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Date: 9/8/2007 7:59 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 259
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      MANC reminder                         [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Mary Lee Taylor                       [ "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed]; ]
      IMDB otr actors                       [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Old Cooking Shows                     [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 9-15 Sept  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      American Radio Archive                [ "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@earthli ]
      R-E-S-P-E-C-T                         [ <verotas@[removed]; ]
      Passing it [removed]                    [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Cooking Shows                         [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:25:21 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  MANC reminder

    Just putting up a posting to remind the readers that the coming weekend
    (September 13-15) is the second annual Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention.  I
    know it's been mentioned before but while I have a quick moment of peace
    from the constantly-ringing phone lines, I figured to type this small
    reminder.

    There will be two old-time radio recreations directed by the talented Donald
    Ramlow.  Don is great at this, having his own production troupe do programs
    on an almost weekly basis in Michigan, and supplies the entertainment for
    the Cincinnati OTR convention every year.  One of the two he will probably
    be doing is a recreation of a "lost" Sam Spade episode from the mid-late
    1940s.

    There will also be presentations on SUPERMAN ON RADIO by Michael Hayde, THE
    LONE RANGER ON RADIO by Terry Salomonson, HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL by yours
    truly, and many others.

    The movie room will be playing a bunch of old-time radio related movies such
    as THIS WAY PLEASE (1937) which was Mary Livingstone and Fibber McGee and
    Molly's first screen appearance, WWII film shorts (one with Fibber McGee and
    Molly), COMIN' AROUND THE MOUNTAIN (1940) with Harold Peary as Mayor
    Gildersleeve (and it's complete, unlike the print at UCLA), CHARLIE McCARTHY
    DETECTIVE (1939 motion picture), THE GRACIE ALLEN MURDER CASE (1941), and
    many others.

    There will also be old-time radio vendors.

    So make a date to stop by, even if it's for a day and enjoy the fun.  With
    three things going on all the time from 9-5 and two things going on all the
    time from 5-11, you won't be bored.

    [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 00:36:47 -0400
    From: "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mary Lee Taylor

         I seem to remember on some Fibber McGee Shows I have heard from 1950-51
    that advertise "Pet Milk's Mary Lee Taylor Program" On Saturday [removed]
    course, Pet Milk also sponsored Fibber McGee And Molly in 1950-52.  The
    basis of the show seemed to be a story about a "Bright young couple"..The
    wife's name was Sally I [removed] seemed to be also [removed] using
    Pet Milk, of course.  I wonder if any of these shows are available, just out
    of [removed]

    Tim Lones
    Canton, Ohio

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    Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 00:37:10 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  IMDB otr actors

    I wouldn't go by the IMDB web-site for info regarding contacting actors.
    Like many published reference guides, it will only list their agent info, or
    a company that specializes in mailing you autographs but does not forward
    personal replies to the actors personally.

    Ken is correct, the Screen Actors Guild is one of the best ways.  I have
    found that doing a 411 lookup sometimes works, depending if they are listed
    or not.  IMDB might give you a correct hit once in a great while, but it'll
    lead to more frustrations than you want.

    Martin

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    Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:51:15 -0400
    From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Old Cooking Shows

    As to cooking shows, I hesitated to mention Mary Starr as she is, I'm
    sure, known only to East Tennesseans, but she had a cooking show on
    radio in Knoxville for many years. (She also had a show titled
    Happy's Champions; Happy was a talking St. Bernard who spouted
    homilies and recognized good little boys and girls by name who'd done
    all their chores or cleaned their plates. He sounded pretty
    convincing to me, just the way a talking St. Bernard would really
    sound.) The theme to her cooking show was "Rhapsody on a Theme by
    Paganini," by Rachmaninoff. Eventually, like national stars, she
    moved to TV. I hated her show because, when I stayed home from
    school, her show marked the end of cartoons and the morning western
    and the beginning of the cooking and soap opera wasteland.

    It's hard to imagine that anyone old enough to have remembered either
    show would be doing much cooking these days. Yet every year a
    reprinting of her ancient cookbook is sold to raise money for the
    local senior citizens center here. I'm not quite sure who buys it, or
    why, but it sells well. I don't cook, but I've been treated to some
    dishes prepared according to that book, and they bring back lots of
    near-memories; I think every housewife in Knoxville referred to the
    original at least occasionally, as well as to their scrapbooks of
    scribbled recipes copied down from her show. Mary Starr's recipes
    have survived here long after her actual radio programs have reached
    distant stars, where, no doubt, quite a bit of substitution is called
    for when current listeners attempt them.

