Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #4
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Date: 1/5/2004 10:15 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 4
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      DUEL                                  [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      Etta Moten Barnett                    [ "RBB" <oldradio@[removed]; ]
      The Great Gildersleeve                [ "mike kerezman" <philipmarlowe@cfai ]
      1-5 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Horlick's                             [ Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@sbcglob ]
      Radio Mystery Theater                 [ William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed]; ]
      Captain Midnight Decoders             [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
      the song Happy Birthday               [ Jer51473@[removed] ]
      Helen Kleeb                           [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
      Horlicks                              [ "KDK" <kdkalit@[removed]; ]
      Jack Paar                             [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
      chicken heart                         [ "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed]; ]
      Lone Ranger questions                 [ "James Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
      Two members of "Candy Matson" series  [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
      Re: Horlicks                          [ Garry Lewis <glewis@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 5-11 Jan   [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Daily News Les Tremayne Obit          [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Need Reels converted to CD's          [ Tom Kleinschmidt <tomkle@[removed] ]
      RE: Captain Midnight's Equipment Add  [ [removed]@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 13:41:10 -0500
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  DUEL

       Steven Speilberg's career and mine own began at about the same time in
    1969/70 when the producer Jerrold Freedman at Universal Studios got us both a
    job in his show THE PSYCHIATRIST starring Roy Thinnes.
       The episode was called PAR FOR THE COURSE and co-starred Clu Gulager, with
    myself as a psychiatrist-in-training.
       We had met many times previously thru mutual friends so it was a surprise
    to both of us to be working together for the first time on the set at
    Universal.
        DUEL was to come later. He called and wanted me to play a part in it too
    but sadly, I was not available due to a previous commitment, tho I did
    receive a phone call at home from him alerting me to the fact that if I
    wanted to come along they were going to send a huge semi over a cliff in the
    desert that day and it might be fun.
        Couldn't make that either.
        When I saw the final product I was delighted and my belief in the
    intuitive directorial skills that I had experienced with him during my run
    with him were confirmed.
        Aside from some voice work in JAWS, I have not worked with him since and
    I miss his joyful fun-loving methods.
        It was Stephen who first suggested I do some writing after spinning yarns
    to one another, one of which ended up as SUGARLAND EXPRESS and I have now,
    just this last year, began to heed his advice, so maybe our time working
    together is not yet over.
               Michael C. Gwynne

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 13:42:00 -0500
    From: "RBB" <oldradio@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Etta Moten Barnett

    Actress Etta Motel Barnett has died at age 102 in Chicago.  In 1933, she was
    cast as a Brazilian entertainer who sang "The Carioca" while Fred Astaire
    and Ginger Rogers danced and she was nominated for an Academy Award for best
    song.  She also had the lead in the Broadway show "Zombie," appeared in
    "Porgy and Bess, dubbed songs for many actresses and sang a ballad in the
    Busby Berkeley film "Gold Diggers of 1933"

    Her voice caught the attention of President Franklin Roosevelt who invited
    her to sing at his White House birthday party. The Pittburgh Courier, a
    black newspaper, dubbed Barnett "the first Negro woman to play a dignified
    role in pictures." Harry Belafonte, speaking at her 100th birthday
    celebration said: "She gave black people an opportunity to look at
    themselves on a big screen as something beautiful when all that was there
    before spoke to our degradation."

    In addition to her stage, films, symphony concerts, and music festivals
    which continued until she retired in 1952, she later became involved with
    many Chicago civic organizations and hosted a radio show in Chicago.

    (Information from Deathwatch Central  [removed]   )

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 15:19:02 -0500
    From: "mike kerezman" <philipmarlowe@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Great Gildersleeve

    The Great Gildersleeve has always been one of my favorites non-dramatic
    shows. I was just curious how this show ended. I've heard enough Gildy shows
    to know he had several romances and Majorie got married and had twins. I was
    just wondering if there was a "final show" or just ended with the
    annoucement "This concludes the current series of [removed]". as a lot of
    programs ended in the late 1950s. Did Gildy ever get married, what about
    Leroy?

