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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 129
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Bob Hope memorabilia for auction      [ Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed]; ]
      Jack Duffy (1926-2008), sang with To  [ Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed]; ]
      Re: obscure old-time radio movies     [ Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed]; ]
      Let George Do It                      [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      Tonto's Chores                        [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      Lone Ranger and Tonto                 [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
      Pottowatomie/Potawatomi               [ "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser@[removed]; ]
      In The Middle Of Too Many Things      [ ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen) ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      5-21 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Bob Hope Collection                   [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Old doubletalk routine                [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:56:11 -0400
    From: Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bob Hope memorabilia for auction

    Julien's Auctions in cooperation with the Hope estate are offering a number
    of non-paper personal items for bidding.  (Most of the paper items, like
    scripts, letters and photos, have gone to the Library of Congress.)

    See this link for a short slideshow of some of the contents:
    [removed]

    See this link for a news story:
    [removed]

    Stephen D
    Calgary

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:56:33 -0400
    From: Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Duffy (1926-2008), sang with Tommy Dorsey

    Jack Duffy was a radio singer for approx. 7 years, and evolved into a comic
    support actor for another 40 years.  He started singing in his late teens
    at the CBC in Toronto in 1945, and eventually joined the Bob-o-Links vocal
    group.  They toured with Tommy Dorsey for a couple of years, and Jack sang
    solo with Tommy for a few years after that.  Jack certainly had a
    Sinatra-like physique, but I have never heard him sing.  He was brought
    back to sing with Benny Goodman during a televised big band revival series
    that the CBC put on in the 1970's.

    In 1952 he joined the Wayne and Shuster cast when they moved to TV, and he
    worked pretty steady as an actor since that time.  He's also done a lot of
    voice work for cartoons.  His last reported role was in a TV movie last
    year at age 80.

    According to CBC:
    <<<
    He became a regular on CBC variety shows, including The Barris Beat,
    Showtime and Folio. His skill as an impressionist and comic, as well as his
    singing voice, earned him his own series, Here's Duffy, which ran in
    1958-59.

    He then was recruited to [removed] variety shows and spent two years on The
    Perry Como Kraft Music Hall.

    exceprted from:
    [removed]

    Stephen D
    Calgary

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:57:39 -0400
    From: Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: obscure old-time radio movies

    Martin,
    on the Canadian TCM schedule we get even more.  We had "Seven days' leave"
    (1942) instead of "Seven men from now".  It's because TCM builds its
    schedule according to American availability, but sometimes doesn't have the
    international rights for a film.
    It was odd to hear Robert Osbourne introduce a sordid crime film but to
    watch a comedy instead, without explanation.
    "Seven days' leave" features Victor Mature (singing) and Lucille Ball, with
    Arnold Stang, Ralph Edwards, Peter Lind Hayes, Buddy Clark, Ginny Simms,
    and the Freddy Martin & Les Brown orchestras.
    And Harold Peary as Gildersleeve.
    It was fun.

    Stephen D
    Calgary

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:57:54 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Let George Do It
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    I was going to comment on the "Let Geoirge Do It" thread, but decided to
    [supply your own obvious punchline here].

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:58:18 -0400
    From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tonto's Chores

    After the recent comments here on the chores that Tonto does for the Lone
    Ranger, today's Mother Goose and Grimm comic strip is appropriate.  It shows
    TLR and Tonto on horses in the middle of the desert, and Tonto is looking
    thru binoculars at some smoke signals coming from the top of a distant hill.
    With a disgusted look on his face, Tonto states "It says 'Check your
    e-mails, dummy.'"

    Yet ANOTHER job for Tonto!

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:58:51 -0400
    From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lone Ranger and Tonto

    >From Bill Cosby's "Lone Ranger" routine:

    "And every time he (Tonto) would go to town, the
    bandits would beat the snot out of him ('nice to have
    you in town, Tonto.'). You know, just one time (I'd
    like to hear), 'Tonto, you go to town.'

    "'You go to hell, Kemosabe.'

    "'I want you to get the information.'

    "'What is information? Information say Tonto no go to
    town.'"

    And later, _Silver_ gets into the act, with his
    complaints:

    "'How much of a lead do they have this time? Eight,
    ten, thirty-five miles?'" asks Silver, who also
    complains that when the bad guy throws his empty gun
    back, it never hits the Ranger, but it does hit
    Silver.

