Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #67
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Date: 3/1/2005 4:19 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 67
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      2-28 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Life of Riley (Reilly?)               [ Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed] ]
      vintage Freburg                       [ David Loftus <dloft59@[removed] ]
      Maxwell Anderson                      [ "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed]; ]
      Let's pretend book and other assista  [ <cooldown3@[removed]; ]
      Maxwell Anderson                      [ Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed]; ]
      This and That                         [ Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@y ]
      Fred Allen Books                      [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
      Abbott & Costello Radio Log           [ Bruce Forsberg <forsberg@[removed]; ]
      Re: Vic & Sade books                  [ "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@ ]
      Jack Benny mention in NY Daily News   [ seandd@[removed] ]
      The Falcon                            [ "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@ ]
      Blue makes me see red.                [ Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed]; ]
      Black Museum                          [ <sweetedit@[removed]; ]
      Academy Awards                        [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
      2-29; 3-1 births/deaths               [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:36:41 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-28 births/deaths

    February 28th births

    02-28-1893 - Ben Hecht - NYC - d. 4-18-1964
    panelist, writer: "Information Please"; "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
    02-28-1914 - Jim Boles - Lubbock, TX - d. 5-26-1977
    actor: Doc Long "I Love A Mystery"; Fulmer Green "King's Row"
    02-28-1915 - Zero Mostel - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-8-1977
    comedian: "CBS Mystery Theatre"; "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin
    Street"
    02-28-1922 - Joyce Howard - London, England
    actress: Meg March "Little Women"; Vi Waters "Backstage Wife"
    02-28-1928 - Louise Erickson - Oakland, CA
    actress: Marjorie Forrester "Great Gildersleeve"; Judy Foster "A Date
    with Judy"

    February 28th deaths

    03-04-1921 - Joan Greenwood - London, England - d. 2-28-1987
    actress: "Stagestruck"
    03-05-1891 - Chic Johnson - Chicago, IL - d. 2-28-1962
    comedian: "Olsen and Johnson"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
    03-29-1905 - Philip Ahn - Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-28-1978
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-04-1926 - Mary Stuart - Miami, FL - d. 2-28-2002
    actress: "Doctor Christian"; "Advs. of Maisie"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-04-1904 - Theodore Newton - Lawrenceville, NJ - d. 2-28-1963
    actor: Christopher Parker "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"
    08-22-1893 - Cecil Kellaway - Capetown, South Africa - d. 2-28-1973
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    08-25-1910 - Ruby Keeler - Halifax, Nova Scotia - d. 2-28-1993
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-18-1905 - Eddie Anderson - Oakland, CA - d. 2-28-1977
    actor: Rochester Van Jones "Jack Benny Program"
    10-14-1891 - Joseph M. White - NYC - d. 2-28-1959
    singer: (The Silver Masked Tenor) "Goodrich Silvertown Orchestra"
    11-06-1901 - Juanita Hall - d. 2-28-1968
    actress: "Story of Ruby Valentine"
    12-04-1930 - Harvey Kuehn - West Allis, WI - d. 2-28-1988
    baseball great: "Tops in Sports"
    12-15-1888 - Maxwell Anderson - Atlantic, PA - d. 2-28-1959
    writer: "Free Company"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "O'Neill Cycle"
    12-20-1923 - Charita Bauer - Newark, NJ - d. 2-28-1985
    actress: Mary Aldrich, "Aldrich Family"; Bert Bauer, "The Guiding
    Light"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:37:19 -0500
    From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];
    To: OTRDIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Life of Riley (Reilly?)
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    A cartoon in the Winter l948 1,000 Jokes Magazine (Bob Hope wearing a fruit
    basket hat on cover) shows two angels observing a man in a hammock.  The man
    holds a drink and is smoking.  Caption:  "Fellow by the name of Reilly, I
    believe!"

    I assumed this was referring to Life of Riley until the spelling was checked.

    Was at phrase, "the life of Riley" in use before the radio show or would the
    spelling have been changed for other reasons?

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:07:22 -0500
    From: David Loftus <dloft59@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  vintage Freburg

    How delightful that Walden Hughes should have mentioned an upcoming
    Frank Bresee birthday special on Stan Freburg. I was just listening to
    my Rhino Records "Tip of the Freburg" CDs over the weekend while painting
    the bedroom door, and I still have his "The Great Pretender" squawking in
    my mind's ear today.

