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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 4
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
One more unheard character [ Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed] ]
charlie cantor [ leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass ]
memories of jack benny by kenny t [ leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass ]
1930s band leader [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
Artie Shaw [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
bob and mahlon and phil [ leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass ]
Re: Radio Mispronunciations [ BH <radiobill@[removed]; ]
The Twilight Hitchhiker [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
Re: Lynn Bari on radio [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
Space Patrol [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
fm transmitter [ "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@[removed] ]
A Young Williard Waterman [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
Unheard Characters [ "Philip Railsback" <philiprailsback ]
Fibber McGee/Aunt Fanny [ Udmacon@[removed] ]
Ed Wynn Fire Chief Hats [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
Cinnamon Bear Question [ Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed] ]
Cinnamon Bear Magic [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
1-5 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
"Live" Radio [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Meridiani Man from Mars [ Richard Fisher <w9fjl@[removed]; ]
100 Years of Age [ Alan Chapman <[removed]@verizon. ]
HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE [ HERITAGE4@[removed] ]
Names gone wrong [ "bobb lynes" <iairotr@[removed]; ]
new Jack Benny contest [ benohmart@[removed] ]
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:05:00 -0500
From: Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: One more unheard character
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On "The Great Gildersleeve," Peavy (Peavey?) the druggist often referred to
Mrs. Peavy, but I don't believe she was ever actually on the program. Peavy
made her seem something less than exciting.
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:59:08 -0500
From: leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: charlie cantor
i don*t remember him as pierre but he was an early denizen of allen*s
alley, socrates mulligan, was he not?
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:59:30 -0500
From: leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: memories of jack benny by kenny t
if most of us put our memories to the test we will find they aren*t as
accurate as we think they [removed] kenny t may own his opinion, but he
can*t have mine which says that jack benny reached a peak in the war
years and the cbs years were all [removed] etc.
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:59:43 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1930s band leader
Hi Everybody,
after reading Jim Cox post on Artie Shaw. I wanted to let the digest know
the only 1930s band leader who is still with us is Orrin Tucker. Who had a
big hit in 1939 "Oh, Johnny Oh". Artie Shaw was indirectly respondable for
the Society of Singers. He was very upset when he found out that Helen
Forest did not have enough money to buy grocery back in the 1980s. He told
Kitty Kallen. Kitty held a meeting with Connie Haines, and Helen O,Conald.
Those ladies form the group to help singers out. Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:59:54 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Artie Shaw
Hi Everybody,
I just read Conrad post about his favorite Artie Shaw recording being Summit
Ridge Drive. Artie named this song because he was living at a house on
Summit Ridge Drive in [removed] at the same time he was married to Lana Turner.
I understand in the 1990s that house is still their. Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:00:14 -0500
From: leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: bob and mahlon and phil
mahlon was the actual conductor of the jack benny program, maybe through
most of phil*s run, playing the conductor -- when bob crosby joined the
show, there were so many finely sketched characters that bob (probably
in real life a friend of benny) was a relief in the competition for
attention if there was [removed]
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:01:01 -0500
From: BH <radiobill@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Radio Mispronunciations
Michael Shoshani wrote:
Cheery Beery Bin (Ciribiribin). And there really is no excuse for
messing that one up
I always liked that tune by the Andrews Sisters, you [removed]"Buy Beer Mr.
Shane"
Bill H.
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:14:17 -0500
From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Twilight Hitchhiker
Not long after my folks finally got our first TV the Twilight Zone
aired and quickly became a family favorite. There were lots of
"anthology series" on the networks back then: TZ, Alfred Hitchcock,
GE Theater, Playhouse 90, Crisis, Heinz 57 Playhouse and a host of
others, as there had been on radio; today there are none, though
there are two in syndication: The NEW Twilight Zone and Outer Limits.
Would anyone care to speculate on why the networks no longer see fit
to produce any anthology series? Do "reality" shows to some extent
fill this gap, since they focus on non-continuing characters whose
individual fates are not determined by ratings?
