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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2001 : Issue 318
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: RKO Morse Code on CITIZEN KANE D [ SanctumOTR@[removed] ]
Testing in Kansas//// [removed] [ "Ed Kindred" <kindred@[removed]; ]
Re: LONE RANGER interviews & HAVE GU [ SanctumOTR@[removed] ]
RKO Radio Pictures [ "Ed Ellers" <ed_ellers@[removed]; ]
HELP! [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
listeners back when [ michael berger <intercom1@attglobal ]
Re: Empire of the Air [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
Empire of the Air - on radio in 1992 [ Bill Harris <radioguy@[removed]; ]
OTR and TV [ "Clyde J. Kell" <cjkell@[removed] ]
Education Standards [ "Philip Railsback" <philiprailsback ]
Bitten By Sound [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
Loyal Fans And Shows [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
Re: Rhiman Rotz [ Jshnay1@[removed] ]
Re: Empire of the Air - on radio in [ Alan Bell <bella@[removed]; ]
Memorabilia [ sojax@[removed] (Roger Smith) ]
Re: Courses on Broadcast History [ "E. Susan Stonehill" <esusie@[removed] ]
Origins of Gunsmoke [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]
Another Opinion on 8th Grade Educati [ GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@ ]
"The Wedding Party Of Mickey Mouse" [ "cominghomemag" <cominghomemag@msn. ]
Re: Turned there back on Radio [ OTRChris@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:30:31 -0400
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: RKO Morse Code on CITIZEN KANE DVD
In a message dated 9/28/01 10:04:08 AM, Dave Walter"
fredallenfan@[removed] asks:
By any chance, does the film contain the RKO Radio "morse code" logo at the
beginning?
***The print of CITIZEN KANE contained in the new two-DVD set does indeed
begin with the original RKO Radio "morse code" logo. --ANTHONY TOLLIN
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:30:56 -0400
From: "Ed Kindred" <kindred@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Testing in Kansas//// [removed]
I would imagine that Jay Leno would not receive a correct answer to any of
the Jayhawk questions on a "Jaywalking" foray. It may also explain how my
Okie born (1904) and Jayhawk schooled daddy who handled a team of horses on
a water wagon in the potato fields at age four and with only an incomplete?
high school education could be a high school teacher at the Arizona
Vocational School (later Phoenix Tech) during WWll. Well, He did go to
Summer School at Colorado A&M one Summmer. I knew the location, shape and
capitol of all the states by third grade in the 40's. I think that most
kids today despite the availability of Internet, Discovery, History and TLC
aint got no clues bout jography.
Loved the Lone Ranger but some of the General Mills cereal offerings just
about ruined me for life on Kix and Wheaties. If my steel sieve memory is
holding together properly, I recollect two offerings with the medleys of
Cheerios, Kix and Wheaties containerized in the small boxes. One was an
offering of city blocks with store fronts from the main package and the
individual houses from the servings of cereal. The other offering was an
airport with the main packages forming hangers. I don't recall what we did
with the indivdual servings. Before my sets were completed I hated Kix and
it was over 50 years before I ate Wheaties again.
Cheerios is ok but no food value. Wheaties I might buy on sale and mix with
something else. KIX? NEVER!!!!!
Ed Kindred
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:28:02 -0400
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: LONE RANGER interviews & HAVE GUN, WILL
TRAVEL origin
In a message dated 9/28/01 10:04:08 AM, Tom Heathwood writes:
There have been a number of "interviews" of the cast of THE LONE RANGER,
including our own Heritage production, "Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch" - but
there are, apparently, others done at various times when the show was on the
air and afterwards with such LR favorites as: Earl Graser, Brace Beemer,
Paul Hughes, John Todd,Ernie Winstanley, Elaine Alpert and many more.
***What interview materials survive of Earle Graser, John Todd and Elaine
Alpert? I'd very much like to obtain copies.***
Which, if any, show of the HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL series might be considered
the origin show? None of the early episodes have reference back to a
beginning. There was one show on the TV series, well into the run, that kind
of explained the origin of Paladin.
***The only origin episode of HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL is "Genesis," the Sam
Rolfe-scripted last season TV opener directed by William Conrad (and
co-starring Conrad and Parley Baer). The episode originally aired September
15, 1962, nearly two years after the radio version was cancelled. It's an
incredibly mythic story, as the man who will become Paladin slays a "dragon"
and becomes that which he has killed. Having Richard Boone portray both the
man called Paladin and similarly-garbed Smoke, the mythic quality is
increased and takes on the nature of the story of the Olympian gods
vanquishing their own parents (the Titans) and becoming the new "gods"
(becoming that which they themselves killed).
