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Date: 1/29/2006 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 31
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      1-29 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Superman question                 [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
      Superman and Jimmy Olson              [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      Pre-Computer Shouting                 [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      Caps are hard to [removed]              [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      H. G. Wells on "The Ghosts Walk" (no  [ "Michael Ogden" <michaelo67@hotmail ]
      Stuart's product inquiries            [ "Cynthia Heimsoth" <chibibarako@hot ]

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    Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:07:40 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-29 births/deaths

    January 29th births

    01-29-1874 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-11-1960
    rich person: "The Collier Hour"
    01-29-1874 - Owen Davis - Portland, ME - d. 10-14-1956
    writer: "The Gibson Family"; "Pulitzer Prize Plays"
    01-29-1880 - W. C. Fields - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-25-1946
    comedian: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-29-1885 - Leadbelly (Huddie Leadbetter) - Louisiana - d. 12-6-1949
    jazz musician: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin street"
    01-29-1902 - Florence Rinard - d. 10-18-1984
    panelist: "Twenty Questions"
    01-29-1911 - Bryan Coleman - London, England
    actor: John H. Watson "BBC Light Programme"
    01-29-1913 - Daniel Taradash - Louisville, KY - d. 1-22-2003
    film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    01-29-1913 - Joe Parker - Venice, CA - d. 4-28-1970
    director: "Sara's Private Caper"
    01-29-1915 - Victor Mature - Louisville, KY - d. 8-4-1999
    actor: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"
    01-29-1917 - John Raitt - Santa Ana, CA - d. 2-20-2005
    actor, singer: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    01-29-1917 - Lloyd Perryman - Ruth, AR - d. 5-31-1977
    singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
    01-29-1918 - John Forsythe - Penns Grove, NJ
    actor: "NBC Star Playhouse"; "Best Plays"
    01-29-1923 - Martin Ragaway - d. 4-20-1989
    writer: "The Abbot and Costello Show"; "The Milton Berle Show"
    01-29-1923 - Paddy Chayefsky - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-1-1981
    writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    01-29-1942 - Robin Morgan - Lake Worth, FL
    actress, Former president of National Organization for Women:
    "Cavalcade of America"
    01-29-1943 - Tony Blackburn - Guildford, England
    disc jockey: "Midday Spin"; "Junior Choice"

    January 29th deaths

    01-14-1914 - Harold Russell - North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada - d.
    1-29-2002
    world war II hero, actor: "A Salute to the [removed]"; "NBC University
    Theatre"
    01-22-1899 - Anne Elstner - Lake Charles, LA - d. 1-29-1981
    actress: Stella Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Mary Weston "Wilderness Road"
    02-02-1875 - Fritz Kreisler - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-29-1962
    violinist, composer: "Telephone Hour"; "Concert Hall"; "Gospel In Song"
    02-10-1893 - Jimmy Durante - New York, NY - d. 1-29-1980
    comedian: (Da Schnozz) Claudius 'Brainy' Bowers "Jumbo Fire Chief
    Program"
    02-22-1925 - Stratford Johns - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - d.
    1-29-2002
    actor: Pennington "Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile"
    03-12-1916 - Mandel Kramer - Cleveland, OH - d. 1-29-1989
    actor: Johnny Dollar "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    04-11-1912 - John Larkin - Oakland, CA - d. 1-29-1965
    actor: Perry Mason "Perry Mason"; "Dimension X; " Ford Theatre"
    04-12-1904 - Frankie Masters - Saint Marys, WV - d. 1-29-1991
    music: "Edgar A. Guest"
    07-02-1892 - Jack Hylton - Great Lever, England - d. 1-29-1965
    bandmaster: CBS 1935-1936 Sundays at 10:30 PM Standard Oil
    07-09-1915- Joan Tompkins - d. 1-29-2005
    actress: Nora Drake "This Is Nora Drake"; Siri Allen "Against the Storm"
    07-31-1908 - [removed] "Bill" Shadel - Milton, WI - d. 1-29-2005
    newscaster: Reported the D-Day landings for CBS
    09-03-1913 - Alan Ladd - Hot Springs, AR - d. 1-29-1964
    actor: Dan Holliday "Box 13"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We Hail"
    09-09-1930 - Martha Steinberg - d. 1-29-2000
    detroit radio: WQBH-AM
    10-27-1911 - Leif Erickson - Alameda, CA - d. 1-29-1986
    actor: Richard Rhinelander III "My Friend Irma"
    xx-xx-1885 - William Steinke - Slatinton, PA - d. 1-29-1958
    host: "Jolly Bill and Jane"; "No School Today"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:08:50 -0500
    From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Superman question

    Bill Scherer wrote:

>     In the beginning of the series, maybe the second
>     episode, Jimmy and his Dad are saved by Superman.
>     They help give him ideas as to how he can hide his
>     real identity and watch man at work and at play.
>     (SNIPPED) In later episodes, Jimmy doesn't seem to
>     know who Superman really is. What happened?