    Just Curous

    Mike Kerezman
    Macomb, Ok

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 15:22:28 -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"

    January 5th deaths

    02-17-1914 - Arthur Kennedy - Worcester, MA - d. 1-5-1990
    actor: "Best Plays"
    03-29-1902 - Onslow Stevens - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-5-1977
    actor: "Great Plays"
    04-15-1915 - Hans Conreid - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-5-1982
    actor: Professor Kropotkin "My Friend Irma"; Schultz "Life with Luigi"
    08-08-1905 - Ross Graham - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-5-1986
    singer: "Cities Service Concert"; "Show Boat"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:46:09 -0500
    From: Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Horlick's

    Michael Leannah wrote:

>        Unfortunately I have not found a source yet here in Wisconsin. I saw on
>     the Internet that the tablets are available at quite a cost. We'll have to
>     keep looking.

    If you live anywhere near a metropolitan area with an Asian or
    Indian/Pakistani population, check their grocery stores.  Horlick's is
    no longer made in the USA (although it is literally indistinguishable
    from Carnation plain malted milk), but it is made in England and
    India, and gets imported here to ethnic markets serving Asian and
    Indian/Pakistani communities.

    "Regular" Horlick's is a plain malted milk with no chocolate
    flavoring.  They also make a chocolate version that is somewhat more
    difficult to find.

    Michael Shoshani
    Chicago IL

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:09:56 -0500
    From: William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio Mystery Theater

    I note that the CBS Radio Mystery Theater is referred to as old time
    radio. It was not. It was recorded in much later days when the network
    had gone to all news. Probably around 1980. However it originated from
    the old CBS radio studios on 52nd Street across from the old "485
    Madison" studios. I believe that Columbia Records was using those studios
    at that time but I am not sure. My friends Marlin Swing was the associate
    director and Tom Sheahy was the engineer as I recall. I cannot quite
    recall the name of the recording engineer. As I do recall that the tape
    recorders were in the studio control room. Old time radio actors were
    used. However it was many, many years after the demise of the old time
    daily radio drama. I think that old timer Hi Brown was the director but I
    am not sure. At that time I was the engineer during the day for the CBS
    hourly radio news Monday through Friday from the "Milk Barn" on West 57th
    street near the river.

    The building was called that because it had formerly housed a large milk
    company, Sheffield's. "As the World Turns" also originated from a large
    studio there. Bill Brown, the sound effects engineer on World,  had a
    recording of cows "mooing" and during rehearsals would play it
    convincing,  and upsetting the very nervous director, old timer Ted
    Corday, that there were still cows in the building that had been left
    behind. (Bill had numerous practical jokes with which he would drive Ted
    bananas).

    Bill Murtough

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:22:12 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Captain Midnight Decoders

>     Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:13:32 -0500
>     From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];

>     The 1945 Code-O-Graph, the only one manufactured during the war, was the
>     first dated one, and its body was made of stamped sheet steel overcoated
>     with "gold" paint.

    Were any of the radio Code-O-Graphs made of plastic?  Both TV decoders were plastic.  I
    never sent for the first one for some reason, but I had (and still have) the second one, the
    1957 Silver Dart Decoder Badge.  It arrived badly cracked, and my attempts at gluing it
    made it even harder to use.  So I wrote a letter to Captain Midnight about it, and I received
    a new one shortly after.  Didn't even have to send another Ovaltine seal.

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

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:57:04 -0500
    From: Jer51473@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  the song Happy Birthday
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    Was it in violation of the copyright law when Marilyn sang it to JFK on tv
    back in 62-63?

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:59:14 -0500
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Helen Kleeb

    Actress Helen Kleeb who appeared on many radio shows died on December 28 of
    natural causes. She was 96 years old. Her last role was in 1997 as Miss
    Mamie Baldwin on the TV movie "A Walton Easter."

    Barbara

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:49:32 -0500
    From: "KDK" <kdkalit@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Horlicks

    Michael Leannah wrote:

>     Unfortunately I have not found a source yet here in Wisconsin. I saw on
>     the Internet that the tablets are available at quite a cost. We'll have to
>     keep looking.

    Michael,
    They seem to have regular & chocolate candy at the following:

    [removed]

    2 boxes of 27 for $[removed]; 5 boxes for $[removed]
    They call them Horlicks Malties, but reference the candy in the bottle, so
    I'm not sure if they are the same as back when we were kids.

    FYI, if you dod a Google search using keywords  horlicks malted    ,  you'll
    find a whole slew of sites with the candy and the malted milk powder.

