Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #343
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 11/7/2005 6:33 AM

To: [removed]@[removed]

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 343
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Hall of Fame Inductions               [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Jack French to Speak at Radio & Tele  [ "McMahon, Bill" <mcmahonb@adelphia. ]
      Norman Rosten's FBI file (Marilyn Mo  [ "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed]; ]
      Goon Show in the [removed]                 [ Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Smoking on radio and TV               [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
      Re: advertisers                       [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      Smoking on Dragnet                    [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      New Jersey Martians                   [ Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      Reel-Talk Show Recorder               [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Jack Benny stamp petition             [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
      Jerry Lewis Article in Boston Globe   [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Pioneers of Television PBS Special    [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      correctly dating AFRS discs           [ Ivan Watson <watsoni@[removed]; ]
      ISIRTA & the Goons                    [ "Mike Hobart" <zines50@[removed]; ]
      Chesterfield Sponsored Shows          [ george aust <austhaus1@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@VintageRad ]

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:43:26 -0500
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hall of Fame Inductions

    Here's an article on inductions into the Radio Hall of Fame.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:43:58 -0500
    From: "McMahon, Bill" <mcmahonb@[removed];
    To: "OTR Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jack French to Speak at Radio & Television
     Museum

    PRESS RELEASE:

    The Radio & Television Museum in Bowie, MD presents:
    "Private Eyelashes: Radio's Lady Detectives" by Jack French, Winner of
    the 2005 Agatha Mystery Award

    Before Sam Spade, Dick Tracy or Perry Mason took to the airwaves,
    radio's lady detectives had been gathering clues, solving murder
    mysteries, and bringing the guilty to justice.  Jack French's new book,
    PRIVATE EYELASHES: Radio's Lady Detectives, is a nonfiction work that
    combines fascinating facts with delightful nostalgia in examining the
    forty four network crime series that featured a woman in the lead.

    Jack will discuss and sign copies of his book at the Radio & Television
    Museum on Saturday, November 12, 2005, at 1:30 [removed]  Admission is free,
    and some of the radio shows featured in Jack's book will be broadcast on
    vintage radio receivers in the museum.

    The Radio & Television Museum is located at 2608 Mitchellville Rd.,
    Bowie, MD.  From [removed] Highway 50 between Washington, DC, and Annapolis,
    MD --- take the exit for Maryland Rt. 197 (Collington Road) and go south
    on [removed] At the first traffic light (just beyond the exit), turn
    right on Northview Drive.  Proceed [removed] miles on Northview Drive and then
    turn right on Mitchellville Road.  The museum is located a short
    distance down on the right at the intersection of Mt. Oak Road and
    Mitchellville Road.  There is a 7-11 convenience store on the left, and
    the museum is in the old red farmhouse on the right.

    For information on the museum call:  301-390-1020, or go to our website
    at:  [removed].  For further information on Jack's
    presentation this Saturday, contact the undersigned directly.

    Bill McMahon
    mcmahonb@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:44:04 -0500
    From: "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Norman Rosten's FBI file (Marilyn Monre &
     Arthur Miller's friend)

    I have one more FBI file available to send to an nterested person: Norman
    Rosten wrote for the Cavalcade of America. Arthur Miller told me that Norman
    was his best friend. Rosten and his wife were also close friends of Marilyn
    Monroe, even after the divorce.

    RSVP

    Howard Blue

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:51:55 -0500
    From: Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Goon Show in the [removed]

    Karl Tiedmann (Digest 342) wrote that NBC carried the legendary
    BBC comedy series, "The Goon Show," in the mid-1950s.

    That really does seem to be a strange programming decision, but
    at a time when listeners were deserting network radio in droves,
    it might have seemed a reasonable experiment. And BBC Transcription
    Services may have offered the program to NBC at a very attractive rate.

    Summers ("A Thirty-Year History of Radio Programs, 1926-1956," p. 221) has
    "The Goon Show" on NBC as a sustaining program on Thursday at 8:30 [removed] during
    the 1955-56 season, between "The Great Gildersleeve" at 8:00 and "American
    Adventure" at 9:05. I presume there was a newscast at 9:00.

    ("American Adventure" is new to me. Summers classifies it as "Informative
    Drama." Dave Goldin lists no episodes at [removed], and
    there's no entry for it in John Dunning's book, either. Sounds like a little
    research project for my next visit to the Library of Congress.)

