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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 444

Table Of Contents: 

	 Lddd, Bogie, Lochte, Regan
	 Jack Benny and other [removed]
	 Rights to Voice - Image
	 Amos & Andy
	 CBS D-DAY broadcasts
	 war effort
	 Having problems with WWW?
	 Re: Arch Oboler Radio Scripts
	 Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:52:05 -0500
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lddd, Bogie, Lochte, Regan
Message-ID: <961117125204_1615270570@[removed]>

A further point on my question regarding the Lux Radio Theater's production
of "Casablanca." There's a little stinger on the end of the show, which (I
must confess) i hadn't listened to before I posted my inquiry.

In this brief segment, Cecil B. DeMille, Alan Ladd, Hedy Lamarr, and John
Loder (Lamarr's husband) are doing one of the familiar little joke-and-patter
bits that LRT added on the end of so many broadcasts. In this one, Ladd
mentions that he feels humble, taking on a role that is so closely identified
with another actor. He then mentions that Bogie is touring the Mediterranean
war theater, entertaining troops, wishes him Godsepped, a successful tour, a
safe [removed] what we'd expect.

So -- that explains where Bogie was at the time, and why he couldn't appear
on the Lux show as Rick. It does not, however, explain why the WHOLE cast is
different: no Bergman, no Conrad Veidt, no Claude Rains, no S. Z. Sackall,
and no Doolie Wilson.

All the people who replaced those originals do a perfectly credible job, and
the production is "very OK" albeit, I suspect, not up to what
Bogart-Bergman-and-company would have done. Or maybe I was just so imprinted
with the original cast, I couldn't fully accept the alternate cast.

Guess I'll have to get Bogie's Screen Guild version and hear for myself.

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I was fascinated by Dick Lochte's statement that Chandler enjoyed OTR (of
course, it wasn't OT then), and his inclusion of the Jeff Regan series in his
list of favorites. I have only four episodes of the Regan series, but they're
all excellent. Tightly plotted -- and fully plotted, too, no stretching a
15-minute idea to fill a 30-minute time slot.

Nicely written, with vividly defined characters, snappy dialog, and that
fine, deadpan Jack Webb delivery in the title role. Just between thee and me
and lamppost, I think these are my favorite Webb broadcasts. Once he got
rolling with "Dragnet," he got so damned pompous and officious (and
fascistic) that he's hard to take.

And then later on, in the second (TV) "Dragnet" series -- the one with Harry
Morgan as his sidekick Gannon -- the show turned into self-parody.

But these Regan stories -- prime stuff ! ! !

Aside to Dick Lochte: Don't know if you got my direct e-mail, but I don't see
any harm in repeating the info here. I've spoken with Bill and Toby
Gottfried, the Program Committee honchos for 1997 Bouchercon. They love the
idea for an OTR show, and would love to have you and me get involved.

We could resurrect a classic-era script, but I think it would be even more
fun if you and I collaborated on a new one. Cd bring some of your 'tec
characters and some of mine together.

What do you think?

In order to avoid cluttering the Digest with this stuff, pls send me a note
directly, to <Bigkids@[removed]>

Dick Lupoff

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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 16:13:21 +0500
From: cbholm@[removed] (c holm)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Jack Benny and other [removed]
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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The Jack Benny '46 Xmas episodes>

  For whoever asked about these episodes, I think that they're pretty funny.
The writers do use a lot of the same jokes and sequences as in other later
Christmas episodes so the decision to buy them or not depends on how bad you
want those particular episodes.  I ordered the set from AIC and I'm quite
happy with it.  

War Propaganda in OTR>
  
  Someone mentioned Lum and Abner in connection with WWII shows.  They
mentioned one or two particular episodes, but it was much more than that.
WAMU in DC does an OTR show every sunday night with two 15 episodes of L&A
each week.  They've been playing them in sequence and passed WWII about a
year ago.  Anyway, during the war era shows it seems like every third show
was one promoting the war effort.  Especially common were shows discussing
the need for people to buy bonds, not to buy food on the black market, or
whatever.  They shouldn't be too hard to find.

Suspense and Autolite>

  Listened to Suspense the other day, and Wilcox was announcing all the auto
companies in the Autolite "family."  The companies listed were Dodge, Nash,
Willis, Packard, Chrysler, Plymoth, Studebaker, Desoto, Hudson, and Kaiser.
I guess most of these companies have gone the way of Roma [removed]   no
point, just an observation

Christopher Holm
Va Tech - Industrial and Systems Engineering
cbholm@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 15:06:28 -0600
From: "Marvin R. Bensman" <bensmanm@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Rights to Voice - Image
Message-id: <l03010600aeb52adb5031@[[removed]]>
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The question was asked:

> Does a famous person have a legal right to his distinctive radio
>voice and style?

