Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #399
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 12/28/2005 10:19 AM

To: [removed]@[removed]

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 399
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Suspense Episodes                     [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
      Vic & Sade episodes needed            [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]
      1970's interviews of New Yorkers      [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
      Leave Us Face It                      [ "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@ya ]
      BBC Classic novel serialisation       [ Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed]; ]
      jean shepherd and vic and sade        [ Grams46@[removed] ]
      Farewell Dave Holland                 [ "JAMES NIXON" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
      12-28 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      39 cent stamp                         [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Vintage radio books for the blind pa  [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
      Re: The Goon Show                     [ "Cynthia Heimsoth" <chibibarako@hot ]

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    Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:18:01 -0500
    From: Rentingnow@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Suspense Episodes

    An excellent book on Suspense is "Suspense Twenty Years of Thrills and
    Chills by Martin Grams, Jr. with a forward by June Havoc. ISBN 1-57502-675-9.
    It
    lists all of the programs in order from Forcast #4 - The Lodger aired on July
    22, 1940 which had Noreen Gammill, Edmund Gwenn, Joseph Kears, Herbert
    Marshall,  and Lurene and directed by Alfred Hitchcock to Episode 945.  Also
    gives
    lots of background and a listing for the TV series.
    It is about $30 new and $24 used.  Amazon has it.

    Larry Moore

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    Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:18:29 -0500
    From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Vic & Sade episodes needed
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    Hi All,

      I recently learned of the existance of six episodes of Vic & Sade that are
    missing from my collection.  I found these plots on the David Goldin website.
    Am hoping that someone here can provide them.  Any format is okay.  Will pay
    or trade.

      9/21/1942---Rush has a dear friend in horrible trouble.  Smelly Clark has
    broken his [removed] is in blackest despair.

      9/28/1942---Sade has a funny story to tell, but Vic knows that Princess
    Moon-On-The-River is really Lolita Di Rienzi

      10/30/1942---The Lodge has offered Vic a part time job as "Traveling
    Moderator".  There's some travel involved and no pay for the first two years.
    In fact, Vic has to pay eleven twelfths of his travel expenses!

      12/29/1942---E. Tyson Stoogeer has been drummed out of the All-Star
    Marching Team.  They're planning to start their own marching team and march
    for money!

      4/13/1943---Out on the porch with Uncle Fletcher and Dottie Brainfeeble.
    The story of the amazing Roy Dejectedly and his strange family.

      5/4/1943---Chuck Brainfeeble visits Sade with a gross of "Little Leather
    Ringmasters".  He proposes to use them to repay his $40 debt to Vic, and
    won't take no for an answer.

      Thanks!

      Rodney Bowcock
      [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:19:09 -0500
    From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  1970's interviews of New Yorkers

    Hello all.  I just happened across this book, recently posted at Project
    Gutenberg.  It is copyrighted but may be freely redistributed.  There are
    100 interviews of somewhat famous New Yorkers listed including many
    broadcasters and other radio people.  One name that immediately jumped out
    at me was Himan Brown.  Others include Isaac Asimov and various other
    actors and directors.  The book is available both in plain text and
    .rtf.  Some of you might find it interesting.

    [removed]

    I'm not going to include the full contents here because it's a bit
    long.  The introduction is also interesting reading.  The author got his
    start as a secretary for a TV soap writer.  If people would like to see
    more of his interviews, you should write to him directly.  He has
    apparently more which haven't been released.  He also interviewed many
    older movie stars such as Geraldine Fitzgerald and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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    Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:19:59 -0500
    From: "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Leave Us Face It

    Just finished listening to the Duffy's Tavern episode where Deems Taylor narrates the "Symphonic"
    version of "Leave Us Face It (We're In Love)".   Funny stuff!   I love comedy based on music, so
    this was a treat for me, as was the earlier episode introducing the song.   I actually own the
    sheet music for the song so maybe I indirectly contributed to the "28 cents" of profit that Archie
    claims to have collected from its sales when he was grilled on the subject by Eddie the Waiter.

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    Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:34:29 -0500
    From: Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  BBC Classic novel serialisation

    The BBC 4 Archive Hour show this week discusses the development of The
    Classic Serial. There are interviews withs some old actors and others
    about how the serials were produced.