    Enjoy.  Ken

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:51:17 -0500
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Paar

    Since there has been some discussion recently about Jack Paar on the radio,
    I thought I'd play one of his shows for anyone who hasn't had a chance to
    listen to one.

    Tune in Monday January 5 at midnight (to 3 am Tuesday) for Don't Touch that
    Dial on KPFK [removed] FM in southern California or streaming live at
    [removed]  I'll play the Jack Paar Show first for those of you who
    need your beauty sleep. :)  We'll also play a Sky King and a Molly Mystery
    Theater, plus a couple of shows featuring the late Les Tremayne.

    Barbara

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 19:13:31 -0500
    From: "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  chicken heart

    I was listening to a FOTR (Friends of Old Time Radio) production of
    chicken heart which apparently had been lost.  It solved a mystery I have
    wondered about for years.  I can remember having a copy of Drop Dead
    where the chicken heart was done.  There is talk at the end of that story
    about the world ending, which does not seem to be tied to anything else.
    Now that I have heard the lost script, I know that this belongs to the
    other version, that Obler adapted the story for the album from that
    script.  However, why he didn't remove that part which is tied to
    nothing, I don't know, but at least the mystery is finally solved.  Kurt

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:44:53 -0500
    From: "James Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lone Ranger questions

    In the last [removed] communicator, Rick Keating asks several questions
    about the Lone Ranger.  I'll take a crack at them, but I hope Anthony Tollin
    will respond, since he researched and wrote the notes that accompanied the
    Radio Spirits collection of 60 1952 programs that prompted Rick's questions.
    Yes, there are indeed some mis-labelled programs in the set.  I'll try to
    sort them out, but my set is the CD set, so I only have two episodes per
    disc.  Disc 5 contains "A Word of Advice", air date 1/21/52 and "In His
    Father's Footsteps", air date 1/23/52.  Disc 6 contains "Shadow od Death",
    air date 2/11/52 and "Snowbound", air date 2/13/52.  Disc 7 contains
    "Unwelcome Visitors", air date 1/25/52 and "The Coldcreek Case", air date
    2/8/52.  You can see that the air dates are not in series.  I don't know how
    this came about, other than carelessness on the part of Radio Spirits.
    As for other stations airing Lone Ranger dramas, this didn't happen once the
    program went on the air.  According to Dave Holland, in his book, "From Out
    of the Past", the only time such an experiment took place was when a Chicago
    station challenged WXYZ to see if it could do a better job on the
    transcriptions by performing them in Chicago rather than recording the
    performance in Detroit.  Francis X. Bushman acted the part of the masked
    rider.  The Detroit performance won hands down, and that was the end of
    that.
    Dave Holland also did a great deal of research, along with Terry Salomonson,
    on the original air date of the series.  Dave gives compelling evidence for
    the Feb. 2 date, however when it came time for the 20th anniversary program,
    it was pointedly broadcast on January 30, 1953.  So take your choice.
    Anthony Tollin can also tell you about "John" Reid.  A book about old radio
    that was published around 1966 perpetrated this misconception.  Frank
    Striker and George W. Trendle never authorized a first name for the
    character.  The 1981  movie picked it up and now everyone thinks the
    Ranger's first name was John.
    Lastly, the 1938 Republic serial used five Texas Rangers and killed them off
    one by one until only Ranger Allan King (Lee Powell) was left.  Striker
    never had anything to do with the serial, but by 1942 had begun to weave an
    origin story into his scripts that was loosely based on the ambush scenario
    that the Republic scriptwriters had come up with.  He named the character
    for good in the Dan Reid series, and that's where it stands officially.
    I do recommend to Rick getting hold of Dave Holland's wonderful book.  It
    will answer almost all of your questions regarding The Lone Ranger.

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 23:09:39 -0500
    From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Two members of "Candy Matson" series, RIP

    Two members of the production cast and crew of "Candy Matson, YUkon
    2-8209"  died the last week of December 2003.

    Helen Kleeb, who was in the supporting cast of nearly every episode,
    died December 28th at the age of 96. She had left radio about 1950,
    relocated to Hollywood, and was regularly seen on television shows and
    in motion pictures. Her last role was in 1997 as Miss Mamie Baldwin on
    the TV movie "A Walton Easter." She was last known to be retired in the
    Carolinas.  Her private services were held at Holy Cross Cemetery in
    Culver City, California.

