Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #118
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Date: 4/16/2007 6:40 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 118
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Cincinnati Airport                    [ Booksteve@[removed] ]
      Hy Averbach                           [ "Lois Culver" <loiseula@[removed] ]
      4-16 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Gunsmoke episode                      [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
      First Nighter thanks                  [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
      Convention-ally speaking              [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      BBC Archives article                  [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      The Cisco Kid                         [ "Robert Birchard" <bbirchard@earthl ]
      VONNEGUT TALE ON A SUNNY DAY IN NEW   [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      Cincy Conventioneers                  [ mmartini@[removed] ]
      ABC, ABS, FDR, Morro Castle Mystery!  [ <verotas@[removed]; ]
      Cincinnati Convention [removed]    [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      Cincy Request                         [ ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen) ]

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    Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:18:22 -0400
    From: Booksteve@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cincinnati Airport
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    Hey, it occurs to me if any of you fine folks are coming to next weekend's
    Cincy convention by air on Thursday, drop in and see me at the BORDERS I
    manage in Concourse B at the Cincinnati Airport! We even have a few signed
    copies
    of IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN 3 left featuring my JOHNNY DOLLAR at DUFFY'S  TAVERN
    story! I'm working 1 to close on Thursday so I hope to see some familiar
    faces!
    Steve Thompson
    ("Booksteve" from BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY)

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    Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:02:50 -0400
    From: "Lois Culver" <loiseula@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Hy Averbach

    Richard J. Smith asks re this actor/announcer.   Look for him under correct
    spelling:  Hy Averbach.

    Lois Culver

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    Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:18:21 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-16 births/deaths

    April 16th births

    04-16-1889 - Charles Chaplin - London, England - d. 12-25-1977
    actor: "Dodge Brothers Hour"
    04-16-1895 - Mischa Mischakoff - Proskourov, Russia - d. 2-1-1981
    violinist: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "NBC String Trio"
    04-16-1897 - Milton J. Cross - NYC - d. 1-3-1975
    announcer, commentator: (The Voice of the Met) "General Motors Concerts"
    04-16-1898 - Marian Jordan - Peoria, IL - d. 4-7-1961
    commedienne: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"
    04-16-1904 - Fifi D'Orsay - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 12-2-1983
    singer: "Folies De Paris"; "This Is Your Life"
    04-16-1909 - Dick Wynn - d. 8-24-1996
    announcer: "Count of Monte  Cristo"; "The Lone Wolf"
    04-16-1913 - Les Tremayne - London, England - d. 12-19-2003
    actor: Nick Charles "Advs. of the Thin Man"; Michael Waring "The Falcon"
    04-16-1914 - Frank Vass - Greenville, SC
    singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phenix Program"
    04-16-1914 - John Hodiak - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-19-1955
    actor: L'il Abner "L'il Abner"; Butch Cavendish "Lone Ranger"
    04-16-1917 - Jean Holloway - d. 11-11-1989
    writer: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Mayor of the Town"; "Mr. President"
    04-16-1918 - Joan Alexander - St. Paul, MN
    actor: Lois Lane "Advs. of Superman"; Ellen Deering "Philo Vance"
    04-16-1918 - Spike Milligan - Ahmednagar, India - d. 2-27-2002
    comedian: Eccles the Idiot, Miss Minnie Bannister, Count Moriarty
    "Goon Show"
    04-16-1920 - Barry Nelson - San Francisco, CA
    actor: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Treasury Salute"; "Monitor"
    04-16-1921 - Peter Ustinov - London, England - d. 3-28-2004
    actor: "Freedom Forum"; "Mitch Miller Show"; "In Any Direction"
    04-16-1924 - Henry Mancini - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-14-1994
    orchestra leader: "Family Theatre"; "Voices of Vista"
    04-16-1927 - Edie Adams - Kingston, PA
    singer, actor: "Stewart Foster Show"
    04-16-1930 - Herbie Mann - NYC - d. 7-1-2003
    jazz flutist: "Voices of Vista"; "Sounds of Freedom"
    04-16-1935 - Bobby Vinton - Canonsburg, PA
    singer: "Christmas Seal Campaign"
    04-16-xxxx - Mark Smith - NYC - d. 5-9-1944
    actor: Jiggs "Bringing Up Father"; "Uria Calwalder "Show Boat"