    Rick

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:59:31 -0400
    From: "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Pottowatomie/Potawatomi

    Harry Machin, Jr. wrote:

>     I was interested to hear that Tonto was a Pattowatomie indian.  I was born
>     in Pottowatomie County, Kansas, and of course knew about the indians there.
>     Why the different spelling of the tribal name, though, I can't say.

    At [removed] and
    [removed], several mentions of the
    Potawatomi end in "i".  Also, I live in Shawnee County, near the Potawatomi
    reservation, and I frequently see car tags from the reservation.  They spell
    it with an "i". Who should know better then the people, themselves?

    The Kansas state website,
    [removed], spells it
    Pottawatomie.

    The people who named the county may have been using an alternate spelling,
    but the one they used apparently disagrees with the tribe, itself.

    Paula Keiser
    Topeka, KS

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:00:58 -0400
    From: ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen)
    To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
    Subject:  In The Middle Of Too Many Things

    I've been so BUSY lately - transferring some Polish radio dramas from reel,
    doing some OTR-styled script writing, restorations for First Generation Radio
    [removed] all of my audio posts on my OTR blog (thanks to newest
    incarnation of MediaMax, called "The Linkup"...

    I very nearly forgot to ask about some help in researching the radio program
    "Big Sister" (1936 to 1953).  I am looking for a source for Ruthrauff and
    Ryan, the advertising agency responsible for the radio program.  Does anyone
    know if there is an archive for Ruthrauff & Ryan and whether they would have
    anything for "Big Sister"?

    I'll be posting the remainder of the script pages to that 1943 episode of
    "Those We Love" soon, on my OTR blog:

    [removed]

    How many of us out there were participating in the Streamload OTR
    Share'N'Trade Board?  It WAS a fine way to get shows, but not any more, since
    Streamload turned into MediaMax turned into The Linkup.  They have lost all
    files, jumped ship to a new system that doesn't work at all, and completely
    disregarded their stranded customers (both free and paying).

    I think the name was Kinney Bauman (?) - the fellow who ran the Share And
    Trade Board.  Anyone know if there are any plans to continue the trades list
    on some other filesharing site?

    Thanks!

    Stephen Jansen

    --
    Old Time Radio never dies - it just changes formats!

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Since we're not really set up to discuss trading boards,
    please respond to the poster directly.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 02:12:02 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 08:58:45 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-21 births/deaths

    May 21st births

    05-21-1894 - Kenyon Nicholson - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 12-19-1986
    writer: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
    05-21-1901 - Fred Cole - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1964
    writer: "Double or Nothing"
    05-21-1901 - Horace Heidt - Alameda, CA - d. 12-1-1986
    bandleader: "Horace Heidt Brigadiers"; "Pot o' Gold"; "Treasure Chest"
    05-21-1904 - Robert Montgomery - Beacon, NY - d. 9-27-1981
    actor: "Doctor Fights"; "Suspense"; "This Is War"
    05-21-1904 - Thomas "Fats" Waller - NYC - d. 12-15-1943
    pianist, singer: "Columbia Variety Hour"; "Saturday Night Swing Club"
    05-21-1906 - Marie Joan Callahan - Chicago, IL - d. 8-6-1984
    assistant director, director, producer and creator
    05-21-1912 - Lucille Manners - Newark, NJ
    singer: "Cities Service Concert"
    05-21-1912 - Stephen Estaban Kelen - Budapest, Hungary - d. 5-1-2003
    writer: "Fifty Years from Farrer"
    05-21-1915 - Kathleen Cordell - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-19-1997
    actor: Marion Burton Sullivan "Second Mrs. Burton"; Monica Brewster
    "Valiant Lady"
    05-21-1916 - Dennis Day - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-22-1988
    singer, comedian: "Jack Benny Program"; "Day in the Life of Dennis Day"
    05-21-1917 - Raymond Burr - New Westminster, Canada - d. 9-12-1993
    actor: Lee Quince "Fort Laramie"; Ed Backstrand "Dragnet"
    05-21-1918 - Anthony Alfred Ambrose - New Alexandria, PA - d. 3-16-2003
    composer/singer: WHJB Greensburg, Pennsylvania
    05-21-1918 - Jeanne Bates - Berkeley, CA - d. 11-28-2007
    actor: Teddy Lawson "One Man's Family"; "Gunsmoke"
    05-21-1920 - James Plunkett - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-28-2003
    writer: "Dublin Fusilier"
    05-21-1923 - Dorothy Hewett - Perth, Western Australia - d. 8-25-2002
    writer: "Frost at Midnight"
    05-21-1923 - Rick Jason - NYC - d. 10-15-2000
    actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"

