Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #396
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 10/8/2002 9:06 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2002 : Issue 396
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Jacob Tarshish - The Lamplighter      [ "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed]; ]
  Gene Twombly / KEHE                   [ BryanH362@[removed] ]
  FRANK SINATRA~~U S STEEL HOUR         [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
  More Godfrey                          [ "rcg" <revrcg@[removed]; ]
  Doorway to Life                       [ Harry Bartell <bartell@[removed] ]
  F&M SOUND EFFECTS MAN                 [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
  House of Mystery                      [ RICFAS@[removed] ]
  Superman on Radio                     [ "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed]; ]
  Who killed radio                      [ ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Fun ]
  Doc Savage                            [ marklambert@[removed] ]
  TUNE IN Magazine                      [ SacChief@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 11:35:26 +0000
From: "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jacob Tarshish - The Lamplighter

Elizabeth asked:
does anyone know of a collection housing the papers of Jacob Tarshish? He 
was a liberal/Reform rabbi based inOhio, who broadcast regularly over WLW 
and later Mutual for much of the
1930s, usually under the title "The Lamplighter." I'm specifically looking 
for a printed transcript of his
1/13/35 broadcast, devoted to a summary of the moral lessons taught in 
"Amos 'n' Andy." Anyone out there happen to have a copy of this pamphlet?
I'm not sure if it ever showed up in one of his hardcover collections,but 
it was definitely issued in booklet form.

Elizabeth:
  Some (probably remote) possiblities:
  The most intriguing item I found in the OCLC database
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  was a three volume set [removed], something, called:

_"The lamplighter" : broadcast over stations WOR, WLW, and
WGN, 1935-37_ .
Author:  Tarshish, Jacob.
Description: 3 v.

Located only at:
University of Iowa Library
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  No details as to what's _in_ those three volumes (scripts, I assume) but 
an online catalog search there reveals it's stored in
Special Collections, as part of the Bollinger Lincoln Collection at the 
University.
  I doubt this title will be up for interlibrary loaning, but its OCLC id 
number (used when contacting your library to ask them to ILL 
something)  is:  41396010
  You can go ahead and contact the library staff about it, via e-mail, to 
see if you can get them to pull the volumes, and contact you back with more 
information on their contents by going to:
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Two book collections, narrowed down via publication dates that make them a 
possibility (could not
find any listings of their contents) are:
[1]
Jacob Tarshish's _Little journeys with The Lamplighter_
(F. J. Heer, 1936 / 128 pages / "second in a series")
OCLC identification number:  9262556
Libraries owning it include:
AL's Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
CA's Glendale Public Library
CO's Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
LA's Louisiana State Library
NY's Jewish Theological Seminary
OH's Trinity Lutheran Seminary
and the Library of Congress
[2]
Jacob Tarshish's _Prelude to Happiness _
(F. J. Heer, 1937 / 108 pages / "contains 25 of his most wanted talks")
OCLC identification number:  3857750
Libraries owning it -
AL's Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
CA's Loma Linda University
CA's Univ. of San Diego
IL's Western Illinois Univ.
NC's Winston-Salem State University
NY's NYPL's Research Library
OH's Capital University
OH's Historical Society
OH's Trinity Lutheran Seminary
and the Library of Congress.
  And [removed]
  the following got my attention:
OH's Hebrew Union College, in Cincinnati,
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has two sets of scripts for the series,
1939-40
and 1940-41, under the title,
_Scripts for Lamplighter sermons_
  Go to their online catalog, at:
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and do an Author Search.
  It'[removed] a long shot, but e-mailing their reference
dept. might reveal whether they have M-O-R-E sets
of scripts, perhaps filed away in folders, that weren't
ever offically cataloged.
  There's also the  -
Ohio Historical Society, as a longshot.
  Their online catalog
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  reveals some of the same book collections as above, and a 1993 one, _Half 
[removed], that's too early,
but [removed] [removed]
have uncataloged booklets of his broadcats, perhaps,too.
  Contact information for them is at:
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Jan Willis

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:00:37 +0000
From: BryanH362@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Gene Twombly /  KEHE

10-08-2002

To the one asking about Gene Twombly:

If my memory is correct was not Gene Twombly married to Bea Benadaret and 
passed away around 1968 just shortly after she died from Cancer?

Also Harry Bartell spoke of working at station KEHE in Los Angeles when it 
was part of the blue network . I don't recall this station . I remember 
station KECA  ( ECA for Earl C Anthony ) being the blue network outlet in 
LA.  Of Course KEHE could   have preceeded KEHE.

-Bryan

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:02:20 +0000
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  FRANK SINATRA~~U S STEEL HOUR

This was the title of the episode of a regular Sunday night show entitled
"House of Mystery".  This particular episode stared Frank Sinatra as
private
eye Donald Lam, Jeanne Cagney and Betty Garde.  It aired between ten and
eleven PM.  I am not aware that a copy of the show exists.

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       A DATE WITH SINATRA

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:03:11 +0000
From: "rcg" <revrcg@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  More Godfrey

Many thanks to Lee Munsick for his bountiful memories of Arthur Godfrey.
Also, thanks for reminding me that, to the very end, he did, indeed, attract
big name sponsors.

Godfrey was, indeed, a master salesman. His listeners and viewers really
believed in him. IMHO that kind of trust could only come from the wonderful
intimacy of radio, the way it once was.

