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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 266


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Re: Helen Trent 
	 Introduction
	 Elizabeth Simar - My Favorite Husband 
	 Re: Vaphio cup
	 Re: Give us Barabas! on Virginia Christine
	 re: Gunsmoke [removed] and Lyrics!?!?
	 Rambling with Gambling
	 Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre
	 Re: John B. Gambling
	 Friendly Giant
	 Box 13 and Escape
	 lets lament Lamont
	 Public Relations for Newark

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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 21:49:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: airwavesOTR <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: Helen Trent 
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

On Sat, 27 Jul 1996 [removed]@[removed] wrote:

> 
> According to "Tune In Tomorrow" author Mary Jane Higby, during one drawn out
> plot in which Helen Trent was having troubles galore in her relationship with
> longtime beau Gil Whitney, thousands of 1936 American housewives throughout
> the fruited plain heard one afternoon a disgusted male voice announce: "Why
> don't you just lay the broad and put her out of her misery!"
> 
> The network spent months trying to find the culprit, but to no avail. Could
> it have been Henry Morgan? Godfrey? Certainly not Don McNeill!!!

	My money's on Uncle Don!

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Date: 28 Jul 1996 22:17:22 GMT
From: "Mike T. Taylor" <taylor_mike@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Introduction
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

[This note has been sent to the following InterNet address(es):
otr@[removed]]


Greetings!
   Your reply to my subscription request said to submit an intro - so, this is
[removed]

    My main interest here is finding episodes of "I Love a Mystery," and of the
Sherlock Holmes series, with Basil Rathbone and Nigel [removed]

    Of course, if anyone has any suggestions on other [removed] I'd
like to hear [removed]

    Anything else you'd like to know --   just [removed]

    thanks,

    Michael

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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 22:22:22 -0400
From: GOpp@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Elizabeth Simar - My Favorite Husband 
Message-ID: <960728222222_166326146@[removed]>

Elizabeth Simar posted a question about broadcast dates for Lucille 
Ball's radio series, "My Favorite Husband," but when I tried to reply to 
her directly I got a "returned mail - unknown user" message.  Does anyone 
know how to reach her by e-mail?

- Gregg Oppenheimer

----------------------------------------------------------
Laughs, Luck . . . and Lucy: 
How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time
By Jess Oppenheimer, with Gregg Oppenheimer 
Syracuse University Press - Oct. 1996 (ISBN # 0-8156-0406-8)
----------------------------------------------------------

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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 22:27:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: airwavesOTR <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: Vaphio cup
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

On Sun, 28 Jul 1996 Alan Bell wrote:

> 
> >First of all, it's Vaphio Cup, with a V., not Baphio (Sam Spade).
> 
> I've wondered whathehell that was for DECADES.  Now I can get it right in
> my catalog. (Us OTR folks are easily pleased.)
> 
	It looks just the way it's described in the show, like an urn or 
a small spitoon, with those Greek drawings on the sides. 

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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 22:41:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: airwavesOTR <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: Give us Barabas! on Virginia Christine
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

	I spent a pleasant hour or two this morning with The Gunsmoke
reference book for research on Virginia Christine (Virginia Gregg is also 
covered extensively, and they are different people - although Georgia 
Ellis toyed with changing her name for a few months during the run).
She appeared on 34 radio episodes, or nearly ten percent of the shows 
produced, plus one re-run, and a few TV appearances.  She was mostly cast 
as saloon girls and pioneer widows (not that there were many other types 
of women on Gunsmoke!).

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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 23:58:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: airwavesOTR <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: re: Gunsmoke [removed] and Lyrics!?!?
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

>From an RCA-Victor LP "Wyatt Earp, Cheyenne and Other TV Favorites" 
LBY-1004 (no date, as is the case with most records before the '80s), $[removed]
"Nationally Advertised Price", a version of Gunsmoke, by either Shorty 
Long and the Happy Fellows, The Prairie Chiefs, or Sons of the Pioneers 
(sound like them, it's sure not Roy and Dale).  Here are the lyrics - feel 
free to sing along:
	
	Gunsmoke trail, oh tell me of da-ays gone by,
	Though alone, you still wind your way.
	Are the ghostly horsemen riding 
	as they speed the eastern mail?
	It's up to you to see them through, old trail.

