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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2004 : Issue 262
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: King Kong                         [ hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed]; ]
  The Andy Griffith Show                [ "Audio Classics (R) Archives" <cu ]
  RKO early studio into radio?          [ damyankeeinva <damyankeeinva@earthl ]
  Peter Lorre's script pages            [ DanHaefele@[removed] ]
  Elizabeth Heisch obituary             [ DanHaefele@[removed] ]
  Mayberry; Everett Sloane              [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
  Lurene Tuttle                         [ Richard Pratz <[removed]@[removed]; ]
  8-9 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Winnie the Pooh's voice               [ Allen Wilcox <aawjca@[removed]; ]
  Radio actors in Mayberry              [ "Don Belden" <[removed]@[removed]; ]
  recording restoration                 [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  another way to restore recordings     [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  Re: Lurene Tuttle Part in Andy Griff  [ Kcpymurphy@[removed] ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
  Riddle                                [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:55:32 -0400
From: hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: King Kong

Martin Grams just posted;

In the spring of 1933, RKO Pictures released KING KONG, the movie that needs
no introduction.  <BIG SNIP>
KING KONG was no flop in the theaters and I doubt the radio
chapter play was the only reason but it certainly helped - thee's no such
thing as bad publicity.

For what it's worth (And it probably isn't worth very much), I happened to
marry (the first time) the daughter of the man responsible for all the
publicity and promotion for King Kong. His name was Terry Turner. He was one
of the first people to see the value of (promoting) advertising films on
radio, and to an even greater extent, on TV in later years. When I knew him,
after he worked with Howard Hughes for an while, he was employed by Tom
O'Neill who owned all the RKO stuff, as well as WOR, New York. Terry  made a
lot of money for O'Neil by planning extensive TV marketing campaigns for
many motion pictures. He also put the Exhibitor Sam Levine into the
producing business, (and big money) by arranging all the TV promotion for
the "Hercules" films. In those instances, the TV advertising dollars spent
(for those foreign English dubbed films) was actually greater than the money
spent to make the movies. Terry even threw me a bone once, and I created and
directed the TV spots for some low budget cops and robbers Rod Steiger film.
I forget the title. (Just a very small dose of nepotism).

But I assure you, I didn't marry his daughter to further my career. :) He
could be a royal pain, so I didn't want to be beholding to him in any way.

Back in those early days, he was considered to have written the book on
Motion Picture Advertising, Marketing and Promotion.

Hal(Harlan)Stone
Jughead

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 11:49:12 -0400
From: "Audio Classics (R) Archives"   <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Andy Griffith Show
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Surprised no one mentioned Parley Baer who played Mayor Stoner.

Terry Salomonson

Audio Classics Archive
Broadcast Audio Restoration, Preservation and Archives
[removed]     [removed]@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 19:55:59 -0400
From: damyankeeinva <damyankeeinva@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  RKO early studio into radio?

It has been pointed out here that RKO broke a sort of "understanding" among
film studios that they wouldn't let their properties (scripts, characters,
actors, etc.) participate in the new medium.  Sort of the way that the AP
ignored radio stations for a long time.

I suspect a lot of young people have no idea what RKO stands for.  It is
Radio Keith-Orpheum, the latter being the chain of theaters for distributing
films, just as MGM and Loew's were tied together.  So they were always tied
into radio somehow!  I always thought it interesting that MGM films bore
copyrights from Loew's Inc., which I suppose was actually a parent or holding
company of MGM properties.

I am a TCM addict, constantly taping films for later viewing and possible
keeping for another chance.  I recently purchased a second VCR for this
purpose, and was stunned to find this RCA VCR would not permit one to pre-set
more than one program time, except to record the same soap opera every day
for a week at the same time.  Boo!

As a kid in the theater, then late night TV, and to this day I am amused
watching TCM, and seeing RKO films with the opening frames proudly
announcing: "RKO Radio Pictures" blah blah, and a radio transmitter tower in
the background.  This seems to me to be the Department of Redundancy
Department.

Yours from the edge of Derek Tague's ether.  Ether you are Derek Tague or
not.  I am not.

