Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #6
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Date: 1/8/2009 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 6
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Ring A Ding!                          [ Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed] ]
      1-7 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Remarkable On-Air Fluffs          [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
      OTR on TV on Web                      [ david degerald <ddegerald@[removed] ]
      Barrymore                             [ Robert Everest <erest@[removed]; ]
      Re: radio about radio                 [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      Re: Cleaning ETs                      [ rand@[removed] ]
      Re: Radio Shows abot Radio            [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
      Cigarette and Smoking in the Plots/D  [ "Beito, David" <dbeito@[removed] ]
      RE: How about some radio shows about  [ "Marty" <martyd64@[removed]; ]
      1-8 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: On air flubs                      [ drwatsonrnb@[removed] ]
      re: How about some radio shows about  [ Dan <teac35@[removed]; ]
      Re: Live Flubs                        [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      OTR in the News                       [ seandd@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:07:32 -0500
    From: Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ring A Ding!

    Howard Blue, comenting on my posting on the Captain Midnight radio show,
    notes,

>     Although I don't recall the radio version, the TV one affectd me to the
>     point where I named my first dog "Cap" and ever since I lost my "glows in
>     the dark decoder ring with the secret compartment" (1950?) I have been
>     looking for it.

    Actually, the Captain Midnight radio program only offered "decoders,"
    called Code-O-Graphs, in either badge or pocket form; never a ring.  The
    TV show offered two, called Decoder Pins, both made of plastic.

    However, the Sky King radio program in 1949, offered the Magni-Glo
    Writing Ring, a "fits any finger" ring with a crownpiece with a secret
    compartment, a glow-in-the-dark piece of plastic, and a miniature
    ballpoint pen with which to write messages.  The same year, the program
    also offered the Sky King Spy=Detecto Writer, probably one of the most
    multifunction radio premiums ever offered.  It had a cipher disk
    ("decoder") , an inch scale, a magnifier, and even a printing
    arrangement.  It was a pocket item, though it fit a bit awkwardly.

    There was never a true Decoder Ring offered as a radio premium.  However,
    the PF tennis shoes people offered a "Magic Ring" in the 1960s, which was
    a cryptological premium.  It was associated with the Jonny Quest
    television show.  Outside of being made entirely of plastic, the PF ring
    was much like the earlier radio premiums, even to the point of having a
    secret compartment!  The PF ring is rather rare, and getting one in prime
    condition would probably cost $100 or more, if a collector is lucky, but
    it was as ingeniously designed as its predecessor.  (In 2000, Ovaltine
    offered a Secret Decoder Ring, advertising it on their container labels.
    It was designed with a huge crownpiece, with the cipher elements looking
    much like the Radio Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pins or the
    Captain Midnight Code-O-Graph badges.)

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:06:15 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-7 births/deaths

    January 7th births

    01-07-1873 - Adolph Zukor - Ricse, Austria-Hungary - d. 6-10-1976
    film executive: "Time Capsule"; "Flashback"; "Cavalcade of Stars"
    01-07-1887 - H. Leopold Spitalny - Odessa, Ukraine - d. 10-14-1971
    conductor: "Goin' To Town"; "Serenade to America"; "Vest Pocket
    Varieties"
    01-07-1888 - Myrtle Vail Damerel - Joilet, IL - d. 9-18-1978
    actor: Myrtle Spear "Myrt and Marge"
    01-07-1889 - H. R. Baukhage - La Salle, IL - d. 1-31-1976
    commentator: "Four Star News"; "News and Comments"
    01-07-1896 - Arnold Ridley - Bath, Somerset, England - d. 3-12-1984
    actor: Arthur 'Doughy' Hood "The Archers"; Charles Godfrey "Dad's Army"
    01-07-1896 - Marjorie Crossland - d. 11-xx-1954
    actor: "Myrt and Marge"
    01-07-1898 - Art Baker - NYC - d. 8-26-1966
    announcer, emcee: "People Are Funny"; "Dinah Shore Show"
    01-07-1900 - Malcolm Uren - Hindmarsh, South Australia - d. 7-22-1973
    writer: "The Stirling Story"
    01-07-1900 - Mary Lewis - Hot Springs, AR - d. 12-31-1941
    soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    01-07-1903 - Alan Napier - Birmingham, England - d. 8-8-1988
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
    01-07-1903 - Betty Hanna - d. 10-25-1976
    actor: Deborah Matthews "Ma Perkins"; Luella Hayworth "Step Mother"
    01-07-1906 - Betty Bolton - England - d. 4-2-2005
    performed on British radio in the 1930s
    01-07-1908 - Eliot Daniel - Massachusetts - d. 12-6-1997
    music: "Fabulous Dr. Tweddy"; "The King's Men"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
    01-07-1910 - Joe Bigelow - d. 2-20-1976
    writer, producer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-07-1913 - Shirley Ross - Omaha, NE - d. 3-9-1975
    actor, singer: "Raleigh and Kool Cigarette Program with Tommy Dorsey"
    01-07-1922 - Vincent Gardenia - Naples, Italy - d. 12-9-1992
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    01-07-1929 - Terry Moore - Los Angeles, CA
    actor: Shirley 'Bumps' Smith "Smiths of Hollywood"
    01-07-1930 - Douglas Kiker - Griffin, KS - d. 8-14-1991
    nbc newsman: "Meet the Press"
    01-07-1933 - Lee Evans - The Bronx, NY
    pianist: "Voices of Vista"
    01-07-1937 - Ron Chudley - Dunedin, New Zealand
    writer: "CBC Stage"