    I don't have anything of substance to contribute -- the tapes I made of old
    Freburg shows off the Armed Forces Network in 1970 were onto a reel-to-reel
    at 15 ips, and the tapes have probably badly deteriorated by now, even if
    I knew where they were stored -- but I sure hope Mr. Bresee manages to
    dig up two routines I was very disappointed not to find on this huge Rhino
    collection:

    1. The discrimination complaint by Miss Jupiter (voiced by June Foray, of
        course) when she wasn't let into the Miss Universe contest:

        "I HAVE climbed out of my flying saucer. I left it out in the parking lot."
        "Yes, but those WHEELS, what about those WHEELS?"
        "Those wheels, as you so indelicately put it, happen to be one of my
          best features: some girls got curly antennas, other girls got cute
          suction cups . . . I got shapely wheels!"

    2. The routine where June Foray keeps dialing the wrong number,
        TRafalgar 4-0598, for Max's Delicatessen, and getting Stan at home,
        from whom she keeps trying to order a list of goods, when she should
        be dialing TRafalgar 4-5098. Eventually Stan and his wife get into a
        big argument with the woman and her raspy husband over the phone:

        "If your stupid wife would dial the right number, I wouldn't have to
         insult her."
        "Now listen, you crumb; you insult my stupid wife once more, and
         I'll come over there and punch you right in the nose!"
        "Yeah?!  You and who else?"
        "Me and my stupid wife."

    Anybody remember these?  For that matter, anybody have a clean copy?
    Or is there perhaps another Rhino collection on which they might be
    found?

    David Loftus
    Portland, Oregon

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:13:27 -0500
    From: "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Maxwell Anderson

    Maxwell Anderson did a script for the Free Company series which was aired in
    1941 at the instigation of a member of the FDR administration (the series is
    discussed in WORDS AT WAR)

    Howard Blue

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:14:08 -0500
    From: <cooldown3@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Let's pretend book and other assistance

    Hi all and thanks for the many kind postings , both about the book and other
    pertinant things concerning my search for information.

    First of all to Mr Gramm, whose scholarship in and publishing about "all
    things OTR" have furthered the enjoyment of my hobby for myself and many of
    my friends, Thank You sir.

    Hal, thanks too for pointing out the book, as had Charles here.

    I will get this book tomorrow as I have already received contact information
    to order it from the publisher/distributor.

    I had a question about print size as I am not sort of a 'low vision'
    collector and was worried if I could make out the print, even with a
    magnifying glass. Paperbacks are notorious for saving money and for becoming
    illegible to people with eyesight problems. I have already given away my
    library which I had carried with me worldwide while in the military so I was
    a bit reluctant to start books purchasing again.

    I wonder why these things are not published on a cd, as a PDF file, which
    can easily be magnified. it would certainly be worth the small cost if it
    were a reference I could reference easily. I would purchase an extensive
    library of OTR related books if it were available like this.

    Again, thanks to all for the work and insight.
    Cheers,
    Patrick

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:17:48 -0500
    From: Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Maxwell Anderson

    Larry Moore asked about Maxwell Anderson's OTR credits.

    Dave Goldin lists more than two dozen including quite a few Cavalcade of
    America scripts, as well as Lux Radio Theater, Theater Guild on the Air,
    and Columbia and CBS Radio Workshops.

    See full list at
    [removed],+Maxwell&ArtistNumber=24028

    Regards,
    Art

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:43:05 -0500
    From: Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  This and That

        Hi all,
             I just wanted to comment on a few things from
    the last couple of Digests.
             First, it's been my pleasure to know Martin
    Grams for about 5 years now. I've always known him to
    be a very friendly, honest, down to earth guy who
    really loves OTR. I'm guessing the reason he didn't
    mention his name re: the Let's Pretend book is because
    he's a very modest fellow. And he'd be the last person
    whose ethics I'd ever question. 'Nuff said about that
    unfortunate remark.
            It's been great reading all of the posts about
    OTR baseball. Thanks to all who have shared their
    thoughts and rememberences. I was especially
    interested in all of the wonderful announcers who were
    mentioned.
            Jim Britt struck me as a bit wooden in his
    style. Does anyone else who's listened to the 1948
    World Series notice what seems to be a little tension
    between
    Britt and Mel Allen?
            I've had the pleasure of corresponding with
    and meeting the legendary Ernie Harwell. He's not only
    a Hall of Fame announcer, he's a Hall of Fame person.
           And I agree with [removed]'s see some of
    those great OTR books come back into print again!
           Ok, well that's my 2 cents worth. Take care
    everyone!
               Ken( Can we have ONE day without snow in
    New Jersey? ) Stockinger

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:43:34 -0500
    From: Rentingnow@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fred Allen Books
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    In a message dated 2/28/2005 6:18:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

    --the  Fred Allen canon, viz. "Treadmill to Oblivion," "Much Ado ABout  Me,"
    and
    "Fred Allen's Letters."

