Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #172
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 6/23/2006 10:02 AM
To: [removed]@[removed]

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 172
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  lum and abner movies                  [ Grams46@[removed] ]
  Re: Old Song Question                 [ "HARLAN ZINCK" <zharlan@[removed]; ]
  6-23 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  visualisation                         [ "Mike Hobart" <zines50@[removed]; ]
  This Saturday afternoon               [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  Crisco For Spry                       [ "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed] ]
  Independence Day Programs             [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
  Random Follow-Up [removed]          [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Stan Freberg to receive award         [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
  Soap opera queen dies                 [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:48:03 -0400
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  lum and abner movies

from the national lum and abner society website:
<The seven movies that Lum & Abner made are now available on video  for
$[removed] each. The movie titles are as  follows:

Dreaming Out  Loud     The Bashiful Bachelor     Two  Weeks to Live     So
This Is  Washington      Goin'  To  Town     Partners In Time     Lum &  Abner
Abroad

Order from:
Lum & Abner Associates
135  Circle Drive     Hot Springs, Arkansas 71901
e-mail  address :  clauck@[removed]
Website        :  [removed]>

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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:31:23 -0400
From: "HARLAN ZINCK" <zharlan@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Old Song Question

Ron Vickery writes:

One show I recorded (I've since lost the tape) had a song on it from "a
long time ago" (according to the good Dr.) entitled "I've Got A Cold In My
Nose". The only reference I can find on the internet sent me to two sites
(IMDB and the Big Cartoon Database) listing it as being sung by Betty Boop
(Mae Questel) in a cartoon called Betty Boop's Ker-Choo from 1933. According
to these sites, it was written by Scott Bradley, with lyrics by Joseph
Hanna.  However, the version I remember didn't sound like Betty Boop to me
(however, my memory may be wrong).

This song was, I believe, first introduced on stage by Fanny Brice and may
well have been recorded by her as well. (Dr. Demento's collection of 78s has
always been impressive, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was the
version he played.) The song was also performed by Barbra Streisand in the
Brice bio-pic "Funny Lady" (1975), which was a sequel to "Funny Girl"
(1968). Her performance is on the soundtrack album for the film, which
should make it fairly easy to find.

Harlan Zinck
First Generation Radio Archives
[removed]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:31:32 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-23 births/deaths

June 23rd births

06-23-1876 - Irvin S. Cobb - Paducah, KY - d. 3-10-1944
humorist: "Gulf Show"; "Paducah Plantation"
06-23-1894 - King Edward VIII - Richmond Park, England - d. 5-28-1972
king, ex-king, duke: Abdication Speech for the "woman" he loved
06-23-1894 - Laurie York Erskine - England - d. 11-30-1976
author: "Renfrew of the Mounted"; "Adventure Story"; "National
Children's Week"
06-23-1895 - Pick Malone - nr. Dallas, TX - d. 1-22-1962
comedian:"Show Boat"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
06-23-1907 - Eddie Pola - NYC - d. 11-3-1995
director: "Blondie"
06-23-1908 - Erik Barnouw - The Netherlands - d. 7-19-2001
radio historian/author: "A Tower of Babel"; "The Golden Web"; "The
Image Empire"
06-23-1908 - Mary Livingston - Vancouver, Canada - d. 6-30-1983
comedienne: (wife of Jack Benny) "Jack Benny Program"
06-23-1910 - Edward P. Morgan - Walla Walla, WA - d. 1-27-1993
newscaster: "News and Commentary"
06-23-1910 - Milt Hinton - Vicksburg, MS - d. 12-19-2000
jazz bassist: "Town Hall Concert"; "Monsanto Night: Benny Goodman"
06-23-1911 - Eddie Miller - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-1-1991
saxaphone: "The Bob Crosby Show"
06-23-1912 - John Milton Kennedy - Farrell, PA
announcer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Tidbit Revue"
06-23-1914 - Nat Hiken - Chicago, IL - d. 12-7-1968
creator, director, writer: "Magnificent Montague"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
06-23-1917 - Norman Rose - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-12-2004
narrator: "Dimension X"
06-23-1922 - Rolland Morris - d. 5-14-1986
actor: "Dramas of Youth"
06-23-1922 - Rusty Morris - Colorado - d. 5-14-1986
actor: "Halls of Ivy"; "Mayor of the Town"; "This Is Your FBI"
06-23-1925 - Larry Blyden - Houston, TX - d. 5-6-1975
actor: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Cavalcade of America"
06-23-1929 - June Carter Cash - Maces Spring, VA - d. 5-15-2003
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
06-23-1943 - James Levine - Cincinnati, OH
conductor: "The Metropolitan Opera"

