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Date: 10/9/2005 3:48 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 310
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Gems From "Stand By"                  [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
      Re: Murrow vs. McCarthy               [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 9-15 Octo  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Script Timing                         [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
      STICKS N STONES                       [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      JOAN DAVIS TIME                       [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      Re: Good Night and Good Luck          [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      Assistant directors                   [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
      WALTER SCHUMANN                       [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
      Re: FOTR Convention                   [ Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed]; ]
      10-9 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Another OTR author                    [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 11:05:50 -0400
    From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Gems From "Stand By"

    "Stand By," a weekly magazine published by WLS, Chicago, was published from
    1935 to 1938. It not only reported on the activities and programs of WLS and
    its staff, it also ran items about the radio world in general. I've been
    assembling a collection of "Stand By" and am enjoying the tidbits. As the
    [removed]

    "Forty minutes before the newly crowned King George VI stands before a
    microphone and greets his 400,000,000 subjects throughout the world, his
    dominions will greet him in a program called 'The Homage Of the Empire"
    which Columbia will bring to American listeners through the facilities of
    the British Broadcasting Corporation on Wednesday, May 12th from 12:20 to
    1:00 [removed] CST."  --May 1, 1937

    "Fibber McGee & Molly are moving to Hollywood for six weeks during the
    filming of their feature length Paramount picture,'This Way Please.' The
    Mid-West comedy team will broadcast from Hollywood for the first time, May
    3. Harlow Wilcox, announcer, and Bill Thompson plan to follow the show while
    previous contracts will force Hugh Studebaker and Ted Weems to stay in
    Chicago." -May 1, 1937

    "SEEN BEHIND THE SCENE: Herb Morrison, Arkie and Georgie Goebel ice skating
    at an outdoor [removed]"-May 1, 1937

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    Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 22:38:42 -0400
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Murrow vs. McCarthy
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    In a message dated 10/7/05 6:06:53 PM Central Daylight Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

>     "My God," he recalls Murrow
>     saying. "I didn't do anything. [Times columnist]
>     Scotty Reston and lot of guys have been writing like
>     this, saying the same things, for months, for years.
>     We're bringing up the rear."

    I never thought Murrow was the first to take on McCarthy or that he even
    deserved as much credit as he's often given for bringing him down (some
    definitely
    but not as much as he's often given).  But Murrow has always been my hero and
    that's partly because of the way he took on McCarthy.  I always did think he
    was the first newsman to take him on the way he did, "in the senator's own
    words and pictures," showing clips in which the senator clearly contradicts
    himself and bullies people heavily.  The result was devastating.  If anyone
    else
    did anything like that first I'd like to know who it was; seeing McCarthy's
    quotes rehashed in a newspaper column is *not* the same thing, and clearly
    wasn't
    back when television was new, its inverstigative powers largely untested.

    Dixon

    [removed] Murrow often said his favorite "See It Now" was not the McCarthy show,
    but "The Case Against Milo Radulovich," which I understand is also portrayed
    in
    George Clooney's movie.

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    Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 22:39:42 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 9-15 October

     From Those Were The Days --

    10/9

    1935 - Cavalcade of America was first broadcast this very day. The CBS
    show featured some of Hollywood and Broadway's most famous stars in
    leading roles in the half hour dramas. Thomas Chalmers narrated the
    stories about obscure incidents and people in American history. The
    orchestra was led by Donald Voorhees. The show aired from 1935 to 1953,
    changing from CBS to NBC in 1939; with one sponsor for its entire
    duration. The DuPont Company introduced its slogan on Cavalcade of
    America ... "Better things for better living through [removed]"

    1943 - ABC presented Land of the Lost. The opening phrase for the show
    was, "In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the [removed]" This
    children's adventure-fantasy serial took the audience underwater where
    the main characters, Isabel and Jimmy, were guided by their friend, a
    red fish named Red Lantern and played at first by Junius Matthews and
    later, by Art Carney. Land of the Lost found a large audience and
    remained on the air until 1948.

    10/10

    1932 - Two of radio's earliest efforts at soap operas were heard for the
    first time. Judy and Jane, sponsored by Folger's Coffee, and Betty and
    Bob, sponsored by General Mills, had listeners glued to their radios
    into the early 1940s.

    1933 - Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale. Ten years
    later, Dreft was the sponsor of The Dreft Star Playhouse.

    1937 - The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted Thirty Minutes in
    Hollywood. 48 sponsors shared the cost of the program that aired in 72
    cities nationwide. It was the first Mutual co-op radio show. George
    Jessel and Norma Talmadge starred. Music was provided by the Tommy
    Tucker Orchestra.

