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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 131


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Corwin Available for Interviews
	 realaudio question / Ed Walker
	 Music radio and advertising
	 Mae West
	 Yukon Gold
	 X minus 1
	 Magic Answer Box
	 Re: Mae West
	 Edison Disc Players
	 Who owns that Masked Man?
	 Mae West
	 Mercedes McCambridge
	 Questions

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:03:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Daniel A. Gediman" <danged@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: otr@[removed]
Subject: Corwin Available for Interviews
Message-ID: <[removed]@iglou>

Please direct anyone interested in interviewing Mr. Corwin to me at the
phone number below. I will be happy to make the arrangements with Mr.
Corwin.

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* Dan Gediman, Milestone Productions           *
* [removed] Box 4962 Louisville, KY 40204           *
* [removed] (voice) [removed] (fax)      *
* danged@[removed] (email)                      *
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 96 07:54:22 EDT
From: filfeit@[removed] (Fil Feit)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: realaudio question / Ed Walker
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi all,

I've been using realaudio for YUSA lately, and I notice that I get
a lost packet rate of 5% or so.  Is this normal/typical?  I'd like
to know if I should get on my provider's case or not.

Other topic: Ed Walker, one of radio's "Joy Boys" (with Williard 
Scott), and host of three hours of OTR in Washington, DC, had a
mild heart attack a couple of weeks ago.  After some rest and an
angioplasty, he's back on the air and sounding fine.

--f2

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 07:57:38 -0400
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Music radio and advertising
Message-ID: <960410075738_372642509@mail06>

Teri Cooper is doing a senior college project on music radio with a focus on
selling and advertising.  She is at Central Washington University in
Ellensburg, Washington.  If you can help, her e-mail address is
COOPERT@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 08:36:07 -0400
From: c holm <cbholm@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Mae West
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Andy Lanset>
>>
I am trying to locate a copy of a program I believe was sponsored by Chase
and Sanborn.  It involved Mae West and is sometimes referred to as the "Adam
and Eve Show"  It was aired December 12, 1937.  Any help would be most
appreciated.  Thanks. Andy Lanset (alanset@[removed])
>>
That program was the Edger Bergen and Charlie McCarthy program , sponsored
by Chase and Sandborn coffee.  Mae West played Eve to Don Ameche's Adam, and
the performance got her banned from radio.  ANY OTR catalog should have that
episode, along with most collectors.

chris

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 09:20:52 -0500 (EST)
From: SAH@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Yukon Gold
Message-id: <01I3DDQF0SNC8X4WGG@[removed]>

   Everytime somebody reminds me that I could have retired long ago to
   the Amalfi coast on my box of toys and baseball cards I take a bromo.
   Now, I am reminded that I can't even retire in the Yukon because my
   gold field deeds were in the same toy box.  

   If anybody out there is finished panning one of their square inches
   and would like to make a deal please let me know.  I'll be right
   here and not on the Amalfi coast.


   Steven Hiss

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 07:21:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steven Wood <[removed]@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: X minus 1
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I am looking for more information about the radio drama X minus 1. I know
that it was a spin-off of another show, but what else brought it about. 

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Date: 10 Apr 96  9:52:22
From: Dick_Bertel@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Magic Answer Box
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Does anyone remember a late 1930¹s Jack Armstrong premium called the Magic Answer Box?  As I recall it was orange in color, about one inch by two inches in size and actually had a dial with a needle.
By pressing some sort of carbon strip on the side as you asked the box a question the needle would point to an answer such as ªyesª, ªnoª, ªmaybeª etc.  It seems to me they enclosed an extra strip to replace the factory-installed strip when it wore out.
I do recall receiving the box in the mail when I was confined to bed with the chicken pox or whatever, and getting a lot of pleasure out of it for the next couple of weeks.
By the way, I also sent away for the Jack Armstrong Sound Effects kit at about the same time.  It included a script, a rubber balloon which, when filled with rice, simulated thunder, two pieces of sandpaper to create the chugging sound of a steam engine and a paper model of a microphone, which, when properly folded and set on the end of a broomstick handle, resembled an RCA 44-BX ribbon microphone.  
This latter premium so impressed me (how innocent and naive we were then) that I made broadcasting my career.  By the way, I have no regrets about that decision.
Dick Bertel

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 10:06:49 -0400
From: Michael Carraher <carraher@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Mae West
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

The Chase and Sanborn Hour was aka The Charlie McCarthy Show aka The 
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show.  This program featured [removed] 
Fields and Don Ameche.  The program is listed in the current Radio 
Spirits catalog.

