Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #177
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 6/28/2006 10:18 PM

To: [removed]@[removed]

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 177
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      6-28 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      SUPERMAN in THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST   [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      Spry shortening & other things that   [ Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed] ]
      Women off-mike                        [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      OTR Women                             [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      REPS 2006                             [ Crow8164@[removed] ]
      The Whisperer                         [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      worldwide OTR subscribers             [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
      Thank you!                            [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Detective Series Question             [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Bookshelf Albums                      [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Charlott Greenwod in Radio            [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:12:00 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:10:44 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-28 births/deaths

    June 28th births

    06-28-1895 - Kelvin Keech - Hawaii Territory - d. 5-xx-1977
    announcer: "Popeye the Sailor"; "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing"
    06-28-1902 - Richard Rodgers - Long Island, NY - d. 12-30-1979
    composer: "ASCAP On Parade"; "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and
    Sanborn Hour"
    06-28-1904 - Hector Chevigny - d. 4-20-1965
    writer: "Portia Faces Life"; "The Second Mrs. Burton"
    06-28-1906 - Ann Leaf - Omaha, NE - d. 4-3-1995
    organist: (Little Organ Annie) "Ann Leaf at the Organ"; "Lorenzo Jones"
    06-28-1908 - Alan Bunce - Westfield, NJ - d. 4-27-1965
    actor: Albert Arbuckle "Ethel and Albert"; Jerry Malone "Young Dr.
    Malone"
    06-28-1908 - John W. Harrington - NYC - d. 9-xx-1974
    announcer: "Just Plain Bill"
    06-28-1913 - Harry Cool - d. 6-xx-1979
    vocalist, bandleader: "Fibber McGee and Molly"s
    06-28-1914 - Lester Flatt - Overton County, TN - d. 5-10-1979
    bluegrass guitarist: (Flatt and Scruggs) "Martha White Biscuit Time";
    "Grand Ole Opry"
    06-28-1914 - Zina Provendie - d. 5-15-2005
    actor: Sylvia Bruno Wick "The Goldbergs"
    06-28-1926 - Mel Brooks - NYC
    comedian: "Jean Shepherd Show"

    June 27th deaths

    04-06-1903 - Mickey Cochrane - Bridgewater, MA - d. 6-28-1962
    sportscaster: (Member Baseball Hall of Fame) "Mickey Cochrane"
    04-21-1898 - King Calder - Maryland - d. 6-28-1964
    actor: James Anderson "Second Mrs. Burton"; Will Stevenson "Barry
    Cameron"
    05-08-1905 - Red Nichols - Ogden, UT - d. 6-28-1965
    music: (Red Nichols and His Five Pennies) "Bob Hope Show"; "Ipana
    Troubadors"
    05-09-1930 - Joan Sims - Laindon, Essex, England - d. 6-28-2001
    actor: "Round the Horne"; "Stop Messing About"
    07-03-1903 - John Lake - Leesburg, VA - d. 6-28-1960
    actor: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Twelve Players"
    08-19-1913 - Harry F. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 6-28-1982
    singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
    10-23-1923 - Frank Sutton - Clarksville, TN - d. 6-28-1974
    actor: "Couple Next Door"
    11-25-1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas - Boonton, NJ - d. 6-28-1980
    actor: (Wife of Melvin Douglas) "Hollywood Fights Back"; "A Report to
    the Nation"
    11-28-1895 - Jose Iturbi - Valencia, Spain - d. 6-28-1980
    pianist, conductor: "Telephone hour"; "Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra"
    12-25-1924 - Rod Serling - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-28-1975
    writer, host: "Zero Hour"
    xx-xx-1891 - Joe Schenck - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-28-1930
    singer, comedian,m dancer: (Gus Van and Joe Schenck) "The Eveready Hour}

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of Erskine Johnson
    Racine, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:27:40 -0400
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  SUPERMAN in THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST

    How [removed]

    I always thought Jor-El was a Kryptonian [removed]

    And, by the way, would the Krypton native who invented their elevated
    trains, be called--

    El-El?

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:28:01 -0400
    From: Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Spry shortening & other things that aren't
     here anymore

    I Googled Spry shortening to see if it is still made. I came across
    this site, "Hometown Favorites":
    [removed]

    The site calls itself "The Hard-To-Find-Grocer"
    It lists discontinued products alphabetically. Among them is Spry
    shortening, Fluffo shortening, Amos & Andy Bar, Cream of Wheat Hot
    Chocolate Cereal, and (lamentably) Armour Beef Tripe, among many others.
    You might want to check out the list for other products that you
    haven't seen lately. It appears that they sell other "hard-to-find"
    items, but I didn't check those area of the site.

    [Usual disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the site or the company
    - mention is for info only.]

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:29:21 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Women off-mike

    On Monday, June 26, 2006, at 10:20 PM, Karen Lerner wrote:

>     Could anyone give me an idea of where I can get information about
>     women who worked behind the scenes in radio?  Writers, directors,
>     producers, [removed]

      While my book, "Private Eyelashes: Radio's Lady Detectives"
    concentrates on the women performers who voiced the OTR sleuths, it
    also covers in detail the other ladies who worked on these shows.

