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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 78
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Arthur Q.                             [ Hal Stone <dualxtwo@[removed]; ]
  new-time radio?                       [ DJ Fanboy <djfanboy@[removed] ]
  Re: Arthur Q.                         [ Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed] ]
  Al Lewis                              [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  LBS baseball recreations              [ Ed Kindred <kindred@[removed]; ]
  Frankie Kaye                          [ "theharness" <theharness@[removed] ]
  Many Talented Falks (& Folks)         [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  GALE GORDON                           [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
  I can remember baseball recreations   [ "Jack Sayre" <kylongboy@[removed]; ]
  3-16 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Amos and Andy and Kingfish in NYC     [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
  Parker Fenelly                        [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Major Hoopple                         [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
  a neat old radio shop                 [ Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@yahoo ]

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:13:30 -0500
From: Hal Stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Arthur Q.

There have been a number of posts recently about Arthur. Q. Brian, like the
[removed]

Elmer Fudd's voice was Arthur Q. Bryan who was on Gilersleeve for years as
one of the Jolly Boys. He was Floyd  Munsen the Barber. Doing  research I
went to John Dunnings "Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio" and read the material
on Gildersleeve, no Mr. Llewy in the regular cast. I don't have the 12/7/41
show so  I couldn' check it out

I checked out Arthur Q. Bryan's name in the index and find he is listed 17
times so he was a busy actor. As you may remember he was Doc Gamble  on
Fibber McGee & Molly from April 6, 1943 until the end of the series.

Many times an actor or actress would do more than one chacter in a program,
especially bit parts.

That's for sure. And AFRA Union fees for an actor "doubling" (playing
another role) saved [removed] cost the producers less than it would if
someone else had to be hired just for a small part. And of course, the more
vocally versatile an actor could be, using different "voices", the more
likely they would be "thrown a bone" and able to have a few more bucks added
to their payday.

Having worked with Arthur, (when I was in my late teens) I thoroughly
enjoyed the experience. I always got a kick out of his doing his "Elmer
Fudd" voice when we rehearsed, or just kidding [removed] often coaxed him
into doing it.

For those Digesters who might not remember, he also played "Mr. Andrews"
(The Father) on "Archie Andrews" for a 13 week period. One season, our
program was selected as the nighttime Summer replacement for the
Gildersleeve show (Sponsored by "Kraft foods"). The Agency for Kraft wanted
Arthur to play the Father for those 13 weeks, to help draw an audience for
us in that nighttime slot. After all, we were basically the top rated Sat.
morning kids show, so we had to appeal to a more mature audience on
Wednesday evenings.

If any newbie Digest members out there are interested in learning more about
what is was like to work with Arthur, (And a host of other big name
performers) I still have a few copies on my book left. The [removed]

"[removed], Archie! Re-Laxx!"

You can get the info at.

[removed]

After appearing as the guest on Chuck Shaden's radio show Saturday the 4th,
during which Chuck promoted the book and recommended it highly, 7 orders
came [removed] when I say there are only a few [removed]'m not kidding.

Not to worry for me. :) I'll bring some to the Cincy and Seattle conventions
and get rid of them that way. :)

Hal (Harlan) Stone
"Jughead"

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:13:42 -0500
From: DJ Fanboy <djfanboy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  new-time radio?

Anyone been listening to any audio dramas produced nowadays?

It's not anything like it was in the good old days, but I was wondering
if people were listening to the newer shows, and what they [removed]

-Seth Adam Sher

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:14:18 -0500
From: Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Arthur Q.

Arthur was also Mayor La Trivia on Fibber McGee and Molly

Actually he was Doc Gamble on that show.  The good mayor
was played by Gale Gordon.

Al Girard

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:14:28 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Al Lewis

This how Al Lewis' entry should read on the February deaths.

04-30-1923 - Al Lewis - NYC - d. 2-3-2006
actor: hosted weekly radio program on WBAI-FM New York

Ron Sayles

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:14:51 -0500
From: Ed Kindred <kindred@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  LBS baseball recreations

Gordon Mclendon sure fooled me a snotty nosed teenager. They were so
authentic sounding I thought they were live broadcasts.
A Chicago type dude moved to Phoenix in the late 40's or early 50's to do
recreations on KOOL using a bat, glove small mallet, crowd sounds and
teletype
play by play. He welcomed an audience into the studio and distributed the
teletype
descriptions afterwards to the audience. I set up at home to do the same
thing and rapidly gained an appreciation for his artistry. I quickly got
bored
with the whole thing but he brought it to life.
Ed Kindred

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:15:29 -0500
From: "theharness" <theharness@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Frankie Kaye
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My name is Devon Wilkins, and I'm the president of COTRA--the Canadian
Old-Time Radio Alliance.  I have received the following request from Michael
C. Gwynne, and with his permission, I'm submitting it to the Digest.  If
anyone can help, please contact me off list, and I'll get you together.
Thanks.  Devon.