    10/11

    1936 - Professor Quiz aired for the first time. It was the first
    national quiz show on radio and lasted until 1948. Guests asked
    Professor Quiz (Dr. Craig Earl) questions. If they were able to stump
    the prof, they collected a $25 prize. Professor Quiz announcers were
    Robert Trout and Arthur Godfrey. Sponsors included Kelvinator
    refrigerators, Teel Shampoo and Velvet pipe tobacco.

    1948 - One of radio's last premiering soap operas, The Brighter Day,
    happened this day in Three Rivers. The show centered around the Dennis'
    and their extended family. It's interesting to take a look at the cast
    and see which names are still recognizable, like Hal Holbrook and
    William Redfield. Some of the sponsors are still around, too: Ivory Soap
    flakes, Blue Cheer detergent and Hazel Bishop lipstick. The soap opera
    lasted for six years on radio.

    10/12

    1937 - The longest-running detective show debuted. Mr. Keen, Tracer of
    Lost Persons lasted until 1955. Three different actors played the title
    role, Bennett Kilpack was Mr. Keen the longest, and Arthur Hughes saw
    the final show. Phil Clark also played the part. There were many more
    than three sponsors -- Anacin, Kolynos (a toothpaste), BiSoDol antacid
    mints, Hill's cold tablets, Heet liniment, Dentyne, Aerowax, RCA Victor
    and Chesterfield cigarettes. Some are long gone, some are still around,
    some don't advertise on radio anymore, and some are not allowed to.

    10/14

    1934 - Folks had clean hands for 21 years beginning this day. The Lux
    Radio Theater was heard on the NBC Blue [removed] and nearly every
    famous Hollywood star over the next three decades appeared on the
    program. Lux Radio Theater adapted novels, Broadway plays and Hollywood
    films into radio's favorite dramatic series.

     From NYT Today in history --

    In 1943, the Radio Corporation of America completed sale of the NBC Blue
      network to businessman Edward J. Noble for $8 million; the network was
    renamed the American Broadcasting Company.

    Joe

    --
    Visit my home page:  [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 22:42:22 -0400
    From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Script Timing

    Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed]; wrote:

>     ....I NEVER SAW A DIRECTOR HAVE AN
>     [removed] WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR TIMING OTR
>     [removed]

>     .....(There was no such category among directors.)
>     THE DIRECTORS ALONE DID ALL TIMINGS, AND THAT APPLIED
>     TO [removed] WELL AS THE [removed]

    I'll second Hal Stone's above comment and his
    subsequent explaination of the standard timing
    procedures most director's I observed used.  I never
    saw the larger console clock Hal mentioned as
    was installed at NBC control rooms, so I'm not
    familiar with that timing instrument.

    Conrad Binyon

    ---
    conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
    Encino, CA
    Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms

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    Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 00:54:13 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  STICKS N STONES

    A director has complete, and total, charge of everytthing.  If sumptin'
    goes wrong [no matter what] -- it's HIS fault!

    [removed]
               Sandy
    [removed]
            [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:38:54 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  JOAN DAVIS TIME

    When I was 15, I took Joan's daughter, Beverly Wills, on a date.  We
    ended up at Chicago's world famous, Pump Room, and had dinner with Victor
    Borge.

    [removed]
               Sandy
    [removed]
            [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:39:07 -0400
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Good Night and Good Luck
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    In a message dated 10/8/05 5:18:25 PM Central Daylight Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

>     The film's soundtrack is punctuated by the
>     presence of a jazz singer played by Dianne Reeves  who sings songs like "How
>     High the Moon" and "One for My Baby, One More for the Road" (the closing
>     theme).

    Correct me if I am wrong but weren't these songs also done by Rosemary
    Clooney, George Clooney's aunt?

    Dixon

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    Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:39:52 -0400
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Assistant directors

    Hal Stone wrote:

>     In all my years as a radio [removed] NEVER SAW A DIRECTOR HAVE AN
>     [removed] WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR TIMING OTR PROGRAMS. NEVER! NEVER!
>     EVER!

>     [removed] the heck misled you about Assistant Directors in OTR ? Maybe
>     the phony balonies on the west coast used them?

    Yep, Jug, that was the way some did out here on the West Coast. In fact it
    was even demonstrated to us in 1982 when Fletecher Markle directed a
    re-creation of a Suspense show at Columbia Records in Hollywood. Ken McManus
    was his assistant director who did the timing.

    Barbara

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    Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:40:08 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WALTER SCHUMANN

    Schumann did NOT write the Dragnet theme -- the greatest movie mood
    maker, Miklos Rozsa. did.  In '45 he was up against himself for the score
    of Lost Weekend.  He won the Oscar for his thrilling score of Spellbound.

