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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 310
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Dragnet - Thanksgiving [ "Frank McGurn Jr." <[removed]@sbcg ]
Re: Told ya so [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
Re: Help - Johnny Got His Gun [ <celticone22-radiodigest@[removed]; ]
OTR cancellation [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
Ireene Wicker died yesterday? [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
RE: Bold venture [ "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed] ]
college fb on early radio [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
Ireene Wicker [ "Arthur Emerson" <milart@[removed]; ]
Johnny Got His Gun [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
The Cinnamon Bear is 70! [ crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow) ]
11-1 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Empire Builders Armistice Day progra [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
Time Zones [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@cha ]
Re: More "War of the Worlds" Coverag [ "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:35:04 -0400
From: "Frank McGurn Jr." <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Dragnet - Thanksgiving
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Trina is looking for a Thanksgiving episode of "Dragnet".
I checked 2 logs and did not find an episode with Thanksgiving in the
title. The tile in the logs are really bad. Every title is "The Big " who
ever orginally made the titles evidentally really listen to the show. The
Dragnet log that is best, for titles and descriptions, is Jerry Haenddiges
Dragnet log.
Frank McGurn.
Frank McGurn
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:32:03 -0400
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Told ya so
I know it's not nice to say I told ya so, but I told ya so. What did I
count? Four, or five replies to Ann's inquiry about her program?
Charlie
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:33:02 -0400
From: <celticone22-radiodigest@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Help - Johnny Got His Gun
Hi Everyone
Readers of this digest are the best. I asked about a
program about a man in a hospital with no arms, legs,
etc. Thanks to all your responses I was able to find
the tape in my collection. Thank you so much.
Anne
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:33:16 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR cancellation
Digging through research and I came up with a mystery. On March 11, 1940, I
suspect a bunch of radio programs were pre-empted (not broadcast) as
scheduled due to a special broadcast (major news event?) during the evening
hours but cannot find anything to validate what it was.
Any history buffs know of anything that might have caused some radio shows
to be pre-empted off the networks on March 11, 1940?
Martin
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:56:06 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Ireene Wicker died yesterday?
Al Girard's citation of the obituary of Ireene Wicker left out the
fine print that precedes this piece in the NY Times: "published
November 18, 1987." So the "yesterday" of her death was November 17,
1987.
Many Digesters may have missed the clue buried in the obit: her year
of birth as 1900. So if she actually died yesterday, she would have
been 107, a ripe old age to be sure (but not impossible.) But alas,
Ireene was 86 when she departed this world.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:58:21 -0400
From: "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: Bold venture
Hello.
I am doing a research project on film adaptation, and one of the threads of
the project involves radio series inspired by, or based upon Hollywood films.
I am preparing a presentation on Bold Venture, the Bogart & Bacall syndicated
series from 1951 and 1952. Does anyone have any suggestions about sources
of info on this series beyond the OTR websites and OTR encyclopedias? I have
the complete series on disc, and also Bogart and Bacall bios and auto bios,
but information about their tadio careers is sketchy at best.
I would appreciate any help at all on this issue.
Thanks
James R. Belpedio
Professor, Arts and Humanities
Becker College Worcester, MA
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:08:23 -0400
From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: college fb on early radio
Jim Hilliker asked about college football on otr, as well as
about Don Wilson's sportscasting career. No one seems to have
addressed football coverage via Western Union, although they may
have, as I did, in a direct note to Jim.
I don't have any information on how extensive football game
recreations were from the studios, except to observe that they
probably were every bit as prevalent as baseball recreations that
used brief messages on the WU wire, the announcer's ability to ad
lib and crowd sound effects.
Walter Cronkite has told of working at a Kansas City station and,
when the wire went down, marching the teams up and down the field
until the connection was restored. He discovered that one or both
of the teams had scored in the meantime and he had to account for
that somehow.
Before KC he had done similar work in Oklahoma. From the Web:
"In October 1937 WKY began a contract with OU to provide
professional broadcasts of its football games. A young man named
Walter Cronkite, just getting started in broadcasting in Texas,
was brought in to give play-by-play commentary. He was hired
because he was good at reading game descriptions provided by the
wire service. When he called that first "live" game between OU
and the University of Tulsa, the results were less than
desirable, but he improved. He finished the season and soon moved
to Kansas City ...."
Bob Cockrum
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:47:34 -0400
From: "Arthur Emerson" <milart@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Ireene Wicker
Sad news from Al Girard. "The Singing Lady" was my first and favorite radio
program. The memory of her marvelous story telling and appropriate radio
voices remains with me through 80 years. 'Great entertainer! I still have
2 of the program's radio premiums.
Arthur Emerson
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:07:54 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Johnny Got His Gun
Folks;
Thanks to Bill Scherer, the episode of Arch Obler's Plays the list has
been discussing is available on the Nostalgic Rumblings blog and on the
podcast - much thanks, Bill!
Charlie
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:53:34 -0400
From: crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow)
To: [removed]@[removed] (Old Time Radio Digest)
Subject: The Cinnamon Bear is 70!