Devon:
    Can you help me find out more about my father?
    He was Frankie Kaye and had a band from late 30' thru early 50s.
    He was primarily an alto sax player but the clarinet and at times the
baritone sax were also his forte.
    I have photos of the band that featured such names as, Cliff Locke, Wilf
Dean, Reef McGarvey, a trumpet player named Les, no last name in my memory
bank.
    Many others as well.
    I have a photo of him and Cliff Locke with Stan Kenton take in about
1948.
    I know he made radio broadcasts from the Brant Inn and Club Top Hat as
well as the Palace Pier during that time because I used to listen to them
while
spread out on the carpet in our living room in Toronto.
    I would so love to find some history about the guy because he was
secretive about those years when we were growing up in late 50s and the Big
Band era
was taking a hit.
    I know all his arrangements were destroyed in a suspicious fire at the
Club Top Hat in the mid-50s and he pretty much went to bed for a year after
that.
    Wish I knew more about that event.
    I had his baton for many years and I still have his Selmer Mark IV alto
here in New York.
    If you could publish this letter perhaps a few memories will be jogged and
maybe even a transcription or two will show up and I'll get to hear that
wonderful sound again.
    Appreciate your time and much good luck with the idea of Canadian Radio.
    A subject ignored for far too long.
Michael C. Gwynne

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:16:25 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Many Talented Falks (& Folks)

Dear Anthony T. & Jim [removed]

Thanks for  the note about Lee Falk's stint at the drawing board, in the
earliest days of  Mandrake. I think I might have heard this before, in The Dim
Dark Days, but had  forgotten it. Jim, your hunch that he designed The Ghost
Who
Walks' look as  well, sounds right.

I do know that Lee originally envisioned Kit  Walker's union suit as a deep
gray. As with Bruce Wayne, considering the work  they both do, that color
makes
sense. The ripe purple that the printer chose,  would ill serve as either
jungle camouflage, or as a fear inducer!

Jim, I  recall your MONSTERS OF THE MOVIES work fondly - but weren't you
involved with  earlier genre pubs as well?

"Old OTR saying: When Jim or Anthony write a  post, it stays posted!"

Best,
-Craig

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:16:41 -0500
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  GALE GORDON
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TO ANSWER BOB SLADE

RE: ARTHUR Q. BRYAN & GALE GORDOM

ARTHUR WAS ONLY DOC GAMBLE, AS A REGULAR, ON FIBBER MCGEE. HE GOT PART TO
TAKE THE PLACE OF BILL THOMPSON AND GALE GORDON. BOTH OF THE WENT IN TO THE
SERVICE. DURING WWII.

GALE GORDON WAS MAYOR LA TRIVIA FROM 1941 UNTIL HE WENT INTO THE COAST
GAURD. WHEN THE WAS WAS OVER HE CAME BACK AS FOGY WILLIAM THE WEATHER MAN

DURING THE WAR GORDON DID APPEAR, ONCE, ON A FIBBER McGEE PROGRAM AS  GUEST
WHILE HE WAS ON LEAVE AND HE APPEARED AS LA TRIVIA ON LEAVE.

SOURCES ARE MY MEMORY AND JOHN DUNNIN'S  "ENCYLOPEDIA OF OLD TIME RADIO" AND
[removed] gordons Biography.

Fraaank McGurn

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:17:51 -0500
From: "Jack Sayre" <kylongboy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  I can remember baseball recreations too

   I can remember them too we had a guy in Louisville ky that did them
   for the Louisville Colonels and his name was Ed Kalley or kallay and
   the station was Wave 970 it was very good. He even had the crowd
   sounds and the cheering when the team was doing good, i am 64 and that
   happened back in the 50s.

   Jack Sayre

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:18:21 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-16 births/deaths

