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Date: 4/30/2007 8:29 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 131
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      4-30 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      New old soap at Cincy                 [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      Columbia Options Green Hornet         [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
      T-Men                                 [ "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed]. ]
      Another OTR Film                      [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
      Dr Horatio Q. Birdbath                [ "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed]. ]
      MP3 Player                            [ "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed]; ]
      50 Begins Life                        [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Newscasts                             [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
      FOTR and Ed Clute                     [ JayHick@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:56:12 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-30 births/deaths

    April 30th births

    04-30-1870 - Franz Lehar - Romorn, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-24-1948
    operetta composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Showtime"
    04-30-1886 - Dick Elliott - Boston, MA - d. 12-22-1961
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-30-1903 - Fulton Lewis, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-21-1966
    commentator: "News and Comments"
    04-30-1907 - Sidney Harmon - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 2-29-1988
    writer, director: "The Life of Riley"; "Honest Abe"
    04-30-1909 - Bud Linn - Indianapolis, IN - d. 7-31-1968
    singer: (The King's Men) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    04-30-1911 - Orin Tovrov - Boston, MA - d. 8-16-1980
    writer: "The Brighter Day"; "Ma Perkins"; "Manhattan Mother"
    04-30-1912 - Eve Arden - Mill Valley, CA - d. 11-12-1990
    actor: Connie Brooks "Our Miss Brooks"; Libby Collins "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    04-30-1916 - George Salverson - St. Catherines, Canada - d. 4-9-2005
    script writer for the CBC
    04-30-1916 - Phil Brown - Cambridge, MA - d. 2-9-2006
    actor: "Arch Obolor's Playes"
    04-30-1916 - Robert Shaw - Red Bluff, CA - d. 1-25-1999
    choral director: "Radio Hall of Fame"; "American School of the Air"
    04-30-1917 - Bea Wain - The Bronx, NY
    singer: (The Reverie Girl) "Your Hit Parade"; "Your All-Time Hit Parade"
    04-30-1919 - Jack Haskell - Akron, OH - d. 9-26-1998
    singer: "Dave Garroway Show"; "Music from the Heart of America"
    04-30-1923 - Al Lewis - NYC - d. 2-3-2006
    actor: hosted weekly radio program on WBAI-FM New York
    04-30-1925 - Corinne Calvert - Paris, France - d. 6-23-2001
    actor: "Martin and Lewis Show"
    04-30-1926 - Cloris Leachman - Des Moines, IA
    actor: Local radio as a teenager
    04-30-1926 - Lou Cioffi - d. 5-2-1998
    news reporter: "The Warning Bell"; "Big News of 1957/58"
    04-30-1948 - Perry King - Alliance, OH
    actor: Han Solo "Star Wars"

    April 30th deaths

    03-02-1918 - Elmira Roessler - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-30-1975
    actor, singer: Jennifer Davis "Backstage Wife"; Tweetsie Herringbone
    "Ma Perkins"
    03-12-1888 - Hall Johnson - Athens, GA - d. 4-30-1970
    choral director: (Hall Johnson Choir) "Paducah Plantation"; "Show Boat"
    04-20-1889 - Adolf Hitler - Braunau, Austria - d. 4-30-1945
    dictator: Propaganda broadcasts
    06-06-1918 - Peter Donald - Bristol, England - d. 4-30-1979
    actor, emcee: Ajax Cassidy "Fred Allen Show"; "Can You Top This?"
    06-15-1909 - Mickey Katz - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-30-1985
    clarinetist: (Father of Joel Grey) "The Spike Jones Show"
    07-31-1900 - Elmo Roper - Hebron, NE - d. 4-30-1971
    pioneering polster: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"; "Word from
    the People"
    08-04-1905 - Luther Roundtree - d. 4-30-1990
    banjo player: "The Spike Jones Show"
    11-24-1877 - Alben Barkley - Lowes, KY - d. 4-30-1956
    [removed] vice president: "Information Please"
    12-06-1900 - Agnes Moorehead - Clinton, MA - d. 4-30-1974
    actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow";  Marilly "Mayor of the Town"
    12-31-1908 - Jonah Jones - Louisville, KY - d. 4-30-2000
    jazz trumpeter: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "Army Bandstand";
    "Manhattan Melodies"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:40:16 -0400
    From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  New old soap at Cincy

    Last week Travis commented on his great time at Cincinnati and mentioned:

>     My lucky streak continued at the dinner, where I won a new old stock
>     box of Rinso, presumably from circa 1943. . . .  A very neat little prize.
>     Thank you to whoever did that.  Some tables had Oxydol, etc

    At our table my daughter Leah was the lucky winner of the Super Suds box.
    What made it extra special was that on the front of the box was a facsimile
    ticket to the Sunday December 23, 1945 broadcast of "Blondie" at CBS
    Hollywood.  Travis is right, it is a very neat little prize.  BUT, Travis,
    did you look closely at it???  Look at the bottom.  I think you will see
    printed into the box, but looking very much like a white sticker that could
    be removed but can't be removed, is a white circle that says in green
    "[removed]", and below it a date of 2007 and a signature of Jerry D. Williams.
    It's a reproduction!!!!  A very good reproduction, however.  It really looks
    like the box has yellowed and has been sitting somewhere for more than 60
    years, but it is brand spanking new.

