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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 116
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Nightbeat with Frank Lovejoy          [ Dan <teac35@[removed]; ]
      Re: Kurt Vonnegut                     [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      Kurt Vonnegut                         [ "John Weber" <wjweber@[removed] ]
      Cisco and Robin                       [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
      Kurt Vonnegut                         [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
      Vic and Sade Sep 29,1944              [ "Jay Manarky" <jayman@[removed]; ]
      4-14 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      O Henry                               [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]
      Mutual_Broadcasting_System            [ herbop@[removed] ]
      The Cisco Kid on Project Gutenberg    [ "Nancy's Overland Stage Lines (Nanc ]
      Addendum to post about Cisco Kid      [ "Nancy's Overland Stage Lines (Nanc ]
      This week in radio history 15-21 Apr  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:44:48 -0400
    From: Dan <teac35@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Nightbeat with Frank Lovejoy

    I obtained my copies from [removed]

     here is the link:

    [removed]

    your download options are:
    1) single files

    2) FTP

    3) http

    Dan

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    Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:11:57 -0400
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:  Kurt Vonnegut

    Me?

    Oblique?

    Did Kermyt Anderson say I was "oblique"?

    I'm always rather a chipper [removed]

    ;-)

    I had left the [removed]  Here's the Vonnegut remembrance I wrote, moments
    upon finding out, he had [removed]
    _ __________

    "Between Acts With Vonnegut"

    I'm pretty sure we had been in a few of the same places, over the years.

    But the only time we met, was almost exactly two years ago, over at
    Manhattan's York Theatre, for their concert presentation of his GOD
    BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER.

    At intermission, I made my normal bee-line, for the exits, looking to
    catch my smoke.

    The elevator was completely down, which didn't particularly affect me,
    as I'll normally do that Bataan death march of stairs, a few flights up,
    through the veins of the church.

    But I was more than surprised to find the eighty-something Vonnegut
    already on the stairs, ahead of me.

    (I couldn't help but reflect on the theatres' inherent cruelty, to our
    seniors.)

    ;-)

    Those of us who are addicted to tobacco will not only walk a mile, but
    do it uphill, and I think Vonnegut and I both found it odd to be outside
    St. Peter's, two guys so seperated by decades, smoking the same
    filter-less brand.

    We chatted on the sources of addiction, and how it might well be
    tobacco, in tandem with other chemicals, that affect some folks, and not
    [removed] And how so much of everything, might just be based on
    genetics.

    He also told me something I had forgotten, how during World War II, a
    soldier's mess kit, his K-rations, rather, also included some smokes.

    We also chatted a bit, I think, on how some people have taken their
    stance against smoking as a license to [removed]

    But the overwhelming effect, the presence of the man, was one of
    gentleness.

    As we spoke of other things, within the strange camraderie of those
    whose addiction has driven them to the streets, I knew that he was also
    delighted that at that very special night in the theatre, he was able to
    share it with his daughter.

    If the aliens' ever do land, or some future sociologist--terrestrial, or
    otherwise--tries to make sense of what was once the twentieh century,
    he'll find Vonnegut a particularly humanistic purveyor of the future,
    and worlds that a sidewise slip in time might still find a-borning.

    Jim Burns  (James H. Burns)

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    Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:11:54 -0400
    From: "John Weber" <wjweber@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Kurt Vonnegut

    In response to Kermyt Anderson's question, there is at least one more case
    of Vonnegut in NTR, if not OTR.  Yuri Rasovsky, audio dramatist
    extrordinaire, produced a version for his excellent 2000X series for NPR.
    [removed]  Unfortunately, with the impending closing of
    the Lodestone Catalog, I am out of stock, and it is currently only available
    at [removed] for downloads.

    -- John Weber [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:25:58 -0400
    From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cisco and Robin

    Jack French, in his "Cisco is no Robin Hood" post,
    wrote

    "So obviously the original Cisco was a heartless
    murderer, ruthless and extremely cunning, who robbed
    only for his own gain and killed anyone who opposed
    him."

    There are also early depictions of Robin Hood that
    portray him as being more than a bit ruthless. The
    whole idea that Robin Hood was a champion of the
    people who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor
    is a relatively recent development, dating back just a
    few hundred years.