Lee Munsick  <damyankeeinva@[removed];

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 19:57:36 -0400
From: DanHaefele@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Peter Lorre's script pages
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      Doug Berryhill inquired:

I remember hearing a story about a radio performance by Peter Lorre.
It seems Lorre was getting into his role so much that he began making
wild gestures with his arms and he accidently sent his script flying
into a paper snowstorm during a live performance. The day was saved by
a quick thinking actor who shared his/her script with Lorre until a
commercial break, when they were able to reassemble Lorre's script.
Anybody else heard this story?

     Radio actress Peggy Webber told me about this years ago.  She said it
happened on one of the Mystery in the Air broadcasts.  Since it was a
short-lived summer replacvement series, it should be fairly easy to pinpoint
the
possibilities.  Those who have the complete series of eight programs can
check the
closing credits to see which shows featured Ms. Webber.  I believe she said
another either handed Lorre a script or shared one with him.

Dan Haefele

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 19:58:24 -0400
From: DanHaefele@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Elizabeth Heisch obituary
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     Sometimes I get really busy and put off things I should have done
sooner.  Last year I meant to make a posting regarding the passing of
Elizabeth
Heisch, who co-wrote The Cinnamon Bear radio series with her husband Glan.  I
have
even been promising Dennis Crow I'd track down the obituary written by one of
her family members and carried in my local newspaper, the Torrance, CA Daily
Breeze.  So, almost on the first anniversary of her passing, I'd like to
salute her by reproducing her family's writing about her.  First, let me add
that
her brother was radio announcer John "Bud" Hiestand.

Heisch, Dr. Elisabeth A.
      Of Redondo Beach died Sunday, August 17, 2003 of complications following
surgery. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin, Sept 11, 1908, she moved with
her family to California, where her father Rob Roy Hiestand, Sr. was a
managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. She graduated from Girl's
High School in San Francisco in 1925 and from UC Berkely in 1929. Following
college, she embarked upon a career as an actress and singer. At the
Pasadena Playhouse she met her husband, writer and producer, Glanville Taft
Heisch. In 1937, they together wrote the popular children's radio series
"The Cinnamon Bear," which was played for many years during the Christmas
season. Elisabeth earned an [removed] and PhD in English literature in 1972 from
UCLA. She was a member of the English Department at Los Angeles Harbor
College for more than thirty years continuing to teach part-time after
retirement until 2001. After moving to the Casa de Los Amigos in Redondo
Beach, in 1981 she became an active supporter of the Redondo Beach Public
Library, serving as library commissioner for 10 years. During her
chairmanship she worked diligently in the campaign that culminated in
building their beautiful new main library. She is survived by her brother,
Rob Roy Hiestand, Jr., and her five daughters, Catherine Borchmann,
Rockford, Illinois, Jennifer Vizzo, Irving, TX, Allison Zimmerman-Heisch,
San Jose, CA, Shelley Quezada, Lexington, MA, and Jocelyn Wilson, Rolling
Hills Estates, CA, 14 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. There
will be a memorial service on Saturday, September 27, 2003 at 2:00 [removed] at
St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Westwood to celebrate Elisabeth's life.

Dan Haefele

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 19:58:53 -0400
From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mayberry; Everett Sloane

Lest we not forget, Helen Kleeb played Otis' wife at least once on "Andy
Griffith."  Kleeb had a continuing role on the well remembered detective
series featuring Candy Matson, and was among  Gunsmoke's semi-regular
players.  She did many shows, including several appearances on "The Six
Shooter." Kleeb was made an honorary member of SPERDVAC.

++++

Stewart Wright discusses research into Everett Sloane, my favorite radio
actor.  Stewart could you briefly describe the circumstances of his
untimely death.  It was a suicide, wasn't it?

Dennis Crow

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 19:59:21 -0400
From: Richard Pratz <[removed]@[removed];
To: "OTR (Plain Text Only)" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lurene Tuttle

Yikes! Great response to my query about OTR actors on re-runs of TV's "The
Andy Griffith Show." I'll watch with renewed interest for those mentioned by
all you posters.

