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Date: 10/15/2005 7:57 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 317
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Mr. Kitzel's Mugg                     [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
  Random Follow-Up Thoughts             [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Horsing around                        [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  HELLLLLLLP                            [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
  Boston Blackie curiosity              [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
  The Hitch-hiker                       [ MIC1GH@[removed] ]
  books coming to FOTR                  [ benohmart@[removed] ]
  Another "Good Night, Good Luck" Revi  [ seandd@[removed] ]
  10-15 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Deaths in September                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 16-22 Oct  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Joe Pine's Radio Show                 [ "Ronnie Wise" <rwise@[removed]; ]
  Thanx to Jim & Jack                   [ "bobb lynes" <iairotr@[removed]; ]
  Day the Earth Stood Still             [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]

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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:52:56 -0400
From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mr. Kitzel's Mugg

Joe Mackey talking about what Mr. Kitzel really looked
like.

Here's Arty Auerbach during his Mr. Kitzel heyday.

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Whether he's short, thin, a bit on the mousey side is
up, as usual, to the beholder.

Apologies if this post is a duplicate.

Conrad Binyon

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

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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:53:16 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Random Follow-Up Thoughts
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CLOONEY FILM
As a follow-up to my original review for "Good Night, And Good Luck," I'm
happy to report that this is truly an intelligent narrative. George Clooney
does not "dumb it down" in the least. If you have a working knowledge of the
era being played out, you're really going to enjoy the film. There are passing
references to persons like Senator Wayne Morse, G. David Schine, and other
authors and public figures who are largely forgotten today. I guess in order
to keep the story flowing, Clooney & Co. have chosen not to slow down the
plot-line with added explanations and qualifications. Another name that's
thrown around is "O'Brian." The film makes mention of NY TImes TV critic Jack
Gould when he writes praiseworthy columns about Murrow broadcasts. In the same
breath, there's mention of Hearst TV critic "O'Brian," who is referenced as a
pro-McCarthy, anti-Murrow detractor. I can only imagine they mean notorious
Red-baiter JACK O'Brian, who I remember having his "Voice of Broadway"
syndicated column in "The (Neawrk, [removed])  Star-Ledger"  and radio show  over
NYC's WOR-AM in the late 1970s. Problem is, at no time do I remember O'Brian's
first name, "Jack<" ever being said.  Things like this  are really going to
throw the non-initiated latter-day moviegoer for a [removed] that's not such
a bad thing. It's also good to know that Rosemary's nephew had the insight
and the clout to depict this story in B&W, which, apparently, is an instant
turn-off to many in the under-40 crowd.

DUPLICATED CALL LETTERS
There was much discussion here about several Florida stations going by the
call-letters WFLA. Here in the NYC area, there are two AM srarions
broadcasting Christian radio content owned by Salem Communications going by
the letters WMCA--the original home of the "Good Guys" at 530 AM & its sister
station alternately called WWDJ at 970 AM [that's where I hear "Advs. in
Odyssey"]. They have been billing themselves as the "station" with a 48-hour
broadcast day by taking into account the overall non-duplicated output of
both stations.

"PRIVATE EYELASHES"
In my last post about the upcoming Talking Book version of Jack French's
"Private Eyelashes," I inadvertently neglected to put in a disclaimer about mu
name being in Jack's acknowledgments. Although I have no financial stake in
the sales or promotion of this book,  I feel I should have stated this from
the [removed] since there is a certain professorial OTR historian
here on the list who took a young newlywed OTR historian to task for plugging
a book he was involved in without menyioning said involvement.

MORE AUTHORS:
In my on-going litany of OTR authors attending FOTR next week, I have yet
again forgot to mention two of my favourites: the OTR guru himself, Chuck
Schaden, author of "Speaking of Radio," and "Mr. Dragnet," , Michael Hayde,
author of "My Name's Friday."  Mike's also a leading authority on "Superman,"
& was quite influential in getting  Noel "Lois Lane" Neill to attend this
year's festivities.

I truly hope to  see a large contingent of Digest subscribers next week in
Newark. Hey, Charlie, what's the secret password?  Somebody's already used
"Ugga-ugga-boo, ugga-boo-boo-ugga!"

Yours always in the ether,

Derek Tague

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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:53:42 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Horsing around
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"Jack Feldman" qualitas@[removed] wrote:

We would like to do the A&C horse routine for a particular group. Does
anyone know where we could get the script?

I remember this routine  involving plays of the words "mother" & "father"
being included, at least in part, in the book "The Abbott & Costello Book" by
one-tine "Tonight Show" writer  Jim Mulholland, which  came out circa
1975-76.