	The gunsmoke now has faded from the blazin' 44s,
	The stagecoaches are rusting on the hill,
	The wagon wheels you used to feel will sing their song no more,
	The sound of the caravan is still.   
	
	Gunsmoke trail, no trav'ler to care where you go,
	Sands of time are hiding your way.
	But if Heaven ever let you, you could tell a rugged tale
	That's why I hate to see you fade, old trail.
	Gunsmoke trail.
	
Song is credited to Spencer/Koury.  We know Rex Koury wrote the tune - 
anyone know who Spencer might be?
Themes on the LP are: 
Side 1: Legend of Wyatt Earp, Jim Bowie - Adventurin' Man, Cheyenne, 
Tales of the Texas Rangers, Ballad of Davey Crockett, Tales of Wells Fargo.
Side 2: Happy Trails, Gunsmoke, The Restless Gun, Broken Arrow, Wagon 
Train, Jesse James.

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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 01:05:06 -0400
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Rambling with Gambling
Message-ID: <960729010506_587089211@[removed]>

Yes, I was another fan of John B. Gambling's morning show, "Rambling with
Grambling." I remember that little studio orchstra -- I believe they were
just a trio, comprising saxophone, accordion, and violin. The leader was
named Otto, and every now and then Gambling would would ask "Otto and the
boys" to play.

My recollection is that they always played "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old
Kit Bag."

Mow I'm sure their repertoire was more than that one song -- but I remember
them playing that whenever Gambling asked them to play. This was the
mid-1940s and I was just a little kid, after all.

Hah!

Dick Lupoff

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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 23:11:07 -0700
From: [removed]@[removed] (Don Busenbark)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre
Message-Id: <v01510100ae21aaecf655@[[removed]]>

     I have listened to several of the Cape Cod mysteries and would agree
with Jim.  My favorite is "The Case of the Murdered Miser" a mystery twist
on "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.  I would recommend these shows
to any OTR fans.
     While I have your attention,  I would be interested in any information
on OTR scripts.  I teach at a high school and some of the English teachers
borrow my tapes for the students to hear and then they have them write a
script or story of some kind.  I'm sure they would be interested in using a
script in class.  Thanks again for the OTR Digest.

Don

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

"Never Play Leapfrog With A Unicorn"

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I know, not a lot to do with OTR, but it does provide some funny images.
Remember OTR is the theatre of the mind.  This is a visual statement.

So long

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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 01:15:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bob Kirk <kirk@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: John B. Gambling
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

 BOBFABRIS@[removed] wrote:
 
When I was a young tyke in NYC, John B. Gambling's early morning show was the
program tolisten to, after the Farm News.  He had a live group of musicians
playing the various tunes - who were the individuals? I know they were
virtuosi, members of one or another of the big NY orchestras.

 -----------------------------
Don't remember their names, but I was a fellow tyke listener at the
time. I do remember that his wonderful live orchetra (or combo) for
my pre breakfast entertainment bit the dust at the time of the great
James Petrillo live music royalty strike. John B was forced to go
to records during the prolonged strike and I guess that economics
dictated that the live musicians were never hired back.

Thus went the live 7:59 am, "Pack up Your Troubles in Your Old
Kit Bag" sign off. Made it harder to smile, smile, smile.

