Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #134
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Date: 4/30/2005 4:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 134
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      4-29 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      In a Chandu Minute (DiscO-T-R)        [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      Forward article on Jack Benny's syne  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Tales of the Texas Rangers            [ "GARY SMULLEN" <tsegs@[removed]; ]
      Re: Mason Adams                       [ Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed]; ]
      Revolving on the Axis                 [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Seduction: 3 Tales From The Inner Sa  [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      LOC tapes of OTR programs             [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      Re: Mason Adams                       [ "Paul Adomites" <padomites@ccyberne ]
      RIP Mason Adams                       [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Chuck Schaden Coverage in Chicago     [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Where Jack Benny [removed]            [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      Monday on XMPR's Bob Edwards Show     [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:42:56 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-29 births/deaths

    April 29th births

    04-29-1896 - Harry McNaughton - Surbiton, England - d. 2-26-1967
    actor, panelist: Higgins "It's Higgins. Sir"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
    04-29-1899 - Duke Ellington - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-24-1974
    bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Story of Swing"
    04-29-1901 - Emperor Hirohito (Showa) - Tokyo, Japan - d. 1-7-1989
    emperor: End of war speech
    04-29-1903 - Frank Parker - NYC - d. 1-10-1999
    singer: "A & P Gypsies"; "Jack Benny Program"; "Frank Parker Show
    04-29-1903 - Richard Leibert - Bethlehem, PA - d. 10-22-1976
    organist: "Dick Leibert's Musical Revue"; "Organ Rhapsody"
    04-29-1904 - Russ Morgan - Scranton, PA - d. 8-8-1969
    bandleader: (Music in the Morgan Manner) "Russ Morgan Orchestra"
    04-29-1912 - Ian Martin - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-25-1981
    actor: Horace Sutton "Young Dr. Malone"; Harry Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"
    04-29-1912 - John MacVane - Portland, ME - d. 1-28-1984
    newscaster: "United or Not"
    04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-29-1913 - Norman Felton - London, England
    producer, director: "Author's Playhouse"; "Grand Marquee"
    04-29-1914 - Derek Guyler - Wallasey, Merseyside, England - d. 10-8-1999
    actor: "It's That Man Again"
    04-29-1915 - Donald F. Mills - Piqua, OH - d. 11-13-1999
    singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
    04-29-1919 - Celeste Holm - NYC
    actress: "House on Q Street"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "New World
    A-Coming"
    04-29-1936 - Zubin Mehta - Bombay, India
    conductor: New York Symphony Orchestra

    April 29th deaths

    05-06-1912 - Bill Quinn - NYC - d. 4-29-1994
    actor: Guy Aldis "Against the Storm"; Tom Davis "When a Girl Marries"
    07-01-1881 - Josef Pasternack - Czenstachown, Poland - d. 4-29-1940
    conductor: "Atwater Kent Concert"; "Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-24-1853 - William Gillette - Hartford, CT - d. 4-29-1937
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
    08-13-1899 - Alfred Hitchcock - London, England - d. 4-29-1980
    host: "Murder by Experts"; "Once Upon a Midnight"
    08-16-1907 - Mae Clark - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-29-1992
    actress: "Family Theatre"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-21-1911 - Anthony Boucher - Oakland, CA - d. 4-29-1968
    conductor: "The NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    09-06-1909 - Michael Gordon - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-29-1993
    film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    12-25-1893 - Belle Baker - NYC - d. 4-29-1957
    actress: "The Eveready Hour"
    xx-xx-1892 - Joe Laurie, Jr. - NYC - d. 4-29-1954
    comedian: "Can You Top This"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:22:56 -0400
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  In a Chandu Minute (DiscO-T-R)

    I got this very funny email from our pal, Derek Tague, the other
    day--which actualy made me laugh out liud, as I read it:  a rare
    occurence!  (I mean, being made to laugh out loud, while [removed])

    I  believe this is a clever bit of cross generational, [removed]

    Somehow, I had helped cause Derek to consider what could have been the
    odd hybrid, of old-time-radio--

    And disco.
    ________

    Derek Tague:

    Who could forget these immortal hits?:

    Don Winslow In the Navy
    Funkytown Hall Tonight
    I Love the Night Life of Luigi
    I'm Your Boogie Man Called X
    This Is Your F. B. I Will Survive
    The Shadow Dancing
    Ladies' Nightbeat
    Doctor [removed]'s Orders
    Disco Valiant Lady
    Love Roller Coast-to-Coast on a Bus
    More Than a Woman in White
    Boogie Oogie Oogie Pringle
    We Are Family Theatre
    Knock on Woody Herman

    On the Radio
    Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
    [wait a minute, those were real songs].

