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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 207


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Re: Vinyl Cassette Albums
	 Remember WENN
	 REMEMBER WENN
	 Remember WENN
	 Administrivia: Sending requests to the list
	 Vincent Price
	 Personal introduction
	 Information, Please
	 Ducks (aka Quacking Up)
	 The Lone Ranger's First Name
	 Jack Benny on AMC
	 Margins
	 African-American Actors in Non-Traditional Roles 

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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 10:29:11 -0500
From: "Andrew C. Green" <acg@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Vinyl Cassette Albums
Message-Id: <[removed]@dlogics>

JanBach@[removed] (Jan Bach) writes:
>[...] someone else mentioned Polyline Corporation in
>connection with something or other. I have found their cassette 
>albums to be very dependable and reasonably cheap. Their latest 
>catalog (March 96) shows albums for one, two, three, four, six, 
>eight, ten, twelve, and sixteen cassettes -- just about every 
>size as well. And they also have storage for DAT tape and a 
>variety of other media. They are at 1233 Rand Road in Des Plaines
>IL 60016 (847-390-7744)

They are also, shall we [removed] "determined" in their sales efforts 
insofar as their mailing list is concerned. Once on it, you will 
continue to receive (in my case) free samples of their photograph 
album pages at the rate of about one a month, accompanied by 
impassioned pleas for me to buy more before the price goes up.

I have no plans to purchase anything from them, although my father-
in-law is very pleased with them, but have enough free samples to 
assemble a modest-sized album already.  :-)

Andrew C. Green            (312) 266-4431
Datalogics, Inc.
441 W. Huron               Internet: acg@[removed]
Chicago, IL  60610-3498    FAX: (312) 266-4473

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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 10:30:00 -0700
From: Rick_Botti@[removed] (Rick Botti)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Remember WENN
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

     I look forward to each new episode of Remember WENN and believe last 
     week's installment with Howard Rollins was their best offering yet. It 
     appears that the show's writers have found a directions for the show, 
     Bravo! But, I really don't understand John Henly when he said that the 
     show was still firmly rooted in fantasyland? 
     
     Classic radio was what ever the listener wanted it to be, fantasy, 
     news, romance, comedy, and escape. I think WENN does a good job of 
     portraying that.
     
     
     Rick Botti
     Rick_botti@[removed] 
     
     
     
     
     I thought this past weekend's instalment of "Remember WENN," with 
     Howard Rollins, was - while still being firmly rooted in fantasyland - 
     a provocative, enjoyable story.  (And how wonderful to see Rollins 
     back on top of his game.) 
     It got me to wondering:  we all know that characters of various 
     ethnicities were almost always played by white actors, in those days - 
     but does anyone know of any historical cases of there being black 
     radio actors who portrayed characters not of that color?  
     John Henley
     jhenley@[removed]
     ph  (512) 495-4112
     fax (512) 495-4296
     
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:14:29 -0700
From: PETER GRECO <pgreco@[removed]>
To: radio digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: REMEMBER WENN
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

HI,
  I AM VERY SUPPRISED THAT NO ONE COMMENTED ON LAST WEEK'S [removed] WAS A 
VERY HEARTWARMING [removed] WAS ONE OF THEIR [removed] REALLY SUMMED UP
WHAT RADIO WAS ALL ABOUT,THE THEATRE OF THE MIND,MOLLY RINGWALD WAS JUST
RIGHT IN THE PART,AS THE BLIND GIRL. THE REGULAR CAST JUST OUT DID THEM 
[removed] CAN'T SAY ENOUGH FOR THE MACKIE [removed] PLAYED IT TO A TEE.
I DID SOME WORK WITH BLIND VETS AT THE VA [removed] USED TO GO INTO THE
WARDS AND PLAY SOME OTR FOR [removed] KNOW FIRST HAND WHAT THEY [removed]
WERE GUYS THAT NEVER HEARD OF PHIL HARRIS,JACK BENNY [removed] OH HOW THEY
ENJOYED THEM AND PICTURED [removed] JUST HOPE AMC KEEPS THIS SERIES ALIVE.
PETE

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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:05:15 -0400
From: c holm <cbholm@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Remember WENN
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Like John Henley, I too really enjoyed last weekend's Remember WENN.  Howard
Rollins was excellent, and the show raised some interesting points about the
time and out time.  Not too lecture, but the show did make me question
programs such as Amos and Andy.  I understand they were a product of the
times.  It just made me [removed]

Anyway, does anyone know if this was episode #6.  I'm trying to record them,
but I odn't know if I have missed one or two.  I have the four they did
during the winter, but don't have any of the new summer episodes.  Can
anyone fill me in?

Thanks
chris

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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:53:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Airwaves Media <airwaves@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Administrivia: Sending requests to the list
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi:

In issue 204, there was a request by a user to have
his address changed from one to another.

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OTR List Administrator

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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 19:57:00 -0500
From: Alecia <ramble@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Vincent Price
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hello all,

   As of today, I have been mostly a lurker. I first wanted to thank all 
the people involved in the circulation and development of this Digest. I 
really enjoy reading all the subjects and replying privately to some.

  I am relatively new to OTR, but I have found that the OTR people that 
I have come in aquaintance with are most helpful and devastlngly 
friendly, with loads of informative information. I have learned so much 
since I have been visiting all the different OTR sites. I must 
admit being 35 years old has not helped to further my OTR experience, I 
have a hard time finding friends of my own age that are interested in 
OTR, but I think I am rubbing off on a few friends near me, atleast they 
are inquiring about any new shows I may have recieved lately. So I guess 
thats a good sign. 