    Just a few examples:  Edith Meiser, the writer of "Sherlock Holmes" and
      "The Shadow", was a former suffragette. "The Affairs of Ann Scotland"
    (with Arlene Francis in the lead) had a woman director, Helen Mack,
    and writer, Barbara Owens. The married duo of Richard and Frances
    Lockridge created "Mr. and Mrs. North" which became a popular radio
    show:  Richard later admitted that  the character of "Pam North" was
    based upon his wife.

    "Private Eyelashes" is available on-line from my publisher
    <[removed]>

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:30:30 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR Women

    On Monday, June 26, 2006, at 10:20 PM, Karen Lerner wrote:

>     Could anyone give me an idea of where I can get information about
>     women who worked behind the scenes in radio?  Writers, directors,
>     producers, [removed]

    An excellent book that addresses Karen's question would be:  "Invisible
    Stars; A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting" by Donna L.
    Halper, published by [removed] Sharpe of Armonk, NY (2001)

    Harper did some of her research at the Library of American
    Broadcasting, the facilities of which Michael Henry explained well in a
    recent Digest posting.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:30:51 -0400
    From: Crow8164@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Digest)
    Subject:  REPS 2006
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    For I believe the first time, a major radio convention featured a panel on
    "The Cinnamon Bear" and two recreations.  I am very grateful that the program
    won this kind of support from the Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound and their
    convention charman , Mike Sprague.

    My guess is we won some converts. That fact made the experience so very
    worthwhile.

    (Please note my new e-mail address.)

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:38:27 -0400
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Whisperer

    The same thing happened to me--two episodes of The Whistler turned out
    to actually be The Whisperer. (In somewhat poor sound, as I recall.)
    Those of you with big MP3 collections might want to rename the
    following two episodes, if you've got them in your Whistler collection,
    as they're actually the Whisperer:

    07/15/51	Attempted Murder
    08/26/51	Taken for A Ride

    I didn't see any similarities between The Whisperer and The Shadow. The
    Whisperer has no powers; he's just a double-agent--used to be a bad guy
    (when he had amnesia, I think); now he's working for law and order but
    still maintains his Whisperer identity so that he can gather inside
    information on crooks. A decent series, but hardly great (IMHO).

    Kermyt

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:39:09 -0400
    From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  worldwide OTR subscribers

    In response to a posting I recently made I got messages from the Czech
    Republic and Germany -- which makes me wonder how many countries are
    "represented" on the digest. Do we have a little UN here?

    Might we some day get an e mail message like paraphrasing the ones that
    started during the Truman era: ("We interrupt this e mail discussion list for
    a test of the international emergency preparedness program" somewhere in the
    old messages was the term "CONELRAD [CONtrol of ELectronic RADiation] system
    --

    Come in Latvia, Come in Uganda, Come in Bolivia . . .

    Howard Blue

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:34:28 -0400
    From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Thank you!

    Thank you for the great responses to my inquiry about women behind the
    scenes!  I'm glad to see that there is a decent amount of stuff out there.
    In fact, it seems like it will take me a really long time to explore all of
    your suggestions!

    Karen Lerner
    Radio Spirits, Inc.

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:41:13 -0400
    From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Detective Series Question

    Hi all,

    I got a question today from a customer who was trying to figure out the name
    of a radio detective and I'm ashamed to say that I was unable to help.  His
    distinguishing characteristic?  According to the customer, "He was married,
    but you never saw the wife's face. All you saw were her hands, as she was
    feeding him dinner. She did have a speaking part as well."  I asked if the
    customer was maybe thinking about a detective on television or in a movie,
    but was assured that the detective in question was on the radio airwaves
    during the 1930s.  Does this ring a bell to anyone?

    Karen Lerner
    Radio Spirits, Inc.

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:28:42 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bookshelf Albums

    My wife, in her pursuit to have me clean out the loft, is getting her way.

    I have a box of 35 bookshelf albums, the black plastic kind that hold three
    audio cassettes and can hold a colored insert on the outside plastic sleeve,
    wrapped all the way around.  Standard bookshelf album.

    I also have a box of about the same size that also has 35 bookshelf albums
    but this one holds 6 cassettes instead of 3.

    For anyone who has a bunch of OTR cassettes and wants to put them in
    bookshelf albums, I need to get rid of these.  Cost is $[removed] plus postage,
    that's a buck per album and cheaper than Polyline or National Audio offers,
    so even dealers can save some money.

    Anyone interested can e-mail me direct,
    Martin
    mmargrajr@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:42:31 -0400
    From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Charlott Greenwod in Radio

    I too remember Charlotte Greenwood in the movies she had a dry sense of
    humor that reminded me of Eve Arden. If  I ever tried to Kick as high as she
    did would end on my rear end with something broken. She was great in movies,
    but she had her own radio show called the Charlotte Greenwood Show. In the
    summer 1944  Charlotte Greenwood show was the summer replacement for Bob
    Hope's Pepsodent [removed] to 9/5/44

    She Had her own show from 10/15/44 to 1/6/45. Her show, in my opinion, was
    like a soap opera . She was raising 3 kids who were orphan and short of
    money. Edward Arnold was a semi-regular. She had  movie as guest stars on a
    lot of her episodes. Hallmark Cards sponsored her on Sunday afternoons over
    ABC. I check her biography on web that Ed Kindred  referred to and it didn't
    mention her radio career
    Frank McGurn

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