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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 57
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 28 August  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      BBC Sound Archives                    [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      Marvin Kaplan                         [ "scherago" <scherago@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 14:38:10 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 28 August to 3
     September

    8/28

    1922   The first paid commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on
    WEAF in New York City. Announcer [removed] Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne
    Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The
    Queensboro Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called
    Toll Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T, sold their block programming,
    five one minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 ($716 in 2015
    dollars) plus long distance toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company
    paid $100 ($1432 in 2015*) for 10 minutes of commercial airtime.
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    1938    The first degree given to a ventriloquist's dummy is awarded to
    Charlie McCarthy  Edgar Bergen's wooden partner. The honorary degree,
    "Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback," is presented on radio by Ralph
    Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University.

    8/30

    1951   Screen Directors' Playhouse was heard for the final time on NBC.
    The program had featured some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

    8/31

    1941   The Great Gildersleeve, a spin off of Fibber McGee and Molly,
    started on NBC.

    1942   "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
    Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
    returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
    dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
    of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Wow! The amazing
    power of Kryptonite in the hands of kids! Bud Collyer, later of TV's
    Beat the Clock, played Clark Kent aka Superman on the series.

    9/1

    1922   The first daily news program on radio was The Radio Digest, on
    WBAY. The program, hosted by George F. Thompson, the program's editor,
    originated from New York City.

    9/2

    1931   15 Minutes with Bing Crosby debuted on CBS.

    Joe

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    Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 14:38:33 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  BBC Sound Archives
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     HiThis is new to me but you might have seen it before. A 30 minute programme
    about the preservation work in BBC Sound Archives. Just go to YouTube and put
    in the following title: 'Audio Media' 31'28
    Cheers ! GraemeB B

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    Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 14:38:19 -0400
    From: "scherago" <scherago@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Marvin Kaplan

    >From "The Hollywood Reporter"

    Marvin Kaplan, Character Actor Known for 'Alice' and 'Top Cat,' Dies at
    89

    The Brooklyn native was discovered by Katharine Hepburn and made his
    onscreen debut in her 1949 classic comedy 'Adam's Rib.'
    Marvin Kaplan, the comic character actor perhaps best known as diner
    denizen Henry the telephone repairman on the long-running CBS
    sitcom Alice, died Thursday. He was 89.
    Kaplan, who also voiced the flamboyant Cho Choo, the pink one with the
    turtleneck, on the ABC primetime cartoon series Top Cat, died at a
    hospital near his longtime home in Burbank, Theatre West executive
    director John Gallogly told The Hollywood Reporter. Kaplan had been a
    member of the Los Angeles acting company since 1966 and was on its
    executive board at the time of his death.

    "As an actor and as a person, he always told the truth," Gallogly said.
    The bespectacled Brooklyn native was discovered by Katharine Hepburn and
    made his onscreen debut in Adam's Rib (1949), directed by George Cukor
    and starring Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. In an uncredited role as a
    stenographer, Kaplan steals a scene when he asks Tracy to spell "Pinky,"
    Tracy's pet name for Hepburn that he inadvertently uses during testimony
    in court.

    Kaplan appeared in 82 episodes of Alice, the comic adaptation of the
    Martin Scorsese film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show, starring
    Linda Lavin, aired from August 1976 to March 1985, and his Henry
    Beesmeyer was one of the regulars at Mel's Diner, where he often mocked
    Mel's (Vic Tayback) cooking with his trademark deadpan delivery.

    Kaplan provided the voice of Choo Choo on the 1961-62 ABC primetime
    cartoon Top Cat and then again in a 1987 telefilm. He also appeared with
    Arnold Stang, the actor who voiced Top Cat, in the wacky It's a Mad,
    Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), directed by Stanley Kramer.

    Kaplan's film resume also included The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
    opposite Dick Powell, I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951) with Susan
    Hayward, Mervyn LeRoy's Wake Me When It's Over(1960), Jerry Lewis' The
    Nutty Professor (1963), Blake Edwards' The Great Race (1965), the Disney
    classic Freaky Friday (1976) and David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990).
    He served as AFTRA Los Angeles local president for eight years.
    Born on Jan. 24, 1927, Kaplan studied at Brooklyn College and came to
    Hollywood in 1947 to pursue playwriting and radio writing. He attended
    USC in pursuit of his master's and worked as a stage manager at the
    Circle Theatre for a play directed by Charlie Chaplin, then showed off
    his thick Brooklyn accent in a French farce by Moliere. It was his first
    acting job, and Hepburn was in the theater one night to see him perform.

    They chatted, and the next day there was a note on the bulletin board
    telling him to call MGM. Kaplan was told to report to Cukor's office at
    3 [removed] "Katharine Hepburn is your agent - she recommended you for a part
    in a movie," the director told him.

    >From 1952-56, Kaplan had a regular gig as Alfred Prinzmetal, an aspiring
    poet living next door to Elena Verdugo, on the CBS sitcom Meet Millie.
    He had done the part on the radio.

    >From then on, Kaplan was omnipresent on TV, appearing on Make Room for
    Daddy, McHale's Navy, Honey West, I Dream of
    Jeannie, CHiPs, MacGyver, ER, Becker and many other shows.

    Kaplan also had writing credits on episodes of The Addams Family, The
    Bill Cosby Show, Mod Squad and Maude. He wrote plays for Theatre West
    and most recently starred on its main stage in a production of Arthur
    Miller's The Price.
    Gallogly said that Kaplan will be buried in New York alongside his
    parents and grandparents.

    Survivors include a sister.

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