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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 39
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      2-11 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Re: "foreign accent."                 [ Grams46@[removed] ]
      Jack Benny cheap joles                [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      RE: Radio -- Tool of the Devil        [ "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser1@[removed]; ]
      Smithsonian Honors Murrow             [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Article on evolution of entertainmen  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Re: "Evangelical" in its original, n  [ Grams46@[removed] ]
      Re: supense, escape, inner sanctum,   [ Grams46@[removed] ]
      Re Stereotyping                       [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:57:57 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-11 births/deaths

    February 11th births

    02-11-1882 - John H. Mills - Bellfonte, PA - d. 12-8-1967
    singer: (Father of the Mills Brothers)  "Mills Brothers Quartette"
    02-11-1891 - Paul Ash - Saxony, Germany - d. 7-13-1958
    orchestra leader: "The Merry Mad Gang Program"
    02-11-1901 - Fritz Blocki - d. 5-14-1972
    writer: "Chick Carter, Boy Detective"
    02-11-1905 - Liebert Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 6-16-1993
    musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
    02-11-1906 - James Jewell - d. 8-5-1975
    writer, actor director: "The Lone Ranger"
    02-11-1907 - Art Millet - Chicago, IL - d. 4-9-1943
    announcer: "American Album of Familiar Music"; "Popeye"
    02-11-1908 - Hiram Sherman - Boston, MA - d. 4-11-1989
    actor: "Les Miserables"; "Mercury Theatre on the Aie"
    02-11-1908 - Philip Dunne - NYC - d. 6-2-1992
    screenwriter, director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-11-1909 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 2-5-1993
    screenwriter, film director: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    02-11-1909 - Max Baer - Omaha, NE - d. 11-21-1959
    heavyweight boxing champion, actor: Lucky Smith "Lucky Smith"
    02-11-1916 - Walter Brown Newman - NYC - d. 10-14-1993
    writer: "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "On Stage"; "Robers of the Gazette"
    02-11-1917 - Sidney Sheldon - Chicago, IL - d. 1-30-2007
    writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-11-1919 - Eva Gabor - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-4-1995
    disc jockey: "Little Night Music"
    02-11-1920 - Billy Halop - NYC - d. 11-9-76
    actor: Bobby Benson "Bobby Benson Adventures"; Dick Kent "Home, Sweet
    Home"
    02-11-1926 - Leslie Nielsen - Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
    actor: "Jive Patrol"

    February 11th deaths

    03-13-1898 - Henry Hathaway - Sacramento, CA - d. 2-11-1985
    film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    03-20-1908 - Kermit Murdock - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-11-1981
    actor: Rod Buchanan "Whisper Men"
    03-28-1925 - Jerry Walter - Illinois - d. 2-11-1979
    actor: Gil Perry "Island Adventure"
    03-29-1889 - Howard Lindsay - Waterford, NY - d. 2-11-1968
    writer, host: "The Ford Theatre"
    05-02-1904 - J. Anthony Hughes - NYC - d. 2-11-1970
    actor: Bob Drake "Betty and Bob"
    05-16-1904 - Ruth Coleman Bilchick - d. 2-11-1989
    singer and pianist on radio
    05-28-1906 - Phil Regan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-11-1996
    singer: (The Singing Cop) "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
    06-10-1891 - Al Dubin - Zurich, Switzerland - d. 2-11-1945
    lyricist: "Mutual-Don Lee Dedicatory Program"
    06-16-1903 - Ona Munson - Portland, OR - d. 2-11-1955
    actor: Lorelei Kilbourne "Big Town"
    07-20-1908 - Jerry Desmonde - Middlesbrough, England - d. 2-11-1967
    actor: "Crime Classics"
    08-13-1904 - Jonathan Hole - Eldora, IA - d. 2-11-1998
    actor: Paul Henderson "Ma Perkins"; Dr. Clifford "Bachelor's Children"
    08-21-1927 - Barry Foster - Beeston, England - d. 2-11-2002
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
    09-19-1931 - Ray Danton - NYC - d. 2-11-1992
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    09-22-1910 - Del Courtney - Oakland, CA - d. 2-11-2006
    bandleader: "Kodak Camera Show"
    09-27-1920 - William Conrad - Louisville, KY - d. 2-11-1994
    actor: Matt Dillon "Gunsmoke"; Louis Dumont "Jason and His Golden
    Fleece"
    10-10-1899 - Emily Kimbrough - Muncie, IN - d. 2-11-1998
    writer: "Information Please"
    11-21-1912 - Eleanor Powell - Springfield, MA - d. 2-11-1982
    singing tap dancer: "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
    11-23-1903 - Victor Jory - Dawson City, AK - d. 2-11-1982
    actor: "Matinee Theatre"; "Crisis in War Town"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    11-23-1912 - George O'Hanlon - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-11-1989
    actor: Husband "George O'Hanlon Show; Me and Janie"
    12-08-1911 - Lee J. Cobb - NYC - d. 2-11-1976
    actor: the tailgunner "Roosty of the AAF"; "Citizen of the World";
    "Hollywood Startime"
    12-25-1888 - David Lawrence - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-11-1973
    journalist, commentator: "Our Government"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:52:55 -0500
    From: Grams46@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: "foreign accent."

    mayer@[removed] wrote:

>     Often "foreigners" came off little  better
>     when they spoke with radio's generic, usually  high-pitched, pigeon
>     English "foreign  accent."

    kathy writes:
    sometimes.    but  listening to the french characters on sgt preston and any
    time ben wright played  an asian - such as hey boy on have gun will travel, is
    painful.
    ben wright's german characters (as herr zeller in the sound of music) were
    much better.   and of course, as a brit, his english voices were dead  on.

    peace from kathy
    support our troops; end the war
    john  3:16

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:24:13 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny cheap joles

>     Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 10:26:57 -0500
>     From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];

>     His guest appearances on Eddie Cantor's
>     show, for example, always relied on really obvious cheap jokes that
>     generally lacked the careful pacing and subtle modifications that made
>     it work on his own show.