    I'm also surprised no one has mentioned Betty Crocker. I always
    abandoned my play and rushed into the house in order to listen more
    closely to Betty Crocker's cooking show, much to the consternation of
    my mother who couldn't quite understand my enthusiasm, since I was
    barely into solid foods. As I recall, my fascination was due to my
    believing, at that age, that Betty was a talking Saltine. I'm not
    sure I ever explained my interest.

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    Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:51:51 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 9-15 September

    9/9

     From the New York Times Today in history --

    1926 -- the National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was created by the Radio
    Corp. of America.

     From Those Were The Days --

    1946 - Ben Alexander hosted Heart's Desire for the first time, a
    giveaway contest program on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

    9/10

    1935 - "I'm Popeye the sailor [removed]" toot! toot! Popeye was heard for
    the first time on NBC. The show was based on the Elzie Crisler Segar
    comic strip, which featured Popeye, Olive Oyl, Brutas, Wimpy and
    Sweepea. Now, eat your spinach in celebration!

    9/12

    1938 - [removed] Kaltenborn made broadcasting history by covering a crisis in
    Czechoslovakia for CBS beginning on this day. Kaltenborn was so devoted
    to his work that he slept in the studio for 18 days while bringing
    updates to his appreciative audience.

    9/13

    1931 - Vaudeville star Eddie Cantor was heard for the first time -- on
    NBC. The Chase and Sanborn Hour became one of the most popular radio
    shows of the 1930s.

    1937 - The first broadcast of Kitty Keene, Inc. was heard on the NBC Red
    network.

    9/14

    1936 - NBC presented John's Other Wife for the first time. Actually,
    John's other wife was not his wife at all. She was his secretary.

    9/15

    1934 - NBC presented The Gibson Family to American audiences. The
    program was the first musical-comedy-drama to be broadcast. Ernest
    Whitman and Eddie Green were featured members of the cast and were
    billed as "network radio's only colored comedians." The show originated
    from the studios of WEAF in New York City.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:52:04 -0400
    From: "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  American Radio Archive

    East of the dial
    [removed];IssueNum=140

    Ventura County Reporter - Ventura,CA,USA

    Thousand Oak's Library American Radio Archives article, worth a quick look.

    joe s

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    Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:52:27 -0400
    From: <verotas@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  R-E-S-P-E-C-T

    Bravo to Craig Wichman (to be added to his past laudits) for his comments re
    non-faithful adaptations!

    Why, l indeed?   Dast we wonder if some perfidious adaptor took The Tale of
    Two Cities and reversed the names of the two heroes?

    Orworse, switching  the protagonist and antagonist of Les Miserables?

    Sheesh!     Lee Munsick

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    Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:53:32 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Passing it [removed]

    Last week I got a pleasant surprise.

    Bob Burchett, the genial genius behind the Cincinnati Convention,
    sent me two adjoining pages taken from a Nov 1932 publication. The
    fan who had given it to Bob a few years before, had not recorded the
    name of magazine, but it was probably "Radio Mirror." Bob sent this
    material to me because it contained a large publicity photo of
    Richard Wanamaker, the kid who was the first "Bobby Benson" on CBS.
    Knowing of my strong interest in this juvenile Western, Bob forwarded
    it to [removed] guy that he is.

    I thanked Bob and then carefully logged the photo and placed it in my
    B-Bar-B archives. But before I did, I examined a full-page picture on
    the adjacent page. It was an NBC photo of Phillips H. Lord, posing as
    "The Country Doctor," near a row boat on the edge of a woodsy lake.
    One of OTR's most successful promoters, Lord was well known for
    "Gangbusters" and "Seth Parker." In the latter, he  not only wrote
    the series, but had the title lead, as he did in "Country Doctor." To
    make this 30-ish actor look like the elderly doctor, the makeup
    personnel had given him white hair, sideburns, and beard and put him
    in a rumpled rural suit and tie. I'd never seen this photo of Lord
    before.

    I contacted Lord's daughter, Phillipa, who lives in NYC to see if the
    family archives contained this same photo of her father. She quickly
    responded they did not, and both she and her older sister were
    anxious to acquire a copy.  "No need" says I, "You can have the
    original Bob sent to me." This morning I dropped it in the mail for her.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 21:55:45 -0400
    From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Cooking Shows

    Hi All

    Just getting back to reading lots of digests.  I see
    there is a thread about cooking shows.  There was a
    show titled "The Mystery Chef".  I thought I had one
    of these shows, but can't find it.  However, I do have
    a book written by the Mystery Chef, John Macpherson.
    According to John Dunning's 1998 encyclopedia, The
    radio show "The Mystery Chef" was on the air from 1931
    - 1941 and 1942 - 1948, various versions.

    If any one has any of these shows, it would most
    likely be Chuck Schaden.  I'm guessing that's where I
    first heard about the show.

    Anne

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