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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 432

Table Of Contents: 

	 Fitzgerald on radio
	 F. Scott Fitzgerald on OTR
	 Fitzgerald and radio
	 Re: F. Scott Fitzgerald
	 Fitzgerald
	 Fitzgerald Stories on Radio
	 F. Scott Fitzgerald
	 OTR Neighbor
	 Re: F. Scott Fitzgerald
	 Musical Dracula
	 Re: Gene Autry
	 Scott Fitzgerald on radio
	 Pat Novak
	 WAR OF THE WORLDS (yet again!)

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:02:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: ejopling@[removed]
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Subject: Fitzgerald on radio
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Back in the 80's NPR ran a series that dealt with F. Scott Fitzgerald and
each episode was in two parts - the first part documentary and the second
was a dramatization of a short story. I have all of these in my collection
and can let you know the titles of the stories when I am at home.

There was also a dramatization done several times of a Fitzgerald story
called The Diamond as Big As the Ritz. I know it was on ESCAPE among others.

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Jim Widner
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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:27:02 -0500
From: DavidLHsl@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: F. Scott Fitzgerald on OTR
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Ed Jopling asked if any of F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories were dramatized on
old time radio.  I know one: Escape - "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
(07/21/47)

David Hassell
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Edgar Bergen (referring to a hula dancer): "Mortimer, don't you know why she
was shaking and wiggling like that?"
Mortimer Snerd: "Well, I reckon she was trying to shake the ants out of that
grass skirt!"
(Bergen & McCarthy)

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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 15:13:01 -0500 (EST)
From: JROZGONYI <JROZGONYI@[removed]>
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Subject: Fitzgerald and radio
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NBC University Theater did at least one F. Scott Fitzgerald
adaptation -- "This Side of Paradise" -- I think in the late
'40s or early '50s.  BTW, I've found this to have been a 
great hour-long series, many episodes of which are available
from SPERDVAC.  Most are adaptations of classic novels.  The
writing -- often by Ernest Kinoy, if I remember correctly ---
is almost always first rate.  Their adaptation of John Dos
Passos' "Manhattan Transfer" is terrific.

Jay Rozgonyi
JROZGONYI@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 14:11:32 -0600 (CST)
From: rsheldon@[removed] (robert sheldon)
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Let me get this in quick because I'm sure there will be numerous 
similar responses.

In a recent literature class I attended, someone asked if any short 
stories by F Scott Fitzgerald were turned into radio dramas.

"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" was one of the most oft-repeated 
stories on radio, including versions on Escape, Suspense, and 
probably others in the 40s and 50s. 

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:40:45 -0500
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Fitzgerald
Message-ID: <961107174044_1148619957@[removed]>

Ed Jopling asks about otr adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald stories. 

Pne that I remember vividly was, "The Diamond As Big As the Ritz." I heard it
as a kid, and it made a great impression on me.

Alas, I don't remember which show it appeared on, but it was one of the
well-known anthology/playhouse series, I'm pretty sure: Suspense, Lux Radio
Theater, etc. 

One-a them there programs.

I suspect that there were others, and that some of his novels (most notably,
"The Great Gatsby") had to have been adapted.

Dick Lupoff

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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 18:27:29 -0500
From: Dennis DeMarco <dennisdm@[removed]>
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Subject: Fitzgerald Stories on Radio
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<<In a recent literature class I attended, someone asked if any short
stories by F Scott Fitzgerald were turned into radio dramas. Since his
writing was most popular in the 1920's, and radio programming also got
it's start in 1920, it seemed reasonable that these dramatizations may
exist. Does anyonehave any info on this?>>

The first dramatization that comes to mind is "A Diamond as Big as the
Ritz". I believe it was on the excellent series "Escape"

Dennis

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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 19:05:59 -0500
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
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Subject: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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As I mentioned, I checked my own collection and the series that ran on NPR
was called "The World of F. Scott Fitzgerald." The series ran in 1979 and
was two parts (one hour total), the first a documentary about Fitzgerald
and the times, and the second a dramatization of one of his short stories.
The series was a total of eight parts.


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Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]


                                                 

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 96 17:35:55 -0700
From: <nflagg@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: OTR Neighbor
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This is a tough one. But if I can get an answer anywhere, it has to be 
here.
I grew up in the forties in a Western Suburb of Chicago called 
'Riverside.'  A couple that lived down the street were on Chicago radio. 
As I recall, they were on soaps but I'm not sure about that (or anything 
else except that they partied a LOT!)
I'm wondering if anyone can possibly supply me with the name of this 
couple. I think about it from time to time (often while reading the 
Digest) and get bugged.  Who knows, I might have lived down the street 
from some OTR legends.

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 20:48:11 -0500
From: OTRDSIEGEL@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Message-ID: <961107204810_1881414552@[removed]>

  The only Fitzgerald story that I know as having been broadcast was: "The
Diamond As Big As  The Ritz". It was broadcast on both ESCAPE and on THIS IS
MY BEST, the later with Orson Welles. I too would be interested in other
Fitzgerald stories on radio.  Dave Siegel

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Date: 07 Nov 1996 21:35:21 GMT
From: "Mike T. Taylor" <taylor_mike@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Musical Dracula
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There IS a musical named "Dracula, the musical?"
It is a spoof/farce on the traditional staging of the story.
It is probably available through Samuel French Drama - NYC.

