Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #251
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 251
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Ya pays yer dues                      [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      RE- Finding Portable CD MP3 Boombox   [ Trinapreston3@[removed] ]
      Fibber and the War                    [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
      The Front Page 1970 Broadcast         [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
      Transcription Discs                   [ Dick Fisher <w9fjl@[removed]; ]
      8-31 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:09:16 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ya pays yer dues

    Dear Bill-

>     In a message dated 8/30/2007 12:18:24 [removed] Eastern Daylight Time,

    [removed]@[removed] writes:

>     I can't accept that virtually  EVERY show was done with uber-experienced
>     radio actors who dashed into the  studio at broadcast time and just sight
>     read every script, leaving for  another soap 15 minutes later.

    I've done modern audio drama for several different directors and producers,
    and have been blessed to work on recreations with numerous Vets of network era
     radio, at FOTR and elsewhere.

    I think that the situation you describe was VERY rare; most directors
    "covered their own (blanks)" better than that! The scenario you describe is
    recipe
    for a bad show; enough bad shows, and said director is out of a  job.

    In some cases there was a Table Read, then a Mic Dress, before broadcast;  at
    the least, a fast Cold Read to give notes (how else would a director have a
    chance to direct?)

    (Of course, you do hear of exceptions with overloaded stars, ala Orson
    Welles or Cliff Arquette; and occasionally, actors hired another to sit in
    and
    take notes for them.)

    Most Vets will still tell you, that good work back then happened the  same
    way that it does today: by effort, not by mystical sleight-of-hand.

    Best,
    -Craig Wichman

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    Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:09:48 -0400
    From: Trinapreston3@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE- Finding Portable CD MP3 Boombox
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    I hope I am not to late in helping one of the readers in OTR Digest.  A
    reader ask a cope of weeks ago about finding a portable radio that plays MP3
    CDs
    for a sick friend.  I found a web site that has a Coby portable MP3 cd playing
    boombox for $[removed]  The website is J&[removed]  It plays audio cassettes to small
    and attractive radio.  the web page to see this radio is:
    _[removed]
    ([removed])    Coby Model
    #cobyMPCD450

                                  Trina,

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    Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:24:39 -0400
    From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Fibber and the War

    Thanks to R R King for the info about the origin of the Fibber McGee & Molly
    war-related shows.  I still think they were perhaps the only regular
    entertainment show on the air who did so many shows where homefront war
    efforts were the featured plot line.

    Ted

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    Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:48:18 -0400
    From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Front Page 1970 Broadcast

    There was apparently a commercial radio or tv broadcast of this play by
    Hecht and MacArthur in 1970, featuring Robert Ryan, George Grizzard and
    others who had been appearing at that time in a stage production.  Are
    any recordings available?  (There is also a record album made at that
    time or earlier with a similar cast, but that's something different.)

    --Martin Fass

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    Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:48:18 -0400
    From: Dick Fisher <w9fjl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Transcription Discs

    Many thanks to the person who directed us to the December, 1938 Popular
    Mechanics Magazine article on transcription disc manufacture.  I found
    it most fascinating as I own a small number of these discs.

    The article states that  "Lateral-cut transcriptions reproduce within
    the forty to 6,500 cycle range. Vertically recorded transcriptions
    extend the limit to 8,500 cycles ---"

    I have always been curious as to what the "real" frequency range is that
    was captured on these discs.  It seems to me in listening to violin
    music on my transcription discs that the range is far above the 8,500
    cycles listed.  I would guess that the disc captured at least to 15,000
    cycles and maybe higher with good reproduction even at the higher range.
    That is, even at the higher range the level recorded was nearly equal to
    the level of the original material with very little drop off. Was the
    article in error or am I?

    Any audio experts out there that can answer this question?

    Thanks.

    Dick

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    Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:28:18 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-31 births/deaths

    August 31st births

    08-31-1886 - L. Wolfe Gilbert - Odessa, Russia - d. 7-12-1970
    pianist: WEAF New York City
    08-31-1897 - Fredric March - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1975
    actor: "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    08-31-1897 - Sidney Ellstrom - Chicago, IL - d. 7-xx-1968
    actor: "Captain Midnight"; "Flying Patrol"; "Lights Out"
    08-31-1898 - Jack Ward - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-26-1973
    organist: "Gangbusters"; "Magnificent Montague"
    08-31-1900 - Cedric Foster - Hartford, CT - d. 3-6-1975
    commentator: "News and Commentary"
    08-31-1900 - Larry Elliott - Washington, [removed] - d. 7-27-1957
    announcer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "American Melody Hour"; "Barry
    Cameron"
    08-31-1903 - Arthur Godfrey - NYC - d. 3-16-1983
    emcee: (The Old Redhead) "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Arthur Godfrey's
    Talent Scouts"
    08-31-1905 - Dory Schary - Newark, NJ - d. 7-7-1980
    writer: "America Calling"; "The Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Hall of Fame"
    08-31-1906 - Ruth Weston - Boston, MA - d. 11-5-1955
    actor: Maude Kellogg "Life Can Be Beautiful"
    08-31-1907 - Winifred Cecil - Staten Island, NY - d. 9-13-1985
    singer: "Show Boat"
    08-31-1908 - William Saroyan - Fresno, CA - d. 5-18-1981
    writer: "Columbia Workshop"; "The Free Company"; "Biography in Sound"
    08-31-1911 - Walter Paterson - Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia - d. 9-
    xx-1942
    actor: Reggie York "I Love A Mystery"; Nicholas Lacy "One Man's Family"
    08-31-1914 - Richard Basehart - Zanesville, OH - d. 9-17-1984
    actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Preview"
    08-31-1916 - Daniel Schoor - NYC
    correspondent, commentator: "Edward R. Murrow and the News"
    08-31-1917 - Burleigh Robbins Downey, Jr. - d. 3-1-2000
    news director: "You are the Jury"
    08-31-1918 - Alan Jay Lerner - NYC - d. 6-14-1986
    writer: "Victor Borge"; "Raleigh Room"; "Philco Hall of Fame"

    August 31st deaths

    01-22-1906 - Guy Savage - d. 8-31-1981
    announcer: "Play Broadcast"
    02-01-1895 - John Ford - Cape Elizabeth, ME - d. 8-31-1973
    director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    03-19-1890 - Gayne Whitman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1958
    actor, announcer: Frank Chandler "Chandu the Magician"; "Cavalcade of
    America"
    03-28-1913 - Lucille Fletcher - NYC - d. 8-31-2000
    dramatist: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    03-29-1908 - Dennis O'Keefe - Fort Madison, IA - d. 8-31-1968
    actor: Treasure Agent Larsen "T-Man"
    03-30-1916 - Will Hare - Elkins, WV - d. 8-31-1997
    actor: "Words at War"; "New World A' Coming"; "Mysterious Traveler"
    04-20-1908 - Lionel Hampton - Louisville, KY - d. 8-31-2002
    vibraphone artist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"; "Lionel Hampton and
    His Orchestra"
    04-28-1908 - Michael Fitzmaurice - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1967
    actor: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; Dick Grosvenor
    "Stella Dallas"
    05-08-1914 - Carmen Matthews - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-31-1995
    actor: "There Is No Light"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-27-1901 - David Stone - Savannah, GA - d. 8-31-1995
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    xx-xx-1893 - Oscar Bradley - London, England - d. 8-31-1948
    orchestra leader: "The Phil Baker Show"; "Gulf Screen Guild Theatre"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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