Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #187
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Date: 7/11/2006 4:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 187
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Sherlock Holmes                       [ "Sammy Jones" <sjones69@[removed] ]
  Halls of Ivy project                  [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
  professor collection                  [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
  need substitute series                [ "Ralph W. Moss, [removed]" <ralphwmoss@ ]
  7-10 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  round robbin                          [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
  The end of Radio [removed] anyone  [ "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed]; ]
  Amzie Stickland                       [ "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed] ]
  Re: Tony Curtis on Radio              [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
  A "Lone Ranger" approach              [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Escape "Bird of Paradise"             [ William Brooks <webiii@[removed]; ]
  Tony Curtis on Radio                  [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
  re: Amzie Strickland as "the lovely   [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:57:43 +0000
From: "Sammy Jones" <sjones69@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Sherlock Holmes
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 > Johnny Dollar and Suspense ended their runs in New [removed] What were the
 > last Hollywood dramas for CBS, NBC, [removed] did Mutual ever have anything
 > in Hollywood?

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes came from Hollywood when Rathbone was
starring in the mid-40s.  I think it moved to ABC in fall 1946, and was off
the air by 1960.

Sammy Jones
sjones69@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:58:00 +0000
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Halls of Ivy project

Hi Everybody,

in the last OTR digest Norman ask if I have the mp3 cd collection that he
put together of the Halls of Ivy shows.  I do and if you still have the wire
recordings or the non mp3 audio file  the Halls of Ivy project would like to
work on them to try to produce the best audio cd with that materials.  Take
care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:58:23 +0000
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  professor collection

Hi Everybody,

professor Benson ask a very good question about what to do with his archive.
I would hope the archive be transferred   to one of the OTR clubs or dealer.
That way the collection will be available to the public.  I believe we have
four OTR club that would be a good fit for the collection.  They are
SPERDVAC, REPS, First Generation, and RHAC.  Maybe a spoke person of all
four archive can post some ideas in this news group.  I know Dan of SPERDVAC
and Harlan of First Generation do a lot of work with transcription.  The
group in RHAC is working on some shows for there cd library, and REPS is
currently going through reel to reel checking to see what need to be
transferred on to audio cd.  It would be a shame not to preserve shows that
is not in the hobby on audio cd.  I know Ted of Radio Memories is working on
large collection of Reel to be transferred to tape.  The other dealers that
I personally do business  with are making shows available on audio cd.  Take
care,

Walden

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:58:43 +0000
From: "Ralph W. Moss, [removed]" <ralphwmoss@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  need substitute series

My wife and I have listened to Gunsmoke every night
for the past year.
It even got us though a most difficult period in our
life, centered around a medical emergency. We are
completely taken with the wonderful ambiance created
by producer Norman McDonnell and writer John Meston,
and  by the acting of William Conrad, Parley Baer and
John Dehner, et al.

But, alas, we have listened to all of those wonderful
shows now and that period in our life is drawing to an
end. So where do we go next? We are looking for
another series in which the writing and the production
values are as consistently high as in Gunsmoke. (We
have already listened to Frontier Gentleman). Any
suggestions would be most appreciated. --Ralph (and
Martha) Moss

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:58:59 +0000
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  7-10 births/deaths

July 10th births

07-10-1877 - Caroline Crockett Ellis - d. 5-17-1963
actor: Mary Ward "Travels of Mary Ward"; "Caroline's Golden Store"
07-10-1889 - Graham McNamee - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-9-1942
announcer: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Fire Chief"; "Treasury Hour"
07-10-1889 - Noble Sissle - d. 12-17-1975
songwriter, orchestra leader: "Freedom's People"
07-10-1894 - Jimmy McHugh - Boston, MA - d. 5-23-1969
song writer: "Cavalcade of Music"; "It's Time to Smile"; "The Navy
Sings"
07-10-1896 - Slim Summerville - Albuquerque, NM - d. 1-5-1946
actor: "Hollywood Star Time"
07-10-1905 - Thomas Gomez - NYC - d. 6-18-1971
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-10-1909 - Bernard Katz - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-22-1992
pianist: (Cousin of Mel Blanc) "Katz on the Keys"
07-10-1910 - Helen Pickens - Macon, GA
singer: (Pickens Sisters) "The Pickens Sisters"; "The Magic Key"
07-10-1913 - Joan Marsh - Porterville, CA - d. 8-10-2000
actor: "Calling All Cars"; "Good News of 1939"
07-10-1914 - Joe Shuster - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - d. 7-30-1992
co-creator (with Jerry Siegel): "Advs. of Superman"
07-10-1918 - Ernest Ricca - d. 10-10-1987
director: "Lorenzo Jones"; "Valiant Lady"; "Stella Dallas"; "Romance
of Helen Trent"
07-10-1920 - David Brinkley - Wilmington, NC - d. 6-11-2003
newscaster: WRC Washington [removed]; "Nightline"
07-10-1921 - Jeff Donnell - South Windham, ME - d. 4-13-1988
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-10-1923 - Earl Hamner, Jr. - Schuyler, VA
writer: "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
07-10-1923 - John Bradley - Antigo, WI - d. 1-11-1994
Iwo Jima flagraiser: "Interview programs"
07-10-1926 - Fred Gwynne - NYC - d. 7-2-1993
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