It's important to remember that not all series or characters had origin
stories in the old days, and that such stories were often afterthoughts
(except in the case of Superman where the entire mythos is a clear outgrowth
of the doomed-planet Krypton origin story). The Shadow was featured in more
than a hundred novels before Walter Gibson provided an origin story, while
The Lone Ranger "led the fight for law and order" for nearly a decade before
his origin story was recounted first on radio (in the 1941 "Legion of the
Black Arrow" serial and the 1942 Christmas storyline that introduced Dan
Reid). Both Gibson and Striker realized that it was good to keep an element
of mystery around their creations. Gibson established from the beginning
that Lamont Cranston was only one of many identities assumed by The Shadow
(and not the real one), while Striker steadfastly refused to give The Lone
Ranger even a first name. The wisdom of buring the Ranger's identity with
the other Texas Rangers at Bryant's Gap becomes clear when one watches the
1881 film, THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER. The character loses so much
mystery and duende when he's portrayed as an ordinary person for the first
half of the movie. And note, the Man CALLED Paladin similarly wasn't given a
real name on radio or TV. --ANTHONY TOLLIN
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:28:46 -0400
From: "Ed Ellers" <ed_ellers@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RKO Radio Pictures
Dave Walter <fredallenfan@[removed]; wrote:
By any chance, does the film contain the RKO Radio "morse code" logo at the
beginning? On the "50th Anniversary" VHS edition, that logo was snipped and
replaced with the "Turner Broadcasting" logo. I would hope that Warner
Brothers has enough courage to revert to the film as it was actually
released instead of maintaining Ted's ego statement.
They may well have, since -- now that RKO has been revived as a label for
new films -- Time Warner recently commissioned a new, yet authentic, "morse
code" logo sequence. (It's in color, and very faithful to the original in
other respects, but it most likely was done in computer animation as is
customary these days.)
That Turner logo (it did not mention broadcasting, just the name) and
fanfare was a lamentable decision of Ted's. It would have been perfectly
appropriate for new productions, but why add it to existing material?
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:29:04 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: HELP!
I took my favorite open reel machine, a Pioneer RT-707, in for repair last
week. The brake on one side didn't work so I asked for new brakes on both
sides. Much to my chagrin, I got a call from them this week saying that
Pioneer no longer makes brakes for it. They are going to try to "repair" the
brake. Does anyone know where one can still buy them?
Thanks,
Barbara
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:29:21 -0400
From: michael berger <intercom1@[removed];
To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: listeners back when
Three cheers for George Wagner's fond and detailed
remembrances of his father. My father came to maturity
a decade later, never went to university, yet was
widely read, could quote from Balzac, Poe and Wilde,
and on Sundays, after the mysteries, would almost
always listen to Theatre Guild on the Air. Most of his
close friends and family had similar backgrounds, yet
all were, in the true sense of the word, highly
literate.
It enriched my childhood, sitting at the dinner table
and listening to the varied and often witty
conversation of the grownups.
Comparisons between then and now are risky, but I do
believe that those generations had many qualities that
seem in short supply today.
I wrote some time back about Information Please, a
mainstream radio show that was tops in its category,
and maybe even an overall No. 1 for many years. Listen
to the rich content of that program, with much emphasis
on literary and historic data, almost all of it
submitted by listeners across the country, and you will
get a picture of the intellectual caliber of many Americans
then (the show ran from 1938 to the late 1940s.)
Michael Berger
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:29:46 -0400
From: StevenL751@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Empire of the Air
In a message dated 09/28/2001 11:04:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
The radio presentation of "Empire of the Air" was far better than the TV
version, and I"m fortunate to have recorded it (in Stereo).
I agree that the radio version of "Empire of the Air" was a fine production.
This 90-minute dramatization of the development of commercial radio
broadcasting features a cast of 90, including the voices of Ed Asner, Bonnie
Bedelia, John Astin, Steve Allen, David Ogden Stiers, Jayne Meadows, and
Norman Corwin. It was produced (and I think also written) by David Ossman.
It has been released commercially on cassette and can be purchased at
[removed], my favorite source for "new-time" radio.