March 16th births

03-16-1859 - Alexander Popov - Turinsk Districk, Russia - d. 1-13-1906
One of the claimants for inventor of radio (along with Marconi and de
Forest)
03-16-1889 - Elsie Janis - Columbus, OH - d. 2-27-1956
First female announcer on network radio
03-16-1892 - James Petrillo - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-1984
union leader" Head of the American Federation of Musicians
03-16-1893 - Isobel Elson - Cambridge, England - d. 1-12-1981
actress: Jessie Hughes "Young Dr. Malone"
03-16-1894 - Elizabeth Lennox - Ionia, MI - d. 5-3-1992
singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "American Album of Familiar
Music"
03-16-1897 - Conrad Nagel - Keokuk, IA - d. 2-24-1970
actor, emcee: "Silver Theatre"; "Passing Parade"
03-16-1901 - Edward Pawley - d. 1-27-1988
actor: Steve Wilson "Big Town"
03-16-1906 - Henny Youngman - London, England - d. 2-24-1998
comedian: (Take my wife, please) "Kate Smith Hour"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
03-16-1908 - Robert Rossen - NYC - d. 2-18-1966
film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
03-16-1916 - Mercedes McCambridge - Joliet, IL - d. 3-2-2004
actress: Sunny Richards "I Love A Mystery"; Martha Ellis Bryant
"Defense Attorney"
03-16-1916 - Walter Reed - Fort Ward, Bainbridge Island, WA - d.
8-20-2001
actor: "The Bombadier"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-16-1920 - Leo McKern - Sydney, Australia - d. 7-23-2002
actor: Horace Rumpole "Rumpole of the Bailey"
03-16-1925 - Lane Nakano - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-28-2005
actor: "The Big Show"
03-16-1926 - Jerry Lewis - Newark, NJ
comedian: "Martin and Lewis Show"
03-16-1927 - Dick Beals - Detroit, MI
actor: Dan Reid "Lone Ranger"
03-16-1927 - Olga San Juan - Brooklyn, NY
actress: "Frank Morgan Show"; "[removed] Journal"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-16-1931 - Betty Johnson - Guilford County, NC
singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"

March 16th deaths

01-14-1901 - Bebe Daniels - Dallas, TX - d. 3-16-1971
actress: "Life with the Lyons"; "Louella Parsons"
02-16-1900 - Albert Hackett - NYC - d. 3-16-1995
playwright: "Star Spangled Theatre"
03-05-1903 - Minerva Pious - Odessa, Russia - d. 3-16-1979
commedienne: Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum "Fred Allen Show"
03-24-1902 - Thomas E, Dewey - Owosso, MI - d. 3-16-1971
presidential candidate: "Jack Benny Show"; "Racketbusters Roundtable"
05-28-1922 - Scott McKay - Pleasantville, IA - d. 3-16-1987
actor: John Nelson "Barry Cameron"
07-03-1900 - John Mason Brown - Louisville, KY - d. 3-16-1969
host-critic: "Of Men and Books"
08-14-1893 - Carl Benton Reid - Lansing, MI - d. 3-16-1973
actor: Roger Allen "Big Sister"
08-31-1903 - Arthur Godfrey - NYC - d. 3-16-1983
emcee: (The Old Redhead) "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Arthur Godfrey's
Talent Scouts"
11-11-1899 - Harold J. "Pie" Traynor - Framingham, MA - d. 3-16-1972
sportscaster: KQV Pittsburgh
xx-xx-1905 - Jean Tennyson - Chicago, IL - d. 3-16-1991
soprano: "Great Moments in Music"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:18:33 -0500
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Amos and Andy and Kingfish in NYC

Amos and Andy and Kingfish are in a play in NYC.   Here is the article from
the New York Times on the subject.

[removed]

Larry Moore

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:19:50 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Parker Fenelly

Someone on this list mentioned awhile back, when we were discussing
Wally Cox, that a DVD with early episodes of Mr. Peepers was
available.  I got the DVD (and a DVD player) and today was watching
an episode from January 1953 where there was a barber, who was played
by Parker Fenelly.  I think that's how it was spelled in the credits.
 I seem to remember someone by that name being an otr actor.

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

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:28:41 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Major Hoopple

Hi Everybody,

according  to Jay Hickerson book there does exist  one copy from the Major
Hoople show.  Does any one have this show?  Please contact me off list,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:54:35 -0500
From: Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  a neat old radio shop

Hi,

Today I decided to check out this small vintage shop.
It turned out to be run by an oldt-time radio
repairman, and among other things, it had a wall full
of old radios (nothing too rare) but very reasonably
priced and as an added bonus, the electronics were
restored (new tubes, filters replaced, etc. etc.) and
each was in working order.  I purchased a Radiola with
a shortwave band.  The only really expensive one was
the Arvin Hopalong Cassidy one.  There was even a
small Westinghouse that looked like a fridge!

I had posted a few days ago, wondering why not many
people made new catalins - it was explained to me
there that catalin was labor intensive and certain
colors took a long time to cure.  Lines had to be
hand-done, etc.  I chatted with the couple for about
an hour - it was all very interesting!

Can a radio expert help me?  I'm looking for a guy
named Chris Gimme (dont' know the exact spelling).
I'm told that he makes very good catalin repros, but I
can't find any contact info.  I realize it would be
wrong to remove the electronics of a working old
radio, so that's why I'm looking for an empty case for
my project.  The wood cases can be found cheaply, but
I haven't found any bargain catalins.  Radio
transcriptions are my field of knowledge, and I don't
know more than the bare basics about the radios
themselves.

Trav

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