Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #434
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 11/10/2002 3:12 PM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2002 : Issue 434
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      thanks                                [ "randy story" <bygeorge@[removed]; ]
      OCCURRANCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE        [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      "Radio Crime Fighters" - A Book Revi  [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]
      Re: "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"  [ Twizoner@[removed] ]
      KRUGER/MORRISON                       [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      Re: Earliest Surviving Radio Perform  [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      Bierce on Radio                       [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      White's Radio Log                     [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
      WOTW Panic and Massacre               [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK SCHEDULE for  [ HERITAGE4@[removed] ]
      Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      The Martians are Coming! The Martian  [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
      Newspaper Themed OTR                  [ JimBourg@[removed] ]
      Newpaper Based OTR Shows              [ TallPaulK@[removed] ]
      Making OTR books accessible           [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
      hootenanny                            [ "Robert Angus" <rangus02@[removed]; ]
      Frank Buck Question                   [ Richard Fisher <w9fjl@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:07:17 -0500
    From: "randy story" <bygeorge@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  thanks

    hi-ho everybody.
    thanks for all of the kind emails about BOBBY BENSON. i appreciate it very
    much.
    by the way, has anyone mentioned BRIGHT STAR as a newspaper themed show? and
    how about some of the BOSTON BLACKIE shows when he was appearing with
    Dorothy Kilgallen? am i just imagining that she was a regular opposite
    kohlmar's 'blackie?
    *sigh* out of all the things i have [removed] miss my memory the most.

    bye-o, everybody!
    randy story

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    Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:08:00 -0500
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OCCURRANCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

    Lee:
        I believe there us also an award winning episode of "Twilight Zone" from
    the early years that features and almost wordless version of the story.
        I have seen it and it is beautiful. All done with images.
        Made in France and the opening narrated by Rod Serling.
        I enclose a letter written by a man named Lee from India.
        This review was published in the IMDB collection:

    Rivière du hibou, La (1962)
      Directed by
    Robert Enrico

    Writing credits
    Ambrose Bierce (story)
    Robert Enrico
    User Rating:  [removed] (205 votes)

    Credited cast:
    Roger Jacquet
    Anne Cornaly
    Anker Larsen
    Stéphane Fey
    Jacques-François Zeller
    Pierre Danny
    Louis Adelin
    rest of cast listed alphabetically
    Rod Serling ....  Narrator (Twilight Zone broadcast)
    Also Known As:
    Incident at Owl Creek (1962)
    Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, An (1962) (USA: actual spelling)
    Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An (1962) (USA: correct spelling)
    Runtime: 28 min
    Country: France
    Language: French
    Color: Black and White
    User Comments:

    Lee-107 (leena_d@[removed])
    India

    Date: 16 June 2002
    Summary: Absolutely Breath-taking!

    I saw this movie as a part of my Film course. It was the first movie shown to
    us in class. First, not only because it effectively uses some of the basic
    and important cinematic techniques, but also because it illustrates the very
    basis of cinema - illusion. For the three-fourths of its length we're
    totally, skillfully fooled into believing that what is happening to the
    protagonist is "real", that it's happening and then the ending hits you like
    a whirlwind, taking you completely unawares! It is not just this surprise
    ending that makes this movie so great. It is the mastery over the cinematic
    form on the part of the director, Robert Enrico to deliver sheer magic in the
    space of 20 minutes - that is cinema at its Finest!

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    Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:08:33 -0500
    From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "Radio Crime Fighters" - A Book Review

         I received a book this week for which I had been literally waiting for
    many years.  After perusing it the last few days, I have decided that this
    book was well worth the wait.

         The book is "Radio Crime Fighters - Over 300 Programs from the Golden
    Age" by Jim Cox.  With the publication of this book, Jim has filled a major
    gap in Old-Time Radio literature.  "Radio Crime Fighters" is a highly
    informative and entertaining book that identifies and discusses 309 series
    from the Golden Age of Radio, famous and obscure, whose primary characters
    fought crime on a regular basis.

         Each series entry contains a wealth of data such as:
    the series title (and alternate titles if any),
    air dates and times,
    network affiliations,
    sponsors,
    number of known available episodes,
    crew and cast information, and
    a brief series synopsis.
    At least 40 favorite series receive multi-page coverage.

         Just to have a compilation of factual information regarding these
    series was great.  However, Jim didn't stop with supplying the reader with
    "Just the facts!"

