Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #357
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Date: 12/21/2006 4:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 357
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  RE: Korla Pandit                      [ "D. FISHER" <dfisher052@[removed] ]
  Kino? Keeno? Key-no?                  [ "Hamm, Mike (hammcm)" <hammcm@ucm ]
  Holiday Miscellany                    [ Kelli Stanley <ks4color@[removed] ]
  CL??                                  [ hoonose? <voxpop@[removed]; ]
  Rochester's full name                 [ "Bill Harris" <nbcblue@[removed]; ]
  Season's Greetings                    [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
  Brian [removed], Wodehouse            [ Gary <yraginnh@[removed]; ]
  An OTR-flavoured Christmas            [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Eisinger and Perrin                   [ William Harker <wharker@[removed] ]
  12-21 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:38:31 -0500
From: "D. FISHER" <dfisher052@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Korla Pandit

A while back there was a discussion of Korla Pandit. Well, if you cruise the
newsgroups you will find a CD of his posted on:

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along with the CD covers with a couple of pictures & some interesting
history of him.
This site is also a great source of music of the 30's & 40's.

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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:38:45 -0500
From: "Hamm, Mike (hammcm)" <hammcm@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Kino?  Keeno?  Key-no?

I've been listening to some "Lone Ranger" episodes and at a point in the
dialogue where you would expect a character to say something like "OK"
or "alright", the character says what sounds like "kino".  Where did
that come from?

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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:39:10 -0500
From: Kelli Stanley <ks4color@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Holiday Miscellany

A festive and healthy holiday season to all!!  Thanks to everyone for
providing so much interest and education throughout the year, and thanks
to Charlie, who has played Santa for the Digest for a long time. :)

I'm combining a couple of comments and some questions.

First: favorite radio movie.  Despite it's vilification by critics and
fans alike, "The Radioland Murders" remains my sentimental favorite.
It's goofy, ridiculous, [removed] loving.  At least in my
opinion. :)  Reminds me a bit of "Lady of Burlesque", a delightful
Barbara Stanwyck vehicle based on Gypsy Rose Lee's "The G-String
Murders."  Of course, "Radioland" isn't about burlesque, but the
backstage hijinks are very similar.  And Michael McKean is hilarious!

I followed with interest the earlier discussions on "A Christmas Carol"
and have been listening to a few variants.  While Olivier's was a
terrific performance, so far I have to give the nod of best version to
"The Six Shooter"!  "Britt Ponset's Christmas Carol" was really a
terrific adaptation--clever, heart-felt, and what an ending!  To capture
the spirit of Dickens in a an Old West setting--and resolve everything,
including the framing story, in 30 minutes--was an incredible feat.

I've also been listening to various holiday specials, including the NBC
war-time show, "A Christmas Reunion", which was broadcast in '43.  The
premise, for those unfamiliar with it, was to present a sort of
global-shortwave broadcast from various army camps, theaters of war, and
hospitals---in order to "reunite" soldiers with loved ones at home.  For
example, a mother in NY (where the broadcast was coordinated) was able
to speak to two of her daughters (both WACs), one in North Africa,
another in the States.  The content of the program consisted mainly of
reports, songs, and comments by soldiers in Alaska, Italy, England,
Africa, and around the US (though it did offer Amos and Andy, Rudy
Vallee, and a few other "names" as well).  It seemed to be a very
successful three hours of morale-building--and I wondered if it was ever
attempted again, and if not--why not?  I've not seen reference to
anything else like it, and was hoping someone on the digest could offer
remarks or speculations.

Lastly, as Christmas music fills the air in shopping malls, car stereo
speakers, and neighborhood shops, I've admired the "drama" of one song
in particular.  "Baby, It's Cold Outside" has been recorded a lot over
the last fifty-odd years, but the Johnny Mercer-Margaret Whiting 1949
version is, to me, the best.  (The song was first heard in an Esther
Williams film, but the Mercer duet popularized it even more).  What
makes this version so special is its extraordinary sense of playful (but
dramatic) story-telling--the song, in fact, plays like a radio show!
You can easily imagine "the Wolf" moving in during the musical
bridges--they act almost as transitions.  And listen for Margaret's
gasp, after the line "I'll take your [removed]"  The timing of these two
performers is impeccable, and the song is just a delight.  I believe its
success is partly due to the art of "acting for the ear" that radio--and
a culture built around radio--instilled in entertainers and audience.
Subsequent versions--and I've heard many, from Sammy Davis, Jr. and
Carmen McRae to Ann-Margret and Al Hirt--completely lack (or parody it,
in the case of Davis) the element of drama that makes the song so special.

