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Date: 3/24/2019 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2019 : Issue 16
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 24-30 Mar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Live Radio Plays in Denver Sunday af  [ DennyT49 <dennyt49@[removed]; ]
      Re: Women Directors                   [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:07:04 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 24-30 March

     From Those Were The Days

    3/24

    1932   Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show from a moving train ... a
    first for radio broadcasting. The program originated from a Baltimore
    and Ohio train that chugged its way around the New York area. The
    broadcast was heard on WABC in New York City.

    1935   After a year as a local show from New York City, Major Bowes'
    Original Amateur Hour was heard on the entire NBC network. The show
    stayed on the air for 17 years. Later, Ted Mack took over for Bowes and
    made the move from radio to television.

    3/25

    1943   Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiered on network radio. The
    pair replaced the popular Abbott and Costello following Lou Costello's
    heart attack. Durante and Moore stayed on the air for four years.

    3/27

    1943   Blue Ribbon Town was first heard on CBS.

    3/28

    1941   Louella Parsons hosted Hollywood Premiere for the first time on
    CBS. The gossip columnist introduced famous guests who appeared in
    dramatized stories.

    1944   WQXR in New York City, owned by The New York Times newspaper,
    banned singing commercials from its airwaves as of this day.
    Understandable, since the station has always been the classical music
    voice of Manhattan and there aren't many classical singing commercials.

    3/29

    1932   Jack Benny appeared on radio for the first time. He agreed to
    join then newspaper columnist, Ed Sullivan, on his interview show.

    1937   The serial, Our Gal Sunday, debuted. The question, "Can this girl
    from a small mining town in the West find happiness as the wife of a
    wealthy and titled Englishman?" was asked each day for next 22 years.
    3/30

    1936   The serial Backstage Wife made a move across the dial from the
    Mutual Broadcasting System to NBC. Once there, the program continued to
    air for the next 23 years.

    1945   The Dreft Star Playhouse was heard for the final time. The show
    had been paying up to $3,000 per week ($42,347 in 2018 dollars) to
    attract name talent.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:07:28 -0400
    From: DennyT49 <dennyt49@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Live Radio Plays in Denver Sunday afternoon,
     April 7th
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    Live Radio Plays in Denver Sunday afternoon, April 7th

    The Advent Radio Players will be recreating two Easter Springtime Radio
    Comedies live in the Denver area on Sunday afternoon. April 7th.  We will be
    recreating an episode of Our Miss Brooks, "Easter Egg Dye" as originally
    broadcast on April 9, 1950 and an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, "Easter
    Sunrise Service" which was originally broadcast on April 1, 1953.  These will
    be performed on Sunday, April 7th at 2 [removed] on  Advent Lutheran Church at 7979
    Meade Street in Westminster, CO.  Donations are appreciated ($7 suggested).
    For the past seven years the Advent Radio Players have been recreating old
    time radio shows in the Denver area from the original scripts using several
    microphones and sound effects from the original programs just as they were
    heard on the radio.  Each play is performed like a live radio show including
    lighted applause and on the air signs.  All are welcome to attend.
    Any publicity you can provide us in the Old Time Radio Digest would be greatly
    appreciated!
    Denny ThompsonDirector, Advent Radio PlayersDennyT49@[removed]
    (home)720-935-0527 (cell)

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    Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:07:39 -0400
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Women Directors
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    In the mid-1920s, the success of Schenectady's WGY Players led some of the
    more ambitious radio stations across the [removed] to develop their own drama
    troupes. More than a few of these were run by women who not only directed the
    plays but frequently acted in them and wrote or adapted the scripts: WLW's
    Crosley Radarians (Helen Schuster Martin), The WRC Players (Madge Tucker), The
    KLX Players (Etta Wilson Coleman), The KOA Players (Iris Ruth Pavey), The KGO
    Players (Wilda Wilson Church), et cetera.

    Often these were weekly or monthly adaptations of three- and four-act stage
    plays produced on shoestring budgets. Wilda Wilson Church claimed to have
    directed over 350 of them, couldn't afford to buy the rights from the authors
    (which led to lawsuits), and never paid her actors more than five dollars (for
    three rehearsals and a broadcast).

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