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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 152
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  6-1 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  American Broadcasting Network airche  [ Jodie Peeler <raisingirl@mindspring ]
  Seabiscuit                            [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  Lois Lane                             [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  WLW Farm Reports                      [ Joemartelle@[removed] ]
  Ag radio-TV                           [ "Linda T." <nemesis@[removed]; ]
  Re: INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY             [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
  copying copyrighted material          [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
  "Everybody's Farm"                    [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
  OTR Inspires Homeschoolers to Make N  [ seandd@[removed] ]
  FW: Propellers to Jets                [ "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@char ]
  Unmasked!                             [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]
  Re: Harry Conn                        [ Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed]; ]
  My tribute to radio and [removed]        [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
  "Meet Corliss Archer"                 [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 22:14:09 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-1 births/deaths

June 1st births

06-01-1870 - Frank Cooley - Natchez, MS - d. 7-6-1941
actor: Reverend McArthur/Fred Thompson "One Man's Family"
06-01-1878 - John Masefield - Ledbury, England - d. 5-12-1967
writer: "Against the Storm"
06-01-1887 - Clive Brook - London, England - d. 11-17-1974
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
06-01-1888 - Louis Mason - Danville, KY - d. 11-12-1959
actor: Clem Betts "Moonshine and Honeysuckle"
06-01-1890 - Frank Morgan - NYC - d. 9-18-1949
actor: Thaddeus Q. Tweedy "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"
06-01-1898 - Edward "Cookie" Fairchild - NYC - d. 2-20-1975
conductor: "Johnny Presents Ginny Simms"; "Eddie Cantor Show"
06-01-1898 - Molly Picon - NYC - d. 4-5-1992
actor: "I Give You My Life"; "Molly Picon's Parade"
06-01-1900 - Werner Janssen - NYC - d. 9-19-1990
music: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
06-01-1901 - John Van Druten - London, England - d. 12-19-1957
writer: "Radio Guild"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour"; "Theatre Guild On
the Air"
06-01-1905 - Robert Newton - Shaftesbury, England - d. 3-25-1956
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-01-1909 - Ray Heatherton - Jersey City, NJ - d. 8-15-1997
singer, host: "Old Gold Hour"; "Musical Cruise with Spearmint Crew"
06-01-1911 - Erik Rolf - Chicago, IL - d. 5-28-1957
actor: Hans Simon "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; Thor Nielsen "Prairie Folks"
06-01-1915 - John Randolph - NYC - d. 2-24-2004
actor: "New World A' Coming"; "A Date with Judy"
06-01-1915 - Johnny Bond - Enville, OK - d. 6-12-1978
singer, comedian: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
06-01-1917 - Donald Dame - Titusville, PA - d. 1-21-1952
singer: "Music for an Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
06-01-1920 - Elaine Kent - NYC
actor: Jo March "Little Women"; Iris Houston "Lora Lawton"
06-01-1920 - Robert Clarke - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 6-11-2005
actor: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; "Cavalcade of America"
06-01-1921 - Nelson Riddle - Oradell, NJ - d. 10-7-1985
composer, conductor: "On a Sunday Afternoon"; "Sears Radio Theatre"
06-01-1922 - Joan Caulfield - East Orange, NJ - d. 6-18-1991
actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"
06-01-1922 - Joan Copeland - NYC
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Faces Of Love"; "CBS Radio Mystery
Theatre"
06-01-1926 - Andy Griffith - Mount Airy, NC
host comedy night: "Sears Radio Theatre"
06-01-1926 - Marilyn Monroe - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-4-1962
actor: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
06-01-1930 - Edward Woodward - Croydon, Surrey, England
actor: "Price of Fear"
06-01-1934 - Pat Boone - Jacksonville, FL
singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Special Delivery: Vietnam"