The Right of Publicity is designed to protect celebrities and deals with
those who would profit from exploitation of the celebrity's name or
likeness. It is essentially a property right to one's own personality and
image. This taking without permission is also sometimes called
"misappropriation." There have been three different approaches taken by
courts: (1) Right of publicity terminates upon death; (2) Death has no
affect - estate and heirs control (3) can survive death only if
commercially exploited during lifetime. State statutes now commonly find
that for period from 10 to 50 years, estate and heirs control right of
publicity of deceased celebrity. The use of look-alikes may not only
violate right of publicity, but Lanham Act which prohibits confusing
consumer about celebrity endorsements. Most famous cases illustrating are
Onassis v. Christian Dior (1985) and Bette Midler v. Ford Motor (1988). In
addition to protecting celebrities right of publicity from look-alikes and
sound-alike imitations, courts have protected slogans, "Here's Johnny," as
a brand identifier; identifying characteristics, such as: Vanna White's
turning of letters in an ad in which a female robot was posed in a Wheel of
Fortune like set.

So answer to above is; you cannot imitate a still living actor and you
probably cannot after their death unless you check on state law; and for
sure if you use for commercial gain.

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*Professor Marvin R. Bensman, [removed], [removed]                              *
*Department of Communication; Office Phone: (901) 678-3174 or 678-2565 *
*University of Memphis        Fax: (901) 678-4331                      *
*Memphis, TN 38152                                                     *
*E-mail: BensmanM@[removed]                                       *
* To see University of Memphis radio archive look at:                  *
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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:54:29 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steve Lewis, CCSU" <LEWIS@[removed]>
To:   [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Amos & Andy
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi.

I've finished listening to the last program in the AMOS & ANDY MUSIC 
HALL series.  It's dated Nov 25, 1960, which certainly makes the various 
versions of their shows one of the longer runs on the air.

This is only a 15 minute Monday through Friday version.  At the end of the 
program, Gosden and Correll step out from behind their characters to say 
goodbye.  They also run through the various versions of the programs 
they'd done over the years, starting with Sam and Henry, and including the 
TV series.

They also mentioned various new projects they were working on, hinting 
that they'd be back on the air soon.  So far as I know, they never did, 
or do any of you know anything more?  What projects were they working on, 
and did any of them ever come to fruition?

						Steve

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 17:24:51 -0500
From: BCH66@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: CBS D-DAY broadcasts
Message-ID: <961117172450_1484937013@[removed]>

so which vendor has the complete broadcast for CBS D-Day? Or NBC 0n 12-7-41 (
or was that also CBS ) ??
I will purchase these in a snap if someone is selling.

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 17:37:15 -0800
From: PETER GRECO <pgreco@[removed]>
To: radio digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: war effort
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Hi,
  Another Fibber show about the war effort was called 4 gallons of gas,
it was a very funny show about Fibber complaining how could he get along
on 4 gallons of [removed] also was the last show for Gale Gordon prior to
him enterning the Coast [removed] seemed that all the FMAM shows during
the war always contained some sort of message about the war effort.
                                                    [removed]

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:29:11 GMT
From: lgenco@[removed] (Lou Genco)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Having problems with WWW?
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Some OTR Digest readers have indicated they were having problems using
the WWW to access OTR - related sites on the internet.  If you were
told that your internet connection supports WWW, but you can't seem to
get it to work (and think it is your fault), send an email TO:
wwwproblems@[removed]

Include a short description of your problem, your computer and your
internet access method.  *If there is sufficient interest*, we will
try to set up an online tutorial-by-email.

This offer may expire without notice.


Lou
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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 19:22:42 -0500
From: OTRDSIEGEL@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Arch Oboler Radio Scripts
Message-ID: <961117192238_1882904297@[removed]>

  A few days ago I believe there was a posting here from Someone looking for
a collection of Arch Oboler Radio Scripts.  I visited a book dealer this day
who, at my request, put aside the following FOUR (4) volumes of Arch Oboler
Scripts (all in hard cover editions)  1) "Oboler Omnibus"  2) "This Freedom"
 3) "Plays For Americans"  4) "Fourteen Radio Plays".  I will make all four
of these books available to the first person who requests them and is willing
to pay $64,00 for the lot (+ $[removed] in postage). That comes to $[removed] per
volume. If interested please contact me via e-mail or call 914-962-3680.
  Thanks.   Dave  Siegel

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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 96 08:50 CST
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator
Message-Id: <m0vPV1P-000k8cC@[removed]>

Dick Lochte said re OTR eyes:
>I love 'em all -- Marlowe, Spade, Diamond, Shayne, Rogue, Regan -- with
>one exception.  One of the last private eye series that starred William
>Gargan -- was it Barry Craig? -- sounds as if they were trying to
>stretch a fifteen minute episode into a half hour.  Everybody, including
>Gargan who was otherwise a terrific radio and tv presence, talks as if
>they're a ... little ... stoned. 

Just to keep things lively, I'll pop in to say that I love most of the OTR
private dicks, and that goes for Barry Craig too.  I don't hear the
slowness that Dick says he hears, and there's plenty of hardboiled
atmosphere.  I even like the music - and it's some of the earliest work of
the estimable announcer, Don Pardo.  
I will concede, though, that others agree with Dick - namely series creator
Himan Brown (what, him again?), who, in an NPR interview I remember from a
decade or so ago, said that he'd only recently heard Barry Craig again, and
felt it was pretty much crap.  Oh well.
(If any private-eye series approaches that appellation, I'd vote for Mr.
Keen.  Why would anybody of the slightest intelligence want to keep a goon
like Mike Clancy around? ;^) )

John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296



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