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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2018 : Issue 48
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 19-25 Aug  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  CHANDU Mysteries!                     [ "Len K." <ljk2476@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 26 August  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:17:31 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 19-25 August

 From Today in History (New York Times)

8/19

In 1929, Amos and Andy, starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll,
made its network debut on NBC.

8/22

1947   After many years as a 15 minute daily serial, Jack Armstrong, the
All American Boy, was heard for the first time as a 30 minute feature on
ABC. Remember, if you want to grow up to be big and strong like Jack
Armstrong, keep these three rules in mind: Get plenty of sleep, fresh
air and exercise. Make a friend of soap and water, because dirt breeds
germs and germs can make people sickly and weak. And for sound
nourishment and keen flavor, eat a big bowlful of Wheaties, the
Breakfast of Champions, with plenty of milk or cream and some type of fruit.

8/24

1950 - The summer replacement radio show for "Suspense", titled
"Somebody Knows", was heard for the final time on radio. The program
offered a reward of $5,000 ($51,769 in 2017 dodllars) information that
led to the solving of crimes. "Somebody Knows" began with the
introduction, "You out there. You, who think you have committed the
perfect crime -- that there are no clues, no witnesses -- listen.
Somebody knows."

8/25

1949   NBC debuted Father Knows Best. The Thursday night program aired
for five years. Robert Young played the role of Jim Anderson, the ever
patient father. The rest of the family included wife Margaret, son Bud
and lovely daughters Betty (the eldest) and Kathy. The family lived on
Maple Street in Springfield.

Joe

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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:17:39 -0400
From: "Len K." <ljk2476@[removed];
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Subject:  CHANDU Mysteries!
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I haven't posted here for awhile, but I have I have been checking in here as
much as I can  (strangely enough, being a working man with a family seems to
eat up a lot of my time). Our CHANDU book project has been on "the back
burner" for awhile, but thanks to recent efforts of researcher Karl Schadow,
601 of missing 1930s CHANDU scripts have been found at the Library of
Congress. Our job is to go through them, because no episode chapter titles or
broadcast dates are noted on them. It's going to be quite a job! 601 scripts
is certainly an odd number, but hopefully, that mystery will be solved when
we go through the material,

In the meantime, we are also trying to clear up a few little mysteries
surrounding CHANDU and maybe somebody here can help us out. Thanks also to
Karl, we now have more information on the short-lived CHANDU broadcasts done
in Chicago on WGlN in 1935. We were under the impression that the scripts
done for that series were new, but - from what we can tell - they were
recycled scripts from a story midway through the CHANDU saga written by Vera
Oldham. Somehow, they were produced for Anne and Frank Hummert's company, but
we have no evidence that any of the episodes were rewritten or changed by the
Hummert writing staff. Blair Walliser produced the series, but we have no
idea (as of yet) if he also directed the series. According to the Chicago
Tribune and other Chicago papers, the show was to have run for 68 episodes
but only 65 scripts are in the Hummert archives. So, that is one mystery that
we'd like to clear up.

Another mystery is a 1980s newspaper "filler" piece of a nostalgia "Trivia
Contest" in which one of the topics was that Jason Robards once played CHANDU
on radio. According to the article, this was true, but we've found NO
verification for it. We assume they mean Jason Robards, Sr.  who had a long
career as a character actor in movies and TV - starting his career in the
early 1930s - about the time the original Los Angeles version of CHANDU was
still on the air. We don't think he ever filled in for Gayne Whitman for that
series, or for Howard Hoffman in the Chicago series. There was, however, a
CHANDU series in Canada in 1936. We wonder if he might have been in that
production?

If anybody here could clear up mystery on the Chicago CHANDU shows or Jason
Robards ([removed]}' connections with CHANDU - if any - we would be grateful! -
Lenny Kohl

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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 11:57:10 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 26 August to 1
 September

 From Those Were The Days

8/26

1939   Arch Oboler's Plays presented the NBC Symphony, for the first
time, as the musical backdrop for the drama, This Lonely Heart.

8/28

1922   The first paid commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on
WEAF in New York City. Announcer [removed] Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne
Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The
Queensboro Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called
Toll Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T, sold their block programming,
five one minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 ($745 in 2017
dollars) plus long distance toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company
paid $100 ($1490 in 2017 *) for 10 minutes of commercial airtime.
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1938    The first degree given to a ventriloquist's dummy is awarded to
Charlie McCarthy  Edgar Bergen's wooden partner. The honorary degree,
"Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback," is presented on radio by Ralph
Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University.

8/30

1951   Screen Directors' Playhouse was heard for the final time on NBC.
The program had featured some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

8/31

1941   The Great Gildersleeve, a spin off of Fibber McGee and Molly,
started on NBC.

1942   "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Wow! The amazing
power of Kryptonite in the hands of kids! Bud Collyer, later of TV's
Beat the Clock and To Tell The Truth, played Clark Kent aka Superman on
the series.

9/1

1922   The first daily news program on radio was The Radio Digest, on
WBAY. The program, hosted by George F. Thompson, the program's editor,
originated from New York City.

Joe

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