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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 296
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: War Bonds [ "Marvin R. Bensman" <mbensman@memph ]
Re: Did War bonds pay off? [ "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed]; ]
Re: War of the Worlds [ "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed]; ]
5-inch reels [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
Re: War of the Worlds - The Simpsons [ "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed]; ]
Apprciation [ "Scott Livingston" <sdl@gosfgiants. ]
Roses & Drums [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
The Haunting Hour [ "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@yahoo ]
More on Telegrams [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
Re: Singing Telegrams (Was: Answers [ "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed]; ]
Why I love Fred Allen (in 25 words o [ tomr5@[removed] ]
FOTR & Stuff [ "randy story" <hopharrigan@centuryt ]
Re :Larry Haines [ "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
you know you're a fan of OTR [removed] [ "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@charter ]
Correction: Hutch's address [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:53:09 -0500
From: "Marvin R. Bensman" <mbensman@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: War Bonds
My understanding is that War Bonds were not to finance the war, but to
control the economy by preventing inflation. Taking money off the market
reduced the black market and kept people from bidding up prices on
scarce goods. War production put more money into more peoples pockets
than the economy could absorb.
The other option to get money out of the marketplace is to raise taxes,
but that is not popular.
Prof. Emeritus Marvin R. Bensman, [removed],[removed]
The University of Memphis
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:54:09 -0500
From: "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed];
To: Old-Time Radio Mailing List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Did War bonds pay off?
On Fri., 27-Oct-2006, at 10:47:25am EDT (-0400 GMT), on
the [Old-Time Radio Mailing List], "Mr. Matthew Bullis"
<MatthewBullis@[removed];, wrote under the subject
of "Did War bonds pay off?":
> ...why couldn't the government just print more money?
This is NOT the proper forum to discuss such matters in any
kind of detail; suffice to say that this is NOT a new idea,
and has been tried in other countries. Indeed, it has even
been tried in "this" country (actually, in the Confederate
States of America).
The end result is almost univerally the same: hyperinflation.
That's the kind of inflation you have seen where some mundane
item -- a loaf of bread, say -- ends up costing hundreds,
thousands, tens of thousands, or even HUNDREDS of thousands,
of the basic unit of the country's currency.
I can even recall one instance -- was it in China? Japan? --
where the cost of something quite ordinary was a MILLION of
whatever the unit of currency was!
You think inflation is bad NOW? Picture a gallon of milk
going for $500,[removed]; that's the sort of thing you'd get
if the government endlessly and recklessly simply "printed
more money."
Hope this helps your understanding.
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:54:44 -0500
From: "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed];
To: Old-Time Radio Mailing List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: War of the Worlds
On Thu., 26-Oct-2006, at 10:15:21am EDT (-0400 GMT), on
the [Old-Time Radio Mailing List], <DixonHayes@[removed];
posted under the subject of "Re: War of the Worlds":
> ..."Orson Welles' 1939 broadcast and the panic surrounding it"
> would be seen by many consultants (and the producers/editors
> mentally enslaved to them) as "too wordy."
It was broadcast in October 1938. Not 1939.
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:55:10 -0500
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 5-inch reels
I have boxes of 5-inch reel-to-reels of tape if anyone can use them. Free,
just pay shipping cost.
Barbara
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:54:25 -0500
From: "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed];
To: Old-Time Radio Mailing List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: War of the Worlds - The Simpsons version
On Wed., 25-Oct-2006, at 07:23:59pm EDT (-0400 GMT), on
the [Old-Time Radio Mailing List], "Ms. Irene Heinstein"
<IreneTH@[removed]; wrote under the subject
of "War of the Worlds - The Simpsons version":
> FYI: For their annual "Treehouse of Horror" episode, broadcast
> around Halloween every year, this year the Simpsons "are doing
> a segment titled "The Day the Earth Was Stupid," a takeoff on
> Orson Welles' infamous 1938 radio broadcast, "The War of The
> Worlds."
Bypassing the issue of whether the broadcast was "infamous" or not,
(a subject upon which I have my own opinion), it would seem to me --
judging solely by the title alone -- that it is much more likely a
parody of "The Day The Earth Stood Still".
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:55:25 -0500
From: "Scott Livingston" <sdl@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Apprciation
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Brent expressed it perfectly. I am sure there are hundreds of us to love
reading the list posts and gain tremendously from the knowledge disseminated
like many I am a "sideliner" and don't contribute as I don't feel I have
anything worthy to say but needed to praise those who do and let them know
that we all appreciate each and every posting!
