Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #19
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 1/25/2009 4:30 PM

To: [removed]@[removed]
Reply-to: [removed]@[removed]

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 19
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      RE: Benny and Rodney Dangerfield      [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
      Dangerfield name                      [ Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      Smoking - "Fake Cigarette"            [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
      Jack, Jack and [removed]              [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      OTR in the News                       [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Hancock's Half Hour                   [ seandd@[removed] ]
      1-24 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 25-31 Jan  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Radio Drama Documentary looking for   [ Frederick Greenhalgh <fred@finalrun ]
      1-25 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Hey Boy                               [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      OTR Airfare                           [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:06:16 -0500
    From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Benny and Rodney Dangerfield

    Subject:  RE: Benny and Rodney Dangerfield

    I believe that Cohen asked Jack Benny permission to use Rodney Dangerfeild as
    his stage name and Jack said go ahead. Jack never used the name after that. I
    can't remember if I read it or heard it. But little mind is loaded with
    trivia. I'm sure someone will jump all over me and say the old man is nuts,
    but that is what I member.
    Frank McGurn

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:07:45 -0500
    From: Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Dangerfield name

    When Rodney Dangerfield's father did a vaudeville act, Roy and Arthur,
    he used the stage name Phil Roy. Dangerfield used the stage name Jack
    Roy when he began in show business as a teenager. He dropped out and
    sold aluminum siding for 12 years.

    When he decided to try again at age 40, he wasn't sure of the reaction
    and wanted to appear anonymously, so he told a club owner not to use
    the name Jack Roy in the club's newspaper listings. The club owner
    gave the newspaper a different name. When it was time to go on, the
    club's emcee said, "Here's Rodney Dangerfield."

    He asked the club owner where he got that name, and the owner said, "I
    don't know. I made it up, just like that." Dangerfield's friends told
    him the name was funny, and his wife told him to keep it, saying,
    "With a name like Rodney Dangerfield, if you don't hit, you're an
    idiot." She also suggested he write a routine about changing his name,
    which is on one of his albums. Source: his autobiography, "It's Not
    Easy Bein' Me" (HarperEntertainment, 2004).

    Bhob @ Potrzebie: [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:11:39 -0500
    From: <georgewagner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Smoking - "Fake Cigarette"

         Joe, you've dredged up a memory up from the far recesses of my childhood
    subconscious - how to make a fake cigarette, complete with "smoke."

         You roll an ersatz cigarette out of white paper, load it with flour, and
    put a pinhole opening at either end. The slightest puff of breath will create
    a plume of "smoke."

         Sincerely,

         George Wagner
         georgewagner@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:11:46 -0500
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack, Jack and [removed]

    For years, Rodney Dangerfield had worked as a standup comedian, "Jack
    Roy."

    He left the business, looking for something steadier to support his
    family, and became an aluminum siding salesman.

    (There was a crossover year, where Jack would be sitting in someone's
    kitchen, finalizing the contract on a house-job, and the homeowner would
    suddenly realize, "Weren't you the guy on MERV GRIFFIN last night?")

    A famous story:

    Dangerfield did THE TONIGHT SHOW one evening, when Jack Benny was
    already on the panel.  During a break, Benny was ecstatic, telling
    Dangerfield that he had created the perfect comic personna.

    Benny commented that he played a tightwadded character, that people
    found funny, but that  EVERYBODY has a situation where they're not
    [removed]

    For years, Dangerfield kept his old standup name in the phone book, in
    case an old friend ever needed to get in touch.

    Jim Burns

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:12:36 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR in the News

    A blogger from Nebraska posts an appreciation of old time radio:

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:12:44 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hancock's Half Hour

    An interview with the writers of Hancock's Half Hour, a legendary BBC comedy
    radio series, can be found here:

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:12:51 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-24 births/deaths

