Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #250
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Date: 8/18/2005 9:53 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 250
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      A & C routines                        [ Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@earthlin ]
      CORDOVA                               [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      RE: Smokey Stover                     [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
      Smokey Stover and Columbia Square     [ Jodie Peeler <raisingirl@mindspring ]
      Edgar Guest House                     [ Clif Martin <martbart@[removed]; ]
      KNX goodbye/lung cancer               [ "bcockrum" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
      8-18 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH                  [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      OTR School Theme List!                [ Trinapreston3@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:50:52 -0400
    From: Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  A & C routines

    So, everyone, how can we arrange to obtain a recording of "Who's on first",
    "Mudder", "Loafer" and any other similar routines?  I for one, 'though not as
    big an Abbott and Costello fan as I am for Laurel and Hardy (but that would
    be difficult), would dearly love to obtain such!  Help!

    Lee Munsick

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    Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:28:13 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  CORDOVA

    Cordova did the 'warm-up' for the Tonight Show, right up to the point
    Severnson started playing the opening theme.

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    Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:23:32 -0400
    From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Smokey Stover

>     "The Little King" and "Smokey Stover" when I was mentioning Notary Sojack.
>     Hardly anyone remembers either comic strip anymore,

    Judging by the number of replies, it seems that at least a few of us on this
    list remember good ol' Smokey.

    B. Ray

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    Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:41:19 -0400
    From: Jodie Peeler <raisingirl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Smokey Stover and Columbia Square

    hello all --

    The recent discussion of "Smokey Stover" reminds me of another
    contemporary by the same name.  If you've ever seen the 1944 documentary
    "The Fighting Lady," filmed in large part aboard the carrier USS
    Yorktown, one of the folks the film follows is a SBD Dauntless
    dive-bomber pilot named Elisha T. Stover, nicknamed "Smokey."  He was
    shot down over Truk and executed by the Japanese in 1944.  Aboard the
    Yorktown (now a museum near Charleston, SC), the movie theatre built
    into the forward elevator well is known as the Smokey Stover Memorial
    Theatre.  "The Fighting Lady" is a regular feature there.

    And Conrad Binyon wrote, regarding Columbia Square:

>     Boulevard, Hollywood, California by CBS I wondered if the company's
>     historical staff ever compiled a picture record kept of all the
>     displays and events that took place in the open space that existed
>     between the two west and east oriented building wings of he 'Square.'

    Somewhere around here I have some tiny snapshots I found years ago in an
    antique store, in a box of postcards.  One is of NBC's old Hollywood
    facility and the other was that courtyard at Columbia Square.  You can
    clearly see the sign denoting one section as the "KNX Victory Garden."

>     Later in life I was to become acquainted with the two test pilots,
>     Tony LeVier and Herman 'Fish' Salmon that helped develop the ship.

    And, as Lee Munsick can tell you, Tony LeVier has a special guest
    appearance in the classic film "Flying With Godfrey" film, where Mr.
    Godfrey shared the screen with a beautiful Eastern Air Lines Super
    Constellation.  (In a sad piece of symmetry, "Fish" Salmon was killed
    many years later in the crash of a Super Constellation.)

    Sorry for the airplane geekiness, but that's the other hat I wear!  :)

    Jodie Peeler

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    Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:18:37 -0400
    From: Clif Martin <martbart@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Edgar Guest House

    Fibber and Molly may have had an Edgar Guest Bedroom ... and isn't that just
    the kind of delicious word play that Don Quinn put into those F and M
    scripts.  But WJR, the great voice of the great lakes from the golden tower
    of the Fisher building in Detroit had a whole "Guest House."  That was the
    name of a live music show that lasted well after most stations had become
    news and talk. I went downtown to watch the show a time or two.   The emcee
    was Bud Guest, Edgar Junior.  He followed in the old man's footsteps as a
    newspaper man and radio talker. Before "Guest House" became his show he was
    featured on his "Sunny side of the street" upbeat commentary show.   I have
    the WJR 50th anniversary Lp and souvenir book that I might part with if
    somebody made me an offer too good to turn down. To put it politely, Edgar's
    poetry was not highly regard in serious literarly circles but he was  beloved
    in Michigan.  When I was in elementsary school in what was then the very
    rural village of Warren, Michigan, Edgar came to my school and read his
    poems.  A memorable day for a Michigan kid.  Warren now has trhe Edgar Guest
    branch library.  So thank goodness old Eddie is still well remembered by one
    or two of  us old  coots.