June 1st deaths

01-01-1897 - Walter Greaza - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-1-1973
actor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"
01-17-1919 - Dallas Townsend - NYC - d. 6-1-1995
newscaster: "CBS World News Roundup"; "World Tonight"
02-15-1883 - Sax Rohmer - London, England - d. 6-1-1959
writer: "Fu Manchu detective novels
04-01-1922 - William Manchester - Attleboro, MA - d. 6-1-2004
author, historian: "Meet the Press"; "Biography in Sound"
04-03-1893 - Leslie Howard - London, England - d. 6-1-1943
actor: "Leslie Howard Theatre"; "Streamlined Shakespeare"
04-10-1910 - Peg La Centra - Boston, MA - d. 6-1-1996
singer, actor: "Court of Human Relations"; "For Men Only"; "Gulden
Melodies"
06-27-1880 - Helen Keller - Tuscumbia, AL - d. 6-1-1968
deaf and blind lecturer: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Meet the Press"
08-25-1918 - Richard Greene - Plymouth, England - d. 6-1-1985
actor: "Somerset Maugham Theatre"; "This Is Hollywood"; "Cavalcade of
America"
09-05-1897 - Arthur Nielsen - Chicago, IL - d. 6-1-1980
Founder of the Nielsen Ratings
10-11-1902 - Leon Belasco - Odessa, Ukraine, Russia - d. 6-1-1988
actor: Pagan Zeldschmidt "A Man Called X)
12-09-1915 - Bob Emerick - Tacoma, WA - d. 6-1-1973
announcer: "Two Thousand Plus"; "Mr. Feathers"; "Special Agent"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Home state of Joseph Losey
La Crosse, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 23:32:16 -0400
From: Jodie Peeler <raisingirl@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  American Broadcasting Network airchecks

hello all --

Joe Postove asked:

Has anyone here ever read much about or heard airchecks of the "American
Broadcasting Network"?

The only thing I've come across, so far as airchecks, is a six-second
network ID I have in my collection that I found off a site that went
kaput some time ago.  It features what sounds like a xylophone-tone
version of the fanfare, then an announcer saying, "This is American!
The American Broadcasting Network."  I remember doing sort of a
double-take the first time I heard it because, at the time, I hadn't
ever heard that name before.

This was off a site that was up until a few years ago, that had a ton of
historic airchecks, network IDs, and other sound files.  "Jeff560", I
believe, was part of the site owner's ID.  I don't know if the site got
taken down due to bandwidth issues, copyright issues, or whether he just
got tired of tending it (and I know how that feels), but I hated when
the site went dark.  There was a lot of cool stuff there that I've not
seen before, or since.

Jodie Peeler

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 23:58:18 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Seabiscuit

Ed Walker the host of WAMU-FM's "The Big Broadcast," has been airing
OTR programs every Sunday night in Washington, DC for longer than most
of us can remember.

He is trying to put together a tribute to the great racing horse,
Seabiscuit, and is trying to locate any audio copies of his famous
races, many of which were aired on network radio, usually live.

Anyone out there have any idea if such exist, and if so, how to locate
them?

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 01:15:52 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Lois Lane

Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 22:13:54 -0400
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];

There is a street named Lois Lane in Southfield, MI.

A couple of days ago I drove by Lois Lane in Lexington, MA.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 15 Court Square, Suite 210                 Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 07:52:26 -0400
From: Joemartelle@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  WLW Farm Reports
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I'd like to thank Mike Martini for the detailed report on WLW's one-time
farm in Mason, Ohio, which I had almost forgotten about. I also appreciate
hearing that WLW's, one time farm director, Bob Miller is still of this
planet.
Hopefully, I'll be able to locate him, after all these years,  to say 'Hi.'
Many thanks, also  to the other OTR  Digest readers who contacted me directly.
Best regards
Joe Martelle

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 07:53:29 -0400
From: "Linda T." <nemesis@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Ag radio-TV

There's a regular ag radio program in California available via Internet at
[removed]

also on TV (at least in CA) [removed]

Linda T.

