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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 492

Table Of Contents: 

	 Our Miss Brooks
	 Mary Tyler Moore and Our Miss Brooks
	 Lyricist Irving Caesar is dead
	 re: Ichat help
	 Self referential shows
	 Book
	 Happy Holidays to All
	 Single Career Women
	 Old-Time Radio isn'[removed]
	 Maltese Falcon

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 22:46:57 -0600
From: Sammy <rharris@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Our Miss Brooks
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Took a trip and was listenting to the sixty or so episodes of Our Miss
Brooks that I have ...gotta have more.

Does anyone know how many they made and a possible log with titles.  
Also would like to trade with anyone having [removed] about 8,000
various titles of otr,

Jack

Jack Harris

Harris Irrigation
Sprinkler Systems/Backflow Prevention

Harris Hobbies
Buy & Sell Telescopes/Computer Hardware & Software

Just Plain Hobbies
Video/Audio/Old Time Radio/Photography/Model Railroading/Flying
Hunting/Fishing/Traveling/  did I leave something out?? <G>


Check out the VISITING ASTROPHOTOGRAPHERS page!!
visit my Web site  [removed]
email: rharris@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:47:28 -0500 (EST)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Mary Tyler Moore and Our Miss Brooks
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> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 13:13:06 -0500 (EST)
> From: Elizabeth Thomsen <et@[removed]>
> To: otr@[removed]
> Subject: re: Self-referential sitcoms
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> Speaking of "breakthrough" programs, Mary Tyler Moore has been interviewed
> on TV and in magazines lately, because of her book, and they always
> mention how her show was the first to feature a single career woman.  What
> about "Our Miss Brooks" on both radio and TV?

Miss Brooks wasn't really a career woman.  She was hoping to land Mr.
Boynton, in which case she would undoubtedly have given up teaching as
soon as the first child was on the way.  Mary Richards had very different
priorities.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:17:37 -0600
From: Steven Lewis <lewis@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lyricist Irving Caesar is dead
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December 18, 1996

Irving Caesar, 101, Lyricist of Timeless Hits Like 'Tea for Two'

By RICHARD SEVERO


   NEW YORK -- Irving Caesar, the Tin Pan Alley lyricist who put words
to such enduring musical standards as "Tea for Two," "Swanee," "Is It
True What They Say About Dixie?" and "Sometimes I'm Happy," died Tuesday
at Mount Sinai Hospital. He was 101 and lived in Manhattan. 

   As the lyricist for more than 1,000 published songs, Caesar
collaborated on songs and Broadway shows with George Gershwin, Vincent
Youmans, Rudolf Friml, George M. Cohan and others. He was also a charter
member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and
was on its board in the 1960s. 

   Some of his songs became irrevocably linked to the performers who
first electrified audiences with them. It is almost impossible to think
of "Swanee," set to Gershwin's music, without also thinking of Al
Jolson's spirited rendition. Jolson also became closely identified with
"Is It True What They Say About Dixie?," which Caesar wrote in 1936 with
Sammy Lerner and Gerald Marks. 

   "Just a Gigolo," which Caesar wrote with Lionello Casucci, became one
of Bing Crosby's hit recordings in the early 1930s, and "Umbriago,"
written with Jimmy Durante, became a standard offering of Durante's in
the 1930s and remained one for the rest of his working life
("Umbriago/He could be mayor of New York or of Chicago"). 

   Other songs, like "Tea for Two," became successful vehicles for a
wide variety of artists over the years. 

   Caesar's many shows included "The Greenwich Village Follies,"
produced in 1924, on which he collaborated with Cole Porter, Lew Fields
and John Murray Anderson; "No No Nanette" (1925), with Harbach and
Vincent Youmans, and a few versions of "George White's Scandals," in the
1920's, for which White and Cliff Friend wrote the music. With Cohan he
created "Revue" in 1930. Some of his shows, most notably "No No
Nanette," were revived in New York and elsewhere over the years. 

   In the 1930s, he also wrote "Songs of Safety," which were sung by
thousands of schoolchildren and contained simple messages about behavior
and rules of safety. Among the popular tunes in that collection
memorized by generations of schoolchildren, were "Let The Ball Roll" and
"Ice Skating Is Nice Skating." 

   In the 1950s, he offered "Songs of Friendship," a portfolio of
lyrics, to the federal government to promote international good will.
The collection included "Thomas Jefferski," "Election Day" and "There's
Something About America." They were rejected by the government and the
New York City Board of Education, but were finally printed by the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. 