    Yours in the ether,

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:32:49 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Forward article on Jack Benny's synegogue

    The Forward has an article on a synegogue with an entertainment bent - the
    former house of worship for Jack Benny and two of the three stooges.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

    [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:33:15 -0400
    From: "GARY SMULLEN" <tsegs@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Tales of the Texas Rangers

    I still remember the opening sequence of an episode of "Tales of the Texas
    Rangers" where a hired killer enters the home of a young mother and child.
    After the mother is dispatched by a gunshot, a baby's cry can be heard from
    another room. [removed] another [removed] I haven't listened to
    this show in years, but the frightening image it created in my memory was
    indelible.

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:11:57 -0400
    From: Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Mason Adams

    Regarding the passing of Mason Adams, Jim Widner's post began [removed]

>     With the passing of Mason Adams, we lost another whose long fingers
>     stretched back into the golden age of radio.

    I hope Jim Widner won't mind if I paraphrase that sentence. It wasn't his
    fingers that stretched back into Radios Golden Age, it was "His Vocal
    Chords". :)

    Mason had a most distinctive voice, and as someone mentioned, those
    melodious tones could convey "Warmth" unlike any other in the industry.

    As a youngster, I had the pleasure to work with Mason on a number of radio
    programs. He was as "Warm" a person as he sounded. To me, he was an icon in
    OTR and I treasure having known him.

    Hal(Harlan)Stone
    Jughead

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:41:22 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Revolving on the Axis

    From: benohmart@[removed]

>     ...my publishing firm received a proposal  from a firm in Tokyo,
>     Japan, inquiring about rights to publish Jack French's  "Private
>     Eyelashes" ... If the negotiations are successful, this will be the  first
>     book of Bear Manor Media reprinted in a foreign language.

    Dear Ben-

    That's very neat - and well deserved! - news.

    Quicksilver's two Conan Doyle shows are available from Audiobuch, out of
    Freiberg, Germany - and they've done [removed]
    In English, no less!

    (See you at FOTR?)

    Continued good luck,
    -Craig Wichman

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:44:12 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Seduction: 3 Tales From The Inner Sanctum

    Jim Burns asked:

>     Yeah, but now I want t hear about SEDUCTION:  3 TALES FROM THE INNER
>     [removed]

    Okay.  In April 1992, CBS aired a made-for-television movie as a Sunday
    night feature titled SEDUCTION: THREE TALES FROM THE INNER SANCTUM, starring
    Victoria Principal, billed as "a different viewing experience."  In this
    trilogy of stories, supposedly based on old INNER SANCTUM radio scripts,
    each had a surprise "twist" ending and rode an emotional wave through
    different decades.  Sadly, with the exception of a creaking door opening and
    closing in the beginning and ending of the movie, the feature didn't
    resemble an INNER SANCTUM radio broadcast.

    The first of the three stories was "Ecstasy," in which John Terry played a
    wealthy stockbroker married to Principal, thinks the spark has gone out of
    their relationship and becomes obsessed with his computer (pre-internet
    connection) on a chat room with a woman called "Silk and Satin."  His
    mysterious online romance is none other than his jealous and passionate
    sister-in-law, and together they plot the murder of his wife.  The New York
    Daily News (April 3, 1992) reviewed: "Eventually there is a tryst, and a
    kicker that will hand you the only laugh of the night."

    The second drama was "Sacrifice" and looks as if it was shot through gauze.
    A driven artist whose violence in his paintings is fueled by a haunting
    childhood memory: He witnessed the murder of his mother when his father
    found her in bed with another man.  Principal plays his lover and model, who
    is eager to boost his morale and see him succeed.  She arranges for him to
    come face-to-face with his past.

    In "Temptation," Principal was an unhappy advertising executive of a radio
    station during the late 1930s and early 1940s (an appropriate setting).  At
    work, she meets a man (again played by John Terry) who calls himself "a
    professional fall guy."  Lured into an affair, he is blinded by lust,
    unaware that he is part of her clever plot to rid of her husband.

    The movie was supposed to be the first of a series of television movies
    involving Himan Brown and his INNER SANCTUM program, but both critics and
    ratings flopped.  No sequels or further television dramas were filmed.
    Himan Brown received on-screen credit as Executive Consultant, and credited
    off-screen as the author of the last segment, supposedly based on an INNER
    SANCTUM episode entitled "The Two Of Us."  Not surprisingly, there does not
    exist any recording or script or any proof for that matter proving that
    there ever was an INNER SANCTUM script entitled "The Two Of Us" and Brown
    over the last few decades has been quoted of saying he never wrote a script
    for any INNER SANCTUM broadcast, and that he always had a semi-staff of
    script writers write the scripts.