Scott
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:00:44 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Roses & Drums
On Sunday, October 29, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Brent wrote:
I am fairly new to the OTR hobby and would like some information.
Could
someone please tell me something about "Roses and Drums". I see it
mentioned but can't find any info so far.
This series was a semi-historical, anthology drama with 30 minute
episodes, first on CBS from April 1932 to June 1934 and then on NBC
Blue where it aired from Sept 1934 to March 1936. In its early years,
the stories were from the late 1700s, but later most of the stories
were Civil War period. Although historical facts were important in the
script writing, drama and romance sometimes trumped the truth. Cast
members included DeWolf Hopper in early years, with Reed Brown, Jr. and
John Griggs starring in latter episodes.
United Central Life was usually the sponsor. Herschell Williams was the
director. Despite its long term on network radio, no know copies have
yet surfaced.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
<[removed]>
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:49:44 -0500
From: "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Haunting Hour
I listened to my first "Haunting Hour" last night. In the spirit of
Halloween, I waited until
midnight, turned out all the lights and then listened to "Ptolemy's Grave".
I was very impressed
with the writing, the production and the acting. The story was about an
Egyptologist who brings a
cursed mummy home. He disappears and then his wife starts dreaming that he
has somehow been
transformed into the mummy. The wife was an excellent actress - does anyone
know who she was?
Are all "The Haunting Hour" episodes as good as this one was?
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:29:28 -0500
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: More on Telegrams
I read the current Digest and find I forgot to answer part of the Telegram
question .
Singing Telegrams - For an extra fee you could send a "Singing Telegram"
The messenger would deliver the message and sing it. My birthday is close so
a friend sends me Birthday greeting and the messenger sings "Happy Birthday"
to me. The messenger didn't sound like Nelson Eddy or Frank Sinatra.
Sometime Weston Union would deliver messages over the telephone.
Also you could send money. by telegram, and even Candy of Flowers.
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:40:49 -0500
From: "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed];
To: Old-Time Radio Mailing List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Singing Telegrams (Was: Answers For
Younger OTR Listeners)
On Sat., 28-Oct-2006, at 04:08:59pm EDT (-0400 GMT), "Mr. Frank McGurn"
<[removed]@[removed]; posted to [The Old Time Radio Digest] under
the subject of "Anwers for the youger otr listeners":
You misspelled "Answers". :)
Nice explanations. You skipped the singing telegram, though. :)
I believe some such services are still used today (although they are no
longer sent by telegram, of course).
Someone -- not from Western Union, obviously! -- would be paid to stand
there and SING your message to the recipient, either your own words set
to some commonly-known tune, or else a "canned" (pre-written) message
provided by the company supplying the Singing Messenger.
You would send a regular telegram to the company, and they'd send it on
using one of their Singers. (This cost extra, obviously.)
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:28:41 -0500
From: tomr5@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Why I love Fred Allen (in 25 words or less).
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Topical, yes, but what a wordsmith! Awed by brilliant language use, I mimic
it, but fail. 25 words are not enough, I might get cutb&This is NBC, the
National Broadcasting Company. (G) (E) (C).
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:29:33 -0500
From: "randy story" <hopharrigan@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: FOTR & Stuff
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Hello, OTR Fans.
I am finally finding time to sit down and make a few comments about my first
FOTR experience(s).
In sum: TERRIFIC!!!!!
I had a great time meeting new people in the hobby as well as pros from
radio/TV/film who I have admired for years. What thrills for me to carry home
to Missouri. Meeting with Soupy Sales, Mickey Freeman, and Chuck McCann was
worth the trip, but everything else was icing on the cake. I enjoyed the
panels, the shows, the dealers, and particularly Fred Birney's OTR Quiz! Maybe
next year we can get a few more people involved who simply want to have fun
and enjoy OTR to take part in the quiz contest as opposed to having folks who
are ready to draw blood.:)
I want to give a huge shout out to Jay Hickerson for seeing that I was
welcomed with no problems and a great big Missouri thanks to my pal Derek
Teague. Derek was the reason I was able to attend this year and I would have
literally been lost without him the whole weekend. He got me from the airport
and back and then navigated me around the ins/outs of the convention. He and
others constantly remind me why I love the OTR hobby more each day. There are
so many fine people in this hobby of ours and we are blessed for it.
