Subject: [removed] Digest V01 #126
From: <[removed]@[removed]>
Date: 4/24/2001 6:44 PM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                          The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                             Volume 01 : Issue 126
                       A Part of the [removed]!
                               ISSN: 1533-9289

                               Today's Topics:

     Freeman Gosden's Daughter Linda      ["David H. Buswell" <dbuswell@rivnet]
     The Shadow                           [bkeller@[removed] (Bob Keller)]
     Halls of Ivy again                   ["J. Randolph Cox" <cox@[removed]]
     OTR audio quality                    ["Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed]]
     Cars and radio reception             [Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed]]
     Roni Bowers                          [ClifSr@[removed]                     ]
     scripts wanted                       [Gordon R Payton <thescifiguy@[removed]]
     Fred Berney's Scifi Collection       [Gordon R Payton <thescifiguy@[removed]]
     More great shows                     ["Ken Kay" <kenwyn@[removed];   ]
     SLAVE/MASTER DUPLICATE RECORDINGS    ["Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
     CINCY CONVENTION                     ["stephen jansen" <stephenjansen@ema]
     bon ton                              ["Doug Leary" <dleary@[removed];    ]
     The Swingin' Years                   [steve mcguffin <earl22002@[removed]]
     Reply                                [William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed];]
     Mayor of the Town                    [ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Fun]
     Advertising  slogan query            [Mary Hanley <MarkVII@[removed];]
     The Return of The Shadow?            ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
     Perspective                          [JackBenny@[removed]                  ]
     Mayor of the Town Info               [Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed]]
     and the $64 question [removed]          ["Art Shifrin" <goldens2@[removed]]

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:40:42 -0400
    From: "David H. Buswell" <dbuswell@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Freeman Gosden's Daughter Linda

    I happened to watch the old film "Barbarians at the Gate" the other evening
    with James Garner as H. Ross Johnson, the Ceo of Reynolds Tobacco.  The
    film, some may recall, concerned itself with coporate raider Henry Kravitz's
    hostile takeover of R. [removed] in the 90s. Featured in the film was
    Joanna Cassidy who played Linda Gosden Robinson, the wife of Jim Robinson,
    CEO of American Express and a player in the takeover.

    Linda Robinson is the daughter of Freeman Gosden of Amos n' Andy fame and
    she was not treated well in the film.  She was portrayed as a controlling
    New York PR type who brooked no nonsense from her hapless husband (played by
    now Senator Fred Thompson).

    I wonder if Elizbeth, the resident A&A expert, has any information on Mr.
    Gosden's progeny minus any Hollywood slant.

    Dave

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:24:17 -0400
    From: bkeller@[removed] (Bob Keller)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Shadow

    Re: Steve's question about David soul playing the [removed]

    Last month a British science fiction media magazine, SFX, carried a very
    brief report last month that he was involved in an audio project. Whether
    this will be in a radio format, or audio-only adventures like those they
    are making (with some apparent success) for the Dr. Who character, wasn't
    clarified in the story.

    Bob Keller
    Waukesha, Wisc.

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:39:09 -0400
    From: "J. Randolph Cox" <cox@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Halls of Ivy again

    Take a look at Sam Frank's _Ronald Colman: a Bio-Bilbiography_ for a history
    of the Halls of Ivy. It was created by Don Quinn who wanted to be remembered
    for more than Fibber McGee and Molly.

    Randy Cox

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:26:00 -0400
    From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR audio quality

    Asks Troy:

>     My question is for those of you who are old enough to remember OTR in it's
>     hay day.  I've been back on the list for two or three days and I've seen a
>     couple of posts about not always having good sound on OTR shows when they
>     were actually on radio and since I'm not old enough to know, I was just
>     wondering how bad the quality of some of the stations were that some of you
>     listened to.  Was there just a lot of static?  Did the show fade in and
>     out?  Was there audio from other stations bleeding over the station that
>     you were listening to?