When Jack finally obtains a copy, will he say "Hello, Mudder, Hello Fodder"?

Sorry about that. The Allan Sherman-fan in me couldn't resist. "There! I said
it and I'm glaaaaaaddd!"

Ether!

Derek Tague

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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:53:54 -0400
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  HELLLLLLLP

Legendary broadcaster, Eddie Hubbard, [KAAM] told me he found some of my
shows archived on a 'broadcast museum' [removed] know about
[removed]

[removed]
           Sandy
[removed]
        [removed]

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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:58:56 -0400
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Boston Blackie curiosity

Last Monday, I bought a number of radio shows at a
used bookstore. One of them was "Radio's Missing
Masters", and in looking at the selection of programs
in that collection, I notice an episode of _Boston
Blackie_ from  Nov. 19, 1945. According to the capsule
summary of the show, Richard Kollmar was unavailable,
so an unidentifed actor affected Blackie with
laryngitis to cover Kollmar's absence.

(Not unlike Brace Beemer's first outing as the Lone
Ranger (which is the preceding episode on the tape),
in which he barely spoke- and only in whispers- for
his first few broadcasts, to make the transistion from
the late Earle Graser less startling)

What I find curious about the decision regarding
Kollmar's absence is that I already own a _Boston
Blackie_ episode dated April 22, 1947 in which the
character of Boston Blackie isn't heard _at all_. Even
in a phone call from Blackie (who's out of town), we
only hear the other party's (Shorty's) side of the
conversation. In fact, Shorty (Blackie's sidekick) is
the "star" of the episode, called "Missing Millicent
Bromley."

Interesting that Richard Kollmar's absence in a 1945
episode resulted in someone else affecting a sick
Blackie, but his absence in a 1947 episode was
explained by the fact that Blackie was out of town on
another case. According to Dunning, the Kollmar era of
_Boston Blackie_ was transcribed. It's curious that
Kollmar didn't pre-record some generic comments for
his side of a telephone conversation to cover for his
absence. Something like this:

"Oh, hello, Shorty? How's everything?

"Really? Sounds like quite an interesting case. Wish I
could lend you a hand, but this case of mine is
keeping me pretty busy.

"Thanks, Shorty. And say 'hi' to Lt. Farraday for me."

Something like that would have been generic enough to
have worked in pretty much any situation (except if
Farraday himself was calling). Since we never heard
Kollmar's voice, does that mean his absence was very
sudden (an injury or illness), so there wasn't time to
record a few lines of phone conversation; or does it
mean no one thought of doing that?

Or did the technology not exist to insert pre-recorded
lines into the episode? I suppose that might be the
case, if transcription discs can't be edited. If
that's the case, and Kollmar wasn't there at the
actual recording, his lines would have been on a
separate disc. Could the contents of the two discs
have been recorded onto a third, for distribution; or
would individual radio station engineers have had to
manually try to cue up "Blackie's" comments at just
the right time to match with "Shorty's"? If the
latter, I can see a _lot_ of potential for error.

I haven't listened to the 1945 episode yet, but I'm
assuming the writers made Blackie being in a sick bed
relavent to the plot. Otherwise, why not just send him
out of town?

But then, maybe Blackie with laryngitis didn't go over
too well, so the next time Kollmar was unavailable,
they just didn't have Blackie in the episode at all.

Rick

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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:00:25 -0400
From: MIC1GH@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Hitch-hiker
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Martin Grams wrote:

Actually, Paul, there were three version but what you are describing isn't
one recording but two.  Allow me . . .

First  broadcast
SUSPENSE
Episode #11  Broadcast September 2, 1942
<snip>
Second broadcast
PHILIP MORRIS PLAYHOUSE
Episode #62   Broadcast October 15, 1942
<snip>
Third broadcast
THE MERCURY SUMMER THEATER ON THE  AIR
A short-run summer series of various dramas, basically a revival of the
hour-long 1938-1939 THE MERCURY PLAYHOUSE series.
Episode #3   Broadcast June 21, 1946

Respectfully, Martin, you're incorrect.   The first broadcast was  11/17/41,
on "The Orson Welles Show".  The second was on "Suspense" 9/2/42,  and it is
in 'this' broadcast that Welles talks about did the script  for "the first
time
last year", which would have been '41, and about how  he's glad to be back in
the US (RKO Pictures had recalled from Brazil,  where he had spent the
previous eight months working on the abortive  goodwill film-documentary
"It's All
True").  At the end of the "Suspense"  version, Welles gives the anti-Nazi PSA
for buying war bonds.

Best,

Garo Hagopian

(PS--Love the CBSRMT handbook.  Wonderful  resource!)

