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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 280
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Al Lewis                              [ "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@cha ]
  Radio Listings                        [ George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@hotmai ]
  "You're in The Situation Room."       [ Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed]; ]
  10-1 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  situation comedy                      [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:11:26 -0400
From: "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Al Lewis

I'm looking for some biographical information on "Our Miss Brooks"
writer/director Al Lewis. ... Material regarding Mr. Lewis
has been difficult to find, at least on-line, and though I have a couple of
books about OTR, their information on him is very, very minor. ... Can
anyone point me to, or provide me with, some details about this man's
life and career?

Have you looked in the newly released "The Great Radio Sitcoms"?
([removed])  You'll find a few pertinent details there about Mr.
Lewis' life, death and career.  Not a whole lot, but possibly more than you
have discovered elsewhere.

I felt it was important to recognize not only the stars of the shows but
also to feature the lives of supporting casts, producers, directors,
announcers, writers, musicians, soundmen, commercial spokesmen and others
associated with long-running favorites.  While it doesn't happen in every
case, my attempt was to make this a compendium that recognized the
contributions of the also-rans, many of whom were never heard on the ether.

Jim Cox

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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:11:53 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

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THE STAN KENTON SHOW
"Concert In Miniature"
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

THE EDGAR BERGEN/CHARLIE McCARTHY SHOW
(NBC)    3/24/46    Guest, [removed] Fields, is hiding in the hospital.

YOUR HIT PARADE
(AFRS)    8/26/44 with Frank Sinatra
Top Tune of the Week: "I'll Be Seeing You"

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BUNCO SQUAD
Audition    4-20-50    "The Case of the Bookworm"

THE HUNTERS
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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:58:32 -0400
From: George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio Listings
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The discussion of Radio Guide and other radio magazines reminded me of a
question I've meant to bring up here.  As long as I can remember the local
newspaper has included a weekly magazine insert with local TV listings.  I
believe most daily newspapers have something like this.  I've seen old
newspapers with radio listings for the day the newspaper was published, but
I've never seen a weekly guide published by a local newspaper.  Did such
things exist in the OTR era or was this an innovation of the TV era?

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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:18:14 -0400
From: Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "You're in The Situation Room."
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The dating of "situation comedy" to 1946 didn't sound quite right to
me, so I attempted to see if I could locate earlier usages by
searching in [removed]

I found the term used as early as 1932 to describe several different
movies.

The evolution of radio comedy from one-liners to plot situations is
described in an August 13, 1937, syndicated article that Phil Baker
wrote as a guest columnist: "A radio comedy needs new jokes every
[removed] In comedy today the old he-and-she joke is dead. Today the
situation rules the waves. There is a standing sign in every comic's
office reading "Situations Wanted." A situation in comedy is where
the comedian becomes not an actor but a storekeeper, a hotel clerk, a
manager of a baseball team. His other actors take different parts,
but the comic always has to take his own part. Instead of the
comedian just coming on and telling a couple of jokes, he has to wait
while an announcer says, 'Now we find Joe Doakes running a grocery
store. He's behind the counter when Harry McNaughton walks in.' Then
the comedian is allowed to try to be funny for five minutes. Trying
to be funny is very trying. But it does keep you off the streets."

A May 5, 1940, article about Jack Benny celebrating his 8th year in
radio used single quotes around the word situation and indicated that
Benny had a key role in the development of situation comedy: "One of
the first things Benny learned, however, was that radio was the most
extravagant user of comedy material known to the entertainment world.
So he tried 'situation' comedy, instead of using a steady stream of
gags. To build situations, Jack had to establish his characters. So
his announcer, orchestra leader and singer assumed important roles in
his series."

Speaking of Phil Baker, there's a moment in Ken Burns' THE WAR when
one of the interview subjects mentioned that "You'll be sorr-EEEE!"
was yelled by WWII soldiers at others going off to battle or bombing
runs. Naturally, there was no mention of TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT and how
popular that catchphrase became during the 1940s (yelled by the
entire audience, as I recall). Possibly Burns' research staff did not
know the source?

Bhob @ [removed]

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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:19:08 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-1 births/deaths