Anyway,  everyone have themselves a wonderful [removed] see you next
year. :)

Kelli Stanley

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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:29:53 -0500
From: hoonose? <voxpop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  CL??
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RE fibber and molly ted asks:
Molly:  "I have a CL for you, today is the day before Christmas."

CL?  Any ideas what CL means?
could it be CLUE?? just guessing here
--
Have a merry or a happy whatever you believe in.

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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:54:44 -0500
From: "Bill Harris" <nbcblue@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Rochester's full name

I was just listening to the Jack Benny show of  December 17, 1939. Rochester
is buying a tie for Jack for Christmas and Jack is watching nearby to see
what Rochester is getting for him.

The clerk comments that the tie may be a bit too plain for his boss (Jack)
and asks Rochester if his boss was a young man to which Rochester replys,
"no".
Clerk: "Is he a middle aged man?"
Rochester: "No"
Clerk: "Is he elderly?"
Rochester: "Wrap it up"

Now Jack steps up and says, "ROCHESTER VAN JONES!!"

   This is the fist time I have ever head Rochesters full name. Anyone
remember it from other episodes?

Bill H.

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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:55:07 -0500
From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Season's Greetings
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To all OTR fans at computer screens everywhere seeking out Old Time Radio
info of the past and contributing to the knowledge of the same in the coming
year, I wish a
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

  Conrad Binyon

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conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
Encino, CA
Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms

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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:39:35 -0500
From: Gary <yraginnh@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Brian [removed],  Wodehouse

Thank you for your post Brian re: [removed] Wodehouse and Hollywood, published
this year by McFarland. [removed]

This is a book I would like to read!  You ended your
post:
 
As I note in the book, my own vote for the best Wodehouse radio adaptation
is the 1980s BBC series, WHAT HO, JEEVES, with Richard Briers and Michael
Hordern, which are today are available on audiotape and CD.

I am interested to learn where I can get this on CD
please!  Gary in NH

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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:05:17 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  An OTR-flavoured Christmas
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Another year and another opportunity to show my appreciation and gratitude for
all of you OTR Digest readers--posters and lurkers alike--for continuing to
make this forum the worthwhile vehicle it is. Thanks for all the spirired
discussions and debates, for all the knowledge imparted and shared, and for
all the archive work and research many of you do.

Let's give a big round of applause for Listmaster Charlie Summers for keeping
it all together!

As for my Christmas wish for everybody, I'd like everybody to be continually
inspired by the gentler days of the OTR era whereby people were challenged to
use their imaginations. We're all familiar with the Christmas-themed episodes
that pop up this time a year. Please take a moment to see if we can apply the
lessons learned from them to our lives at this joyous time of year.

OTR shows are full of stories in which central characters are moved to bring
Christmas cheer to the lonely and less fortunate. Coming to my mind right away
are instances where Fibber and Molly and their friends brought a Christmas
party to lonely old Doc Gamble and  the "Six Shooter" episode where Brit
Ponset helped out a poor family out West. May you also be inspired to do
likewise, or at least make Christmas special for someone equally special in
your [removed] Andy Brown once did for his goddaughter Arbadella.

I realise that not every Christmas story turns out happy. The ups 'n' downs of
the holiday were explored in that famous episode of "Grand central Station."
As in past years, I wholeheartedly wish that if you find yourself soured on
the spirit of Christmas and. your situation in life as once  happened to
Duffy's Tavern "Archie the Bartender"  before he found his "Miracle in
Manhattan," rest assured that Sgt. Joe Friday--through the modern niracle of
MP3's--will always forever be on the case.

Merry Christmas! Happy Belated Chanukah! Happy 2007! Peacce.

