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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 100


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 George & Gracie
	 7th Annual Radio Classics Live
	 Re: Henry Morgan
	 Bob Bailey
	 McCarthyism on radio
	
	 FORECAST series

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Date: 14 Mar 96 16:50:00 -0500
From: amo@[removed] (Arlene M Osborne +1 +1 508 960 6273)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: George & Gracie
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Heard on the radio this AM that on the day George Burns died,
a couple of expectant parents raced to hospital where the mom
gave birth to a girl and a boy.  Being great fans of Burns &
Allen, the twins were named George & Gracie.  What a tribute!

Arlene Osborne amo@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 20:30:20 -0500
From: FabFicBks@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: 7th Annual Radio Classics Live
Message-ID: <960315203019_352480798@[removed]>

Hi Everyone,
     This will probably be my last update on the 7th Annual Radio Classics
Live which will be held at the end of this month at Brockton Mass.  The
Friday night performance (Mar 29) is over half sold out at this point.  If
you are planning to attend and have not ordered tickets I would suggest you
do that NOW!  Don't wait until the last minute hoping that there will be
seats left at the door.  Reserve now and be assured of your participation.
     There are still plenty of spaces left for the Saturday night banquet
(Mar 30).  This will be a great event, much more relaxed than the Friday
performance.  Several recreations will take place including the Let's Pretend
and a new Ethel and Albert show, but the emphasis will be informal, with a
chance for the audience to chat with the performaners and meet everyone.  A
panel for questions from the audience and ancedotes from the otr stars will
be a feature again this year.
     If you can make the show this year please plan on doing so.  These are
two great nights for otr fans and a chance to make your entertainment dollars
go for a worthy cause.  Remember, the proceeds go to support the Peg Lynch
Scholarship Fund.
     I hope to see many of you there for the two shows.
     On a completely different subject, please not my new E-mail address.  My
previous service crashed and burned along about the beginning of March, so if
anyone has been trying to contact me for the past several weeks and has had
problems, that's the reason.
     I'll be with aol until I can locate aniother server in my region,
preferably one that will let me establish a commercial web site without
charging an arm and a leg for the priviledge.
     With electronic access reestablished I'm sure everyone will be thrilled
& delighted to know that I'll be participating in the digest discussions
again on a regular basis.  (Oh yeah?  Well, same to ya fella!  [removed])

---Bob Jennings

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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 00:03:31 -0500
From: SeptSev@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Henry Morgan
Message-ID: <960316000330_352698762@[removed]>

Dear Friends:
I would like some information please, on the Henry Morgan Show.  When was it
broadcast and how many shows survived?
Thanks!
[removed] Bray
septsev@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 01:30:25 -0500
From: charlie <scharlie@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bob Bailey
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I'd like to thank Jim Widner and John Henley for answering Mike Timble's
question about whether or not Bob Bailey was still alive.  It's hard to
believe that the star of one of the last and best network shows spent the
last twelve years of his life confined to a nursing home where he was
forgotten and presumed dead.  I have noticed that someone is advertising in
the printed Old-Time Radio Digest ("The Missing Daughter Matter") for the
whereabouts of Bob Bailey's daughter for an interview. I prefer stories that
turn out well, but Bailey's life doesn't seem to. Can anyone provide a short
biography or even a synopsis of the SPERDVAC article?  I'd like to know
more.  Sure is difficult to reconcile this image with the one I conjured up
of the man after hearing his voice.  On the other hand, maybe it turned out
this way for a lot of stars.

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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 00:44:36 -0500 (EST)
From: lev@[removed] (S. or A. Levene)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: McCarthyism on radio
Message-Id: <v01530504ad6fb6ad0b39@[[removed]]>

Re Steven Capsuto's reply to John Weber:

The Canadian satirical radio drama was called The Investigator, and
featured the late John Drainie, Canada's greatest radio actor, in a
brilliant performance as a McCarthy-like figure in a wild satirical fantasy
dealing with an anticommunist purge of heaven and the deportation of
suspect characters from "Up Here" to "Down There". The "Investigator" gets
carried away with his success and starts demanding investigations of
practically everybody from Socrates to Thomas Jefferson. He goes too far
when he tries to investigate
"The Chief". It was written by a Canadian named Reuben Ship who went to the
[removed] to work, (he wrote for The Life of Riley for awhile) got blacklisted,
came back home and wrote The Investigator. It aired in l954 in Canada on
the Canadian Broacasting Corporation (CBC)'s prestigious "Stage" series.
Later in the 50's a bootleg LP of the show was released and widely
circulated in the US on a label called Discuriosities. The quality of the
LP was poor with some of the sound distorted. Copies may still be around.
CBC radio repeated the original program as recently as 1991. The sound
quality was good.  A lot of people must have copies of it. I certainly do.
It still stands up superbly.
The script of The Investigator was published in 1987 in Canada in a book
called "All the Bright Company" which was an anthology of great radio
dramas produced here.  Whether the book is still available I don't know
though I can probably find out.
Incidentally there has been no shortage of TV documentaries on that era.
Sam Levene.

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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 96 05:16 CST
From: "Robert D. Witte" <belizbob@[removed]>
To: keena@[removed]
Cc: [removed]@[removed], barbara_collins@[removed], [removed]@[removed],
        rina_rd@[removed], raddad@[removed], chellman@[removed],
         cq-chaverim@[removed], short@[removed],
         clw@[removed], [removed]@[removed], ds@[removed],
         12b2b3@[removed], vqqh47a@[removed], mv3@[removed],
         0007008467@[removed], rsw@[removed], hwanderer@[removed],
         otr@[removed]
Message-Id: <m0txtyh-000Y6yC@[removed]>

         Once again the Belize telephone monopoly (BTL) shut down the
remaining E Mail servers by disconnecting their telphone lines without
notice. Any mail sent to us after [removed], or early in the morning of Mar. 14
went into limbo or the dead E mail office. 
         I spent all day setting up BTL Kwik Mail and learning to use
Eudora, a pedestrian system compared to the Pegasus Mail we used before.
However, it is better than faxing, so our new address is <belizbob@[removed]>.
I suppose I paid too many compliments for it to continue!(to the initiated-
cainahurrah's). Please resend anything that went on Mar. 14 or thereafter,
and, in the words of Bob and Ray: Write if you get work- Hang by your
thumbs. Saludos  

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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 12:55:59 -0800
From: passage@[removed] (Frank Michael Passage)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: FORECAST series
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi All,

I've noticed a few shows from a series called FORECAST in a few
catalogs.  It appears to have been a Summer series in 1940 and 1941 
and was used to air auditions.  I believe SUSPENSE and DUFFY'S TAVERN
auditioned here.  At least that's what I've gathered.  Anyone have any
info on this series?

Frank
 

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