June 23rd deaths

03-25-1897 - John Laurie - Dumfries, Scotland - d. 6-23-1980
actor: James Fraser "Dad's Army"
04-30-1925 - Corinne Calvert - Paris, France - d. 6-23-2001
actor: "Martin and Lewis Show"
05-17-1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan - Boyle, Ireland - d. 6-23-1998
actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"; "Family Theatre"
06-21-1880 - Mary Young - d. 6-23-1971
actor: Lily "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"
07-07-1907 - Elton Britt - Marshall, AR - d. 6-23-1972
singer: "Tennessee Jed"
08-28-1891 - Stanley Andrews - Chicago, IL - d. 6-23-1969
actor: Daddy Warbucks "Little Orphan Annie"
09-26-1893 - Fay Holden - Birmingham, England - d. 6-23-1973
actor: Mrs. Hardy "The Hardy Family"
09-29-1895 - Colonel Roscoe Turner - d. 6-23-1970
host, narrator: "Sky Blazers"
10-06-1925 - Shana Alexander - NYC - d. 6-23-2005
writer and commentary
11-16-1895 - Michael Arlen - Rustchuk, Bulgaria - d. 6-23-1956
creator: "The Falcon"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Home state of Sterling North
Edgerton, Wisconsin

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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:27:45 -0400
From: "Mike Hobart" <zines50@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  visualisation

On the subject of what we "see" while we're listening to a radio drama --  I
was startled once when listening to an old Australian serial in which the
hero was a dashing man about town, and a policeman in the story described
him to a third party as wearing "a blue pin-strip suit and brown suede
shoes".      Not my image of the hero at all!

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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:22:30 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  This Saturday afternoon

30 MINUTES TO CURTAIN's next program of radio re-creations LIVE ON STAGE
will take place on Saturday, June 24, 2006 at 2 pm. We have changed our
usual Friday evening performance time to Saturday afternoon so that those
who do not wish to drive at night will also be able to attend. The program
will include recreations of THE FAT MAN program, starring Sy Prescott as the
Fat Man Brad Runyun and an episode of COLUMBIA WORKSHOP fantasy entitled
"John Whiffle Concentrates" featuring Dave Smith and Barbara Watkins (who
also directs both shows), supported by the talented members of the 30
Minutes to Curtain company, plus singing commercials and comedy bits. Join
the cast for complimentary light refreshments after the show. Admission is
$[removed] per person at the door. Visit our website at
[removed] for the latest information.

The location is First Southern Baptist Church, 13261 Glenoaks Blvd., Sylmar,
CA 91342-3930. The city of Sylmar is north of Northridge and northwest of
the city of San Fernando. Going west on the 210 freeway, get off at Polk St.
and go south to Glenoaks Blvd., turn right, and after passing Tyler St. look
for the church on the left side of the street. Coming north on the 405 or 5
freeway, after they join up, get off at Roxford St., go north to Glenoaks
and turn right, and after passing Bledsoe St. look for the church on your
right. Turn in the driveway and go to the parking lot in back. The
performance room is the building on the left. See [removed]
for directions from your location. HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE!

