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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 116
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Nightbeat with Frank Lovejoy          [ Dan <teac35@[removed]; ]
  Re: Kurt Vonnegut                     [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
  Kurt Vonnegut                         [ "John Weber" <wjweber@[removed] ]
  Cisco and Robin                       [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
  Kurt Vonnegut                         [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
  Vic and Sade Sep 29,1944              [ "Jay Manarky" <jayman@[removed]; ]
  4-14 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  O Henry                               [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]
  Mutual_Broadcasting_System            [ herbop@[removed] ]
  The Cisco Kid on Project Gutenberg    [ "Nancy's Overland Stage Lines (Nanc ]
  Addendum to post about Cisco Kid      [ "Nancy's Overland Stage Lines (Nanc ]
  This week in radio history 15-21 Apr  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:44:48 -0400
From: Dan <teac35@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Nightbeat with Frank Lovejoy

I obtained my copies from [removed]

 here is the link:

[removed]

your download options are:
1) single files

2) FTP

3) http

Dan

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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:11:57 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re:  Kurt Vonnegut

Me?

Oblique?

Did Kermyt Anderson say I was "oblique"?

I'm always rather a chipper [removed]

;-)

I had left the [removed]  Here's the Vonnegut remembrance I wrote, moments
upon finding out, he had [removed]
_ __________

"Between Acts With Vonnegut"

I'm pretty sure we had been in a few of the same places, over the years.

But the only time we met, was almost exactly two years ago, over at
Manhattan's York Theatre, for their concert presentation of his GOD
BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER.

At intermission, I made my normal bee-line, for the exits, looking to
catch my smoke.

The elevator was completely down, which didn't particularly affect me,
as I'll normally do that Bataan death march of stairs, a few flights up,
through the veins of the church.

But I was more than surprised to find the eighty-something Vonnegut
already on the stairs, ahead of me.

(I couldn't help but reflect on the theatres' inherent cruelty, to our
seniors.)

;-)

Those of us who are addicted to tobacco will not only walk a mile, but
do it uphill, and I think Vonnegut and I both found it odd to be outside
St. Peter's, two guys so seperated by decades, smoking the same
filter-less brand.

We chatted on the sources of addiction, and how it might well be
tobacco, in tandem with other chemicals, that affect some folks, and not
[removed] And how so much of everything, might just be based on
genetics.

He also told me something I had forgotten, how during World War II, a
soldier's mess kit, his K-rations, rather, also included some smokes.

We also chatted a bit, I think, on how some people have taken their
stance against smoking as a license to [removed]

But the overwhelming effect, the presence of the man, was one of
gentleness.

As we spoke of other things, within the strange camraderie of those
whose addiction has driven them to the streets, I knew that he was also
delighted that at that very special night in the theatre, he was able to
share it with his daughter.

If the aliens' ever do land, or some future sociologist--terrestrial, or
otherwise--tries to make sense of what was once the twentieh century,
he'll find Vonnegut a particularly humanistic purveyor of the future,
and worlds that a sidewise slip in time might still find a-borning.

Jim Burns  (James H. Burns)

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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:11:54 -0400
From: "John Weber" <wjweber@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Kurt Vonnegut

In response to Kermyt Anderson's question, there is at least one more case
of Vonnegut in NTR, if not OTR.  Yuri Rasovsky, audio dramatist
extrordinaire, produced a version for his excellent 2000X series for NPR.
[removed]  Unfortunately, with the impending closing of
the Lodestone Catalog, I am out of stock, and it is currently only available
at [removed] for downloads.

-- John Weber [removed]

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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:25:58 -0400
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Cisco and Robin

Jack French, in his "Cisco is no Robin Hood" post,
wrote

"So obviously the original Cisco was a heartless
murderer, ruthless and extremely cunning, who robbed
only for his own gain and killed anyone who opposed
him."

There are also early depictions of Robin Hood that
portray him as being more than a bit ruthless. The
whole idea that Robin Hood was a champion of the
people who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor
is a relatively recent development, dating back just a
few hundred years.