         Throughout "Radio Crime Fighters," the reader is treated to much more
    information that rekindles memories about the series and their heroines and
    heroes.  There are numerous biographical sketches of actors and crew
    members.  Many entertaining anecdotes from cast and crew members are
    included.  Also, Jim has provided information that connects various radio
    series to their antecedents and progenies in comics, pulp fiction,
    literature, motion pictures, television, and the theater.  There are 18
    great photos. The book has an appendix in which the series are grouped by
    character and genre types. With its extensive index, "Radio Crime Fighters"
    is a complete package.

         The end result is that "Radio Crime Fighters" manages to not only be
    consistently informative, but also invariably entertaining.  This is a book
    that is well-worth reading and will find its place as a frequently-consulted
    source in the libraries of many Old-Time Radio fans.

         I must admit that I didn't have to pay for my copy of "Radio Crime
    Fighters." The copy I received is a reviewer's copy from the publisher.

         I will be purchasing a copy of "Radio Crime Fighters," however.  And
    the copy that I purchase will probably wind up being owned by one of the
    subscribers to the Digest.  Once I get it signed by Jim, I will donate it to
    the 2003 Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound Showcase Silent Auction.  If you
    go to the Showcase, you will have the chance to bid on it.

    "Radio Crime Fighters - Over 300 Programs from the Golden Age"
    By Jim Cox
    $[removed], hardback
    McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
    1-800-253-2187
    [removed]

    Stewart

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    Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:08:40 -0500
    From: Twizoner@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

    Lee Munsick writes :I am so pleased from the Emails I've received, that so
    many people are fellow fans of Ambrose Bierce's marvelous "Occurrence at Owl
    Creek
    Bridge".  I am told that "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" did a video
    version.  I'd love to obtain that.

    The original Twilight Zone series aired a slightly modified version of a
    French film version of this story which won first prize at the Cannes Film
    Festival in 1962.  The TZ's producer was over budget towards the end of the
    series 5th (and final) season and in a move to save costs bought the rights
    to the film. I believe this version is available on one of the Twilight Zone
    video sets.

    Mike Kerrigan

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    Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 21:08:48 -0500
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  KRUGER/MORRISON

>     Otto Kruger (b. Toledo, Ohio, grandnephew of South African pioneer and
>     former president Paul Kruger, for whom their Krugerand is named.

    And, sounding a lot like Brett Morrison, or was it just my weird ears
    playing audio tricks on me?  Maybe the Shadow [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 21:09:38 -0500
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Earliest Surviving Radio Performers?

    On 11/9/02 7:31 PM OldRadio Mailing Lists wrote:

>     Frank Parker had his own radio shows very [removed] believe he is still
>     alive
>     at age 99.

    And if so, I think this could make Parker possibly the last surviving
    major personality to have appeared on network radio *as an adult* prior
    to 1930. Parker was a member of an NBC vocal quartet which appeared under
    many different names during the late 1920s and early 1930s, most notably
    on the Cities Service Concerts program, and he was also a featured tenor
    with Harry Horlick's A&P Gypsies on and off thru this period.

    I say "as an adult" to account for the fact that "Baby" Rose Marie is, so
    far as I know, still living, and it's possible that other child
    performers of that era might survive. (Whatever became of Muriel
    Harbater, anyway?) But I can't think of anyone else still living who
    would have performed as an adult at the old NBC studios at 711 5th Avenue.

    And, yes, Bob Hope is still alive -- and approaching 100 -- but he didn't
    make his network debut until the mid-1930s: a newcomer to the business
    compared to Parker.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:14:32 -0500
    From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bierce on Radio

    LA RIVIERE DU HIBOU/AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE (1962), which won
    both an Oscar and an Emmy, is actually one-third of an anthology
    feature, AU COEUR DE LA VIE/IN THE MIDST OF LIFE (1963) by French
    director Robert Enrico, who died last year. Here's his BBC obit:
    [removed]

    Enrico won the Best Director award at the 1963 San Sebastian Film
    Festival for this feature-length adaptation from Ambrose Bierce. The
    other two segments are "Chickamauga" and "The Mockingbird." IN THE MIDST
    OF LIFE was shown at the first New York Film Festival in 1964. I've
    often wondered if the TWILIGHT ZONE showing of AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL
    CREEK BRIDGE had something to do with the full feature's limited
    distribution in the [removed]

    What are some other Bierce radio adaptations?

    Bhob @ SHOWBIZ @ [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:25:04 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  White's Radio Log

>     Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:04:39 -0500
>     From: "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed];

>     White's Radio Log, was a little booklet listing stations, frequencies,
>     power, network affiliations, in US and Canadian cities/towns. It also
>     included network programs in the earlier issues (1930's - 1940's).