    In general, I believe that the audio quality of AM radio in, say, the 1940's
    wasn't vastly different from what it is today.  My own experience goes back
    to the early 1950's, and I recall Gildersleeve, One Man's Family, and the
    soap operas quite well.  They sounded like, well, radio, pretty much like it
    is today.

    We know the technical specifications for the various audio lines,
    transmitters, and receivers used way back then, and they were roughly
    comparable to what might be considered acceptable for an AM station today.
    Mr Murtough would be able to elaborate further, of course.

    As to the quality of the program sources, it's my impression that taped
    shows (which began with Bing Crosby's) would have sounded a bit better than
    those recorded on disc.  However, I doubt that any of the shows I heard
    originated on anything but tape, so I'm not in a position to judge.  Dr Biel
    and Ms McLeod have said that good disc recordings sounded very good.

    One of the difficulties, besides poor memory, in making judgements in
    relative audio quality was that many of the improvements were incremental:
    wire lines were replaced by coaxial cable, phonograph cartridges and
    microphones improved, low-noise vacuum tubes and resistors were introduced,
    studio sound-proofing improved, and people gained experience in every aspect
    of production.  So I'm certain that audio quality improved from the 1920's
    to the 1950's, but it's very difficult to find out how much and when.

    A few things we do know, and I speak under correction, as the old British
    naval officers used to say, from the authorities:

> >     When radio was introduced in the 1920's, everyone marveled at the quality
> >     of the sound as compared to that available from the phonographs available
> >     then.

> >     There was a series of demonstrations of high-fidelity sound made in New
> >     York City in the late 1940's (I think.)  A real orchestra was used, but it
> >     was hidden behind baffles designed to lower the audio quality such that
> >     the audience heard what contemporary phonographs (and presumably radios)
> >     produced at that time.

> >     There is an oft-repeated quote from somewhere about the audio tape
> >     machines used by the Germans in World War II for their music (and
> >     presumably propaganda) broadcasts.  It was said that the Allies thought
> >     that the music was being broadcast live because the audio quality of the
> >     broadcasts was so good.

    So why do our current transcriptions sound so poor by comparison?  I don't
    really know, though I'm sure that others do.  My guess is that many were
    originally made off the air with home disk-recording equipment, which had
    been sold for many years.  These recordings would contain fade-outs and
    cross-talk from other stations, especially if they were made at great
    distances from the broadcasting station.  It's possible that some of these
    recordings could have been made with the object of proving one of the usual
    brags of the time: that _my_ radio can pick up stations from a thousand
    miles away, and here's the recording to prove it: Fibber McGee and Molly,
    broadcast from Chicago as heard in Denver.

    I wonder how radio sound compared to movie sound of the time?

    M Kinsler

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:57:30 -0400
    From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cars and radio reception

    [removed]@[removed]
    had George Aust saying:

>     .....The same cannot be said for listening in the car. That was a
>     frustrating experience with overhead telephone/electric lines
>     causing terrible buzzing which completely drown out the program > you were
>     trying to listen to. And going into a tunnel or under a > bridge ( which we
>     have alot of here ) completely stopped all > reception.

>     George Aust

    It wasn't always the case driving through tunnels presented a
    barrier to one's radio reception.  I noticed quite readily that
    whenever driving through tunnels, say in the Los Angeles
    downtown area that shared a right of way with the city's trolley
    cars, the trolley wire up high would radiate the signal down to
    the aerials of the automobiles also inside the tunnel, so one
    would never miss a word of Nick Carter, or the shadow.  When we
    lost our trolley system, we lost a lot of reception as well.

    CAB
    --
    conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
       From the Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms
         Encino, California.

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:57:32 -0400
    From: ClifSr@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Roni Bowers

    My town, Muskegon, Michigan and the nearby village of Fruitport have
    unfortunately become nationally known through the tragic death of Roni Bowers
    and her child.  I have a friend and fellow former broadcaster, very active in
    Roni's home church in Fruitport, who is willing to correspond by e-mail or
    ham radio  with anyone interested in his knowledge of the event.  Please
    contact me personally for his screen name.