To answer the question about Lurene Tuttle on the program; I don't know if
she appeared in more than one role, but the one in which I saw her involved
a senior citizen who shoplifted. At the end of the show, Andy opens Lurene's
overcoat and dangling inside are all sorts of stolen goods. He hauls her
off, presumably to their "maximum cell block." Ms. Tuttle appears elderly in
that particular role, so I'm assuming it was in the later years of her life.
But who knows, what with makeup and all?

Thanks for all the response to "The OTR Gang in Mayberry."

Rich

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 19:59:30 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-9 births/deaths

August 9th births

08-09-1892 - Joe Emerson - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 9-30-1969
gospel singer: "Hymns of All Churches"; "Hymn Time"
08-09-1901 - Charles Farrell - Onset Bay, Cape Cod, MA - d. 5-6-1990
actor: Verne Albright "My Little Margie"
08-09-1902 - Zino Francescatti - Marseilles, France - d. 9-17-1991
violinist: "Encores from the Bell Telephone Hour"; "Concert Hall Program"
08-09-1903 - Don Bernard
director: "Blondie"; "Life of Riley"; "Meet Mr. Meek"
08-09-1903 - Maurice Wells - NB - d. 6-25-1978
actor: Donald Putnam "Your Family and Mine"; Warren Biggers "Lawyer Tucker"
08-09-1905 - Leo Genn - London, England - d. 1-26-1978
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

August 9th deaths

08-24-1900 - Jimmy Fidler - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-9-1988
commentator: "Jimmy Fidler"
10-02-1897 - Jess Kirkpatrick - IL - d. 8-9-1976
actor: Harry Henderson "Beulah"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:00:36 -0400
From: Allen Wilcox <aawjca@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Winnie the Pooh's voice

On A resent post it was stated,

There's Hal Smith, 1916-1994, the voice of Otis, who although to my
knowledge didn't appear on OTR, did appear as the original voice of
Winnie The Pooh.

However that it in correct. Sterling Holloway was the
original voice of the lovable bear. Smith did not play
pooh till the mid 1980's.
Sterling Holloway appeared in an episode of the Andy
Griffith's show as the reluctant salesmen that Andy
and Barney helped out. I can not for the life of me
remember the name of that particular episode.
Allen

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:00:49 -0400
From: "Don Belden" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio actors in Mayberry

Has anyone mentioned Sam Edwards. He was in a number of shows. My favorite
is the Christmas Show from the first season.

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:22:39 -0400
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  recording restoration

Chaps at Lawrence Berkeley Labs are working on optical schemes to read
mechanical recordings.  Maybe some OTR stuff will develop as a result of
this.  They are working on untouchable disc records and cylinder recordings
as well. The optics reads the wiggles and jiggles of the groove and
translates it into audibles.

This is an old idea that is periodically revived.  Scientists have had the
ability to scan and re-create surface features as small as atoms by optical
or other means for a number of years now.  so it would seem that scanning
and re-creating the surfaces of Edison's old cylinders or old transcription
disks would be a fairly straightforward task.

But it hasn't been done, and I don't know why.  My guess is that the owners
of the disks don't entirely trust the scientists who want to do this work,
or perhaps there are legal problems over royalties

M Kinsler

(especially for Queen Victoria, whose royalties would go to royalty.)

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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:23:24 -0400
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  another way to restore recordings

I think we may have discussed this before, but:

Summon up

[removed]~springer/

to learn how to play records, albeit poorly, on a computer.  The fellow
scanned a copy of Vivaldi's Four Seasons on his flatbed scanner, digitized
the results so that a program could read the variation in the groove paths,
and made a series of MP3's out of it.

The results sound like the record is being played through a sewer pipe on
Pluto, but you can hear the music if you know what you're supposed to be
listening to.  Selection C2 seems to be the best.

This work was done in 2002, and apparently nobody has attempted improvements
since then.

M Kinsler

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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 01:16:43 -0400
From: Kcpymurphy@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Lurene Tuttle Part in Andy Griffith Show
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Greg wanted to know what character Lurene Tuttle played on the Andy Griffith
Show.