    On Fred Allen's last show, Jack's cheapness is exaggerated to the
    point where Jack finally says, "Nobody ever made me this cheap on my
    own show!"

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:13:18 -0500
    From: "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Radio -- Tool of the Devil

    In issue #38, Bryan wrote,

>     I am certain that among the many digest subscribers, many would think of
>     themselves as fundamentalists and this sort of statement is somewhat
>     offensive.

    Whoa, Bryan!  I didn't mean to start a flame throwing contest with this
    question (and it was a question).  I didn't call any group anything.  I
    merely quoted the gist of a story I had heard in my youth, and I asked if it
    had any basis in fact.

    So far, the story has had no factual support, so I am simply going to forget
    about it.  I hope you do, too.

    Paula Keiser

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:32:16 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Smithsonian Honors Murrow

    For Digesters in the [removed] [removed]

    The 100th anniversary of the birth of  Edward R. Murrow will be
    celebrated in a program sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates, held
    in Jack Morton Auditorium, Media & Public Affairs Building, 805
    Twenty-first St, [removed], George Washington University, Washington, DC.
    The event will begin at 7 PM on Thursday evening, April 24, 2008.
    Michael Freedman, former general manager of CBS News will host and
    the keynote panelists will be Richard C. Hottelet and Marvin Kalb.
    Hottelet is one of "Murrow's boys" and covered D-Day, the Battle of
    the Bulge, among other famous WW II battles. Kalb was the last
    journalist hired by Murrow and went on to become the chief diplomatic
    correspondent for both CBS and NBC News.

    This multi-media program will feature clips and recordings of
    Murrow's broadcasts. Tickets are required; admission is $ 20 for
    Smithsonian Associate members and $ 30 for the public. Reception
    follows the program. For more details or to make reservations. go to
    Smithsonian web site:

    [removed]

    Jack French
    Editor:  RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:32:43 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Article on evolution of entertainment, mentions
     Andy Devine
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    This article is really more about the evolution of television into Internet
    video, but it starts by looking at the origins of television and mentions
    Andy Devine (who had an early TV show) and Jack Benny, who was Devine's
    employer on the radio.

    [removed]

    Sean DoughertySeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:04:25 -0500
    From: Grams46@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: "Evangelical" in its original,
     non-purjorative form

    Wich2@[removed]  writes:

>     Well, if we use  "Evangelical" in its original, non-purjorative form, as it
>     was preferred by  Dr. Martin Luther as a name for the reformed church,
>     we have to  largely  credit a man,and a show, mentioned on this list before.

>     Dr. Walter A.  Maier began THE LUTHERAN HOUR on Oct. 11, 1930. It pretty
>     quickly became a  National, then an International, show, and continues to
>     this  [removed];

    kathy writes:
    the evangelical lutheran church in america (of  which i am a member)  is the
    name for one of the larger lutheran bodies in  the united states today.
    however, some more conservative  "evangelicals"  do not consider the elca as a
    true evangelical  church.
    the lutheran hour  is still a presentation of the lutheran  church missouri
    synod - a more conservative group of lutherans in the united  states.

    peace from kathy
    support our troops; end the war
    john 3:16

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:04:54 -0500
    From: Grams46@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: supense, escape,  inner sanctum, and lights
     out

    Richard Carpenter newsduck@[removed]  writes:

>     "Suspense," of course, was one of radio's greatest  series

    as a child listening to suspense, escape,  inner  sanctum, and lights out,  i
    was often terrified.
    occasionally, as a much much older person,   i am still  frightened when i
    listen to these programs.  and  i simply refuse to  re experience the chill of
    three skeleton key or sorry wrong  number.    that was and is the true test of
    the power  of radio.

    peace from kathy
    support our troops; end the  war
    john 3:16

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:05:41 -0500
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re Stereotyping

    On 2/10/08 11:03 PM [removed]@[removed] said:

>     I wonder if some of the stereotyping was simply radio
>       trying to make clear by voice alone which characters were black and
>       doing it rather clumsily. Often "foreigners" came off little better
>       when they spoke with radio's generic, usually high-pitched, pigeon
>       English "foreign accent."

    >From "Radio Writing," by Peter Dixon (1930), one of the first serious
    studies published on how to create dramatic scripts for broacasting:

    "Too much originality in the treatment of characters is not advisable in
    [removed] policemen must talk as policemen are supposed to talk, and
    if you use a messenger-boy or a newsboy, he is best supplied with 'dese,'
    'dems' and 'doses.' And as for having a Frenchman who doesn't speak with
    a decided accent -- it just isn't done.  This is not intended as a
    reflection on the intelligence of the radio audience. It is merely a
    condition made necessary by the fact that the speakers cannot be seen
    except in the imagination. And if you can help that image by having your
    actors speak as the listener imagines they ought to speak, then you are
    merely strengthening the entire production."

    Elizabeth

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