    Clif Martin
    ClifSr@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:31:26 -0400
    From: Gordon R Payton <thescifiguy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  scripts wanted

    I provided a fellow named Glenn Kalison some of my scripts to lost Lights
    Out shows last year so that the students at the California university,
    that he's either a student or an instructor at, could do re-enactments of
    them, thereby bringing back to life stories that haven't been heard in 60
    years. Our deal was that he got the scripts for free as long as he sent
    me a CD or tape copy of the performance.

    This offer remains open to any other amateur dramatists out there.
    Contact me if you're interested.

    Now that he's done them, he would like to try out some other genres like
    Suspense and Columbia Workshop. I don't keep records of the various OTR
    website offerings out there, but I know that a lot of you offer free
    script downloads on your sites. Could those of you who have scripts to
    offer please contact him at: glennkalison@[removed]  and let him know
    what you've got?

    I feel that it is of utmost importance that attempt to re-enact LOST
    shows. It's all well and good to redo existing shows, but this doesn't do
    the hobby much good. For one thing, they're rarely BETTER than the
    originals, so what's the point? There are gazillions of lost shows that
    we have the scripts to but no surviving shows. There've been many lists
    generated of what people consider to be the best radio shows ever done,
    but those are based upon the SURVIVING SHOWS ONLY. Until we can hear the
    lost shows, we really can't make a definitive list, can we? I recently
    managed to get the very well known lost episode of the Lights Out show,
    Chicken Heart, redone in it's entirety by the Gotham Radio
    Players(shortened versions from LP do exist) and they did a really fine
    job of it. We should make a concerted effort to do this with other lost
    shows.

    I would be particularly happy if that person out there, who has that
    website with the lost I Love a Mystery scripts, would contact Glenn to
    see if we can get some of those redone. What we have surviving from ILAM
    is pitiful, considering how well-loved it is.

    Thanks,
    The Scifi Guy

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:31:28 -0400
    From: Gordon R Payton <thescifiguy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fred Berney's Scifi Collection

    In reference to Fred Berney's( berney@[removed] ):
    ""The 60 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows from Science Fiction Selected
    by Ray Bradbury"

    <<<About 15 years ago, I produced a set of audio cassettes called RADIO'S
    GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION. I don't have any big names behind it, like
    Ray Bradbury, but I did my own narration and went into my vast library of
    science fiction books to find the original stories that the radio
    programs
    were based on and gave little background info between the [removed];>>

    To those of you who don't have the collection mentioned above, I HIGHLY
    recommend it. It's a MUST have. To this day I can't place some of the
    shows that are featured in it. I'd swear that some of them are lost and
    I'll always wonder where Fred got them. Fred is a SUPERBE narrator and
    the collection is laid out in an orderly fashion that explores various
    aspects of science fiction on the radio and the genre in general. Whether
    you're into scifi or not, you'll LOVE this collection. Every OTR
    collector should contact Fred to obtain a copy. It comes in a nice little
    bookshelf binder.
    I lent it to a friend at work one time, who was definitely not a scifi
    fan, and when he was done he said that it was great, but that it pissed
    him off because he'd just start getting into a show and then it would end
    and another one would start. That's what is so good about the collection.
    Fred selected 5-10 minutes of key passages of dialogue from various shows
    and strung them all together with some insightful comments. Because it's
    mostly just the "good stuff", it moves briskly and methodically,
    clustering shows of similar concepts together into a virtual treatise on
    the subject of radio scifi. I could NEVER do a better job myself, even
    though far more radio scifi is now available than was available when Fred
    put the collection together.
    It's excellent "brain food" and everyone should contact him immediately
    to get a copy.