    January 24th births

    01-24-1862 - Edith Wharton - NYC - d. 8-11-1937
    author: Many of her stories were adapted for radio.
    01-24-1881 - Earl Godwin - Washington, [removed] - d. 9-23-1956
    newsman: "Watch the World Go By"
    01-24-1883 - Estelle Winwood - Lee, Kent, England - d. 6-20-1984
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    01-24-1902 - Walter Kiernan - New Haven, CT - d. 1-8-1978
    commentator, emcee: "Sparring Partners"; "Weekend"
    01-24-1903 - Johnny Anz - d. 10-26-1987
    orchestra leader: WESG Elmira, New York
    01-24-1904 - Franklyn Baur - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-24-1950
    tenor: "Palmolive Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
    01-24-1909 - Ann Todd - Hartford, Cheshire, England - d. 5-6-1993
    actor: Amy Foster "Those We Love"
    01-24-1913 - Gwen Bagni - d. 5-13-2001
    writer: "Suspense"; "Family Theatre"; "Escape"
    01-24-1914 - David Gaines - d. 8-27-2006
    sound techncian: Mercury Theatre
    01-24-1915 - Evie Juster - d. 6-2-1988
    actor: "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"; "Our Gal Sunday"
    01-24-1916 - Jack Brickhouse - Peoria, IL - d. 8-6-1998
    sportscaster: Chicago
    01-24-1918 - Oral Roberts - near Ada, OK
    evengelist: "Healing Waters"
    01-24-1924 - Mavis Scott - Brisbane, Australia
    writer: "The King and the Hard-Boiled Eggs"
    01-24-1925 - Maria Tallchief - Fairfax, OK
    dancer: "Image Minorities"
    01-24-1925 - Robert M. Cawley - Columbus, OH
    child actor who had his own radio show 1934-1936
    01-24-1927 - Marvin Kaplin - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: Alfred "Meet Millie"
    01-24-1941 - Neil Diamond - B rooklyn, NY
    singer: "Voices of Vista"

    January 24th deaths

    01-01-1908 - Bob Russell - Passaic, NJ - d. 1-24-1998
    singer, songwriter: Helped create " Name that Tune"
    01-10-1916 - Jack Halloran - Rock Rapids, IA - d. 1-24-1997
    singer: "The Breakfast Club with Don MacNeil"
    01-12-1923 - Ira Hayes - Gila River Indian Reservation, AZ - d.
    1-24-1955
    raiser of second flag on Iwo Jima:: "Interview programs"
    01-21-1897 - J. Carrol Naish - NYC - d. 1-24-1973
    actor: Luigi Basco "Life with Luigi"
    02-02-1911 - Everett Freeman - NYC - d. 1-24-1991
    writer: "The Baby Snooks Show"; "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    03-05-1913 - Dick Whittinghill - Montana - d. 1-24-2001
    disk jockey: "Did you Whittinghill This Morning?"
    03-12-1921 - Gordon MacRae - East Orange, NJ - d. 1-24-1986
    singer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Railroad Hour"
    03-13-1910 - Frank Gabrielson - New York - d. 1-24-1980
    writer: "The Cavalcade of America"
    03-13-1911 - L. Ron Hubbard - Tilden, NE - d. 1-24-1986
    science fiction writer: "Dimension X"
    04-22-1924 - Bill Simmons - d. 1-24-2005
    southern gospel musician: (Light Crust Doughboys)
    05-13-1909 - Ken Darby - Hebron, NE - d. 1-24-1992
    singer, choral conductor: (The King's Men) "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    06-10-1911 - Denes Agay - Kiskunfelegyhaza, Hungary - d. 1-24-2007
    composer/conductor: "Guest Star"
    06-24-1900 - Gene Austin - Gainesville, TX - d. 1-24-1972
    singer: "Gene Austin"; "Joe Penner Show"; "[removed] Musical Showroom"
    06-25-1903 - Earl Ebi - Hollister, CA - d. 1-24-1973
    director: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre";
    "Vic and Sade"
    07-13-1934 - Peter Gzowski - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-24-2002
    CBC Morningside host
    07-15-1903 - Walter D. Edmonds - Boonville, NY - d. 1-24-1998
    writer: "Information Please"
    08-18-1873 - Otto Harbach - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 1-24-1963
    songwriter: "Music for Millions"; "Railroad Hour"
    08-24-1927 - Jerry Damon - d. 1-24-1979
    announcer: "X Minus One"; "The Eternal Light"
    10-06-1897 - Jerome Cowan - NYC - d. 1-24-1972
    actor: "Best Plays"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"; "Suspense"
    10-10-1903 - Ronald Dawson - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 1-24-1984
    actor, writer: "Martin Kane, Private Eye"; "The Clock"
    10-12-1905- Gilbert Martyn - Colorado - d. 1-24-1959
    newscaster: "Kellogg's Home Edition"
    10-19-1910 - John C. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 1-24-1936
    singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"; "Bing Crosby
    Show"
    10-20-1914 - Fayard Nicholas - Mobile, AL - d. 1-24-2006
    dancer: (The Nicholas Brothers) "Big Broadcast of 1936"; "Ben Bernie
    Show"
    11-21-1891 - Edward Ellsberg - New Haven, CT - d. 1-24-1983
    writer: "The Mercury Theatre on the Air"
    11-30-1874 - Winston Churchill - Oxfordshire, England - d. 1-24-1965
    british prime minister: War time broadcasts
    12-01-1899 - Tom Shirley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-24-1962
    actor, announcer: Sam Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Advs. of the Thin Man"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:12:58 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 25-31 January

