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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 248
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      "The Hyped Panic Over 'War of the Wo  [ karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@hotma ]
      10-22 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      FOTR IN NEWARK                        [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      Commercial Free AFRS recordings       [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
      Hear FOTR on [removed]         [ <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      "House of Mystery"                    [ Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed]; ]
      Jack Narz                             [ "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@sbcglob ]
      FOTR Coverage in The New York Daily   [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Edie Adams                            [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]

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    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:14:07 -0400
    From: karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "The Hyped Panic Over 'War of the Worlds'"

    Interesting "revisionist" takeon the broadcast over at the CHRONICLE OF
    HIGHER EDUCATION:

    [removed]

    --  Karl Tiedemann

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    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:14:17 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-22 births/deaths

    October 22nd births

    10-22-1876 - Cecilia Loftus - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-12-1943
    actor: Sarah Wright "Roses and Drums"
    10-22-1880 - Vida R. Sutton - Oakland, CA - d. 7-27-1956
    speech consultant: "The Magic of Speech"
    10-22-1884 - George Washington Hill - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-13-1946
    President of American Tobacco Company, sponsor of many radio programs
    10-22-1885 - Giovanni Martinelli - Montagnana, Italy - d. 2-2-1969
    operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"; "Magic Key"; "Shell Show"
    10-22-1888 - Marie Birkhahn - d. 1-xx-1984
    pianist: WJZ Boston-Springfield, Massachusetts
    10-22-1891 - Parker Fennelly - Northeast Harbor, ME - d. 1-22-1988
    actor: Titus Moody, "Fred Allen Show"; Dan Tucker, "Lawyer Dan Tucker"
    10-22-1893 - Clarence Menser - d. 10-21-1975
    director: "Tom Mix"; "Vic and Sade"
    10-22-1893 - Will Collins - NYC - d. 5-14-1968
    singer: "Whispering Will Collins"
    10-22-1895 - Clair Loring Farrand - d. 1-7-1981
    inventor of the cone radio loudspeaker
    10-22-1905 - Constance Bennett - NYC - d. 7-24-1965
    interviewer, panelist: "Constance Bennett Calls on You"; "Leave It to
    the Girls"
    10-22-1905 - Edward Byron - Newport, KY - d. 11-21-1964
    writer, producer: "Moon River"; "Mr. District Attorney"
    10-22-1906 - Sidney Kingsley - NYC - d. 3-20-1995
    writer: "Pulitzer Prize Plays"
    10-22-1907 - Roger DeKoven - Chicago, IL - d. 1-28-1988
    actor: Professor Allen, "Against the Storm"
    10-22-1908 - Charles A. Nobles - Holyoke, MA - d. 6-xx-1977
    announcer: "Wake Up America"
    10-22-1908 - Frances Drake - NYC - d. 1-17-2000
    actor: "Stars of Tomorrow"
    10-22-1913 - Jay Owen - d. 6-27-2005
    worked in radio in Washington [removed] and New York City
    10-22-1914 - Harry Hickox - Big Spring, TX - d. 6-3-1994
    actor: "Jump-Jump and the Ice Queen"
    10-22-1915 - Frank Danzig - d. 7-6-1997
    producer: "The Mel Torme Show"; "Lone Wolf"
    10-22-1915 - Laurette Fillbrandt - Zanesville, OH - d. 9-27-2000
    actor: "Girl Alone"; "Affairs of Anthone"; "One Man's Family"
    10-22-1915 - Mona Brand - Sydney, Australia - d. 8-1-2007
    writer: "Who Am I?"; "And a Happy New Year"
    10-22-1916 - Sidney Miller - Shenandoah, PA - d. 1-10-2004
    actor-director-songwriter: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Jeff Regan, Private
    Investigator"
    10-22-1917 - Harold Goodwin - Wombwell, England - d. 6-3-2004
    actor: "The Cruel Sea"
    10-22-1917 - Joan Fontaine - Tokyo, Japan
    actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"
    10-22-1919 - Norman Glisch - West Allis, WI - d. 11-2-2007
    banjo player: Appeared on international radio with Bing Crosby and
    Dinah Shore
    10-22-1920 - Mitzi Green - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-24-1969
    actor: Girl "Passport to Romance"
    10-22-1924 - Ty Dobb - Salina, KS
    writer: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
    10-22-1938 - Sir Derek Jacoby - Leytonstone, London, England
    actor:  Renaissance Theatre Company in association with BBC Radio Drama
    10-22-1939 - Jim Cox - Pineville, KY
    author: "Radio Crime Fighters"; "Great Radio Soap Operas"
    10-22-1939 - Tony Roberts - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    October 22nd deaths

