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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 205
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
SNIFFLES AND FRIENDS [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
Re: Fitctitious Slogans [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
Mythical mottoes [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
Fake Products [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]
MediaBay to Cease Operations [ David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed] ]
More than you'd ever need to know ab [ <SS01002@[removed]; ]
Re: Charles Lane [ Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed]; ]
Media Bay shuts down [ Jonathan Sweet <sweetedit@sbcglobal ]
Thanks for Chic Sale information [ "Jay Manarky" <jayman@[removed]; ]
7-13 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:56:19 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: SNIFFLES AND FRIENDS
Ahhh, the magic of memory.
The magic of just whispering to yourself, "Poof, poof, piffles, make me just
as small as Sniffles."
There was a comic book I recall as, "Mary Jane & Sniffles" which seemed to
me at the time to be a rip-off of Alice in Wonderland and seems to me now to
be a choice bit for a comedy routine.
After spending more than 40 years in radio and TV and movies and most of it
in Hollywood, the incantation seems like a futuristic prophecy of all the
weed we smoked, "Mary Jane," and all that coke lurking around, "Sniffles,"
but
that is perhaps too sardonic for this posting.
They were 'cute' comics as I recall and I saw a few copies mostly at girls
houses when I would go to trade comics with their brothers in the 50s.
Seems a bit prophetic to me now.
Life, like all good jokes, is too funny to miss and much to difficult to
repeat.
Gwynne
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:12:03 -0400
From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Fitctitious Slogans
Jim Cox <otrbuff@[removed]; wrote:
--"If you want the best of corsets, of course it's Gildersleeve." That was
the advertising slogan of the Gildersleeve Girdle Works when Throckmorton P.
operated said [removed]
Makes you wonder why he gave up industry for, apparently, a full time
civil service job. Those were the days when people really believed in
public service.
I'm wondering: does anybody recall any catchphrases for other
fabled enterprises that existed in Never Never Land?
Well, this one's too obvious, I guess, but maybe I can be first:
"Duffy's Tavern, Where the Elite Meet to Eat."
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:15:36 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Mythical mottoes
Jim Cox is looking mythical mottoes. Does the following help?
Maybe it not a motto but Jack Benny was always bugged by "SARUTAN,
that's Natures spelled Backwards" Or SYMPATHY SOOTHING POWDER" I think
Frank Nelson was the guy selling it, and there was a jingle for some
product that I don't remember "YIP, YIP, YOUTAPIMUS"
Hope that I have awakened some memories that are better tham mine.
Frank McGurn
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:15:54 -0400
From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Fake Products
In Digest #204, Jim Cox asked:
I'm wondering: does anybody recall any catchphrases
for other fabled enterprises that existed in Never
Never Land? Not actual sponsors, but of the
fictitious kind.
The first thing that popped into my mind is, of course, Bob & Ray, who
had a pile of fake sponsors and products such as the Monongahela Metal
Foundry ("Casting steel ingots with the housewife in mind") and
Einbinder Flypaper ("The brand you've gradually grown to trust over the
course of three generations").
Stan Freberg did ads for fake sponsors for his radio show when they
couldn't attract any real sponsors - well, any non-cigarette sponsors -
and I think I remember Groucho Marx doing a fake commercial on the early
days of NBC's The Big Show, before they picked up sponsors.
-chris holm
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:29:10 -0400
From: David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: MediaBay to Cease Operations
[removed];STORY=/www/story/07-11-2007/0004623987&EDATE=
CEDAR KNOLLS, [removed], July 11, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --
MediaBay, Inc. (MBAY) announced that it has been unsuccessful in
its attempt to sell the company and has no viable alternative, except
to cease operations and liquidate its assets. MediaBay intends to
wind down its operations in an orderly manner and seek to sell its
assets at auction and distribute its remaining cash to its creditors.
It is anticipated that this process will conclude by early September 2007.
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:29:54 -0400
From: <SS01002@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: More than you'd ever need to know about Mary
Jane and Sniffles.
Mary Jane and Sniffles first appeared in "Looney Toons and Merrie
Melodies" comics in 1941. This was an anthology comic published by Dell
Comics and licensed by Warner Bros. MJ and Sniffles were created by
Chase Craig. Claims by holdovers from their drug-years aside, Craig
named the human character in his series after his wife, not an herbal
reality enhancer.
The following information is from Don Markstein's Toonpedia
([removed]):
Mary Jane's shrinking ways varied. At first she sprinkled magical sand
on herself while saying, "Magic sand, magic sand, make me small at my
command!" Ocassionally she would say: "Oh, magic sand upon me fall, and
make me very, very small!" By 1949 the chant had segued in the one we
all (more or less remember): "First I shut my eyes real tight,
then I wish with all my might! Magic words of poof, poof, piffles, make
me just as small as Sniffles!"
By then MJ had forgone magic sand and used just the words '<<196>>" spoken
with fingers crossed.
MJ&S survived many changes in the book '<<196>>" and the industry, including
the reduction from the standard 52 Pages (All Funnies! '<<196>>" as I recall
from my own 10 cent allowanced kidhood) to 36. The darling duo had its
last anthology outing in the 238th issue '<<196>>" July 1961. This was a
scant 8 numbers away from Warner's transfer of the license to Gold Key
Comics when the anthology was killed off.