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:37:17 -0500
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Gene Autry
Message-ID: <961107213715_223839209@[removed]>

A friend of mine is interested in getting Gene Autry Melody Ranch shows.
Anybody know a source?

Thanks!

BILL KNOWLTON: "BLUEGRASS RAMBLE", WCNY-FM, SYRACUSE NY

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 22:26:01 -0500 (EST)
From: lev@[removed] (S or A Levene)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Scott Fitzgerald on radio
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With respect to Ed Jopling's inquiry, Escape on July 21,1947 presented
Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.  It was the third episode of
the series.  It's readily available.  I'm sure there are others.

Sam Levene

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 19:16:25 -0800
From: Dean Allchin <dallchin@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Pat Novak
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Hello all

Thanks to the gentleman who stopped by with a word about Mr. Novak.

Outside of the ingenious metaphors and similes used in this radio series
were two nifty sub-introductions which helped to glue all the episodes
together, to give them continuity, and to make them more familiar to the
repeat listener.

The first was the comment, a piece of philosopy really, with which Pat Novak
opened each program.  In it he summarized what it was like to be an urban
soldier of fortune "down on the waterfront in San Francisco."  The second
was Mr. Novak's weekly introduction to his friend Jocko.

These are from the shows which featured firstly, Dixie Gillian, and
secondly, the dead jockey.

The intros:

"That's what the sign out in front of my office says, 'Pat Novak, for Hire'.
Down here on the waterfront in San Francisco, you always bite off more than
you can chew.  It's tough on your windpipe, but you don't go hungry.  Down
here a lot of people figure that it's better to be a fat guy in a graveyard
than a thin guy in a stew.  That way, you can be sure of a tight fit.  Oh, I
rent boats and do anything else that makes it sound like money.  It works
out all right (if your mother doesn't mind you coming home for Christmas in
a box).  I found that out Wednesday [removed]"

"That's what the sign out in front of my office says, 'Pat Novak, for Hire'.
You gotta put it in block letters because down here on the waterfront in San
Francisco there's a price tag on everything.  You gotta do that or marry a
rich widow.  I don't like to work that hard, so I rent boats and do anything
else that's cash and carry.  Oh, it's all right if you don't mind trouble.
It's one thing you can't duck.  It's like trying to dance the minuet in
skis, and the best trouble always looks good from the outside.  You're all
smiles and you feel like a kid opening a hand grenade under the Christmas
tree.  I found that out Tuesday [removed]"

The intros to Jocko:

"I looked up the only honest guy I know, an ex-doctor and a boozer by the
name of Jocko Madigan--a good man until he began to figure the last drink in
the bottle is just as easy to get as the first.  Well, I found him in a
little leather-trimmed sink on Powell Street.  It was a grimy little hole
where they wash the glasses once a week in stale beer, but Jocko was more at
home than a vulture in Calcutta."

"...so I looked up a guy named Jocko Madigan, and ex-doctor and a boozer
who'll give you a lift if you'll show him where the stirrups are.  Oh, a
good guy but he thinks all food makes a gurgle.  I hit all the bars and
finally found him up at Maggie Nielson's apartment.  She's a good looking
voice that lives up on the hill.  Jocko was working his way into her liquor
cabinet."

There's plenty more and they'll all be there in shining colour as soon as my
Web Page comes to fruition.

Ciao
Dean Allchin

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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:27:34 -0500 (EST)
From: "John R. Pellatt" <bs206@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: WAR OF THE WORLDS (yet again!)
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CBC Radio here in Canada apparently did a modern version of the W of the 
Ws on Hallowe'en which ran as part of AS IT HAPPENS carried on a number 
of Public Radio Int'l stations in the [removed] missed it; did anyone catch it? 
I will add to the comments about the 6 part BBC version: it was well done 
and followed the novel reasonably closely and with great style.
                                                
As part of CBC Radio's 60th anniversary celebrations last weekend (Nov 
2-3) the CBC also ran a live to air version of the 1946 classic CBC Radio 
"Stage" (play anthology series) "BURLAP BAGS" by Len Petersen, the much 
acclaimed absurdist drama (much in the style of a Norman Corwin type 
production.) It was very well done--being live seemed to give it that 
"extra edge".

Finally, in response to my OWN inquiry about STARRING BORIS KARLOFF, 
"Karloff--The Life of Boris Karloff" by Peter Underwood records that "at 
the end of September 1949 [according to American Newsreel magazine]... BK 
crept into millions of homes via radio and television with ... STARRING 
BORIS [removed] Although radio and video versions of SBK used much the 
same script and cast, a quick day sufficed for his radio rehearsal while 
video took up virtually the remaining six days of each week. The results 
were good radio shows and exceptionally good [removed] Essentially a 
humble man, despite the fact that his fee from ABC also provided for the 
cast and story cost, he preferred to leave the selection of both to 
others." (pg 138)

So now we both know!

John Pellatt, Toronto



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