    April 16th deaths

    01-04-1910 - Ann Jamison - Belfast, Ireland - d. 4-16-1961
    singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "The Packard Hour"
    01-05-1916 - Alfred Ryder - NYC - d. 4-16-1995
    actor: Sammie Goldberg "The Goldbergs"; Carl "Easy Aces"
    03-03-1896 - Willie Fung - Canton, China - d. 4-16-1945
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-25-1908 - David Lean - Croydon, Surrey, England - d. 4-16-1991
    screenwriter, film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-15-1926 - Regis J. "Rege" Cordic - Hazelwood, PA - d. 4-16-1999
    Replaced Bob Crane on station KNX in Los Angeles, California
    05-26-1908 - Vera Van - Marion, OH - d. 4-16-1992
    singer: "The George Jessel Show"; "The Vicks Open House"
    08-04-1921 - Herb Purdum - d. 4-16-1993
    writer: "Gunsmoke"
    08-11-1912 - Alan Kent - Chicago, IL - d. 4-16-1991
    announcer: "Jane Arden"; "Pepper Young's Family"
    08-15-1885 - Edna Ferber - Kalamazoo, MI - d. 4-16-1968
    author: "Cavalcade of America"; "Cables from Lisbon"; "Campbell
    Playhouse"
    09-10-1904 - Emery Deutsch - Budapest, Hungary - d. 4-16-1997
    conductor: "Arabesque"; "Let's Pretend"
    09-13-1924 - Scott Brady - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-16-1985
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-16-1919 - Andy Russell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-16-1992
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"
    09-19-1912 - William Abramchik - d. 4-16-1998
    newscaster: Chicago, Illinois
    12-07-1892 - Fay Bainter - Los Angeles, CA,  - d. 4-16-1968
    actor: "Nobody's Children"; "Cavalcade of America"
    12-16-1946 - Robert Urich - Toronto, OH - d. 4-16-2002
    salesman: WGN Chicago, Illinois

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:19:41 -0400
    From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Gunsmoke episode

>     Matt makes a decision and has Chester count out a thousand dollars:
>     Krocker's no questions asked reward for the return of the money.  He
>     gives the money to Jerry and Janet for a fresh start in Wyoming.

    Thus affirming that crime does indeed pay.

    I knew there must be a reason that I grew up with no moral bearings
    whatever.

    M Kinsler

    noted criminal

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    Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:45:48 -0400
    From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  First Nighter thanks

    Hi,

    Thanks all for sending the First Nighter shows.  I got them now.  I
    thought I posted a note here but I guess it didn't go
    through.  Anyway, thanks all for your help and it looks like the CD
    set will be good.  I'm impressed with it anyway.  My grandpa grew up
    in the OTR era so remembers some shows.  I included a couple Benny
    Goodman, the First Nighter of course and some other music.  I am
    still interested in getting non-mp3 copies but I'm not in such a huge rush now.
    ----------
    Tony Baechler
    Baechler Productions

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    Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:05:40 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Convention-ally speaking
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    A book I was proofreading the other day here at Talking Books contained the
    sentence "In the purity of her home  she conformed to old-time convention but
    was affable beyond what the females of antiquity approved;". I focused on the
    phrase "old-time convention" and showed it to a colleague, who suggested that
    maybe I could locate the word "radio" elsewhere  in the narrative and
    digitally graft it into the foregoing and come up with the phrase "old-time
    radio convention'  (for our own amusement, of course; we'd never compromise
    the text of an  end-product talking book).

    As for finding the word "radio: doubtful. The sentence came from Book 5, part
    1, line 3 of "The Annals" by Roman historian Tacitus, written circa [removed] 68. I
    did however find a specious radio connection, howver. The translation we're
    recording is by A. J. Woodward, who happens to be the Basil L. Gildersleeve
    [whoever he is] Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.

    I'll be at Cincinnati later this [removed] only in spirit and in the ether.
    Have fun, everybody!

    Derekus Tagus

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    Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:09:36 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  BBC Archives article
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    Hi Folks. This mornings Daily Telegraph ( London ) carried an article about
    the future of the BBC Archives going online. Best way to see the article is
    to go to [removed] and in the search box type in ' bbc archives ' .
    It should then take you straight to the April 16th report.
      Graeme Stevenson  Editor : Tune into Yesterday newsletter,  UK

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    Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:39:20 -0400
    From: "Robert Birchard" <bbirchard@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Cisco Kid
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    Jack French wrote:

>     Fortunately most people had forgotten about this story
>     when the first film was made in 1929 with Warner Baxter as the hero.
>     The Cisco Kid now was a Mexican and a more kind, generous, and happy
>     soul one could scarcely ask for in a saddle companion. The picture, "In
>     Old Arizona," produced by Fox Film Corporation, was a big success,
>     Baxter won an Oscar, and he went on to make two more movies of the
>     Cisco Kid.

