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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 229
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  Carl Kasell on NBC?                   [ charlie@[removed] ]
  11-30 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Dr Watson's Wife                      [ david rogers <david_rogers@hotmail. ]
  Re: sibilance/sibilant                [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
  The World's (Second) Oldest professi  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  ssSSSSibbilance                       [ S Jansen <ilamfan@[removed]; ]
  Groucho On Radio                      [ Richard Fish <fish@lodestone-media. ]
  RE: The Bricks                        [ James Meadows <walthamus@[removed]; ]
  OTR marathon Dec 5-6                  [ JJLjackson@[removed] ]
  Mercury Theater dedication            [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:50:25 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show" and my own "Same
Time, Same Station."  Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

THE MAN CALLED X
Episode 83    5-6-52   "The Desert Of Death"
NBC Sustained Tuesdays 10:30 - 11:00 pm
Stars: Herbert Marshall As Ken Thurston, Intelligence Agent
With: Leon Belasco As Pagan Seldchmidt
Announcer: Wendell Niles
Director: Jack Johnstone

MEET CORLISS ARCHER
Episode 1    4-6-47   "Sweetheart Of The Year Contest"
CBS Campbell Soups Sunday 9:00 - 9:30pm
Stars: Janet Waldo, Sam Edwards, Fred Archer, Irene Tedrow, Tommy
Bernard, Barbara Whiting, Arlene Becker
Writers: Carroll Carroll, F. Hugh Herbert, Jerry Adelman
Creator: F. Hugh Hurbert
Director: Bert Prager

THE CHARLIE McCARTHY SHOW
"The Chase and Sanborn Program"
Episode 146    2-18-40    Guests: Clark Gable and Vera Vague
NBC Chase and Sanborn Coffee Sundays: 8:00 - 8:30 pm
Stars: Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Donald Dixon
Music: Robert Armbruster And His Orchestra
Announcer: Ben Alexander

THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE
Episode 53   10-8-49    "The Open Window"
CBS Sustained
Stars: Gerald Mohr
Creator: Raymond Chandler
==================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

T-MAN
(CBS) 4/29/50 Directed by Norman MacDonald with Dennis O'Keefe starring
in "The Case of the Bleeding Gold"

ARCH OBOLER'S PLAYS
(NBC) 4/1/39 "Mirage" Another very unusual tale from Oboler.

AUNT JENNY'S REAL LIFE STORIES
(CBS) 6/5/46 Aunt Jenny and Dan Seymour present a daily tale and a
recipe made with SPRY.
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THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

THE HALLS OF IVY NBC
Original Air Date: 9-27-50
Title: "The Leslie Hoff Painting" Ep #31
Sponsor: Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company
Starring: Ronald Colman, Benita Hume
Announcer: Ken Carpenter

THE HALLS OF IVY NBC
Original Air Date: 4-21-50
Sponsor: Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company
Title: "Traffic & Coconuts" Ep #16
Starring: Ronald Colman, Benita Hume
Announcer: Ken Carpenter

GUNSMOKE CBS
Original Air Date: 12-18-55
Title: "Scared Kid" Ep #193
Sponsor: Ligget & Myers (L&M Cigarettes)
Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis
Announcer: George Walsh

GUNSMOKE CBS
Original Air Date: 12-25-55
Title: "Twelfth Night" Ep #194
Sponsor: Ligget & Myers (L&M Cigarettes)
Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis
Announcer: George Walsh
==================================

If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

      Jerry Haendiges

      Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
      The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
      Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net

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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:51:33 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Carl Kasell on NBC?

Folks;

   NPR staff news announcer Carl Kasell announced his semi-retirement this
week. (For those who don't know, he's been the newsreader for NPR's "Morning
Edition" since the beginning of the program some thirty years ago, and is
also the scorekeeper on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.") In an interview
by Phil Rosenthal in the Chicago Tribune is the following:

"While still a teenager in 1953, he helped launch the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill's campus radio station, WUNC, along with classmate
Charles Kuralt, who went on to distinguish himself at CBS News.