Finally, I discovered the amazing publication called the NOSTALGIA DIGEST at
the FOTR. I know that I can order back issues of this wonderful guide/ book,
but that may be too pricey for a humble school teacher. Does anyone on this
digest have older copies that they might be willing to part with for less than
the cost asked by the magazine's holding company? I would be willing to trade
or pay a modest fee for any that you might have, so contact me offlist if we
can do business.
In the meantime, I say thanks again for the great time at FOTR.
Later,
Randy Story
PS
As an aside to Karen Lerner from RADIO SPIRITS. You are one of the several
"crushes" I formed at FOTR. Short or not, you are a cutie:) And does she know
her radio stuff, [removed]! Bright and beautiful, too!
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:29:57 -0500
From: "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re :Larry Haines
Howard Blue mentioned a childhood friendship of Art Carney and Larry Haines
They were both born in Mt. Vernon in 1918, Larry in August and Art in
November so their childhood friendship sounds likely.
Adding to what Howard Blue has said about Larry Haines background and his
reference to The Pale of [removed] My husband is Jewish and while
researching his mother's roots I learned a lot about Jewish 'Russian'
immigration and the Russian Empire. Larry Haines was indeed Jewish, his
parents were from Minsk which is part of the country Belarus (as was my
mother-in-law). During the period his parents and older brother left Minsk
they left behind a life of extreme persecution against the Jews by the
Russians, [removed] pogroms, and economic and social/citizen deprivation (as well
as cholera) imposed upon them by the Russian government. His father came
here first in 1908, followed in 1914 by his mother and brother. During that
period Russia included parts of Poland, Ukraine, Moldavia aka Bessarabia,
Lithuania, Latvia and more which is why during that period of great Jewish
immigration so many people are reported to have came from 'Russia', because
which ever country ruled at the time of immigration was the country reported
on the ship's manifest. In genealogy the reporting of birth place is done
on what country/town/village it is now, restoring people to their original
places of birth which had been subject to a constant shifting of political
borders and names. Thus many Jews from Russia were more specifically Polish
Jews, Ukrainian Jews, Moldavan Jews, Lithuanian Jews, Latvian Jews,etc. And
as Howard noted all these 'Russians' did not speak Russian. Yiddish was
their language in their homes with the exception of those Jews who actually
lived in Russia and not its acquired countries. Parenthetically, I also
encountered a special complication regarding my mother-in-law. Her village
in Belarus was named Volpa and her surname was Vand. There is no "V" in the
Russian language so under Russian rule her name became Wand and her
birthplace Wolpa in the immigration records which made my research more
difficult since I was unaware of this going in. Genealogy is a great way to
learn history.
Back to Larry Haines: There was a great deal of publicity in 1957
surrounding the adoption by the Haines of a Catholic child in 1955 in Mt.
Vernon. Larry, his wife and child had moved to Connecticut and when their
adopted daughter was 2 years old her birth parents sued to have the adoption
voided and to restore the child to them on the basis of her not being raised
Catholic. The story is very unusual. The parents were married at the time
of the birth but the mother had been four months pregnant when she married
and didn't want her parents to know that so they arranged for a private
adoption and told their family she had had a miscarriage after a few months
of pregnancy. The court ruled in favor of the Haines, noting that the issue
of religion had been part of the adoption process and that the birth parents
registered no opposition at that time to their daughter being raised Jewish.
And finally I think Jim Cox for putting the very likable Larry Haines on
the cover of his excellent TV soaps book.
I would love to drop him a note in Florida if anyone has an [removed]
Irene
(a former 'hooked on soaps' person during my stay-at-home years with my
children)
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:21:08 -0500
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi Friends,
NOTE: Because of the many requests we've received, we are now making "Same
Time, Same Station" available as a free Podcast through iTunes by going to
our new website at: [removed]
Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio
Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station." Streamed in high-quality audio,
on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Many new titles have been added to our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
[removed]
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
Halloween Special - Part 2
VINCENT PRICE HALL OF HORRORS
Episode 3 "Wild Goose Tavern"
FRONT PAGE DRAMA
Episode 392 10-26-40 "Voodoo Murder Mystery"
VINCENT PRICE HALL OF HORRORS
Episode 5 "The Fox Sisters"
SUSPENSE
Episode 15 10-15-42 "Lord of the Witch Doctors"
First Show of Second Season and first with "THE MAN IN BLACK" introducing
the shows.