Steve Lewis
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:30:48 -0400
From: Bill Harris <radioguy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Empire of the Air - on radio in 1992
KENPILETIC@[removed] commented:
Armstrong was the man who invented both AM and FM plus many
innovations in radio that are now commonplace, eg, stereo, and he never
received the recognition he deserved because of politics and jealousy.
He eventually committed suicide.
I don't think Armstrong can be given credit for inventing AM as
spark-gap transmitters and radio frequency generating alternators
were being Amplitude Modulated while Armstrong was still a lad in
school. Using an alternator, Ernst F. W. Alexanderson sent AM
transmissions on Christmas Eve, 1906. It wasn't until 1912 that
Armstrong, experimenting with the deForest audion tube, discovered
the property of 'regeneration', where the weak signal output of
the tube could be fed back into the input to be amplified many
times over which made the tube become a very sensitive receiver.
This principal of regeneration or feedback could also be use to
make the tube oscillate and become a generator radio frequencies.
This made spark gap transmitters obsolete as now the vacuum tube
could be used for both receiving and generating radio waves and
these steady radio waves when modulated, produced a clear audio
signal as opposed to the harsh rasp of the spark gap signal.
Bill Harris
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:31:16 -0400
From: "Clyde J. Kell" <cjkell@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR and TV
Hello Folks,
I'm new to this lists, so I've been lurking for the past four issues to
get a flavor for the discussion. Here's my take on OTR and TV
or Movies. If this has been discussed earlier please pardon.
While many of the old time radio shows were successfully
transported to television, and made into successful movies, many
just did not make it. I think the reason for this is that many of the
story lines were designed to enhance and make the listener's
imagination run wild. You can't do that with television or
movies. And that is what makes old time radio soooo, compelling
and enjoyable for me. For example, it is my understanding that
the series the Shadow would have been a major flop and I think
was a flop on the silver screen or the little box.
What I find very interesting is that this same phenomenon is present
when you compare many business ventures trying to move to the internet.
Thus a partial reason for the Dot Com bust this past year!
Ok, thats my two cents worth, and I'm glad I found this lists.
Regards,
Clyde J. Kell
[removed]
cjkell@[removed]
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:31:37 -0400
From: "Philip Railsback" <philiprailsback@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Education Standards
This argument has been going of for generations. For the counter argument,
you might want to check out "The Myth of Failing Schools" at Atlantic
monthly online. The address is
[removed].
Here's one interesting excerpt: "Bracey showed, such complaints are hardly
new. In 1943 The New York Times, citing findings by the historian Allan
Nevins, reported its shock at discovering that
a large majority of [college] students showed that they had virtually no
knowledge of elementary aspects of American history [and] could not identify
such names as Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, or Theodore
[removed] Some students believed that George Washington was president
during the War of [removed] St. Louis was placed on the Pacific Ocean, Lake
Huron, Lake Erie, the Atlantic Ocean, Ohio River, and almost every place
else.
"Similarly, the college students described Walt Whitman as a missionary, a
pioneer, a colonizer, an unpatriotic writer, a humorist, an English poet,
and (not surprising in the days of Paul Whiteman) a band leader. Plus Áa
change ..."
As for 8th Grade test from Kansas, you can check out the urban myths
specialists at
[removed]
- Philip
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:32:18 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bitten By Sound
Henry Howard, speaking of listeners during the OTR era and today,
observes,
I would suspect that listeners THEN had better listening skills and the
discipline to listen intently.
I think it's more like "then" people could "multitask," using computer
technology. I was a listener "then." But while listening, I also was
doing something else, which could have been playing with my electric
trains, studying things with a magnifying glass, or the like. Today,
much "listening" is associated with simultaneously viewing. The TV sound
bite today is also a "view bite."
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:32:42 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Loyal Fans And Shows
OTRChris, speaking of niche programming and the like, observes,
These shows certainly did not attract the general radio audience .
However, the niche audience they did attract seems to be bigger than one
would expect to find for such a program today . Perhaps this was mostly
due to being on the schedule year after year and a big time sponsor
paying for the publicity of the program ?
Well, it's also a matter of what was available to listen to. My wife,
who was born in 1950, loves the music from the 1930s and 1940s. Although
she's not an OTR aficionado, she truly enjoys the music that was
contemporary with the era. We live in Florida, where there are a lot of
retirees, and even in the Tasmpa NBay area, the "oldies" stations tend to
broadcast music from the 1950s onward. So she listens to stations that
broadcast something she likes rather than something she loves.