    Yes, thank you to whoever did it, and will you please tell us where you got
    'em??!!!  I want to get a full set.  I've looked all over the internet, I've
    Googled and Goggled every which way I could think of, but nothing shows up.
    Since this group is smart enough to realize that the "1938" King Kong was
    really a 1960s kiddie record, certainly you can dig up where to get some new
    fake old boxes of soap.

    Yes, in spite of really, really missing Hal, we had a great time at Cincy.

    Best buy:  a spindle of all 76 of Bob Gardner's new MP3 discs condensed to
    47 discs for $49.  If you wanted only ten or so of them at regular price you
    would have paid that much.  Great reference material -- got things I
    wouldn't ordinarily buy "free" along with all the stuff I really did want.

    Most enjoyable reference material: the DVD's Martin put together of radio on
    film.  Great to finally have some of those legendary things complete in good
    quality, such as the Chevy film of WXYZ in the 30s.

    Most enjoyable reference material: Fred Berney's DVD's of Vitaphone shorts
    from the 20s and 30s.  Finally have the 1926 Jolson "Plantation Act" film
    that was perfectly restored by the Vitaphone Project from a soundtrack disc
    that had been broken in seven pieces.  Warner Bros had been unable to find a
    soundtrack disc for it as early as 1933.  Remember, this film is a full year
    before "The Jazz Singer."

    Most important reference material: the many DVD's of the TV coverage of the
    JFK and RFK assassinations.  And, of course, Jim Cox's book "Radio
    Speakers."  Shame on any of you who haven't bought it from Jim yet.  You
    NEED this book.

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:41:03 -0400
    From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Columbia Options Green Hornet

    Columbia Pictures has optioned the rights to The Green Hornet, the classic
    crime-fighting hero whose adventures were chronicled over the generations on
    radio, television and in comic books, the studio announced.

    URL: [removed];id=40673

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    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:41:31 -0400
    From: "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  T-Men
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    G'Day folks,

    I am looking for two episodes of the Australian T-Men series.  Which was
    distributed under another label in the [removed]

    It was a Donovan Joyce Production in Australia but may have a Harry S. Goodman
    label if you have Transcription Discs.

    The episodes I am looking for are "The Case of Double Trouble" (ep25 in
    Australia but may have a different number) and "The Case of the Clutching
    Hand" (ep26 in Australia).

    I would prefer the episodes in wav or audio and happy to trade or buy.  These
    2 episodes are needed urgently for a project so you are in a position to make
    a good deal if you are quick.

    Ian Grieve
    Moderator
    Australian OTR Group

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    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:42:04 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Another OTR Film

    Recently, I acquired a videotape of a film based on an OTR show.  This
    one's rather obscure: David Harding, Counterspy.  The film is based on
    the show Counterspy, which most of the listeners thought of as the movie
    title.

    The film was made in 1950, but it's basically a flashback to espionage in
    1943.  As with the radio show, there's some complexity in the action,
    though in the film we learn that David Harding is married, as he's shown
    on the telephone speaking to his wife.

    As with the radio show, there are layers of complexity, and the film
    shows some 1950s hi-tech gadgets the Counterspies use.

    It runs some 71 minutes.  Until I stumbled onto it, I had no idea such a
    film existed.  Unlike many radio-based films, it's a feature; many were
    serials.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:42:46 -0400
    From: "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Dr Horatio Q. Birdbath
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    G'Day folks, whilst transfering a pile of cassettes I picked up recently, I
    listened to a one hour show called Spirit of 78's, which apparently was a
    syndicated PBS show from the 1980's.  The Host, Don Chichester was
    interviewing Dr Horatio Q. Birdbath, (A. Purvis Pullen) about his career doing
    bird and animal imitations on Radio (commencing 1929) and in movies and on
    recordings.  It covered his time with Disney (Snow White, Sleeping Beauty etc)
    and 20 years with Spike Jones and various 78's he contributed to.  One item
    that may be of interest here, and I may have been the only person not to know
    this, but A. Purvis Pullen was responsible for the Rinso White Bird on Amos
    and Andy.

    I have since found another example of Spirit of 78's and I have enjoyed
    listening to them and hearing the stories behind the releases on 78rpm.
    Anyone know where there are more of this show?

    Ian Grieve

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    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:43:05 -0400
    From: "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  MP3 Player

    I've been trying to find a stand alone MP3 player of some value. Anyone have
    the Bose that advertises ability to play MP3 discs? Feel free to contact off
    line.

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    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:54:46 -0400
    From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest (E-mail)" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  50 Begins Life
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    A shout out to the east coast [removed]

    Radio Spirits will be exhibiting at the 50 Begins Life Expo this weekend at
    the Garden State Exibit Center in Somerset, New Jersey.  If any of you are
    going there, please stop by the booth and say hello.  I'll be there both
    Saturday and Sunday.

    Karen Lerner
    Radio Spirits

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    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:34:07 -0400
    From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Newscasts

    I just had a thought and I wonder if there are any recordings available of
    radio newscasts, from the likes of Edward R. Murrow, Lowell Thomas, Gabriel
    Heatter, or even HV Kaltenborn? I don't care about the content, I'd just like
    to hear those voices again.

    Thanx,
    [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:26:23 -0400
    From: JayHick@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  FOTR and Ed Clute
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    Ed Clute needs someone to CUE him at the convention.   It should be someone
    who understands something about printed music and can follow the director's
    cues.   The person would need to be available at rehearsals and performances.
    Mary Ramlow has helped in the past but she won't be at the convention this
    year.       If you can, contact Ed Clute at 607-535-2010.   If this is
    agreeable to both of you, then contact me.  Jay Hickerson

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