    01-02-1925 - Richard Jessup - d. 10-22-1982
    writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    01-23-1884 - George McManus - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1954
    "Bringing Up Father" based on his comic strip
    02-17-1908 - Walter "Red" Barber - Columbus, MS - d. 10-22-1992
    sportscaster: (The Old Redhead) "Schaefer Star Revue"
    04-07-1905 - Murray Bolen - Minnesota - d. 10-22-1995
    producer, director: "Father Knows Best"; "Mayor of the Town";
    "Railroad Hour"
    04-11-1921 - Dorothy Shay - Jacksonville, FL - d. 10-22-1978
    singer: (Park Avenue Hillbilly) "The Spike Jones Show"
    04-29-1903 - Richard Leibert - Bethlehem, PA - d. 10-22-1976
    organist: "Dick Leibert's Musical Revue"; "Organ Rhapsody"
    05-22-1916 - Rupert Davies - Liverpool, England - d. 10-22-1976
    actor: "Afternoon Theatre"
    06-13-1916 - Mary Wickes - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1995
    actor: Louise "Meet Corliss Archer"; Irma Barker "Lorenzo Jones"
    06-22-1901 - Charlie Agnew - Illinois - d. 10-22-1978
    bandleader: "Yeast Foam Program"; "Armandes Face Cream Program"
    06-27-1862 - May Irwin - Whitby, Canada - d. 10-22-1938
    actor: "The Eveready Hour"
    06-28-1909 - Eric Ambler - London, England - d. 10-22-1998
    author: "Escape"; "Hour of Mystery"
    07-05-1899 - Tim Ryan - Bayonne, NJ - d. 10-22-1956
    actor: "Tim and Irene Show"
    08-02-1899 - Earle Larimore - Portland, OR - d. 10-22-1947
    actor: "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; "Life Can Be Beautiful"
    10-09-1914 - M. Thomas Cousins - Wilson, NC - d. 10-22-1972
    trumpeter, arranger: "National Symphony"
    10-16-1911 - Molly O'Day - Bayonne, NJ - d. 10-22-1998
    actor: "Barnyard Jamboree"
    10-26-1918 - Ivor Francis - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1986
    actor: "Secret Missions"; "The Chase"
    10-30-1910 - Francia White - Greenville, TX - d. 10-22-1984
    singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Fred Astaire Show";
    "Telephone Hour"
    11-22-1904 - Roland Winters - Boston, MA - d. 10-22-1989
    actor: Russell Bartlett "My Best Girls"; "Milton Berle Show";
    "Highways in Melody"
    11-22-1919 - Steve Alex - d. 10-22-1998
    newscaster: KSIL Silver City, New Mexico
    11-25-1905 - Will Osborne - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1981
    bandleader, singer: "Abbott and Costello"
    12-06-1904 - Eve Curie Lubouisse - Paris, France - d. 10-22-2007
    writer: (Daughter of Marie Curie) "This I Believe"
    12-08-1909 - Elaine Melchior - NYC - d. 10-22-2002
    actor: Ardala Valmer "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:14:26 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  FOTR IN NEWARK

    Hey:
    All you lovers of the 'magic' in radio from the  Golden era, come join us in
    Newark from 22nd till the 26th at the Newark Holiday  Inn near the airport.
    Promises to be a great gathering  with some very talented people re-enacting
    the shows from the greatest era of  radio.
    SUSPENSE, X-MINUS ONE, FIBBER MCGEE AND MOLLY and  several original plays
    done with a stellar cast of actors and great production  values.
    I know this sounds like a commercial but believe  me, I have been a guest
    several times in the past and a more that willing  contributor to this event
    and
    it has never failed to amaze and delight me and  the huge crowd that attends
    as well.
        Get your reservations in before they are  closed.
    The crowds are fully involved and  delightful.
    Come along and meet some of the original  players and some newcomers.
    Check Google for FOTR and get  yourself in gear.
    See ya!!
        Those of you who know me and my love for the great  SUSPENSE series will
    enjoy as I do, the fact that I have been cast as the  announcer in the opening
    segment of that famous show in a recreation by the  original writer and
    director, Peter Fernandez.
        I am scared awready!!!
        Also we get to reproduce and episode of X-MINUS ONE  for all the SCI-FI
    lovers.
        Prizes and autographs as well as zany conversations  with the performers
    in the hotel bar after the show are all a part of the  fun.
        Meet the stars and sit at the bars.
        Hear Chick McCann tell stories well calculated  [removed], you  know!!!!
    Michael C. Gwynne

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    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:34:21 -0400
    From: <radioaz@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Commercial Free AFRS recordings

    In his paper on the history and his remembrances of Armed Forces Radio
    Service during World War II, Edward M. Kirby (Col. -- USA -- Ret.) addressed
    the reason commercials were stripped off those shows.

    "Arrangements were then made with the commercial sponsors to re-broadcast
    their programs to the troops overseas, commercials and all, since we had no
    staff to make deletions. Clearances from the musical union and ASCAP were
    granted without question.

    "All went well until the Fall of Bataan and later, Corregidor. The battered
    American heroes, still holding out, were forced to eat mule meat. Before
    the commercial could be deleted, a program had reached our soldiers on the
    Bataan peninsula , hoping for a word announcing their deliverance, but
    instead, were told of the ease with which you could go to the family ice
    box for some delicious cheese and cold drinks.