     From Those Were The Days

    1/25

    1937   NBC presented the first broadcast of The Guiding Light.

    1944   Beulah, a black maid played by a white man, Marlin Hurt, aired
    for the first time on Fibber McGee and Molly. The spinoff, Beulah,
    became a radio series in 1945.

    1/26

    1947   The Greatest Story Ever Told was first heard on ABC.

    1/27

    1931   NBC introduced listeners to Clara, Lu 'n' Em on its Blue network.
    The show became the first daytime radio serial when it was moved from
    its original nighttime slot.

    1948   Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first
    magnetic tape recorder. The 'Wireway' machine with a built in oscillator
    sold for $[removed]  ($[removed] in 2006 money).

    1956   The CBS Radio Workshop was heard for the first time. This first
    broadcast featured Aldous Huxley narrating his classic, Brave New World.

    1/28

    It was on this night in 1940 that Beat the Band made its debut on NBC,
    with the Ted Weems band. Beat the Band was where listeners' questions
    were selected in the hopes of stumping the band. If a listener's
    question was chosen, he or she received $10($[removed] in 2006 dollars) The
    questions were posed as riddles: What song title tells you what
    Cinderella might have said if she awoke one morning and found that her
    foot had grown too large for her glass slipper? If the band played the
    correct musical answer, Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, the
    listener lost.

    When Raleigh cigarettes sponsored Beat the Band, the listener who beat
    the band won $50 ($[removed] in 2006) and two cartons of cigarettes ...
    Raleighs, of course. When the sponsor changed to General Mill's Kix
    cereal, if the listener beat the band, he/she won twenty bucks ($[removed]
    in 2006) and a case of Kix cereal.

    1934   As a result of a compliment paid on this day, by Walter Winchell,
    in his newspaper column; a local disc jockey began receiving several
    offers from talent scouts and producers. The DJ became known as the
    Redhead, adored by thousands in Washington, DC and, later, by millions
    across the country on CBS radio and TV. His trademark (strumming a
    ukulele and delivering down home patter) endeared him to fans for many
    years. We remember the broadcasting legend, Arthur Godfrey. "I wanna go
    back to my little grass [removed]"

    1/30

    1933    The Lone Ranger was heard for the first time.

    1/31

    1936   The Green Hornet was introduced by its famous theme song, The
    Flight of the Bumble Bee. The radio show was first heard on WXYZ in
    Detroit, MI on this day. The show stayed on the air for 16 years. The
    Green Hornet originated from the same radio station where The Lone
    Ranger was performed. You may remember that the title character in The
    Green Hornet was really named Britt Reid. He was, in fact, supposed to
    be the great nephew of John Reid, the Lone Ranger. Both popular series
    were created by George Trendle and Fran Striker.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:20:02 -0500
    From: Frederick Greenhalgh <fred@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio Drama Documentary looking for OTR Voices

    I recently received this request from an individual putting together a
    documentary on the radio's golden age, and looking for people in the
    Georgia area to talk about OTR. Please contact him directly if interest!

