Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #377
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 12/8/2005 10:18 AM
To: [removed]@[removed]

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 377
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  re: Wally Cox                         [ benohmart@[removed] ]
  re:Former Johnny Dollar Actors        [ "John Abbott" <mraastro@[removed] ]
  Former Johnny Dollar Actors           [ [removed]@[removed] ]
  Re: "The Big Show"/"Martin and Lewis  [ "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@ea ]
  George Walsh                          [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Valuing Memories                      [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
  In Today's News                       [ seandd@[removed] ]
  Jack Benny stamp                      [ Alan Bell <alanlinda43@[removed]; ]
  Radio Shows Broadcast                 [ Joseph McGuire <josephm@[removed]; ]
  Christmas series                      [ Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@yahoo ]
  Wally Cox                             [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  12-8 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:55:29 -0500
From: benohmart@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re: Wally Cox

I'm HAPPY to report that there will be a full biography of Wally Cox (including lots of 
great stories about Marlon Brando) out in early 2007 from BearManor Media. The man 
was a Real character.

Ben Ohmart

Old radio. Old movies. New books.
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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:56:00 -0500
From: "John Abbott" <mraastro@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re:Former Johnny Dollar Actors

Unfortunately for all of us, all of the actors who portrayed Johnny Dollar
have passed away.

John C. Abbott

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:56:11 -0500
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Former Johnny Dollar Actors
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According to [removed], both actors are deceased; Kramer-1989 anad Readick
in 1985.  Note, howeverm that the Readick name was listed under
"Harrigan's Kid", a 1943 picture as "Bobby Readick"

liability
partnership.

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:56:41 -0500
From: "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: "The Big Show"/"Martin and Lewis"

Kenneth Clarke wrote:

There's a book in stores now titled, "Dean and Me" by Jerry Lewis.
It chronicles their time together from their days performing in various
clubs, their radio show ("Martin and Lewis") and even "My Friend Irma",
movies, and television.

Well, yes and no.  As I wrote in a review for [removed], about the only
thing that Jerry says about the team's radio career is that they had one.  In
fact, there's a factual error - he mentions in passing that their radio show
was going strong in the fall of 1950, when in fact it had left the air in
January of that year (when their initial contract with NBC expired).  They
would return to radio in the fall of 1951 with a much better series that
utilized the writers (and some of the material) from their TV show, "The
Colgate Comedy Hour."

Kenneth is correct that the book details the events leading up to and causing
the team's breakup, and that Jerry is reasonably honest and not a little
contrite about the part he played in his and Dean's 20+ year feud.  Overall,
it's a worthwhile read for Martin & Lewis fans.

Michael

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:00:16 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  George Walsh

George Walsh, who defied the odds to move with "Gunsmoke" from radio to
television, died Monday, Dec. 5 of heart failure.  He was 88.

He was a true veteran of broadcast announcing, introducing "Gunsmoke" for a
decade on radio and two decades on television.  He turned up several other
places on network radio like "Cathy and Elliott Lewis On Stage" in the 1950s
and will be remembered as the guy whose basso profundo acknowledged, almost
in trembling style:  "And [removed] tale [removed]
keep you in Suspense!"

KNX offered him a part time job as vacation relief at $100 weekly in 1952.
Walsh stayed 34 years and continued phoning in stories to KNX from his
Monterey Park home long after he retired in 1986.

Services will be held Dec. 12 at 10 [removed] at Alhambra's Turner & Stevens
Mortuary.

Jim Cox

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 15:42:21 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Valuing Memories

Dan Hughes, commenting on why some antique items should be cleaned and
others aren't. notes,

Any coin collector will tell you that shining up an
old coin totally destroys its value, and the same is
probably true for collectible badges.  Whereas a
machine with moving parts can be restored
and most (probably not all) collectors would pay a
premium price, I'm afraid a decoder wheel or badge
or other item with non-moving parts would
lose value if subjected to a cleaning.

Interestingly, many "badge" premiums and certainly most "decoders" had
moving parts.  The vast majority of cryptological ("decoder") premiums
had at least the moving disk element.  The Tom Mix Dobie County Siren
Sheriff Badge had a siren spinner, the Davy Adams Shipmates Club Secret
Compartment Badge had a "dial" to open the secret compartment, etc.