    I got to know "The Goon Show" a few years after its NBC run, in the mid-'60s,
    when WBAI in New York was running it. The Pacifica station was more
    arts-oriented then than it has become in years since, and its schedule
    included "A Show of Force," "It's Your World and You Can Have It," "In the
    Beginning," "Radio Unnameable," a reperatory drama series by the "[removed] Radio
    Theater," and -- to bring this back to OTR -- "Here's Morgan," a series of
    15-minute monologues that aired in 1959 on WBAI, when it was a commercial
    station.

    -Art-

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 13:42:40 -0500
    From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Smoking on radio and TV

    Even those of us who are older have fading memories of the days of universal
    heavy smoking.

    Walk into a teachers room in an elementary school in 1960 and you wouldn't
    be able to see across to the other side.

    Seats in college lecture halls were provided with ashtrays.  I had a
    professor at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1981 who'd start off smoking a
    pipe, move to cigarettes, and finish with a cigar.

    Big old automobiles--the Cadillac, for one--had an ashtray for the
    front-seat passenger, one in each rear armrest, and one in the middle of the
    back of the front seat.  All were equipped with electric cigarette lighters.

    At least one of the glass plants here in Lancaster have never quite
    recovered from the decline in the sales of glass ashtrays.  Lancaster Glass
    is principally a manufacturer of glass headlight lenses (also a dying
    commodity) but used to fill in its slack periods by making those heavy
    square (and quite attractive, I always thought) glass ashtrays.
    Anchor-Hocking, also headquartered here in Lancaster, suffered significantly
    from the decline in ashtray sales.

    Greyhound buses had smoke ejectors above each seat.  Airlines used to give
    out packs of cigarettes.

    No restaurant lacked a cigarette machine on the premises.

    You could not smoke on public transit, at gas station pump islands and
    anywhere else where flammables were handled, and in theaters.

    Police in New Haven, Connecticut were forbidden to smoke while on duty, at
    least in 1972.

    M Kinsler
    512 E Mulberry St. Lancaster, Ohio USA 43130 740-687-6368
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 13:43:13 -0500
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: advertisers
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    In a message dated 11/6/05 10:47:42 AM Central Standard Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

>     It struck me and
>     wife, however, that Webb was featuring cigarettes too prominently to be
>     just atmosphere--he was clearing verging into product placement
>     territory.

    That was actually a common thing in the 1950s and '60s.  Lucy and Ricky smoke
    a lot on "I Love Lucy" (sponsored by Phillip Morris), a lot of Chevys pop up
    on the streets in "Bewitched" (sponsored by Chevrolet).  On a Mayberry
    mail-list there was a topic recently about how the Mayberry characters were
    constantly drinking coffee at all times of day, perhaps because Sanka was
    advertised on
    the show (but no iced tea as real southerners would).  And as good a cook as
    Aunt Bee was, they ate a lot of cold cereal for breakfast, perhaps because
    Post was also a big advertiser.  Ditto "Leave It to Beaver" and Chex.

    Television had the advantage of the video element.  On radio, it probably
    wouldn't have made much sense for Gildersleeve and his family to eat large
    amounts of cheese at every meal just to please the folks at Kraft.

    Dixon

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 16:03:04 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Smoking on Dragnet

    I just saw the new movie about Edward R. Murrow and noticed how much people smoked
    there.  This reminded me that people did smoke a lot in the 50s, and even into the 80s and
    90s, much more than now.  I go to many meetings at my local town hall which are now
    smoke-free, where this was not previously the case.  The hallways of court houses used to
    be filled with smoke, and are now smoke-free, at least in Massachusetts.  While teen
    smoking rises and falls according to how much money is spent on anti-smoking programs,
    adult smoking has fallen considerably since then.  We tend to forget how pervasive smoking
    used to be then.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 16:04:16 -0500
    From: Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  New Jersey Martians
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    Nice photo of Grover's Mill monument and Ann Robinson (who was in
    both WAR OF THE WORLDS movies): [removed];BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425695&rfi=6

    A curious correction note buried in today's NEW YORK TIMES:
    An article on Oct. 16 about Toll Brothers, a housing-development
    company, referred imprecisely to West Windsor, [removed], a town near
    Princeton where it has built hundreds of homes. The town was the
    setting for the Martian invasion in Orson Welles's 1938 radio program
    "War of the Worlds," not the place from which it was broadcast.

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 17:50:38 -0500
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Reel-Talk Show Recorder

    If anyone is interested in a Reel-Talk Talk Show Recorder, please e-mail me
    off list.

    This is a programmable radio that has the capability to record in 1/4 speed
    so you can record four hours of programming on a T-120 without flipping it
    over.  It pre-sets to record local radio.