    Fred

    ***

    James Kicklighter wrote:
    I am directing a documentary for the Communication Arts department at Georgia
    Southern University, celebrating the upcoming 100th anniversary of Radio. It
    will premiere at the Broadcast Education Association Festival in Las Vegas this
    April.
    We're actively seeking individuals who have worked in radio,
    specifically, in the "Golden Age," when radio dramas and the like were
    frequented. With a very tight timeline, we are quickly searching for these
    experts who are in the Georgia area that could be interviewed.
    Please contact me at unlockimagination@[removed]. We look forward to hearing
    from you.
    Best,
    James Kicklighter
    Online: [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:27:55 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-25 births/deaths

    January 25th births

    01-25-1874 - Somerset Maughan - Paris, France - d. 12-16-1965
    writer: " Somerset Maughan Theatre"
    01-25-1878 - Ernst Alexanderson - Uppsala, Sweden - d. 5-14-1975
    engineer: Possibly first voice ever heard on radio Dec. 24, 1906
    01-25-1881 - Emil Judwig - Breslau, Selisia, Germany - d. 9-17-1948
    writer: "Information Please"
    01-25-1901 - Mildred Dunnock - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-5-1991
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    01-25-1908 - Stephane Grapelli - Paris, France - d. 12-1-1997
    jazz violinist: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Jazz Alive"
    01-25-1910 - Portland Hoffa - Portland, OR - d. 12-25-1990
    comedienne: (Wife of Fred Allen) "Fred Allen Show"
    01-25-1916 - Les Crutchfield - d. 10-6-1966
    writer: "Escape"; "Fort Laramie"; "Gunsmoke"
    01-25-1920 - Fred Pinkard - d. 8-3-2004
    actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Hello, Sucker"
    01-25-1920 - Roy Rowan - Encino, CA - d. 5-10-1998
    announcer: "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "Rogers of the Gazette"; "Young Love"
    01-25-1922 - Raymond Baxter - Essex, England - d. 9-15-2006
    broadcaster for the BBC
    01-25-1923 - Rusty Draper - d. 3-28-2003
    country singer: "Dude Martin's Radio Ranch"
    01-25-1924 - Speedy West - Springfield, MO - d. 11-15-2003
    steel guitarist: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Tennessee Ernie FordShow"
    01-25-1958 - Linda Smith - Erith, England - d. 2-27-2006
    panelist: "Just a Minute"; "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", "The News Quiz"

    January 25th deaths

    01-02-1913 - David Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-25-2000
    producer: " We the People"
    02-06-1878 - Walter B. Pitkin - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 1-25-1953
    author: "The Clearing House of Hope"; "We Americans"
    03-03-1921 - Diana Barrymore - NYC - d. 1-25-1960
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    03-05-1900 - Martin Magner - Stettin, Germany - d. 1-25-2002
    director: "Under Arrest"; "Wooden Fish"
    03-21-1918 - Cliff Norton - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
    actor: Connie the coolie "Terry and the Pirates"; "American Novels"
    03-24-1867 - Harry Neville - Launceston, Tasmania - d. 1-25-1945
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes"; "John's Other Wife"
    04-07-1893 - Irene Castle - New Rochelle, NY - d. 1-25-1969
    actor: Best Dressed Woman "Life of Irene Castle"; "Twenty Questions"
    04-13-1905 - Eddie Dooley - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-25-1982
    sports commentary: "Dooley's Football Forecast"
    04-17-1913 - Walter Ducloux - Lucerne, Switzerland - d. 1-25-1997
    conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    04-30-1916 - Robert Shaw - Red Bluff, CA - d. 1-25-1999
    choral director: "Radio Hall of Fame"; "American School of the Air"
    05-31-1904 - Jeanne Juvelier - NYC - d. 1-25-1981
    actor: Madame Babette "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"
    06-03-1924 - Ted Mallie - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-25-1999
    announcer: "I Love A Mystery"; "The Shadow"; "Bill Hickok"
    08-19-1902 - Colleen Moore - Port Huron, MI - d. 1-25-1988
    actor: "Whatever Became of . . . ."
    09-10-1898 - Adele Astaire - Omaha, NE - d. 1-25-1981
    dancer, actor: (Fred's Sister) "Magic Key"; "Savings Bond Campaign"
    09-17-1910 - Roberta Semple Salter - Hong Kong - d. 1-25-2007
    researcher: "Hobby Lobby"
    10-15-1921 - Robert Rockwell - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
    actor: Philip Boynton "Our Miss Brooks"
    10-30-1906 - Paul J. Smith - Calumet, MI - d. 1-25-1985
    music: "The Eddie Bracken Show"
    12-03-1902 - Bill Slater - Parkersburg, WV - d. 1-25-1965
    emcee: ""Uncle Jim's Question Bee"; "Twenty Questions"; "Dunninger Show"
    12-24-1922 - Ava Gardner - Grabtown, NC - d. 1-25-1990
    actor: "So Proudly We Hail"; "Prudential Family Hour of Stars"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:28:21 -0500
    From: Rentingnow@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Hey Boy

