Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #64
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 64
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: The Missing Chapter Matter        [ rodney-selfhelpbikeco@[removed] ]
      OTR and medicines                     [ "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Walt Disney and OTR                   [ corganoid@[removed] ]
      Lowell Thomas                         [ William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed]; ]
      Brace Beemer - Lone Ranger            [ "Phil Stallings" <redryder@midwest. ]
      "I LOVE A MYSTERY" comics             [ Max Schmid <mschmid@[removed]; ]
      2-21 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:18:00 -0500
    From: rodney-selfhelpbikeco@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: The Missing Chapter Matter

>     In a while SPERDVAC will have another Bob Bailey  broadcast which will
>     interest the many Johnny Dollar fans.  I have located an AFRTS >rebroadcast of
>     the long-missing final chapter of "The Sea Legs Matter."

    And this is AMAZING news!  I can't tell you how excited I am to know this.
    Truly a great find, of a great series.

    Any chance of other missing chapters turning up from the same source?

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    Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:16:08 -0500
    From: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR and medicines

    I've heard Lum and Abner mention giving something called Laudanum to babies.
    As near as I can figure out, it was mostly alcohol and opium.  What is this
    stuff?  What was it used for?  I seems like it was already 'old fashioned' by
    the OTR era, which might be why it came up on L and A.  If this stuff really
    was for babies, it certainly sounds like mother didn't know best that time.

    -chris holm

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    Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:20:18 -0500
    From: corganoid@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Walt Disney and OTR

    Does anybody know if Walt Disney made any OTR appearances either on his own
    show or guesting (is that a word?) on other's programs?

    Is so, are any of these broadcasts available today?

    Thanks
    Doug G.

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    Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:21:31 -0500
    From: William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lowell Thomas

    Sandy Singer wondered about Lowell Thomas scripts. I was his CBS engineer
    foir the last couple of years that he was on the air, broadcasting from
    his studio located in the multi car garage at his estate in the hills in
    Pawling, New York. At  times we would air from his Capitol Cities office
    in an old brownstone on Madison Avenue in New York City where his writer,
    Bob Cubbage, was located. The routine was that Bob would write the
    script, then the New York secretary would read it over the phone to his
    number one secretery, Electra Nicks, who would type it and give it to Mr.
    Thomas. Electra was the widow of my friend Gene Nicks, the previous CBS
    engineer. We would usually pre-record the program shortly before air
    time. The CBS staff announcer was Warren Moran who did the opening and
    closing from a CBS studio in New York City.

    One evening we and our wives were all invited to a formal  dinner at the
    Empitre Room of  the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel honoring Mr. Thomas. Electra's
    escort was the very young Dahli Lama from Tibet. Later Mr. Thomas
    explained that these affairs had a double gimmick. The sponsor gets a
    free speech when the VIP receives the award, then a free speech when he
    presents it to the next recipient. Lowell Thomas was a very wise man and
    a good friend.

    Bill Murtough

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    Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:16:02 -0500
    From: "Phil Stallings" <redryder@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Brace Beemer - Lone Ranger
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    Brace Beemer's home town, Mt. Carmel, IL will host their Annual Lone Ranger
    Radio Days on May 15, 2004.  Brace was born in Mt. Carmel in 1902.  We had a
    Brace Beemer Day a year ago, as some of you may remember, which was rather
    small.  But, it was a start.  We believe we have put together something worth
    traveling to attend this year.  Among those already committed to be there are
    Fred Foy, Barbara Beemer Daniel (Brace's daughter), Joe and Sandy Southern
    (publisher of The Silver Bullet Newsletter).  There will a live Lone Ranger
    radio broadcast in the evening.  You can check out the event and keep up to
    date on the latest Lone Ranger Radio Days news by going to the Official Mt.
    Carmel Brace Beemer website:  [removed]   My name is Phil Stallings,
    a member of the Brace Beemer committee and webmaster for the website.