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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:01:05 -0400
From: benohmart@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  books coming to FOTR

A friend of mine suggested I give a list of books from BearManor Media that
will be
available at the FOTR convention in Newark next week, so here's what you'll
be able to
ruffle through:

Edgar Kennedy
Life at the Top (celebrities in NYC hotels)
Agnes Moorehead
Fibber & Gildy's Scrapbooks
The Great Gildersleeve
Heavenly Days
Hollywood's Golden Age by Edward Dmytryk
The Bickersons biography & 2 books of scripts
Paul Frees biography & The Writings of Paul Frees (with cd)
Daws Butler biography & Scenes for Actors & Voices by Daws
Archives of the Airwaves vol. 1 & 2
Guy Williams
Alias Smith and Jones
Sybil Jason
Russell Arms
Underdog (written by the creators)
Private Eyelashes by Jack French
June Foray's book
It's That Time Again 1 & 2
Bob & Ray & Tom
Let's Pretend by Arthur Anderson
Information Please by Martin Grams Jr.
Forgotten Gems from the Twilight Zone vol. 1 (TV scripts)
Jane Kean
Walter Tetley
Tom Schiller (Saturday Night Live writer)

That's it - for now!

Ben

Old radio. Old movies. New books.
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:04:34 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Another "Good Night, Good Luck" Review

This one is from the Detroit Free Press.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:04:56 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-15 births/deaths

October 15th births

10-15-1879 - Jane Darwell - Palmyra, MO - d. 8-13-1967
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-15-1879 - Sara Allgood - Dublin, Ireland - d. 9-13-1950
actress: "Radio Guild"; "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-15-1881 - P. G. Wodehouse - Guildford, Surrey, England - d. 2-14-1975
author: (Jeeves and Wooster) "Forecast"; "Stagestruck"
10-15-1893 - Ina Claire - Washington, [removed] - d. 2-22-1985
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-15-1896 - Joe Sanders - Thayer, KS - d. 5-14-1965
bandleader: (The Ole Left Hander) "Nighthawks Frolic"
10-15-1898 - Ransom Sherman - Appleton, WI - d. 11-26-1985
actor: Uncle Dennis "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Hap Hazard "Hap Hazard"
10-15-1900 - Fritz Feld - Berlin, Germany - d. 11-18-1993
actor: "NBC Uinversity Theatre"; "Nightbeat"; "Advs. of the Saint"
10-15-1900 - Mervyn LeRoy - San Francisco,CA - d. 9-13-1987
film director: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Songs By Sinatra"
10-15-1903 - William "Wild Bill" Elliott - Pattonsburg, MO - d. 11-26-1965
actor: Wild Bill Elliott "Wild Bill Elliott"
10-15-1908 - Robert Trout - Wake Country, NC - d. 11-14-2000
commentator: "Headlines & Bylines"; "Robert Trout with the News Til Now"
10-15-1909 - Johnny Messner - New York, NY - d. 1-xx-1986
bandleader: "Spotlight Bands"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
10-15-1917 - Jan Miner - Boston, MA - d. 2-15-2004
actress: Ann Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "Lora Lawton "Lora Lawton"
10-15-1918 - Robert Lee - Elyria, OH - d. 7-8-1994
writer: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
10-15-1921 - Allan Drake - Massachusetts - d. 3-8-1986
actor: "The Ethel Merman Show"
10-15-1921 - Robert Rockwell - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
actor: Philip Boynton "Our Miss Brooks"
10-15-1926 - Jean Peters - Canton, OH - d. 10-13-2000
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"

October 15th deaths

03-08-1912 - David Friedkin - d. 10-15-1976
writer: "Bold Venture"; "Broadway Is My Beat"; "The Front Page"
05-07-1900 - Ralph Truman - London, England - d. 10-15-1977
actor: John H Watson "BBC Home Theatre"
05-21-1923 - Rick Jason - New York City, NY - d. 10-15-2000
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
06-09-1891 - Cole Porter - Peru, IN - d. 10-15-1964
composer: Theme for "My Friend Irma"
07-09-1917 - Ted Steele - Hartford, CT - d. 10-15-1985
bandleader: "Ted Steele's Studio Club"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
09-25-1905 - Carl Hoff - Oxnard, CA - d. 10-15-1965
bandleader: "Al Pearche and His Gang"; "Your Hit Parade"
10-09-1916 - Jack Boyle - Illinois - d. 10-15-1965
actor: Andy Gump "The Gumps"
10-13-1918 - Cornel Wilde - New York City, NY - d. 10-15-1989
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-11-1899 - Pat O'Brien - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-15-1983
actor: Dan Carson "Dan Carson"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
12-18-1919 - Ralph Levy - Phildelphia, PA - d. 10-15-2001
director: "Burns and Allen"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:05:04 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Deaths in September