  I was hoping to find a few trading buddys that like Vincent Price. 
Vincent is my favorite actor and I collect all of his stuff. If there 
are any fans or just a few collectors that would like to trade some 
shows that star Vincent please let me know. My total collection of OTR 
is about 400 shows of all different kinds so we could trade other types 
shows too. My collection sounds so small compared to others I have spoke 
with, but you have to start somewhere. 

Hope to here from a few OTR friends,


Alecia

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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 23:28:55 -0400
From: RCapps0013@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Personal introduction
Message-ID: <960610232854_132285939@[removed]>

My name is Bob Capps.  I reside in Northridge, California (was that an
aftershock?)
with my wife and 6 year old daughter.  After 13 years on the LAPD I resigned
a few
months ago (enough is enough) and opened my own business buying and selling
collectibles.  I have been a big fan of old time radio since my teenage
years.  What
really got me started was a chance meeting I had in the late '60s with Frank
Buxton, 
who I knew best as the voice of the animated cartoon character Batfink
(anybody
remember him?)  We had a long conversation about bookbinding, which is one of

Franks passions, and the topic turned to his recently published book about
old time
radio.  I purchased the book, and my addiction to otr has continued to this
day.  I
look forward each day to signing on to aol for my daily otr factoids.  Keep
those posts coming because I love 'em!

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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 23:57:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kent Greene <xanadu@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Information, Please
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Greetings!

Sometime ago on the WBAI program "The Golden Age of Radio", host Max 
Schmid gave out this e-mail address for a mailing list or somesuch 
devoted to vintage radio drama.

Could you please send me info regarding whatever it is you do?  If the 
mail is not too overwhelming, I may be interested in signing up.

Thanks!

Yours truly,

Kent Greene

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:43:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ducks (aka Quacking Up)
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 02:55:14 -0400
> From: JackBenny@[removed]
> To: otr@[removed]
> Subject: Ducks (aka Quacking Up)
> Message-ID: <960607025514_129780440@[removed]>
> 
> (Notice that this was one of the few times that the Marx Brothers used fowl
> language.)

Then there's the Mad Magazine parody of the Walt Disney characters in 
which everyone keeps telling Donald to duck.  

======================================================================
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:56:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Lone Ranger's First Name
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 19:33:58
> From: "Chester L. Cox" <ChetEL@[removed]>
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: One Ranger's Family comments
> Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
> 
> Jes' a few things to add to Michael Carreher's excellent "One 
> Ranger's Family" (what an inspired title!) post.  The Lone Ranger's 
> name was never, according to many sources, mentioned on the radio 
> program and I doubt it was on the TV show.  Evidently, that 
> horrible movie with Klinton Spillsbury (who evidently was such a 
> masterful actor that we've seen him in dozens of plays and movies 
> since then, right?) was the first to name him "John."  

The name was mentioned in at least one radio show in the early 1950s.  For
some reason, I came in near the end of the show and only heard part of it. 
I caught that the LR was talking with someone who kept calling him "Reid" 
and obviously knew him.  I had, by then, seen a comic book version of the
LR's origin story which didn't mention his first name.  Since my father
had heard more of the show than I had, I asked him whether the LR's first
name was mentioned, and he told me that it was John. 

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:01:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jack Benny on AMC
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

According to the latest TV Guide, the AMC network will be running a Jack 
Benny evening next Monday, starting at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time) with an 
hour of "Jack Benny Shorts."  This is followed by "Buck Benny Rides 
Again," "To Be Or Not To Be," and "Man About Town."  The whole thing 
repeats again at 2:30 AM Tuesday.

If anyone comes across any other repeat showings of this sequence of Jack 
Benny films, I'd like to know.  I'm going to try to tape all of these, 
but there are a couple of other things I'd like to watch that night, too.

======================================================================
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
======================================================================

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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 23:52:59 -0700
From: Jack Mann <jmann@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Margins
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Dear OTR: I notice that in some of the letters you print, the text ex-
tends past the right-hand margin, so in order to read it you have to click on the 
bottom arrows, read, go down a line and adjust the text back the other way, read, 
re-adjust the text, etc., etc. 
My question: I use Netscape Nav [removed] Is this my browser's fault or are some people 
just typing too many words per line? I hope there's an easy answer for this. Having to 
constantly shift the text back and forth to read it is a real pain. Jack Mann

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 07:13:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: airwavesOTR <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: African-American Actors in Non-Traditional Roles 
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

On Mon, 10 Jun 1996 John Henley wrote:

> Subject: Remember WENN - Rollins episode

> It got me to wondering:  we all know that characters of various ethnicities
> were almost always played by white actors, in those days - but does anyone
> know of any historical cases of there being black radio actors who
> portrayed characters not of that color?  
	
	One such actor comes to mind, thanks to a Harlem historian who 
wrote me about him.  Maurice Ellis was the first, and perhaps the only black
actor in the days of old-time radio to play a "non-ethnic" character (to 
phrase it any other way only serves to point out how stupid some aspects 
of our society are).  
	The only info in the reference books that I can find on Mr Ellis
was in The Big Broadcast - as Jim on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 
and as "Pokey" on Hilltop House (I'm biting my tongue on that one).
	But his claim to fame was on the Perry Mason series where he played
a "white man".  I've seen a newspaper clipping from that time that made a 
big deal of the fact.
	By the way, Jay H, if you're listening, I'd like to invite Mr Ellis 
to this year's convention.  He just passed his 94th birthday, so I don't 
know if he'd be able to make it, and I have yet to contact him, but it would 
be fascinating to get a first-hand account of race and radio acting, or just
to meet a relatively unknown actor from the Golden Age.
	-Max

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