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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 149
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Banquo's Chair                        [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
  Banquo's Chair                        [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
  Banquo's Chair                        [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
  RE: "Banquo's Chair"                  [ Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed] ]
  Friday 13th births/deaths             [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Charity Auction                       [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  Re: Banquo's Chair                    [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
  Man Who Saw Jack Benny Naked Tells A  [ seandd@[removed] ]
  Chan and a radio station              [ "Arthur Emerson" <milart@[removed]; ]
  Ampex 631 - lockup issues?            [ Chargous@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:28:08 -0400
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Banquo's Chair

In a message dated 6/12/2008 12:18:43 [removed] Eastern Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

There is no such
chair  mentioned in the show and the show has nothing to do with MacBeth  or
Scotland.  There is also no character named Banquo in the show.

I  haven't listened to that Suspense.  Could someone post it on a Podcast?

In the play Banquo is killed by Macbeth because he, Macbeth, wants to  make
sure he is the beginning of a linage of Kings.

This is the quote  from the Yale  Shakespeare

Enter the Ghost  of Banquo, and sits in Macbeth's place.

Macbeth. Sweet remembrance! Now  good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both! ;
Lennox. May't  please your highness sit?
Macbeth. Here had we now our country's honor roof  d, Were the grac'd person
of our Banquo present; Who may I rather challenge for  unkindness Than pity
for mischance!
Ross. His absence, sir, Lays blame upon  his promise. Please't your highness
To grace us with your royal company?
Macbeth. The table's full.
Lennox. Here is a place reserv'd,  sir.
Macbeth. Where?
Lennox. Here, my good lord. What is't that moves  your highness?
Macbeth. Which of you have done this?
Lords.  What,lord?
Macbeth. Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks  at me.

In this case  there is no chair for Banquo.  He is sitting in Macbeth's
chair.   Macbeth says that the table is full so there would be no empty chair
at
all.  Hence Banquo doesn't even have a chair.

It is the year of  Macbeth in the Northeast.  There was a presentation of the
opera (I  couldn't stand to watch the broadcast.  The 3 witches became a mob
of women  in black carrying boxy black purses); a production with Patrick
Steward (in that  production they poison and shoot Banquo even though the
Shakespeare lines say  that he should have this throat cut), Another
production
directed by Teller of  Penn and Teller which was in DC which was reported to
be
EXTREMELY bloody and  another production slated for NYC.  Also reportedly
planned
to be  bloody.

What gives?  Why is Macbeth all of a sudden of  interest?

Larry Moore

[ADMINISTRIVIA: I love requests; see [removed] for this
episode of Suspense - you can download it, play it directly on the page with
the built-in player, or subscribe to the RSS feed and receive all of the
shows on the podcast. Lately we've been running some really good stuff
provided by Jerry Haendiges, so don't miss out!  --cfs3]

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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:28:40 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Banquo's Chair
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        Seems to me that there was a character named Banquo in Shakespeare's
play "MacBeth" (aka the Scottish play to stage actors).  As I recall, Banquo
died and returned to haunt MacBeth later in the play.  He appeared at a feast
given
by MacBeth and sat in the chair reserved for him at the table.  Thing is,
only MacBeth could see Banquo sitting there in the chair, no one else could
see
this apparition.  Why he returned to haunt this man, I couldn't say for sure.

        I'd say if there was a meaning behind this title ("Banquo's Chair") it
probably
refers to any apparition or supernatural being who returns to exact some
revenge
on anyone who's done him/her wrong.  It's not about a character name in the
episode or a specific piece of furniture named/shown in the episode.

        The only reason this reference rang a bell for me was that, in high
school,
we had to read a lot of Shakespeare and analyze it.  That, however, was over
30 years ago.

        Didn't Alfred Hitchcock have an episode with this title?  Sounds like
a title
he might have considered.

Another OTR Fan,

Kenneth Clarke

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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:29:03 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Banquo's Chair
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During the pre-production meeting at the CBS  studios someone asked aloud
what the title BANQUO'S CHAIR referred to as there  is no chair in the script.
    The response was that the original title was BRONX  CHEER but the censors
prohibited them from using that title.
    LOL.
    OK.
    I mad that up.
    Sorry. Couldn't resist.
                            Gwynne

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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:30:10 -0400
From: Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: "Banquo's Chair"

Campbell inquired:

There is no such chair mentioned in the show and the show has nothing to do
with MacBeth or Scotland. There is> also no character named Banquo in the
show. Does anybody know to what the title refers?