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Date: 10 Apr 96 10:09:41 EDT
From: "Robert I. Scherago" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Edison Disc Players
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

This is off the OTR track, but there's been some discussion about Edison disc
phonographs, and I'd like to comment.

Bob Jennings wrote about the 1-inch thick discs - actually they were 1/4-inch -
and how they were primarily classics and 1890's music.

Edison was, to put it delicately, cheap! He did not like to pay royalties. For
example, Victor patented the adjustable louvers in front of the horn to adjust
volume; he invented a felt ball (called a modulator) to be pushed into or out of
the horn via a cable. His artists were not even credited on most record labels;
(you'd see "Washington Post March" by the Military Band or a Stephen Foster tune
by Whistler and chorus, yodeler, or tenor with piano.) He believed that the
technology was more important than the performance. He was among the first
proponents of "the medium is the message! [sic]."

I own an Edison Diamond Disc player, the Chippendale model, ca 1918. I own
approximately 80 of the discs, and have probably listened to only half of them.
They're terrible, musically, but interesting, historically. I seldom play the
thing, except for visitors who ask to hear it, but love it as a piece of
furniture and conversation piece. They were made until the late '20's, even
though other companies were starting to manufacture electrical phonographs ---
with radios in them ---  see the tie-in to OTR?

Bob Scherago

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 12:45:02 -0600
From: bigsteve@[removed] (Steve Darnall)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Who owns that Masked Man?
Message-Id: <v01530500ad91b0496ed4@[[removed]]>

In OTR Digest #130, Michael Carraher asked:
>I understand the Wrather Corp sold the rights to the Lone Ranger.  Who
>owns the >character now?

Last time I heard, the Lone Ranger had become the property of Broadway
Video, the company owned by "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels.
There's even been talk of another Lone Ranger movie, though no word on the
rumor that it will star Chris Farley and David Spade.

Steve Darnall

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 96 12:58
From: "bill harris" <billhar@[removed]>
To: "otr digest" <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Mae West
Message-Id: <m0u75HL-000Y9VC@[removed]>

>I am trying to locate a copy of a program I believe was sponsored by Chase
>and Sanborn.  It involved Mae West and is sometimes referred to as the "Adam
>and Eve Show"  It was aired December 12, 1937.  Any help would be most
>appreciated.  Thanks. Andy Lanset (alanset@[removed])

That was the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy show. Over 1,000 letters
protesting the content of the skit came in to the network, including a 
letter from the FCC wanting an electrical transcription of the show,
a copy of the contact with the sponser, and the call letters of all stations
that carried the show. As a result the network got a slap on the wrist and
the network placed a ban against Mae West.


Bill Harris

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 11:22 PST
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Mercedes McCambridge
Message-Id: <m0tzpwB-0004ejC@[removed]>

, (appropriately enough,) was Mercedes McCambridge's 78th
birthday.  I think my favorite of all her radio roles were the many she
played in the ILAM mysteries.  That tremulous voice was especially good at
communicating sheer terror.  Of course, she was all over the radio dial for
decades, and went on to TV and movies.

Does anyone know anything about her state of health?  I understand at one
period in her life she had a pretty serious bout with alcoholism.

Barbara Kliene

Barbara, the first part of your message was missing, and I am very
interested in it.

Mercy was the star of a show on Mutual Network called Defense Attorney, and
my late husband Howard Culver played opposite her as an attorney and her boy
friend, the show being directed by Ted Robertson.

We loved her dearly, and she was quite a character - had many quirks and was
good at cutting people down to size!  She was a star then, and always. 

Yes, she did have a bad bout with alcoholism.  I have lost track of her, and
her address of years ago is no longer good, as she sold the house when she
relocated for a time to the east.  As I was thinking about her the other
night, I, too, would like to know where she is and where she could be contacted.

Lois Culver
lois@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:46:48 -0400
From: ERICKZIN@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Questions
Message-ID: <960410194647_188660332@[removed]>

Are there any radio shows that used as a theme the Civil War or Wine? 

What is the story behind Arch Oboler?

Thanks

Carl

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