   Caesar was born July 4, 1895, in the Henry Street Settlement on the
Lower East Side of Manhattan, the son of Morris and Sofia Selinger
Caesar. His father had a secondhand bookstore in the neighborhood. At
the age of 6, shortly after he started public school, he wrote his first
poem: 

    I see the flowers free 
    And a little bird singing on a tree 
    It sings to me the whole day long 
    And I love to hear its pretty song. 

   Somehow, he never lost the simplicity of his childhood poems in the
lyrics he later wrote for the composers who created the standard
American repertory of popular music. It was his good-natured directness
in describing life that so endeared him to those who sang or listened to
his songs. 

   Thus, "Tea for Two" became a perfect girl-and-boy song: "Picture you
upon my knee/Just tea for two/And two for tea." Caesar said he wrote
that one to a Youmans tune in less than five minutes, although on
occasion he admitted it might have taken him as long as 15 minutes.
"Sometimes I write lousy, but always fast," he observed. 

   Another of his swift inspirations was the direct and unfettered,
"Sometimes I'm happy/Sometimes I'm blue/My disposition/Depends on you." 

   When he was just a boy, he bought his first piano for $5 and somehow
persuaded two men to lug it up the stairs to the Caesars' tenement flat.
After graduating from Townsend Harris High School, Caesar spent a year
at City College, pursuing a commercial course. 

   In 1915, he answered a newspaper advertisement and found himself
appointed secretary to Henry Ford's Peace Ship, whose ill-fated mission
was to try to stop the war that was engulfing Europe. 

   While on the mission, Caesar wrote little songs telling the Germans
to stop behaving so badly. He urged Ford to have the lyrics translated
into German and have them dropped into the trenches to sway the Kaiser's
troops. His scheme was not accepted. 

   At one point, while he was roaming around Tin Pan Alley trying to
interest someone -- anyone -- in his lyrics, he met George Gershwin at
Remick's, the music publisher. He returned to listen to Gershwin play
the piano and the two became collaborators and lifelong friends. Their
first published song was "You-oo Just You," which found its way into the
1918 show "Hitchy-Koo." Their biggest hit, however, was "Swanee." 

   According to Caesar, he and Gershwin were in Dinty Moore's Restaurant
in 1919 having lunch, and Caesar suggested that they write a perky
one-step in the style of "Hindustan," which was then all the rage. But
Caesar wanted to use an American locale, not something that was vaguely
Middle Eastern. 

   "Just like Stephen Foster did in 'Swanee River,' " Gershwin said. And
the two of them quickly agreed to create something. They got on a bus
bound for Gershwin's family home in Washington Heights, and by the time
they got there, they had most of the song worked out; it needed only a
bit of refining at Gershwin's piano. 

   The song was introduced soon thereafter at the Capitol Theater, where
60 chrous girls, electric bulbs affixed to their slippers, danced in the
dark to its rhythms. Despite this spectacular introduction, the song
received only lukewarm approval from the public and languished until it
was heard by Jolson, who introduced it at a concert one Sunday night at
the Winter Garden and brought down the house. Jolson then put the song
into a Sigmund Romberg musical called "Sinbad." It became enormously
popular, selling millions of copies of sheet music. 

   Caesar was as well known for his practical jokes as he was for his
way with a song. He loved to telephone his friends at 4 [removed] and say,
"I'll call you back in a couple of minutes." But sometimes his jokes
backfired. On one occasion, he went to a costume party dressed as Julius
Caesar. On the way home, he was stopped for speeding. 

   "What's your name?" a policeman demanded. 

   "Caesar," Caesar replied. 

   "Oh, a wise guy, huh?" the policeman replied, taking Caesar into
custody. Later, after his release, Caesar complained that although he
liked wearing a toga, "it hasn't got enough pockets for identification
papers." 

   As the years rolled by, Caesar held court in his spacious midtown
apartment surrounded by plaques, testimonial and other tributes
testifying to his stature as one of the last links to Tin Pan Alley. 

   By the 1960s, he found himself disaffected from the kind of music to
which Americans were listening. He complained that "good lyrics and
tunes are no longer wanted," that "we have a form of musical juvenile
delinquency abetted by adult delinquency." He was always ready, it
seemed, to burst into every verse of almost every song he himself had
written. 

   He is survived by his wife, Christina A. Ballesteros.