July 10th deaths

01-17-1914 - Ann Loring - NYC - d. 7-10-2005
actor: "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "X Minus One"
02-18-1924 - Sam Rolfe - NYC - d. 7-10-1993
writer, creator: "Suspense"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
05-30-1908 - Mel Blanc - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-10-1989
actor: Professor Pierre La Blanc "Jack Benny Program"; August Moon
"Point Sublime"
06-27-1875 - Reginald Mason - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-10-1962
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-01-1886 - Sam Taub - d. 7-10-1979
boxing writer and broadcaster
09-20-1885 - Jelly Roll Morton - Gulfport, LA - d. 7-10-1941
jazz musician, songwriter: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin
Street"; "Americana"
10-06-1887 - Maria Jeritza - Brunn, Austria-Hungary - d. 7-10-1982
singer: "General Motors Concerts"
12-17-1896 - Arthur Fiedler - South Boston, MA - d. 7-10-1979
conductor: "Robert Merrill with the Boston Pops Orchestra"; "Boston
Pops"
xx-xx-xxxx - William Ford Manley - d. 7-10-1954
writer: "Snow Village Sketches"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Home state of Fredric March
Racine, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:57:09 +0000
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  round robbin

Hi Everybody,

I would be interested in knowing about some of the round robbin groups that
take low generations of reel to reel or transcriptions and issue great
sounding  audio cd.  I am a ware of a few in the hobby, but would like to
find out if there are more groups doing that type of work.  Take care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:59:19 +0000
From: "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The end of Radio [removed] anyone
  listening??

The past posts about the last days of radio drama got me to thinking.  And 
sometimes, that's not a good thing.

This is my understanding of how things were way back when.  Please correct 
me if I am wrong.  In many instances, I hope I am.

During the heyday of the 30's and into the middle 40's, the networks 
primarily broadcast their programming on powerful "clear channel" stations. 
Lower power stations were out there, but, if I am correct, they didn't have 
very long range during the daylight hours and probably less at night.  I 
remember my aunts and uncles all stating that during the daytime here in 
Middle Ga there was only one station to listen too.  Unfortunately, they 
never 100% agreed on whether the station was WSB or WMAZ.  Most stated that 
it was WSB in Atlanta.  Since it was clear channel and 50,000 watts, I have 
always believed that WSB was the more probable.  All my relatives agreed 
that nighttime was when you got the majority of the entertainment.  Given 
the dynamics of AM radio, it makes sense that they simply were tuning in 
stations from Chicago, New York or whatever was coming in that night. 
Unfortunately, they are all gone now, so I have no one to ask.

[removed] ahead a few years.

By the 1950's, television was on the way into most American homes, so to 
speak.  Due to higher costs, the networks were putting more money into 
television, rather than radio.  Moreover, many radio stations here in Ga 
seemed to be separating themselves from network programming.  Once Macon 
got its own TV stations for example, the local radio stations appeared to 
carry less and less network [removed] least during prime night time 
hours. But, since the late 1940's, there were a great many newer, lower 
powered stations that were now serving small towns.  Unfortunately, I can't 
find programming guides for these stations.  At least the stations in my 
area. When you look at the newspapers, by the end of the 50's, most 
programming seemed to be in the late afternoon hours instead of night 
time.  At least that's the way it looks in the Ga papers I have looked 
at.  Most of the prime shows, such as Gunsmoke and Suspense have early 
afternoon, rather than evening hours listened as airtimes, also.

Is there anyone on here that lived in a rural area during the last days of 
radio that remembers trying to listen to programs?  Or was the spell of 
television so well cast that not only did the smaller stations not carry 
the programs, but no one was there to listen??

Thanks,

Bob

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:00:39 +0000
From: "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Amzie Stickland

Thanks to the Digest, I would not have been aware of the death of this very
marvelous and prolific performer, Amzie Strickland.  In the last years of
her life, she moved to Spokane, WA, to be with her son.

I would like to add a few things, which have not been readily known. Ms.
Strickland did not begin in radio as an actor.  She had several writing gigs
for WOR-Mutual, including Brownstone Theatre, where she became a friend of
Jock MacGregor and Jackson Beck.  She approached the powers-that-be in radio
to allow her to do acting performances, and they told her that she was too
good and valuable a writer to be acting.  Fortunately for all of us, that
spell broke, and I still recall the Friday nights, even at a single-digit
age, listening to "The Fat Man", where Ms. Strickland was on, almost every
week.  The announcer of that show was Charles Irving, and being an actor
also, had a personalized delivery that singers and Italians would describe
as "glissando", or gliding over certain words.  The sponsor was Pepto
Bismol, and he effected the glissando delivery when he said"...and feel
gooooooood again." When Amzie was on, he would announce her name last, with
the same delivery: "Aaaaaamzie Strickland."  How many of you remember that?