    Someone yesterday mentioned the Captain Jupiter segment of the Big John
    and Sparky show. This is another Fred Berney exclusive. The segment, as
    part of a longer kids sort of "variety show", was basically about Sparky
    relating the plot twists of that week's installment of a FICTICIOUS
    science fiction/adventure([removed] space opera) movie serial that was
    supposedly playing at the local movie house. It was a far-fetched and
    bombastic story line with our lantern-jawed hero righting all sorts of
    wrongs and thwarting the bad guys.
    Fred has extracted 50-100 segments of these monologues from consequitive
    broadcasts of Big John and Sparky and they are offered on two 90m
    cassettes. Interesting stuff for those who like a good Space Opera.

    The Scifi Guy

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:51:51 -0400
    From: "Ken Kay" <kenwyn@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  More great shows

    Thanks to Jeff and all concerned for yesterday's arrival of 4 CDs of Red
    Skelton, Harris/Faye, Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best and My Favorite
    Husband.

    Ken Kay

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:07:34 -0400
    From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  SLAVE/MASTER DUPLICATE RECORDINGS

          in all the postings i have seen about recording otr programs, there
    has not been any mention of high-speed recording for duplication.  this
    method saves time, if you are making copies for tape trades, otr club
    members, sales, etc.  some years ago, our club librarian purchased a
    slave/master dupe recorder that copies up to six casettes at one time in
    high speed format. (60 minute tape in 60 seconds, 30 minute tape in 30
    seconds and 90 minute tape in 90 seconds.)  i do not know if these
    high-speed duplicators are still on the market or not, but i understand that
    at one time, many radio stations had r to r high-speed duplicators to make
    back-up copies of programs. my question is this: is the quality of the tape
    affected in any way? (the reason for the question is we have not had any
    "feedback" with the high-speed dupes) from ny of our club members.

    Owens L. Pomeroy

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:43:08 -0400
    From: "stephen jansen" <stephenjansen@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  CINCY CONVENTION

    Hello, all!
         Just a post so I can gush about the Cincinnati convention - it was the
    GREATEST!  I don't know how it compared to other conventions in the past
    (this was my first - Barry Hill, one of the dealers there, shouted out
    "VIRGIN!" in an attempt to embarrass me), but I was just thrilled with this
    one.
         I don't think I could find a nicer bunch of people anywhere - almost
    every other event I've been to has had somebody somewhere who is
    angry/rude/impatient/nasty/whatevertheirproblemis - but everyone
    (conventiongoers, dealers, radio stars, even the hotel staff) was pleasant
    and in a fine mood.
         My sister and I had NO TIME to relax, getting there at 3pm Chicago time
    was actually 4pm Cincy time, and we had to run to get in on the auditions
    for the recreations.  Hated being late, but there was no way we were going
    to miss those auditions!  I don't know how the director was able to listen
    to so many voices in so short a time, and still be able to pick out the best
    for each show.  But he must have done an excellent job, because all of the
    shows went so well!  I even got to fill in at the last minute for someone
    who didn't show up for his role (hope everything is alright with him) and
    got to enjoy a glorious COLD READ (which I love!).
         We got to hang out with Gordon Payton (the SciFi Guy), who was a hoot!
    Wotta character!  The three of us just seemed to click, the conversation was
    effortless, we cracked each other up.  We shall all meet again (at the
    Jersey convention?)!  I didn't even realize at the time it was Gordon who
    wrote the CBS Radio Mystery  Theatre guide (and probably plenty more which I
    am forgetting to realize right now).  And thank you again for dinner, you're
    a great cook!  Good luck with your move, and when you're more settled, I
    will get LOTS from your (amazing) catalog.
         Also joined the Radio Listeners Lycaeum (the WHAT?!?!?), talked to many
    people about "just what is this mp3 stuff?", found a bunch of great OTR that
    I had trouble finding elsewhere, picked up tips on radio directing, closed
    my eyes and time travelled with the Boogie Woogie Girls (what incredibly
    beautiful harmonies!), AND got some nice stuff in the raffle.
         A great time, a great bunch of people, a great hobby, what more could
    anyone ask?  I'm going to this every year.  Thanks to everyone that made it
    happen.
         Also, I've got a bunch of pictures that I took, and nowhere to post
    them on the internet.  Anyone interested, let me know, I'll send them to
    you.