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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:07:07 -0400
From: "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Crisco For Spry

Melanie Aultman wrote

Today someone asked me ( in the context of cookbooks) if I knew what Spry
was.  I said I did (thanks to OTR).  Turns out she had an old cookbook and
didn't think she could complete the recipe because she wasn't familiar
with
Spry.  I have printed a page from the internet about Spry's sponsorship of
Aunt Jenny for her.

I assume that if the old recipe says Spry, you can simple substitute Crisco,
which is still available. I don't think Spry is around anymore. Or is it?
Anyway, who wants to live so nutritionally dangerously as to want all that
hydrogenated fat?

Stuart

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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:09:57 -0400
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Independence Day Programs

Hi,

	I was told that someone wanted to know what programs had
Independence Day themes.  I have included below a list taken from our
database that I have verified carry that theme.  I'm sure there are probably
many more, but these are all that I have been able to verify.  If any of you
know of any others, please let me know so I may tag those programs in our
database.

	Take care,

		Jerry

    Series: ADVENTURE AHEAD ... NBC   SUSTAINING
 82663A     5 09-09-44  :29:00 E   "A TOOTH FOR PAUL REVERE"

    Series: ALEC TEMPLETON SHOW ... NBC  JOHNSON'S WAX
 83938A     1 07-04-39  :28:40 VG+ "YOUR A GRAND OLD FLAG"

    Series: ANTHOLOGY ... NBC   SUSTAINED      Sundays 3:00 - 3:30 pm
 84003A    18 07-04-54  :28:30 E   "SPECIAL JULY 4TH EDITION"

    Series: AVALON TIME ... NBC-RED  AVALON CIG  STARS: Red Skelton,
 84158B    27 07-08-39  :30:00 E   "FOURTH OF JULY PICNIC"

    Series: THE BEATRICE KAYE SHOW ... MUTUAL   SUSTAINING
 95085B     1 07-03-46  :29:30 E-  "WET PICNIC"

    Series: BELIEVE IT OR NOT ... NBC  General Foods
 51266B    50 07-05-38  :29:30 E   "INDEPENDENCE DAY IN JULY"

    Series: THE BIG STORY ...
          201 02-14-51  :30:00 OK  "INCIDENT ON THE FOURTH OF JULY"

    Series: CALLING ALL CARS ... CBS   RIO GRANDE GAS COMPANY
 81406B    32 07-04-34  :28:00 E   "JULY FOURTH, 1934"

    Series: CAVALCADE OF AMERICA ... NBC     DU PONT
 96001B    63 12-30-36  :30:00 VG+ "YANKEE INDEPENDENCE"
 96065A   278 05-11-42  :30:00 E-  "A TOOTH FOR PAUL REVERE"
 96080B   338 07-05-43  :30:00 EX  "LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE"

    Series: THE CHARLIE MCCARTHY SHOW ... "THE CHASE AND SANBORN HOUR"
 97566     61 07-03-38 1:00:00 OK  "GUEST: MARIAM HOPKINS"

    Series: COLUMBIA WORKSHOP ... CBS   SUSTAINED       Series 1   1936-1939
 89723B    97 07-02-38  :30:00 E   "CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES"
 89814A    17 07-04-44  :29:50 E-  "HOME FOR THE FOURTH"

    Series: THE CONNEE BOSWELL SHOW ... BLUE NETWORK  SUSTAINED
 50907A    26 07-05-44  :30:00 EX  "FOURTH OF JULY PICNIC"

    Series: DEATH VALLEY DAYS ... NBC BLIE   PACIFIC COAST BORAX COMPANY
           92 07-04-32         OK  "FOURTH OF JULY IN A MINING CAMP"
          502 06-29-40         OK  "CALIFORNIA'S FIRST 4TH OF JULY
CELEBRATION"

    Series: DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA ... NBC   SUSTAINED
 86651A     3 01-31-62  :28:50 EX  "THE 4TH OF JULY IN ALBANY 1831"

