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Date: 7/9/2005 4:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 207
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Candy Gram. Land shark.               [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 10-16 Jul  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  "The (Original) Big Broadcast"        [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Re: The scariest                      [ "Paul Adomites" <padomites@ccyberne ]
  7-9 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  BBC does it again                     [ "david rogers" <david_rogers@hotmai ]
  Re: Edgar Bergen                      [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:49:32 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Candy Gram. Land shark.
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 John Mayer mayer@[removed] joined in the on-going thread about the Bergen
family & made mention
of Candace Bergen's appearances on the early SNLs (back when the sketches on
said show had punchlines)
John went on to envision a sketch in which Ms. Bergen would meet up with a
destitute Charlie McCarthy but
then realised:

maybe Lorne Greene just assumed none of their youthful demographic
would have any idea who Charle McCarthy was.

Surely, you mean Lorne MICHAELS and not Lorne GREENE, John. Get your Canadians
named "Lorne" straight,
would ya!  In another part of his posting, Mr. Meyer queried:

Say, does Ms. Bergen ever attend OTR conferences? She'd be a natural, it
would seem, with an endless supply of OTR anecdotes.

I'm not sure about SPERDVAC, but I truly think  that if she hasn't ever been
approached by anybody at FOTR,
it's probably because folks think she's too BIG a name and because she's
still quite a viable working actor
(isn't she on some cathode-ray legal drama at present?).

She'd be a natural for the "Funny Friday" comedy panel several of us involved
with FOTR put together every year
..but not this year. This panel is already booked up.

Say, if Candace Bergen married Martin Grams, would she be "Candy Grams"?

Yours in the ether,

Derek Tague

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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 20:03:46 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 10-16 July

 From Those Were The Days --

7/11

1944 - The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall, debuted on CBS.

7/12

1934 - The first appointments to the newly created Federal
Communications Commission were made. The governing body of the American
broadcasting industry was first served by seven men named as commissioners.

1946 - The Adventures of Sam Spade was heard on ABC for the first time.

7/14

1957 - Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on CBS
beginning this night. The Freberg show only lasted a short time and that
newfangled contraption, television, was blamed for the show's quick demise.

7/16

1934 - NBC Red network premiered the musical drama, Dreams Come True. It
was a show about baritone singer Barry McKinley and his novelist
sweetheart.

Joe

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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 20:30:41 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "The (Original) Big Broadcast"
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 I took a day off to attend the screening of the 1932 film "The Big
Broadcast,"
which was part of the on-going series "Paramount Before the Code" {harkening
back to the days before the Hollywood Production Code of 1934 reined in the
content of films featuring Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Jean Harlow, and even
Betty Boop] yesterday (7) at NYC's Film Forum. I decided to catch the
afternoon
showing of this &  the other feature "International House" and a Jack Benny
short
called "A Broadway Romeo." That way, I could then go on to do some research at
"Billy Rose." Those OTR books don't research themselves, eh?

I'd like to thank Laura Leff for pointing out that last week here on the
Digest, I had
mistakenly reported that Jack Benny was in this original un-annuated "Big
B'cast,"
when in reality, Jack was in a later one. But that was OK. This one had Bing
Crosby,
Arthur Tracy "the Street Singer," the Mills Brothers, Vincent Lopez & His
Orch.,
the Boswell Sisters, George Burns & Gracie Allen [he was billed as "George N.
Burns"
in the credits], Donald Novis, and Cab Calloway & His Orch.

I do, however, have some questions I hope somebody can resolve.
1) Wasn't one of the Boswell Sisters non-ambulatory  to the point where
whichever one it was always needed to be propped up by one or both of the
others?
2) A key scene in the thin plot involved Stuart Erwin's character trying to
pass off
a recording of Bing crooning "Please," when Der Bingle was not on-hand for  a
live
broadcast. Erwin instructs a stage-hand to "draw the curtains." At this point,
a curtain
partitioning the small in-studio audience (about two dozen persons) was drawn
so that
Erwin could  attempt to pull off this ruse.  Did radio studios actually employ
the use of
curtains with their live audiences?
3) Calloway & Co. performed the "Minnie, the Moocher" sequel "Kickin' the
Gong
Around" (& then "Reefer Man" in "Int'l House"). Why is it that opiate abuse
was called "kicking the gong"?  I imagine it's something to do with long
outdated imagery of Chinese opium dens typified by Dr. Fu Manchu.