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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 05:38:15 -0600
From: Joe Mackey <wmackey@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: Ichat help
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> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 22:02:22 -0500
> From: "[removed]" <cdandrea@[removed]>
> Subject: iCHAT help!

> Can anyone that uses iChat ( a plugin for netscape) tell me what I need
  I use Netscape Personal Edition Gold [removed] with a Netscape Chat 32
plug-in.
  I have had the same problem as you.  I could never get connected to
any Starlink port but I could easily connect to a [removed] port, so I
know the program is working.
  Lois, bless her, suggested I try the Starlink home page
([removed]~jdavid/[removed]) where I was able
to find numerical connections.  Since this has been an extremely busy
time for me (about all I am able to do is read/reply to mail), I haven't
been able to try them.  But, if you have the time and could check them
[removed]  :)
  The Rochester port is: [removed]
  The Aspen port is: [removed]
  Roseburg: [removed]
  Miami: [removed]

  On a previous server I was able to connect with no problems, so I
don't know if a giltch in Netscape or what.  (The old server was DOS
only, with Telix).
  Joe

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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 07:47:25 -0500
From: DavidLHsl@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Self referential shows
Message-ID: <961220074724_1921436969@[removed]>

  Speaking of self-referential sitcoms, I just remembered a dandy.  It's at
the end of the 5/28/50 episode of "Our Miss Brooks."  All the characters are
gathered on the porch, when Steve Allen stops by.  Steve mentions that he
will be replacing Eve Arden for the summer.  The characters then discuss "Our
Miss Brooks" as if it was a completely separate program!  They even turn on
the radio to hear Eve Arden announce her summer replacement.  A very, very
clever show.

David Hassell
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 08:02:51 -0500
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Book
Message-ID: <961220080249_743356472@[removed]>

If you are interested in Perry Mason, Greenwood Publishing Group has just
published Perry Mason; The Authorship and Reproduction of a Popular Hero.  It
is written by J. Dennis Bounds, has 240 pages and is $55.  It covers Perry
Mason as depicted in novels, the movies, radio ( has a complete log) and
television.  Call 1-800-225-5800.

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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 96 08:29 CST
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Happy Holidays to All
Message-Id: <m0vb5x9-000jzmC@[removed]>

Hi there:

The Holiday season means a lot to me in terms of OTR, for it was 20 years
ago this season that my older brother gifted me with Murray Hill LP sets of
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and that wonderful set called Three
Hours, Fifty-Nine Minutes, Fifty-Four Seconds With the Marx Brothers - thus
shedding a lot of light on a world of which I was only dimly aware.  (He
also, as icing on the cake, gave me ceramic fireplace figures of Groucho
and Harpo, which I still keep in my living room.)

One of the shows in that Holmes set was "The Night Before Christmas, or,
Lou the Lisper," which I have always regarded (sentimentally) as one of the
best Xmas broadcasts, just because.

Anyway:  A most happy holiday season and New Year to all readers of this
Digest and to OTR enthusiasts everywhere.  Be careful, enjoy yourselves,
and be sure and listen to plenty of OTR if you get the chance.  (Bill
Pfeiffer - our prayers are with you.)

John


John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:35:17 -0500
From: Robert Kirk <kirk@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Single Career Women
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>Speaking of "breakthrough" programs, Mary Tyler Moore has been interviewed
>on TV and in magazines lately, because of her book, and they always
>mention how her show was the first to feature a single career woman.  What
>about "Our Miss Brooks" on both radio and TV?
>
>Elizabeth Thomsen
>
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Even she was a newcomer. What about:

Ma Perkins (ran a lumber yard; wasn't she a widow?)
Young Widder Brown
Stella Dallas (seamstress; and single mother, to boot)

Not too yuppie were those gals. No glamorous reporters or ad execs,
but more reflective of those who have to slug it out.

Bob Kirk

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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 10:31:40 -0500
From: bilj@[removed] (Bill Jaker)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Old-Time Radio isn'[removed]
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Old-time radio isn't dead, it's [removed]
        SOUND: Gunshots
        MUSIC: Organ sting
        OLD TIMER: (gasps) Don't worry, it's just a flesh wound.

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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 96 11:19:06 EST
From: amosborne@[removed] (Arlene M Osborne)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Maltese Falcon
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

In response to Joel Siegel's request, I have a copy of The Maltese
Falcon but Lauren Bacall isn't in it.  Mine stars Bogart and
Mary Astor.

Arlene Osborne



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