    Bill Brownell, the senior soundman for NBC in San Francisco, was
    responsible for the sounds effects on virtually every episode of "Candy
    Matson."  He died at age 78 on December 30th in Northern California,
    where he and his wife lived in an assisted living complex. Brownell
    also relocated to the Hollywood area about 1950 and continued to do
    sound effects in television and radio for many years. Bill is survived
    by his wife, and their daughter, Randi.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 00:23:01 -0500
    From: Garry Lewis <glewis@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Horlicks

     Are we talking about the same product? There seems to be an English product
    by the same name.

    [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 08:39:31 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 5-11 Jan

     From Those Were The Days --

    05 January

    1935 - We proudly remind you that Phil Spitalny's All-Girl Orchestra was
    featured on CBS this day on the program, The Hour of Charm.  (ed- And
    who can ever forget Evelyn and her magic violin?)

    1940 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first
    demonstration of FM radio. The new medium, free of interference, static,
    and noise in thunderstorms, was developed by Major [removed] Armstrong. The
    first FM transmitter was put in operation in 1941.

    06 Jan

    1941 - A young actor appeared for the first time in a new program on CBS
    titled, The Home of the Brave. Along with others in the cast, this was
    Richard Widmark's radio debut.

    1950 - Ronald Coleman starred as the president of Ivy College in The
    Halls of Ivy.

    1974 - CBS radio returned to dramatic programming at night with the
    first broadcast of Radio Mystery Theatre, hosted by [removed] Marshall. The
    program debuted on 218 CBS network stations.

    07 Jan

    1926 - A famous marriage that endured for many years is remembered this
    day. It's the wedding anniversary of George Burns and Gracie Allen who
    were married by a Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, Ohio.

    1940 - The gate to Gene Autry's Melody Ranch opened. The 'singing
    cowboy' would entertain on CBS radio for the next 16 years.

    1941 - The NBC Blue network presented the first installment of Inner
    Sanctum.

    1950 - Ernest Tubb made his first appearance at The Grand Ole Opry in
    Nashville, TN. Ernest also did a 15-minute radio program each day that
    became very popular in West Texas. So popular, in fact, that he bought
    the radio station that had aired the program for years and years:
    KGKL in San Angelo, Texas.

    10 Jan

    1943 - The quiz show, The Better Half, was first heard on Mutual this
    day. The program brought four married couples to compete in stunts
    involving traditional concepts of 'manhood' and 'womanhood'.

    11 Jan

    1947 - Amazing Mr. Malone (aka Murder and Mr. Malone) starring Frank
    Lovejoy, debuted on ABC.

    Joe

    --
    Visit my slightly updated (1/1/04) homepage:
    [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 08:52:15 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Daily News Les Tremayne Obit

    David Hinckley of The New York Daily News memorializes Les Tremayne in
    today's edition.

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:35:45 -0500
    From: Tom Kleinschmidt <tomkle@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Need Reels converted to CD's

    Happy New Year to All, Harry Machin Jr beat me to the punch with looking
    for someone to convert his tapes into MP3's. I have a similar offer to
    make, but I am looking for someone to make audio CD's for me in exchange
    for my reels and cassettes. I have a collection of about 2,100 reel tapes,
    mostly recorded at 3 3/4 IPS with some at 7 1/2 IPS. Most have 4-6 hours on
    each reel. I also have about 1,400 cassettes I would also like transferred
    to audio CD's. I have a good variety of everything although I don't have a
    lot of westerns or soaps. I really need to free up the space in my basement
    and I just don't have the time to do all the conversions myself. Please
    contact me off list for more details if you are interested in working with
    me on this and I can point you to my web site with a listing of my collection.

    Tom

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    Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:14:16 -0500
    From: [removed]@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: Captain Midnight's Equipment Address
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    I'm sorry to be so tardy with all this, but I'm just beginning to get caught
    up with some elderly digests.

    I'm surprised to hear that the Captain Midnight address before 1949 didn't
    have the postal zone included, because I remember that the post office was
    fanatical about users including the zone in the address. Anyhow, Chicago had
    about 50 zones, and any number like '77' referred to a special address that
    was either for a particular building downtown, or some sort of post office
    caller. I remember many mail-in offers were addressed to zone 77 or zone 90.
    I think there were a couple more, but I don't remember the numbers.

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