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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 195
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Western scripts                       [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  re: Radio Stars' Voices in the Movie  [ "David Fx" <df789@[removed]; ]
  Charlie Chan                          [ Briantaves1879@[removed] ]
  Re: Lon Chaney Jr. on radio           [ "Jonathan Sweet" <sweetedit@sbcglob ]
  7-18 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  "And just WAIT till you see what Jer  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  movies of interest to OTR fans        [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
  Tucson Old Time Radio Club            [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
  Light Western Show?                   [ "erest@[removed]" <erest@bel ]
  Yours Truly Johnny Dollar episodes f  [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]
  Another Nostalgia Column              [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  Mickey Spillane                       [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  7-19 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  Re: Light Western show?               [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:27:34 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Western scripts

On Friday, July 14, 2006, at 06:18 AM,Randy Story wrote:

I am still searching for OTR scripts and I want to thank all of the
digesters who have sent emails or called to help me in this effort. I am
looking for western scripts in particular, with 'Hopalong Cassidy' or 'Roy
Rogers'

I have one script of "Hopalong Cassidy" which is an episode entitled 
"Junior Badman."  I don't know the air date, but script was written by 
Gilbert Scott Fox for this Commodore Production.

Contact me off-list if you want a copy.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:28:18 -0400
From: "David Fx" <df789@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  re: Radio Stars' Voices in the Movies
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Did a lot of radio actors go into dubbing as radio drama faded away?

Try this link to start with: [removed]
Perhaps someone at that site can provide some further insight.

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:38:01 -0400
From: Briantaves1879@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Charlie Chan
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Can anyone direct to any good articles etc on Chan on radio?  I have the info
from the usual reference sources, but that is all.

Thanks, Brian Taves

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:38:25 -0400
From: "Jonathan Sweet" <sweetedit@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Lon Chaney Jr. on radio

If memory serves, Junior Chaney did a few other radio things as well
(perhaps an INNER SANCTUM or LIGHTS OUT-type piece?)

Out of town and away from my collection right now, but I know there is an
episode of Abbott & Costello that co-starred Chaney (Lon steals Lou's
girlfriend, or something like that, I think.)

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:38:32 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[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"
07-18-1908 - 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 - Marvin Miller - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-8-1985
actor: Ben Lyon "Jeff Regan, Investigator"; Gil Whitney "Romance of
Helen Trent"
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"
09-14-1910 - Jack Hawkins - London, England - d. 7-18-1973
actor: "[removed] Steel Hour"
10-28-1917 - Ron Rawson - 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"
xx-xx-xxxx - Bob Emery - d. 7-18-1982
host: "The Small Fry Club"; "This Wonderful World"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Home state of Ransom Sherman
Appleton, Wisconsin

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:39:20 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "And just WAIT till you see what Jerry Lewis
 is up to THIS time!!!"

From: "Stuart Lubin" _StuartLubin@[removed]_ (mailto:StuartLubin@[removed])

Art Gilmore. I would venture an
uneducated guess that Mr. Gilmore  did at least three times as many movie
voice-overs

Just wanted to "ditto" Stuart's opinion of Art as a great guy - and good
actor.
It was a joy to work with him at FOTR - and to find that he was capable of  a
lot more than just the "booming, laughing" voice he used for the tons  of
trailers that I heard as a kid!

Art, is in his middle 90's and enjoying
life in great health with  his wife, in Orange County, California. (Clean
living, I am sure!)

As well as, practically, the years of heavy lung use? (Seriously, many have
posited this as one factor in the longevity and health of some  actors.)

Inner Sanctum.  Raymond was played by Raymond  Edward
Johnson. I don't know why he was replaced.

If memory serves, when he got back from the Service, he asked for a raise?
And among the many things that Hy Brown was, "munificent" was not one!