    May 21st deaths

    01-04-1907 - Floyd Christy - NYC - d. 5-21-1962
    writer: "The Johnson Family"
    01-14-1929 - Billy Walker - Ralls, TX - d. 5-21-2006
    c/w singer: "Columbia's Country Caravan", "Country Music Time"
    03-04-1913 - John Garfield - NYC - d. 5-21-1952
    actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Free Company"; "Treasury
    Star Parade"
    03-22-1892 - Charlie Poole - Randolph County, NC - d. 5-21-1931
    country music: "Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers"
    03-24-1928 - Vanessa Brown - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-21-1999
    panelist: "Quiz Kids"
    03-29-1888 - Earle Ross - Illinois - d. 5-21-1961
    actor: Judge Horace Hooker "Great Gildersleeve"; J. R. Boone, Sr.
    "Meet Millie"
    04-14-1904 - John Gielgud - London, England - d. 5-21-2000
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    05-30-1911 - Douglas Fowley - NYC - d. 5-21-1998
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    06-04-1906 - Vinton Haworth (Hayworth) - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-21-1970
    actor: Fred Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Michael Shayne "Michael Shayne"
    08-14-1914 - Andrea Leeds - Butte, MT - d. 5-21-1984
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    09-04-1925 - Howard Morris - NYC - d. 5-21-2005
    comedian: "Those Good Old Days"
    09-09-1905 - Ulric Cole - NYC - d. 5-21-1992
    composer, conductor: "NBC String Symphony"
    10-06-1907 - Owen Davis, Jr. - NYC - d. 5-21-1949
    actor: Allen McCrea "Those We Love"
    10-07-1911 - Vaughn Monroe - Akron, OH - d. 5-21-1973
    singer, bandleader: "Penthouse Party"; "Vaughn Monroe Show"
    10-21-1908 - Tommy Riggs - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 5-21-1967
    comedian: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Quaker Party with Tommy Riggs"; "Tommy
    Riggs and Betty Lou"
    11-02-1897 - Dennis King - Coventry, England - d. 5-21-1971
    announcer: "When a Girl Marries"
    12-23-1922 - Jack Lloyd - Duisburg, Germany - d. 5-21-1976
    actor: "Armstrong Theatre of Today"; "The Joan Davis Show"
    12-24-1928 - Norman Rossington - Liverpool, England - d. 5-21-1999
    comic actor: "Big Jim and the Figaro Club"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:31:23 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Bob Hope Collection

    An AP release today announces the upcoming charity auction of 800
    items from the Bob Hope collection of over 11,000 pieces of show-biz
    nostalgia. Representatives of his estate have scheduled the auction
    for mid-October 2008. His daughter, Linda, 68, said that her father,
    who died at the age of 100 in 2003, was a universal "pack-rat." Wife
    Dolores, age 98, confirmed her daughter's assessment.

    Among the items offered are the Stetson that Hope wore in "Son of
    Paleface," a money clip from Jack Benny, Hope's parking sign at NBC
    Burbank, a golf cap signed by President Ford, and a letter from Bette
    Davis in WW II thanking him for entertaining the GI's.

    Julien's Auctions, who specializes in celebrity auctions, will be
    sending hundreds of these items for pre-viewing on the Queen Mary on
    its September trip to England, Hope's birthplace, so that prospective
    bidders can get an advance look. Any Digesters booking passage on the
    Queen Mary can look forward to enjoying this Bob Hope exhibit.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:31:51 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Old doubletalk routine

    We get many strange inquiries at the  MWOTRC web site, some only
    distantly related to radio. Yesterday we got a question from a
    gentleman regarding what he recalled as a double-talk routine he
    heard on the radio in the 1930s. Since he cannot remember the
    participants or the program, his chances of getting more info on this
    are bleak.

    He claims the routine was about 4-5 minutes long and involved a hotel
    guest calling the front desk about a mix-up with his bags. The first
    line of the bit is something like: "It's darn seldom what happens to
    my luggage around here."

    I'm guessing this is an old vaudeville routine, not necessarily part
    of a radio comedy sketch. Does it ring a bell with any Digesters?

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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