Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #260
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Date: 8/29/2005 8:10 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 260
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  8-28 birth/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Don Winslow                           [ "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed] ]
  Radio Phrases                         [ Brian Johnson <chyronop@[removed] ]
  NIGHTFALL Website                     [ ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen) ]
  LES PAUL                              [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
  Catch phrases                         [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Ed Gardner relatives                  [ Illoman <illoman@[removed]; ]
  Re: Margot Stevenson on TCM Sunday m  [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
  Radio catchphrases                    [ elizabeth@[removed] ]
  Candy Matson                          [ Michael Berger <makiju@[removed]; ]
  Mysterious Traveler Magazine returns  [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
  Les Paul, less hyphens                [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:24:43 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-28 birth/deaths

August 28th births

08-28-1891 - Stanley Andrews - Chicago, IL - d. 6-23-1969
actor: Daddy Warbucks "Little Orphan Annie"
08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958
narrator: "Gangbusters"
08-28-1897 - Charles Boyer - Figeac, France - d. 8-26-1978
actor: Michel "Presenting Charles Boyer"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
08-28-1898 - Charlie Grimm - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-15-1983
Sportscaster:(Jolly Cholly) WBBM Chicago
08-28-1900 - Diana Borubon - d. 3-19-1978
producer, director: :Double or Nothing"; "Life Begins"
08-28-1900 - Rudy Schrager - Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-24-1983
musical director: "Box 13"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-28-1907 - Roy Chamberlain - New York City, NY - d. 5-xx-1981
old gold rhythmaires: "The New Old Gold Show"
08-28-1907 - Sam Levene - New York City, NY - d. 12-17-1980
comedian: "Fred Allen Show"
08-28-1908 - Genevieve Rowe - Freemont, OH - d. 2-26-1995
singer: "Gay Nineties Revue"; "Songs America Loves"; "An Evening with Romberg"
08-28-1914 - Glenn Osser - Munising, MI
maestro: "American Music Hall"
08-28-1914 - Richard Tucker - New York City, NY - d. 1-8-1975
opera tenor: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"; "Standard Hour"; "Metropolitan
Opera"
08-28-1920 - Don Glasser - Derry, PA - d. 4-26-2004
bandleader: "Don Glasser and His Orchestra"
08-28-1920 - Doris Singleton
actress: Jean Gillespie "Alan Young Show"; Miss Duffy "Duffy's Tavern"
08-28-1924 - Peggy Ryan - Long Beach, CA - d. 10-30-2004
dancer, actress: "Mail Call"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Proudly We Hail"
08-28-1925 - Donald O'Connor - Chicago, IL - d. 9-27-2003
comedian, actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"; "Suspense"
08-28-1930 - Ben Gazzara - New York City, NY
actor: "Strange Interlude"

Aaugust 28th deaths

07-22-1917 - Lou McGarity - Athens, GA - d. 8-28-1971
jazz trombonist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
08-05-1906 - John Huston - Nevada, MO - d. 8-28-1987
actor, writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-17-1918 - Evelyn Ankers - Valparaiso, Chili - d. 8-28-1985
actress: Argentine Radio
09-03-1918 - David Harmon - New York City, NY - d. 8-28-2001
writer: "America in the Air"; "Now Hear This"
09-12-1910 - Lehman Engel - Jackson, MS - d. 8-28-1982
broadway conductor: "Madrigal Singers of New York"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
10-13-1918 - Robert Walker - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 8-28-1951
actor: Davy Dillon "Maudie's Diary"
10-30-1896 - Ruth Gordon - Wollaston, MA - d. 8-28-1985
actress: "Lincoln Highway"; "Meet Mr. Weeks"; "Orson Welles Theatre"
11-11-1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason - Boston, MA - d. 8-28-1978
writer: "The Man from G-2"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:24:55 -0400
From: "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Don Winslow
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I remember listening to Don Winslow in 1941 on our station
in Portsmouth, Ohio. I was in the 1st grade. ( you can do
the math on my age.)
Bob Burchett

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:39:21 -0400
From: Brian Johnson <chyronop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio Phrases

I hear radio phrases out of my kids all the time,
mostly because they learned them by watching Looney
Tunes.
After I turned by daughter on to Fibber McGee and
Molly she lit up the first time Bugs Bunny said, "Love
dat man!" "I know what that's from!" she screamed.
Kids know the phrases, just not the origin.

Brj

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:40:44 -0400
From: ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen)
To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
Subject:  NIGHTFALL Website

Hey, there's a "brand-new" website up (new since July 2005) with a bunch of
info about the horrifying CBC series NIGHTFALL - the series is 25 years old
now (already?!?!).  They are looking for listeners to leave plot summaries
and reviews, too, if anyone is so inclined:

[removed]

Stephen Jansen

[removed] If anyone out there has the "lost" Nightfall episodes "Dreamy" or "The
Prize", please let me know, I sure would like to hear them!

--
Old Time Radio never dies - it just changes formats!

