Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #210
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Date: 7/18/2007 9:48 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 210
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Sale of MediaBay and XM Radio Classi  [ Kevin Bristol <citadel92@[removed] ]
      Public Domain                         [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
      Re: LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRE        [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      Radio Spirits                         [ Karen Lerner <kareneflerner@[removed] ]
      Journal of Popular Culture issue      [ "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@[removed]; ]
      Re: Radio Spirits and The Older Days  [ "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed]; ]
      Ah, but that OTHER "[removed]"     [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder              [ TIMOTHY M KELLEY <tmk1_99@[removed]; ]
      Charles Lane                          [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      FOTR convention                       [ JayHick@[removed] ]
      Old Time Radio Club                   [ Richard Olday <raolday@[removed]; ]
      Angeline Hedrick Orr, Angeline Orr,   [ "Candlia" <Candlia@[removed]; ]
      7-18 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:59:26 +0000
    From: Kevin Bristol <citadel92@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sale of MediaBay and XM Radio Classics
      Future

    Someone mentioned how the radio classics XM (and Sirius) stations will
    go without MediaBay. I hope they find another source to get new shows
    from. I'm a 36 year old who stumbled onto OTR around Christmas time last
    year and it's been a "horrible" addiction since. The XM radio in my car
    had been having issues and the OTR channel on XM is one of the reasons I
    got the darn thing fixed. I spend my time in the car swapping between
    the OTR channel, the 40's channel, and my iPod which I typically rotate
    around 30 to 40 shows a week on so I can listen to OTR while working or
    on the car ride home. Hopefully XM and Sirius will find new suppliers
    for new shows and continue to broadcast.

    Kevin

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:59:33 +0000
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Public Domain

     > Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:41:39 +0000
     > From: "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed];

     > Now, in the days of OTR, things were quite different. Back Then,
     > copyright was NOT automatic -- you actually had to apply and pay
     > for it. Furthermore, you also had to give the proper Copyright
     > Notice.

    And as usual, things are not that simple.  A number of courts have
    held that performance of a work on radio does not constitute
    publication.  So otr scripts tend to be unpublished works.  These, if
    created prior to 1 January 1976, are not protected by Federal
    copyright law, but they are protected by "common law" copyright under
    the laws of most states.  So you cannot assume that most otr is in
    the public domain.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
      92 State Street	                                  Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02109           	         [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:59:42 +0000
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRE

    Not what you were asking for, but interesting:

    Work on a MUSICAL version of the books has been proceding apace, and
    there's already been a few readings of the new play.

    What's kind of fun, I think, is that the teleseries' Melissa Gilbert,
    has been playing the Mom.

    The production is looking towards Broadway, for this season, or [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:59:50 +0000
    From: Karen Lerner <kareneflerner@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio Spirits
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    Hi all,

    I suppose it's time that I chimed in about what happened to [removed]
    I was laid off a couple of weeks ago - right after I returned from a
    wonderful trip to the REPS Convention.

    I'm not really allowed to say anything about what happened or why, but it
    does seem clear that they are trying to sell Radio Spirits.  I do hope that
    someone worthy takes up the torch.

    Sadly, I don't think that there's much hope that I'll be able to find
    another OTR related job.  Meanwhile, I continue to read the Digest and
    listen to the modest amount of OTR that I have been able to collect over
    the past several years.

    My best to everyone,
    Karen Lerner

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:37:37 +0000
    From: "Amos J Wright" <ajwright@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Journal of Popular Culture issue

    [removed]

    I have a single copy to offer of the Journal of Popular Culture
    "In-Depth: Radio" issue, Volume 12, number 2fall 1979. This issue
    includes articles on Vic and Sade, Henry Morgan, Fred Allen, "Women
    Radio Pioneers" and more.

    I will be happy to mail this issue at NO CHARGE to the first claimant to
    contact me [removed]

    [removed] Wright
    anesuab@[removed] OR ajwright@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:37:50 +0000
    From: "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Radio Spirits and The Older Days

    Yes, I got one of the decoders. I'm not sure where it is now, but
    opportunities to use it disappeared shortly after I joined and got
    it.