    January 7th deaths

    01-28-1904 - Irene Beasley - Whitehaven TN - d. 1-7-1980
    actor: Old Dutch Girl "Red Hook 31"
    02-08-1905 - Don Ball - Block Island, RI - d. 1-7-1974
    staff announcer for CBS during the 1930s.
    03-13-1896 - Leona Powers - Salida, CO - d. 1-7-1970
    actor: Mrs. Bixby "My Son Jeep"; [removed] Brown "Aldrich Family"
    04-29-1901 - Emperor Hirohito (Showa) - Tokyo, Japan - d. 1-7-1989
    emperor: End of war speech
    05-04-1912 - Louis Brown - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-7-2007
    composer/conductor: "The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show"
    07-12-1915 - Joseph Bolton - The Bronx, New York - d. 1-7-1997
    composer: appeared on various radio stations
    08-30-1905 - Sarah Selby - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-7-1980
    actor: Grace Graves "Junior Miss"; Wife "My Mother's Husband"
    09-26-1912 - Jacqueline de Wit - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-7-1998
    actor: Ruth Thompson "Meet Mr. McNutley"; Valerie "Second Husband"
    09-29-1913 - Trevor Howard - Cliftonville, England - d. 1-7-1988
    actor: "London Playhouse"
    10-21-1915 - Owen Bradley - Westmoreland, TN - d. 1-7-1998
    music director fort WSM Nashville, Tennessee
    10-22-1895 - Clair Loring Farrand - d. 1-7-1981
    inventor of the cone radio loudspeaker
    10-29-1889 - Anna Case - Clinton, NJ - d. 1-7-1984
    singer/actor: WJZ New York City
    12-31-1910 - Richard Kollmar - Ridgewood, NJ - d. 1-7-1971
    actor: John Perry "John's Other Wife"; Boston Blackie "Boston Blackie"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:06:11 -0500
    From: <georgewagner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Remarkable On-Air Fluffs

    Here are two classics:

         Lowell Thomas. The episode where Thomas is reduced to sobbing giggles by
    a report that a man in Oregon claims he can change the shape of the Aurora
    Borealis by flapping a bed sheet at the phenomenon.

         ABC News. In this one absolutely none of the audio links to news
    correspondents works. There is, simply, no news. The anchor is reduced to
    near-hysterics. ("Mother warned me there'd be days like this!") No news may
    or may not be good news, but in this case it is hilarious.

         Sincerely,

         George Wagner
         georgewagner@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:06:08 -0500
    From: david degerald <ddegerald@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR on TV on Web
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    Recently on Internet Archive (wonderful site) I noticed a Bob Hope "Thanks For
    the Memories" TV special (in the "Classic TV" section). It's about his USO
    work and contains film of "Command Performance" with appearances from Jerry
    Colonna, Betty Grable, Betty Hutton, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland
    and Lana Turner. A lot of the show is people on front of radio mics.

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:06:03 -0500
    From: Robert Everest <erest@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Barrymore

>     the "illness" was actually an excuse for  Lionel to not step on the toes
>     of the Reginald Owen performance in the MGM  film, then in release.

    AMC ran this movie version this year and in the intro the host gave this
    reason for Barrymore non performance on radio.

       Rob

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:23:51 -0500
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: radio about radio
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    In a message dated 1/7/2009 4:24:51 [removed] Central Standard Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

    I would  like to see a list of radio shows that are about radio

    I can think of an entire [removed] hilarious "Magnificent  Montague."  I
    heard some episodes recently for the first time and the humor  held up
    surprisingly well.

    Dixon

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:41:28 -0500
    From: rand@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Cleaning ETs

    In reference to cleaning [removed]

    In addition to what Joe said, I'd mention that what you're using is a very
    mild mixture of ammonia, which is what works on the palmitic acid residue.