Dear Reader:
This is a special year for OTR fandom. Paddy O'Cinnamon, the Maybeland
adventurer and friend to children and children at heart everywhere, turns
70! If you haven't already done so, you need to plan your Cinnamon Bear
schedule, which should start the day after Thanksgiving. There are
twenty-six episodes. Your family will thrill to the adventures of Paddy,
Jimmy and Judy Barton, and the Crazy Quilt Dragon, as they search Maybeland
for the missing silver star that goes atop the Barton family Christmas tree.
If you don't have the program tapes, all the clubs and dealers have them,
most of whom write to this list. First Generation Radio Archives even has a
new CB book published by the Portland Spirit, a cruise line in Portland,
Oregon, that operates Cinnamon Bear excursions each December.
YES, It is time once again to celebrate THE CINNAMON BEAR, first heard in 1937.
Charlie helped me make the Maybeland map and the eleven songs in the serial
more accessible to you this year. Just go to
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You can print them off and use them as you listen with your kids to the
program. You'll have so much fun.
Let's give Paddy O'Cinnamon a real birthday party this year! It is golden
age radio at its best, with the actors who are so familiar to you---Joseph
Kearns, Elvia Allman, Gale Gordon, Frank Nelson, Martha Wentworth, Barbara
Jean Wong, Verna Felton, Hanley Stafford, Elliott Lewis, Lou Merrill, Howard
McNear, and the list goes on and on and on.
As Paddy himself says, "I'd be much obliged to you!"
Sincerely,
Dennis Crow
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:18:34 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-1 births/deaths
November 1st births
11-01-1871 - Stephen Crane - Newark, NJ - d. 6-5-1900
author: "NBC University Theatre"
11-01-1879 - Merle Thorpe - Brimfield, IL - d. 10-31-1955
businessman: "How's Business"; "The New Business World"
11-01-1880 - Grantland Rice - Murfreesboro, TN - d. 7-13-1954
sportscaster: "Sports Stories"
11-01-1904 - Ray Sinatra - Gergenti, Sicily - d. 11-xx-1980
musical director: "The Bob Burns Show"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Mario
Lanza Show"
11-01-1908 - Felix Knight - Macon, GA - d. 6-18-1998
singer: "Schaefer Revue"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
11-01-1908 - Harry Ellis Dickson - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-29-2003
first violinist: "Boston Symphony Orchestra"; "Boston Symphony
Rehearsal"
11-01-1913 - Barry McKinley - Ft. Wayne, IN
baritone: "Dreams Come True"; "Radiotron Party"
11-01-1915 - Bob Garred - Walla Walla, WA - d. 12-10-1956
announcer: "The Stanford Hour"; "I Want a Divorce"
11-01-1919 - John Secondari - Rome, Italy - d. 2-8-1975
novelist: "As Europe Sees the Marshall Plan"; "Prologue"
11-01-1922 - George S. Irving - Springfield, MA
actor, singer: "Screen Guild Theatre"
11-01-1923 - Anne DeMarco - d. 7-27-2004
singer: (The DeMarco Sisters) "The Fred Allen Show"; "Texaco Star
Theatre"
11-01-1923 - Charles Dugdale - Lincoln, NE - d. 5-18-1985
actor: "Heartbeat Theatre"
11-01-1923 - Gordon R. Dickson - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - d.
1-31-2001
science fiction writer: "X-Minus One"; "Exploring Tomorrow"
11-01-1923 - Victoria de los Angeles - Barcelona, Spain - d. 1-15-2005
operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
11-01-1926 - Betsy Palmer - East Chicago, IL
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-01-1933 - Art Stamper - nr. Hindman, Knott County, KY - d. 1-23-2005
bluegrass fiddler: Performed with Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe's
Bluegrass Boys
11-01-1933 - Russ Butler - Boston, MA
host: VPR "Ella, Frank and Friends"; Vermont ETV; Songbook America"
11-01-1942 - Michael Zaslow - Inglewood, CA - d. 12-6-1998
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
November 1st deaths
01-13-1895 - Campbell Arnoux - d. 11-1-1966
announcer: Uncle Billy "Uncle Billy"
01-27-1918 - Skitch Henderson - Birmingham, England - d. 11-1-2005
bandleader: "Philco Radio Time"; "Songs by Sinatra"
02-07-1908 - Bill Johnstone - Paisley, Scotland - d. 11-1-1996
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"; Sam Young "Pepper Young's
Family"
02-08-1894 - King Vidor - Galveston, TX - d. 11-1-1982
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood"
03-23-1906 - Richard L. Evans - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 11-1-1971
announcer: "Music and the Spoken Word" (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
05-11-1911 - Phil Silvers - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-1-1985
comedian: "Phil Silver's Show"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
05-17-1890 - Philip James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 11-1-1975
conductor, composer: "Bamberger Little Symphony"; "Wellsprings of Music"
05-24-1883 - Elsa Maxwell - Keokuk, IA - d. 11-1-1963
society mistress: Roma Wine spokesperson for Suspense; "Texaco Star
Theatre"
06-22-1920 - Paul Frees - Chicago, IL - d. 11-1-1986
actor: Jethro Dumont/Green Lama "Green Lama"; Robert Aladdin "Mr.