    It's on its way to the Salvation Army so if you're willing to cover postage,
    let me know.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 17:50:56 -0500
    From: JackBenny@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny stamp petition

    Hello all,

    With an anticipated stamp price rise to 39 cents in  January, it's time for
    the "full court press" to get a 39-cent stamp dedicated  to Jack Benny.

    In order to pick up as much support as possible, the IJBFC  is providing
    several different ways you can support the Jack Benny stamp  campaign.

    1.  Web site petition:  You can go to [removed] and sign  the online
    petition.

    2.  E-mail petition:  For those who prefer to sign and  forward E-mail, I
    have an E-mail petition that can be signed and forwarded to  anyone you know
    who
    would support the stamp campaign.  E-mail me at  jackbenny@[removed] for a copy.

    3.  Private letters:  You can write an individual letter to  the Citizen's
    Stamp Advisory Committee supporting the stamp.  You can use  the wording from
    the petition, or write your own.  Letters should be  addressed to:

    Mr. Ron Robinson, Chairman
    Citizen's Stamp Advisory  Committee
    Stamp Development
    [removed] Postal Service
    1735 North Lynn Street,  Room 5013
    Arlington, VA 22209-6432

    And hey, you can always do more than one of the above.  The more  support the
    Committee gets for a Jack Benny stamp, the more likely it will  happen.
    Spread the word!

    --Laura Leff
    President,  IJBFC
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 19:04:41 -0500
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jerry Lewis Article in Boston Globe

    This Boston Globe interview with Jerry Lewis mentions some great OTR
    performers, including Jack Benny.

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 19:04:51 -0500
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Pioneers of Television PBS Special

    This article includes a promo for a special on pioneers of television, which
    includes of course many great OTR stars.  It should air Wednesday in most
    markets.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

    [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 01:05:21 -0500
    From: Ivan Watson <watsoni@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  correctly dating AFRS discs
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    Can anyone tell me how to accurately date AFRS discs? Some of them clearly
    have dates etched into the centres of the discs which seem to correspond to
    original broadcast dates.

    Other AFRS discs do not have easily recognisable dates but have a lot of
    other information etched in the centre which I assume could be deciphered to
    figure out air dates.

    Any help is greatly appreciated!

    Cheers,

    Ivan

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    Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 01:06:04 -0500
    From: "Mike Hobart" <zines50@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  ISIRTA & the Goons

    Here's Michael wandering off-topic again, but this story is too good not to
    share.

    Yesterday I went to a live show featuring two well-known British comedians
    Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor.    The theatre was packed with
    baby-boomers who remembered them from their television series "The Goodies".

    But at one point in the show they discussed their 1960s radio series "I'm
    Sorry I'll Read That Again", brought an old-fashioned microphone on stage
    and acted out a scene from the series complete with sound effects.    Much
    merriment ensured.

    Which reminds me of The Goon Show.

    I remember many years ago an English science-fiction fan published an
    account of his trip to a science-fiction convention in the US.   This would
    have been in the 1950s I believe.   At one point he was stopped by some
    American fans of the Goon Show who were having trouble with cultural
    references.

    They had a long list of words they didn't understand and requested he
    identify which were Britishisms they weren't familiar with, and which were
    imaginary things made up by the fertile imaginations of the Goon Show
    writers like Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes.

    That would have been an interesting list.

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    Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 01:27:27 -0500
    From: george aust <austhaus1@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Chesterfield Sponsored Shows

    There were many more shows sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes than
    have been mentioned.        They were heavily into the big bands. The
    most famous of which was Glenn Miller and his orchestra. His Moonlight
    Serenades ran from late 1939 until he entered the Army Air Force in late
    1942. Actually at the beginning it was Glenn Miller and the Andrews
    Sisters on the show because Chesterfield felt that Glenn  wouldn't be
    able to carry the broadcast twice a week by himself. They certainly were
    proven wrong on that one! The Andrews Sisters dropped out after eight
    weeks, if my memory is correct, and it was Mr. Miller alone from then
    on. In addition the show was changed to three times weekly.

    Incidently, at The Glenn Miller Birthplace Festival every June in
    Clarinda Iowa a recreation is done of a Chesterfield broadcast as it was
    originally aired, including the announcer actually smoking one of those
    things in the auitorium. Since he's a non smoker it's his one cigarette
    a year.

    Hal Kemp had "Chesterfield Presents" in 1937 and was replaced by Paul
    Whiteman.

    Pual Whiteman was sponsored by Chesterfield from [removed] thru Dec 1939
    and was then replaced by Glenn Miller.

     Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians had "Chesterfield Time"
    (occasionally "Pleasure Time") that ran from 1939 until 1944.

    Harry James replaced Miller  from Sept. 1942 thru Sept. 1945.

    Perry Como had "The Chesterfield Supper Club"(later known as the Perry
    Como Show) form April 1943 thru July 1955. The last year was
    simulcastwith TV.

    Interestingly, Chesterfield picked up the sponsorship of the new Glenn
    Miller Orchestra under the direction of Tex Beneke after the war from
    which Glenn did not return.

    Other Tobacco companies also sponsored the big bands. A few that come to
    mind are:
    Camel Caravan, with Benny Goodman and he  was replaced by Vaughn Monroe
    although there may have been yet another band between the two of them.

    Raleigh Cigarettes sponsored Tommy Dorsey
    Old Gold Cigarettes sponsored Woody Herman.

    Those are the ones that come quickly to mind although I know that there
    were others.

    George Aust

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    Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 08:16:51 -0500
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
    listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio
    Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
    Dial," Lee Michael's "The RADIO Show" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."
    Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
    [removed]
    =======================================

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    THE ALAN YOUNG SHOW
    Episode 15    1-9-45    "School Days"
    NBC BLUE BRISTOL MYERS
    Announcer: Kenny Delmar
    With: Parker Fennelly, Jean Gillespie, Ed Begley
    Music: Diane Courtney, Peter Van Steeden

    SUSPENSE
    Episode 944    1-31-46    "The Long Shot"
    Stars: George Coulouris
    This program, up till now, was thought to be LOST. The LOST has now been
    FOUND :-)

    DANGEROUSLY YOURS
    Episode 8    8-20-44    "Monsieur Beaucaire"
    Stars Victor Jory, Joan Wetmore, Jackson Beck
    CBS VICKS VAPO RUB

    ROGERS OF THE GAZETTE
    Episode 3    7-22-53    "Dirty Politics"
    CBS SUSTAINED
    STARS: Will Rogers Jr., Georgia Ellis, Parley Baer, Byron Kane, John Dehner,
    Mary McGovern, Will Wright, Virginia Gregg, John Stevenson
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    PHILO VANCE
    (Synd.)    2/7/50    Starring Jackson Beck in "The Chicken Murder Case"

    ROCKY JORDAN
    CBS    11/7/48    Jack Mayles a stars in "Count Me Out"

    THE SHADOW OF FU MANCHU
    (Synd.)    5/8/39    Gale Gordon and Hanley Stafford star in "Insidious Dr.
    Fu Mancnu"
    ====================================

    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Suspense - "The Butcher's Wife"
    originally aired February 9, 1950 on CBS
    Starring: Kirk Douglas, Harlow Wilcox announcing.
    Sponsor: Autolite
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "Suspense" was done by Jerry Haendiges.

    I Was a Communist for the [removed] - "The Red Octopus"
    originally aired June 10, 1953 via Frederick Ziv Syndication
    Starring: Dana Andrews.
    Sponsor: varied according to market

    My Friend Irma - "The Lonely Hearts Club"
    originally aired January 26, 1948 on CBS
    Starring: Marie Wilson, Cathy Lewis, John Brown, Hans Conreid, Gloria
    Gordon, Bea Benadaret, Frank Bingman announcing.
    Sponsor: Lever Brothers (Swan Soap)
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "My Friend Irma" was done by Jerry
    Haendiges.

    Our Miss Brooks- "The Wishing Well Dance"
    originally aired June 12, 1949 on CBS
    Starring: Eve Arden, Jane Morgan, Richard Crenna, Jeff Chandler, Leonard
    Smith, Gloria McMillan, Gale Gordon, Bob LeMond announcing.
    Sponsors: Palmolive Soap, Lustre Creme Shampoo
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "Our Miss Brooks" was done by Jerry
    Haendiges.

    The Great Gildersleeve - "Studying For Advancement"
    originally aired October 22, 1947 on NBC
    Starring: Harold Peary, Walter Tetley, Louise Erickson, Lillian Randolph,
    Earle Ross, Richard LeGrand, Pauline Drake, Willis Bouchey, John Wald
    announcing.
    Sponsor: Kraft Foods
    ==================================

    The RADIO Show

    RADIO HALL OF FAME SPECIAL: AND THE WINNERS [removed]

    A special show dedicated to the winners of the Pioneer Awards in the
    regional and national categorites of the 2005 Radio Hall of Fame.
    ===================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

         Jerry Haendiges

         Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
         The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
         Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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