    Series: DOUBLE OR NOTHING ... MUTUAL  FEEN-A-MINT
 50816B       07-03-42  :29:20 VG+ "GUEST: PAT ROONEY"

    Series: DR. CHRISTIAN ... CBS   VASELINE
 C1       136 07-02-41  :25:00 OK  "THE GLORIOUS FOURTH"

    Series: ESCAPE ... CBS   SUSTAINING (Except where noted)
 80583A    45 07-04-48  :29:30 E   "A TOOTH FOR PAUL REVERE"

    Series: FATHER KNOWS BEST ... NBC   GENERAL FOODS
 86958A    88 07-05-51  :30:00 EX  "MEANING OF FREEDOMS"

    Series: FIBBER MCGEE & MOLLY ... NBC   GENERAL MILLS
         1514 08-31-58  :05:00 OK  "FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION"

    Series: THE FREEDOM STORY ...
 83923B    25 07-04-54  :14:40 EX  "THE LIBERTY BOOK"

    Series: THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE ... NBC   KRAFT
 81624A   214 06-09-46  :30:00 EX  "FLASHBACK - JOLLY BOYS 4TH OF JULY
PICNIC"
 81740B   451 07-02-52  :30:00 EX  "FOURTH OF JULY SPEECH"

    Series: IN THE NAME OF THE LAW ... SYNDICATED SERIES
 87388A     5 06-28-36  :25:20 E-  "JULY FOURTH PICNIC"

    Series: INHERITANCE ... NBC   AMERICAN LEGION    Sundays 4:30 - 5:00 pm
 97738B    13 07-04-54  :29:20 E   "PROCLAIM LIBERTY"

    Series: THE JACK BENNY SHOW ... NBC BLUE - 16 STATIONS
           19 07-04-32  :30:00 OK  "JULY 4TH PROGRAM"

    Series: LIFE WITH LUIGI ... CBS      WRIGLEY'S GUM
 98974B    41 07-03-49  :30:00 E   "THE FOURTH OF JULY PARADE"
 99000A    94 07-04-50  :30:00 E   "JULY 4TH PARADE"
 99022A   140 07-03-51  :30:00 E   "FOURTH OF JULY PARADE"

    Series: LIVING 1948 ... NBC   SUSTAINING      Sundays at various times
 87942A    19 07-04-48  :25:00 VG+ "AMERICAN SELF PORTRAIT - 1948"

    Series: LIVING 1949 ... NBC   SUSTAINING      Sundays at various times
 87965B    25 07-04-49  :25:00 VG+ "THE BIGGEST FIRECRACKER IN THE WORLD"

    Series: LUM & ABNER ...
 91878B1  855 07-04-45  :15:00 E-  "FOURTH OF JULY PICNIC"

    Series: THE MAGNIFICENT MONTAGUE ... NBC   SUSTAINING
 88042A    34 06-30-51  :30:00 E-  "JULY FOURTH"

    Series: MEET THE MEEKS ... NBC    SUSTAINING TILL 11/8/47
           43 07-03-48  :29:30 OK  "ANNUAL COMPANY PICNIC"

    Series: MR. PRESIDENT ... ABC   SUSTAINED        Sundays 2:30 - 3:00 pm
 70082B   106 07-03-49  :29:30 E   "MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY"

    Series: NOTES FROM YOUR SOLDIERS NOTEBOOK ... HOST: BUDDY CLARK
 88743B1   29 07-01-43  :14:30 E   "GOOD 4TH OF JULY PROGRAM"

    Series: ON STAGE ... CBS
 88758B    26 07-02-53  :25:50 E   "THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE"

    Series: OUR MISS BROOKS ... CBS  COLGATE
 82398A    48 07-03-49  :29:50 E   "CONKLIN'S BLOOD PREASURE"

    Series: THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET ... NBC till 4-3-49 then CBS
           40 07-03-49         OK  "FOURTH OF JULY"

    Series: PAUL WHITEMAN PRESENTS ... NBC   CHASE AND SANBORN
 88843A     5 07-04-43  :29:50 E   "GUEST: ORIGINAL RHYTHM BOYS"

    Series: THE PHIL BAKER SHOW ... NBC BLUE   ARMOUR
 82047A       07-05-35  :28:00 VG+ "WHAT DID YOU DO OVER THE FOURTH?"

