Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #108
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Date: 4/5/2007 6:12 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 108
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Kudos, Steve (& all The Little Lewis  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      4-5 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      The Green Ranger                      [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
      releasing a couple uncirc. shows of   [ Chargous@[removed] ]
      Bob Clark and "A Christmas Story"     [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      Murrow Broadcast Time?                [ chris chandler <chrischandler84@yah ]
      Come visit the Canadian OTR Chat Roo  [ "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:53:50 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Kudos, Steve (& all The Little Lewises!)

    (Sorry - couldn't resist a riff on another recent thread.)

    From:  stevenl751@[removed]

    Gotham Radio Players recreated an episode of THE  ETERNAL LIGHT ...  A brief
    excerpt of this performance was included in a documentary ... (that) just won
    a 2007 Emmy Award for "Best Religious  Programming"

    Couldn't happen to a nicer buncha [removed] and singularly apropos, this  week!

    Good Pasach & Happy Easter, all!
    -Craig

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    Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 23:30:02 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-5 births/deaths

    April 5th births

    04-05-1898 - Everett Crosby - Roslyn, WA - d. 7-13-1966
    brother and manager of Bing Crosby
    04-05-1900 - Spencer Tracy - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-10-1967
    actor: "Good News of 1938"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-05-1901 - Melvyn Douglas - Macon, GA - d. 8-4-1981
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-05-1905 - William Andrews - Oakland, CA - d. 5-2-1985
    announcer: "One Man's Family"
    04-05-1908 - Bette Davis - Lowell, MA - d. 10-6-1989
    actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Prudential Family Hour of
    Stars"
    04-05-1910 - Jim Alderman - d. 12-5-1992
    newscaster: Dallas, Texas
    04-05-1911 - Gordon Jones - Alden, IA - d. 6-20-1963
    actor: Pete Thompson "Meet Mr. McNutley"
    04-05-1911 - Martin Denny - NYC - d. 3-2-2005
    orchestra leader: Live radio show for Alaskan Air Force Command Radio
    04-05-1912 - John Le Mesurier - Bedford, England - d. 11-15-1983
    actor: Sergeant Arthur Wilson "Dad's Army"
    04-05-1916 - Gregory Peck - Lo Jolla, CA - d. 6-12-2003
    actor: "Doctor Fights"; "Sealtest Variety Hour"
    04-05-1917 - Robert Bloch - Chicago, IL - d. 9-23-1994
    writer: "Stay Tuned for Terror"
    04-05-1919 - Ted Liss - d. 3-3-1992
    actor: "Destination Freedom"
    04-05-1922 - Gale Storm - McDade, TX
    actor: Margie Albright "My Little Margie"
    04-05-1924 - Lee Stevens - Baltimore, MD
    announcer: "Big Sister"
    04-05-1926 - Stan Levy - d. 4-19-2005
    jazz drummer: "Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra"
    04-05-1929 - Nigel Hawthorne - Coventry, England - d. 12-26-2001
    actor: Acted for his college radio station at the University of Cape
    Town

    April 5th deaths

    01-01-1917 - Shelby Storck - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-5-1969
    actor: Speed Robertson "The Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
    01-16-1917 - Brainerd Duffield - Boston, MA - d. 4-5-1979
    writer: "The Ford Theatre"
    01-26-1880 - Douglas MacArthur - Little Rock, AR - d. 4-5-1964
    general: "Special Broadcast from Tokyo"
    02-09-1901 - Brian Donlevy - Armagh, Ireland - d. 4-5-1972
    actor: Steve Mitchell "Dangerous Assignment"
    02-17-1941 - Gene Pitney - Hartford, CT - d. 4-5-2006
    singer: "Voices of Vista"
    06-01-1898 - Molly Picon - NYC - d. 4-5-1992
    actor: "I Give You My Life"; "Molly Picon's Parade"
    07-14-1909 - Isabel Jewell - Shoshone, WY - d. 4-5-1972
    actor: "Dr. Kildare"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"
    07-29-1910 - Joseph Curtin - Cambridge, MA - d. 4-5-1979
    actor: Nick Charles "Advs. of the Thin Man"; John Perry "John's Other
    Wife"
    08-12-1914 - Guy Sorel - d. 4-5-1994
    actor: Larry Noble "Backstage Wife"
    08-24-1884 - Earl Der Biggers - Warren, OH - d. 4-5-1933
    author: Charlie Chan books
    09-13-1871 - Alma Kruger - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 4-5-1960
    actor: Emily Mayfield "Those We Love"
    09-24-1905 - Howard Hughes - Humble, TX - d. 4-5-1976
    film producer, bra inventor, billionaire: "Howard Hughes Senate
    Hearings"
    09-27-1898 - Vincent Youmans - NYC - d. 4-5-1946
    composer: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    10-04-1910 - Stanley Farrar - d. 4-5-1974
    actor: (Brother of Danny Thomas) Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"
    10-31-1887 - Chiange Kai-Shek - Hsikow, Chekiang, China - d. 4-5-1975
    world leader: "Free World Theatre"
    xx-xx-1892 - Marjorie Mills - Waterville, ME - d. 4-5-1979
    columnist: "The Girl from Maine"