It's a deliberate literary allusion. Banquo's chair is, quite simply, the
chair that the ghost sits [removed] ghost that, by its presence, causes panic
in the person at the table who is the murderer. In the case of the
Shakespeare tragedy, Macbeth is the only one to see the ghost; the rest of
the assemblage merely sees the empty chair in which Banquo would have sat. In
the radio play the characters at the table pretend to not see the actress
playing the ghost so as to further frighten the homicdal nephew (played by
Hans Conried) into open betrayal and confession of his crime.

Two interesting side-notes:
(1) Although BANQUO'S CHAIR has been performed on stage, filmed for the
movies and television, and has appeared as a short story, it was originally
written by Rupert Croft-Cooke as a radio drama.
(2) When it first appeared on radio in 1926, the title was simply "The
Telegram." It was apparently only after the initial broadcast that
Croft-Cooke added the Shakespearean reference.

Incidentally, while Croft-Cooke didn't do much of anything else in the
supernatural vein, he did write (under the pen name of Leo Bruce) a series of
delightful Golden Age (ie. between the wars) mysteries centering around the
dubious detectional skills of the blustering Sergeant Beef. The author
himself serves as Beef's Watson, all the while complaining  that all the
"good detectives" (Poirot, Wimsey, etc.) are already taken by other writers.
These books are hilarious send-ups which fully deserve to be rediscovered and
reprinted. One of them which I've read, THE CASE WITH NO CONCLUSION, is even
set in the same gloomy suburban neighborhood that BANQUO'S CHAIR takes place
in.

Mike Ogden

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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:30:18 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Friday 13th births/deaths

Friday the 13th births

06-13-1873 - Jean Adair - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - d. 5-11-1953
actor: "Radio Guild"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
06-13-1874 - Major Edward Bowes - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-13-1946
emcee: "Capitol Family"; "Original Amateur Hour"
06-13-1887 - Edward 'Senator' Ford - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-27-1970
panelist: "Can You Top This"
06-13-1890 - Elmer Davis - Aurora, IN - d. 5-18-1958
newscaster: "Elmer Davis and the News"
06-13-1892 - Basil Rathbone - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 7-21-1967
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"; Inspector Burke "Scotland
Yard's Inspector Burke"
06-13-1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers - Oxford, England - d. 12-17-1957
writer: "He That Should Come: A Nativity Play"
06-13-1894 - Mark Van Doren - Hope, IL - d. 12-10-1972
pulitzer prize winning poet: "NBC University Theatre"; "Invitation to
Learning"
06-13-1894 - Tay Garnett - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-4-1977
film director: "Three Sheets to the Wind"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
06-13-1899 - Carlos Chavez - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 8-2-1978
composer, conductor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Sinfonia India"
06-13-1900 - Ian Hunter - Kenilworth, South Africa - d. 9-24-1975
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
06-13-1903 - Jack Fulton - Philipsburg, PA - d. 11-13-1993
singer: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"; "The Kraft Music Hall"
06-13-1905 - Doc Cheatham - Nashville, TN - d. 6-2-1997
jazz trumpeter: "Benny Goodman and His Sextet/Orchestra"; "Benny
Goodman Quintet"
06-13-1908 - Carl Eastman - NYC - d. 1-16-1970
actor: "Mrs. Miniver"; "Renfrew of the Mounted"
06-13-1909 - Anna Sosenko - NYC - d. 6-9-2000
friend and agent to Hildegard
06-13-1911 - Maurice Copeland - Rector, AR - d. 10-3-1985
actor: Augustus Pendelton "Ma Perkins"; "Curtain Time"; "Hall of
Fantasy"
06-13-1912 - Sam Taylor - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-2000
writer: "Tales ofWillie Piper"
06-13-1913 - Bob Bailey - Toeldo, OH - d. 8-13-1983
actor: Johnny Dollar "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; George Valentine
"Let George Do It"
06-13-1913 - Ralph Edwards - Merino, CO - d. 11-16-2005
host, announcer: "Truth or Consequences"; "This Is Your Life";
"Original Amateur Hour"
06-13-1916 - Mary Wickes - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1995
actor: Louise "Meet Corliss Archer"; Irma Barker "Lorenzo Jones"
06-13-1917 - Elizabeth Reller - Richmond, IN - d. 9-29-1996
actor: Connie Barclay "Doc Barclay's Daughters"
06-13-1917 - Si Zentner - NYC - d. 2-6-2000
bandleader, trombonist: "Si Zentner and His Orchestra"; "Guard Session"
06-13-1920 - Ben Johnson - Pawnee, OK - d. 4-8-1996
actor: "Francis Burke for Attorney General"
06-13-1923 - Eric Greer Earley - Ireland
writer: "The Custodians"
06-13-1924 - Lee Millar - Oakland, CA - d. 9-21-1980
actor: Bob Regent "Chandu the Magician"; "On Stage"; "NBC Presents:
Short Story"
06-13-1939 - Tom Cheek - Pensacola, FL - d. 10-9-2005
sports announcer: Original Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play