If a "decoder" is so corroded that one cannot make out the letters or
numbers, then I suspect one is trading "value" for functionality.
Someone sent me a 1931 Mystery Dial Code-O-Graph that was so corroded as
to be unreadable.  It took me significant work to remove corrosion to the
point the cipher key numbers on the back could be discerned.  Without my
doing that, the premium couldn't have been used as designed.

The beginning of the thread, I was speaking of an item that was so
corroded that in its state, the corrosion obscured its features.  Now,
philosophically, if the thing is so bad off that its details are hard to
discern, then what value has it?

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:28:01 -0500
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  In Today's News

Coverage of the Jack Benny stamp campaign in Michigan here - 

[removed];coll=6

A remembrance of WWII from the Sacremento Bee that is actually quite articulate on the issue of WWII-era race relations and how they should be viewed in a modern context:

[removed]

I've posted before on stupid it is to judge yesterday's programs by today's standards and in particular at how ridiculous it is to criticize our grandparents for directing invective at the Japanese considering the atrocities their army routinely committed during the war (the people who brought you Pearl Harbor and the Bataan death march deserve no quarter from editorial cartoonists, opinion writers or anyone else).  This article gives a much more smooth-edged explanation of my viewpoint.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:28:22 -0500
From: Alan Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jack Benny stamp

And the Laura Leff--Jack Benny--39-cent-stamp public
relations juggernaut rolls on . . . 

. . . most recently in a locally-written article from
her (former) home town paper, the Grand Rapids Press.

[removed];coll=6

Alan

_________________
Alan/Linda Bell
Grand Rapids, MI

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:28:48 -0500
From: Joseph McGuire <josephm@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio Shows Broadcast

The public radio station that I volunteer at is broadcasting some OTR,
Modern Radio Drama and a recreation drama.

The recreation is an on going project from KGNU in Boulder, CO.
Destination Freedom. I thinks it is pretty good. The acting is
acceptable. Though is is done in an auditorium with a slight echo.

SueMedia's Radio Works. This is a sampling of MDR from the country. The
acting on these are relatively amateurish. At least it's radio drama.

And couple of OTR shows with some commentary.

Go to [removed] and click on the listen button. The show is
on Saturday 11:00 [removed] - 1:00 [removed] PST.

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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:12:29 -0500
From: Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Christmas series

For the first time, instead of listening in large
chunks, I'm listening to Christmas serials one day at
a time until XMAS eve.  The First Gen people did a
superb job with the Cinnamon Bear, even better than my
transcription set (which is in a raw form).  It's a
real pleasure to listen to.

Of the lesser series, I think I like "Johnathan Thomas
and His Christmas on the Moon" the best.  Jump Jump
has it's charm, but it's no Cinnamon Bear.  It would
be interesting to see on a radio schedule of the time
if competing stations played CB/Johnathan
Thomas/Christmastree Grove at the same time.  I'm
guessing that all but the Cinnamon Bear had been
retired by the time Jump Jump was made.

Can you believe what some Welles Shadows went on ebay?
 $929 for 4 eps.  If I were the greedy sort, I'd sell
mine, lol.  The most I ever paid for a disc was $210
and that was a Shadow, and that was too much. This
might sound strange to people, but I don't like the
Welles Shadows at all, I like the 1940-8 ones the best.

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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:31:16 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Wally Cox

Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:22:00 -0500
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]

12-06-1924 - Wally Cox - Detroit, MI - d. 2-15-1973
comedian: "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Wally Cox Show"

Does anyone have any more info on "The Wally Cox Show," format,
sponsor, when it ran, episode availability, [removed]
 
The 1980 edition of "Total Television" by Alex McNeil, doesn't list a show under that name, 
and I doubt it existed.  Wally Cox starred in two network shows in the 1950s.  The first was 
"Mr. Peepers," which ran on NBC from 1 July 1952 to 12 June 1955.  Cox played Mr. 
Peepers, a science teacher at Jefferson Junior High.  Tony Randall, in what may have been 
his first TV role, played Peepers' friend, Harvey Weskitt, the history teacher (Total Television 
says he was the English teacher, but that's wrong), and Marion Lorne as Mrs. Gurney, the 
English teacher, who continued to appear in that character from time to time on the Perry 
Como Show.  It was a live show, and the only reruns available would be kinescopes.  The 
show pulled one of the largest audiences in television history to date the night Mr. Peepers 
married the school nurse, Nancy Remington, played by Pat Benoit.