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 07:54:20 -0400
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY

Martin Grams Jr. (author of the INNER SANCTUM book) wrote:

Not that this is
important, but  no one has yet found a vintage advertisement calling
the title of the show  MYSTERIES and sent it to me to state otherwise.

Until now:

[removed]

Here's another one, from the February 28, 1943 Syracuse
Herald-American:

[removed]

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 07:54:27 -0400
From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  copying copyrighted material

Derek Tague wrote that he thought that some pages could not still be
protected by copyright because both the author or copyright owner and his
"sole heir" were dead.

I have shared Derek's research difficulties -- but if my memory of trying to
quote a radio play by Marc Blitzstein serves me right, ownership of a
copyright can be assigned to non-relatives. So  absence of a living heir in
the family sense may be irrelevant.

Howard Blue

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:35:23 -0400
From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Everybody's Farm"

I really appreciated the report on "Everybody's Farm." Today it's a sad
journey on the road by the WLW transmitter in Mason, Ohio to see all of the
suburban sprawl that took over the acres of the [removed] up to the
tower lot (gad, what's happening to their residents?!)

I first came to Dayton in 1962 and can still remember the "Everybody's Farm"
reports over WLW just before the Ruth Lyons simulcast.

WLW Radio and TV kept "live" music and variety going long after others
dripped them.

BILL KNOWLTON

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:53:23 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR Inspires Homeschoolers to Make NTR

A report on young people getting into radio drama using the Internet notes
the influence of classic shows like Jack Benny and The Shadow.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:54:08 -0400
From: "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  FW: Propellers to Jets
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Jimmie Allen originally flew propeller craft in the 1930s series.  Many
episodes with Murray McClain in the title role.  But after World War II the
program was revived with a new cast, new sound effects, but the same old
military march style music for a theme.  The old scripts were used, with an
attempt to "update" them in a very unsuccessful manner.  A very long run of
the revived series is in circulation.

            In the story, Jimmie's pal and mentor, Speed Robertson, is
tapped to fly a new super airplane.  In the original episodes he was
probably going to fly a new biplane or even monoplane that could make three
hundred miles an hour.  (These episodes are not known to survive from the
original version.) In the remake, Speed is to fly an atomic powered jet that
will go twice the speed of sound.  Things do not go well, and Speed has to
bail out, letting the ship crash.   Later, Jimmie examines the crash site
and finds, in about 1949, a suspicious bit of "wing fabric".   Wing fabric
from a modern jet plane?   I don't think so.  That would harken back to the
days of wood and canvas planes from the first World War, the 1920s, and into
the 1930s.  The script had not been revised consistently, and had the "wing
fabric" line changed to something like a metal plate.

            A few other points:  The first appearance of Batman's partner,
Robin, occurred on the Superman series when Clark Kent found an unconscious
boy floating in a row boat.  Under his street clothes he wore a colorful
costume featuring a red vest.

He instantly recognized the boy had to be Robin, the Boy Wonder (although
the audience had to wait until the next episode to learn the secret - I
guessed the secret when I heard that show on the air on its original
broadcast when I was twelve.)

Robin tells Kent that Batman is missing, disappeared.   So Kent must have
known from the first that Robin, or Dick Grayson's guardian, Bruce Wayne,
was Batman.  In a later sequence, Superman is threatened by Kryptonite and
feels he must reveal his identity and the danger of Kryptonite to the Man to
Steel to Batman.   Now Batman knows Kent's secret, but they decide that
Robin is too young to be trusted with this information.  So far as I know,
the Boy Wonder was never let in on Kent's secret.

            In Beverly Hills, there is an intersection of George Burns and
Gracie Allen.  The streets were named for them for their contributions to a
clinic of the nearby Cedars Hospital.  My own Dr. Sherman has an office
there, and I go by the intersection any time I visit him.

            Also in Berkeley, CA. there is an intersection of Wheeler and
Woolsey.  They were comedians in the early thirties, made many movies, and
must have appeared on radio, perhaps had their own series, but I would have
to check that out.