Anyhow, that's not my question. My REAL question is:
During the recent Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci-Fi channel I
caught just the tail end of what appeared to be The Hitchhiker, with
Inger Stevens in the role best remembered as having starred Orson
Welles. The credits said the story was written by Rod Serling. Was
this, in fact, The Hitchhike? And did Rod Serling really write it?
[ADMINISTRIVIA: As this posting deals with television and not radio, please
direct all replies to this posting to The Kinescope; subscription information
is available at [removed] --cfs3]
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:14:38 -0500
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Lynn Bari on radio
on 1/3/05 10:13 PM, [removed]@[removed] at
[removed]@[removed] wrote:
Yesterday I was surfing the web for information about actress Lynn Bari, I
came across a web site called Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen. The site
list
a bio of her movie career as well as two radio programs that is an episode of
"Suspense" and "Rexall Summer Theatre." Lynn Bari is to have appeared in the
series with Pat O' Brien. Can anyone remember this show airing on the radio?
Is there any copies in circulation? What was the radio series plot? and was
it any good?
***Don't know about THE REXALL SUMMER THEATRE, but Lynn Bari is heard in a
number of circulating radio shows including SUSPENSE 07/24/47: "Murder By An
Expert," THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW 12/16/43, THE CHARLIE McCARTHY SHOW.
ORSON WELLES' RADIO ALMANAC 06/28/44 and at least five episodes of THE LUX
RADIO THEATRE including two in which she costarred with Pat O'Brien:
03/19/45: "Grissley's Millions" and 12/30/46: "Crack-Up." The 12/16/43
episode of THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW is included on Radio Spirit's ABBOTT
AND COSTELLO SHOW VOLUME 2 - THE LOST SHOWS. --ANTHONY TOLLIN***
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:15:22 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Space Patrol
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 23:05:40 -0500
From: "WILLIS G Saunders" <saunders8@[removed];
I may be--and probably am--wrong, but I seem to remember two
characters in particular who were never heard on two respective
juvenile shows. The first was Butch McGonigal on "The Adventures
of Archie Andrews" and Sec. Gen. Carlisle of the United PPlanets on
"Space Patrol."
I'd have to check, but I believe I have at least one episode of the radio Space Patrol on which
the Secretary General appears (His daughter, Carole, was a regular).
He did appear from time to time on the television version. Initially, he was played by Norman
Jolly. Later, he was played by Paul Cavanaugh. I definitely have some TV episodes in
which he appears.
I don't believe the Secretary General's first name was ever mentioned on the show, but at
least one premium, containing a flow-chart of the United Planets government, gives his name
as Edward Carlisle.
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square, Suite 210
lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 02:21:33 -0500
From: "Robert Acosta"
<boacosta@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: fm transmitter
Could someone please tell me where one can get a good fm transmitter? I
have the CCrane model, but perhaps need a mmore powerful one.
Robert Acosta
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:54:17 -0500
From: Conrad Binyon
<conradab@[removed];
To:
[removed]@[removed]
Subject: A Young Williard Waterman
Brian West saw an older Willard on Bonanza and loved
putting the face with the voice.
Here was Willard's face back the forties as seen on
the National Radio Artists Directory, Chicago section.
Click the link
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Conrad Binyon
--
conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
Encino, CA
Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:56:32 -0500
From: "Philip Railsback"
<philiprailsback@[removed];
To:
[removed]@[removed]
Subject: Unheard Characters
I don't have the date of the program, but the voice of Sammy the Drummer is
heard on the Jack Benny program (probably early '50s) in which Mel Blanc
plays the part of telephone repair man, Alexander Graham Bell III.
Speaking of Mel Blanc, was the violent wife of the Mailman on the Burns and
Allen show ever heard? I'm quite sure I never heard her.
- Philip
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:53:17 -0500
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Fibber McGee/Aunt Fanny
I remember hearing a Chinese character on FM&M: "Ooie Pooie" (sp). His tenure
was short.
Another radio character who talked about lots of off mike people was the
Breakfast Club's Aunt Fanny (Fran Allison, also of TV's "Kukla, Fran &
Ollie.") She usually included in her skit a phone call to somebody in the
little town she came from.
Incidentally, in 1950s radio logs I've spotted a daily 15 minute afternoon
version of "Kukla, Fran & Ollie." Anybody know if it was just a tape of the
tv audio?