Best,
-Craig

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:33:45 -0400
From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  movies of interest to OTR fans

an excerpt from the TCM bulletin

Join us on 7/24 at 8 pm ET as the renowned talk show host screens four
of his favorite movies, including *The Third Man* (1949) and Jack Benny
in *To Be or Not to Be* (1942). Turner Classic Movies is available on
most cable and sat providers, consult local listings to find it in your
area.

The Third Man is a personal fav

Joe Salerno

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:27:58 -0400
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Tucson Old Time Radio Club

Hi Everybody,

could one of the members of the Tucson Old Time Radio Club contact me
privately.  Yesterday USA has an offer.  Take care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:56:23 -0400
From: "erest@[removed]" <erest@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Light Western Show?

One show to look for is All Star Western Theater.  It was a west coast
show starring 'The Riders of the Purple Sage'  While each show does have
a couple of song from the group; there is also a play often comical in
each.  The earlier shows also have guest stars from western movies or music.
   Rob

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:02:48 -0400
From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Yours Truly Johnny Dollar episodes from 1960
 and why they were preempted

July 18, 2006

Dear Old Time Radio Digest readers:

I have some questions about some episodes of Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar and why they were preempted?

These programs aired in 1960.

On April 3, 1960 at the conclusion of "The Double
Exposure Matter" Bob Bailey talks about next weeks
story taking place in a deadly swamp we know this was
"The Deadly Swamp Matter"  which aired on April 17,
1960.  For several years many O T R collectors gave
this program date as April 10, 1960 nothing was said
about tuning in two weeks from today on April 3, 1960.
 Why was Yours Truly Johnny Dollar preempted on April
10?  I doubt if it was a major news event or sports
event because the other CBS Radio Network dramas
Suspense, Have Gun Will Travel and Gunsmoke aired that
day

The same question applies for the YTJD programs of
July 10, 1960 and July 24, 1960.  At the conclusion of
"The Collectors Matter" which aired on July 3, 1960
Bob Bailey said next weeks story would be the "Back to
the Back Matter".  This program aired on July 17,
1960. At the conclusion of this program, Bob Bailey
from his description of next weeks story descried the
plot of "The Double Deal Matter" which aired on
November 20, 1960.  Again the other CBS Radio Network
dramas aired July 10, and July 24, 1960.
Could it be that three YTJD episodes aired that we
don't know about?

Was it a common practice if a program was to be
preempted next week to tell listeners or not say
anything, with the exception of course of breaking
news?
Many Thanks

Jim Taylor

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:30:24 -0400
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Another Nostalgia Column
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This columnist from Sheboygan, Wisconsin thinks life was better when everyone listened to Jack Benny on the radio on Sundays.  

He has some other more debatable opinions about the  best uses of time on Sunday (who is he to tell merchants if they should be open or not - that should be up to their customers) but you can certainly agree on that first point.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:37:46 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mickey Spillane

In case it doesn't get mentioned, I wanted to point out that pulp
detective writer, Mickey Spillane died on Monday July 17th.

Spillane's connection to radio was in the radio series, "That Hammer
Guy" aka Mickey Spillane Mysteries aired over the Mutual Network in
1953. The radio plays were not written by Spillane, though he was
consulted, but rather by the great radio writer Ed Adamson (radio:
Private Files of Rex Saunders, Abbott Mysteries; television: Hawaii
Five-0, Banyan, Then Came Bronson, Mannix).  Oddly, the radio series was
sponsored at one point by Esquire Magazine advertising provocative
stories of sex, Camel Cigarettes and Kix Cereal - all at the same time!
Radio networks were grasping for any sponsors they could get by this
time.  Larry Haines played Mike Hammer.

An interesting side note on Spillane is that he was born in Brooklyn of
an Irish Catholic father who had him baptized as Frank Michael Spillane.
But his mother, a Protestant, later had him re-christened in her church
as Frank Morrison Spillane. His father just always called him Mickey.

Spillane's first novel was "I, the Jury" a violent, pulpy, hard hitting
detective story full of vengeance using his detective character Mike
Hammer. But his first short story was published right out of high school
under the pen name Frank Morrison. Most mystery writers eschewed his
work though the public couldn't get enough. Anthony Boucher called his
first novel "required reading in a Gestapo training school."