    [removed]

    Steve Carter

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    Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:20:16 -0500
    From: Grams46@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  jean shepherd and vic and sade

    In a message dated 12/15/2005 3:18:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, Jim Harmon
    wrote:

>     <.....Shepherd or no one else ever asked my permission to use the  line, or
>     offered me a token fifty bucks, or included me in a "thank you" list  at the
>     end of the picture. I feel I was ripped off.

    i never saw a thank you to the late paul rhymer for shepherd's lifting  of
    his work either.
    peace from kathy
    support our troops; end the  war
    john 3:16

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    Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:20:55 -0500
    From: "JAMES NIXON" <ranger6000@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Farewell Dave Holland

    The most recent issue of Joe Southern's Lone Ranger Fan Club letter carries
    the sad news of the passing of both Tom Gill and Dave Holland.  Dave was the
    author of "From Out of the Past: A Pictorial History of The Lone Ranger" and
    one of the foremost authorities on the history of the character on radio and
    TV.  Anyone with serious interest in the Ranger should have a copy of this
    book, which is still available at the website [removed]
    according to Joe.
    I met Dave at the 60th anniversary celebration of the Lone Ranger held at
    Lone Pine, CA in June, 1993.  Not only was he a great fan and driving force
    in keep interest in the western genre alive, but a discerning Lone Ranger
    aficionado.  He confessed to me that his favorite episode in the series
    wasn't the 30th anniversary program from January, 1953, but "The War Horse",
    (April 18, 1952) , my favorite too, which doesn't even have a villain.  It's
    just the story of how the Ranger and Tonto help a young boy win a horse race
    with a supposedly used-up cavalry horse.  It was adapted for a 15-minute
    episode on Decca records as well, and never fails to bring a tear to my eye
    when I hear it.  Rest in peace, Dave.

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    Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:21:06 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-28 births/deaths

    December 28th births

    12-28-1887 -  Charles Dingle - Wabash, IN - d. 1-19-1956
    actor: Employer "Meet the Dixons"
    12-28-1890 - Frank Butler - Oxford, Oxfordshire, England - d. 6-10-1967
    actor: Dave Arnold "Mr. Chameleon"
    12-28-1896 - Rose Franken - Gainesville, TX - d. 6-22-1988
    writer: "Claudia and David" based on her stories
    12-28-1903 - Earl "Fatha" Hines - Duquesne, PA - d. 4-22-1983
    bandleader: "Band Remotes"; "Chamber Music of Lower Basin Street"
    12-28-1905 - Cliff Arquette - Toledo, OH - d. 9-23-1974
    comedian, actor: Thaddeus Cornfelder, "Myrt and Marge"
    12-28-1908 - Lew Ayres - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-30-1996
    actor: Dr. James Kildare "Dr. Kildare"
    12-28-1909 - Olan Soule - La Harpe, IL - d. 2-1-1994
    actor: Sam Ryder "Bachelor's Children"; Kermit Hubbard "Joan and Kermit"
    12-28-1913 - Lou Jacobi - Toronto, Canada
    actor: "Advs. in Judaism"; "Earplay"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    12-28-1914 - Lee Bowman - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-25-1979
    actor: Jonathan Kegg "Life in Your Hands"; George Cooper "My Favorite
    Husband"
    12-28-1915 - Dick Joy - Putnam, CT - d. 10-31-1991
    announcer: "My Secret Ambition"; "The Saint"; "Advs of Sam Spade"
    12-28-1923 - Andrew Duggan - Franklin, IN - d. 5-17-1988
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"; "Voice of the Army"; "Top Secret"
    12-28-1927 - Martin Milner - Detroit, MI
    actor: "Dragnet"
    12-28-1929 - Brian Redhead - Newcastle-upon-Tyne - d. 1-23-1994
    presenter: "Today"; "A World in Edgeways"; "From Plato to Nato"
    12-28-1932 - Pamela Duncan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-11-2005
    actress: "Dangerous Assignment"

