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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 331

Table Of Contents: 

	 radio related rerun (Van Dyke)
	 Re: "scat" davis
	 Peg LaCentra
	 Johnny "Scat" Davis
	 Capt. Midnight
	 Radio broadcasts of TV shows
	 Richard Haydn

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 08:38 CDT
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed], rbates@[removed], JanBach@[removed]
Subject: radio related rerun (Van Dyke)
Message-Id: <m0v1ByC-000YvPC@[removed]>

Robert Bates said:
>Recently, the other night, I caught a Dick Van Dyke show rerun where he
>decides 
>to bring old radio people onto guest host the Alan Brady Show. He had on Bert 
>Gordon the Mad Russian, and two others whose names I am not sure of - David 
>Karp, the Fish Man and Florence Holliday, or [removed]

Jan Bach has already identified "Edwin" Karp as Richard Haydn, a delightful
performer whose relationship to OTR is tenuous.
However, the other performer was Arlene Harris, 1899-1976, "The Human
Chatterbox".  Described by Variety as "an early radio thesp," she played
the role of "Mommie" on the Baby Snooks show, but was best known for a long
residence on Al Pearce and His Gang, doing her telephone act.  She also
appeared in a 1943 film, "Here Comes Elmer," which is undoubtedly Pearce.
(On that Van Dyke show, note that "Buddy Sorrell" greets her
enthusiastically and says, "Boy, we had a lot of fun on the old Al Pearce
gang, huh??"  I'd say that's really Morey Amsterdam talking, not "Buddy
Sorrell.")
Arlene Harris reportedly continued performing in radio and TV commercials
almost to the end.

By the way, the Van Dyke show was one of the most consistent TV employers
of OTR talent, including Isabel Randolph from Fibber McGee as Rob's mother.
 Even better is the fact that, on 2 separate episodes, Harold Peary and
Willard Watermann played the same part - one of Rob's uncles!
John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:04:30 -0400
From: Joelsiegel@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: "scat" davis
Message-ID: <960912110429_477110236@[removed]>

yes, yes, yes. the fellow who sang hooray for hollywood in hollywood  hotel.
thanks.

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:30:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: BURT WILSON <futurecon@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Peg LaCentra
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Someone was asking about Peg LaCentra the other day.  Sorry to report that
the Los Angeles Times obit column says she died June 1st.  Said whe was
known for dubbing the singing voices of Ida Lupino andSusan Hayward.  She
began her career as a radio actress in the 1930's.  She met Artie Shaw and
signed to sing with him after they were on "The Moll-O-Roll Ice Cream Show."
She also starred in the "Peg LaCentra show for NBC radio.  She also sang
with Benny Goodman.

She was born Margherita Maria Francesca LaCentra in Boston, MA.  Here
husband was the notable actor Paul Stewart (who has been on the tube a lot
lately as the Group Psychiatrist in "Twelve O'Clock High."

By the way, the great clarinetist Abe Most, who did those fine recreations
of the Shaw and Goodman bands for the Time-Life series of historic
recordings, tells the story that many people use to come up to him and ask
hiw what the real difference was between Arti Shaw and Benny Goodman.  One
day he was explainging Goodman's technique and Shaws musical vision when the
drummer shouted out, "Hey if you want to know the REAL difference between
Arti Shaw and Benny Goodman, it was Ava Gardner!"

Enjoy
Burt Wilson

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:57:08 -0400
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Johnny "Scat" Davis
Message-ID: <960912165708_100464024@[removed]>

Back when I was a very active member of the science fiction fan community,
there was a saying that "all knowledge is contained in fanzines." If you
needed a piece of information, you had merely to post a query, and keep it
circulating, and sooner or later some fan in Spokane or Chattanooga or
Wellington, New Zealand, would come up with the answer.

And -- voila! -- we change change topics from science fiction to OTR and
venues from fanzines to the Digest, and the principle still works.

Johnny "Scat" Davis.

Mille grazie!

I can start sleeping at night again.

Dick Lupoff

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:27:05 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Capt. Midnight
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii"

If anyone can help this person, please respond directly to her. It was
received via my Capt. Midnight web page:


>Hello!  I'm writing for some information on Richard Webb (Captain
Midnight 

>on TV).  Do you know if he is still living?  If so, how can he be
reached? 

> I'm interested in contacting him in reference to some books he wrote. 


>Thank you for your time.  Any information you have would be
appreciated.

>Thanks,

>Mari 

>


Send responses to:


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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 05:09:00 -0400
From: "Michael A. Carraher" <carraher@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Radio broadcasts of TV shows
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kenpiletic@[removed] [removed]

>That was the case with quite a few shows that had both radio and
>television versions.  Only difference was that sometimes the radio version
>was on first.  I know that was usually the case with Groucho Marx's "You
>Bet Your Life."  

Now it can be told.  When I was little, my parents were big fans of Groucho
and sometimes they'd let me stay up late and watch "You Bet Your Life" with
them.  I became a fan of OTR because after I went to bed, they'd let me
have the radio on in my room and I'd stay up late listening to the final
years of OTR.  Anyway, YBYL was broadcast on radio earlier than on TV (at
one point it seems like it was on radio the night before TV, at another
point I recall it was on one hour earlier in the evening).  I never told my
parents how I got so smart that I knew all the answers to the questions
Groucho asked his contestants (and this was a couple of years before
Charles Van Doren et al). <g>

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:56:36 -0700
From: ulrich@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Richard Haydn
Message-Id: <v01540b00ae5f3328736e@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

In OTR Digest #330, JanBach@[removed] wrote:

><< (Dick Van Dyke) had on Bert Gordon the Mad Russian, and two others whose
>names I am not sure of - David Karp, the Fish Man and Florence Holliday, or
>something, who did phone monologues. >>
>
>I can't remember what "Florence Holliday" looked like, but "David Karp" was
>definitely Richard Haydn, described by THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYLOPEDIA OF MOVIE
>CHARACTER ACTORS as "tall, angular, aloof-looking English character actor who
>cornered the market in prissy professors in the Hollywood of the forties.

>I suspect the "David Karp" character was a vaudeville character that Haydn
>resurrected for the Van Dyke program; I certainly don't remember his ever
>being referred to in any OTR program I have ever heard.

According to Buxton & Owen, Haydn played Professor Lemuel Carp on The Edgar
Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show. He's not on any of the shows I've heard,
but I haven't heard all that many.

I don't remember for sure, but could Florence Holliday have been Pat Carroll?

--Charles




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