Cox returned to star in a second series, "The Adventures of Hiram Holliday," which ran on 
NBC from 3 October 1956 to 27 February 1957.  Cox played Hiram Holliday, a newspaper 
proofreader who was rewarded with a trip around the world by his employer, when he 
removed a misplaced comma, thereby preventing a major lawsuit against his paper.  The 
stories tended to involve mild-mannered Holliday unintentionally in international intrige.  This 
one was filmed, and I've seen at least one episode for sale somewhere on video.

-- A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed] 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax [removed] Boston, MA 02108-2503 [removed] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:24:10 -0500 From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: 12-8 births/deaths December 8th births 12-08-1888 - Raymond Lawrence - Bedford Square, England - d. 3-28-1976 actor: "Escape"; "The Halls of Ivy"; "Pursuit" 12-08-1891 - Percy Crosby - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-8-1964 "Skippy" a juvenile serial was based on Crosby's comic strip 12-08-1894 - James Thurber - Columbus, OH - d. 11-2-1961 writer: "This Is My Best" 12-08-1904 - George Stevens - Oakland, CA - d. 3-8-1975 film director: "Lux Radio Theatre" 12-08-1906 - Richard Llewellyn - St. David's, Wales - d. 11-30-1983 author: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "NBC University Theatre" 12-08-1907 - Frank Faylen - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-2-1985 actor: "Screen Guild Theatre" 12-08-1910 - Ruth Matteson - San Jose, CA - d. 2-5-1975 actress: Nicole Scott "Against the Storm" 12-08-1911 - Lee J. Cobb - New York, NY - d. 2-11-1976 actor: the tailgunner "Roosty of the AAF"; "Citizen of the World"; "Hollywood Startime" 12-08-1914 - Mary Patton - Minnesota - d. 11-8-1982 actress: Marie Martel "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Lila North "Fat Man" 12-08-1915 - Ernest Lehman - New York, NY - d. 7-5-2005 writer: "Forecast" 12-08-1928 - Jimmy Smith - Norristown, PA - d. 2-8-2005 jazz organist: Won a radio talent contest in Philadelphia at the age of 9 December 8th deaths 01-31-1917 - Fay Baker - New York, NY - d. 12-8-1987 actress: "Words at War" 02-11-1882 - John H. Mills - Bellfonte, PA - d. 12-8-1967 singer: (Father of the Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette" 03-02-1914 - Martin Ritt - New York, NY - d. 12-8-1990 film director, teacher: "Coming Home" 03-03-1924 - Cathy Downs - Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY - d. 12-8-1976 actress: "Your Movietown Radio Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Mail Call" 05-04-1903 - Luther Adler - New York, NY - d. 12-8-1984 actor: Peter Gentle "Mystery Without Murder"; "Greatest Story Ever Told (1938-39)" 07-15-1893 - William Dieterle - Rhein-Palatinate, Germany - d. 12-8-1972 movie director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse" 09-13-1900 - Gladys George - Patton, ME - d. 12-8-1954 actress: "Lincoln Highway" 09-26-1925 - Marty Robbins - Glendale, AZ - d. 12-8-1982 country/western singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Style [removed]"; "Big Sound" 10-09-1929 - Harry Harvey - Florida - d. 12-8-1978 actor: Oogie Pringle "A Date with Judy" 12-08-1891 - Percy Crosby - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-8-1964 "Skippy" a juvenile serial was based on Crosby's comic strip -- Ron Sayles Milwaukee, Wisconsin -------------------------------- End of [removed] Digest V2005 Issue #377 ********************************************* Copyright [removed] Communications, York, PA; All Rights Reserved, including republication in any form. If you enjoy this list, please consider financially supporting it: [removed] For Help: [removed]@[removed] To Unsubscribe: [removed]@[removed] To Subscribe: [removed]@[removed] or see [removed] For Help with the Archive Server, send the command ARCHIVE HELP in the SUBJECT of a message to [removed]@[removed] To contact the listmaster, mail to listmaster@[removed] To Send Mail to the list, simply send to [removed]@[removed]