xx-xx-xxxx - Oswald Hoffman - Nebraska - d. 9-8-2005
preacher: "The Lutheran Hour"
04-18-1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Vinton, LA - d. 9-10-2005
singer, guitarist: "Newport Jazz Festival"
08-21-1923 - Chris Schenkel - Bippus, IN - d. 9-11-2005
sportscaster: "Campy's Corner"; "11:30 Clubhouse"
09-15-1915 - Al Casey - Louisville, KY - d. 9-11-2005
guitarist: "One Night Stand"; "New World A' Coming"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz
Concert"
01-18-1920 - Constance Moore - Sioux City, IA - d. 9-16-2005
singer, actress: Gloria Dean "Hollywood Mystery Time"
04-13-1923 - Don Adams - New York City, NY - d. 9-25-2005
comedian: "Kraft Music Hall"; "A Salute to Humble Howard"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:35:47 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 16-22 October

 From Those Were The Days --

10/16

1939 - Radio listeners welcomed The Right to Happiness on the NBC Blue
network. The 15-minute drama turned out to be one of the longest-running
shows of its kind. It moved over to CBS in 1941, then back to NBC in
1942. Fourteen years later Right to Happiness returned to CBS where it
stayed until its last days in 1960. The shows theme song, Song of the
Soul, and what seemed like a cast of thousands. It just took a lot of
different actors to play the continuing roles over a 21-year period.

1945 - Barry Fitzgerald starred as Judge Barnard Fitz in His Honor, the
Barber, which debuted on NBC.

10/17

1919 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed.

1938 - This was a big day in Tinseltown. NBC moved to the corner of
Sunset and Vine, the 'Crossroads of the World'. The new Hollywood Radio
City drew thousands of visitors ready to fill studio-audience seats for
popular radio programs.

10/18

1922 - As the British observed the wild growth of radio in the [removed],
they realized the potential of broadcasting in their own country, as
well as the need for its regulation. The British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) was established on this day to monitor the development
of the radio biz in Great Britain.

1943 - The first broadcast of Perry Mason was presented on CBS. In the
15 minute (Monday-Friday) shows, Perry was played by Barlett Robinson,
Santos Ortega, Donald Briggs and John Larkin.

10/19

1937 - "The freedom of the press is a flaming sword. Use it justly, hold
it high, guard it well." The radio classic, Big Town, made its debut on
CBS radio. Star reporters at the Illustrated Press, Steve Wilson and
Lorelei Kilbourne, were played by Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor.
Tell the Story was the theme song. Sponsors included Ironized Yeast
tablets and Lifebuoy soap.

10/20

1930 - One of the most memorable of all radio shows, The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes, was first heard on the NBC Red network. Its first
entry, The Speckled Band, featured William Gillette in the role of the
famous detective. Gillette introduced Holmes to New York audiences as
early as 1899.

1932 - Journalist Robert Trout joined CBS.

Joe

--
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:46:13 -0400
From: "Ronnie Wise" <rwise@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Joe Pine's Radio Show
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Hi! Does anyone in Radioland have any of  the late Joe Pine's radio shows? If
so, please contact me.
Ron Wise

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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:37:13 -0400
From: "bobb lynes" <iairotr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Thanx to Jim & Jack

Many thanx to Jim Cox & Jack French for their recent posts here.
Jim & Jack (sounds like  a country duo on the Opry).  Jim, for the wonderful
thoughts and memories of Jimmie Dickens, a true country music giant (pun
intended) and a living legend in the music we both grew up on and love so
much.  Nicely wrote. That's why I love your books!
Jack, for once more setting the record straight (for the youngsters or
ill-informed) re the "F" word: "Foley".   So many of today's re-creators of
OTR make the mistake of calling our beloved "Sound Effects"...."Foley" or
"Foley Effects".   And Barbara Watkins, Stuart Lubin, myself and others keep
trying to correct them whenever we can.
Here's to more posts like these on the Digest!
See ya-all in Newark,

Bobb

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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:54:43 -0400
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Day the Earth Stood Still

I have a tape with a recording of The Day the Earth Stood Still.  The only
show I can find that produced this show was Lux Presents Hollywood from
1/4/54.  But I thought Lux was always one hour long.  The tape I have is
only 30-minutes.  THere is no opening, closing or commercials of any kind on
my tape.

Anyone know if some other show did a thirty-minute version?

Ted

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