    During the opening credits, the title screen also carried the notation
    "Based Upon the Original INNER SANCTUM Radio Show Created by Himan Brown."
    One interesting piece of trivia, which may or may not be a coincidence, is
    the name of two fictional characters in the movie: both of whom had the same
    last name, "Raymond."

    Henry Slesar was a superb mystery writer whose short stories have been
    adapted for THE TWILIGHT ZONE, tons of ALFRED HITCHCOCK TV episodes, and
    many radio scripts for THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER - all of which were
    adapted from previously published short stories by Slesar.  The first two
    segments of the INNER SANCTUM movie were supposedly based on Slesar's short
    stories "Museum Piece" and "The Substitute" but the filmed segments bear
    very little resemblance at all (and since Slesar never wrote for INNER
    SANCTUM, only CBS RMT, I doubt the first two segments were ever adapted from
    INNER SANCTUM scripts, also).

    There you have it, Jim. If you want to learn more about this and other
    information about INNER SANCTUM, radio, TV and movies, and mystery novels,
    etc., I do recommend INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES: BEHIND THE CREAKING DOOR (OTR
    Publishing, 2003). I reprinted the above from the book (not all of it but
    enough to fill ya in).
    Martin Grams, Jr.

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:05:45 -0400
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  LOC tapes of OTR programs

         I was just wondering about what OTR programs
    are on file at the Library of Congress. Are copies
    available to private citizens? Is there any way that
    a private citizen can order copies of these programs
    through the Library of Congress, or will we just have
    to wait until they decide to offer them in a collection?

         There must be what amounts to a treasure trove
    worth of OTR programs there. It sure would be nice if
    some OTR collectors could get some access to some of
    these without having to deal with all of the red tape
    involving copyright infringement and such.

         If anyone has any information regarding the correct
    procedure, costs, and any other info, I'd be interested
    to know about them. Would it even be possible to find
    out what programs they have in stock?

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:00:32 -0400
    From: "Paul Adomites" <padomites@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Mason Adams

    Although I never worked with him myself, my creative director at Ketchum
    MacLeod and Grove Advertising used to say, "When it comes to professionals,
    Mason Adams was in a class by himself." For anyone who has had to deal with
    cranky, bossy, "superior" "talents," that is as high a compliment as can be
    paid.

    Paul Adomites

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:30:12 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RIP Mason Adams

    David Hinckley of the New York Daily News notes the passing of Mason Adams in
    today's column, including Mr. Adams' appearances at Friends of Old Time Radio
    conventions.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

    [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:33:40 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Chuck Schaden Coverage in Chicago

    Even though Chuck Schaden doesn't plug Friends of Old Time Radio in Newark
    when he is planning to attend, and even though he spends about half his show
    every week selling his own products, which makes you wonder why he doesn't
    have time to mention FOTR, and that he has a group of affiliated performers
    including FOTR committee member Randy Larsen attending every year, do not let
    it be said that we in Newark are not happy to see him reach his 35th year of
    broadcasting and that this achievement is noted at length in the Chicago
    Sun-Times today.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

    [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:55:39 -0400
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Where Jack Benny [removed]

    And many other entertainment luminaries, it seems! This is a neat
    article, about a temple that goes back to the vaudeville era, and of
    course, the hey dey of radio.  Actually, this place sounds like it might
    be able to use our
    help. Anyone interested should know that Congregation Ezrath Israel, is
    at 339
    West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036 (Phone: 212-245-6975)

    "Leading a Congregation That Has a Showbiz Pedigree"
    By MAX GROSS ([removed])
    The Forward, April 29, 2005

    [removed]

    Best, Jim Burns

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    Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 03:04:44 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Monday on XMPR's Bob Edwards Show

    Folks;

       As I posted earlier on [removed] next Monday's "The Bob
    Edwards Show" on XM Satellite Rado Channel 133 will focus on Mary Margaret
    McBride. After a check-in with David Broder to talk politics, Bob will
    interview Susan Ware on her book, "It's One O'clock and Here Is Mary Margaret
    McBride: A Radio Biography."

       If you're an XM subscriber, be sure to tune in to XMPR, Channel 133,
    Monday at 8:00am EDT, repeated 9:00am EDT and again at 9:00pm EDT; also
    available all day long at [removed] (All XM subscribers now
    receive the on-line listening service as part of their standard package; if
    you haven't yet, hit the website and register.)

             Charlie

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