Show moves to Tuesday 9:30pm.
William Spier becomes both Producer and Director.
John Dickson Carr becomes the Writer and Adaptor
VINCENT PRICE HALL OF HORRORS
Episode 6 "Harry Tallow's Headaches"
NICK CARTER, MASTER DETECTIVE
"THE RETURN OF NICK CARTER"
Episode 181 4-29-45 "The Witch of Dondenberg Mountain"
MUTUAL LIN-X Sundays 3:30 - 4:00pm
STARS: Lon Clark, Helen Chaote, Ed Latimer, John Kane
VINCENT PRICE HALL OF HORRORS
Episode 7 "Maria's Mind Possessed"
THE SEALED BOOK
Episode 13 6-10-45 "The Ghost Makers"
MUTUAL / WOR SYNDICATED Sundays 10:30 - 11:00
WRITTEN by: Bob Arthur and David Kogan HOST: Phillip Clarke
"THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER" used the same writers and scripts.
==================================
HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
Halloween Special
THE SEALTEST VARIETY THEATER
NBC 10/28/48
Stars: Dorothy Lamour with Jack Carson and Guest: Boris Karloff.
SUSPENSE
CBS 12/21/44 "The Brighton Strangler"
starring John Loder with June Duprez.
THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY
MBS 11/17/45 John Griggs stars as "Roger Elliott - The Mystery Man" in a
rare transcription of an early show for Post Cereal, "The Mystery of the Bat
Boy"
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Halloween Special
Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "The Black Sea Gull"
originally aired March 7, 1943 on The Blue Network
Starring: Peter Lorre. Raymond Edward Johnson as Raymond, your host.
Sponsor: Carter's Little Liver Pills
Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "The Melody Of Death"
originally aired April 22, 1944 on CBS
Starring: Mary Astor. Raymond Edward Johnson as Raymond, your host.
Sponsor: Palmolive Brushless & Palmolive Lather Shaving Cream
Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "The Creeping Wall"
originally aired January 8, 1946 on CBS
Starring: Irene Wicker. Paul McGrath as your host.
Sponsor: Lipton Tea & Lipton Soup
Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "The Ghost In The Garden"
originally aired February 2, 1947 on CBS
Armed Forces Radio Service "Mystery Playhouse" version presented here.
Starring: Leslie Woods. Paul McGrath as your host.
Sponsors: AFRS version has no sponsorship
Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "Till Death Do Us Part"
originally aired October 27, 1947 on CBS
Starring: Everett Sloane, Mercedes McCambridge, Dwight Weist announcing.
Paul McGrath as your host.
Sponsor: Bromo Seltzer (Emerson Drug Company of Baltimore, Maryland)
==================================
If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:31:32 -0500
From: "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: you know you're a fan of OTR [removed]
Here's a challenge for all the creative thinkers out there:
MAD magazine once ran a feature called "You Know You're Really a (Blank)
When ..." with a list of funny endings to the sentence.
For example: You know you're really a parent [removed] run out of glasses
and you have to start serving martinis in Yogi Bear [removed] discover that
your alarm clock has been broken for five years, and hadn't even
[removed] discover you're brushing your teeth with pimple [removed]
The challenge is to fill in this blank: You know you're really a fan of
Old-Time Radio [removed]
I'll get us started with something that occurred to me about myself (I'm
kind of ashamed to admit) the other day:
You know you're really a fan of Old-Time Radio [removed] watch the movie
Niagara not to see Marilyn Monroe but to catch a glimpse of Don Wilson.
Michael Leannah
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:20:46 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Correction: Hutch's address
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Hi Gang:
Apparently when I posted Will Hutchin's mailing address t'other day, somehow
the name "Hutchins" got encrypted into "Shut." I believe I accidentally hit
"change to" when the name "Hutchins" went thru spell-cheque. I just put this
missive thru spell-check and the first option for "Hutchins" is "Shut." (try
it out).
Here's the real address: WILL HUTCHINS, [removed] Box 371, Glen Head, NY
11545--0371.
I sincerely hope folks send him get-well regards, esp'ly those who know him
from FOTR and from his recent appearance in 2004 in Cincinnati. Will loves to
get mail and sends out the funniest Christmas cards.
Ether!
Derek Tague
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