    Ron Sayles
    For Wisconsin radio personalities:
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:15:32 -0400
    From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Green Ranger

    Raymond B. Druian wrote of the Brace Beemer's speech
    patterns as the Lone Ranger: "The way I remember the
    radio LR, he used what I considered a very strange
    construction, as in "I'll not go into town tonight,"
    rather than "I shall not go into town tonight," or "I
    won't go into town tonight."

    Of those three, "I shall not go into town tonight"
    sounds the most stilted. "I won't go into town
    tonight" sounds the best, but "I'll not go into town
    tonight" is nowhere near as stilted as "I shall
    [removed]"

    And, in fact, all three are incorrect, because the
    Lone Ranger doesn't go into town. He sends Tonto.
    Until Tonto got sick of it (because the bandits always
    beat him up), as Bill Cosby once related:

    "Tonto?"

    "Yes, Kemosabe?"

    "You go to town."

    "You go to hell, Kemosabe."

    "I want you to get the information."

    "What is information? Information say Tonto no go to
    town. That's what information say."- "The Lone Ranger"
    by Bill Cosby, on his comedy album, _I Started Out as
    a Child_.

    Turning to another member of the Reid family, the Reid
    genealogy Martin Grams provided comes from the Now
    Comics _Green Hornet_ series of the late 1980s and
    early 1990s. Actually, there were two volumes of that
    series. The first volume ran 14 issues; the second 40
    issues. There were also several ancillary mini series
    related to one or more of the Hornets, or Kato, or in
    one case, a future Hornet and Kato.

    The entire first volume was collected in a hardcover
    edition which features an introduction by Van
    Williams, who played the Green Hornet on TV.
    Inexplicably, however, 11 pages from the second issue
    are missing from that hardcover collection. Nothing
    all that important happens in them, however. Well,
    nothing except revealing _why_ Britt II decided to
    pick up the mantle of the Green Hornet.

    What's more, the collection is also missing the first
    14 pages of issue 3. The missing pages all revolve
    around a flashback to 1968 and his first case that
    Britt II reminisces about while on what turns out to
    be his last case in 1979. But why the publishers cut
    those pages out of the collection makes no sense.

    As to the series as originally published, I thought it
    was very well done. Except for one glaring error which
    they kept repeating again and again. The phrase is
    "all right." There is no such word as "alright."

    At least that even more asinine term, "proactive"
    hadn't come into vogue yet. ("We must be proactive,
    not reactive," the clueless say. To which I say, "no,
    the opposite of "reactive" is "active.")

    But I digress. I enjoyed the Now Comics _Green Hornet_
    series, and I liked the continuing Uncle/Nephew theme.

    And for the record, Alan Reid was killed his first
    time out as the Hornet. For the bulk of the run the
    "present day" Hornet was his younger brother, Paul, a
    concert pianist, who initally wanted nothing to do
    with the job. As he tells Britt II shortly after
    Alan's death, "I want no part of this family's sick
    obsession with vigilante justice."

    He changed his mind after an attack on the Reid
    homestead.

    Paul's original Kato was Mishi Kato, sister to Hayashi
    Kato (the Bruce Lee character on the TV series) and
    daughter of Ikano Kato (who, in the stories set in the
    1930s and 1940s resembled Keye Luke, who portrayed
    Kato in the _Green Hornet_ serials). For some reason
    the license holders nixed the idea of a female Kato
    after a few issues and Mishi was later replaced by
    Hayashi behind the wheel of the Black Beauty.

    She would return in the vol. 2 of the Now Comics
    series as a vigilante called The Crimson Wasp. She
    made it her personal mission to go after a criminal
    named Johnny Dollar.

    No relation.

    By the way, in the Now Comics series, Paul Reid's
    contact within the law enforcement community was
    District Attorney Diana Reid, Brit the Elder's
    daughter, and Paul's first cousin once removed. And,
    as in the TV series, Britt II's contact was District
    Attorney Frank Scanlon.

