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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 71
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
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Re: Templeton Cigarettes [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
How about re-enacting Quiet Please? [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
Re: Florence Williams [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
3-19 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
re: Reenactment Groups [ Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@amerit ]
RE: Blissful thinking? [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed] ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
No Cincy Trip [ "randy story" <hopharrigan@centuryt ]
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:58:09 -0400
From: "Dave Amaral" <lnesbitt@[removed];
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Martin Grams,
Without checking, My first guess would be that there were two Big Town Themes,
as there were two distinct series: ---The Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor
series from CBS Hollywood (in the late 30's ?), ---and the longer running
series from [removed] in the 40'[removed]
Dave Amaral.
Dave@Lloyd's
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:28:50 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Templeton Cigarettes
I can't fill in the history, but Templeton Cigarettes, I believe are
mostly European cigarettes and are still sold. They are owned by Austria
Tabak, a large corporate group based in Austria, who also own Benson &
Hedges cigarettes among others. There are two brands of Templetons -
Filtered and Lights. Being a non-smoker, I can't say if they are sold
over here, though I doubt it.
Jim Widner
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:29:08 -0400
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: How about re-enacting Quiet Please?
Talk about re-enactments makes me yearn for someone to do the lost "Quiet
Please" shows. I have the log by Randy Eidemiller and Chris Lambesis. There
are scripts for each of the 15 shows for which there are no recordings. It
would take some remarkable actors to do these shows well, but it might be
worth the effort. There are also some shows that are in such poor audio
that they are almost unlistenable.
The citation for the log [removed]
Eidemiller, Randy
Quiet Please, one of radio's most thought provoking series. The
background and complete log of all 106 broadcasts with remembrances by Frank
Thomas, Jr. Revised edition 2000. Now containing all story lines.
Researched and prepared by Rand Eidemiller and Chris Lambesis.
[Published by the authors, July 2000.]
Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401
Phone: 605-226-3344. Email: tkneebone1@[removed]
OTR: [removed]
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:29:33 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Florence Williams
On 3/18/08 6:18 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:
I'm seeking specific birth/death info on prolific radio actress Florence
Williams. Can anybody supply any part of the data, or point me to a source
I might have overlooked? I believe her to have been born in 1910 in St.
Louis and to have died in 1994 but can't guarantee authenticity of that yet.
I'm seeking specific dates and her place of death. Any help directly to me
will be sincerely appreciated and earn a mention in the credits of an
upcoming tome.
Florence was a close personal friend of mine. She lived in my town for
the last twenty years or so of her life, and I had the privilege of
acting with her in various community theatre productions in her final
years. She was born in St. Louis on October 17, 1910, and died of ovarian
cancer at Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport, Maine on March 30,
1995. She's buried in Presque Isle, Maine, with her third husband, Philip
Christie, who predeceased her in 1990.
Elizabeth
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:48:21 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-19 births/deaths
March 19th births
03-19-1883 - Louis Hector - d. 10-xx-1968
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
03-19-1889 - George L. "Doc" Rockwell - Providence, RI - d. 3-3-1978
comedian: "Camel Pleasure Hour"
03-19-1890 - Gayne Whitman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1958
actor, announcer: Frank Chandler "Chandu the Magician"; "Cavalcade of
America"
03-19-1891 - Earl Warren - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-9-1974
governor, supreme court justice: "Edgar bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-19-1892 - James Van Fleet - Coytesville, NJ - d. 9-24-1992
4 star army general: "A Tribute to Jack Benny"
03-19-1900 - Frank Chapman - d. 7-26-1966
singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
03-19-1906 - Pat Adelman - d. 12-xx-1982
sportscaster: Austin, Texas
03-19-1907 - Kent Smith - NYC - d. 4-23-1985
actor: "NBC University Theatre of the Air";"Radio Reader's Digest"
03-19-1909 - Louis Hayward - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 2-21-1985
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "This
Is My Best"
03-19-1912 - Russ Case - Hamburg, IA - d. 10-10-1964
orchestra leader: "On a Sunday Afternoon"; "Peggy Lee Show"; "Your
Hit Parade"
03-19-1915 - Patricia Morison - NYC
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Railroad Hour"
03-19-1916 - Eric Christmas - London, England - d. 7-22-2000
actor: "CBC Wednesday Night"
03-19-1916 - Irving Wallace - Chicago, IL - d. 6-29-1990
writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
03-19-1919 - Alfred Apaka - Honolulu, HI - d. 1-30-1960
vocalist: "Hawaii Calls"
03-19-1920 - Tige Andrews - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-27-2007
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
03-19-1923 - Gordon Connell - Berkeley, CA
actor: Billy Sherwood "Hawthorne House"
03-19-1923 - Pamela Britton - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-18-1974
actor: "Luncheon at Sardi's"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-19-1927 - Richie Ashburn - Tilden, NE - d. 9-9-1997
sportscaster: "Philadelphia Phillies Play by Play"
03-19-1933 - Phyllis Newman - Jersey City, NJ
actor: "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Tonight at 9:30"
05-17-1906 - Carl McIntire - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 03-19-2002
evangelist: "Twentieth Century Reformation Hour"
March 19th deaths
01-16-1895 - Irene Bordoni - Ajaccio, Corsica, France - d. 3-19-1953
