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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2003 : Issue 319
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: Lee Trent [ "RBB" <oldradio@[removed]; ]
Re: NY Times article on Audio Drama [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
5 Jack Benny Shows needed. [ gad4@[removed] ]
Re: Old expressions [ hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed]; ]
Hair Rugs and Jolson [ Bob Fells <rfells@[removed]; ]
crime classics [ kathleen grams-gibbs <grams46@bloom ]
Article on Desilu Documentary [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:12:25 -0400
From: "RBB" <oldradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Lee Trent
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A Google search produced these results for answers about Lee Trent as "The
Lone Ranger:"
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and from [removed] has this information:
"Who is that mysterious masked man from out of the West? It probably was Brace
Beemer, who was "The Lone Ranger" between 1941 and 1955. This 1:28 Lone Ranger
intro is from a broadcast made in late 1951. The announcer was Fred Foy. The
original Lone Ranger, in 1933, was George Seaton. Jack Deeds and James Jewell
also played the part in that year. Earl Graser was the masked man from mid '33
to April, 1941 (when he died in an auto accident). [according to Dunning,
"Jack Deeds" was apparently a businessman named Lee Trent] "
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:46:39 -0400
From: StevenL751@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: NY Times article on Audio Drama
In a message dated 8/20/2003 9:23:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
I missed this article on the modern state of audio drama in a recent New
York Times (a member of the Gotham Radio Players noted with pique that they
aren't mentioned, nor is Max Schmid's NYC Golden Age of Radio show).
Did anyone on this list get interviewed for this article? It looks like the
only outlets this reporter cares about XM Satellite Radio (a worthy topic to
explore as the service continues to grow in popularity) and NPR.
The article focused only on the state of new audio drama in this country and
really had nothing to do with the golden age of radio. They did interview my
friend Sue Zizza, executive director of the National Audio Theatre Festival,
who was in the process of producing a multi-performance audio drama show at
Hofstra University for NATF. (There was also a picture of Sue at her mixing
board accompanying the article.) I recognized several other names in the
article
as people who are very active in the modern audio drama world.
Unfortunately neither Max's show nor most of the work of the Gotham Radio
Players really
qualified us to be included.
Steve Lewis
director, Gotham Radio Players
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:48:28 -0400
From: gad4@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 5 Jack Benny Shows needed.
The following are needed to complete a new Jack Benny set Im working on.
These shows needed are:
1. 53/12/27 network date not afrs date it was rerun on 57/12/29.
2. 53/04/05 30 Easter Parade- is usually a misdated (53/01/18) the
correct version will have cimaron rolls in it
3. 54/01/03 Rose bowl- not packing for palm springs (53/12/06)
4. upgrade for 45/03/11 How Jack Found Rochester- Not (50/12/03). We need
the version where the commercials and song are missing but show is intact.
The copy we have has the commercials but the first half is unlistenable. It
should have amos and andy and Larry Stevens.
5. A Rehersal of 11/21/54 show.
Any format is accepted. I am guessing they need to come from a tape
collector though. Dealers or collectors may reply.
Thanks in advance to anyone who is kind enough to respond.
Sincerely,
George
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:16:36 -0400
From: hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Old expressions
"Penne Yingling" recently posted
This is just to say "I'm glad to see Hal Stone's back." He never fails to
tickle my funny bone, regardless of what kind of day I've had and I've had
some "doozie's" lately. ("Doozie" was one of my Mother's favorite and
well-used words - never hear it much, anymore).
Thanks for the encouragement Penne. But you sure jogged my memory about
"Mothers" and their favorite expressions. Here's two I'll share with you.
Whenever I'd be told something, and I'd happen to say "So"?... my Mothers
retort would [removed] "Sew buttons on milk bottles".
My all time favorite was her comment whenever (as a child) I would get mad
at something, or someone. I'd clench my fists, and act [removed] and she'd
[removed]"You think you're so tough your spit bounces". :)
Go figure.
Hal(Harlan)Stone
Jughead
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:17:38 -0400
From: Bob Fells <rfells@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Hair Rugs and Jolson
I have noticed that on the Jack Benny shows from the mid 30s he is
sometimes referred to as "gray-haired," which he was in real life.
Obviously, the older he got, the need to make himself appear more
youthful for his movie and then TV work became an issue.
One of Mr. Benny's colleagues, Al Jolson, was most inconsistent in his
use of hairpieces for his films. Jolie apparently went without one for
the the historic Jazz Singer in 1927. His left hairline is receding and
his hair is rather straight and flat. In his next few films, The
Singing Fool (1928), Say It with Songs (1929), and Mammy (1930), he
wears a wavy hairpiece for a youthful effect - he was in his mid 40s by
1930. But in his next film, Big Boy (1930), he appears in a blackface
character until the end when he appears as himself. There he not only
does without the hairpiece but his hair is tinged with gray on the
sides.
For his next two films, Hallelujah I'm A Bum (1933) and Wonder Bar
(1934), he uses no hairpiece. Then for his final two starring vehicles,
Go Into Your Dance (1935) and The Singing Kid (1936), it's back to the
hairpiece yet both films use photos of Jolie within the film where he's
NOT wearing a hairpiece. Jolie also wore a dental appliance in films to
fill in a gap between his two upper front teeth, but that's another
story.
Bob Fells
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:17:00 -0400
From: kathleen grams-gibbs <grams46@[removed];
To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: crime classics
knx los angeles is running crime classics on wednesday nights/thursday
mornings. last night's program was about the death of "general ketchum".
i have heard that these stories were taken from actual events. were real
names used?
thanks from kathy
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:45:59 -0400
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Article on Desilu Documentary
This New York Daily News article on the upcoming Desilu documentary mentions
"My Favorite Husband," in passing.
Interestingly, it calls the show "theirs" meaning Lucy and Desi, when in
fact he wasn't involved in it, based on my knowledge.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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