    "Immediately all selected programs were "de-commercialized" It was also
    obvious that entertainment programs designed for domestic listening, were
    not always acceptable to our troops stationed overseas, many of whom had
    just returned from fox-holes, where it was said, there were no atheists.
    It was also obvious that a separate, full time staff had to come into being
    to handle broadcasts to troops overseas."

    I believe the full document is archived someone here on Charlie's site, but
    I'm not sure how to find it.

    Ted Meland

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    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:35:14 -0400
    From: <mbiel@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hear FOTR on [removed]

    Don't forget, if you are unable to travel to this week's Friends of Old Time
    Radio convention in Newark, you can still hear all the panel sessions LIVE on
    [removed]  .  Our tentative schedule is:  (Eastern Time)
    Thursday  11:30 AM - 3 PM
    Friday 10 AM - 4:30 PM
    Saturday 9 AM - 4:45 PM
    Sunday 9:30 AM - 11 AM

    Of course we will be going with the timing of the actual presentations, so we
    might be on a little earlier and stay on a little longer.  Even The Shadow
    doesn't know.

    If you ARE at FOTR, stop by and say hi to Leah and me.  We'll be set up in
    the back of the presentation room.  If you're not careful we might even get
    you to say something on the air!  For bait, we have some candy for you.

    Michael Biel   mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:35:23 -0400
    From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "House of Mystery"

    I'm looking for information about this series that
    goes beyond the usual desktop resources.  Hopefully
    someone on this list will have some specialized
    knowledge, or will know where to direct me to get
    answers.

    Here's what I know: "House of Mystery" began as a 15
    minute weekday serial on Mutual in January 1945.  In
    September, it became a weekly half-hour program; first
    on Saturdays at noon, then Sundays at 3pm (all times
    Eastern).  It ran in that format for a few years.
    Olga Druce was the producer, General Foods the
    sponsor.

    According to Jim Harmon's "Great Radio Heroes," the
    series was produced by the same company that did
    "Adventures of Superman" - which presumably means
    Robert Maxwell Associates.  Unfortunately, I was
    unable to determine Mr. Harmon's source for this
    information.  The only thing that might support it is
    that DC did a "House of Mystery" comic book.  But the
    title wasn't introduced until 1951, and then as a
    horror comic - nothing like the
    "supernatural-explained" tales of the radio show.

    I've read various articles about the show (as well as
    about Ms. Druce) in "Sponsor," "Radio & TV Best" and
    "Radio Mirror" magazines and some newspapers, and from
    these it seems like it was owned either by General
    Foods or its ad agency (Benton & Bowles, IIRC).

    Along with "Superman," I've determined that Maxwell
    Associates was responsible for producing "Hop
    Harrigan," "Adventure Parade" and "Criminal Casebook."
     The only one I can't confirm based on contemporary
    resources is "House of Mystery."  Does anyone know for
    sure?

    Thanks,
    Michael

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    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:36:21 -0400
    From: "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jack Narz

    I wanted to quickly add a bit to what Dan Hughes wrote about the passing of
    busy TV game show host Jack Narz (whose brother was also a famous TV game
    show host, Tom Kennedy)...
    Mr. Narz worked at a few radio stations in the Los Angeles area in the
    late-1940s to [removed] was with the old KWIK-1490 in Burbank;
    low-powered daytimer KIEV-870 in Glendale;
    and KLAC-570 in Hollywood.  He then went into local TV at KTTV-11 and KNXT-2
    hosting afternoon movies and announcing the commercials, etc.  Shortly
    after, he announced for  early network TV shows, including "Space Patrol"
    and "Life With Elizabeth" starring Betty White; and then he began hosting TV
    game shows.

    Jim Hilliker
    Monterey, CA

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    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:37:00 -0400
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  FOTR Coverage in The New York Daily News

    David Hinckley of The New York Daily News gives the 2008 Friends of Old Time
    Radio Convention a plug in today's issue.

    He was working off an old press release, so some of the information he used
    is now incorrect (Peg Lynch is no longer attending, for example) but once
    again he's done a great job of capturing the spirit of the event.

    [removed]

    Please let me know if you have any questions about attending the convention
    this weekend.  I'll be off e-mail starting tomorrow morning so I'm including
    my cell phone number as well.

    Sean Dougherty
    201-739-2541
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:45:35 -0400
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Edie Adams
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           A couple of questions regarding Edie Adams:

           Wasn't she married to comedian Ernie Kovacs for a while?  I believe
    after he was killed in a car accident, she went on to marry again.  And if
    memory serves, didn't she once do commercials for Muriel cigars?  I seem
    to recall her singing "Hey big spender, spend a little dime on me" to the
    tune
    of "Hey, Big Spender" from "Sweet Charity".  I could be wrong.

    As always,

    Kenneth

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