    The Robin Hood tales themselves go back to the 1300s.

    So, in a way, Cisco is like Robin in that both
    characters underwent changes. Only in Cisco's case, it
    happened over a shorter period of time.

    Rick

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    Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:29:59 -0400
    From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Kurt Vonnegut

    Kermyt Anderson asks if there is any other Vonnegut connection to OTR
    besides the Dimension X "Report on the Barnhouse Effect".

    Well, I can think of a tangential one.  KV wrote the introduction to the
    first Bob and Ray book, WRITE IF YOU GET WORK, in 1975.  In it he revealed
    that he had once interviewed to be a writer for B & R, but didn't get the
    job.  As a result of reading this I wasn't in the least surprised when that
    guy (whose name escapes me now) came forward a few years ago and revealed he
    had been a writer for B & R.  I had always assumed that since B & R didn't
    hire Vonnegut they probably hired someone else.

    So it goes.

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    Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:31:16 -0400
    From: "Jay Manarky" <jayman@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Vic and Sade Sep 29,1944

          In the final show (original format) of Vic and Sade on Sep 29, 1944,
    Uncle Fletcher recites part of a poem:  "The plums and peaches dangle from
    the bough, the workman stops to wipe his sweating [removed]" He continues
    along to recite another 6 lines or so, but never finishes. the poem.

          I'm wondering if the poem is a Paul Rhymer original or if it  was
    written by someone else?   What I've heard of it is haunting and very
    introspective. I'd love to know the rest of it.

          That final broadcast is sheer genius.   I can not suppose that anyone
    but Paul Rhymer would have written a "goodbye show" written as this show was
    written.
          I
          The performance

          Can anyone help me?

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    Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:31:24 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-14 births/deaths

    April 14th births

    04-14-1898 - Lee Tracy - Atlanta, GA - d. 10-18-1968
    actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Detective"
    04-14-1903 - Lloyd Amoo - d. 7-xx-1973
    newscaster: KRMC Jamestown, North Dakota
    04-14-1904 - John Gielgud - London, England - d. 5-21-2000
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    04-14-1905 - Bob Stanton - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-xx-1977
    nbc staff announcer: "Bob Stanton Sports"
    04-14-1913 - John Howard - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-19-1995
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    04-14-1914 - Arnold Perl - d. 12-11-1971
    writer: "The Big Story"; "I Fly Anything"; "The Amazing Mr. Tutt"
    04-14-1914 - John Hubbard - East Chicago, IN - d. 11-6-1988
    actor: Willie Faye "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"
    04-14-1915 - Richard Hart - Providence, RI - d. 1-2-1951
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    04-14-1916 - Emerson Buckley - NYC - d. 11-17-1989
    conductor: "Two Thousand Plus"; "Murder By Experts"
    04-14-1917 - Valerie Hobson - Larne, Ireland - d. 11-13-1998
    actor: Guest Contestant "One Minute Please"
    04-14-1918 - Mary Healy - New Orleans, LA
    actor: Jack Benny Program"; "Texaco Town"; "Ford Show"; "Lum and Abner"
    04-14-1919 - Dennis Ballant - d. 5-xx-1970
    disk jockey: WJAG Norfolk, Virginia
    04-14-1926 - Gloria Jean - Buffalo, NY
    singer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    04-14-1940 - Patsy Bruder - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    April 14th deaths

