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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 61
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  ADVICE AND NEWS                       [ David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed] ]
  Mr. Keen                              [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
  3-7 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  "Because the pictures are better"     [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
  Bob Newhart Salutes Jack Benny        [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  OTR spoofs                            [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:17:45 -0500
From: David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed];
To: OTR DIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  ADVICE    AND  NEWS

First, the news.
A fortuitous series of events has led to the recent surfacing of a
number of rare WITCH'S TALE  transcription discs.

For years the discs lay undisturbed in the attic of a house formerly
owned by the program's creator, Alonzo Deen Cole.  For the past 30
years, they were the property of a prominent radio historian.  A
number of these transcriptions were produced in Australia for airing
in that county and are now on their way back home.  Fans with a
particular interest in the American version of this program can
expect to see the remaining discs being offered for sale in the very
near future.

I'm seeking advice.
I've been entrusted with the responsibility of helping an older
couple find a home for a bunch of 16 inch NBC transcription discs
featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in
mostly Beethoven concerts that were broadcast live in the United
States in the mid-1940s and then rebroadcast via these transcription
discs to various South American countries.  I'm not a transcription
collector and I don't know too many people who have an interest in
classical music. If there any Digest  subscribers who can offer me
some advice with regard to how to help the family I would be happy to
hear from you.

  Dave Siegel

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:36:53 -0500
From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mr. Keen

Jim Cox's sly and informative answer aside, I think this topic
has come up before and most everyone agreed the show that many of
us remember in the '50s was really awful - at least we know that
now, even if we didn't recognize it as kids.

Funny thing is that the terrible plots and writing survived when
shows like Sam Spade, Richard Diamond, Johnny Dollar had lifted
the genre somewhat above the (not so) Keen production. Why did
CBS even allow it on the air?

With the all the manipulations going on - the 15-minute formats
for Fibber and Molly, Gildersleeve, Johnny D. and Keen - it is
evident network radio was dying, but the Keen contribution? That
was death without dignity.

Up until 1956, when the family got a TV set, I really didn't
appreciate what was going on. I just knew that more and more of
my favorites on radio were disappearing.

Bob Cockrum

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:12:36 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-7 births/deaths

March 7th births

03-07-1878 - Percy Hemus - Auckland, New Zealand - d. 12-22-1943
actor: Dr. Winslow "Road of Life"; Old Wrangler "Tom Mix"
03-07-1880 - Sidney Scott Booth - Birmingham, England - d. 3-5-1946
radio performer
03-07-1886 - Ray Largay - Wisconsin - d. 9-28-1974
actor: Mr. Farnum "Ma Perkins"; Frederick Nelson "Young Widder Brown"
03-07-1889 - Lula Vollmer - Keyser, NC - d. 5-2-1955
writer: "Moonshine and Honeysuckle"
03-07-1890 - George H. Shackley - Quincy, MA - d. 10-25-1959
conductor/composer: "Ava Maria Hour"; "Homemaker's Exchange"
03-07-1905 - Ruth Freed Akst - Vancouver, Canada - d. 8-7-1989
composer/violinist lead singing and instrumental trio on radio
03-07-1906 - Edward Mabley - Binghampton, NY - d. 12-16-1984
writer: "The American School of the Air"
03-07-1906 - Louis Pelletier - NYC - d. 2-11-2000
writer: "The FBI in Peace and War"
03-07-1907 - George Beck - NYC - d. 10-6-1999
screenwriter: "Good News of 1939"; "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"
03-07-1913 - Smokey Montgomery - Rinard, IA - d. 6-6-2001
banjo picker: (Member of the Light Crust Dough Boys) "Columbia's
Country Caravan"
03-07-1916 - Vivian Smolen - d. 6-11-2006
actor: Laurel Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"; Sunday Brinthrope "Our Gal
Sunday"
03-07-1917 - Hubert Bisping - d. 7-26-1992
newscaster: KUTA Salt Lake City, Utah
03-07-1921 - Elanor Summerfield - London, England - d. 7-13-2001
actor: "Many a Slip"
03-07-1923 - Arthur Julian - Memphis, TN - d. 1-30-1995
writer: "The Beulah Show"
03-07-1925 - Rene Gagnon - Manchester, NH - d. 10-12-1979
raiser of second flag on Iwo Jima:: "Interview programs"
03-07-1925 - Richard Vernon - Reading, England - d. 12-4-1997
actor: Slartibartfast "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
03-07-1929 - Marion Marlowe - St. Louis, MO
singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"
03-07-1934 - Willard Scott - Alexandria, VA
disc jockey: (The Joy Boys)
03-07-1937 - Anne Kristen - Scotland - d. 8-7-1996
actor: "Carver"

March 7th deaths

01-01-1913 - Norman Rosten - d. 3-7-1995
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "An American in Russia"
01-01-1916 - Earl Wrightson - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-7-1993
singer: "Highways in Melody"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
02-18-1914 - Pee Wee King - Abrams, WI - d. 3-7-2000
singer, songwriter, accordionist: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Pee Wee King Show"
03-06-1914 - Kiril Kondrashin - Moscow, Russia - d. 3-7-1981
conductor: "Van Cliburn Concert"
03-23-1910 - Paula Winslowe - Grafton, ND - d. 3-7-1996
actor: Peg Riley "Life of Riley"; Jill "Joe E. Brown Show"
03-25-1903 - Frankie Carle - Providence, RI - d. 3-7-2001
bandleader, pianist: "Pot o' Gold"; "Treasure Chest"
05-18-1904 - Jacob K. Javits - NYC - d. 3-7-1986
[removed] senator new york: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
05-24-1880- Arthur "Doc" Bagley - d. 3-7-1952
father of radio excercise programs
07-23-1910 - Nat Brandywine - NYC - d. 3-7-1978
pianist, bandleader: "Wonderful City"
08-21-1882 - Helen Carew - Kansas - d. 3-7-1980
actor: Vera Johnson "Stella Dallas"; "Mrs. Mitchell "Barry Cameron"
08-23-1924 - Frank Pacelli - d. 3-7-1997
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Sportsman Club"; "War Town"
09-12-1901 - Ben Blue - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 3-7-1975
actor, comedian: "Hollywood Hotel"
10-20-1927 - Priscilla Lyon - Washington County, NC - d. 3-7-1980
actor: Corliss Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"; Amy Foster "Those We Love"
11-05-1879 - Will Hays - Sullivan, IN - d. 3-7-1954
puritanical censor: "Republican National Convention 1948"; "A Tribute
to FDR"
11-14-1926 - Leonie Rysanek - Vienna, Austria - d. 3-7-1998
soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
12-24-1916 - Morton Fine - d. 3-7-1991
writer: "Bold Venture"; "Broadway Is My Beat"; "The Front Page"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 08:21:34 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Because the pictures are better"

The NY Times obituary for Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons
([removed]),
included an interesting quote at the end, in which Gygax apparently
takes credit for the old say about a kid saying he prefers radio over
TV because the pictures are better. (Does anybody know the actual
origin of that story? I imagine any origin is apocryphal.)

Kermyt

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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:04:45 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bob Newhart Salutes Jack Benny
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TV comedian Bob Newhart salute's Jack Benny's influence in this Winnipeg Sun
article.

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Sean Dougherty
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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:07:06 -0500
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR spoofs
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There is a spoof of Straight Arrow with the cast . It's available.

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