"'We were on the air four hours a night,' Kasell said. 'We did a lot of work
together. ... We turned out these half-hour plays and vignettes from American
history -- he and I both were on them -- and NBC carried them one summer. Must
have been pretty good.'"

   Anyone have any idea what program he's talking about, and whether any
survive?

          Charlie

Link to complete interview: [removed],0,[removed]

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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:51:40 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-30 births/deaths

November 30th births

11-30-1667 - Jonathan Swift - Dublin, Ireland - d. 10-19-1745
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
11-30-1873 - Frederic William Wile - La Porte, IN - d. 4-7-1941
commentator: "Political Situation in Washington"
11-30-1874 - Winston Churchill - Oxfordshire, England - d. 1-24-1965
british prime minister: War time broadcasts
11-30-1884 - Rev. Dr. Daniel A. Poling - Portland, OR - d. 2-7-1968
clergyman: "The National Youth Conference"
11-30-1885 - Charles West - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-10-1943
actor: "Dramas of Youth"
11-30-1889 - Vito Pellettieri - d. 4-14-1977
stage manager: "Grand Ole Opry"
11-30-1890 - Ramsey Hill - Georgetown, Guyana - d. 2-3-1976
actor: "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"
11-30-1894 - Donald Ogden Stewart - Columbus, OH - d. 8-2-1980
writer: "Information Please"
11-30-1900 - Geoffrey Household - Briston, England - d. 10-4-1988
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
11-30-1903 - Frank Worth - Debrezin, Hungary - d. 5-3-1990
orchestra leader: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; Those Websters"
11-30-1904 - Fred "Papa" Calhoun - d. 7-4-1987
piano: "The Musical Brownies"
11-30-1906 - John Dickson Carr - Uniontown, PA - d. 2-27-1977
writer: "Suspense"; "Cabin B-13"; "Murder by Experts"
11-30-1907 - Happy Felton - Bellevue, PA - d. 10-21-1964
actor: "Pot 'O Gold"; "Finders Keepers"; "Stop the Music"
11-30-1907 - Jack Brinkley - Oxford, NC - d. 8-8-1972
announcer, actor: "Aunt Jemima"; "Couple Next Door"
11-30-1913 - John K. M. McCaffrey - Moscow, ID - d. 10-3-1983
newscaster: "Author Meets the Critics"; "What Makes You Tick?"
11-30-1914 - Charles Hawtrey - Hounslow, Middlesex, England - d.
10-27-1988
actor, comedian: Hubert Lane "Just William"
11-30-1915 - Brownie McGhee - Knoxville, TN - d. 2-16-1996
blues guitarist, singer: "New World A' Coming"; "This Is Jazz)
11-30-1917 - William Ash - Dallas, TX
Senior script editor for the BBC radio drama department
11-30-1918 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. - NYC
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-30-1919 - Joe Cabbibo - d. 10-xx-1973
sound effects: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Tennessee Jed".
"Counterspy"
11-30-1920 - Virginia Mayo - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-17-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-30-1926 - Dick Crenna - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-18-2003
actor: Oogie Pringle, "A Date with Judy"; "Walter Denton, "Our Miss
Brooks"
11-30-1929 - Dick Clark - Mount Vernon, NY
host: "March of Dimes March of Stars"; "Tribute to Murray the K"
11-30-1931 - Teddy Wilburn - Hardy, AR - d. 11-25-2003
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Style [removed]"
11-30-1947 - David Mamet - Chicago, IL
writer: "Earplay"
11-30-1952 - Mandy Patinkin - Chicago, IL
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

