Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #228
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Date: 7/12/2004 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 228
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Page dropping my ---.                 [ hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed]; ]
      RE: Programs I Don't Get              [ "D. Fisher" <dfisher@[removed]; ]
      Kitty's employment                    [ Allen Wilcox <aawjca@[removed]; ]
      Arthur Godfrey                        [ "Peter H. Vollmann" <vollmann@direc ]
      7-12 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Stan Freberg                          [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:44:29 -0400
    From: hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Page dropping my ---.

    I havent posted in quite some time, mainly due to being laid up with dental
    surgery, and a massive home alteration project. But I have been lurking, and
    just couldn't let this posting go by without a comment.

    David just posted.

>     I am reading an interesting book about OTR called "Great American Broadcast"
>     (pub 1997) by Leonard Maltin.  (SNIP)

    Bob Hastings and I had lunch with Leonard Maltin one day at a SPERDVAC
    Convention. He seemed like a decent sort, and not one prone to make stuff
    up. I think he was researching his book at that time. David, isn't amazing
    how BS rumors get spread?

>     I notice on page 120, he quotes Adele Ronson who stated that "Alot of people
>     dropped pages on the floor as they finished".  I am not sure of her
>     background or when she worked in the field.

    I am very familiar with Adele [removed] [removed] when she worked
    in the field. Adele was a contemporary of mine in NY Network [removed] think
    we will now have to refer to her as Addle brained Adele.  I worked with her
    on many, many occasions, on many different radio shows. I NEVER ONCE SAW HER
    DROP A SINGLE PAGE ON THE [removed] EVEN BY ACCIDENT!

>     (SNIP)  but having slipped and fallen  due to paper left on a hard floor, I
>     can
>     not see why any studio manager would allow this to occur unless an actor had
>     their own work area and did not move far from the mike.

    David, you are obviously a bright young man, (or old man). Take your pick.

    However, in the NBC & CBS Network radio studios, the Stage areas around the
    microphones were carpeted. Consequently, slipping on a dropped piece of
    paper laying on hard surface was not a consideration. But footsteps were.
    Even the small platform I had to use to reach the mic (when I first started
    in radio was a very young kid) was carpeted.

    To put an end to this folly, and my strange irate reaction whenever I hear
    this sort of misinformation, let me finish by [removed]

    I NEVER SAW ANY ACTOR, OR ACTRESS, (IN THE 15 YEAR PERIOD BETWEEN 1939 TO
    1954 THAT I WAS ACTIVE AS A RADIO PERFORMER) EVER, EVER, DROP A PAGE.

    Hal(Harlan)Stone
    Jughead

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 12:01:49 -0400
    From: "D. Fisher" <dfisher@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Programs I Don't Get

    I think Mr. Torch is making the mistake of judging 50 year old programs by
    todays standards. At the time, these programs were popular because the
    standards at that time were a lot different then today (thank God).
    Certainly you can't judge movies or tv shows or for that fact even broadway
    shows from 40 or 50 years ago by todays standards. I was lucky enough to
    have been around at that time & heard most of those shows when originally
    aired & yes some do sound kinda corny, but at the time I thought they were
    great. Just listen & enjoy.

    Don Fisher

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:13:39 -0400
    From: Allen Wilcox <aawjca@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Kitty's employment

    It was alleged, on Radio, that Kitty was a prostitute
    along with being a saloon gal. So her employment was
    every where.
    Allen

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:57:29 -0400
    From: "Peter H. Vollmann" <vollmann@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Arthur Godfrey

    As a youth in Germany, I enjoyed the Arthur Godfrey show on AFRS very much.
    Thank you, Lee Munsick, for sharing your thoughts and knowledge on Arthur
    Godfrey with us. After all the critical opinions uttered on this great
    performer lately, your remarks are refreshing. Thanks for the memories!
    Peter

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:57:15 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-12 births/deaths

    July 12th births

    07-12-1884 - Edgar Stehli - Lyons, France - d. 7-16-1973
    actor: Dr. Huer "Buck Rogers"; Rex A. Starr "It's Murder"
    07-12-1886 - Jean Hersholt - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 6-2-1956
    actor: Dr. Paul Christian "Dr. Christian"
    07-12-1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II - NYC - d. 8-23-1960
    lyricist: "Pet Milk Show"
    07-12-1908 - Milton Berle - NYC - d. 3-27-2002
    comedian: "Milton Berle Show"; "Let Yourself Go"; "Three Ring Time"
    07-12-1909 - Joey Faye - NYC - d. 4-26-1997
    actor: Recruit "The Rookies"
    07-12-1919 - Vera Hruba Ralston - Prague, Czechoslovakia
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-12-1934 - Van Cliburn - Shreveport, LA
    pianist: "Van Cliburn Concert"

    July 12th deaths

    01-27-1888 - Harry "Singin' Sam" Frankel - Hillsboro, OH - d. 7-12-1948
    singer: (The Barbasol Man) "Reminiscin' with Singin' Sam"
    02-10-1906 - Lon Chaney, Jr. - Oklahoma City,  Oklahoma Territory - d.
    7-12-1973
    actor: "Pursuit of Happiness"
    02-12-1904 - Ted Mack - Greeley, CO - d. 7-12-1976
    emcee: "Original Amateur Hour"
    06-02-1902 - Jimmie Lunceford - Fulton, MO - d. 7-12-1947
    bandleader: Big Band Remotes
    07-14-1927 - John Chancellor - Chicago, IL - d. 7-12-1996
    newscaster: WMAQ Chicago, NBC; "Voice of America"
    10-05-1908 - Josh Logan - Texarkana, TX - d. 7-12-1988
    film/stage director: "Biography In Sound"
    10-22-1876 - Cecilia Loftus - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-12-1943
    actress: Sarah Wright "Roses and Drums"
    12-18-1864 - S. Parkes Cadman - Wellington, Shropshire, England - d. 7-12-1936
    preacher: "National Radio Pulpit"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:55:13 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Stan Freberg

>     1957 - Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on
>     CBS beginning this night. The Freberg show only lasted a short time and
>     that newfangled contraption, television, was blamed for the show's
>     quick demise.

    The show was only supposed to be a summer replacement, as I recall.  It replaced the Jack
    Benny Program for the summer, with Jack Benny returning in the fall.  The fact that Jack
    Benny's radio program was in reruns at that time didn't stop CBS from taking it off the air for
    the summer, just as they had done when it was new material.

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    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 lawyer@[removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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