She told me that she played Margo Lane only when the regular actress was
pregnant.  I don't know if it was Gertrude Warner, Grace Matthews, or Leslie
Woods.

Recently we have had some mention here of married couples, and Kenneth
Clarke must have been referring to Cathy Lewis and Elliott Lewis.  As I was
told, each was named Lewis before the marriage, so Cathy did not have to
change her name upon marrying.  Amzie Strickland married an actor in radio
as well: Frank Behrens, a well known, very talented actor, and together they
had one son: actor Tim Behrens.

When radio was on its way out, Amzie decided that she could get more
television work by coming to Hollywood, especially because a non-recurring
role was waiting for her on "I Love Lucy".  As was pointed out earlier, she
had no trouble getting many television jobs, as well as commercials.

Stuart---OTRadiofan

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:01:07 +0000
From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Tony Curtis on Radio

"Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed]; recalled:

 > I remember Curtis did a Benny show where they did a parody of The All
 > American, one of Tony Curtis's movies. Must have been in the 50's.
 > I used to have it, and maybe still do.

For those who =don't= have it, or are equally uncertain as Mr. Scherer
as to their ownership thereof <g>, a copy is available in Tony Tollin's
fine TOO HOT FOR RADIO box, for sale at all your favorite online
audiobook retailers. (Standard disclaimers, 'course.)

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:01:41 +0000
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  A "Lone Ranger" approach

 > Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:03:24 +0000
 > From: seandd@[removed]

 > It appears that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg doesn't
 > understand The Lone Ranger any more than she understands the
 > takings clause, based on recent reporting that she calls using only
 > [removed] law to make Supreme Court decisions a "Lone Ranger" approach.

The Lone Ranger may have worked with law enforcement (when they were
willing), but he wasn't a member of law-enforcement.  He was
essentially a deserter from the Texas Rangers, who operated outside
the established law-enforcement channels.  This has given rise to
this expression, conoting a "go it alone" approach to problems.  The
LR was a vigilante, whose cooperation was always on his own terms.

-- A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed] 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax [removed] Boston, MA 02108-2503 [removed] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:02:02 +0000 From: William Brooks <webiii@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Escape "Bird of Paradise" In the July 8th posting "jazmann" stated that "Last night we listened to "Bird of Paradise", an episode of Escape." That episode didn't ring a bell with my memory of Escape shows, so I checked three separate sources and I didn't find that show listed anywhere as an Escape show. Can "jazmann" supply and additional info on the show. Might it have come from the first incarnation of Escape. The first show known as Escape was aired a few years prior to the CBS version which ran from July 1947 to Sept 1954. The first shows, which had nothing to do with the higher quality CBS version, where not nearly as well received and I have yet to find a log of it. Just curious, maybe "jazmann" has found one of the earlier shows. WEB ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:02:16 +0000 From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Tony Curtis on Radio Well Bill, you are correct, Tony was on Jack Benny's Lucky Strike Program #360 on [removed], [removed] CBS. There is an AFRS rebroadcast That I think is what I have. Tony does "All American " Benny sketch about college Football. What I have is a version of the program that was sponsored by The Home Insurance Co. Don't know anything more than that or when or who I got the episode from, probably got it in about 1975. I search my data base and I don't have another Curtis appearances on OTR. Frank McGurn. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:02:35 +0000 From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: re: Amzie Strickland as "the lovely Margot Lane" Thanks to Anthony Tollin for clarifying in which two episodes Amzie Strickland took over from Grace Matthews. I had mentioned that the information out there on the web was contradictory on this point. I was specifically referring to the commercial release "The Shadow - The Lost Shows" ("painstakingly assembled by Anthony Tollin, the foremost authority on The Shadow"), which claims Amzie also starred in "Death Is A Colored Dream" (9-26-48). I assume that is incorrect? Kermyt -------------------------------- End of [removed] Digest V2006 Issue #187 ********************************************* Copyright [removed] Communications, York, PA; All Rights Reserved, including republication in any form. If you enjoy this list, please consider financially supporting it: [removed] For Help: [removed]@[removed] To Unsubscribe: [removed]@[removed] To Subscribe: [removed]@[removed] or see [removed] For Help with the Archive Server, send the command ARCHIVE HELP in the SUBJECT of a message to [removed]@[removed] To contact the listmaster, mail to listmaster@[removed] To Send Mail to the list, simply send to [removed]@[removed]