    Clif Martin

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    Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:38:40 -0400
    From: "bcockrum" <rmc44@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  KNX goodbye/lung cancer

    I appreciated Herb Harrison's report on the KNX farewell to Columbia Square
    broadcast. It was midnight here when the program came on and way past my
    bedtime, even for a weekend. It surprised me (sort of) that they spent any
    time on that psychic nonsense and the "ghosts" of OTR stars roaming the
    halls. But then, that report from the company's Ch. 9 made much of silliness
    when the considerable time they spent on the story could have been better
    devoted to much more substance (at least, more substance for folk such as
    ourselves). Well, after all, it is (was) Hollywood.

    I've been away and while I haven't heard/seen/read all the things said about
    Peter Jennings in the general media or in this digest, I was disappointed in
    the reports about other well-knowns who have died of lung cancer ... they
    mentioned Yul Brynner, Nat "King" Cole, Desi Arnaz and some others ... but
    they missed the "news" connection, Edward R. Murrow and Chet Huntley, among
    them.

    Bob C.

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    Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:02:58 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-18 births/deaths

    August 18th births

    08-18-1873 - Otto Harbach - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 1-24-1963
    songwriter: "Music for Millions"; "Railroad Hour"
    08-18-1879 - Gus Edwards - Hohensaliza, Germany - d. 11-7-1945
    songwriter: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
    08-18-1896 - Alan Mowbray - London, England - d. 3-26-1969
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Forecast"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    08-18-1900 - Walter O'Keefe - Hartford, CT - d. 6-26-1983
    comedian, emcee: "Camel Caravan"; "Town Hall Tonight"; "Double or Nothing"
    08-18-1907 - Enoch Light - Canton, OH - d. 7-31-1978
    bandleader: "BMI Pin Up Platter"
    08-18-1908 - Bernard Prockter - d. 5-xx-1986
    producer: "Big Story"; "Crime Cases of Warden Lawes"; "Quick as a Flash"

    August 18th deaths

    04-22-1909 - Ralph Byrd - Dayton, OH - d. 8-18-1952
    singer, actor: Local and Hollywood radio
    04-26-1893 - Anita Loos - Sisson (now Mt. Shasta), CA - d. 8-18-1981
    playwright: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-17-1905 - Anne Teeman - New York - d. 8-18-1991
    actress: Sally Gibson "The Gibson Family"; Joyce "The Goldbergs"
    06-17-1921 - Ben Morris - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 8-18-1982
    actor: Pat Novak "Pat Novak for Hire"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Theresa Helburn - d. 8-18-1959
    producer: Was the guiding light of "Theatre Guild on the Air"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:45:09 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH

    Score credited to Walter Schuman, who claims to have written the famous 4
    notes of the Dragnet theme.  These 4 notes were heard in Noose, but the
    real credit for that infamous bar of music belongs to the finest ever
    movie mood maker, Miklos Rozsa.

    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:54:23 -0400
    From: Trinapreston3@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR School Theme List!
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    I am trying to create a OTR list of shows that have a school related episode
    or theme.  I didn't come across much on the Internet, but I was wondering if
    any of the readers have a listing of shows with a school related themes they
    would like to share that I could add to my list.  I love to create theme
    related
    list of otr shows, it makes it very easy to find or play your OTR collection,
    when an occasion such as back-to-school fever hits you, just before the Labor
    Day Holiday.  I generally search in my collection in August to find a show
    that had a school theme for example:    Lux Radio Theatre "Goodbye Mr. Chips
    11/20/39,  My Favorite Husband "Liz Goes to Night School"  11/18/50,  Dragnet
    "Big Knife" 5/11/50,  Our Miss Brooks "School on Saturday"  I listen to these
    shows through the month of September to welcome that feel for back-to-school.
    It
    makes things fun by the month to theme.  If any of the readers have composed
    a list of there own favorite school related shows they would like to share or
    suggest I add to my list feel free to suggest.  It can be any school
    situation, bad grades, suspension, detention, crime, college life, debate
    teams,
    teachers, school crushes.  Any can help.

            Trina,

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