singer: (The Coty Playgirl) "The RKO Hour"
02-26-1898 - Fiddlin' Sid Harkreader - Wilson County, TN - d. 3-19-1988
banjo player: "Grand Ole Opry"
03-28-1927 - Marguerite Campbell - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 3-19-2003
singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
04-18-1912 - Al Hodge - Ravenna, OH - d. 3-19-1979
actor: Britt Reid/Green Hornet "Green Hornet"; "Columbia Workshop"
04-29-1887 - Robert Cushman Murphy - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-19-1973
ortinthologist: "Information Please"
05-14-1868 - "Big Bill" Thompson - Boston, MA - d. 3-19-1944
mayor of chicago: "The March of Time"
06-12-1917 - Constance Ernst Bessie - NYC - d. 3-19-1985
producer: "Theatre [removed]"; "Voice of America"
08-28-1900 - Diana Bourbon - NYC - d. 3-19-1978
producer, director: :Double or Nothing"; "Life Begins"
09-01-1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1950
author: Creator of Tarzan
09-09-1908 - Ed Prentiss - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1992
actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"; Ned Holden
"The Guiding Light"
09-16-1919 - Ralph Barco - d. 3-19-1993
orchestra leader: WHK Cleveland, Ohio
10-04-1880 - Nora Bayes - Joliet, IL - d. 3-19-1928
singer: "General Motors Family Party"
12-07-1909 - Arch Oboler - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1987
writer: 'Lights Out"; "Adam and Eve skit on Bergen/McCarthy"
12-13-1913 - Jimmy Carroll - NYC - d. 3-19-1972
singer: "Pot O' Gold"
12-16-1917 - Arthur C. Clarke - Minehead, England - d. 3-19-2008
science fiction writer: "The Long John Nebel Show"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:48:48 -0400
From: Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: re: Reenactment Groups
The Milwaukee Area Radio Enthusiasts have a group
called the NightMARE Players, who perform an annual
live recreation of an OTR program each September.
While primarily done for our club, we have performed
for other interested community groups, always to an
enthusiastic crowd. Check out our website at
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Another group affiliated with MARE are the Billie
the Brownie Players. For the last four years we have
recreated part of Milwaukee's Christmas Past live in
the Southeastern Wisconsin listening area. We were
joined this past year by a veteran of the actual
Golden Days of Radio, Maddie Coogan Pritchard, who
played Mrs. Santa on the original Billie the Brownie
broadcasts.
Just to editorialize for a minute, I want to say
THANK YOU for the interest in groups such as ours. I
firmly believe that part of the continuing interest in
Old Time Radio is due to groups that recreate the
experience of the radio broadcasts of the 1940's. I
have become a fan of Nita Hunter's Kenosha, WI group
which has previously been mentioned -
[removed] - they are doing a
great job in Southeastern Wisconsin. Groups such as
Nita's, and Craig Wichman's Quicksilver Radio Theater
are keeping the tradition alive.
Mark Higgins
President - Milwaukee Area Radio Enthusiasts
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:17:23 -0400
From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: Blissful thinking?
Jim Cox asked:
. . .
Aside from The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater (1977-78), The
Sears/Mutual Radio Theater (1979-80), and a handful of black-produced soap
operas in the 1950s (at least two decades before this), I'm unaware of any
of Julian's projections turning into realities post 1975. Did they? I'd
like to think I missed them and they are currently circulating on tape,
other recordings or are downloadable. Does anybody know? . .
In addition to those national productions, there was at least one
significant continuing, regional production of radio dramas during the
1970's.
From mid-July 1972 through mid-June, 1978, new radio dramas were
heard in several markets on the West Coast via the Gene Autry-owned Golden
West Radio Network. The shows originated out of Seattle radio station KVI
and were written and produced by Jim French.
During this aforementioned time frame, Jim wrote and produced some
235 episodes for his TOWER PLAYHOUSE, DAMERON, CRISIS, and THE ADVENTURES OF
HARRY NILE series.
In 1990 Jim resumed writing and producing radio dramas for another
Seattle radio station, KIRO, under the "umbrella title" THE KIRO MYSTERY
PLAYHOUSE. Included were many new stand-alone dramas and additional
episodes of THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY NILE.
In March, 1996 Jim's shows began to be broadcast nationally as
IMAGINATION THEATRE. This weekly, syndicated program continues to this day
and presents a mix of Jim's earlier shows, along with new episodes of THE
ADVENTURES OF HARRY NILE, additional stand-alone dramas, and episodes of new
series such as
CALL SIMON WALKER,
THE CHRONICLES OF ANTHONY RATHE,
THE CLASSIC ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (adaptations of the Conan Doyle
stories),
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (pastiches),
THE HILARY CAINE MYSTERIES,
KERIDES - THE THINKER,
KINCAID - THE STRANGESEEKER,
MR. DARNBOROUGH INVESTIGATES, and
RAFFLES - THE GENTLEMAN THIEF.
As of the end of March, 2008, some 718 shows written and/or produced
by Jim French will have aired on the radio. Most of these shows are
available through Jim French Productions at:
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in audio CD and/or downloadable MP3 format.
Signing off for now,
Stewart Wright
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:12:01 -0400
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!
A weekly [removed]
For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio. We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!
Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!
For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:42:02 -0400
From: "randy story" <hopharrigan@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: No Cincy Trip
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My freinds,
The gods of finance have again spoken and the answer to my prayer regarding
Cincy is not good.
*sigh*
I cannot make it again this year.
So, instead of my cheery previous refrain of "We're Off to Cinncinnati", let's
have a chorus of either "Ol' Man River" or "Nobody Knows the Troubles I've
Seen".
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It hurts to be in the teaching profession sometime, folks.
Blessings,
R. Story
(Alone again in West Plains come April 10-11)
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