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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2014 : Issue 46
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      [removed]                               [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]
      CBS Pearl Harbor information/anomoli  [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 18-24 May  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      Wee paws                              [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:48:45 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  [removed]

    Folks;

       The Digest was supposed to release while we were at the convention, and it
    didn't, and I was too busy to notice. Rectified today, with my apologies.

             Charlie

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    Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:49:03 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  CBS Pearl Harbor information/anomolies

    For a number of years I have been searching for a complete copy of the
    bulletin made by John Charles Daly at the opening of the 2:30 [removed]
    December 7th, 1941 broadcast of "The World Today."  There is a lot of
    confusion over this broadcast with apparently incomplete copies that
    exist.

    Without going into the history, I will mention one thing right off.  The
    copy that exists where it appears Daly has "interrupted" a broadcast is
    strictly bogus.  It did not happen that way at all and has been confirmed
    by a number of sources.  That copy appears to have originated from the
    mind of Fred Friendly and Ed Murrow for their 1948 historical record "Hear
    It Now."

    However, despite that, the copies that do exist are mixed and not
    complete.  Essentially, this is what happened as I have been able to
    research:

    "The World Today" was a 2:30 [removed] news program coming on normally on
    Sundays at that time.  There was a sort of East and West version due to
    sponsors  though both did come on at the same time despite the time
    differences.  The opening that is available is either for West Coast only
    as best I can tell comparing it to the broadcast of December 6th, or it
    was changed. Essentially, the East Coast opens something like this:

    "The World Today. The Columbia Broadcasting System now presents a summary
    of all the important news in the world today. Reports from CBS
    Correspondents by trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific shortwave radio and the
    latest developments as received by Columbia's newsroom, here in New York."

    The West Coast opened in this way:
    "The World Today. By shortwave radio, Columbia now brings you reports from
    its foreign correspondents overseas, with summaries of the latest world
    news, presented over these stations by Golden Eagle Gasoline. Go ahead New
    York."

    The latter copy is the only one I have found. Most likely it originated
    from KIRO's (Seattle) copies.

    Now to the John Daly Bulletin.

    After the program opening, Daly immediately went into the bombing bulletin
    which had just come in at about 2:25 [removed] from the United Press. (On a
    side note, Bob Trout talked about this on NPR in 1999). What is available
    from Daly in circulation is this:

    "The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by air, President
    Roosevelt has just announced. The attack also was made on all naval and
    military activities on the principal island of Oahu."

    That is where it stops.  However, according to Ed Bliss in his book "Now
    the News," it continued a little more:

    "The news came in just after the two Japanese envoys in Washington made
    the appointment to call at the State Department and follows reports from
    the Far East that Japan was ready to launch an attack on Thailand." Bliss
    could be wrong here, but his chapter is pretty detailed.

    At that point the program switches to Washington with Albert Warner.  If
    Daly announced the switch, that too is missing.

    It is my understanding that the West Coast version only heard some seconds
    of silence after their "Go ahead New York" because Daly went directly into
    the bulletin instead of whatever took place usually and CBS West was
    caught off guard and it took some time to switch since they would normally
    have some time to plug the sponsor, so it included silence then Albert
    Warner coming on.  I am not sure if Master logs for CBS exist, so I am not
    sure if there is truly a way to check it, unless a complete broadcast
    uncut up as appears to be on the Internet is found or available.

    That is what I am looking for.  Either a complete version, preferably East
    Coast version with the complete Daly bulletin and if anything after exists
    just before the switch to Albert Warner.  I've been collecting over 40
    years and have yet to hear one. If anyone knows of such a recording, I
    would be interested in talking to you.

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:49:08 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 18-24 May

    5/18

    1942 - "David Harding, Counterspy" was heard on the NBC Blue network for
    the first time. The program enjoyed a long run on radio, lasting for 15
    years.

    5/19

    1921 - The first opera presented in its entirety over the radio was
    broadcast by 9ZAF in Denver, CO. The opera, "Martha", aired from the
    Denver Auditorium.

    5/20

    1933 - "Charlie Chan" was heard for the final time on the NBC Blue radio
    network after only six months on the air. Not to worry. Several revivals
    of the Chinese detective were on the air for years later ...

    5/22

    1955 - Jack Benny signed off his last first run network radio broadcast
    after a run of 23 years.  The show continued in repeats for several more
    years.

    5/23

    1922 - The first debate to be heard on radio was broadcast on WJH in
    Washington, DC. The two debaters argued about the topic of Daylight
    Saving Time with the audience acting as the judge.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:49:16 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    Featuring Bob Bailey - Part 2

    TALES OF FATIMA
    Episode 37 9-17-49 "Portrait Of Fear"
    STARS Basil Rathbone, Lili Palmer
    CBS FATIMA CIGARETTES Saturdays 9:30 - 10:00pm

    FAVORITE STORY
    Episode 62 11-18-47 "Golden Ingot"
    Host: Jack Albertson.
    Favorite of Lauritz Melchior
    Stars: Morris Carnovsky, Jack Albertson, Jean Bates
    Hosts varied from program to program (Not Ronald Coleman).
    KFI Syndicated and Produced by Lawrence and Lee for Bullocks Tuesdays
    9:00 - 9:30 pm

    HERITAGE
    Episode 33 7-23-53 "The Canterbury Tales"
    Stars: Bryna Raeburn, Leon Janney, Ivor Francis, Donald Buka
    ABC Life Magazine

    BEYOND THE GREEN DOOR
    Episode 37 1966 "Richard Hearn, Hunter And The Werewolf"
    Narrator: Basil Rathbone
    Writer: Robert Scheckley
    NBC Monitor Syndicated

    WALK SOFTLY, PETER TROY
    Episode 47 10-27-64 "Heavenly Helen"
    Stars: Tom Meehan, John Simpson, Merle Wayne
    Producer: Herrick Merril Productions
    Springbok Radio - South Africa Irving $ Johnson
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    THAT'S RICH
    (CBS) 11/21/53 Audition Pgm.
    The series didn't air until 1954. Hear Stan, Daws Butler and Marvin
    Miller in the cast.