Yours in the "wreath"-er,

Derek Tague

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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:06:33 -0500
From: William Harker <wharker@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Eisinger and Perrin

I received some initial materials from the Warner Brothers Archive at
the USC School of Cinema yesterday.  One interesting little tidbit
was located in the materials for Jo (Joe) Eisinger.  Warner Brothers
had sued Eisinger in 1948 for copyright infringement regarding
episodes of "The Adventures of Sam Spade" show.  The trial was not
held until May 1951 and the decision not released until December of
that year.  Warner Brothers then appealed and its appeal was not
heard and decided until 1954.  However, in late 1951 Warner Brothers
hired Eisinger to write the screenplay for the movie "The
System."  Eisinger was on the Warner Brothers payroll for some part
of 1951 and all of 1952 although he (apparently) did not finish the
script until sometime in 1953.  Vic Perrin had a role in the movie as
Little Harry Goubenek.

Bill Harker

Marlowe is a man "in a lonely street, in lonely rooms, puzzled but
never quite defeated."    Raymond Chandler, 1959

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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:44:33 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-21 births/deaths

December 21st births

12-21-1908 - Sylvester L. "Pat" Weaver - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-15-2002
producer: "Fred Allen Show"
12-21-1910 - Mary Orr - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-22-2006
author: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
12-21-1913 - Louise King - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 8-14-1997
singer (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"; "Al
Pearce and His Gang"
12-21-1917 - Rolly Bester - NYC - d. 1-12-1984
actor: "Tales of Tomorrow"
12-21-1922 - Paul Winchell - NYC - d. 6-24-2005
ventriloquist: "Paul Winchell-Jerry Mahoney Show"
12-21-1928 - Bryce Bond - Plainfield, NJ
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
12-21-1928 - Ed Nelson - New Orleans, LA
actor: "Hollywood Theatre"
12-31-1904 - Nathan Milstein - Odessa, Russia - d. 12-21-1992
violinist: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Concert Hall"
xx-xx-1885 - Mary Cecil - NYC - d. 12-21-1940
actor: Miranda Chandler "The Life and Love of Dr. Susan"
xx-xx-1900 - Thomas Freebairn-Smith - Walton-on-Thames, England - d.
12-21-1985
writer, producer: "Jonathan Trimble, Esq."; "Al Pearce and His Gang"

December 21st deaths

02-10-1902 - Stella Adler - NYC - d. 12-21-1992
acting teacher: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
02-14-1902 - Stu Erwin - Squaw Valley, CA - d. 12-21-1967
comedian: Fairchild Finnegan "Phone Again Finnegan"
03-21-1903 - Mark Hellinger - NYC - d. 12-21-1947
broadway, hollywood producer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Post Toasties Time"
03-25-1908 - Philip Reed - NYC - d. 12-21-1996
actor: Ross Barrington "Society Girl"; Brian Wells "David Harum"
03-27-1904 - Hal Kemp - Marion, AL - d. 12-21-1940
bandleader: "Phil Baker Show"; "Lady Esther Serenade"; "Gulf Gas
Program"
07-02-1916 - Barry Gray - Red Lion, NJ - d. 12-21-1996
talk show host: "Barry Gray on Broadway"; "Scout About Town"
09-11-1936 - Roger Barkley - Minnesota - d. 12-21-1997
actor: "Empire of the Air"
09-24-1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-21-1940
writer: "Escape"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"
09-27-1934 - DickSchaap - NYC - d. 12-21-2001
sportscaster: "Sports Answer Man: "Sports Week"
10-26-1876 - [removed] Warner - London, England - d. 12-21-1958
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-04-1906 - Sterling North - Edgerton, WI - d. 12-21-1974
writer, host, critic: "Of Men and Books"
12-02-1910 - Robert Paige - Indianapolis, IN - d. 12-21-1987
actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
12-07-1910 - Rod Cameron - Calgary, Alberta, Canada - d. 12-21-1983
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
12-12-1898 - Noreen Gammill - Missouri - d. 12-21-1988
actor: Sister Dinwiddie "Bill Goodwin Show"; Cathy "Opie Cates Show"
12-13-1890 - Marc Connelly - McKeesport, PA - d. 12-21-1980
writer: "Free Company"; "Security Workshop"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-17-1927 - Richard Long - Chicago, IL - d. 12-21-1974
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We Hail"

Ron Sayles

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