Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #133
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 5/2/2007 10:18 PM
To: [removed]@[removed]

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 133
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Cincy 2008 hotel                  [ JJLjackson@[removed] ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  Groucho Marx                          [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  [Approved: lunZm5hdjt]#OldRadio IRC   [ charlie@[removed] ]
  Re: Groucho Marx                      [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
  You know what?                        [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Re:Cincy OTR                          [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  Attempting to find "Reunion" and Bar  [ "G. Morgan Watkins" <morgan@watkins ]
  Bob Hope cut off                      [ "Lee Munsick" <verotas@[removed] ]
  Bob Hope's Joke                       [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
  Cincy hotel                           [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
  Bob Hope                              [ "Doug Douglass" <dougdouglass@[removed] ]
  wireless radio remote control from t  [ ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; ]
  Re: Groucho Marx                      [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
  Bob Hope & Dirty Jokes                [ "John Southard" <jsouthard@[removed] ]

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 00:27:25 -0400
From: JJLjackson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Cincy 2008 hotel
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In a message dated 5/1/2007 8:38:22 [removed] Pacific Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

 Slow, but sure I'm making a come back from my cancer surgery.
Next  year the hotel will be a Double Tree (Hilton) Hotel. This may help
 improve some of the problems.

I am very glad to hear that Bob is on the  mend.

I'm also glad to hear that a different hotel is planned for next  year.
My one complaint from this year's convention is that the hotel  seemed
really sketchy this year.  I don't know if it's new owners, or  something
else, but it really seems to have gone down  hill.

I read this a couple of times. I was at the Cincy convention, and managed  to
compile the comedy of errors which will make that edition of the convention
memorable.

 It was my understanding that the hotel that the Cincy convention has  been
in for several years was just recently sold to the DoubleTree Hotel chain.  So
I think it'll be the same hotel/location but under new owners. I kinda hope
I'm [removed]'d enjoy a change of scene, something closer to the airport,
perhaps.

joy jackson
American Radio Theater

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 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, 2 May 2007 07:46:23 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Groucho Marx

To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Groucho Marx

  Does anyone know if this is true and if so, whether this show
still exists in recorded form?

The story is true.  John Guidel happened to be there that day with
Art Linkletter, who was also in the program, and this led to the
creation of "You Bet Your Life."

I don't know whether the entire show still exists, but the Groucho
Marx-Bob Hope segment appears as an extra in a DVD currently
available of You Bet Your Life TV episodes.  It's not as funny as one
would have thought from the description, but that may be because of
editing.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 15 Court Square, Suite 210                 Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 07:46:31 -0400
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  [Approved: lunZm5hdjt]#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, 2 May 2007 07:46:43 -0400
From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Groucho Marx

The Bob Hope-Groucho Marx sketch that ultimately led
to YOU BET YOUR LIFE is excerpted on Shout Factory's
excellent YOU BET YOUR LIFE: THE LOST EPISODES set,
released about four years ago. Hope and Marx were
appearing on THE WALGREENS HOUR.

Randy

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 07:47:04 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  You know what?

You know what? I miss Hal Stone's occasional comments in this digest,
he is missed.

Ron

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 07:55:52 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re:Cincy OTR

Chris wrote:

I'm also glad to hear that a different hotel is planned for next year.
My one complaint from this year's convention is that the hotel seemed
really sketchy this year.  I don't know if it's new owners, or something
else, but it really seems to have gone down hill.

I don't think it is a different hotel. I believe the Ramada has sold the
place to the Doubletree group. So I think the convention will remain
where it is just under new management.

Jim Widner

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 09:29:56 -0400
From: "G. Morgan Watkins" <morgan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Attempting to find "Reunion" and Bartell's
 last radio show

Does anyone know where one could purchase a collection of an old radio show,
"Reunion"?  It is a show, starting around 1948, where Holocaust survivors are
reunited with their families?  I heard a segment from the "Yiddish Radio
Project" services that was on NPR and was fascinated.