    Series: THE QUIZ KIDS ... NBC    ALKA-SELTZER
 98330B   420 07-04-48  :30:00 E-  "CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE DAY"

    Series: THE RADIO HALL OF FAME ... "THE PHILCO RADIO HALL OF FAME"
 90745     29 07-02-44  :60:00 E   "STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER"

    Series: THE RAILROAD HOUR ... ABC TILL 10/20/49 THEN NBC
71883B   248 06-29-53  :30:00 EX  "THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY"

    Series: TELL IT AGAIN ... CBS   SUSTAINING
90968       24 07-04-48  :30:00 OK  "MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY"
           69 07-02-49  :30:00 OK  "MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY"

    Series: THEATER OF ROMANCE ... CBS     COLGATE, HALO SHAMPOO
           53 07-03-45         OK  "MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY"

    Series: WORDS AT WAR ... NBC   COUNCIL ON BOOKS IN WAR TIME
85857A    53 07-04-44  :30:00 VG+ "WAR CRIMINALS AND PUNISHMENT"

    Series: YANKEE YARNS ... WBZ BOSTON
 222          07-01-51  :15:00 E-  "FOURTH OF JULY"

    Series: YOU ARE THERE ... CBS   SUSTAINED
 85971B    23 03-21-48  :29:30 OK  "PHILADELPHIA, JULY 4, 1776"
 85977B    37 07-04-48  :26:50 E-  "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE"
           90 07-09-50  :29:30 OK  "BOSTON TEA PARTY"

===================================

If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

     Jerry Haendiges

     Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
     The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
     Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:04:22 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Random Follow-Up [removed]
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TWO CENTS PLAIN:

Kermyt Anderson recently wrote about the "Stan [removed]" sketch in
which :

Queen Isabella, extolling the virtues of the New World,
when she uses the phrase "with purple mountain majesties above the two
cents plain". <snip>
I had never known what the phrase "two cents plain" meant. It took me
nearly 30 years to get the joke!

There's the Spike Jones version of the old favourite "Yes, We Have No
Bananas"
in which various members of Jones's City Slickers render the song via comic
dialects including Italian, upper-class British, and Yiddish. In the latter
verse,
the Jewish store proprietor singing about not having bananans does offer
"We have delicious knishes and kosher champagne//the  kosher champagne is
'two cents plain.'" I'm not sure which Slicker sang this. My guess would be
Joel Grey's father Mickey Katz, but I'd probably be wrong. Maybe there's a
"young" Spike Jones expert here in the ether who might shed some light
hereupon.

YOU KNOW YOU'RE TOO IMMERSED IN THE OTR HOBBY [removed]

...you mishear things in an OTR vein.

When Martin Grams was in town ([removed], NYC) a couple of weeks ago, he & I were
talking,
at one point, about a portable DVD player he owned, in which he referred to
the
"jacks in  back" of said device. I said, "Oh, 'jacks in the back.'  For a
moment, I thought
you said 'Jackson Beck.'"

SPEAKING, somewhat, OF "SUPERMAN"...

I saw a review of the new "Superman Returns" movie in the current issue (June
19-25, 2006)
of "Variety," and fans of the old 1950s TV version will be pleased to know
that both
Jack "Jimmy Olsen" Larson and Noel "Lois Lane" Neill have small parts in which
they
play, respectively, "Bo the Bartender" and "Gertrude Vanderworth." Honestly,
when I had
heard last year about Frank Langella playing Perry White, I was a bit
skeptical --until I saw
him play CBS prez William Paley in the Murrow film. Other veterans in the cast
include James
Karen (the guy who used to do the Pathmark supermarket TV ads a lifetime ago
here in NYC),
Eva Marie Saint as  Martha/Ma Kent, and leftover footage from the first two
1970s Superman
movies of Marlon Brando as Jor-El.  How do you like that? Mr. Brando and Ms.
Saint from "On
the Waterfront" are finally in another movie [removed] Brando's been dead
for two years!