    December 28th deaths

    01-06-1907 - Helen Kleeb - South Bend, WA - d. 12-28-2003
    actress: Sarah Tuttle "Dr. Kate"; "Gunsmoke"
    02-12-1927 - Bobby Winkler - Chicago, IL - d. 12-28-1989
    actor: Newsboy "Big Town"
    02-23-1904 - William L. Shirer - Chicago, IL - d. 12-28-1993
    news analyst: "CBS European News"; "[removed] Shirer: News and Comments"
    02-27-1892 - William Demarest - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-28-1983
    actor: Mr. Cobb "Cobbs"; "Eddie Bracken Show"
    03-30-1892 - Ethel Owen, Racine WI - d. 12-28-1990
    actress: Siri Allen "Against the Storm"; Clara Noble "Backstage Wife"
    05-10-1888 - Max Steiner - Vienna, Austria - d. 12-28-1971
    composer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-22-1903 - Glenhall Taylor - d. 12-28-1997
    producer, director: "Blondie"; "Sherlock Holmes"; "Dinah Shore Show";
    "Ozzie and Harriett"
    06-24-1893 - Arthur Hughes - Bloomington, IL - d. 12-28-1982
    actor: Bill Davidson "Just Plain Bill"; Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"
    08-27-1871 - Theodore Dreiser - Terre Haute, IN - d. 12-28-1945
    writer: "The Heinz Magazine of the Air"
    10-20-1935 - Jerry Orbach - New York, NY - d. 12-28-2004
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10 15 1918 - Harold Gast - d. 12-28-2003
    writer: "Front Page Farrell"; "Real Stories from Real Life"
    12-27-1898 - Hilda Vaughn - Baltimore, MD - d. 12-28-1957
    actress: "Columbia Presents Corwin"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:32:37 -0500
    From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  39 cent stamp

    This might have been addressed earlier, but I heard an ad on KQV radio in
    Pittsburgh campaigning for the Jack Benny stamp.  KQV runs an OTR show.  I
    thought of Ms Leff, Jack Benny's greatest champion, and wondered if the spot
    was run for a reduced rate.

    In any case, I really hope the effort is successful.  The man deserves a
    stamp.

    M Kinsler

    512 E Mulberry St. Lancaster, Ohio USA 43130 740-687-6368
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:12:00 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:41:31 -0500
    From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Vintage radio books for the blind page updated

    Hello all.  I just wanted to send a brief note that I have made several
    small updates to the books for the blind page.  As books go live on
    [removed], I'm adding direct links to them.  Also I've added a section
    for other complete books related to vintage radio that can be
    downloaded.  If you know of a complete book, not just an article or excerpt
    that somehow directly relates to vintage radio collecting and is accessible
    to the blind, please send the full title, author, and a download
    link.  Feel free to let others and other mailing lists know about the books
    page and the full press release.  Clubs may post the links or the full
    press release in their newsletters.

    For the books page, go to:

    [removed]

    For the press release, go to:

    [removed]

    As always, comments are welcome.  Please write me off list using the email
    address provided on the pages.

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    Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:43:27 -0500
    From: "Cynthia Heimsoth" <chibibarako@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: The Goon Show

    Chimes wrote:

>     The premise of "The Goon Show" is described at length, typewritten
>     single-spaced on three sides >of the (5x8?) file cards. Unfortunately, the
>     individual episode listings are atypically sparse.

    I'm amazed that NBC was able to boil the Goons down to three sides of a 3 x
    5 card.  It usually takes me the better part of three screens of email to
    even get the personalities described.

>     NBC began airing the half-hour BBC show on October 20, 1955, Thursdays at
>     8:30. After the >show of November 10 there was a break, and the broadcasts
>     resumed on December 29 at the >same day and time. The last show was on July
>     5, 1956.

     >By my count that would be a total of 32 episodes.

    According to the Goon Show site [removed]
    ([removed])
    Series 5 consisted of 26 shows running (in Britain) from 28 Sep 1954 to 22
    Mar 1955.  It's possible that they also picked up some episodes of Series 6
    (which was 27 episodes long from 20 Sep 1955 to 20 Mar 1956, but with some
    disruption due to a musicians' strike in Britain).
    [removed]

    Of course, one wonders what they did during the hiatus from March to
    September 1955 ...

    Cynthia "ChibiBarako"

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