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    Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:36:13 -0500
    From: Max Schmid <mschmid@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "I LOVE A MYSTERY" comics

    Here is a press release regarding the forthcoming "I Love a Mystery" comic
    strip reprint.
    Some pages are on the publisher's
    website:  [removed]

    MOONSTONE to publish comics based on the legendary radio thriller
    "I LOVE A MYSTERY"!

        WARNING!!
    Do Not Fail to listen to the exciting program "I LOVE A MYSTERY" Carlton E.
    Morse's hair-raising, teeth-chattering thrillers that have all America on
    the edge of its chair!!! (radio ad from 1940)

        "The old-time radio series, "I Love A Mystery," written, produced and
    directed by Carlton E. Morse, is considered by many as the greatest radio
    adventure series ever!" It ran from 1939-1953, and there were four movies
    (three in the late 1940's and one in 1966) to boot!

        Who could not love a show with such luridly shudder-pulpy titles as
    "Temple of Vampires", "The Pirate Loot of the Island of Skulls", "Bury Your
    Dead Arizona", & The Thing that Cries in the Night ?

        "I Love a Mystery" featured three memorable rough and tumble seekers of
    fun, mayhem and adventure; Jack, Doc and Reggie. A combination of the Three
    Musketeers and Robin Hood all rolled into one, the three considered
    themselves Soldiers of Fortune with a difference, ones with a conscience and
    a morality to adhere to. The three had originally met while fighting for the
    losing side during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, but they united
    again stateside after surviving that conflict against seemingly impossible
    odds.

        In the carefree early days the stories were basically rough and tumble
    pulp action stories as the trio literally stumbled into adventure just for
    the fun of it. As Jack put it, "we simply weren't cut out for regular
    working hours, we like to move around too much." Later, the emphasis was
    more on mystery, adventure, and the supernatural as the trio took on clients
    and opened the A-1 Detective Agency in Hollywood; Doc hires Jerry Booker, as
    the A-1's super-scrumptious spunky secretary/co-adventurer.   I Love A
    Mystery even inspired the writers of the original Hanna-Barbara cartoon,
    "Scooby Doo--Where Are You"!

        That's right, Moonstone has entered into an arrangement with the rights
    holder to this old time radio property!

        But you don't need to know anything about the radio show to enjoy these
    hell-raising adventure tales!

        Moonstone will first publish a remastered collection (in TPB form) of
    the seldom seen newspaper strip!

        Moonstone is working with the strip's original creator Don Sherwood to
    make sure that it all goes smoothly.

        Look for it late Summer'04

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    Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:43:16 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-21 births/deaths

    February 21st births

    02-21-1881 - Dr. Jonah B. Wise - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-1-1959
    preacher: "Message of Israel"
    02-21-1893 - Ernest Whitman - Fort Smith, AR - d. 8-5-1954
    actor: Bill Jackson "Beulah"; Roustabout "Circus Days"
    02-21-1915 - Ann Sheridan - Dallas, TX - d. 1-21-1967
    actress: "Smiths of Hollywood"; "Stars in the Air"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    02-21-1921 - Shirley Bell - Chicago, IL
    actress: Little Orphan Annie "Little Orphan Annie"; Patsy Donovan "Captain
    Midnight"
    02-21-1933 - Nina Simone - Tyron, NC
    singer: "Voices of Vista"
    02-21-1938 - Wolfman Jack - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-1-1995
    disc jockey: Mexican Border Radio"

    February 21st deaths

    03-19-1909 - Louis Hayward - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 2-21-1985
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "This Is My Best"
    08-10-1908 - Jane Pickens - Macon, GA - d. 2-21-1992
    singer: "Gulf Headliners"; "Evening in Paris"; "Jane Pickens Show"
    12-10-1913 - Morton Gould - Richmond Hill, NY - d. 2-21-1996
    conductor: "Music for Today"; "Original Amateur Hour"; "Cresta Blanca Carnival"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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