    [removed]
               Sandy
    [removed]
            [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:40:19 -0400
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
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    Dial," Lee Michael's "The RADIO Show" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."
    Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    BRIDE AND GROOM
    7-31-47   Betty Jean Marshault - Charles Anderman
    Host John Nelson

    I WANT A DIVORCE
    Episode 25 4-4-41 June And Perry
    MUTUAL SUSTAINED Fridays 9:30 - 10:00 pm
    STARS: Joan Blondell

    FAMOUS JURY TRIALS
    9-28-45 Steve Dayton
    ABC Sponsored by O'Henry

    LEAVE IT TO THE GIRLS
    2-6-48    Male Guest: William Bradford Huey, Author
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    Panelists: Madge Evans, Austine Cassini, Eloise McElhone, Catherine
    McConnell
    ANNOUNCER: Bruce Elliott
    PRODUCER: Martha Roundtree
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    IT PAYS TO BE IGNORANT
    5/12/44    AFRS   "Is it bad luck to keep postponing a wedding?"

    THE FRED ALLEN SHOW
    10/21/45 NBC Fred announces that he is being sued by Charlie McCarthy.
    Welcomes guest: Frank Sinatra.

    BABY SNOOKS
    -skit- from MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME - NBC 1940 - "Playing Hooky" w/Fanny
    Brice/Hanley Stafford/Frank Nelson. Host is Dick Powell.
    ====================================

    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Suspense - "The Butcher's Wife"
    originally aired February 9, 1950 on CBS
    Starring: Kirk Douglas, Harlow Wilcox announcing.
    Sponsor: Autolite
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "Suspense" was done by Jerry Haendiges.
    Click here to take advantage of his audio restoration services.

    I Was a Communist for the [removed] - "The Red Octopus"
    originally aired June 10, 1953 via Frederick Ziv Syndication
    Starring: Dana Andrews.
    Sponsor: varied according to market

    My Friend Irma - "The Lonely Hearts Club"
    originally aired January 26, 1948 on CBS
    Starring: Marie Wilson, Cathy Lewis, John Brown, Hans Conreid, Gloria
    Gordon, Bea Benadaret, Frank Bingman announcing.
    Sponsor: Lever Brothers (Swan Soap)
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "My Friend Irma" was done by Jerry
    Haendiges.
    Click here to take advantage of his audio restoration services.

    Our Miss Brooks- "The Wishing Well Dance"
    originally aired June 12, 1949 on CBS
    Starring: Eve Arden, Jane Morgan, Richard Crenna, Jeff Chandler, Leonard
    Smith, Gloria McMillan, Gale Gordon, Bob LeMond announcing.
    Sponsors: Palmolive Soap, Lustre Creme Shampoo
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "Our Miss Brooks" was done by Jerry
    Haendiges.
    Click here to take advantage of his audio restoration services.

    The Great Gildersleeve - "Studying For Advancement"
    originally aired October 22, 1947 on NBC
    Starring: Harold Peary, Walter Tetley, Louise Erickson, Lillian Randolph,
    Earle Ross, Richard LeGrand, Pauline Drake, Willis Bouchey, John Wald
    announcing.
    Sponsor: Kraft Foods
    ==================================

    The RADIO Show

    Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police
    "The Atlantian Syndicate Adventure, Pt. 4: Falling Into A Trap (Pgm. #104,
    Series 2, [removed], Syndicated by Radio Attractions for broadcast Dec. 24,1938)
    starring Howard McNear as Clint Barlow

    A Word From Our Sponsor:
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    10-2-4 TIME
    with Martha Hears, Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, and the Tune
    Twirlers
    (Pgm. #485, synd. for Dr. Pepper for broadcast Feb. 21,1945)

    CALLING ALL CARS
    "The Case of the One Pound Note" (Pgm. #197, Sept 1,1937
    CBS Pacific Network, sponsored by Rio Grande Oil Company [makers of Rio
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         Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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    Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:41:08 -0400
    From: Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: FOTR Convention

    The Bon Vivant and all around good guy, Derek Tague, just posted a note
    about some of the OTR authors that will be attending the upcoming FOTR
    Convention this year.

    BE STILL, MY HEART!!!!!  Will Elizabeth McLeod really be there. Does that
    mean I will finally get to meet her in person, and thank her personally for
    the nice "squib" that she wrote when she was one of the first people to read
    the manuscript of my book.

    Hmmmm. I wonder if we can prevail upon her to do a few dance steps (in
    costume) from the role she played in "Chicago". Now, that alone would be
    worth the price of admission to FOTR.

    And yes, Derek, I will have a few copies (maybe 8) of my book [removed]
    will not only autograph (inscribe) it with my name, but with Bob Hastings
    name as well, since he won't be there this year. (That will be [removed] a
    simple "X").

