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Date: 9/8/2006 7:30 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 244
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      A bit more on Michael Shayne          [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
      Benny "Opera" Follow-Up               [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      Re:New Google news search             [ JWIDNER@[removed] ]
      "Seee [removed] in [removed]"          [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      News Bulletins                        [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
      John Conte death                      [ Richard Pratz <[removed]@[removed]; ]
      Little Jack Little I think            [ matthew cox <mbcox99@[removed]; ]
      9-8 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Radio Remembered in the Internationa  [ seandd@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:26:13 -0400
    From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  A bit more on Michael Shayne

    Yes, Karen Lerner is right about there being two Michael Shayne shows.
    The first she mentioned, that aired in the 1940s, starred Wally Maher as
    Michael Shayne and Cathy Lewis as his sidekick (can't remember the
    characters
    name).
    The second series aired in the 50s and starred Jeff Chandler as Shayne.
    The difference between the two series is dramatic. The Maher/Lewis
    version
    followed the approach that most detective shows followed in the 40s:
    A tough, but NOT
    really hard boiled detective who looked for facts and encountered
    various characters,
    some cunning, some sleezy, some bright and intellectual, etc. The
    show was not
    much different in approach to such detective series as Mr. and Mrs.
    North, Mr. District Attorney,
    and others.
    In contrast, the second series aired after the establishment (in
    novels) of the hard boiled,
    tough, no holds barred detective. The "new" Shayne was a hard boiled
    egg who took no
    crap from anyone. He did everything his way and his way only. A
    tough, rigid character who
    occasionally softened when he let a woman get a little near his heart.
    The popularity of Mickey Spilane's Mike Hammer changed
    the detective genre, and, in turn, changed Michael Shayne.

    Ken Greenwald

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    Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:26:43 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Benny "Opera" Follow-Up
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    By way of clarification:

    My last posting involved the alleged availability of a video print of John
    Moran's "Jack Benny--The Opera" at the NYPL for the Performing Arts/"Billy
    Rose." Although I do remember having seen it listed in a low-tech card
    catalogue, I have never actually accessed it myself , and have thus been
    informed off-list by top Kubelsky-an Laura Leff that the facility does not
    have an available print. Whetjher it ever did is anybody's guess.  I shall
    endeavour to look into this further. More, if anything, as it develops.

    Ether!

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:26:50 -0400
    From: JWIDNER@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:New Google news search

    Sean wrote:

>     Google has released a new service, allowing searches of major news

    media going
    back, well as far back as the news media have put their archives online. <

    I tried this a day or so ago and would (at this point at least) caution
    on any expectations that it is comprehensive.

    I keyed in "Wyllis Cooper" for example and having already done a lot of
    research on the subject knowing there are a lot of references in various
    media regarding the man, Google offered about 30 or so entries. None
    were any I hadn't seen before but there were many missing even from the
    very sources they search.

    So I am wondering if they are limiting the number of references
    discovered (or they simply haven't gotten the search keys and source
    material fully on-line yet).

    One other caution, as Sean mentioned, some of the references are to
    items that require payment. One I went to gave no result, but simply
    presented me with a login and password request. I sense a spammer
    opportunity here that could somehow fool one into paying for something
    they didn't want to pay for.

    So as should always be the case when researching on-line - shields up!

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:58:10 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Seee [removed] in [removed]"

>     From: "Martin Grams, Jr." _mmargrajr@[removed]_

    (mailto:mmargrajr@[removed])

>     Just a reminder  that one week from now is the first-annual Mid-Atlantic
>     Nostalgia Convention  in Aberdeen, Maryland

    Dear Martin, Charlie, Ken, et al-

    Mazel tov!

    Best,
    -Craig

    [removed] - For you NYC area folks, there'll be a recreation here in town,  even
    before [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:27:31 -0400
    From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  News Bulletins

    I am currently listening to what for me is a fascinating compilation of
    radio shows broadcast on or shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack.  Almost
    all of the shows are interrupted in whole or in part for news bulletins.
    That's understandable.

    But, when they return to the show in progress, it seems no one on the air
    was aware of the content of the bulletins.  I don't even thinnk they knew
    they had been interrupted.

    Were the broadcast studios isolated from the news bulletins?

    One of the shows is a talk show and twice it is interrupted for war news.
    No mention of that.  But at one point the moderator states he was just
    handed a note that Burma was presently being bombed.  Couldn't they have
    handed him a note that Pearl Harbor had just been bombed?

    All this seems odd to me, but maybe there is a good explanation for it.