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:35:17 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  LES PAUL
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I hope everyone knows that not only is Les Paul  still with us but that you
can see him play every Monday night at a club called  The Iridium in Times
Square, New York City.
    On Broadway at Fifty-First Street, one small block  away from the fabled
Birdland and Fifty-second Street musical history.
    Always a delight to hear and speak with.
    Be sure to go by when in the city.
                    Michael  C. Gwynne

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:00:02 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Catch phrases

   I work out of a police station on campus and going to the back
requires being buzzed though a locked door.  At times I'll ask the
female dispatcher, if on duty, "Buzz me Miss Blue".
   Joe

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Visit my home page:  [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:16:15 -0400
From: Illoman <illoman@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Ed Gardner relatives

I know Ed Gardner of Duffy's Tavern had children. Does anyone here
happen to know a way of getting in touch with any of them?

Thanks,
Mike

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:37:12 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Margot Stevenson on TCM Sunday morning

Anthony Tollin, lurking somewhere in the shadows, said:

Turner Classic Movies is showing INVISIBLE STRIPES at 6 AM Eastern/5 AM
Central this Sunday morning.  The film stars George Raft, Humphrey Bogart,
William Holden and Margot Stevenson.

   He forgot to mention another actor in this film scheduled to attend the
30th Annual Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention - Tommy the stock boy is
played by none other than "Tom Corbett" himself, Frankie Thomas.

   Check the blog at [removed] for a few stills of these
stars from the film, and see [removed] for info on this October's
convention!

         Charlie

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:54:52 -0400
From: elizabeth@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio catchphrases

Irish Tom wrote:
I still hear people using catch-prases from old-time radio -- "What a
revoltin' development dis is!" (Bill Bendix, The Life of Riley)....
"Gettum up, Scout!" was Tonto's answer to "Hi-Yo, Silver! Awaaaay!"
And some awe-struck rancher would ask the sheriff: "Say, who was that
masked man?" Nobody needs to be told nowadays, "Why, that was the Lone
Ranger."

But even though these originated on radio, I think many people know them
and are quoting them from the TV versions of these programs. And now I
think there are probably more people who are not aware of the origins of
these phrases at all, but are just quoting their own parents and grandparents.
 I think "gangbusters" is a prime example of that, and is perhaps the OTR
allusion that is in most common use today. Of the two examples Tom gives
above, I'd only call the first one a catchphrase, the second one is a more
deliberate allusion to the program. "Who was that masked man" just doesn't
make sense without prior knowledge of the Lone Ranger.

"Well, now, I wouldn't say that." Wasn't that twang of Mr. [removed]
, on Fibber McGee?

Almost right, that's Mr. Peavey, the druggist on The Great Gildersleeve.
 That was a major catchphrase in its day, and it is indeed catchy. Whenever
I've been listening to a lot of Gildersleeve, I find myself wanting to throw
it into conversations myself-- unfortunately, none of my friends would catch
the catchphrase. I think this one demonstrates the quality of the catchiest
of catchphrases-- it's so generic, it can fit into practically any
conversation.
 (Steve Martin's "Well, EXCUUUUUUSE me!" is in the same category.)

And I'm still hearing people (usually women) saying, "Time wounds
all heels." Now a permanent part of western philosophy, that famous
line came from Jane Ace (Jane Epstein), of Easy Aces, an old-time radio
hit that came into being by accident.

This one is such an amusing and obvious twist on an old saying that I'll
bet this has been around as long as the saying, or at least since "heel"
acquired its present meaning, and I'll bet lots of people have come up with
this as an original quip without ever having heard it before. But I'd certainly
grant that Jane Ace credit for popularizing it.

I love this topic.  I don't remember old time radio at all, but it feels
like a comfortable world to me because it was so important to my mother
and her generation growing up, so we were surrounded by these allusions
and catchphrases whether we caught them or understood them at the time.
 And I also love the connections between OTR and the television programs
that I grew up with in the fifties and sixties.  Some of them, like "Life
of Riley" and "Our Miss Brooks" were of course based on radio programs,
so it's good to discover the originals.  But I also running across actors
that I remember from TV in their earlier, radio [removed] Richard Crenna
(who will always be Luke McCoy to me) and Hans Conried (who will always
be Uncle Tonoose.)

Elizabeth Thomsen
Great Gildersleeve website: [removed]

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:03:40 -0400
From: Michael Berger <makiju@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Candy Matson

What's the name of the Candy Matson episode Jack
French refers to in his interview in which she
comandeers a plane piloted by two killers and manages
to land it without mishap?

Michael Berger

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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:26:12 -0400
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mysterious Traveler Magazine returns

The Mysterious Traveler magazine, based on the Robert
Arthur/David Kogan radio program of the same name, ran
for five issues in 1951 and 1952. Now it's back, in an
online format, and yours truly has written a story
contained within its pages. It's called "The Spirit of
the Law. Enjoy.

Rick

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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:07:54 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Les Paul, less hyphens
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Hi Gang:

Here are the links to the two articles about New Jersey resident Les Paul that
appeared in yesterday's (28)  "Sunday Star-Ledger."

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Even tho' the "Star-Ledger," "The Newspaper for New Jersey" and the 17th
largest-selling paper in the [removed],. has a hyphen between "Star" & "Ledger,"
this hyphen is superfluous in their web address. I had inadvertently situated
it it in when I originally posted their web address.

Mea ethereal culpa.

Derek Tague

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