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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 499

Table Of Contents: 

	 MERRY XMAS
	 Book
	 Newspaper articles.
	 E. Scrooge & Co.

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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 00:17:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "John R. Pellatt" <bs206@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: MERRY XMAS
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May I wish all my fellow vintage radio crazies and their families a very 
Merry Xmas! No finer collection of eclectic enthusiasts exist on the 
internet!Thankyou for a terrific year of entertaining and enjoyable posts.
         
John Pellatt TORONTO

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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 07:46:16 -0500
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Book
Message-ID: <961225074615_1457261733@[removed]>

Laughs, [removed] Lucy by Jess Oppenheimer, with Gregg Oppenheimer; Syracuse
University Press (315-443-5534) e-mail <arashap@[removed]>; 320 pages;
$[removed]  This book gives you much insight on Jess Openheimer, his writing and
his relationship with many actors, especially Lucille Ball.  Much information
is given on My Favorite Husband and I Love Lucy which Jess wrote for.  A
compact disc of episodes of My Favorite Husband and I Love Lucy is included.
 John Rayburn gave a glowing review a few weeks ago and Gregg Oppenheimer
discussed the book on the last digest.  This book is well recommended.

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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 07:46:20 -0500
From: Neubacher@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Newspaper articles.
Message-ID: <961225074619_1821417748@[removed]>

     Early last week,  the WASHINGTON POST had an article on Old Time Radio.
It concerned Bob and Ray, and  Jean Shepard.  Yesterday, Dec. 24, there was a
much longer article in the BALTIMORE SUN about The Two and Only Bob and Ray
and the tapes and CD's  done by Larry Josephson.  Excerpts from Bob and Ray
can be heard on the Sundial area code 410-783-1800 then code 6187.

Bill Neubacher
NEUBACHER@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 16:19:43 -0500 (EST)
From: lev@[removed] (S or A Levene)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: E. Scrooge & Co.
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I just engaged in an annual ritual of listening to a recording of "A
Christmas Carol", --  not the Lionel Barrymore or any other famous radio
version, and it occurred to me that  others might be interested in it,
because I believe it is little known despite a stellar cast of OTR names.
This is not from any radio broadcast that I'm aware of but from a 12-inch
78 rpm record album that I was given as a child.  I would date it from the
mid-40's.

The cast features Basil Rathbone as Scrooge, Elliott Lewis as Scrooge's
nephew Fred,  Jay Novello as Cratchit,  Arthur Q. Bryan as the "portly
gentleman" who comes around collecting money for the poor,  Francis X.
Bushman as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Lurene Tuttle as Cratchit's
daughter Martha, Walter Tetley as the boy who runs to get the prize turkey
for the reformed Scrooge.  Less immediately familiar names  are Paula
Winslowe as Mrs. Cratchit, Raymond Lawrence as Marley's Ghost and Stuart
Robertson as Christmas Present.  It has a most appealing score composed and
conducted by Leith Stevens and was directed by Tom McKnight.  It was a
Columbia recording.

The 78's became scratchy and I taped it  years ago and disposed of the
original records and the album, unfortunately.  But I listen to it every
year and  although it is abbreviated  I find it unfailingly evocative,
moving and scary.  And to this day when I think of the name Ebenezer
Scrooge, I hear the rough, gruff voice of Basil Rathbone in that role.  Is
anyone else familiar with it?

On the same topic there is also a clever and entertaining version of the
story on a Richard Diamond episode which many of you may have (12-21-51) in
which Dick Powell simply narrates the story and the regular cop characters
in his cast play the various roles with their New York accents and a
contemporary New York slant.  Bob Cratchit's manner is  tougher and more
abrasive than the timid character we're used to as he snaps back at Scrooge
disrespectfully.  It's refreshing.

I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season.

Sam Levene.



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