    These books are available on the used market with a little searching. Also
    available is the Robert Taylor book "Fred Allen His Life and Wit". which is
    quite [removed] subject I missed in the Taylor book was much a discussion of
    Portland. Guess I will have to trundle down Rt 84 to beantown and check out
    the
    collection at the library to find out more about her

    Treadmill to Oblivian includes a lot of his routines.  Have't read  Much Ado
    About Me yet. The book of his letters is available from a number of  sources
    for the huge amount of $[removed] I'm saving my pennys for that.

    With the ability to search multiple used book stores now, I would suggest
    that there is little need to reissue the books.

    Larry Moore

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    Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:24:14 -0500
    From: Bruce Forsberg <forsberg@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Abbott & Costello Radio Log

    I have posted my first edition of a radio log for Abbott & Costello. It
    is available at:

    [removed]~forsbergweb

    This is version [removed] and is a work in progress. It contains almost all
    their radio shows from NBC between 42 and 47. It contains about 2/3 of
    their shows on ABC from 47 to 49 (not including their kids show).

    If anyone has any additional information to add not in the log please
    let me know. I am looking for radio scripts from their years on ABC for
    their prime time show and kids show. Any information would be
    appreciated. I am currently working on their appearances on others shows
    right now.

    Thanks,
    Bruce

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    Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:13:01 -0500
    From: "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Vic & Sade books

    Derek requests a reprinting of:

>     --the two books of Paul Rhymer's "Vic 'n' Sade scripts: "The Best of Vic

    'n'

>     Sade,"
>     and "The Little House Half-Way up on the Next Block."

    And I respond:

    As much as I really do treasure these two books, what I'd REALLY love to
    see is a different collection of Rhymer's scripts published.  I've often
    considered undertaking putting such a tome together, but I understand that
    Paige Rhymer (the son of Paul) doesn't often allow his father's work to be
    republished.

    Rodney

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    Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:12:42 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny mention in NY Daily News

    Derek Tauge reports that Jack Benny is mentioned in this New York Daily News
    article.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0500
    From: "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Falcon

    I recently picked up a couple of cds of episodes of The Falcon from Audio
    Classics (and I've got to tell you, the sound quality is AMAZING.  The best
    I've heard from anyone hands down).  It's a pretty good show.  Not as good
    as a West Coast show like Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade, but better than the
    syndicated shows like Boston Blackie or Philo Vance which I find to be
    pretty dull.  Maybe along the lines of a mediocre West Coast entry like The
    Saint.

    [removed]'ve been a fan of the Falcon movies for a long time, and it's
    brought back to mind a question that I've had for some time.  Why did they
    change the name of the Falcon from Gay (or Tom) Lawrence to Mike Waring?  I
    also noticed that the name of the creator of the character on the radio
    series was Xavier someone, instead of the person who wrote The Gay Falcon
    (wasn't his name Michael Arliss, or something?).  Were there two characters
    in popular literature known as The Falcon?  I've only found evidence of
    one.  Any insight would be appreciated.

    Rodney Bowcock
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:21:38 -0500
    From: Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Blue makes me see red.

    Howard Blue has a penchant for rubbing me the wrong [removed] all started some
    time ago when he accused (or inferred) that some of my good friends  (and
    acting buddies of long ago) were responsible (indirectly, it seems) for
    causing some of the OTR "Blacklisted" individuals to commit suicide.

    What bunk! And now, he has the gall to impugn a really decent young man in
    the person of OTR author Martin Grams.

    In response to a query here in the digest about "Lets Pretend", Martin and I
    recently posted some information as to how to obtain Arthur Andersons great
    book about that program.

    But Blue manages, once again, to get me riled up.

>     Re  Martin [removed] comments about the new version of Arthur Anderson's
>     wonderful "Let's Pretend" book.

>     While touting the book,  Martin identified Derek Tague as one of the two
>     fans who contributed to the log in the new version but failed to identify
>     himself as the other contributor. I've long admired Martin's ambition and
>     research efforts.

>     But it would have been more appropriate and ethical if while touting the
>     book Martin disclosed his own interest in it as a contributor.

    Give me a break.

    The way I read that last paragraph, Martin's posting was "inappropriate" and
    according to [removed]"unethical".

    I now paraphrase Blue's last [removed] "It would have been more appropriate
    and ethical for Blue to butt the hell out on this topic". Who the hell died
    and left Blue the arbiter of ethical behavior? And, Blue's comment foolishly
    implied that Martin had a financial stake in Anderson's book. Do I suspect a
    bit of jealous rivalry here? Could it be that any of Martin's books probably
    outsell Blue's book?

