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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 184


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Black Museum
	 Conan Doyle's The Final Problem
	 Horton Foote
	 JOHNNY MERCER
	 I love a mystery
	 past Article
	 Orson Welles as Holmes
	 Re:  Patz and Cimmamom
	 Politically incorrect commercials

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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 08:17:16 -0400
From: stevecap@[removed] (Steven Capsuto)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Black Museum
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>but just in case, here [removed] Frank Mallory mentioned that the BLACK
>MUSEUM was a BBC show.  Sorry, [removed] it was made right here in the good
>old US of A.  It was on Mutual and hosted by Orson Welles.  Now, the

BLACK MUSEUM was produced in London.  Mutual stripped out the original
British intros and outros and added an American announcer.
___
Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia
stevecap@[removed]
WEB page: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 08:52:38 -0800
From: dabell@[removed] (Alan Bell)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Conan Doyle's The Final Problem
Message-Id: <v01520d02adc838ee0a22@[[removed]]>

"Bruce Rosenberger" <BR3D@[removed]> asks:

>Does anyone out there actually have this Sherlock Holmes episode with Welles?

Yes I do. I just happened to listen to it a few days ago and it has a
wraparound commentary by Anthony Boucher, being interviewed by someone
unidentified. Have no idea where I got it, though. I've had it probably for
20-25 years. I believe the interview segment was done at a SF Bay area
radio station in the late '60s to early '70s.

_____________________________________________________________________
ALAN BELL  3768 Sonoma Avenue  Santa Rosa, CA 95405  dabell@[removed]
=============================707-546-6988============================

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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 11:04:04 -0600
From: Richard Veit <Richard_Veit@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Horton Foote
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

                       Subject:                               Time:10:20 AM
  OFFICE MEMO          Horton Foote                           Date:5/22/96

I am a great admirer of American playwright Horton Foote, who won an Academy
Award for his adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird" in 1962 and who later
(1983) won another Oscar for "Tender Mercies," as did Robert Duvall. Horton
Foote is also responsible for such wonderful plays (and later movies) as "The
Trip to Bountiful" (for which Geraldine Page won an Oscar in 1985),
"Courtship" (1986), "On Valentine's Day" (1986), and "1918" (1985). Just last
year he won the Pulitzer Prize for his play "The Young Man from Atlanta."

What does all this on Horton Foote have to do with OTR? As you may know, he
was a prominent figure in the Golden Age of Television (early to middle
1950s), when live TV drama reached its zenith. But can anyone tell me whether
Horton Foote was ever represented on radio during the 1940s or 1950s? I would
be particularly interested in learning whether any of his plays were adapted
for presentation on radio. Any and all information on Horton Foote/OTR will be
appreciated!

Many thanks!
Richard J. Veit

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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 11:08:03 -0700
From: bigbands@[removed] (bigbands )
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: JOHNNY MERCER
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I just completed a 31 page text e mail of my JOHNNY MERCER collection. 
If anyone would like to see a copy, please e mail .

bigbands@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 20:18:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Marcus Antonsson <marc-a@[removed]>
To: Old time radio digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: I love a mystery
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi gang,
I've just discovered ILAM and I've gone nearly crazy about it. I've
found a few serials in commercial catalogues and private libraries,
but not "stairway to the sun". SPERDVAC has it but I'm not a member
and even if I was I couldn't rent it, as they don't rent outside the
USA. If someone could sell or trade me that series I'll be grateful
forever.

Regards:
Marc

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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 16:05:04 -0700
From: "John P. Carbo" <jonc@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: past Article
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I am interested in a past article #182 on the Mysterious Traveler and The
Sealed [removed] can I gain Access to this communication


Thanks,


John Phillip  Carbo

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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 13:33:17 -0700
From: panmure@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Orson Welles as Holmes
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Bruce M. Rosenberger Hellertown, PA wrote:

>In his book, "Citizen Welles," Frank Brady states that Harry Alan Towers was 
>... trying to get Welles to star in a version of Sherlock Holmes. Welles
agreed only >to play Moriarty in the story "The Final Problem."

>Does anyone out there actually have this Sherlock Holmes episode with Welles?


The episode in which Welles played Professor Moriarty was part of the John
Gielgud/
Ralph Richardson series done I believe for the BBC.  The tape that I have was
part of a Holmes collection that should still be available.  
The ISBN on the tape is 0-88142-355-6; 0-88142-866-3 for the set (there are
6 tapes in the collection) and was marketed by: (take your pick)

(the address on the cassette insert)
The Mind's Eye
Box 6727
San Francisco, CA  94101


(the address on the wooden box the set came in)
The Mind's Eye
Box 1060
Petaluma, CA  94953

Orson Welles has the distinction, along with several other actors, of having
played
both Moriarty and Holmes (The Mercury Theatre On the Air).

Don Arnold
panmure@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 15:44:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: Rhiman Rotz--IU Northwest <rrotz@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:  Patz and Cimmamom
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

	I'm pretty sure that it was *Pabst* Blue Ribbon Beer
(and the fact that people don't know how to spell it any more
shows how old I am; it was almost as common in the 40's as
Budweiser is now).  And wasn't it *Cimarron* rolls in the bit
on the Jack Benny show?
	Just for the record (yes, I'm a teacher, the red
pen is grafted to the arm . .)

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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:58:05 -0400
From: ErikS74342@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Politically incorrect commercials
Message-ID: <960523005804_202363633@[removed]>

In OTR digest 182, Gregg Oppenheimer writes:

>I also find those old commercials fascinating.  My favorite example of 
>this kind of thing is actually in a prime time Sanka commercial that ran 
>on "My Favorite Husband" around 1950: 

>           "WOMAN'S VOICE:    Does coffee coffee coffee make you nag nag 
nag?

>             ANNOUNCER:    Yes, it's the CAFFEINE in coffee that turns an
                                                   ANGEL into a SHREW!"

> Do you think they might have a bit of trouble if they ran this commercial 
>today?

This post started me thinking. About 10 years ago, when I started collecting
OTR by duping the tapes in the Spokane Public Library, I ran across what had
to be the best cigarette ad of all time. Alas, when I told friends about it a
few years later -- and they started demanding to hear it -- I just couldn't
seem to find it anywhere. It's possible that I didn't keep a copy. But
somebody out there in radio-Digest-land might be able to help. 

It starts with a conversation between a squeaky-voiced teen-ager and his
girlfriend, something about learning to smoke. And then the friendly
announcer comes on to explain, "The brand of cigarettes you smoke is one of
the most important decisions a young man can make."

After a few lines extolling the virtue of some brand or another -- not one
currently available, if I remember right -- the youngster exclaims, "Why,
that's the brand my dad smokes!"

Did I dream this ad? Was it for real? Was it satire? Can anyone else remember
hearing it?

Erik Smith
Kennewick, Wash.

 

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