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:43:21 -0400
    From: "Doug Leary" <dleary@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  bon ton

    I never heard the term "bon ton" until reading about it on this list
    yesterday morning. Later in the day, waiting at a stoplight in north
    Seattle, I was surprised to behold the Bon Ton Dry Cleaners. From its
    overall appearance it is one of those places about which the only thing
    "bon" is the name. A tradition lives on!

    Doug Leary

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:43:50 -0400
    From: steve mcguffin <earl22002@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Swingin' Years

    I hope this isn't considered too far off subject, but
    there used to be a syndicated program carried by a
    Charlottesville, VA radio station called The Swingin'
    Years.  The host was, I think, Chuck Cecil, and it was
    excellent, including air checks of the big bands,
    interviews with bandleaders and musicians, etc.  It
    also aired on Sunday nights on WBT Charlotte, but
    these two stations totally eliminated music from their
    formats several years ago.  I have searched in vain
    for info regarding this show.  Is it still on the air?
     Is there a web link to it?  Any information would be
    greatly appreciated - this was a great show and I
    really miss it.  My apologies again if this is too far
    off subject.

    Steve

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:06:50 -0400
    From: William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Reply

    About my posting about Desi and Lucy having a new network show originally
    entitled "The Cugats", it had nothing to do with "My Favorite Husband".
    Eric must have  been reading those books again.

    The time was between 1945 and 1951, when I had been transferred from CBS,
    New York, to CBS, Hollywood. I quite regulary manned the KNX master
    control room on Sunday afternoons, switching  the
    Jack Benny, Red Skelton, and Corliss Archer shows to the various sections
    of the Network. I was there! I do recall very vividly that the Desi and
    Lucy radio show was originally called the Cugats and the confusion that
    it caused, and the change in the of the name of the program.

    By the way, I had known Desi for many years. First when he was appearing
    in a vaudeville show in New York. My disc jockey friend, Dick Gilbert
    (who sang with the records) was the MC. I had assembled a portable set of
    equipment so that Dick could do his record show from remotes. Dick, Desi,
    and I would have dinner together. It was on this assignment where I met
    Renee, my first wife. We were married about three years later. It was
    while doing that remote that "Pearl Harbor" happened. I recall that Desi
    borrowed my portable radio to listen to the news. It was that night that
    Lucille joined him. She had been on a road trip. No more dinners with
    Desi. We comunicated through his valet!

    By the way, the "logs" that the fans refer to are not official FCC logs
    (program and transmitter). They are forms filled out by the "AD"s showing
    the details including the names of the talent for pay purposes. The AD's
    were network employees whose duty also was to keep track of the program
    timing, advising the director. AD stood for associate director.
    Originally they were called "production men" but through a contract
    negotion obtained the more important sounding title.

    BILL MURTOUGH

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:37:21 -0400
    From: ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Funk)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mayor of the Town

    I second the motion.  This is a really warm program which provides
    insight into life on the homefront during WWII.

    Regards to all,
    Art Funk

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:32:07 -0400
    From: Mary Hanley <MarkVII@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Advertising  slogan query

    Hello, everyone,

    I'm not exactly new to the list, but I think this may be the first time
    I've posted here. A question came up among animation fans about the
    slogan "Does your tobacco taste different lately?" No one knew which
    cigarette used this slogan. I thought someone here might be able to
    help.

    Thanks,
    Steve Smith

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:45:22 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Return of The Shadow?

    Steven Murphy notes,

>     Last month or so David (Hutch) Saul was being interviewed on BBC radio.
>      <snip>  [H]e enjoyed The Shadow as a youngster and stated that he was
>     interested in producing updated versions. He suggested that he was in
>     talks with the BBC about this project.