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:50:08 -0500
From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ed Wynn Fire Chief Hats
Ed Wynn on radio's TEXACO FIRE CHIEF in costume:
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The online autobiography of actor Rick Jason (1923-2000) has a
fascinating story about his father's failing business, the Jacobson
Company, which made red buckram firemen hats for kids during the
Depression. The hats sold at Woolworth's for a nickel. Just before Ed
Wynn went on the air, Jacobson got an order to manufacture 600,000
firemen hats which had to be drop shipped to Texaco stations across the
country within six weeks. With Ed Wynn's success on radio, the company
eventually delivered ten million hats to Texaco:
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There's also an earlier chapter about Jason's curious encounters with
Rudy Vallee.
Bhob @ FUSEBOX @ [removed]
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:46:08 -0500
From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];
To: OTRDIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Cinnamon Bear Question
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When I was quite small, about 4 or 5 years of age, I recall a
sugar/cinnamon shaker that you use on toast and such being in the shape
of a bear. Could this have been marketed via the Cinnamon Bear?
The _Hake's Price Guide to Character Toys_ I mentioned previously lists the
following three items for the Cinnamon Bear (but not the shaker)
from the 40's: Wieboldt's Litho Tin Tab
Foil Silver Star Picturing Paddy
from the 50's: "TV Club" Litho Button with Cardboard Bear Attachment
(Wiebold's Department Store)
Does anyone have any of these items and/or know the location of Wiebold's?
Melanie Aultman
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:39:33 -0500
From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Cinnamon Bear Magic
I am happy that "Cinnamon Bear magic" lingers in the air for Digest
correspondent, Deric. Once you hear the program, "The Cinnamon Bear," its
inherent charm never is forgotten.
Alas, bear figurines, salt and pepper shakers, flower vases, et al., have
nothing to do with the program, which was first syndicated in 1937.
Weiboldt's Department Store (for the long lost puppet television version
of CB) sold four 7" 78 RPM records featuring several CB songs, restored
this year by First Generation Radio Archives in its Premier Cinnamon Bear
Collection, and there was a coloring book and foil star, but other
artifacts connected to CB have never been found. That, of course, does not
mean they don't exist.
Chuck Schaden in his landmark THE CINNAMON BEAR BOOK (Hall Closet
Publications, 1987) has a reproduction of the coloring book, and a picture
of the foil star on the back cover. TRANSCO, the production company that
developed "The Cinnamon Bear," licensed sheet music for the title song. It
is still available. Anything else would be a real find, Deric, so keep
searching.
Dennis Crow
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:40:58 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-5 births/deaths
January 5th births
01-05-1911 - Jean-Pierre Aumont - Paris, France - d. 1-30-2001
actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
01-05-1916 - Alfred Ryder - NYC - d. 4-16-1995
actor: Sammy Goldberg "The Goldbergs"; Carl "Easy Aces"
01-05-1938 - Lindsay Crosby - CA - d. 12-11-1989
actor: "Bing Crosby Show"
January 5th deaths
02-02-1912 - Burton Lane - NYC - d. 1-5-1997
composer: "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Voices of Vista"
02-17-1914 - Arthur Kennedy - Worcester, MA - d. 1-5-1990
actor: "Best Plays"
03-20-1908 - Stuart Metz - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-5-1994
announcer: "Pepper Young's Family"; "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons"
03-29-1902 - Onslow Stevens - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-5-1977
actor: "Great Plays"
04-11-1921 - Toni Darnay - Chicago, IL - d. 1-5-1983
actress: Evelyn Winters "Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters"; Nona Dutell "Nona
from Nowhere"
04-15-1915 - Hans Conried - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-5-1982
actor: Professor Kropotkin "My Friend Irma"; Schultz "Life with Luigi"
04-22-1922 - Charlie Mingus - Nogales, AZ - d. 1-5-1979
jazz bass player: "Here's to Veterans"
04-27-1896 - Rogers Hornsby - Winters, TX - d. 1-5-1963
hall of fame baseball player: "Play Ball"; "Tops in Sports"
07-10-1896 - Slim Summerville - Albuquerque, NM - d. 1-5-1946
actor: "Hollywood Star Time"
08-08-1905 - Ross Graham - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-5-1986
singer: "Cities Service Concert"; "Show Boat"
09-27-1913 - Hugh Rowlands - Racine, WI - d. 1-5-1978
actor: Trigger Brett "Island Venture"; Jimmy "Tom Mix"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:41:25 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: "Live" Radio
Live radio dead? Not entirely. The 24th of December 2004 was a milestone for
the NightMARE Players, a group within the Milwaukee Area Radio Enthusiasts. It
was on that date four members of that austere group; Ralph Luedtke, Carol
Boettcher, Mark Higgins and Ron Sayles did a live radio dramatization of a
"Billy the Brownie" script from November 1932 on "The Ron Krause Show." It was
part of a "Billie the Brownie" retrospective on radio station WTKM in
Hartford, Wisconsin. By the nature of the calls received, even one from
Seattle, Washington, it was a resounding success.