November 30th deaths

01-11-1908 - Lionel Stander - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-30-1994
actor: J. Riley Farnsworth "Life of Riley"; Hoolihan "Grapevine Rancho"
01-27-1916 - Merrill Mueller - NYC - d. 11-30-1980
reporter: "NBC Stands By"; "Morning News Roundup"; "The Navy Hour"
01-28-1892 - Ernst Lubitsch - Berlin Germany - d. 11-30-1947
film director: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-10-1910 - Joyce Grenfell - London, England - d. 11-30-1979
writer, actor: "How"; "A Note with Music"; "We Beg to Differ"
02-25-1901 - Zeppo Marx - NYC  - d. 11-30-1979
comedian: (Marx Brothers) "American Review"
03-20-1890 - Gigli Beniamino - Recanti, Italy - d. 11-30-1957
operatic tenor: "Atwater Kent Hour"
04-07-1878 - Bert Swor - Paris, TN - d. 11-30-1943
comedian: "Modern Mistrels"; "Bicycle Party"
04-08-1900 - Bert "Mad Russian" Gordon - NYC - d. 11-30-1974
comedian: "Eddie Cantor Show"; Yasha "Duffy's Tavern"
04-27-1927 - Connie Kay - NYC - d. 11-30-1994
jazz drummer: "The Modern Jazz Quartet"; "Guest Star"
04-28-1900 - Val Gielgud - London England - d. 11-30-1981
writer: (Brother of John Gielgud) "The Columbia Workshop"
05-08-1899 - Arthur Q. Bryan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-30-1959
actor: George 'Doc' Gamble "Fibber McGee and Molly"
05-10-1884 - Olga Petrova - Tur Brook, England - d. 11-30-1977
actor, writer: "Mary Margaret McBride"
05-12-1901 - Harold "Scrappy" Lambert - New Brunswick, NJ - d.
11-30-1987
singer: Mark "Smith Brothers: Trade and Mark"; "Town Hall Tonight"
06-23-1894 - Laurie York Erskine - England - d. 11-30-1976
author: "Renfrew of the Mounted"; "Adventure Story"; "National
Children's Week"
07-12-1920 - Pierre Berton - Whitehorse, Canada - d. 11-30-2004
author: "Klondike"
07-29-1900 - Don Redman - Piedmont, WV - d. 11-30-1964
bandleader: "Don Redman and His Orchestra"; "Chipso Radio Program"
08-11-1915 - Jean Parker - Deer Lodge, MT - d. 11-30-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-15-1910 - Johnny Roventini - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-30-1998
commercial announcer: (Call for Phil-lip Mor-ress) "Ferde Grofe Show";
"Johnny Presents"
08-26-1896 - Phil Baker - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-30-1963
comedian, emcee: "Honolulu Bound"; "Take It or Leave It"
08-30-1903 - Jack Bundy - Milwaukee, WI - d. 11-30-1973
bandleader: "Heinie and the Grenadiers"
09-12-1901 - Sam Bittel - d. 11-30-1994
orchestra leader: WBZ-WBZA Boston-Springfield, Massachusetts
10-09-1922 - Phil Sterling - NYC - d. 11-30-1998
actor: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Hilltop House"
10-16-1854 - Oscar Wilde - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-30-1900
writer: Some of his writing adapted for radio
11-11-1906 - Victor Bell - d. 11-30-1976
newscaster: KUTA Salt Lake City, Utah
12-04-1889 - Buck Jones - Vincennes, IN - d. 11-30-1942
actor: "Hoofbeats"
12-08-1906 - Richard Llewellyn - St. David's, Wales - d. 11-30-1983
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "NBC University Theatre"
12-30-1939 - Glyn Dean - d. 11-30-1997
actor: "Jennings at School"; "Children's Hour"; "Mrs. Dale's Diary"
xx-xx-1927 - Jim Brown - d. 11-30-2004
announcer: "Give and Take"

Ron

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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:52:23 -0500
From: david rogers <david_rogers@[removed];
To: OTR OTR <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Dr Watson's Wife
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I am always afraid to ask questions here as I feel like a child asking
something that everybody knows (except me).  Anyway, here goes:

In an episode of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - I think it was "The
Amateur Mendicant Society" Dr Watson mentions that he used to be married.  So
I checked a few sites and they seemed to say that in the books the reference
to his first wife's death is a bit vague - but he basically moves back in with
Sherlock Holmes.  Then he gets re-married later on.