I liked Godfrey very much and listened to his CBS Radio show when it was at
it's peak, running 90 minutes each weekday with that great cast of singers
and general all around "little Godfreys". Like many others, I do have very
mixed feelings about his off-air personna. There is little doubt that he was
somewhat of a benevolant despot who kept his troops in line with reminders
that "I made you and I can break you".

My beloved late wife Susan worked for CBS news in New York from 1985 until
her death in 1989. She was a young woman who had no personal recollections
of Godfrey. She was only 23 at the time of his death in 1983. She told me
that there were no pictures or other memorabilia to mark Godfrey's once long
career at CBS. The  few times that she even heard his name uttered were in a
most unflattering manner. She (and I) never could understand how anyone who
had done so much for the network could be so reviled and his memory so
tainted. Despite what Godfrey may have done in his later years, he deserved
better treatment from those who, like it or not, owe him so much.

BTW, one of the e-mail replies I received answering my post on finding
Godfrey's last show suggested that I try public libraries as a possible
source. BINGO, I remembered a library in another city in this state where I
had donated several books concerning OTR. I called them and they do have a
collection of Godfrey tapes which include the last show. I eagerly await
their arrival via US Mail. Thanks to all who replied.

Gunner

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:01:59 +0000
From: Harry Bartell <bartell@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Doorway to Life

alanladdsr  writes

 > I was listening to a show from a series called "Doorway to Life" and heard
 > Harry Bartell in the role of an "unfeeling husband." It was a sustaining CBS
 > series from 1947-48. Does he have any remembering from that series?

He remembers  Bill Robson directed the show  and that he daddied several
child actors including Norma Jean Nilson and Anne Whitfield among
[removed] later, he worked with both of them in re-creations at REPS
conventions in Seattle. He does not remember whether he was  always
"unfeeling".

Harry Bartell

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:54:59 +0000
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  F&M SOUND EFFECTS MAN

On 6/17/41 Fibber McGee & Molly celebrated the 10,000th radio show for
Billy Mills, who wrote The Sound Effects Man, sung by the Kings Men.

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       A DATE WITH SINATRA

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:56:48 +0000
From: RICFAS@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  House of Mystery

Any chance that a copy of the show dated Jun 23, 1946 might exist?  Please
advise,

Thank you,

Ric Ross

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:57:22 +0000
From: "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Superman on Radio

Recently there was a brief thread about the TV "Adventures of Superman," a 
subject on which I'm too well acquainted (actually, I was going to say "fed 
up to here").  While researching something else, I came across a surprising 
item.  In the June 1, 1949 issue of VARIETY, there was a brief article 
about how the radio "Superman" will be departing from the Mutual 
Broadcasting System any day now, and that producer Robert Maxwell was 
considering doing the show for television in the fall - provided he could 
find a believable Man of Steel.  Especially surprising was a brief comment 
that "Superman" had been a sustainer on the MBS all year.

Interesting that this blurb came in between the two "Superman" serials that 
Columbia's Sam Katzman produced.  The second serial, as most of you know, 
was based on the "Atom Man" scenario from the radio show.  Maxwell 
eventually did produce the TV show for its debut season, but that wasn't 
until the summer of 1951.

I'd like to know more about the radio show's last couple of years.  I'd 
always thought that the MBS and Kellogg's were there to the very end, even 
when it became a weekly half-hour in 1950-51.  Does Mr. Tollin, or anyone 
else, have the real story?

Michael

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:56:36 +0000
From: ArtsMilitaria@[removed] (Arthur Funk)
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Who killed radio

Leonard Fass wrote:

 > someone should write an analysis; those at npr who think they are in
 > radio are in something very different.  we need two [removed] radio in
 > its golden age(s) is not radio [removed] those who can't hear the
 > difference should visit a newspaper archive and check the schedules for
 > radio [removed] and there are no schedules for [removed] because radio does
 > not [removed]

Someone else made the point that radio is simply not the same as it was
in what we call the "golden age."  Radio has evolved.  I'd suggest that
using line of reasoning that Leonard uses, we don't have newspapers
anymore.  Newspapers are VERY different than they were years ago.  Like
the radio medium the newspaper medium has evolved.  We may not like the
result of the evolution, but there is no questioning that radio is at
least alive if not well.

Regards to all,
Art Funk

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:55:40 +0000
From: marklambert@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Doc Savage

"alanladdsr@[removed]" asked about the
availabilty of the 147-8 DOC SAVAGE radio
series.  As far as I know, it's not available
anywhere -- lots of us fans of the Man of Bronze
have been searching for copies for years.

A guy named Will Murray (who wrote the 1990s
Doc Savage novels) compiled Lester Dent's old
radio scripts and published them in a book or
two back in the late 70s, I think.  You'll find
them offered on e-bay every now and then.  Copies
of the original radio scripts are housed in the
Lester Dent Collection, which is located in the
Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the
University of Missouri in Columbia, MO.

--Mark
marklambert@[removed]
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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 23:00:03 +0000
From: SacChief@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  TUNE IN Magazine

Anyone out there remember a magazine which appeared in the early and mid 40's
called TUNE IN? I think it was a monthly, and each issue featured stories and
glossies of various programs. What ever happened to it?  bob keldgord

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