Jim Widner

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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:01:26 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  7-19 births/deaths

July 19th births

07-19-1889 - Max Fleischer - Vienna, Austria - d. 9-11-1972
cartoonist: "Popeye the Sailor"
07-19-1891 - Raymond Bramley - Independence, OH - d. 11-27-1977
actor: Burton York "Howie Wing"; Silas Finke "David Harum"
07-19-1896 - Merle Kendrick - d. 5-23-1968
orchestra conductor: "Cabin B-13"
07-19-1901 - Juano Hernandez - San Juan, Puerto Rico - d. 7-17-1970
actor: Kolu "Jungle Jim"; Lothar "Mandrake the Magician"
07-19-1902 - Buster Bailey - Memphis, TN - d. 4-12-1967
clarinet: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"
07-19-1906 - "Tiny" Hill - Sullivan, IL - d. 12-13-1971
orchestra leader: "Tiny" Hill and His Orchestra"
07-19-1912 - Frank Kane - d. 11-29-1968
writer: "The Shadow"
07-19-1913 - Charlie Teagarden - Vernon, TX - d. 12-10-1984
trumpet: (Brother of Jack) "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
07-19-1914 - Lou Krugman - Passaic, NJ - d. 8-8-1992
actor: Tony Griffin "Romance of Helen Trent"; Ulysses Hink "Dear
Mom"; "Gunsmoke"
07-19-1930 - Rhoda Williams - Denver, CO - d. 3-8-2006
actor: Betty Anderson "Father Knows Best"; "Life of Riley"
07-19-1940 - Dennis Cole - Detroit, MI
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

July 19th deaths

02-20-1909 - Barry Wood - New Haven, CT - d. 7-19-1970
singer, host: "Million-Dollar Band"; "Your Hit Parade"
02-24-1919 - Betty Marsden - Liverpool, England - d. 7-19-1998
actor: Daphne Whitehigh, Buttercup Gruntfuttock, et al "Round the Horne"
03-31-1928 - Lefty Frizzell - Corsicana, TX - d. 7-19-1975
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Louisana Hayride"; "Big D Jamboree"
04-27-1902 - Harry Stockwell - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-19-1984
singer: "Broadway Matinee"
06-10-1903 - Clyde Beatty - Bainbridge, OH - d. 7-19-1965
big game hunter: "The Clyde Beatty Show"
06-23-1908 - Erik Barnouw - The Netherlands - d. 7-19-2001
radio historian/author: "A Tower of Babel"; "The Golden Web"; "The
Image Empire"
09-03-1897 - Sally Benson - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-19-1972
writer: "Junior Miss"
11-19-1864 - Geroge Barbier - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-19-1945
actor: "Song of the Islands"
11-24-1908 - Worth Kramer - d. 7-19-1998
director: "Wings Over Jordan"
12-17-1913 - Herbert Nelson - Stillwater, MN - d. 7-19-1990
actor: Ralph Fraser "Dan Harding's Wife"; George Lawlor "Romance of
Helen Trent"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Home state of Wayne Morse
Dane County, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:12:00 -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, 19 Jul 2006 10:13:28 -0400
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Light Western show?

Our re-creation group has been asked to put on a show featuring a
"light", almost comedic western program.  It's an adult audience, so we
don't want a kids show such as Hopalong or the Lone Ranger.  On the other hand
we don't want an adult western such as Gunsmoke or Have Gun, Will Travel.
Anyone have any ideas on that type of western show?

"The Bear" from "On Stage"

"A Snake in Time" from "Family Theatre"

"Ruggles of Red Gap" from the hour-long "Lux" and the half-hour
"Screen Guild" and "Academy Award" Theaters. (Lux also adapted the
musical remake of "Ruggles," the Bob Hope film "Fancy Pants.")

"Destry Rides Again" from "Screen Guild" and "Lux"

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