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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 205


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Reminder: SAM SPADE this weekend
	 Re: Walter Tetley
	 Visiting in-studio broadcasts
	 Re: One Ranger's Family
	 Dealers / Suppliers FAQ

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Date: 08 Jun 96 09:43:09 EDT
From: Steve Lewis <[removed]@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Reminder: SAM SPADE this weekend
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Just a quick [removed]  NYC-area listeners should make sure to tune in Max
Schmid's "The Golden Age of Radio" tomorrow evening at 7:30pm, as the Gotham
Radio Players return with a live recreation of a lost 1947 episode of THE
ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE.  WBAI, [removed] FM.  

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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 07:46:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: davidrj@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Walter Tetley
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

A couple of years back, I interviewed Willard Waterman at an OTR convention for 
a newspaper feature I was doing.
In talking about the Gildersleeve cast, he had many nice things to say about 
Walter Tetley (Leroy), and mentioned something I had never been sure of before, 
saying Tetley was "one of the little people."
I didn't pursue that at all, but had often wondered seeing Tetley in photos and 
in movie appearances.
I'm assuming here that Waterman was correct in what he said. Maybe someone out 
there knows for sure.
One thing we know for sure, is that Tetley was very talented at comedy.
davej, vancouver usa

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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 14:16:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Betty Jean Davis <betdav@[removed]>
To: OTR@[removed]
Subject: Visiting in-studio broadcasts
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I grew up during the 40s, at which time my ambition was to be a radio 
announcer.  My father took me to visit the studios of WFAA in the Baker 
Hotel in Dallas to see "The Early Birds" - the 7 [removed] variety program 
which had Eddie Dunn and Jimmy Jeffries and a studio orchestra. He also 
took me another time to watch "Mrs. Tucker's Smile" program which did not 
have a studio audience but we could see it through the big double glass 
window. I was never so excited in my life, and from then on, I was hooked 
on broadcasting!
I made many trips back to WFAA and got to know many of the announcers. 
There were other stations in Dallas but none so grand as WFAA, which was 
then owned by the Dallas Morning News. 
In 1941, they built a penthouse atop the Santa Fe Building, with 
poly-cylindrical walls, a new innovation at the time, a theater studio 
seating probably 200, and other things quite state of the art at that 
time. Unfortunately, when WWII broke out, no one could attend programs 
anymore since to get to the penthouse, one had to go through the lobby of 
the Santa Fe Bldg., which was commandeered by the Army 8th Service 
Command. Broadcasting facilities were pretty much off-limits for the 
duration.

I also made friends at WDAF in Kansas City where my aunt lived.  Their 
night annoucner, Henry Carroll, had the most glorious bass voice I had 
ever heard.  Once when my cousin and I were there, he let us into the 
cubicle and we were allowed to watch him make station breaks during an 
NBC program. Once again, I tingled with excitement.

WDAF had a rather uptown studio orchestra which went on the air three 
times daily.  I once watched them do "Morning Melodies," and I was 
fascinated that they could do a broadcast with really good orchestral 
music (no announcements at all) and yet clown around and act totally 
silly while performing.

In 1947 my father and I were in New York, and we got tickets to attend 
"The American Album of Familiar Music" in Radio City on Sunday night. 
This was a full-scale orchestra led, I think, by Donald Voorhees. They 
had several good soloists, the only one I recall was tenor Donald Dame, 
whose autograph I wanted badly, but he was so curt and rude to others 
after the program I was afraid to approach him. As to the broadcast, it 
was rather formal as to content and demeanor.  Applause only after the 
final number, I recall. It was in the big studio (I forget its number) 
which later became a TV set or newsroom.

These were my earliest recollections of attending broadcasts. Going "on 
the air" was so terribly exciting.  I first "appeared" on radio as a 
contestant at age 11 on a Dallas program called "Do You Know the News?" 
Unfortunately, I bombed out after one question, but at least all my 
friends were tuned in and heard me talk on the radio.

TV is a whole other thing. I have enjoyed seeing some early-day TV 
programs in person, such as Mr. Peepers and What's My Line?

Just this winter we attended the broadcast/telecast of the Mormon 
Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City. Richard Elliott, one of the 
organists, became a cyberspace friend of mine last year, and he took us 
behind the scenes before the broadcast and allowed me to play that 
wonderful organ (not on the air, you understand.) It was a fantastic 
experience to see the whole operation and then to come home and hear it 
on radio two weeks later.

Walter W. Davis
Corpus Christi Tx

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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 15:29:37 -0400
From: Michael Carraher <carraher@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: One Ranger's Family
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

? Reed m  ? ?
     ________|_______
     |               |
John Reed	Capt. Dan Reed -m- Linda ?
		                |
                           Dan Reed, Jr. -m- ? ?
                                          |
                                        Britt Reed

The names of John and Dan Reed's parents were not mentioned.
The elder Dan Reed was a Captain in the Texas Rangers and married Linda, 
"a fine lady from Virginia."  Dan Reed was killed with four other Texas 
Rangers in an ambush by the Butch Cavendish gang at Bryant's Gap.  Linda 
was killed in an Indian attack on the wagon train in which she was 
traveling to join her husband.  Her infant son survived the attack and 
was raised by "Grandma Frisbee," a woman in the wagon train who also 
survived the attack.
John Reed served in the Texas Rangers in his older brother's company. 
The two were also partners in a silver mine with a retired ranger named 
Jim.  The silver mine was the source of silver for the LR's bullets and 
paid his and Tonto's expenses.  
Later Dan Reed inherited the mine and used it to start the Daily 
Sentinel newspaper.  He was succeeded as publisher by his son, Britt.

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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 96 16:30:15 UT
From: "Bruce Rosenberger" <BR3D@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Dealers / Suppliers FAQ
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

After responding to Marcus Antonsson's query on cassette albums I sterted to 
wonder if there's a location on the web for this type of info? I belong to a 
group similar to this concerning Stereo Photography (3-D) and they have a FAQ 
at one of the websites where someone continually updates a listing of 3-D 
dealers and suppliers ( or anyone that's had one or two items in a 
catalogue!).
Besides the one already mentioned how about these two:

Bags Unlimited Inc.
7 Canal St. 
Rochester, NY 14608
Phone: 800-767-BAGS or 716-436-9006
Fax: 716-328-8526
Suppliers of archival supplies, (ie: magazine storage bags, cassette storage 
boxes, storage boxes for cards, albums, magazines.)

[removed]
Airport Road Commercial Park
5944-46 Keystone Dr.
Bath, PA 18014
Phone: 800-747-8984
Fax: 610-837-8129
E-mail: avi@[removed]            Web Page: [removed]~avi
Suppliers of Audio Tapes. Several different grades to choose from- Maxell

Bruce M. Rosenberger

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