    Ted

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    Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:21:11 -0400
    From: Richard Pratz <[removed]@[removed];
    To: "OTR (Plain Text Only)" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  John Conte death

    Unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe anyone has mentioned the death of OTR
    announcer, emcee, singer, actor John Conte. He was born Sept. 15, 1915 in
    Palmer, Massachusetts and died Sept. 4, 2006 in Rancho Mirage, California.
    He was 90. Radio Gold has 344 listings for Conte, most of them highlighting
    his announcing duties. He had his own program, The John Conte Show
    (1952-1953). A baritone, Conte was first heard over KHJ in 1936, then
    nationally on "Screen Guild Theater." In the 1940s he was a cast member on
    the Burns and Allen show. He acted in radio, Broadway musicals and early TV.
    In the 1960s he switched to the management side of TV with ownership of a
    Palm Springs TV station. He was married 3 times, once to actress Marilyn
    Maxwell. He died of natural causes.

    Rich

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    Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:47:36 -0400
    From: matthew cox <mbcox99@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Little Jack Little I think

    Hi All,  I first want to say it's a pleasure posting again after so
    many years away.  Next I have a question about a wartime show.  I've
    only heard an expert and I'm pretty sure the show was hosted by Jack
    Little.  The only exerpt I have goes like this.  "Little Jack Little
    and our opening number I've always wanted to waltz in Berlin.  Here
    it is."  Jack had very bass voice and he doesn't sing but rather
    speaks the lyrics while I'm guessing he plays the piano.  Who was he?  Matt

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    Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:47:43 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-8 births/deaths

    September 8th births

    09-08-1877 - Bide Dudley - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1944
    drama critic: "Around Little 'Ol Broadway"
    09-08-1889 - Robert A. Taft - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-31-1953
    us senator: "American Forum of the Air"; "The People's Platform"
    09-08-1896 - Howard Dietz - NYC - d. 7-30-1983
    song lyricist: "The Gibson Family"
    09-08-1902 - Milton Watson - d. 1-2-1982
    vocalist: "Burns and Allen"
    09-08-1902 - Welcome Lewis - d. 3-25-1999
    singer: "Singo"; "The Singing Bee"
    09-08-1905 - Henry Wilcoxon - Dominica, West Indies - d. 3-6-1984
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-08-1907 - Eleanor Phelps - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-29-2001
    actor: Susan Chandler "Life and Loves of Doctor Susan"
    09-08-1907 - Tom McAvity - d. 10-xx-1972
    producer, director: "A Date with Judy"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "The Saint"
    09-08-1910 - Joe Bolton - Flushing, NY - d. 8-13-1986
    announcer: "The 1937 Radio Show"
    09-08-1913 - Patricia Wilder - Macon, GA - d. 8-11-1995
    actor: Honey Chile "Bob Hope Show"
    09-08-1914 - Hillary Brooke - Astoria, NY - d. 5-25-1999
    actor: "Suspense"
    09-08-1915 - Frank Cady - Susanville, CA
    actor: "Gunsmoke"
    09-08-1921 - Harry Secombe - Swansea, Wales - d. 4-12-2001
    comedian: Neddie Seagoon "Goon Show"
    09-08-1922 - Sid Caesar - Yonkers, NY
    comedian: "Voice of the Army"; "Tex and Jinx Show"
    09-08-1925 - Peter Sellers - London, England - d. 7-24-1980
    comedian: Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Major Dennis Bloodnok, others
    "Goon Show"
    09-08-1932 - Patsy Cline - Gore, VA - d. 3-5-1963
    country singer: "Country Hoedown"; "Town and Country Time"

    September 8th deaths

    01-03-1898 - Freddie Rich - Warsaw, Poland - d. 9-8-1956
    bandleader: "Friendly Five Footnotes"; "Freddie Rich's Penthouse Party"
    02-28-1915 - Zero Mostel - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-8-1977
    comedian: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
    06-18-1908 - Clayton "Bud" Collyer - NYC - d. 9-8-1969
    actor, announcer: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; "Cavalcade
    of America"
    09-30-1922 - Oscar Pettiford - Okmulgee, OK - d. 9-8-1960
    jazz composer, bass player: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Esquire Jazz
    Concert"
    11-09-1922 - Dorothy Dandridge - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-8-1965
    actor, writer: "Beulah Show"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Oswald Hoffman - Nebraska - d. 9-8-2005
    preacher: "The Lutheran Hour"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:27:56 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio Remembered in the International Herald
     Tribune
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    Movie director Alain Resnais remembers radio and mentions Jack Benny as "a
    great actor" in this piece from the International Herald [removed]
    DoughertySeanDD@[removed][removed]
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