human Relations"; "For Men Only"; "Gulden
Melodies"
04-10-1915 - Harry (Henry) Morgan - Detroit, MI
actor: "Mystery in the Air"
April 10th deaths
02-08-1907 - Ray Middleton - Chicago, IL - d. 4-10-1984
actor: Abraham Lincoln "Honest Abe"
02-24-1890 - Marjorie Main - Acton, IN - d. 4-10-1975
actress: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
05-09-1923 - Byron Kane - VT - d. 4-10-1984
actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Broadway is My Beat"; "Escape"
06-12-1920 - Peter Jones - Wem, Shropshire, England - d. 4-10-2000
actor: narrator "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; "In All
Directions"
06-30-1899 - Santos Ortega - NYC - d. 4-10-1976
actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Richard Queen "Advs. of
Ellery Queen"
08-13-1916 - Gloria Dickson - Pocatello, ID - d. 4-10-1945
actress: "Warner Bros. Academy Theatre"; "Federal Theatre Special";
"Lux Radio Theatre"
10-11-1919 - Jean Vander Pyl - d. 4-10-1999
actress: Kathy Anderson "Father Knows Best"
10-16-1921 - Linda Darnell - Dallas, TX - d. 4-10-1965
actress: "Hollywood Premiere"; "So You Want to Lead a Band"
12-24-1886 - Michael Curtiz - Budapest, Hungary - d. 4-10-1962
film director: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre"; Screen Director's
Playhouse"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:09:08 -0400
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: WAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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BryanH writes:
B. No Laura Leff this week
Wha? WAHHHH!!! *Sniff sniff* Well, I'm jus' gonna take my Jack Benny
programs and go HOME.
(Yes, I really did know this was happening. Just seeing the above in print
made me laugh.)
--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 03:39:52 -0400
From: ilamfan@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
Subject: Ivan Snell
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Sad to hear of Ivan Snell's passing. We talked quite a bit at the last three
conventions - he had a ton of knowledge about all of the stupid stuff I
[removed] me on to the great "Destroyer" series of pulp-style novels
(some of my favorite reads of all-time!). Thanks, Ivan - we'll have to catch
up later.
Stephen Jansen
--
Old Time Radio never dies - it
just changes formats!
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 03:40:15 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: News coverage of Papal Deaths
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 08:17:55 -0400
From: "Joe" <jpostove@[removed];
Does anyone on the list have a more vivid memory of the 1963 events? I
know that satellites were in use by then (Telstar?) but news
organizations used it rarely, still flying in film from stories from
all over the world. For example, I don't remember the satellite being
used in Vietnam much, but rather film flown back to New York for
network broadcasts.
Well, as I said when you posted this question on the Kinescope list, satellites were new and
experimental in 1963. Telstar was not in synchronous orbit, so you couldn't transmit for very
long when the satellite was within range of its ground stations. As I recall it had a more or
less polar orbit, so that it didn't come within the proper range every orbit.
When Telstar I went up, in the summer of 1962, they had a 10-15-minute travelogue
broadcast live from Europe to North America and the same sort of thing broadcast from the
US to Europe. That's all the time they could get out of a transmission. Satellites weren't
really very useful until the syncronous-orbit satellites got up there. I'm not sure when that
was, but I think it was around the mid-1960s.
I believe the first synchronous satellites were in position over the Atlantic, so that satellites
weren't very useful for Vietnam coverage, and even after the satellites were there, the ground
stations from Vietnam probably weren't.
The evening news programs were 15 minutes in those days, and all I remember of coverage
of Pope John XXXIII's death was reports on the news. So far as I know, the first saturation
coverage of anything was President Kennedy's assassination and funeral.
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square, Suite 210
lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 03:41:37 -0400
From: "Lloyd Harradan"
<lharradan@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re:OTR and Vocabularies
My 8th Grade teacher and Grade School Principal was reading to us one day
when he came to "machete." He pronounced the word "match-ett" and of course
I raised my hand and corrected him, saying that the word was pronounced
"ma-shett'-ee."
Now Harry, you should not have been rude to your teacher. He was, of course,
reading English, while Jack Armstrong was using the American variant
thereof. The final 'e' is silent in the rest of the world. If in doubt say
'cutlass.'
H
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 10:57:35 -0400
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Daily News Plugs the Gotham Radio Players
Daily News radio columnist David Hinckley gives the Gotham Radio Players a
plug in his column today, mentioning their show for tomorrow night, "Mayor
of the Town" on WBAI-FM's Golden Age of Radio program.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:00:59 -0400
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: uncolored margarine
received an envelope that containing a six sided piece of cardstock on
which a blob of orange powder was captured by a cellophane cover.
Printed on the back was, "Margarine color 15PG Starch--FD & C Yellows
3 & 4. Not less 15 % Pure color. Mix into 1 lb Margarine until evenly
colored. The Dykem Co., St. Louis, Mo. I still have it. Anyone have a
pound of uncolored Margarine?
Almost. Last summer we spent two fun-filled weeks in fabulous Ancona,
Italy, an astonishingly Godforsaken locale in an otherwise-glorious nation.
(It was a business trip, so there wasn't much choice in itinerary.) While
we were searching for something decent to eat (yes, in *Italy*!) I decided
to see if the margarine in the grocery store was anything like the 'burro'
(butter.) I opened it at our apartment and it was dead white. This didn't
bother me much, because I recalled the tales of uncolored margarine told by
my parents. I spread it on a piece of roll, and it was utterly horrible;
pretty much like lard. I have no idea what they used it for.
The radio there was equally bleak. One station featured nothing but the
Italian equivalent of screeching call-in talk radio (I don't speak Italian,
but you don't have to understand it to recognize the genre.) Another played
hip-hop: either the American variety or European imitations. No drama, no
opera (!) no nuthin'. Eek.
M Kinsler
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:01:27 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 10-16 April
From Those Were The Days --
4/11
1921 - The first live sports event on radio took place this day over
KDKA. Pittsburgh sports writer, Florent Gibson, gave an account of the
action in the lightweight boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny
Dundee.
1943 - Nick Carter, Master Detective debuted on Mutual.
4/12
1932 - The thrill-comedy, Joe Palooka, which would also be a popular
comic strip, made its debut on CBS.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 14:31:01 -0400
From: Trinapreston3@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: ? Shows that Debut in 1945
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I would like to put a list together of radio shows that debut in 1945, since
I wasn't born then I don't know exactly what show actually premiered then that
year, so I am asking some of the readers to help me out. If you can it will
be most helpful.
Trina,
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:34:35 -0400
From: osborneam@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: VUM????
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George Guffey said:
REGIONAL NOTE: New Englanders sometimes express surprise by saying, 'Well, I
vum!' This odd-sounding word is in fact an alteration of the verb vow' that
goes back to the days of the American Revolution. It is also heard simply as
'Vum!' or as a sort of past participle: 'I'll be vummed!'"
I've lived in New England my entire life and have never
heard this. My guess is that if New Englanders use or used
it, they reside 'futha noth of here' (here, being about an hour
from Boston).
Arlene Osborne
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 20:53:39 -0400
From: Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: What's in a name?
Hi everyone,
Just thought I'd share something my dad told
me today. He's a big fan of the CBS-TV show "Without a
Trace", which airs Thursdays at 10pm ET/PT( hang on
[removed] right back on topic :) ).
Actress Poppy Montgomery portrays an FBI
agent named, I swan, Samantha Spade!
A beautiful blonde doll playing "Sam"
[removed]'m sure Howard Duff is smiling somewhere.
Period. End of Report.
Ken ( Wildroot Cream Oil ) Stockinger
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