She played the shoplifter who was stealing from Weaver's Department Store and
threathened false arrest when nothing shoplifted was found in her shopping
bag. She was hiding the stuff under her coat and when Andy escorted her
outside,
he heard her "clank and nice old ladies shouldn't clank."

Another of her later film roles was as Sheriff Buford Pusser's mother in the
movie, "Walking Tall".

Kacie

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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 08:32:47 -0400
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi friends,

	Here is this week's line-up for the week of 8-8-04 on my Olde Tyme
Radio
[removed] Featuring Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio Theatre," Big John
Matthews and Steve Urbaniak's "The Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same
Station" broadcasts, being broadcast on demand 24/7 in high quality
streaming RealAudio at [removed]

Past archived broadcasts are also available there.

We look forward to having you join us!

	Jerry

Here's this week's lineup:

SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges

Memorial Tributes to:
Sam Edwards
Jackson Beck

CBS IS THERE
Episode 2  7-14-47  "Storming Of The Bastille"
Stars John Daly and Jackson Beck
Events of July 14th, 1789
Summer Replacement Series for "LUX RADIO THEATER"
Historical Events presented as "News Broadcasts"

CBS RADIO WORKSHOP
Episode 69  5-26-57  "I Have Three Heads"
Stars  Jackson Beck and Ian Martin
Details on the fine art of Tape Editing as told by an Ampex Tape Deck.

ESCAPE
Episode 116  6-23-50  "Sundown"
Barton Yarborough, Sam Edwards, Ted Osborne, Paul Frees, John Ramsay Hill,
John Dehner and Will Geer
Producer/Director: William N. Robson
Music: Ivan Ditmars

MEET CORLISS ARCHER
Episode 18  8-11-46  "Ideal Babysitters"
STARS: Janet Waldo, Sam Edwards, Fred Archer, Irene Tedrow,     Tommy
Bernard, Barbara Whiting and Arlene Becker
WRITERS: Carroll Carroll, F. Hugh Herbert and Jerry Adelman
CREATOR: F. Hugh Herbert
DIRECTOR: Bert Prager
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood

ROMANCE
CBS    7-16-51    "China Run"
Stars: Peggy Weber and John Dehner

MURDER AT MIDNIGHT
Syndicated    11-11-46    "Nightmare"

GUEST STAR
[removed] Treasury Dept.    8-17-52   "The Milt Herth Trio"
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THE GLOWING DIAL with Big John Matthews and Steve Urbaniak

All the shows we're featuring were successfully adapted as television shows.

My Favorite Husband
"Liz Feels She's Getting Old"
originally aired May 20, 1949 on CBS
with Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Ruth Parrot, Bob LeMond announcing.
Sponsor: Jell-O

Our Miss Brooks
"Miss Brooks Takes A Vacation"
originally aired September 4, 1955 on CBS
with Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Robert Rockwell, Dick Crenna, Gloria McMillan,
Leonard Smith, Jane Morgan, Bob Sweeny.
Sponsor: Anacin, Visodol Mints.

My Little Margie
"Going Camping"
originally aired June 12, 1955 on CBS
with Gale Storm, Charles Farrell, Verna Felton, Gil Stratton Jr., Will
Wright, Roy Rowan announcing.
Sponsor: Phillip Morris

Father Knows Best
"Vacation Arrives"
originally aired July 6, 1950 on NBC
with Robert Young, Jean Vander Pyl, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, Norma
Jean Nilsson, Bill Foreman announcing.
Sponsor: Maxwell House

The Halls Of Ivy
"Fighting Med Student"
originally aired May 24, 1950 on NBC
with Mr. And Mrs. Ronald Coleman, Sheldon Leonard, Ken Christy, Stacey
Harris, Ken Carpenter announcing.
Sponsor: Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for upcoming
shows.

            Jerry Haendiges CET <Jerry@[removed]; 562-696-4387

  [removed]  The Vintage Radio Place
  Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 12:32:47 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Riddle
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Q: What would you call Robin Hood after he bought a cell phone?

A: Cordless Archer.

Sorry, Gang, there's nobody outside the OTR hobby to whom I could tell that
joke. Try to enjoy.

Best always from the ether,

Derek Tague

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