I'd also like to purchase a copy of the August 24, 2003 of the Further
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.  From what I've read, it was Harry Bartell's
last radio show.  I think it might have been called, "The Case of the Great
American."

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 10:15:58 -0400
From: "Lee Munsick" <verotas@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bob Hope cut off

I can recall another time when Bob hope was summarily and quickly cut off
the air.  Like Larry Moore, at the time I didn't know why - but I figured it
was something he had just said.  It was, because some years later I learned
the point of the punchline-only remark that he threw out, followed by brief
but unexpected dead air, and then music!  To my recollection, they did not
return to his program that night.

And, again as Larry surmised, it was indeed a dirty joke.  Read: filthy!  I
may also have heard Hope the time that Larry did, because I also know what
that one's all about.   I know I heard him cut off three times but don't
recall the exact reasons for the other two.

It's a shame that Bob Hope, so recognized as a family comedian and I suspect
pretty much welcome in anyone's home (except people that can't keep up with
rapid one-liners) - had to reduce himself todirty jokes.  Perhaps all those
USO tours and shows before hundreds of grateful, laughing GIs caused him to
forget that something OK in that setting was not acceptable on the air.  I'm
so glad that we don't have that problem these days.  Yeah - right!

I suspect Hope was not the only one to have the switch thrown off him and
suddenly music heard.  But I don't personally recall other such instances.

Bestus - Lee Munsick

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 10:16:22 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bob Hope's Joke

In the WWII days Bob Hope, in one of momologues, noted that young ladies
skirts were short and if they got any shorter they would have to power
two more cheeks and -- well that's not all, but I'll go no further. As
you can imagin there was dead air for a while.
There was a lot of gossip among 7th & 8th graders, on Wednesday on what
did he say. I will add that the shorts skirts of the 1940's were long
compared to the mini skirts of today. I like legs !
Frank McGurn

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:37:54 -0400
From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Cincy hotel

Chris Holm, on the Cincinnati convention:

I'm also glad to hear that a
different hotel is planned for next year.

Actually, Chris, the hotel will be the same.  But it will be a Hilton
instead of a Ramada.  Ownership is changing.  I'm guessing that's why it
had problems this year - the current owners don't much care, since
they're getting rid of it soon.

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:41:02 -0400
From: "Doug Douglass" <dougdouglass@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bob Hope
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Is it true Bob Hope was suspended for an on-air comment he made to Dorothy
Lamour suggesting she kiss him under the sign at a pawnshop?

Doug Douglass

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 18:39:52 -0400
From: ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  wireless radio remote control from the '30's

[removed]

Has info about philco radios in general also.

                               XB
                                IC|XC

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 18:42:02 -0400
From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Groucho Marx

Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed]; asked about the legendary
foot-on-the-script exchange between Groucho Marx and Bob Hope:

 Does anyone know if this is true and if so, whether this show still
exists in recorded form?

I believe this is the WALGREENS HOUR special from 27 March 1947. An
approximately ten-minute clip (which appears to be unedited, so it's
anybody's guess how much actually made it to broadcast) can be found on the
SHOUT! Factory's YOU BET YOUR LIFE: THE LOST EPISODES DVD collection
(standard disclaimers here).

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Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 19:55:09 -0400
From: "John Southard" <jsouthard@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bob Hope & Dirty Jokes
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The reference today to Bob Hope and "pocket pool" reminded me of a Hope story
that may be aprocypal. It seems in a Hope momologue, Hope asked, "What is a
fisherman's delight?"  "One night on Veronica Lake." Hope's lawyers had to
search world maps to find a lake named Veronica to prevent a lawsuit. Bon Hope
was known as a risque comedian on radio. He was cut off the air a few times.
This is forgotten of the man who became an American icon during World War II.

John Southard.
Killeen, Texas

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