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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 40
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Clark Kent's phone booth.             [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
      Remembering Ron Lackmann              [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]
      At the end of that [removed]           [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Clark Kent phone booths               [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]

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    Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2010 19:38:56 -0500
    From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Clark Kent's phone booth.

    With regard to the cliche of Clark changing to Superman in a phone booth, he
    did so in the Fleischer cartoons-- but in one of the old indoor, wooden
    booths. So no one would have been able to see him do it.

    In later years, as he became more powerful, and was able to move _really_
    fast, I suppose he could have changed in the more familiar glass booth, but
    so quickly no one would have seen him. And I suspect the Christopher Reeve
    Superman would've preferred a glass phone booth to the revolving door he used
    in _Superman the Movie_. Must be hard to change clothes in a small enclosure
    while also running real fast in a circle. But again, when Superman did change
    in a phone booth, it was a wooden one.

    Still, the cliche endures. In the opening credits of the current season of
    _Smallville_, there's a brief shot of Clark making a super-speed change  from
    his suit and tie to the clothes he wears as "the Blur" in a phone booth in
    the Daily Planet. He's not yet Superman, and hasn't yet adopted the familiar
    costume and cape. But he can move _very_ fast.

    By the way, just to tie this post in to radio, I'm sure everyone knows that
    Clayton "Bud" Collier and Joan Alexander, the radio Supes and Lois Lane, also
    provided the voices for the Fleischer cartoons.

    Rick

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    Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2010 19:39:04 -0500
    From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Remembering Ron Lackmann
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    With last  week's news of actor/OTR historian Ron Lackmann's death, I wanted
    to revisit some of his performances at various FOTR conventions as a member of
    the stock company that comprise The Dave Warren Players. In 1991, Ron played
    Ebenezer Scrooge in an adaptation of "A Christmas Carol." The late Dave Warren
    was tremendously proud of this re-creation. The following year, the Warrens
    stages "It Pays to Be Ignorant" starring Dave Zwengler as Tom Howard,
    Philadelphia-based radio personality Kathy O'Connell as Lulu McConnell, OTR
    historian Bill Nadel as George Shelton, and Ron Lackmann as Harry MacNaughton.
    Well, I dug up the audio-tape I had for "Ignorant,' but, alas, it broke. If
    there is anybody else out there in the ether who has a copy of said show from
    FOTR 1992 and would be willing to copy it for me?  I'd be greatly
    appreciative. Please contact me off-list.

    BTW, that "A Christmas Carol" was
    rife with published OTR historians:  in addition to Ron, others in the cast
    included Bobb Lynes, SuzAnne Barabas, Gary Yoggy, and the late Charlie Stumpf.
    Regards from the ether,

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2010 19:38:45 -0500
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  At the end of that [removed]

     From: bobb lynes <iairotr@[removed];

>     This February has been  a terrible month for all of us in the OTR hobby.
>     Frank Bresee is in the  hospital recovering from a strike, Jim Harmon is
>     gone, and just tonight, we  learned that Ron Lackmann has passed away

    And the long-time engineer of the The Gotham Players' recreations, as well
    as our first three Quicksilver Radio Theater shows, was taken this week by
    a coronary at just 47 - Dave Nolan.

>     Jack and Martin and others have and will add their memories of Jim  Harmon
>     to this listing, I'm sure.

    Many of us have, and I'll bet there'll be more.

>     For now, I'll mention this: Jim Harmon is a true OTR  pioneer

    Amen. Truly said.

>     We'll see you on the trail ahead, [removed]

    As a venerable old fellow I once know used to say, "yeah - we're all
    headin' that [removed]"

    Personal condolences to you & Barbara, Bobb.
    -Craig W.

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    Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2010 19:42:28 -0500
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Clark Kent phone booths
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           Good [removed]

           I don't think he'd have a problem.  After all, there are several cities
    which
    still have phone booths in them.  Also, phone booths weren't the ONLY places
    in which he made his transformation into Superman and [removed] were
    storage closets, broom closets, and the like also.  This was true in the TV
    version at least.  As long as it was unoccupied at the time and accessible,
    there was a chance he might use it.

    Kenneth Clarke

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