Friday the 13th deaths

05-26-1893 - Eugene Goosens - London, England - d. 6-13-1962
conductor: New York Philharmonic
05-30-1909 - Benny Goodman - Chicago, IL - d. 6-13-1986
bandleader: (King of Swing) "Camel Caravan"; "Victor Borge Show"
06-07-1887 - Carmela Ponselle - Schenectady, NY - d. 6-13-1977
operatic mezzo-soprano: "The Metropolitan Opera"
06-13-1874 - Major Edward Bowes - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-13-1946
emcee: "Capitol Family"; "Original Amateur Hour"
06-17-1920 - Aaron "Red" Doff - Washington, D. C. - d. 6-13-1997
actor: "Uncle Whoa Bill"
07-20-1919 - [removed] Stevens - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-13-1994
actor: Lois Graves "Junior Miss"
07-26-1896 - Charles Butterworth - South Bend, IN - d. 6-13-1946
comedian: "Fred Astaire Show"
07-28-1912 - George Cisar - Illinois - d. 6-13-1979
actor: Tim "Tena and Tim"
09-05-1879 - Reginald C. Knorr - Mottville, MI - d. 6-13-1959
actor: "Myrt and Marge"
10-10-1913 - Johnny Downs - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-13-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-08-1931 - Darla Hood - Leedey, OK - d. 6-13-1979
actor: "Jack Benny Program"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
11-20-1907 - Fran Allison - La Porte City, IA - d. 6-13-1989
actor, singer: Aunt Fanny, "Breakfast Club"; "National Barn Dance";
"Uncle Ezra"
11-22-1924 - Geraldine Page - Kirksville, MO - d. 6-13-1987
actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:05:58 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Charity Auction

The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention is hosting a Charity auction this
September. A number of celebrities from Fess Parker, Alan Young to Norman
Corwin have been kind enough to donate something autographed for the auction.
There are a couple McFarland books (valued at $75 each) being donated as
well. If anyone has anything old-time radio related they would like to
donate, please let me know. MP3s, old magazines, comic books, radio
cassettes, anything is welcome. The money raised will benefit the Johns
Hopkins Comprehensive Cancer Center. A rep from Hopkins is scheduled to be in
attendance. If you plan to attend the convention, you can bring the item or
items with you to the convention.
Many thanks,
Martin
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:06:08 -0400
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Banquo's Chair

In OTR Digest #148, James Burns writes

Is it Macbeth's guilty conscience, or an actual spectre, visible only to
the dread [removed]

Has Macbeths' choice of chair at the banquet become known as the dread Scot
decision?
 ;-)

Jan Bach

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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:06:20 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Man Who Saw Jack Benny Naked Tells All!!!!

A veteran entertainment PR man recounts a very strange encounter with Jack
Benny in a recent address to the Publicity Club of Chicago:

[removed]

Also, Eddie Carroll's next performance of "Laughter in Bloom" is scheduled
for Wilmington, Ohio.

[removed];SubSectionID=156&ArticleID=166958&TM
=[removed]

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:06:34 -0400
From: "Arthur Emerson" <milart@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Chan and a radio station

Sounds like "The Scarlet Clue' at the "Cosmo Radio Station" -1945 - Sidney
Toler

Arthur

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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:12:13 -0400
From: Chargous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Ampex 631 - lockup issues?

Has anyone had any problems with the old-style 631 locking up?  It's the
older style light reddish-brown tape in the type of reel hub that 291 comes
in, not the newer style one from the 80s.

I've had two recently, 3 3/4 ips reels, both the same brand, different
sources, that have locked up about 3/4 to 4/5 of the way through.  It
didn't squeal.  One I was able to play by rewinding it a bit.  The other
one would slow down and lock once it got to that point no matter what.  I
haven't had this problem so far with non-coated reels of other brands and
model numbers.

Does baking help non-coated reels?  I've had squealer non-coated reels
before - all were labeled GKI 641.  I clean the heads and assorted parts
after each side.

I've had one lock-up issue with coated reels.  There was one that would
lock up at the same spot, even when baked twice.

Travis

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