    02-16-1917 - George Neise - Chicago, IL - d. 4-14-1996
    actor: "The Judy Canova Show"; "The Man Called X"
    03-22-1924 - Bill Wendell - NYC - d. 4-14-1999
    announcer: "Ten Troubled Years"; "Biography In Sound"
    04-12-1921 - Peter R. Brooke - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-14-1999
    writer: "Secret Mission"
    04-13-1887 - Christian Rub - Austria - d. 4-14-1956
    actor: (Voice of Pinnochio) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-12-1907 - Leslie Charteris - Singapore - d. 4-14-1993
    mystery writer: "The Adventures of the Saint"
    06-03-1911 - Ellen Corby - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1999
    actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    06-14-1909 - Burl Ives - Hunt Township, IL - d. 4-14-1995
    singer: "Columbia County Journal"; "Radio Reader's Digest"
    07-12-1898 - Joe Reichman - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-14-1970
    bandleader: (the Pagliacci of the Piano) "A Song is Born"
    08-07-1906 - Ernestine Wade - Mississippi - d. 4-14-1983
    actor: Sapphire Stevens "Amos 'n' Andy"
    08-31-1897 - Fredric March - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1975
    actor: "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    09-04-1913 - Henry Russell - Michigan - d. 4-14-1968
    conductor: "NBC University Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    09-24-1931 - Anthony Newley - London, England - d. 4-14-1999
    singer, actor: "Round and Round"
    11-05-1893 - Jean Sothern - d. 4-14-1964
    actor: Edie Gray "Pepper Young's Family"; Connie Rickard "Red Davis"
    xx-xx-1889 - Ivy Litvinov - England - d. 4-14-1977
    author: "Information Please"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Harry A. Earnshaw - d. 4-14-1953
    Along with Raymond R. Morgan created "Chandu the Magician

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:21:42 -0400
    From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  O Henry
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    <As a writer, I find it disheartening that so few know much about such
    a
    major popular writer of the Twentieth Century as O. Henry and what has
    become his most famous single character. - J. [removed];

       I agree with Jim about how sad it is that so few know about a man who produced over 600 short stories in a relative brief time (1898 - 1910) This week Imagination Theatre will air a radio adaptation of the O. Henry story "The Marionettes." written especially for us by British writer M. J. Elliott. If you get a chance please give it a listen.
      Larry Albert

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    Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:21:56 -0400
    From: herbop@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mutual_Broadcasting_System
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    Recently the subject of the Mutual radio network came up. I don't
    remember the details of the post(s), but they got me interested to
    check Wikipedia:
    [removed]
    Can't be sure if all the details of the MBS history as written are
    factual, but the article sure is interesting.

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    Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:22:42 -0400
    From: "Nancy's Overland Stage Lines (Nancy and Larry A. Hall, Sr.)"
     <NancysOverlandStageLines@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Cisco Kid on Project Gutenberg

    In the last issue, Jack French gave a rather good synopsis of the Cisco Kid.

    The story can be read (or downloaded) at the following web-address:

    [removed]

    (Confession time:  Duncan Renaldo (television) will always be my favorite
    Cisco.

    Regards,
    Nancy Hall (long time lurker)

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    Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:23:06 -0400
    From: "Nancy's Overland Stage Lines (Nancy and Larry A. Hall, Sr.)"
     <NancysOverlandStageLines@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Addendum to post about Cisco Kid

    Sorry - should have mentioned to scroll to the short story:

    XI. The Caballero's Way
    (in the previous post)

    (Good at lurking, lousy at letter-writing.)

    Nancy

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    Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:23:15 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 15-21 April

     From Those Were The Days --

    4/17

    1933 - Backed by the On the Trail portion of the magnificent Grand
    Canyon Suite, Johnny Roventini, pillbox hat and all, uttered the words
    "Call for Philip Morris" for the first time on radio. The famous phrase
    was said in perfect B flat pitch and tone to perfectly match the
    accompanying music. This "Call for Philip Morris" phrase became one of
    the most famous in all of advertising.

    1935 - People gathered around to listen for the first time to what would
    become the ultimate horror show on NBC, Lights Out.

    4/19

    1924 - The WLS Barn Dance began airing on WLS.

    4/21

    1935 -- Your Hit Parade was first broadcast.

    1947 - Fred Allen didn't find things so funny when censors cut him off
    the air during his broadcast. Allen was telling a joke about a mythical
    network vice-president when he was suddenly taken off the air. One
    moment [removed]

    4/21

    1940 - Take It or Leave It, was first heard on CBS on this day. Bob Hawk
    offered contestants a top prize of $64. No, there were no lovely parting
    gifts or consolation prizes that we could find. Losers just left.

    1949 - The prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for Broadcasting was
    presented to You Bet Your Life star, "The one, the only, Groucho
    (Marx)." This was the first time the honor had been awarded to a comedian.

    Joe

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