        Not quite correct.  There was some sort of dispute over the
    character/remake rights and Warner Baxter's second film in the trilogy, "The
    Arizona Kid" (1930) made no reference to the Cisco Kid at all, even though
    the character was essentially the same as the one he played in "In Old
    Arizona" (1929) and "The Cisco Kid" (1931).

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    Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:50:09 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  VONNEGUT TALE ON A SUNNY DAY IN NEW YORK

    Now that we're telling stories about great men who loved  the radio, let me
    recreate a day some years ago on the streets of New York.  Specifically the
    street outside the fabled Players Club where I was awaiting the  arrival of
    Paul
    Krassner, publisher of the REALIST to speak about his new book  to a gathering
    of the world press and fans.
    A sad day  whenever any author leaves the planet, especially one who seems to
    have altered  that very planet's outlook.
        This from 1997-8
    I was  standing outside the Players Club having a smoke with a small group of
     people waiting for Paul's arrival when I was approached by a woman from
    either a  Japanese or Eastern European news group and her camera man. Reason I
    can't  recall is, as you will see, that she was indeterminate both of
    background
    and  motive.
    She asked me in thick accent if I could spare a  moment and talk to her. I
    wondered why but the presence of the camera and the  innocent look on her face
    and me being an actor and all, well it was just too  tempting for me as I knew
    it might be a chance to talk about you and have some  fun with obvious foreign
    press questions!
    She signaled the  camera guy, he snapped into action and a small light
    appeared over the lens and  I knew I was on and I was ready.
    I noticed a few people  look my way and a wiry man, also smoking, was leaning
    on a car to my immediate  left and in my eye line. He looked like he might
    have been a homeless guy just  hanging around the crowd.
    She began like  this:
    "I'm speaking with the renowned author Kurt Vonnegut  about his new novel and
    what he [removed]"
    My brain  reeled. I didn't hear much else of what she was saying.
    What could I do [removed] was ON.
    I was about to straighten  her out but she kept talking on and on in the
    manner of most on-camera reporters  who are eager to impress the audience
    rather
    than actually talk to the  guest.
    So with giddy laughter possibilities birthing in my  brain I kept my mouth
    shut.
    I noticed a few people  chuckling as they knew she was in error and no one
    seemed to be enjoying it more  than the guy leaning on the car smoking a Lucky
    about four feet to my  left.
    She wheeled on me, back to the camera and asked a  series of questions that
    were blindingly ignorant and impossible to answer no  matter who I [removed]
    I
    heard your name in the mess of  verbiage.
    "Yes," I said, "Paul Krassner. That's why I'm  here," which was no lie, "He
    is truly one of our greatest authors plus he's also  a very funny guy if
    you've
    ever gone shopping with him. I once saw him try on a  sweater that was way to
    big for him and of a very suspicious color. When I  expressed my reserve
    about the purchase he bought it anyway and made ME wear it  for days. I almost
    wore it here today but I thought it might be too distracting  from his
    appearance
    here today which is also about HIS new book. Do you know  about HIS book?
    Out of the corner of my eye I noticed the  old dude buckling with laughter
    and that's when I paid him a closer scrutiny and  saw the curly-headed and
    lean
    frame [removed] Vonnegut  himself!
    She must have sensed at that point that I was not  who she thought I was and
    signaled the camera guy to stop and they both scuttled  away amidst a few
    chuckles in the crowd.
    I walked over to  Vonnegut and before I could say anything he saw me patting
    my pockets looking  for another smoke from a non-existent pack, offered me a
    cigarette, lit it and  smiled a 'No need to apologize' look.
    The smile on his  face was enough for me. A long ramble about the press
    ensued and we both  agreed my interview was an example of the media's
    accuracy,
    comical and  embarrassing to me but he was the one that said it was the the
    interview  he'd like to have seen!
        "I assume by your speaking voice that you might be  a media guy?" he
    asked. "I had a story done on the radio once and it was  delightful to hear
    rather
    than see my words."
        Funny  guy.

    Michael C. Gwynne

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    Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:50:15 -0400
    From: mmartini@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cincy Conventioneers

    Hello,

    If you're attending the Cincy Convention and would like to take a break
    Friday afternoon at around 1-pm to drive up and see the former VOA Betheny
    Relay Station and the WLW 500-KW transmitter site (it's about seven miles
    away), drop me an email.  I offered this the last two years and it seemed to
    go over okay.