So my questions are:

Does the radio series follow the same plot in this regard?

And

Is The New [removed] between the first and second wife?

I am sure that everyone here knows the answers but please be gentle with my
simple questions.

 Love as always, David Rogers

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:11:44 -0500
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: sibilance/sibilant

on 11/29/09 8:57 PM, [removed]@[removed] at
[removed]@[removed] wrote:

Given the limited bandwidth of audio at the time, as well as the smooth
response of the
ribbon mics, I don't believe sibilance would have been a problem, and the
term
would not have been in common usage.

The word "sibilance" comes from "sibilant" which was probably the most
frequent description of The Shadow's venomous tones in Walter Gibson's 1930s
and 1940s SHADOW novels. So it certainly was a term used during the time
period of Radio's Golden Age. --Anthony Tollin ([removed])

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:12:43 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The World's (Second) Oldest [removed]

 From: Henry Howard _hbhoward@[removed]_
(mailto:hbhoward@[removed])

At rehearsal  today ... one fellow was doing vocal warm up exercises
and then said   sibilance several times, working on controlling his ...
would that term have  been known or used in the mid 40s?

Dunno why not, Henry. The word itself is nearly 200 years old.

And I when I was being trained (not QUITE that many years [removed]), my voice
 teacher Robert Perillo even pulled some students out for special sessions
on the  subject. Point being, most of my teachers at Stella Adler's were
Theater vets,  and I suspect this has been a Vocal issue to deal with for a
very long  time.

Given the limited bandwidth of audio at the time, as well  as the smooth
response of the ribbon mics, I don't believe sibilance would have been
a problem, and the term would not have been in common  usage.

I wonder about [removed] bad "slurpy S's" are so very pronounced, that I'll
bet they were even flagged in the Edison recording era.

Best,
-Craig Wichman

("Sister Susy, Sitting in a [removed]")

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:13:45 -0500
From: S Jansen <ilamfan@[removed];
To: "Bulletin Board, OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  ssSSSSibbilance

 Subject:  Mid 40s term question - sibilance

Given the limited bandwidth of audio at the time, as well as the smooth
response of the ribbon mics, I don't believe sibilance would have been a
problem, and the term would not have been in common usage.

One of the most common mics in the 1940's was the RCA 44A, a figure eight
ribbon microphone with a 30-15,000hZ response.  Since sibilance occurs
between 2,000-10,000hZ depending on the voice and proximity to the
microphone, it could be easily picked up by this mic.  Most other common mics
went up to 10,000hZ.  And many quality transcriptions have recorded
frequencies up to 15,000hZ.  I'm not sure about the broadcast frequencies
(other experts here know about that), although I believe much radio was not
picked up at greater than 5,000hZ.

SO - it's certainly *possible* that sibilance was to be considered, though I
tend to think that a classic-era radio producer might not be terribly
concerned about it, considering that most of it would be lost on the way to
the final listener.

I have a book "Radio English", published in 1952 which has a few pages on
sibilants (s, z, sh, zh, ch, and j)...

If your actor is doing it for the benefit of the sound guy running the board,
good - the audience will appreciate the smoother sound.  If it's part of the
1940's show, the audience might raise an eyebrow.  It sounds a bit more
"current" than "classic" to me.

Stephen Jansen

Old Time Radio never dies, it just changes formats!

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:13:56 -0500
From: Richard Fish <fish@[removed];
To: OTR List-serve <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Groucho On Radio

The [removed] webpage is a great resource, but it does not
mention Groucho's starring role in Norman Corwin's THE UNDECIDED
MOLECULE, July 17, 1945. I couldn't find it, anyhow.

This was a wonderful part, clearly written with Groucho in mind. About
2/3 of the way through the script, Groucho became the first and (as far
as I know) the ONLY person ever to ad-lib during a Corwin broadcast. It
becomes funnier as it goes, right to the very end of the credits when
just two words from Groucho completely break down Keenan Wynn into such
helpless laughter he can't even finish his line.