"A Broadway Romeo" found a down-on-his -luck Benny  conniving his way into a
free
meal in a Times Square eatery. It's interesting to note that his character
wasn't doing this
because he was stingy; it was because he was broke and hungry at the height of
the
Depression.

As for "International House": not enough Stoopnagle & Budd!

Yours in the silver nitrate,

Derek Tague

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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 23:10:24 -0400
From: "Paul Adomites" <padomites@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: The scariest

Our local theater group was a big hit on our OTR nite, so we're going to do
another. We want to do a really scary episode. Two requirements -- both the
original  and scripts must be readily available. And if Boris Karloff or any
great actors are needed, we're stuck. We'd appreciate suggestions. You can
send me your ideas off-group.

Thanks a heap in advance.

Paul Adomites

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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:06:44 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  7-9 births/deaths

July 9th births

07-09-1878 - Hans Von  "[removed]" Kaltenborn - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-14-1965
commentator: "Current Events"; "Editing the News"
07-09-1881 - Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel - Stillwater, MN - d. 1-13-1936
emcee: "Roxy's Gang"; "Roxy Revue"
07-09-1894 - Alan Lipscott - d. 11-20-1961
writer: "The Life of Riley"
07-09-1894 - Dorothy Thompson - Lancaster, NY - d. 1-30-1961
commentator: "Commentary"
07-09-1901 - Jester Hairston - Belews, NC - d. 1-18-2000
calypso singer: King Moses "Bold Venture"
07-09-1907 - Eddie Dean - Posey, TX - d. 3-4-1999
actor: Larry Burton "Modern Cinderella"
07-09-1910 - Alfred Kreymborg - d. 7-2-1991
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
07-09-1912 - John McQuade - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 9-21-1979
actor: Charlie Wild "Charlie Wild, Private Detective"; Steve Lansing "Our Gal
Sunday"
07-09-1917 - Kay Aldredge - Tallahassee, FL - d. 1-12-1995
actress: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"
07-09-1917 - Ted Steele - Hartford, CT - d. 10-15-1985
bandleader: "Ted Steele's Studio Club"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
07-09-1925 - Alan Dale - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-20-2002
singer, actor: "Sing It Again"
07-09-1927 - Ed Ames - Malden, MA
singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"

July 9th deaths

02-13-1900 - Wingy Manone - New Orleans, LA - d. 7-9-1982
orchestra leader: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Young Man with a Band"
02-22-1905 - Robert Weede - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-9-1972
singer: "Great Moments in Music"; "For America We Sing"
05-30-1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner - Chicago, IL - d. 7-9-1979
actress: Mary "Johnny Presents"
08-03-1894 - Harry Heilmann - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-9-1951
sportscaster: WXYZ Detroit
10-20-1911 - Will Rogers, Jr. - New York City, NY - d. 7-9-1993
actor: Will Rogers "Rogers of the Gazette"
11-26-1912 - Eric Sevareid - Velva, ND - d. 7-9-1992
correspondent: "Eric Sevaried and the News"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:10:32 -0400
From: "david rogers" <david_rogers@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  BBC does it again

Folks may remember that in the past the BBC destroyed some of its archive to
make more space.  Well at least in the age of cyberspace it would not do
that [removed] would they?  Folks may be interested in this:

[removed]

The cult section includes mainly TV stuff but also some radio stuff and some
on line audio shows.  It is closing down the site despite having 700,000
users in one month!

Am I the only one that thinks this is beyond belief?  You may enjoy reading
the messages on the page mentioned above.

Love as always, David Rogers

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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:10:50 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Edgar Bergen
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In a message dated 7/8/05 4:10:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

I find
it sad that Edgar Bergen and Monitor never connected. I believe  that Edgar
and his friends would have been a welcomed and long running fixture  on that
program.


It could have a lot to do with the fact that Bergen was under contract with
CBS, doing his radio show until 1956-57 or so and doing "Do You Trust Your
Wife?" on TV.  "Monitor" perhaps got Winchell because they couldn't get Bergen.

Dixon

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