    You know you are involved with OTR when:

    You say "hey boy" to your dog and then think "Have Gun Will Travel"

    Larry Moore

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    Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:28:27 -0500
    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 listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
    Radio Theatre," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The
    Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in
    high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
    [removed]
    =======================================

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    YOU ARE THERE
    Episode 61    1-30-49    "Colonel Johnson Eats The Love Apple-September
    26, 1820"
    Stars: Bernard Lenrow, Karl Swenson
    CBS SUSTAINED
    Historical Events presented as "News Broadcasts"

    THE SINGING WAITERS
    Episode 2    3-6-37
    CBS SUSTAINED Saturdays 5:45 - 6:00 pm
    Broadcast from the Paris Inn in the Latin Quarter of Los Angeles

    HOLLYWOOD SPOTLIGHT
    Episode 31   1935    Spotlighting Bob Burns
    Stars: Phil Harris and his Band, Bob Burns, Larry Burke, Leah Ray
    Host: Tom Jaffrey

    SMILIN' ED'S BUSTER BROWN GANG
    5-26-46    "The Chinese War Lord"
    NBC Buster Brown Shoes
    HOST: "Smilin' Ed" McConnell

    PHILIP MORRIS PLAYHOUSE
    Episode 27    5-6-49   "Murder Needs An Artist"
    Stars: Vincent Price
    CBS - Philip Morris Fridays 10:00 - 10:30 pm
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    (MBS) 4/9/45 "The Viennese Strangler" Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce, with
    commentary by director, Glen Hall Taylor.

    THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    (MBS) 4/23/45 "The Notorious Canary Trainer" (as above)

    NEWS WITH ED SULLIVAN
    (CBS) 5/22/49 News of celebrities and personalities in the news. Long
    before Ed ever stepped in front of a TV camera.
    ====================================

    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Quiet Please - "Beezer's Cellar"
    originally aired October 10, 1948 on ABC
    Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
    Lotte Staviski, Warren Stevens, Charles Egelston.
    Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
    Sustained.

    Quiet Please - "Shadow Of The Wings"
    originally aired April 17, 1949 on ABC
    Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you.
    Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
    Sustained.

    Quiet Please - "The Oldest Man In The World"
    originally aired May 21, 1949 on ABC
    Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
    Don Briggs, Nancy Sheridan.
    Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
    Sustained.

    Quiet Please - "And Jeannie Dreams Of Me"
    originally aired October 17, 1948 on ABC
    Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
    Murray Forbes, Ruth Last, Arthur Cole.
    Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
    Sustained.

    Quiet Please - "Good Ghost"
    originally aired October 24, 1948 on ABC
    Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
    Anna Maude Morath, Sarah Fussell, Claudia Morgan (Mrs. Ernest Chappell).
    Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
    Sustained.
    ==================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

    Jerry Haendiges

    Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
    The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
    Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

    ------------------------------

    Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:28:37 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR Airfare
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

    Six months ago I looked into purchasing airline tickets to fly out to a few
    University archives for research and discovered to my horror that the prices
    had gone astro. The entire one year's schedule appeared to be more expensive
    the later the dates. Every month the tickets were $25 or $30 more than the
    previous month and continued that way till August 2009. It was as if the
    airlines anticipated the cost of fuel to continue going up and was accounting
    for the difference.

    Thankfully, I hesitated. Earlier this week I realized I had to book my tickets
    and returned to the same web-site and discovered a surprise. The ticket prices
    are REALLY, REALLY low. What would have cost me $500 plus was $199 and the
    trip to the mid-West for $790 was now $430. Assuming the price of gas will go
    up and being the optimist that I am, I figured to pass this on to anyone
    considering flying to an old-time radio convention. Book it now. Not
    "tomorrow." While the airlines cannot predict the cost of the tickets six
    months from now, and people can offer their own non-valued opinions on what
    causes the prices to go up and down, I can certainly verify they are MUCH
    lower than they were six months ago and well worth buying them now. Planning
    to fly to REPS. SPERDVAC, FOTR, MANC or Cincy this year? Do it now!

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