    I remember White's Radio Log in the 1960s as a feature in a magazine called "Radio-TV
    Experimenter."  In fact, I have an issue or two from then.  At that point it generally took three
    issues to complete the log and re-start.  One issue might list AM stations by location, call
    letters, and frequency, then the next might list FM stations, and then TV stations.  The AM
    stations by location also listed network affiliations.  It wasn't always entirely correct.  I often
    found errors for the Boston area.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 lawyer@[removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:05:29 -0500
    From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WOTW Panic and Massacre

    Lee Munsick leemunsick@[removed] informed us:

>     At 5:51 [removed] EDT on Aug. 27, 2003, Mars will be within 34,646,488 miles
>     (55,746,199 kilometers) of Earth. This will be the closest that Mars has
>     come to our planet in about 73,000 [removed]

    Too bad we're not ready to make the trip; sounds like the perfect time. I
    hope that some of us who heard WOTW the first time around will still be here
    when there really IS intelligent life on Mars.

    But speaking of the relatively mild panic - and I have read that there was
    some in the states - it hardly compares with what happened South of the
    border when a Spanish version aired. Large numbers of people really DID panic
    and, when they were informed it was all a prank, surrounded the broadcast
    studio in a fury and massacred everyone inside. That's from memory, but I'm
    betting somebody here has a more accurate and complete version; chances are I
    read it here in the first place.

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    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:05:59 -0500
    From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK SCHEDULE for Week
     of:  !1/10/02

    Here's our lineup for the OTRN for the week starting Sunday, November 10th
    Vintage radio in nice sound - streaming at 32kbps  24/7at:
    [removed]

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges
    1. LUX RADIO THEATRE     CBS   1/20/41    "The Cowboy and the Lady"
        Stars Gene Autry and Merle Oberon.
    [removed] BICKERSONS   2/23/47   "Amos, The Driving Instructor"  starring:
        Jim Ameche, Frances Langford and Danny Thomas.
    3. ARCHIE ANDREWS    10/19/46    "Veronica's Coming-Out Party"  starring
        Bob Hastings, Harlan Stone,   with: Arthur Kohl, Gloria Mann & Rosemary
    Rice.

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood
    1. RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE   NBC/AFRS   11/22/50
        Stars: Dick Powell in "The Eight O'Clock Murders"  (aka: "The Cover-Up
    Murders")
    2. THE GREEN HORNET   BLUE Net.    4/18/43   "The Corpse That Wasn't There"
        Stars: Al Hodge as Briot Reed/The Hornet.
    3. THE COLGATE SP;ORTS NEWSREEL with Bill Stern    NBC #512  8/19/49.
        Special Guest:  Baseball Great -  Dizzy Dean.

    Enjoy ---        Tom & Jerry

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    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:06:05 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Today in radio history

>     >From Those Were The Days --

    1950 - Monty Woolley starred as The Magnificent Montague, which debuted
    on NBC.

    Birthday--

    1919 - George Fenneman, announcer: You Bet Your Life [w/Groucho Marx];
    died May 29, 1997

      Joe

    --
    Visit my home page:
    [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:06:38 -0500
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Martians are Coming!  The Martians are
     Coming!

    Anent WOTW, Lee Munsick, citing a news piece on the fact that Mars will
    have a perihelic opposition next August, notes,

>     The good news is that by that Hallowe'en, kiddies, the Red Planet will
>     finally be going away!   And the "War of the Worlds" controversy with it.
>     Right.  Uh-huh.  Watch the skies!

    This brings to mind something that has amused me for several decades (I
    was in the Apollo Project in the 1960s).  People have mentioned the time
    compression involved in having a remote feed from Grovers Mills a
    scattering of minutes after the report of what turns out to be a Martian
    Cylinder impacting there.  True enough.

    But with the distances involved, the "explosions on the Martian surface"
    mentioned earlier in the program, using "space guns," if the Martians
    could have withstood the megagees of firing, would have taken upwards of
    eight months for Cylinders to have reached the Earth's orbit.

    Now *that's* time compression!

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:06:43 -0500
    From: JimBourg@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Newspaper Themed OTR
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

    Don't know if anyone has mentioned "Frontier Gentleman" with John Dehner as a
    english newspaper reporter.

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    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:06:53 -0500
    From: TallPaulK@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Newpaper Based OTR Shows

    Sorry I'm late with my addition to the list.  How can we forget the great
    serial about the mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper?