    Simple, the boy in question _wasn't_ Jimmy Olsen. For
    one thing, the character of Jimmy Olsen hadn't yet
    been created. The episode you describe aired Feb. 14,
    1940; Jimmy Olsen first appears on April 15, 1940 (and
    in the comics in 1941).

    Second, this boy, while named Jimmy, was the son of a
    professor. Jimmy Olsen is not. So, the boy who
    suggested "Clark Kent" as an alias in the second radio
    episode of _The Adventures of Superman_ was just some
    random kid named Jimmy, never to be seen again.

    Rick

    [removed] it's somewhat curious that the radio show would
    eschew the origin given in the comics, by having a
    fully grown Superman emerge from his ship -in costume-
    and take his name not from the couple that raised him,
    but from the suggestion of the first people he'd met
    on Earth.

    It's also curious- and amusing- that in the first
    episode, Jor-El describes the Earth as a planet, "on
    the other side of the sun." That's, [removed]
    interesting. "Other side of the sun" you say? As in
    Krypton is on the exact same orbital plane as Earth,
    but 180 degrees away (if we assume a 360 degree
    circular orbit to make the math simple)? That's the
    only way Krypton could be said to be on the "other
    side of the sun", though I have a feeling the
    writer(s) might have meant to say the other side of
    the _galaxy_.

    By the way, for those versed in astronomy and physics,
    if two planets were on the same orbital plane, but 180
    degrees away, how, if at all, would people on either
    planet know the other was there?

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    Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:09:34 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Superman and Jimmy Olson

>     Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:18:05 -0500
>     From: "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed];

>     I'm assuming the writers just decided to ignore the beginning plot
>     line after the series was really up and running. Would I be
>     correct? Thanks. Bill

    Since that has been done repeatedly in the comic-book continuity and
    on may television shows, I'd say that's a good bet.

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

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    Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:02:01 -0500
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Pre-Computer Shouting

    Candy Jens, in the Rochester dialogue in the Jack Benny radio scripts,
    notes,

>     Can you imagine the work for the typists, compared to
>     doing it on a computer?

    Actually, all the typewriters I worked with while growing up had a "caps
    lock" key on them, just like computer keyboards.  In the case of
    typewriters, though, it was a mechanical setup.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:02:15 -0500
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

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    Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:22:20 -0500
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Caps are hard to [removed]

    Yes, solid caps are very difficult to read.  Whenever I see someone on the
    internet using block caps, I write telling them that as a vision limited
    person, I find it very hard to read solid caps.  Having worked at the SD
    School for the Blind, I learned something about legible, readable printing.
    Another problem is using colored paper to print on.  One year our local
    church issued a Lenten lesson guide on purple paper, printed with purple
    print.  Very hard to read.

    Ted Kneebone.  OTR website:  [removed]
    Democrats: [removed]
    1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401 / Phone: 605-226-3344

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    Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:47:18 -0500
    From: "Michael Ogden" <michaelo67@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  H. G. Wells on "The Ghosts Walk" (not)

    R. R. wrote concerning early dramatizations of H. G. Wells:

>     As far as radio dramas of Wells' fiction, I didn't find much. The February
>     23, 1936 Washington Post >has a couple of paragraphs about that day's
>     premiere of a 15 minute CBS series called "The Ghosts >Walk" for which "the
>     world's greatest ghost stories will be dramatized." The first episode is

> >     Kipling's "The Phantom Rickshaw" and Wells is mentioned in a list of the

>     authors "whose fiction will >be drawn upon."

    The WABC-originating series that was publicized in the Post on February 23
    didn't actually premiere until the following Sunday, March 1. And by the
    middle of March the name of the series had been changed from THE GHOSTS WALK
    to TERROR BY NIGHT because of a dispute with two other New York stations
    over the legal right to use the name THE GHOST WALKS (or derivatives
    thereof).

    Despite the announcement of authors whose works would be adapted for the
    series, not all of them were. Dickens was represented with "The Signal Man"
    and Poe with "The Tell-Tale Heart," but there were no adaptations of H. G.
    Wells, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy or Guy de Maupassant. William Seabrook
    was also listed, and I've always assumed that the Haitian zombie story "The
    Restless Dead" was loosely lifted from his book THE MAGIC ISLAND, but he is
    not credited in the original script as the source for the tale.

    Mike Ogden

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    Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:59:37 -0500
    From: "Cynthia Heimsoth" <chibibarako@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Stuart's product inquiries

    Stuart wrote:

>     And, while we are at it, has anyone mentioned Four-Way Cold Tablets?  It
>     fought colds "four >ways".  In Los Angeles, we had a bread, I think it was
>     Wonder Bread.  It at first built "bodies eight
>     ways."  As if that were not enough, it later went on to build "bodies
>     twelve ways".

    Four-Way Cold Tablets existed in my 1970's childhood in Chicago, but I think
    the pills got phased out in favor of a nasal spray.  In any case, the name
    still exists, but I have no idea if it's still owned by Bristol-Myers (now
    Bristol-Myers-Squibb).

    Wonder Bread definitely still exists; if memory serves, the eight -- or
    twelve -- ways it built strong bodies had to do with what vitamins were
    added.
    [removed]

    Cynthia "ChibiBarako"

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