That's about the size of it--

(Hon.) Derek Tague

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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:01:38 -0400
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Stan Freberg to receive award

Mark Evanier posted on his website
([removed]#011661) a link to a
story ([removed])
mentioning that Stan Freberg will receive the 2006 Governors Award from
the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in August.

Kermyt

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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:02:56 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Soap opera queen dies

Another of our last living links with radio soap opera, one
of the legends of the form, has died.  Vivian Smolen, the
heroine of CBS's Our Gal Sunday in its last 13 years on the
air (1946-59), and the equally beleaguered Laurel "Lolly
Baby" Grosvenor, daughter of NBC's Stella Dallas (ca. mid
1940s-1955), passed at 90 on June 11 in Lake Worth, Fla.  I
am indebted to Irene Heinstein for sharing this with me.

Vivian was born to a couple of immigrants in New York City
in early 1916.  Her mom hailed from Austria, her dad from
Russia.  He was a musician but -- by the time she was making
a serious living in radio -- she, their only child, had
become the primary caregiver to her aging parents and still
lived with them.  Meanwhile, after getting a start on the
Children's Hour on WJZ as a youngster, Vivian grew up with
radio.  By 1939 she landed a part on CBS's Doc Barclay's
Daughters.  She was a regular at the same web's Stage Door
Canteen (1942-45).  In addition to the other soap opera work
she won, she gained a spot on NBC's Front Page Farrell
and -- for much of the run of Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost
Persons -- between 1946-55 she turned up frequently as a
victim, suspect or murderer in those weekly installments.

Less than a month before her last series (Our Gal Sunday)
was canceled on Jan. 2, 1959, at 42 Vivian found personal
happiness as she wed Harold Klein, a film executive at ABC,
later with Plitt Theaters.  They lived in Chicago for a
while before retiring in the Palm Beach area in the 1980s.
She revealed a good bit of information to me about life as a
soap opera queen, with some important insights about her
time in the Hummert organization that I never would have
gotten anywhere else.  She was a modest woman and never
played up her own accomplishments.

Regrettably, Vivian was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in the
late 1990s.  It was a slow, insidious disease that seemed to
leave her memory clear from many years ago, yet had a
devastating effect on short-term power.  After Harold died
in May 2001 her world literally collapsed.  Having no
children, no parents and no siblings, and only some distant
relatives of Harold, she felt exceedingly alone.  She told
me that he had made "provisions" so she would be adequately
cared for the rest of her life -- there was a paid person to
fix her meals at their condo, make purchases, do the
cleaning, pay her bills, keep her checkbook balanced,
etc. -- but she felt very alone and sad.  The last time we
talked, she cried throughout the hour we were on the phone.
A couple or three years ago I asked readers of the digest
who cared to communicate with her.  A few thanked me and
said they were doing that.  I felt it was important that
somebody let her know her radio contributions were still
meaningful to some of us.

Apparently there were few who knew of her passing, or even
knew who she was, when she died last week.  Without checking
I believe that there may now be just one such legend still
living -- a soap opera queen of a major radio series who was
the sole heroine for a durable period of time (not shows
where several women played major roles simultaneously).
That would be Teri Keane, The Second Mrs. Burton.  While I
can't say that unequivocally, I think that may be right.
Teri, now 80, could be with us for a while, I am hopeful.
She often appears at the Newark events.  Ironically, she
presided over the very last daytime serial chronologically
to leave the air on the fateful day it all died, Nov. 25,
1960.

Jim Cox

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