    Some people use alcohol based products on vinyl - NEVER use them on
    acetate ET's since they eat away the black lacquer where the groove is
    recorded.

    Also, you might want to use caution.  Archivists generally feel, if I'm
    not mistaken, that wet cleaning of a lacquer can cause it to deteriorate
    faster.  So, if you're going to clean them, make sure you get the best
    transfer you can after you do it.

    Randy

    ________
    Randy A. Riddle
    [removed]
    Mebane, NC

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:21:26 -0500
    From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Radio Shows abot Radio

    Here is a show i have listened to a few  times.

    Behind the mike

    Charliue

    steps!
    cemailfooterNO62)

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:37:16 -0500
    From: "Beito, David" <dbeito@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Cigarette and Smoking in the Plots/Dialogue of
     OTR Shows

    All of us our familiar with the many commercials promoting cigarette
    brands during the OTR era.  Less well known are any references to
    smoking other than these commercials.  Does anybody have examples of
    references to smoking, either positive or negative, in the plots or
    dialogue of OTR shows?

    David T. Beito

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:49:55 -0500
    From: "Marty" <martyd64@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE:  How about some radio shows about radio?

    In regards to Ted Kneebone's request of "radio shows about radio", there is
    a Fibber McGee & Molly show called "Fixing the Radio", from March 20, 1945.

    Marty

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:20:47 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-8 births/deaths

    January 8th births

    01-08-1879 - Emory S. Land - Canon City, CO - d. 11-28-1971
    [removed] naval officer: "Information Please"
    01-08-1892 - Leeman Bone - Arkansas - d. 7-25-1976
    guitarist: "Hoss Hair Pullers"
    01-08-1901 - Forman Brown - Otsego, MI - d. 1-10-1996
    wrote for CBS radio
    01-08-1902 - Alexander Gray - Wrightvilles, PA - d. 10-4-1975
    baritone: "Chesterfield Quarter Hour"
    01-08-1903 - Roger Bower - NYC - d. 5-17-1979
    announcer, emcee: "Can You Top This?"; "Stop Me If You Heard This One"
    01-08-1904 - Peter Arno - d. 2-22-1968
    panelist: "Stop Me If You Heard This Before"
    01-08-1908 - William Hartnell - London, England - d. 4-23-1975
    actor: The Doctor "Doctor Who"
    01-08-1909 - George D. Crothers - Fort Morgan, CO - d. 11-27-1998
    moderator: "Invitation to Learning"
    01-08-1909 - Jose Ferrer - Santurce, PR - d. 1-26-1992
    actor: Philo Vance "Advs. of Philo Vance"; Minister "We Love and Learn"
    01-08-1910 - Dick Jurgens - Sacremento, CA - d. 10-5-1995
    orchestra leader: "Summer Spotlight Revue"
    01-08-1910 - Fabian Andre - La Crosse, WI - d. 3-30-1960
    arranger for dance orchestras on NBC
    01-08-1910 - Richard Cromwell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-11-1960
    actor: Kit Marshall "Those We Love"
    01-08-1911 - Butterfly McQueen - Tampa, FL - d. 12-22-1995
    actor: Oriole "Beulah"; Butterfly "Jack Benny Program"
    01-08-1914 - Sam Cowling - Jeffersonville, IN - d. 2-14-1983
    singer: (The Three Romeos) "The Breakfast Club"; "Club Matinee"
    01-08-1915 - Guy Mauffette - Montreal, Canada - d. 6-29-2005
    announcer: Worked with CBC radio, Canada's French network
    01-08-1920 - Robert Gordon Bollard - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-2-1964
    coordinaator of radio stations services
    01-08-1921 - Guy Bagli - d. 2-21-1971
    sportscaster: WALT Tampa, Florida; WTVT Petersburg, Florida
    01-08-1923 - Giorgio Tozzi - Chicago, IL
    opera singer (bass): "The Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    01-08-1923 - Larry Storch - NYC
    comedian: "Duffy's Tavern"
    01-08-1926 - Chester Feldman - d. 5-25-1997
    producer: "The Henry Morgan Show"
    01-08-1926 - Soupy Sales - Franklinton, NC
    script writer, disc jockey: WHTN Huntington, WV
    01-08-1930 - May Wynn - NYC
    actor: "Amos 'n' Andy Show"
    01-08-1933 - Charles Osgood - NYC
    reporter: "Osgood File"
    01-08-1935 - Elvis Presley - Tupelo, MS - d. 8-16-1977
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Louisiana Hayride"
    01-08-1952 - Margaret Fischer - Sydney, Australia
    writer: "The Gay Divorecc"