    -                      Paul Kattelman - Sharonville, Ohio

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    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:07:13 -0500
    From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Making OTR books accessible

    This is a reminder post for anyone who missed it earlier, sorry for the
    duplication.  First, I want to address recent comments made about talking
    books.  Yes, they are better than nothing, but they are very hard to find
    things in as a reference.  See the below example on Dunning.  Also, thanks
    to Matthew on this list for pointing this out.  I have learned that the
    book about Jack Benny written by him and his daughter is available in both
    Braille and cassette from NLS.

    Hello all.  This post is mostly for authors and publishers, but hopefully
    this will be of interest to others on the list or upcoming authors.  If you
    self-publish OTR books or have written any (or many, as the case may be) I
    ask you to please read.  If you miss this request or need reminders, I will
    post again in a week or two, after the conventions are over.

    As some of you might know, there are very few books about OTR available in
    Braille or other formats accessible to the blind.  The only book I am aware
    of which primarily deals with OTR in an accessible form is Dunning's
    encyclopedia.  That is only available on cassette, which can be a problem
    when trying to find page 557 and being unsure which of the 16 cassettes it
    is on.  It can be done if one wants to take the time to read the table of
    contents, which in itself takes a lot of one cassette.  There are some
    other books on radio which mention OTR, but not in as much detail.

    I myself am blind and have enjoyed posts from many very knowledgable people
    here.  I know that some of them have written books, but many are not widely
    available and are usually somewhat expensive.  I would like to see more
    books become accessible, preferably from the authors themselves.  I
    understand that most authors are already losing money on their books or are
    not making very much, and I do not want to take away from what little they
    already get.  However, it is not reasonable to expect a blind person to pay
    upwards of $30-35 for a book which they cannot read without scanning
    first.  In other words, besides paying more than usual for a book, they
    must scan it as well which takes a minimum of a day and usually introduces
    errors in the text.  Therefore, it is doubtful that authors are going to
    lose royalties to blind people since most often they will not spend that
    much on a printed book anyway.

    What can be done to make books more accessible?  There is a fee-based
    service called [removed]  It has recently won a prize in the StockHolm
    Challenge in education.  I am a member and can very highly recommend them
    to anyone who is blind.  However, even they have no OTR books which I could
    find, although they do have a Dunning novel.  All I am asking of authors
    and publishers is to go to [removed] at:

    [removed]

    and click on the "for authors and publishers" link.  Please read their page
    and consider letting them at least borrow copies of your books to
    scan.  They are volunteer-based but are backed by Benetech, Inc. of
    California.  I am not asking you to give away your work or to go through
    additional expense to make it available.  Please read their information and
    consider helping out.  Thank you very much.  I and others will appreciate
    your kindness and generocity.

    There are other volunteering opportunities for the sighted public, but I do
    not have details on that. Please look at the above link and read the
    volunteering pages if interested.

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    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:07:21 -0500
    From: "Robert Angus" <rangus02@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  hootenanny

    While going through a bunch of old tapes, I came across a CBS program
    entitled Hootenanny, with Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Alan Lomax  and
    others.  Dated Mrch 10, 1947, it appears to be the first in a sustaining
    half-hour series.  Was there ever a second?  Does anybody out there have any
    more who would be willing to trade for a copy of this one?  The tape itself
    is a cassette from New Zealand; I'm not sure whether this is an AFRS
    holdover, or whether it was recorded on the cassette in the [removed] In either
    case, the sound quality is very good.

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    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:07:36 -0500
    From: Richard Fisher <w9fjl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Frank Buck Question

    Back in 1939 I ordered and received from somewhere a "Frank Buck Genuine
    Ivory Initial Ring".

    No one seems to list that program being on the air except in 1932. Tom
    Tumbusch's "Illustrated Radio Premium Catalog & Pricing Guide" makes the
    cryptic comment "There were also two Ivory Soap premiums from a special
    1939 promotion".

    Can anyone add any further light to this statement.  I would like to
    know where it was advertised and on what show and any other information
    available about this premium.  It was one of my favorite radio premiums
    the other being my Jack Armstrong Egyptian whistle ring.

    Since I was only 9 in 1939 my memory of where I got it is gone but I
    know I had it!!!

    The other 1939 Ivory Soap premium listed by Mr. Tumbusch is an Ivory
    Knife (which I didn't have). He also mentions the Frank Buck Explorer
    Sun Dial Watch from 1939 but that it was offered by Jack Armstrong.

    Dick

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