    -- Tom Kirby

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:50:37 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ah, but that OTHER "[removed]"

    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];

     > "The Original  Amos 'n' Andy" ... restrictions imposed by the
     > owners of the  discs

    ...But not, as Harry Bartell of sainted memory would remind us,  "of the
    SHOWS."

    -Craig W.

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:45:22 +0000
    From: TIMOTHY M KELLEY <tmk1_99@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Laura Ingalls Wilder

    She may have been born in 1867, but she lived until 1957!  It's not at
    all impossible that she did a radio interview at some point.  I don't
    know for certain if she did or not. I vaguely seem to recall hearing
    something of that sort at some point. But, I'm not at all certain; and
    not sure where.

    Tim

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:45:47 +0000
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Charles Lane
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            Yes, I remember Charles Lane.  My first memory of the man was as
    the accountant in "It's A Wonderful Life" who told Mr. Potter off by
    defending the hero, George Bailey.  IMHO, no one could have played that
    particular role other than Charles Lane.  Many of the other roles I remember
    him in were basically as crotchety old fussbudget type men.  He was an
    excellent character actor, and one of the few actors who could take a small
    part and not only make it memorable, but make it his own.

            His age at the time of his death, I believe, was 102 years old.

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:46:03 +0000
    From: JayHick@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  FOTR convention
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    The dates of the convention are Oct 18 - 21.   Details can be found on our
    web site <[removed];.   The flyer will be out in a week or so and when it is
    and
    you don't get it, it will be on the web site.

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:46:27 +0000
    From: Richard Olday <raolday@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Old Time Radio Club

    Mr. Kallis recently mentioned doing business with the Old Time Radio Club.
    I do not know the business he referred to, but the Old Time Radio Club is
    alive & prospering. We recently celebrated our 32 anniversary and
    membership and attendance at our meetings is increasing. I know this,
    because I am the membership director. We have members throughout the [removed] &
    Canada and do a OTR show for [removed]. Our 90 minute show airs
    daily Monday-Friday at various times. If you would like information about
    our club, please E-mail me directly.

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:47:54 +0000
    From: "Candlia" <Candlia@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Angeline Hedrick Orr, Angeline Orr, Angelyn
      Orr, Angelyn Orr Neblett
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    I am trying to find any information about the radio programs my aunt was in.
    She passed away this Dec 2006 at the age of 94. We are having a memorial
    service for her July 30, 2007.  I am trying to gather any information I can
    get for her memorial.

    I've found a resume that shows she was in:

          Stepmother
          It Can Be Done
          Kitty Keene
          Judy and Jane   she was suppose to have played Jane
          Trouble with Marriage
          Carters of Elm Street
          Milky Way Winners ???do you know what that was?

    She played Joyce in Captain Midnight.   She was in Blondie's Lucky Day
    (movie)   She was suppose to be involved in a program that Johnnie Neblett
    did, I think it was Weird Tales.

    One website shows, she was in a whole bunch of The Great Gildersleeve, I
    can't find any information on the cast list.  Some where out on the internet
    there was mention of Ma Perkins.

    I am trying to find any memorabilia related to her career in radio.   Audio,
    scripts, photos, newspaper articles etc.  Also any info as a couple with Wyn
    Orr or Johnny Neblett.

    She was married to Wyn Orr, I believe in June 1935.

    She was married to Johnnie Neblett, don't know the date, late 1945 or early
    1946. He died in a plane crash.

    She was married to James Dudley, sportscaster in 1950.

    Do you know where I can get a nice copy of her resume? The one I found, was
    on the Whistler's site on the internet.

    Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

    Helen

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    Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:00:41 +0000
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-18 births/deaths

    July 18th births

    07-18-1872 - Fred Sullivan - London, England - d. 7-24-1937
    actor: Kirby Willoughby "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Mitchell Frazier
    "Story of Mary Marlin"
    07-18-1891 - Gene Lockhart - Ontario, Canada - d. 3-21-1957
    actor: "Nebbs"; "Doctor Fights"; "Abroad with the Lockharts"
    07-18-1893 - Richard Dix - St. Paul, MN - d. 9-20-1949
    actor: "Eveready Hour"
    07-18-1903 - Chill Wills - Seagoville, TX - d. 12-15-1978
    actor: "Armed Forces Radio Theatre"; "Dinner Bell Round-Up Time"
    07-18-1903 - Riza Royce - Lancaster, PA - d. 10-20-1980
    actor: Victoria Lorring "Young Widder Brown"
    07-18-1906 - Clifford Odets - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-15-1963
    playwright: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Cresta Blanca Hollywood
    Players"
    07-18-1906 - [removed] Hayakawa - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-27-1992
    [removed] senator: "Americana"
    07-18-1908 - Lupe Velez - San Luis Potosi, Mexico - d. 12-14-1944
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Speed Show"
    07-18-1908 - Martha Mears - Mexico, MO - d. 12-13-1986
    singer: "G. I. Laffs"
    07-18-1909 - Harriet Nelson - Des Moines, IA - d. 10-2-1994
    actor: Daisy June "Red Skelton Show"; "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
    07-18-1911 - Hume Cronyn - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 6-15-2003
    actor: Ben Marriott "Marriage"
    07-18-1913 - Eric Pohlmann - Vienna, Austria - d. 7-25-1979
    actor: During WWII broadcast for BBC European Service
    07-18-1913 - Joe Ripley - d. 2-3-1993
    announcer: "Armstrong Circle Theatre"; "Dorothy Dix on the Air"
    07-18-1913 - Marvin Miller - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-8-1985
    actor: Ben Lyon "Jeff Regan, Investigator"; Gil Whitney "Romance of
    Helen Trent"
    07-18-1913 - Mike Roy - Hanaford, ND - d. 6-26-1976
    announcer: "Abbott and Costello"; "Vaughn Monroe Show"
    07-18-1913 - Red Skelton - Vincennes, IN - d. 9-17-1997
    comedian: "Avalon Time"; "Red Skelton Show"
    07-18-1913 - Wyn Sayre - Lakeview, IA
    singer: (Doring Sisters) "Contented Hour"
    07-18-1916 - Irene Winston - NYC - d. 9-1-1964
    actor: Myra Gordon "Valiant Lady"; Rosemary Hemingway "Woman In White"
    07-18-1918 - Jane Frazee - Duluth, MN - d. 9-6-1985
    vaudeville act with sister
    07-18-1920 - Charlie McCarthy - Chicago, IL - d. 9-30-1978
    dummy: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    07-18-1923 - Sam Gray - Chicago, IL
    actor: "High Moment"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-18-1927 - Kurt Masur - Brieg, Germany
    conductor: New York Philharmonic

    July 18th deaths

    02-26-1900 - Jean Negulesco - Craiova, Rumaina - d. 7-18-1993
    film director, screenwriter: "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    05-28-1918 - Johnny Wayne - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-18-1990
    comedian: "Army Show"; "March of Time"
    08-12-1897 - Bob Emery - Abington, MA - d. 7-18-1982
    host: "The Small Fry Club"; "This Wonderful World"
    09-10-1885 - Carl Van Doren - Hope, IL - d. 7-18-1950
    author/lecturer: "New York Philharmonic Orchestra"; "Words at War"
    09-14-1910 - Jack Hawkins - London, England - d. 7-18-1973
    actor: "[removed] Steel Hour"
    10-28-1917 - Ron Rawson - Iowa - d. 7-18-1994
    announcer: "Right to Happiness"; "Advs. of Topper"; "Advs. of the
    Thin Man"
    12-25-1911 - Larry Menkin - NYC - d. 7-18-2000
    writer: "The Sparrow and the Hawk"
    xx-xx-1926 - Paul Duke - Richmond, VA - d. 7-18-2005
    newscaster: "News of the World"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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