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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 431

Table Of Contents: 

	 Fitzgerald
	 Dracula musical
	 Re: Parley Baer
	 Himan Brown comments on OTR
	 Re: Covered Wagon Days
         Giant Spider
	 War of the Worlds/Miss Wings
	 More War of the Worlds
	 Birmingham???
	 Pat Novak

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:37:35 -0600
From: "ED JOPLING" <ejopling@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Fitzgerald
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In a recent literature class I attended, someone asked if any short stories
by F Scott Fitzgerald were turned into radio dramas. Since his writing was
most popular in the 1920's, and radio programming also got it's start in
1920, it seemed reasonable that these dramatizations may exist. Does anyone
have any info on this? It would make an interesting class project to get
ahold of a few programs to see how his contempories translated his work.
Thanks for any help!

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:47:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Charles Ulrich <culrich@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Dracula musical
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> Wild guess [removed] could it have been an early musical version of Peter
> Pan,
> with Karloff as Hook? (I know "Drink Blood" makes one think of Dracula,
> but
> was there ever a musical version of same?)
> Regards
> [removed] Bray

I once saw a musical version of Dracula. It was at Stanford University,
probably around 1970. I don't know whether it was an original Stanford
production or a revival of a professional production.

--Charles

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 12:54:35 -0500
From: LBohall@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Parley Baer
Message-ID: <961106125434_136287275@[removed]>

In the last issue, Steve Sala commented about Parley Baer being on Voyager.
My wife and I both noticed him, and wondered if he was still doing radio
work. I think Parley's doing the voice of Whit on Adventures in Odyssey now.
Does anyone know? Larry D. Bohall <><

"You can observe a lot just by watching." Yoggi Berra

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 14:27:24 -0500
From: Shawn Whalen <swhalen@[removed]>
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Subject: Himan Brown comments on OTR
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There are some interesting comments from Himan Brown on OTR and CBSRMT at
[removed] site.  Here are some excerpts:


   . =A7 . Although Brown contributed so much to early radio, he is adamant=
 in
his opposition to the sale and
 broadcast of the old shows today. "The whole world of old-time radio that's
on tape is a bootleg business,"
                  he says. "Very few of these guys have the rights to the
shows."=20

  . =A7 . "You don't drive a model-T Ford," he notes. "You don't ride in a
prop airplane. You fly in a jet. The
 Shadow, The Lone Ranger - all those shows - that's not entertainment
anymore. It's cultist stuff. I don't want
 to live in the 30's. The handful of people that are going to live with you
in the '30s, God bless them. Let them
          stay there. But I want to know, what are these people doing for
radio tomorrow?"=20

   . =A7 . "We're dealing with something that's vital - language," he
explains. "You have to do contemporary
  drama. You have to do it now. BBC produces close to 800 hours of radio
drama a year. For them it's an
                                    entire service."=20

  . =A7 . "Why doesn't National Public Radio have radio drama?" Brown asks.
"Maybe during the year they'll
 produce a handful of dramas. Why don't they do more? Because they're mostly
interested in news and music.
                                They don't seem to care."=20


 . =A7 . Is there a special art to acting on radio? "They try to tell you=
 so,"
says Brown, "but an actor is an actor is
  an actor. Well sure, you have to be aware that you're making your voice do
everything. So you could be a
 6'6" lover and be only 5'7". If your voice is there it's going to do it.
Also, you've got to be aware that a pause
is not a dangerous thing. So you pause and wait to pick up the receiver when
the phone rings. You have to be
                         aware that the ear is different from the eye."=20

 . =A7 . "I think Orson Welles was more effective on radio than in any other
form," he adds. "There were radio
    actors who never even went on the stage. Their voices were God-given
instruments. They were great
                                     performers."=20


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Shawn Whalen
Account Supervisor
Schwartz Communications
888 Worcester St.
Wellesley, MA 02181
617-431-0770
617-235-3666 FAX
swhalen@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 14:36:18 -0500
From: Michael Carraher <michaelcarraher@[removed]>
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Subject: Re: Covered Wagon Days
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 11:23:26 -0500 (EST)
> From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
> To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
> cc: Anthony Tollin <SanctumOTR@[removed]>
> Subject: Early Lone Ranger (?) dies
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> >From the AP Newswire 11/06 10:29 am
> Voice from Cast of Original Lone Ranger Dies
>         Buffalo, NY - Paul E Harris an actor in the 1920s and '30s whose
> voice was heard on the earliest broadcasts of the "Lone Ranger" has died.
> He was 86.
>         Harris, a Buffalo native, died Saturday in Waveny Care Center,
> New Caanan, CT.
>         An actor in Buffalo on radio and on stage, Harris retired as
> corporate sec'y of the Berlitz Schools of Language and lived for many years
> in the NYC area before moving to CT in the '70s.
>         Harris, a graduate of the Bennett HS and Canisius College, acted
> in the "Lone Ranger" series in its earliest days, when it was billed as a
> part of WEBR's "Covered Wagon Days".
>         "I was always the bad guy unless John Barrett didn't show up -
> then I was the Lone Ranger," he recalled of the late local attorney John
> Barrett.
> {Survived by wife and family; to be buried in Valhalla,NY}
> copyright 1996 The Associated Press
>         Is this a new name to add to the list of Lone Rangers?
> 
Probably not.