Aladdin"
07-14-1898 - Pat C. Flick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-1-1955
actor: Pablo Ittheptiches "Fred Allen Show"
08-10-1913 - Noah Beery, Jr. - NYC - d. 11-1-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
10-14-1906 - Benita Hume - London, England - d. 11-1-1967
actor: Victoria Cromwell Hall "Halls of Ivy"; "General Electric Theatre"
10-30-1885 - Ezra Pound - Hailey, ID - d. 11-1-1972
poet and traitor: "Italian Propaganda Broadcast"
11-04-1911 - Dixie Lee Crosby - Harriman, TN - d. 11-1-1952
actor: (Wife of Bing) "Shell Chateau"; "Bing Crosby Show"
11-24-1888 - Dale Carnegie - Maryville, MO - d. 11-1-1955
author, lecturer: "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
12-23-1903 - Helen Troy - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-1-1942
actor: Telephone Operator "It Happened in Hollywood"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:19:10 -0400
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Empire Builders Armistice Day [removed]
Does anyone have a copy of this Empire Builders program for Armistice Day?
I have several of the programs but not this one.
Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:19:56 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Time Zones
I am researching a radio program that was broadcast in 1939 and 1940 and for
some odd reason, while the show was broadcast at the following time slots, a
mystery came up.
In 1939 it was broadcast on the following time
8 pm EST
7 pm CST
6 pm MST
5 pm PST
But on the very first broadcast of January 1940, the program was broadcast
at 6 pm in Los Angeles. Now . . . this puzzles me. The show was not
transcribed, so it was not recorded and played back later. It's possible
scripts were mailed to LA and actors in LA did the performance but that is
highly doubtful. Then came another solution - time zones. But I don't
think Daylight Savings Time is a probable answer even though certain parts
of the country did not recognize Daylight Savings Time meaning the mystery
is afoot. Can anyone shed a possible solution I cannot come up with? (I
figure at the very least, this would start a fascinating subject about time
zones, radio programs and how they varied from one part of the country to
[removed])
Martin
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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:11:53 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi Friends,
Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The
Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station." Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
Halloween Special
THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE
Episode 324 4-20-49 "Haunted House"
Stars: Harold Peary, Walter Tetley, Earle Ross, Richard LeGrand, Lillian
Randolph
MACABRE
Episode 7 1-1-62 "The Crystalline Man"
FATHER KNOWS BEST
Episode 175 10-29-53 "Halloween Blues"
LIGHTS OUT
Episode 3 10-20-42 "Poltergeist"
==================================
HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
Halloween Special
SUSPENSE
(CBS) 5/25/43 "Sorry, Wrong Number"
starring Agnes Moorehead The preferred 1st broadcast version.
LIGHTS OUT
(NBC) 4/6/38 "Cat Wife"
Stars: Boris Karloff. A Classic!
SPECIAL - A modern day audio Ghost Story
"Buggham Grange" by George Plumley
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THE GLOWING DIAL
The Mysterious Traveler - "The Locomotive Ghost"
originally aired July 6, 1947 on MUTUAL
Starring: Maurice Tarplin, James McCallion, Joe Julian, Bryna Raeburn,
Cameron Andrews, Carl Caruso announcing.
Sustained
Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "Death Demon"
originally aired July 5, 1948 on CBS
Starring: Everett Sloane, Anne Seymour, Santos Ortega, Paul McGrath
hosting, Dwight Weist announcing.
Created, Produced and Directed by Himan Brown
Sponsor: Bromo Seltzer
Lights Out - "He Dug It Up"
originally aired February 9, 1943 on CBS
Starring: Joseph Kearns, Verna Felton, Lou Merrill, Frank Martin announcing.
Written and Hosted by Arch Oboler.
Sponsor: Ironized Yeast
Murder At Midnight - "The Heavy Death"
originally aired November 4, 1946 on WJZ, NY and in Syndication
Starring: Lon Clark, Frank Readick, Raymond Morgan narrating.
Sponsor: varied according to market
==================================
If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net
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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:56:44 -0400
From: "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed];
To: Old-Time Radio Mailing List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: More "War of the Worlds" Coverage
On Wed., 31-Oct-2007, at 08:40:56am EDT (-0400 GMT), SeanDD@[removed]
posted to [The Old-Time Radio Mailing List] under the subject of "More 'War
of the Worlds' Coverage":
> The reporter refers to the show as a "Halloween Special." I thought it
> was a regularly scheduled broadcast.
Uhm, [removed] both. :) "The Mercury Theatre On The Air" broadcast a
show every week. The PARTICULAR show titled "The War Of The Worlds", however
was broadcast by said Mercury Theatre precisely ONCE, the day before Halloween
in 1938. (That was enough!) :)
Hope this clarifies things! :)
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