    Hal(Harlan)Stone
    Jughead

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Ok, folks, let's dial it back a notch or [removed]  --cfs3]

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    Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:32:53 -0500
    From: <sweetedit@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Black Museum

    I recently heard some episodes of the Orson Welles series The Black Museum
    and was curious about its history. When and for how long did it run? I'm
    assuming some time in the 1950s from the episodes I heard. How involved was
    he in the show? Just the narrator?

    Finally, how accurate was the show? Does (or did) Scotland Yard have a "Black
    Museum"? Were the stories Wells narrated based on real crimes or just the
    fruit of the writers' imaginations?

    Thanks in advance for your help!

    Jay Sweet
    sweetedit@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:33:38 -0500
    From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Academy Awards

    When Martin Scorsese presented the "Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award" at
    the Oscars, he described Hersholt  as playing various doctors in the
    movies.  We OTR fans all remember Hersholt for his seventeen year radio run
    as "Dr. Christian," even though Scorsese didn't mention the character by
    name.

    There is a bizarre connection to Scorsese's biopic on Howard Hughes to
    "Dr. Christian."  Rosemary DeCamp played the part of nurse "Judy" during
    "Dr. Christian's" historic run.  It was into her house in Beverly Hills
    that Hughes' plane plummeted, a fiery crash depicted in "The Aviator."
    DeCamp talks about it at length in her wonderful spoken biography for
    Cambria Spoken Words entitled  "Tales from Hollywood."  Released in 1991,
    the three cassette reading by DeCamp of her own Hollywood journey would be
    well worth purchasing. There is much on old-time radio.

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:04:13 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-29; 3-1 births/deaths

    February 29th births

    02-29-1896 - William A. Wellman - Brookline, MA - d. 12-9-1975
    film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    02-29-1904 - Jimmy Dorsey - Shenandoah, - d. 6-12-1957
    bandleader: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Your Happy Birthday"

    February 29th death

    02-02-1909 - Frank Albertson - Fergus Falls, MN - d. 2-29-1964
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-14-1915 - Jerome Lawrence - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-29-2004
    cbs staff writer: "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Doris Day Show"; "Kate Smith
    Show"

    March 1st births

    03-01-1885 - Lionel Atwill - Croydon, England - d. 4-22-1946
    singer: "Eveready Hour"
    03-01-1904 - Glenn Miller - Clarinda, IA - d. 12-15-1944
    bandleader: "Moonlight Serenade"; "USO Matinee"
    03-01-1904 - Paul Hartman - d. 10-2-1973
    actor: "Tony Awards"
    03-01-1910 - David Niven - Kirriemuir, Scotland - d. 7-29-1983
    actor, panelist: "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Transatlantic Quiz"
    03-01-1915 - Cy Harrice - Chicago, IL
    announcer: "Big Story"; "Cavalcade of America"
    03-01-1916 - Dinah Shore - Winchester, TN - d. 2-24-1994
    singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Dinah Shore Show"
    03-01-1927 - Harry Belafonte - NYC
    singer, actor: "Imaage Minorities"; "Stagestruck"

    March 1st deaths

    02-17-1906 - Charlie Spivak - New Haven, CT - d. 3-1-1982
    orchestra leader: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    02-20-1907 - Nadine Conner - Compton, CA - d. 3-1-2003
    singer: "Show Boat"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
    03-15-1904 - Pat O'Malley - Burnley, Lancashire, England - d. 3-1-1985

    actor: "Cavalcade of America";"Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-27-1937 - Sandy Dennis - Hastings, NE - d. 3-1-1992
    actress: "CBS Mystery Theatre"
    06-14-1915 - Kay Sutton - Irvington, NJ - d. 3-1-1988
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-12-1907 - Joe Besser - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-1-1988
    comedian: ("No so faaaast! . . . oh, you craaaaze you!) "Jack Benny
    Program"
    08-31-1917 - Burleigh Robbins Downey, Jr. - d. 3-1-2000
    news director: "You are the Jury"
    09-17-1905 - Dolores Costello - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-1-1979
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"; "Second Sunday"
    10-04-1892 - Kathryn Card - Butte, MT - d. 3-1-1964
    actress: Grandmother Barton "The Bartons"; Mrs. Wiggins "Uncle
    Walter's Dog House"
    10-26-1914 - Jackie Coogan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-1-1984
    actor: Ernest Botch "Forever Ernest"
    12-09-1903 - Brace Beemer - Mount Carmel, IL - d. 3-1-1965
    actor: Lone Ranger "Lone Ranger"
    12-26-1893 - Vladimir Golschmann - Paris, France - d. 3-1-1972
    conductor: New York Philharmonic
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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