            In Pioneertown, CA., there are streets named for Tom Mix, Gene
Autry and Roy Rogers.

            JIM HARMON

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:44:11 -0400
From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Unmasked!

With regards to the secret identity question, a Digester wrote me offline to
say that Superman & Batman learned each other's secret identities in the
story after the Atom Man (late 1945).  Apparently, Clark needs Batman's help
in tracking down a Kryptonite fragment, so he goes to Bruce Wayne (whom he
already knows to be Batman thanks to the X-Ray vision he has) and confesses.

Very intersting!  So, Superman knows Batman's identity through the aid of his
x-ray vision (and I think we can assume that he would know Robin's identity
this way as well).  So, he knows who they are from the start.  And, we know
that Batman learns Superman's identity as described above.  [removed] the
mystery still lingers as to whether or not Robin was ever let in on the
secret of Superman's [removed]

Karen Lerner
Radio Spirits, Inc.

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:44:56 -0400
From: Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Harry Conn

Whatever became of Jack Benny's former writer  Harry Conn?

It's said that Conn finally ended up as a backstage doorman in a New York
theatre.  I know of several people who have searched long and hard for an
obituary on him, but I know of no one who's ever found one.

I haven't found an obit on Conn, but a 1958 article on him in the New
York Mirror verifies that he was then working as a doorman, at the
Playhouse Theatre. According to the article, he had written for Benny
"within the last three years." I don't know if that's true, but he
wrote for Jolson, Cantor, Mae West, Willie Howard and of course Burns
and Allen--his first clients.

Jordan R. Young

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:35:37 -0400
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  My tribute to radio and [removed]

I was just browsing thru some of my writings and came across this [removed]

"The Bickersons, Dad, and me" (by Ted Kneebone, for Earl Kneebone, 11/30/91)

It was the Bickersons that did it.

I haven't seen Dad laugh so hard in years, many years.

Maybe since I was a kid in Winner or Sisseton.

Tonight we sat at his desk in apartment #1

and listened to cassettes of old radio shows.

    Jack Benny was so-so.

    Abbott and Costello did their play on words.

    George and Gracie were in top form.

But it was the Bickersons that did it, Don Ameche and Francis Langford.

The sonics were bad -- the sounds barely making their way

thru the scratch. Those old 16" transcriptions couldn't stand much playing.
And who cared much, then, about proper storage?

But the humor was there -- in spades.

And Dad, partly deaf in his left ear, somehow lost that deafness.

He caught every line that I could [removed]

And laughed and laughed until we both cried.

And we loved every minute of it. I think it did something for him.

I think he shed forty years in that those hours of listening with me.

For that time, he and I were transported back to 1947.

The old RCA console with four bands and a large yellow-glowing [removed]

His easy chair.

He smoked and drank beer then and read, but he never missed a joke, if it
was a comedy,

or a clue, if it was a detective show.

But for two hours, we didn't need a color television.

We were in a magical time when radio entertained [removed]

and we did not need to see our entertainers.

Sometimes their words, music, and sound effects

had to struggle thru a haze of static, but we persisted.

What therapy there is in laughter!

Norman Cousins was right.

I think laughter can cure just about anything -- even age.

For two hours tonight,

Dad was thirty-nine and I was eleven.

And the Bickersons did it for us.

Thanks, God, for Don Ameche, Francis Langford,

and one of your miracles -- radio.

[The above is free verse. It can be single-spaced, but I don't know how to
do it.]

Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401
[removed]~stmarkch/
Democrats: [removed]

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:36:22 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Meet Corliss Archer"
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       I've heard several people here mention a radio series called "Meet
Corliss
Archer".  Unfortunately, I've never heard any details about it myself.  Could
anyone provide me with any background?  If so, send it to me off list.  What
type program was it?  Are there any eps of it still available?  Now that my
curiosity has been piqued, I want to find out whatever I can.  Was it on the
air
very long?

Another OTR Fan,

Kenneth Clarke

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