Bob Kirk

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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 01:20:33 -0700
From: heronimous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Friendly Giant
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

>"The Friendly Giant"...Apparently it was on a Toronto TV station (The 
>flagship of the Canadian Kid's network YTV?) and may have been offered 
>to PBS stations in the states through YTV or CBC, but cannot track it 
>down. <snip>
>Andy Blatt 
I know this isn't otr, but it goes back quite a ways. I'm sure others can 
tell you more, but 'Friendly' ran for many years on CBC across Canada and 
became enough of an institution that it made the national news when it 
was cancelled about five (?) years ago (could be longer). No one would 
say who made the decision to cancel it and there were many people who 
grew up watching it, myself included, who were quite upset. Program 
especially remembered for its opening ("look up, way up"). Some tapes may 
be available from CBC -- I'll check if you like. Checked net for 
references and the only thing I found was a pic of Friendly and Jerome 
the Giraffe on one of the 'Knowledge Network' pages. Don't know much 
about them -- I don't have cable but think they're a Canadian pay-tv 
service you may be able to pull off of satellite, but they run Friendly 
at 7:30 [removed] weekday mornings, and this page 
([removed]) promos that. Hope this 
helps.

Mark Reesor
heronimous@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 23:17:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: ulrich@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Box 13 and Escape
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

In OTR Digest #265, passage@[removed] (Frank M Passage) wrote:

>BOX 13:
>
>In BOX 13, Dan Holiday, played by Alan Ladd, newspaper reporter turned
>fiction writer, puts an ad in his old paper in search of story ideas.
>His ad states he's looking for adventure.  The replies come to the
>newspaper's Box 13 and always brings trouble for Dan Holiday.

I heard that Box 13 was the box Alan Ladd stood on to kiss Veronica Lake. ;)

>ESCAPE:
>
>ESCAPE opened with the gripping voice of William Conrad booming out
>over the airwaves:  "Tired of the everyday grind?  Ever dream of a
>life of romantic adventure?  Want to get away from it all?  We offer
>you - ESCAPE!"  Moussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain", the show's
>theme, assisted Conrad in creating the right opening atmosphere.

Often it was Paul Frees rather than William Conrad. Both also frequently
played roles in the stories. Also, the exact words of the opening sometimes
varied slightly, though they always conveyed the same idea.

>The show featured spine-tingling tales from such masters as Joseph
>Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allen Poe.  Produced by William
>N. Robeson, this series is widely considered one of the best
>remembered of all radio action adventure series.

And one of the best.

--Charles

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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 18:34:40 -0700
From: [removed]@[removed] (Donald Dortmund)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: lets lament Lamont
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

  >>>Does anybody know the source of Lamont Cranston's wealth?
  
  Spoiler: Remember that Lamont was only one of the Shadow's alias. (In the 
  Radio drama, it was the only one he used.) Lamont Cranston was a rich guy 
  vacationing in Europe, who let the Shadow 'use' his name (and ??? what 
  else). 

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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 15:20:04 -0400
From: Kubelski@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Public Relations for Newark
Message-ID: <960729152003_587508377@[removed]>

Lazy PR man Sean Dougherty reporting in from the Newark Friends of Old Time
Radio Convention.  We in public relations are very excited about John Hart
being around to play the Lone Ranger, hopefully with trusty announcer Fred
Foy at his side.

Also, CBS Sunday morning is looking for uplifting stories for Charles Osgood
and I'm going to suggest they cover the convention.  Can anyone who has
attended several conventions e-mail me privately with any "heartwarming"
reunions we've seen (Anthony Tollin I expect to hear from [removed]).

Also, is anyone aware as to whether Mr. Osgood ever worked as a radio
journalist?

Secondly, is anyone aware of any other New York City - New Jersey -
Connecticut journalists who worked in radio during the golden age who might
be open to a contact from us?  Any help would be appreciated.

Lastly, I'd like to encourage a print reporter to cover OTR as a hobby in
conjunction with the convention.  Can anyone (privately) give me stories
about parents, teachers or others using OTR to entertain/educate children.
 I'd like to get a story together on the survival and (if plausible) revival
of OTR.  Alternatively, any commuters who listen to OTR in their cars would
also be good. 

I think the existance of OTR shelves in Barnes and Nobel and Borders proves
there is a strong interest in the material, but I need some personal stories
to convince the reporters.

Thanks in advance for any help the list can provide,

Sean Dougherty
Kubelski@[removed]
(201) 998-3539

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