The Robin Hood tales themselves go back to the 1300s.

So, in a way, Cisco is like Robin in that both
characters underwent changes. Only in Cisco's case, it
happened over a shorter period of time.

Rick

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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:29:59 -0400
From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Kurt Vonnegut

Kermyt Anderson asks if there is any other Vonnegut connection to OTR
besides the Dimension X "Report on the Barnhouse Effect".

Well, I can think of a tangential one.  KV wrote the introduction to the
first Bob and Ray book, WRITE IF YOU GET WORK, in 1975.  In it he revealed
that he had once interviewed to be a writer for B & R, but didn't get the
job.  As a result of reading this I wasn't in the least surprised when that
guy (whose name escapes me now) came forward a few years ago and revealed he
had been a writer for B & R.  I had always assumed that since B & R didn't
hire Vonnegut they probably hired someone else.

So it goes.

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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:31:16 -0400
From: "Jay Manarky" <jayman@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Vic and Sade Sep 29,1944

      In the final show (original format) of Vic and Sade on Sep 29, 1944, 
Uncle Fletcher recites part of a poem:  "The plums and peaches dangle from 
the bough, the workman stops to wipe his sweating [removed]" He continues 
along to recite another 6 lines or so, but never finishes. the poem.

      I'm wondering if the poem is a Paul Rhymer original or if it  was 
written by someone else?   What I've heard of it is haunting and very 
introspective. I'd love to know the rest of it.

      That final broadcast is sheer genius.   I can not suppose that anyone 
but Paul Rhymer would have written a "goodbye show" written as this show was 
written.
      I
      The performance

      Can anyone help me?

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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:31:24 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-14 births/deaths

April 14th births

04-14-1898 - Lee Tracy - Atlanta, GA - d. 10-18-1968
actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Detective"
04-14-1903 - Lloyd Amoo - d. 7-xx-1973
newscaster: KRMC Jamestown, North Dakota
04-14-1904 - John Gielgud - London, England - d. 5-21-2000
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
04-14-1905 - Bob Stanton - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-xx-1977
nbc staff announcer: "Bob Stanton Sports"
04-14-1913 - John Howard - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-19-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hollywood Hotel"
04-14-1914 - Arnold Perl - d. 12-11-1971
writer: "The Big Story"; "I Fly Anything"; "The Amazing Mr. Tutt"
04-14-1914 - John Hubbard - East Chicago, IN - d. 11-6-1988
actor: Willie Faye "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"
04-14-1915 - Richard Hart - Providence, RI - d. 1-2-1951
actor: "Family Theatre"
04-14-1916 - Emerson Buckley - NYC - d. 11-17-1989
conductor: "Two Thousand Plus"; "Murder By Experts"
04-14-1917 - Valerie Hobson - Larne, Ireland - d. 11-13-1998
actor: Guest Contestant "One Minute Please"
04-14-1918 - Mary Healy - New Orleans, LA
actor: Jack Benny Program"; "Texaco Town"; "Ford Show"; "Lum and Abner"
04-14-1919 - Dennis Ballant - d. 5-xx-1970
disk jockey: WJAG Norfolk, Virginia
04-14-1926 - Gloria Jean - Buffalo, NY
singer: "The Bob Hope Show"
04-14-1940 - Patsy Bruder - Brooklyn, NY
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