It was seen for a short time in Bugs Bunny's comic and has had
occasional reprints into 1970s, but now, as Don Markstien says on
Toonopecia, they are "just a fond memory."
***** WARNING! UNHANDLED BAD CHARACTER!!!!!
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:30:19 -0400
From: Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Charles Lane
Charles Lane, who died at 102 on Monday, was too busy in films to
have done much radio work. He was the last of the great movie
character actors, a real studio workhorse (my book "Reel Characters"
has a chapter on him with near-complete filmography). I regret I
never asked Charlie about his radio appearances, but I seem to recall
he was on a Lux adaptation of one of the Capra films--"It's a
Wonderful Life," perhaps?
Jordan R. Young
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:30:39 -0400
From: Jonathan Sweet <sweetedit@[removed];
To: OTR list <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Media Bay shuts down
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Publishers Weekly is reporting that Media Bay, parent company of Radio Spirits, etc., is shutting down.
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Jay Sweet
sweetedit@[removed]
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:01:37 -0400
From: "Jay Manarky" <jayman@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Thanks for Chic Sale information
Wow! Much faster and more complete than I had dared hope! Thanks to
Don Jensen and Steve Pfister for the Chic Sale information.
Steve, the links are priceless and precious!
God Bless.
Jay Manarky
Owego, NY
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:16:47 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 7-13 births/deaths
july 13th births
07-13-1886 - Father Flanagan - Roscommon, Ireland - d. 5-15-1948
founder of boys town: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"; "Good New
of 1939"
07-13-1889 - Frank M. Thomas - St. Joseph, MO - d. 11-25-1989
actor: Police Captain "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
07-13-1895 - Bradley Kincaid - Kentucky - d. 9-13-1989
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "WLS Barn Dance"
07-13-1895 - Sidney Blackmer - Salisbury, NC - d. 10-5-1973
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-13-1902 - Phillips H. Lord - Hartford, CT - d. 10-19-1975
actor: Seth Parker "Seth Parker"; Mitchell Frazier "Story of Mary
Marlin"
07-13-1903 - Frank Dane - Aalborg, Denmark - d. unknown
actor: "Perry Mason"; "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"
07-13-1903 - Milo Boulton - Ohio - d. 2-2-1989
host: "We, the People"
07-13-1906 - Harry Sosnick - Chicago, IL - d. 3-22-1996
conductor: "Pennzoil Parade"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Beat the Band"
07-13-1908 - Tim Spencer - Webb City, MO - d. 4-26-1974
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
07-13-1912 - Joseph Bell - California - d. 3-xx-1987
director, actor: "Big Town", "East of Cairo"; "Will Rogers Show"
07-13-1913 - Dave Garroway - Schenectady, NY - d. 7-21-1982
emcee, announcer: "World's Great Novels"; "Dave Garroway Show"; "Dial
Dave Garroway"
07-13-1914 - Hershel 'Hersh' Barbour - d. 8-xx-1974
disk jockey, sportscaster: WCKB Dunn, North Carolina
07-13-1919 - Dirk Fredericks - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-31-1976
announcer: "Music Tent"
07-13-1922 - Lois Kibbee - Rhinelander, WI - d. 10-18-1993
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
07-13-1923 - Norma Zimmer - Larsen, ID
singer: (Talking People)"Meredith Willson's Music Room"
07-13-1928 - Bob Crane - Waterbury, CT - d. 6-29-1978
actor: "Bob Crane Show"
07-13-1934 - Dennis Crosby - California - d. 5-7-1991
actor: "Bing Crosby Show"
07-13-1934 - Peter Gzowski - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-24-2002
CBC Morningside host
07-13-1934 - Philip Crosby - California - d. 1-13-2004
actor: "Bing Crosby Show"
July 13th deaths
01-12-1904 - Eddie De Lange - Long Island City, NY - d. 7-13-1949
musical director: "Honolulu Bound"; "Phil Baker Show"
02-05-1919 - Red Buttons - NYC - d. 7-13-2006
actor: "Guest Star"; "Friar's Club Roast"
02-11-1891 - Paul Ash - Saxony, Germany - d. 7-13-1958
orchestra leader: "The Merry Mad Gang Program"
04-05-1898 - Everett Crosby - Roslyn, WA - d. 7-13-1966
brother and manager of Bing Crosby
05-11-1922 - Joseph Stopak - d. 7-13-1992
music: "Creeps by Night"; "The Fat Man"
05-18-1908 - Tommy Tucker - Souris, ND - d. 7-13-1989
bandleader: "Lucky Strike Show with Walter Winchell"; "George Jessel
Show"
05-22-1879 - Alla Nazimova - Yalta in the Crimea - d. 7-13-1945
actor: " I'm An American"; "Towards the Century of the Comman Man"
06-24-1891 - Irving Pichel - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-13-1954
actor, film director: "Gulf Screen Theatre";"Screen Director's
Playhouse"
09-21-1903 - Westbrook Van Voorhis - New Milford, CT - d. 7-13-1968
announcer, narrator: "March of Time"
11-01-1880 - Grantland Rice - Murfreesboro, TN - d. 7-13-1954
sportscaster: "Sports Stories"
xx-xx-1882 - Wythe Williams - Meadville, PA - d. 7-13-1956
newscaster: "As the Clock Strikes"
xx-xx-1934 - Alan Barry - Dublin, Ireland - d. 7-13-2005
actor: Performed in BBC radio dramas
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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