Sources I have seen indicated Covered Wagon Days was a program written
by Fran Striker in Buffalo before he was hired by WXYZ, Detroit to write
the Lone Ranger and other programs.  Striker sold CWD scripts to a local
station in Buffalo and apparently sold the scripts to other stations,
including WXYZ.  For a period of time, Fran Striker wrote scripts for
the Lone Ranger on a free-lance basis from Buffalo.  Apparently, plot
lines and elements from Covered Wagon Days were "recycled" into Lone
Ranger scripts -- much as Striker recycled elements from the Lone Ranger
into Challenge of the Yukon, The Green Hornet and other WXYZ programs. 
Possibly, Harris played the lead in Buffalo productions of Covered Wagon
Days and later recognized stories and actual lines being used in the LR.

To the best of my knowledge, the character of the Lone Ranger was not
used in Covered Wagon Days.  And if George W. Trendle were still around
-- I suspect the AP and Harris' estate would be hearing from Trendle's
laywer.

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Date:          Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:09:26 DST
From: "Pat premo" <PPREMO@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:       Giant Spider
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You may have seen my request for an OTR show about a giant spider in 
a house -- I think I have found it, by accident!  I think the show 
was THE CRAWLING THING from HALL OF FANTASY.  If anyone has any ideas 
about another show having a giant spider (in a house, NOT in the 
jungle), please let me know.
Many thanks.
Pat Premo

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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 16:02:36 -0500
From: Ron Baron <rbaron@[removed]>
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Subject: Not receiving
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  hi, have tried subscribing 3 or 4 times over the past month and have still
not received anything more than the automated response to my request.  
when I get it, it has giberish instead of my address.
can you please correct this problem?
thank you very much.

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 96 16:37:59 EST
From: ekindred@[removed]
To:   otr@[removed]
Subject: War of the Worlds/Miss Wings
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I Also thought the Halloween Touched by an Angel made effective use of the
Mercury Theatre production. They caught the flavor of purported reactions to
the broadcast. I was only two at the time so remember nothing first hand of the
event. When the show started and I noticed that it had a Halloween orientation
I was wondering how Ms. Williamson, a Christian would handle the event since so
many of us wide eyed, red eyed, fanatical, right winged, mean spirited bozos don't celebrate the witch's Shabbat. T'was a bit of a
shock at first seeing Miss Wings in her 30's style do and threads and naive delivery. Crusty Brian Keith is always a  joy, and Della
Reese is steel, velvet and glorious. Andrew as a pouty angel of
death was kick. I enjoyed it a bunch

ED Kindred

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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 18:52:14 -0800
From: Jim Kitchen <jkitchen@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: More War of the Worlds
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I recently purchased some BBC Science Fiction from Ted Davenport's Radio
Memories, North Little Rock, AR.  The album has 6 episodes of "The War
of the Worlds", and 6 episodes  of "The Day of the Triffids".  I found
Ted's catalog at Lou Genco's website, and the BBC album in the Science
Fiction section of the catalog.  I haven't listened to either program
yet. I'm saving them for a rainy day!

Jim Kitchen

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 23:07:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Henry Howard <hhoward@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Birmingham???
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Is there anyone in Birmingham or vacinity producing radio drama?  I received
a call today from a lady starting a readers theater and she wants to
include rd.

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:18:48 -0800
From: "JACK MANN" <jmann@[removed]>
To: <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Pat Novak
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Hi Digesters: Here's another dialog gem from Pat Novak,
For Hire with Jack Webb, from the episode entitled "Only
Way to Make Friends is to Die":
 
"I knocked, and when the door opened it was like shaking
hands with a flame thrower. She was a tall number, and
she screamed flannel edition all over. She stood in the
doorway for a minute and swayed in a nice contented way
like a snake on the right diet, and when she said hello, you
wanted to hand her your right arm and say "twist."

You just gotta love this stuff! By the way, if Marty Dzik reads,
this, please send me your Email address. Thanks,

Jack



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