    Mike Martini

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    Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:50:37 -0400
    From: <verotas@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  ABC, ABS, FDR, Morro Castle Mystery!

    Hi to everyone that chimed in on this intriguing search through the forest of
    radio call letters!

    Thanks much to our pal Mike Biel, he came up with all the answers in one
    brilliant, terse and factual rundown!    Reading farther in the fascinating
    Morro Castle book, it turns out I was a year off in estimating when the US
    inquiry into the Morro Castle Fire took place.  Not 1934-35, but 1935-36.
    The bureaucratic bigwigs weren't any more live-wire then than those of today!

    Thanks to Prof. Biel's very thorough analysis, we see that both the ABC/FDR
    and ABS/Morro photos make sense and the dates are as indicated.  But some
    history!

    Thanks to everyone for their input here, and a special doff of the hat to
    Michael Biel!    This was fun and a most interesting romp thru our history!
    Shouldn't we have known that the answers to all these mike call letters would
    be a letter from Mike?

    All the best - Lee Munsick

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    Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:59:11 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cincinnati Convention [removed]

    Folks;

       This note is going to be a little more personal than most of my posts. For
    a myrad of reasons, primary among them my own inept disorganization, our
    family is not going to make it to the Cincinnati Old Radio and Nostalgia
    Convention this year. I can't tell you how sad I am about that, and my
    disappointment pales in comparason to Annie and Katie's. For Annie, this
    convention is always a welcomed vacation, and for Katie an exciting
    adventure. I'm particularly saddened because this year's convention will
    likely become a celebration of Hal Stone's life and contributions, something
    I am not at all happy about missing. I held out as long as I could, but sadly
    last Wednesday cancelled the reservations we made at the Holliday Inn Express
    a bit down-the-road from the convention hotel.

       Because I managed to organize things so poorly this year and so will be
    with many others on the proverbial "outside looking in," I need to ask for
    help from those of you who _are_ atteding the convention. For the two days of
    the con I am going to try to stay close to my office, and will gratefully
    accept any and all photos, recordings, etc. from those folks attending - I'll
    post 'em on the blog for those of us unfortunate enough not to be there. If
    we could arrange for teleconferences with anyone with a mic and speakers on
    their laptop using Gizmo, even better (see [removed] for
    information on this free, SIP-compatable VoIP application, kinda like Skype
    only more compatable - download, install, and call user
    [removed] a message if I'm not around); I can record the chats
    on this end and post those as podcasts as well. Send any notes, photos,
    audio, etc. to cincycon2007@[removed] (this address has been specifically
    designed to bypass the anti-spam filters on the server so there won't be any
    inadvertant delays or rejections). Take lots of pictures (but no flash,
    please, during the recreations), movies, and audio recordings, folks, and
    send them in - I'll get as many posted as possible. That address again:

    cincycon2007@[removed]

       There's a whole lot I'm going to [removed] stop at Krispy Kream before
    leaving southwestern Pennsylvania for a dozen "hot"...the White Castle a few
    blocks from the convention hotel (we don't have any in our area)...the
    dealer's [removed] [removed] drinks and bull-sessions in the lobby
    [removed], you get the idea. I'm just _really_ sad about not attending this
    [removed]

       And to Bob Burchett, so you know, this _requires_ you to hold another
    convention next year. If nothing else comes out of this, I'm determined never
    to get myself into the position where I can't spend a week away from here to
    get together with folks out there in Cincinnati. And Bob, know that I'll be
    thinking about all of you at the con, and you particularly.

             Charlie

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    Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:40:10 -0400
    From: ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen)
    To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
    Subject:  Cincy Request

    Hey!  Maybe I'm thinking of this too late, but hopefully [removed]

    But if any dealers going to the Cincy OTR Convention happen to have HIGH
    QUALITY STEREO versions of the 1985 NPR "Doc Savage" shows, PLEASE BRING THEM
    AND LET ME KNOW!  I'm so tired of SUFFERING through listens of the crappy
    warbly mp3s I've got!  I have bought this set FIVE TIMES already, and every
    one has been junk.  I want to buy a NICE set (it DOES exist somewhere, right?)

    I'll be the goof with the goatee with the nametag:

    "Stephen Jansen"

    THANKS!

    --
    Old Time Radio never dies - it just changes formats!

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