    And the ever lovely Rosemary Rice will be there, so anyone buying the book
    could also get her to sign on any number of her photos that the book
    contains.

    Is martin Grams really going to be there. Is he really going to interrupt
    his honeymoon just to sell some of his many books about OTR? On second
    thought, he had better be there. He has a wife to support now. :)
    Congratulations [removed] I get to kiss the lovely bride, right?

    And I'm looking forward to see the other historians of OTR, like Jim Cox,
    Gary Yoggy, Jack French, Arthur Anderson, Anthony Tollin, etc.

    I particularly had to mention the last two names because they will be
    "Directing " me in recreations, and I'm sucking up to them so I get a juicy
    part this year. I am tired of doing walk-on's. :)

    Hal(Harlan)Stone
    Jughead

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    Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:41:17 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-9 births/deaths

    October 9th births

    10-09-1888 - Irving Cummings - New York City, NY - d. 4-18-1959
    host: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-09-1896 - Robert Armbruster - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-20-1994
    conductor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Cousin Willie"
    10-09-1907 - Henry Hunter - Rahway, NJ - d. 5-25-1985
    actor: Anthony J. Marleybone "Affairs of Anthony"; Terry Regan "Attorney at
    Law"
    10-09-1909 - Robert Beatty - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - d. 3-3-1992
    announcer: BBC Radio Newsreel"; "London Column"
    10-09-1910 - Phil Hanna - River Forest, IL - d. 7-20-1957
    actor: Three Cheers "Al Pearce Show"
    10-09-1912 - John Tackaberry - Adelaide, Australia - d. 6-24-1969
    writer: "Jack Benny Program"
    10-09-1912 - Walter Compton - Charleston, SC - d. 12-9-1959
    quizmaster: "Double or Nothing"
    10-09-1913 - John Guedel - Portland, IN - d. 12-17-2001
    producer: "You Bet Your Life"; "People Are Funny"; "Pillsbury House Party"
    10-09-1915 - Edward Andrews - Griffin, GA - d. 3-9-1985
    actor: Nat "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    10-09-1915 - Lee Wiley - d. 12-11-1975
    singer: "Lee Wiley"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"; "It's Florida's Treat"
    10-09-1915 - Vivian Della Chiesa - Chicago, IL
    singer: (America's Great Lyric Soprano) "American Album of Familiar Music"
    10-09-1916 - Jack Boyle - Illinois - d. 10-15-1965
    actor: Andy Gump "The Gumps"
    10-09-1918 - Skip Farrell - Illinois - d. 5-8-1962
    actor, singer: "National Barn Dance"
    10-09-1922 - Phil Sterling - d. 11-30-1998
    actor: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Hilltop House"; "Special Agent"
    10-09-1929 - Harry Harvey - Florida - d. 12-8-1978
    actor: Oogie Pringle "A Date with Judy"

    October 9th deaths

    02-02-1898 - William Costello - Rhode Island - d. 10-9-1971
    actor: Freddie Frog "Betty Boop Fables"
    03-10-1903 - Claire Boothe Luce - New York City, NY - d. 10-9-1987
    correspondent: "University of Chicago Round Table"; "Wake Up America"
    04-08-1882 - Lulu McConnell - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-9-1962
    comedienne: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
    10-13-1924 - Marilyn Hare - Flushing, NY - d. 10-9-1981
    singer: (Daughter of Ernie Hare) "The Happiness Boys"
    10-18-1902 - Miriam Hopkins - Bainbridge, GA - d. 10-9-1972
    actress: "Exploring the Unknown"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre";
    "These Are Our Men"
    11-02-1899 - Glenn Rowell - Pontiac, MI - d. 10-9-1965
    singer, comedian: "Quaker Early Birds"; "Gene and Glenn"
    11-29-1921 - Virginia Egnor "Dagmar" - Huntington, WV - d. 10-9-2001
    dumb blonde: "Stars On Parade"; "Says Who?"
    xx-xx-1903 - Bernard Lenrow - d. 10-9-1963
    actor: Inspector Logan "Casey, Crime Photographer"; Geoffrey Barnes "Molle
    Mystery Theatre"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 12:52:20 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Another OTR author
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    In my last posting, I listed a buncha OTR authors expected to be at FOTR next
    week. Folks like Jack French, Liz McLeod, Martin Grams, Jim Widner, Dave
    Siegel, Ben Ohmart, Anthony Tollin, Howard Blue, GaryYoggy, Jim Cox,
    etc.

    I forgot a couple: Bobb Lynes, and Eugene Bergmann,  author of the new book on
    radio raconteur Jean Shepard,"Excelsior, You Fathead!"

    If there are any other authors expected to be conventioneering, please let us
    k

    FOTR. Be there. Aloha.

    Derek Tague

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