    January 8th deaths

    01-02-1905 - Michale Tippett - London, England - d. 1-8-1998
    composer: "Midsummer Marriage"
    01-03-1918 - Jesse White - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-8-1997
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"; "Sears Radio Theatre"
    01-24-1902 - Walter Kiernan - New Haven, CT - d. 1-8-1978
    commentator, emcee: "Sparring Partners"; "Weekend"
    01-30-1907 - Lois Wilson - Iowa - d. 1-8-1983
    actor: "Jack Benny Program"
    03-25-1909 - Jay Blackton - NYC - d. 1-8-1994
    composer, conductor, pianist: "Stu Erwin Show"; "Broadway Showtime"
    03-26-1928 - Carole Carr - London, England - d. 1-8-1997
    singer, actress: "Calling All Forces"
    05-02-1952 - Campbell McComas - Melbourne, Australia - d. 1-8-2005
    regular performer on Australia's ABC radio
    05-16-1891 - Richard Tauber - Linz, Austria-Hungary - d. 1-8-1948
    opera singer: "General Motors Concert"
    05-19-1919 - George Auld - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-8-1990
    bandleader: "Saturday Night Swing Session"
    05-29-1899 - Don Brodie - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-8-2001
    grouch: "The Grouch Club"
    06-11-1889 - Wesley Ruggles - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-8-1972
    film director: (Brother of Charlie) "Screen Guild Theatre"
    06-18-1906 - Ray Bauduc - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-8-1988
    drummer, composer: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    06-19-1915 - Pat Buttram - Addison, AL - d. 1-8-1994
    actor: (Sage of Winston County) "National Barn Dance"
    07-14-1911 - Terry-Thomas - London, England - d. 1-8-1990
    comedian: "Top of the Town"
    07-21-1899 - Sara Dougherty Carter - Flatwoods, VA - d. 1-8-1979
    singer: (Carter Family) XERA Mexico
    07-23-1910 - Gale Page - Spokane, WA - d. 1-8-1983
    actor: Holly Sloan "Story of Holly Sloan"; Gertrude Lamont "Masquerade"
    08-15-1901 - Sam Perrin - d. 1-8-1998
    writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Phil Baker Show"; "Tommy Riggs and
    Betty Lou"
    08-23-1919 - Olin Tice - Savannah, GA - d. 1-8-1998
    announcer: "The Mindy Carson Show"; "The Peggy Lee Show"
    08-28-1914 - Richard Tucker - NYC - d. 1-8-1975
    opera tenor: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"; "Standard Hour";
    "Metropolitan Opera"
    09-01-1922 - Yvonne De Carlo - Vancouver, Canada - d. 1-8-2007
    actor: " Screen Guild Theatre"; "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    09-28-1922 - Romeo Cascarino - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-8-2002
    cheif arranger: Armed Forces Special Service Orchestraq
    10-10-1889 - Harold Vermilyea - NYC - d. 1-8-1958
    actor: Cornlius Potter "Big Sister"; Mr. Bruce "Stella Dallas"
    11-06-1905 - Isabel Carothers - Mt. Pleasant, IA - d. 1-8-1937
    actor: Lu "Clara, Lu and Em"
    12-22-1911 - Milton E. Drentz - d. 1-8-2000
    seminary producer: "The Eternal Light"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:58:34 -0500
    From: drwatsonrnb@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: On air flubs
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       Sticking with Fibber Mcgee and Molly, Hal Peary visited on 03/28/44
       when Fibber had pneumonia. It is listed at [removed] as
       [removed]

       He tripped over his lines several times in this one as did Harlow
       Wilcox I believe. If I remember right, he even commented on it during
       the show saying he was nervous. Time to go listen again.

       Rich

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:03:00 -0500
    From: Dan <teac35@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re: How about some radio shows about radio?

    CBS Radio Workshop - "I Have Three Heads"

     it's a show about radio production as told by 2 Ampex tape recorders

    dan

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:18:46 -0500
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Live Flubs
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    Speaking of flubs, which show, was it "Pat Novak for Hire," ended with an
    announcer flubbing a cast list reading then signing off "This is ABC, the
    National Broadcasting Company" with laughter being heard in the  background?

    And Dave Goldin once offered a collection of radio bloopers as a Radio
    Yesteryear "Listener's Digest" or "Special Feature," supposedly actual
    recordings
    differing from the often-staged urban legends that permeated Kermit  Schafer's
    [removed] know where those can be found now?

    Dixon

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    Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:19:03 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR in the News

    Here's a history of the Bob Hope Classic golf tournament, that mentions many OTR stars:

    [removed]

    Chicago-area radio recreation group "Those Were the Days Players," a staple of Thursday night entertainment at the Friends of Old Time Radio Convention ([removed]) are profiled here:

    [removed],[removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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