    The original Hornet's secret partner within the law
    enforcement community was Police Commissioner Walter
    Higgins, according to the Now Comics continuity. Does
    anyone know if this was ever established on the radio
    show, or did they just invent that? I know there's a
    statement in the episode "Road to Ruin" (broadcast
    12/30/1948, according to my records) that Lenore Case
    knows the Hornet's identity; and, of course, there's
    the woman who uncovers his identity in the three
    parter in which Britt admits he's the Hornet to his
    father (I forget her name); but I don't recall any
    episode that states anyone in law enforcement was
    working with Britt on the sly.

    Rick

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:16:14 -0400
    From: Chargous@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  releasing a couple uncirc. shows of The Thin
     Man and the Falcon

    They're too noisy to be of much trade value, so I'm going to freely release
    a couple of uncirc. shows I've had for a while - one each of The Thin Man,
    and the earlier version of the Falcon (pre-Les Damon).  The Thin Man is
    440611 - Mystery Playhouse #02 - The Caprini Necklace - the AFRS disc was
    horribly worn and noisy - noise reduction in Waves knocked it down some.

    The Falcon is 451113 - AFRS, replacing Suspense #144 - "Murder Knows No
    Borderline" - it cleaned up much better.  I worked with Waves, which is a
    pretty powerful restoration plugin, not quite as powerful as the new
    version of CEDAR, but still pretty decent.  Even CEDAR wouldn't save the
    Thin Man.

    I'm releasing them freely in hi-q mp3 form on the usenet group
    [removed]  Those that are usenet-savvy
    can share it with those who don't know how to access usenet.

    I figure it's a win-win, people get to hear the shows, and if someone wants
    the .wavs, it still has a little bit of trade value.  I encourage others
    that are sitting on good uncirc. shows to release them to the public (ti's
    perfectly acceptable to recoup your investment by having a round robin
    initially).

    The Thin Man is an extremely poorly preserved series and hardcore fans will
    find the new episode welcome.  And no, I don't have any more unric.
    episodes of the Thin Man.

    I'm especially looking for Secret City 12-8-41, or any obscure mystery shows.

    Travis

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:20:07 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Bob Clark and "A Christmas Story"
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    As we all know by various discussions on this venue over the years, the
    vintage 1930s and 1940s Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes' and "Merrie Melodies"
    cartoons are rife with contemporaneous OTR references. Now that one can no
    longer readily see them unless one is able to access the digital satellite TV
    "Boomerang" channel, it's safe to say--IMHO--that there is one commodity
    keeping the glories of OTR alive for newer generations and that's the film "A
    Christmas Story."

    Among the points this film contains showing off facets of OTR cachet are: 1)
    Ralphie's quest for the "Red Ryder" BB-gun; 2) Ralphie's fascination with
    decoder rings and the secret message announcer Pierre Andre intones at the end
    of the "Little Orphan Annie" programme; 3) the father reading newspaper filler
    featuring trivia questions about the Lone Ranger; 4) the fact that the whole
    story originated in the mind of the great radio humourist Jean Shepard.

    It's good to know that vestiges of OTR are kept alive--if only briefly during
    the Christmas season--thanks to the ever-growing popularity of "A Christmas
    Story."

    Naturally, I'm saddened by the news of the wanton and needless death of its
    director Bob Clark and his 22-year old son  in an automobile collision in
    Pacific Palisades CA  in which the other driver has been alleged to have been
    driving unlicensed and under the influence of alcohol. This can be further
    explored with the following link.

    [removed]

    As an individual whose life has been severely affected by the deleterious
    effects of alcohol abuse, I think I'd better adjourn this missive before I go
    off on a rant.

    God bless you, Bob Clark.

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:06:06 -0400
    From: chris chandler <chrischandler84@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Murrow Broadcast Time?

    Wondering if anybody might have access to information
    or materials that would help me figure out the time of
    day for an Ed Murrow broadcast on May 8, 1945.

    It's a complete 15-minute [removed] recounts the
    war by imagining a slow stroll through the streets of
    London.  Parts of the broadcast were quoted in the
    Sperber biography:  "Tonight, trying to realize what
    has happened, one's mind takes refuge in the past.
    The war that was seems more real than the peace that
    has come."

    Am estimating late afternoon, possibly 3:15 or 3:30
    PM.  I've turned up a complete CBS recording of this
    broadcast, and some other [removed] the time
    out on this one out would make some other puzzle
    pieces fall into place, so any help would be
    appreciated.  :)

    Chris

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    Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:08:56 -0400
    From: "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@[removed];
    To: "oldtime radio digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Come visit the Canadian OTR Chat Room this
     Friday.

    I would like to invite you to come by and take part in our OTR Canadian Chat
    Room to be held Fridays at 7 pm Eastern time.  Write me for more information
    or go to: [removed].
    Robert Acosta

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