I asked Norman about this and he just said, "What could I do? It was
Groucho!" He did tell me that some of the lines were improvised by
Groucho in rehearsal, breaking everybody up, and were added to the
script -- but not all of them.

The website does mention the November 6, 1944 broadcast in favor of
Roosevelt's election. This was THE ROOSEVELT SPECIAL, produced and
directed by Corwin and featuring just about every star in Hollywood
anywhere to the left of Lionel Barrymore. Groucho comes on and sings.

BTW, that show also featured some "real people," including a 95-year-old
man who remembered shaking hands with Abraham Lincoln. Wow.

Richard Fish

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:14:43 -0500
From: James Meadows <walthamus@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  RE: The Bricks

Jay Hickerson wrote:

My brother, Joe, is still looking for a Fred Allen early recording, possibly
on Town Hall Tonight, when Fred tells the story "The Bricks" aka "The Sick
Note" aka "Why Paddy's not at Work Today."   It was included in a book of
Fred Allen Sketches as a letter to an insurance company dated about 1932.

   If anyone has a recording of Fred Allen performing this particular bit, I
would love to hear it. When I read the routine in "Fred Allen's Letters"
awhile back, I immediately recognized from a 1950s recording by the British
comedian, Gerard Hoffnung, addressing the Oxford Union. Hoffnung was
frequently heard on BBC radio in his day. Here in America, I've heard the
piece frequently played on "The Midnight Special" on Chicago's WFMT Radio
(also syndicated to public radio stations). When I looked up the bit on
YouTube, I found one with Dr. Demento's voice at the beginning, so I suppose
he's been broadcasting it as well on his syndicated program. Hoffnung
stretches the story out to 8 minutes, and does a brilliant job of timing it
slowly, letting the audience laugh in anticipation of each new mishap
awaiting the poor bricklayer, and topping each anticipatory laugh with each
variation on disaster.

    There is also a folk-song rendition of this story on Youtube --- done by
various singers but attributed to Pat Cooksey, who used a traditional melody
for his words. His version is called "The Sick Note" and other titles. At his
website ([removed]), Cooksey prints the lyrics, and traces them back
to an old music hall routine in the 1920s --- and a published piece in the
Reader's Digest in 1937.

    The various things I read about the song and the story call is Irish or
Scottish in origin. Perhaps Fred Allen heard the story told when he was
young. At any rate, I get the impression it's blossomed in several places.

Jim Meadows

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:15:32 -0500
From: JJLjackson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR marathon Dec 5-6
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Let the wind howl  outside, and the rain pour down. Ill just turn up the
sound on the  old-time-radio Christmas marathon. Its on Dec. 5 and 6 in the
Fred Bertelsen  Old-Time-Radio Room on Radio Out of the [removed] Twelve
hours each day from  noon Eastern to midnight. Thats 24 hours of
old-time-radio holiday shows. There  will be time to chat with each other, and
chances to
win prizes. There are 8  hosts playing their favorite Christmas shows from
the golden days of  radio.
If you havent stopped  by before, youll need to download the audio
software, so you might want to stop  by early to do that. Just click on the
Fred
Bertelsen link and follow the  instructions.
See you  there!
Joy Jackson
American Radio  Theater

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:15:42 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mercury Theater dedication

In conjunction with the opening of the film "Me and Orson Welles," the stars
of the film, along with Orson's daughter Chris Welles Feder, dedicated a
plaque at the location of the original Mercury Theater. Here's a short film
clip capturing the dedication. (Arthur Anderson is mentioned by name, though
he doesn't appear in it.)

[removed]

Ms. Feder's views about the premiere of the film (including her dislike of
the way her father is portrayed) can be found on Wellesnet:
[removed].

(Incidentally, has anybody here read Feder's new book about her father, "In
My Father's Shadow"? I'm sure, given her age, it mentions very little of his
radio career. Still, I'll probably pick up a copy, one of these days.)

Kermyt

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