    Well ... however, the rights to The Shadow belong to a publishing house
    (Dell, I think), and producing a new radio series would probably be in
    violation of existing copyrights.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:22:43 -0400
    From: JackBenny@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Perspective

    I was catching up on some Digests and saw the discussion about the concept of
    "seeing" kids getting dressed in their rooms, the question of are we "reading
    today's morals into yesterday's actions", etc.

    Last night I came across a three-record set that my mother had given to me
    when I was about eight or nine, called "25 Years of Recorded Comedy".  I used
    to play parts of it endlessly, so I started to listen to a few cuts.

    Some things I remembered brilliantly, like Allan Sherman's "Hello Muddah
    Hello Faddah", Lily Tomlin's "Mister Veedle", and Kermit Schaefer's
    "Bloopers".  Some things like Vaughn Meader's "Executive Lunch" (JFK taking
    lunch orders from gathered world leaders) made me wonder how I could possibly
    have appreciated it at the time.

    Then I started to listen to cuts that I didn't remember, like Cheech and
    Chong's "Sergeant Stadanko", Firesign Theatre's "High School Madness", and
    Lenny Bruce.   Some things made my eyebrows raise that my mother was OK with
    my hearing it at the time (like a completely different take on the meaning of
    Henry Aldrich's "Coming, Mother!").  However, I had no clue what it meant at
    the time.  I didn't "get" the off-color material, so I simply didn't listen
    to it.

    I think that we can consider the "prying eyes" question along the same lines.
    Many kids may just not process it like adults would.

    -L. Leff

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:32:33 -0400
    From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mayor of the Town Info

    [removed]@[removed] Dennis Crow wrote:

>     Another program with  the same sentimental flavor as "The Halls of Ivy" is
>     "Mayor of the Town," with Lionel Barrymore.  He lives in a big old house on
>     Elm Street  (maybe it's Main Street).  He has a carping housekeeper [ Agnes
>     Moorehead],  and a bratty nephew [Conrad Binyon]. They're both delightful
>     to listen to.  The good mayor  intervenes in the lives of his constituents
>     and dispenses good, old-fashioned wisdom.  He is very much against
>     convention.

>      Many of these programs are available.

>     Dennis Crow

>     ------------------------------

    To nip information about the Mayor of the Town not exactly on
    track before it becomes old enough to perhaps influence what is
    thought to be the common knowledge I submit the following:

    The "Mayor", his name never was revealed to my recollection, he
    was always addressed as "Mayor", or described as "our Mayor,"
    indeed lived on Elm Street, in fact the northeast corner of the
    intersection of Elm and First Street to be exact.  His
    housekeeper and cook, Marilly really didn't find as much fault
    as she was desirous of having the household run at a smooth pace.
    To that end she'd interject her suggestions thereupon.  To label
    that "carping" is I feel a bit unfair to Agnes Moorehead's
    characterization of "Marilly."  The character of "Butch" which
    I had the honor to portray was not the Mayor's nephew, but the
    Mayor's "ward," a child who had been legally placed under
    guardian control of the Mayor by the family court. The Mayor
    became Butch's guardian when his parents were killed in an
    automobile accident near the outskirts of Springdale.  The
    Mayor revealed that information to the young lad atop a ferris
    wheel at the county fairgrounds.  Butch's real name was Roscoe
    Gardiner, and he had no other relatives he could turn to.  I
    never played the character as a brat.  I made him curious,
    industrious, compassionate, sometimes reluctant, but I never
    wanted listeners to not like him.  As for the Mayor being against
    convention, I'd say he exhibited an open mind willing to forgo
    sometimes the traditional approach to problem solving, but he
    always attempted to produce the best results for the individuals
    involved.  I believe he succeeded for the most part, after all
    he did keep getting reelected. *Grin*

    CAB
    --
    conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
       From the Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms
         Encino, California.

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    Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:48:39 -0400
    From: "Art Shifrin" <goldens2@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  and the $64 question [removed]

    Why that amount?  Did it have a significance at that time?
    Best,
    Shiffy
    website: [removed]

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