    UP FOR PAROLE
    55/12/50 A short-lived
    show (March-Dec. 1950) presenting "authentic" cases of inmates seeking
    parole. "The Case of Clarence Hogan"

    THE ADV. OF SUPERMAN
    (WOR/Synd.) April 3, 1940 show, "The Giant of Brentwood"
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    *Jury Duty*

    FAMOUS JURY TRIALS
    Episode 33 5-3-37 "People Vs Radin"

    OZZIE AND HARRIET
    Episode 21 1-16-48 "Jury Duty"

    THE PHIL HARRIS-ALICE FAYE SHOW
    Episode 21 2-20-49 "Jury Duty"

    SUSPENSE
    Episode 540 2-22-54 "Murder By Jury"
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    This Week's Classics & Curios Show:

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 121

    THE LUCKY STRIKE (DANCE) HOUR

    George Olsen and Ethel Shutta appear again, but this time on an episode
    of "The Lucky Strike (Dance) Hour," one of several hour-long musical
    variety programs that began in the early 1930's.

    The Lucky Strike show sent listeners on a magic train and carpet to hear
    top dance bands, vocalists, comedy, and drama on Tuesday, Thursday, and
    Saturday nights on NBC and was hosted (or piloted) by Walter O'Keefe.
    This episode from 12-01-32 showcases George Olsen's music and the
    singing of wife Ethel Shutta during "cutting away" remote moments to the
    Hotel New Yorker, along with comedian Jack Pearl as tall tale teller
    (pirate) Baron Muenchhausen. The Baron became so popular that he
    received his own Sunday night series and later appeared in an MGM movie
    with Jimmy Durante. [The historical Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Freiherr
    von Muenchhausen is pictured to the left.] Betwixt and between, Howard
    Claney brings all the latest Lucky Strike "news."

    All the while the show continues at a fast pace, kind of in vaudevillian
    fashion, with rapid fire introductions. Interrupting the "barrage of
    foolishness," as Walter puts it, come some fine musical numbers aided,
    according to Walter, by Olsen's "Combination Glee Club and Choral
    Society" or "Combination Choral Society and Bird Lovers Club." Walter
    keeps the show moving with the words "on with the dance," and we hear
    old and new songs with pleasantly slower paced introductions from George
    Olsen whose music includes the show's theme "Happy Days Are Here Again"
    along with "Bugle Call Rag;" "Darkness on the Delta;" "Won't You Stay
    for Tea?" "A Boy and a Girl Were Dancing;" "Hey, Young Lady;" a novelty
    "How Can I Heidi Ho When I Feel So Low?" "A Shine on Your Shoes;" and
    "Cradle Lullaby (Mother Sang to Me)."

    Near the end of the program we hear a cute German curio, "Was willst du
    haben?" ("What Is It You Want?") Interestingly, after that tune Walter
    O'Keefe exclaims playfully to the audience, "Pass auf!" (which means,
    "Pay attention") and introduces the final song, "Sentimental Gentleman
    from Georgia." That brings to a close one of the rarest OTR programs
    long thought never to have been recorded.

    Partial scripts for the "Lucky Strike Hour" can be found at
    [removed] For more on radio "at the dawn of the 1930's"
    see "Radio's Forgotten Years" online at [removed] by radio historian
    Elizabeth McLeod who discovered "Lucky Strike Hour" recordings made on a
    Victor home recording device.

    If, like me, you enjoy timeless wholesome radio shows from yesterday or
    especially from some 20, 50, or even 80 years ago, perhaps Gertrude
    Stein was right when she said, "We are always the same age inside." --
    Gertrude Stein

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    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Big John and Greg celebrate Memorial Day
    with a tribute to The Armed Forces Radio Service

    Front Line Theater - Ham For Sale
    originally aired Monday, December 27, 1943 on AFRS
    Starring: Jack Benny, Barbara Stanwyck, Basil Rathbone, Michael Curtiz,
    Jean Hersholt, Russ Morgan and his Orchestra

    Mail Call - Lum n' Abner
    originally aired Wednesday, February 23, 1944 on AFRS
    Starring: Lum n' Abner (Chester Lauck, Norris Goff),
    Judy Canova, Jerry Cooper, Anita Ellis,
    Harry Von Zell announcing

    Command Performance - Bob Hope
    originally aired Wednesday, September 13, 1944 on AFRS
    Starring: Bob Hope, Johnny Mercer, Gloria DeHaven, June Allyson,
    Ethel Smith, Frances Langford, Jerry Colonna, Jane Russell, Beatrice Kay,
    Ken Carpenter announcing

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    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

          Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
          The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
          Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
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    Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:49:35 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Wee paws

>     Shouldn't the last line start with "Wee paws" instead of "Wee pause"?

        Yeah, that does make more sense. :)
        Joe

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