"Billie The Brownie" was a local Milwaukee fixture from 1931 to 1955. It was
broadcast usually between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I want to take this opportunity to thank Ron Krause and the management at
station WTKM for giving us the opportunity to put the show on. Being able to
do something like this in this day and age is nothing short of a miracle. I
think I speak for the group when I say we had a wonderful time and I hope that
WTKM makes this an annual event.
The NightMARE Players have come a long way, from giving performances for the
pleasure of the club to doing a live radio performance long after the demise
of Olde Tyme Radio. Not bad for a group of amateurs who do it for the of
doing it.
We owe Ralph Luedtke a huge thank you for this, he set everything up and it
was because of his vision that we had this opportunity. Of course we owe
Krause and WTKM thanks, but without Ralph's tireless efforts, it would not
have happened.
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:44:15 -0500
From: Richard Fisher <w9fjl@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Meridiani Man from Mars
I have asked this question twice before with no results but I did not
know how to spell the name of the title character - Meridiani. It
sounded to me as Merry - and - e which is as close as I could ever get.
When the Mars rovers landed on Mars a year ago one of them landed on the
Meridiani Planum (a flat region about the size of Oklahoma) it finally
dawned on me that the spelling must have been Meridiani for the title
character.
The show was probably a summer replacement for Jack Armstrong or another
children's show. The story was about a scientist inventing the universal
solvent and the earth was slowly dissolving away. The world was in panic
and scientist were also. Meridiani came from Mars to save the world.
Shades of Mars saving the world vs. trying to destroy it as in "The War
of the Worlds"!!!
Any one else ever here of this show besides me? Probably broadcast
during the [removed] years.
Dick
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:44:57 -0500
From: Alan Chapman <[removed]@[removed];
To: Old-Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 100 Years of Age
Add to that list the great Irving Berlin:
05-11-1888 - Irving Berlin - Temum, Russia - d. 9-22-1989
composer: "Ed Sullivan Show"; "People's Platform"
-- Alan
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:37:04 -0500
From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
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Hi - our Heritage Radio Theatre is at The Olde Tyme Radio Network at:
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24/7 with new shows every Sunday. (Along with other OTR
programming) This week we have:
1. MR KEEN, Tracer of Lost Persons - CBS 10/6/49
"The Case of the Man Who Invented Death"
2. MR. & MRS. NORTH - CBS 9/17/54 "Operation Murder"
3. HOP HARRIGAN - Blue/ABC "Escape In Flames"
Enjoy - Tom Heathwood
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:11:37 -0500
From: "bobb lynes" <iairotr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Names gone wrong
Hi,
I'm reminded of one of the young (clueless) DJs at KPPC (Pasadena CA) during
its Big Band days: She back-announced a song as being played by "Charlie
SPI-VIK and his Orchestra". Barbara Watkins never made those kind of fluffs
in her 5 years there! She did her research.
Bobb
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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:17:43 -0500
From: benohmart@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: new Jack Benny contest
Jello, folks. If any of you are feeling frisky, please enter the new I CAN'T
STAND JACK
BENNY BECAUSE contest which you'll find by clicking on the top link at
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Good luck!
Ben Ohmart
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