April 14th deaths

02-16-1917 - George Neise - Chicago, IL - d. 4-14-1996
actor: "The Judy Canova Show"; "The Man Called X"
03-22-1924 - Bill Wendell - NYC - d. 4-14-1999
announcer: "Ten Troubled Years"; "Biography In Sound"
04-12-1921 - Peter R. Brooke - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-14-1999
writer: "Secret Mission"
04-13-1887 - Christian Rub - Austria - d. 4-14-1956
actor: (Voice of Pinnochio) "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-12-1907 - Leslie Charteris - Singapore - d. 4-14-1993
mystery writer: "The Adventures of the Saint"
06-03-1911 - Ellen Corby - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1999
actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
06-14-1909 - Burl Ives - Hunt Township, IL - d. 4-14-1995
singer: "Columbia County Journal"; "Radio Reader's Digest"
07-12-1898 - Joe Reichman - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-14-1970
bandleader: (the Pagliacci of the Piano) "A Song is Born"
08-07-1906 - Ernestine Wade - Mississippi - d. 4-14-1983
actor: Sapphire Stevens "Amos 'n' Andy"
08-31-1897 - Fredric March - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1975
actor: "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
09-04-1913 - Henry Russell - Michigan - d. 4-14-1968
conductor: "NBC University Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
09-24-1931 - Anthony Newley - London, England - d. 4-14-1999
singer, actor: "Round and Round"
11-05-1893 - Jean Sothern - d. 4-14-1964
actor: Edie Gray "Pepper Young's Family"; Connie Rickard "Red Davis"
xx-xx-1889 - Ivy Litvinov - England - d. 4-14-1977
author: "Information Please"
xx-xx-xxxx - Harry A. Earnshaw - d. 4-14-1953
Along with Raymond R. Morgan created "Chandu the Magician

Ron Sayles

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:21:42 -0400
From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  O Henry
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<As a writer, I find it disheartening that so few know much about such 
a
major popular writer of the Twentieth Century as O. Henry and what has
become his most famous single character. - J. [removed];
   
   I agree with Jim about how sad it is that so few know about a man who produced over 600 short stories in a relative brief time (1898 - 1910) This week Imagination Theatre will air a radio adaptation of the O. Henry story "The Marionettes." written especially for us by British writer M. J. Elliott. If you get a chance please give it a listen.
  Larry Albert

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:21:56 -0400
From: herbop@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mutual_Broadcasting_System
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Recently the subject of the Mutual radio network came up. I don't
remember the details of the post(s), but they got me interested to
check Wikipedia:
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Can't be sure if all the details of the MBS history as written are
factual, but the article sure is interesting.

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:22:42 -0400
From: "Nancy's Overland Stage Lines (Nancy and Larry A. Hall, Sr.)"
 <NancysOverlandStageLines@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Cisco Kid on Project Gutenberg

In the last issue, Jack French gave a rather good synopsis of the Cisco Kid.

The story can be read (or downloaded) at the following web-address:

[removed]

(Confession time:  Duncan Renaldo (television) will always be my favorite
Cisco.

Regards,
Nancy Hall (long time lurker)

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:23:06 -0400
From: "Nancy's Overland Stage Lines (Nancy and Larry A. Hall, Sr.)"
 <NancysOverlandStageLines@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Addendum to post about Cisco Kid

Sorry - should have mentioned to scroll to the short story:

XI. The Caballero's Way 
(in the previous post) 

(Good at lurking, lousy at letter-writing.)

Nancy

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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:23:15 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 15-21 April

 From Those Were The Days --

4/17

1933 - Backed by the On the Trail portion of the magnificent Grand
Canyon Suite, Johnny Roventini, pillbox hat and all, uttered the words
"Call for Philip Morris" for the first time on radio. The famous phrase
was said in perfect B flat pitch and tone to perfectly match the
accompanying music. This "Call for Philip Morris" phrase became one of
the most famous in all of advertising.

1935 - People gathered around to listen for the first time to what would
become the ultimate horror show on NBC, Lights Out.

4/19

1924 - The WLS Barn Dance began airing on WLS.

4/21

1935 -- Your Hit Parade was first broadcast.

1947 - Fred Allen didn't find things so funny when censors cut him off
the air during his broadcast. Allen was telling a joke about a mythical
network vice-president when he was suddenly taken off the air. One
moment [removed]

4/21

1940 - Take It or Leave It, was first heard on CBS on this day. Bob Hawk
offered contestants a top prize of $64. No, there were no lovely parting
gifts or consolation prizes that we could find. Losers just left.

1949 - The prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for Broadcasting was
presented to You Bet Your Life star, "The one, the only, Groucho
(Marx)." This was the first time the honor had been awarded to a comedian.

Joe

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