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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2020 : Issue 72
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Lionel Barrymore and Dickens' "A  [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
      'Christmas Story' Canard              [ <skallisjr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 06:17:25 +0000 (UTC)
    From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Re: Lionel Barrymore and Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"

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     ou are correct. Lionel Barrymore's annual appearance as Ebenezer Scrooge in
    Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was always a full dramatization, never a reading.
    Lionel Barrymore first appeared on radio as Scrooge on December 25, 1934. He
    played the part annually after that, missing only 1936 (Barrymore's brother,
    John, filled in for him that year) and 1938 (Orson Welles subbed for him).
    Barrymore last played Scrooge in 1953, the year before his death, on the
    HALLMARK HALL OF FAME. In 1954, HALL OF FAME repeated the 1953 show.
    During the years Barrymore was starring in MAYOR OF THE TOWN, "A Christmas
    Carol" was presented on that series as its Christmas show.
    He also recorded "A Christmas Carol" for MGM Records in 1947.
    The 1939 CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE production, with Orson Welles as narrator, is my
    favorite. Barrymore's later productions were usually a half-hour in length.
    The 1939 production, a full hour, seems less rushed.
    Randy

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    B  Lionel Barrymore and Dickens' "A ChrB  [ A Joseph Ross
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    Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:14:07 -0500
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
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    Subject: Lionel Barrymore and Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"

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>     Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 08:46:54 -0500
>     From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

>     B  From Those Were The Days

>     1939 - The Charles Dickens classic, "A Christmas Carol", was read by
>     Lionel Barrymore on "The Campbell Playhouse" on CBS.

    I don't think Barrymore "read" the story, I think he appeared as Scrooge
    in a dramatization of the [removed]  I believe I have a recording of [removed]
    By the early 1950s, I first heard him as Scrooge on the Hallmark Radio
    Hall of [removed]  That would have been around 1954 or [removed]  I don't know how
    much longer the Hallmark Radio Hall of Fame lasted, but that was
    certainly near the end of most network radio.

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    Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 08:33:56 -0500
    From: <skallisjr@[removed];
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    Subject: 'Christmas Story' Canard

    Every Christmas season, one of the more watched movies is /A Christmas
    Story/, a tale originated -- and narrated -- by Old-Time Radio
    personality Jean Shepherd.  In the movie, the Central character, Ralphie,
    yearns to get a couple of items, one of which being a Little Orphan Annie
    decoder.  This would enable him to decipher secret messages broadcast
    over the  /Little Orphan Annie/ radio show.
    ]SPOILER ALERT]
    He manages to get one, and in great excitement deciphers the Secret
    Message, which turns out to read, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."
    Ovaltine sponsored /Little Orphan [removed]
    Ralphie was disgusted to have found out that the message was "a lousy
    commercial."
    Although it was a funny moment, in reality, no "secret code" message ever
    broadcast on that program ever was never anything but something involving
    the forthcoming episode of the story.    The "lousy commercial" was good
    for a laugh, but nothing more.
    The story depicted in the movie has taken on a life of its own.
    References to the supposed message have even appeared in serious
    cryptological literature, doubtless written by  those who never heard the
    program.
    It's worth trying to set the record straight.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

    PS:  The "decoder" shown in the film is an oversize replica of the 1939
    Radio Orphan Annie Secret Society Speedomatic Decoder Pin.  That means
    that the story was supposed to have happened in late 1939 or early 1939.

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