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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 302
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: FOTR                              [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
  "Everything old is (?) new [removed]"  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  lost episodes                         [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  10-24 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:07:46 -0400
From: StevenL751@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: FOTR

In a message dated 10/22/2007 10:19:51 [removed] Eastern Daylight Time,  
[removed]@[removed] writes:

I caught a few minutes of "Reunion," a recreation of a lost episode  of
LIGHTS OUT by the Gotham Radio Players but I seem to recall having  heard a
performance of a recreation by the same troupe years before, so  I knew how
the story ended and didn't stay for all of it, but can  someone correct me if
I am wrong?  I didn't know if I was suffering  from psychic deja vu or if I
am correct about them doing this same  script again.

Martin has a good memory.  We did do a production of  this same lost script 
10 years ago as a live broadcast on WBAI.  But this  is the first time we've 
performed it since then, and the first time "Reunion"  has been seen at FOTR.

Steve Lewis
director, Gotham Radio  Players
 

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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:53:35 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Everything old is (?) new [removed]"

From: "Martin Grams, Jr." _mmargrajr@[removed]_

The 32nd  Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention was great this year,  as
always.

It was indeed. I know it is somewhat bittersweet, but while the  winnowing
ranks of real Network-Era Vets are an obvious loss, there seem to  be gains in
the overall richness otherwise of the weekend (at least in this  man's 10-15
year history.)

Ken Stockinger's presentation with Gil Stratton Jr. was great, and  Ken
helped keep it running smoothly from beginning to end.

The guy's a heavy hitter (keep him in the starting lineup, Coaches.)

Small request ... rather than have recreations of OTR shows I've heard
before, why not "lost" radio shows like the Gotham Players do?

A solid point. As Gary Yoggy mentioned, his MY FREIND IRMA was likely such  a
script.

I would expand your concept just a bit, and say that un- or rarely- done
SERIES are a good bet (I was a little surprised to find A DATE WITH JUDY on
the
bill again, as there'd been a fine one just two seasons back.)

Along the lines of rare, I'd support stuff like Arthur  Anderson's MERCURY
CAESAR last year (thanks for the kind words about same  this weekend, Mr. &
Mrs.
Dougherty.). Though legendary in radio history, the  Merc is rarely touched -
beyond ad nauseum WARS OF THE WORLDS! - and by all  accounts, it was The
Bard's radio con debut!
(That kid's got a [removed])

Here's to another successful FOTR next year!

God willin' an' the creek don' [removed]

-Craig W.

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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:41:21 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: oldtimeradio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  lost episodes
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Martin Grams posted:

rather than have recreations of OTR shows I've heard before, why not
"lost" radio shows like the Gotham Players do?

That's exactly what the Dave Warren Players did this year. We produced a
lost episode of MY FRIEND IRMA. The title on the script was "New Boy Friends",
from December 19, 1949. Irma's boyfriend Al was in Texas so her boss Mr. Clyde
fixed her up with his wife's nephew, Robert, a lighthouse keeper, and Jane was
no longer seeing Richard Rhinelander but dating Ned, a Broadway hepcat. The
regulars, Professor Kropotkin and Mrs. O'Reilly were in the cast.

Thanks for all the great compliments the cast received from the audience!

Barbara

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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:15:49 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-24 births/deaths

October 24th births

10-24-1879 - Benjamin Albert "[removed]" Rolfe - Brasher Falls, NY - d.
4-23-1956
conductor: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Believe It or Not"
10-24-1891 - Nila Mack - Arkansas City, KS - d. 1-20-1953
director: "Helen and Mary"; "Let's Pretend"
10-24-1894 - Ted "Kid" Lewis - London, England - d. 8-25-1971
bandleader: "Live Band Remotes"
10-24-1901 - Gilda Gray - Cracow, Poland - d. 12-22-1959
ziegfeld follies singer/dancer: WOO Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10-24-1903 - Melvin Purvis - Timmonsville, SC - d. 2-29-1960
fbi agent, narrator: "Top Secrets of the FBI"
10-24-1904 - Moss Hart - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-20-1961
panelist: "Who Said That?"
10-24-1904 - Radie Harris - NYC - d. 2-22-2001
gossip columnist: CBS Radio Network
10-24-1911 - Sonny Terry - Greensboro, NC - d. 3-11-1986
blues singer, harmonica player: "Hootenanny"; "Roomful of Music"
10-24-1916 - Ray Singer - NYC - d. 11-16-1992
writer: "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Charlotte
Greenwood Show"
10-24-1925 - Teri Keane - NYC
actor: Hope Evans "Big Sister"; Terry Burton "Second Mrs. Burton"
10-24-1930 - J. P. "Big Bopper" Richardson - Sabine Pass, TX - d.
2-3-1959
Early Rock and Roll disc jockey
10-24-1936 - David Nelson - NYC
actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"

October 24th deaths

01-31-1919 - Jackie Robinson - Cairo, GA - d. 10-24-1972
sportscaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) "Jackie Robinson Show"
02-27-1888 - Lotte Lehmann - Perleberg, Prussia, Germany - d. 10-24-1976
soprano: "Command Performance"; "Concert Hall"; "Here's to Veterans"
03-28-1888 - Jim Harkins - d. 10-24-1970
emcee: "Song Writing Machine Series"
04-03-1921 - Leonard Sues - El Paso, TX - d. 10-24-1971
music: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
04-30-1870 - Franz Lehar - Romorn, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-24-1948
operetta composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Showtime"
08-06-1933 - Beverly Wills - California - d. 10-24-1963
actor: (Daughter of Joan Davis) Fluffy Adams "Junior Miss"
08-19-1921 - Gene Roddenberry - El Paso, TX - d. 10-24-1991
writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
09-07-1927 - Don Messick - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-24-1997
actor: "Let George Do It"; "Horizons West"; "NBC University Theatre"
10-28-1897 - Edith Head - San Bernardino, CA - d. 10-24-1981
costume designer: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-02-1896 - Walter Woolf King - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-24-1984
emcee, host, actor: :Beatrice Lillie Show"; "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
xx-xx-1865 - Hal Brown - d. 10-24-1942
harmonica: "Just Plain Bill"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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