October 1st births

10-01-1885 - Louis Untermeyer - NYC - d. 12-18-1977
writer: "Information Please"
10-01-1889 - Ralph W. Sockman - Mount Vernon, OH - d. 8-29-1970
preacher: "National Radio Pulpit"
10-01-1890 - Stanley Holloway - London, England - d. 1-30-1982
actor, singer: "Music As You Like It"
10-01-1893 - Faith Baldwin - d. 3-18-1978
novelist: Guest on "The Second Mrs. Burton"
10-01-1898 - Curtiss Arnall - Cheyenne, WY - d. 9-22-1964
actor: Buck Rogers, "Buck Rogers"
10-01-1898 - Lilyan Ariel - d. 10-xx-1969
pianist: KFI Los Angeles, California
10-01-1899 - Rupert LaBelle - d. 8-9-1972
actor: Rufus Kane "Story of Joan and Kermit"
10-01-1902 - Joe Rines - Boston, MA - d. 12-xx-1986
jack of all trades: (Married to Portland Hoffa) "Joe Rines Show"
10-01-1903 - George Coulouris - Manchester, England - d. 4-25-1989
actor: Hugh Drummond "Bulldog Drummond"; Frank Harrison "As the Twig
Is Bent"
10-01-1904 - Vladimir Horowitz - Kiev, Ukraine, Russia - d. 11-5-1989
piano virtuoso: "GuestStar"; "Pictures At An Exhibition"
10-01-1905 - Wallace Magill - d. 8-xx-1973
producer, director: "The Telephone Hour"
10-01-1909 - Everett Sloane - NYC - d. 8-6-1965
actor: Frank Kennelly, "21st Precinct"; Alfred Drake "This Is Nora
Drake"
10-01-1910 - Bonnie Parker - Rowena, TX - d. 5-23-1934
outlaw, murderess: "Gang Busters"
10-01-1910 - Paul Baron - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-22-1985
bandleader: "Hildegard's Campbell Room"; "Frank Parker Show"
10-01-1914 - Donald Wollheim - NYC - d. 11-2-1990
science fiction writer: "Dimension X"
10-01-1921 - James Whitmore - White Plains, NY
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-01-1922 - Ernest Altschuler - NYC - d. 5-11-1973
composer/author/engineer: "Voice of America"
10-01-1926 - George Peppard - Detroit, MI - d. 5-8-1994
actor: "MGM Air View"
10-01-1927 - Tom Bosley - Chicago, IL
host: "Sears Adventure Theatre"
10-01-1935 - Julie Andrews - Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
singer: "Music As You Like It"; "Heartbeat of Broadway"

October 1st deaths

01-03-1897 - Dorothy Arzner - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-1-1979
film director: "You Were Meant to be a Star"
02-03-1890 - Larry MacPhail - Cass City, MI - d. 10-1-1975
baseball executive: "Information, Please"; "Bill Stern Colgate Sports
Newsreel"
02-12-1898 - Roy Harris - Lincoln County, Oklahoma Territory - d.
10-1-1979
composer: "New York Philharmonic"; "Comtemporary Composers Concerts"
02-27-1894 - Frank Munn - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-1-1953
singer (The Golden Voice of Radio) Paul Oliver "Palmolive Hour"
03-13-1953 - Milwaukee Braves - Boston, MA - d. 10-1-1965
Only franchise in the history of sport never to have had a losing season
04-01-1907 - Stanley Joseloff - d. 10-1-1989
writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
04-27-1898 - Ludwig Behelmans - Meran, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-1-1962
author, panelist: "Author, Author"
05-17-1878 - Conway Tearle - NYC - d. 10-1-1939
announcer: "Streamlined Shakespeare"
05-23-1907 - Carlyne Stevens - Parkhill, Canada - d. 10-1-1961
announcer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Roxy's Gang"; "Atlantic Family"
06-21-1900 - Jack Arthur - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-1-1980
singer, emcee: "Echoes of New York"; "Family Time"; "Jack Arthur Show"
07-26-1912 - Buddy Clark - Dorchester, MA - d. 10-1-1949
singer: "Your Hit Parade"; "New Carnation Contented Hour"
09-16-1921 - Korla Pandit (Juan Rolando) - St. Louis, MO- d. 10-1-1998
organ: "Chandu the Magician", "Jubilee"
09-26-1901 - Donald Cook - Portland, OR - d. 10-1-1961
actor: Dr. Allison "My Son Jeep"; Charlie "Charlie and Jessie"
10-25-1918 - Chubby Jackson - NYC - d. 10-1-2003
bassist: (Woody Herman Band) "The Woody Herman Show"
10-30-1918 - William N. Burch - d. 10-1-2005
producer: "Truth or Consequences"; "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"
12-01-1911 - Walter Alston - Venice, OH - d. 10-1-1984
baseball manager: "Tops In Sports"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:58:41 -0400
From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  situation comedy
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The earliest use of the phrase "situation comedy" that I found in the New
York Times was from an article of Aug. 8, 1937, "Hollywood Convenes ACongress
of Comics." This use does not seem to discussing a sitcom. It says, [Bert]
"Lahr's role has been fashioned to permit fullest use of his situation
[removed]" At this point, situation comedy is being used to describe a form
of humor.

  Similarly on July 14, 1940, the article "McGee Spends A Week Here" quotes
Jim Jordan as saying, "That is why we follow a policy of situation comedy, in
which a sequence is built up, instead of relying on jokes."

  Situation comedy shows up a noun in the article "Along Radio Row" of
October 20, 1946. The show "Willie Piper" is called "a situation comedy
[removed]"

  In January 15, 1948, "The News of Radio," the term "situation comedy" is
used as a noun and without the word "program" following. Speaking of Shirley
Booth, the article says, "Her production, a situation comedy in which the
actress will take the part of a school [removed]"
  This was likely speaking about the show "Our Miss Brooks" for which an
audition show starring Shirley Booth exists.

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