I'm sure that something analogous happened back then. Particularly
before the spread of "narrowcasting" FM stations that started spreading
in the 1950s, the broadcasts of bands and the like were part of what
people could get.
OTRChris adds,
While these [mass-appeal] programs attracted the mass audience there
was another category of shows that were less popular but seemed to have
a more specific , regular and faithful audience. <snip> Maybe not
appreciated by the masses but their regular listeners made them almost
cult shows.
Listener loyalty was an important factor (as is viewer loyalty today)
provided that enough listeners are loyal. If the audience share is
extremely low, even the most devoted listener base can't sustain a show.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:38:52 -0400
From: Jshnay1@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Rhiman Rotz
Friday's Chicago Tribune carried an obituary for Rhiman Rotz, a history and
philospohy professor at Indiana University Northwest at Gary and a frequent
contributor to the OTR forum. Those of us who chatted with Rhiman on and off
line found him to be an erudite person with a deep interest in many things,
among them old time radio.
[ADMINISTRIVIA: The on-line obituary is available at:
[removed];LastName=rotz
--cfs3]
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:50:06 -0400
From: Alan Bell <bella@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Empire of the Air - on radio in 1992
KENPILETIC@[removed] disses the Ken Burns doc:
There was a medeocre documentary which roughly followed the book
on PBS television in 1991.
Let me cast a dissenting vote there. I think the TV documentary was
quite well done. I have not read the book, so I can make no
comparison, but then I generally believe a book and a movie should
each stand on its own. Reading a book first will almost always mean
the movie pales in camparison.
Armstrong was the man who invented both AM and FM plus many
innovations in radio that are now commonplace
Actually, while Armstrong made tremendous strides and improvements,
he did not invent AM.
If you only saw the PBS documentary, you missed the essence of the
story.
I kind of tentatively disagree again, not having not read the book.
At least, if what YOU wrote was, indeed, the "essence" of the story,
I think the doc covered it quite well. Even so, trying to do in under
two hours what a book does in hundreds of pages is a tall order.
Therefore, the filmmakers make choices on what to leave in and what
to cut. That doesn't make the doc "mediocre," it just makes it a
different work with different expectations.
If you want a comprehensive history, one should NEVER expect a film
or television show to provide it. That's really not what they're for.
Print will always win out there. And I'm a long time TV and
documentary producer. Frankly, I wish I'd produced "Empire of the
Air."
Now, having said that, I'd REALLY like to HEAR the radio version.
I'll check my local libraries, but if I can't find it locally,
perhaps someone will suggest venues where it can be purchased?
--
Alan Bell
Grandville, MI
bella@[removed]
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:13:28 -0400
From: sojax@[removed] (Roger Smith)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Memorabilia
This finally got the best of me and I must submit my bunch of stuff.
Chesterfield Supper Club large folder*****3 Avon radio bottles*****3
Avon radio microphone bottles KAVN*****2 Nipper muggs*****2 One Man's
Family Looks at Life promo book 1938*****Breakfast Club Fan Album
1942*****WWJ The Detroit News promo book 1922*****Bachelor's Children
promo book 1939*****Lum and Abner 1937 Family Almanac*****A Dictionary
of Radio Terms 1946***** Don McNeill Blue Breakfast Club Charter Member
folder early forties*****Don McNeill's 20 Years of Corn
booklet*****Stars in my Heaven booklet 1948*****2 each 200,000 For
Breakfast With Tom Breneman book 1943*****set of Deagan Chimes *****2
Avon RADIO Radios*****CBS Quiet Please On the Air metal sign*****17" x
24" This is CBS The Columbia Broadcasting System cartoon of radio stars
all identified in a listing at the bottom. 41 CBS radio
shows*****Ovaltine's Golden Annie-Versary mug***** and a pile more that
I have more than likely missed. Then I have the following BOOKS*********
Lou's on First*****Red Skelton*****Say Goodnight Gracy*****Third Time
Around*****The Jack Benny Show*****Ladies and Gentlemen Easy
Aces*****The Groucho Phile*****Tune in Yesterday*****The Big
Broadcast*****The Big Broadcast 2nd edition*****Radio's First 75
Years*****Great American Broadcast*****The Encyclopedia of Old Time
Radio*****Delong-Radio Stars*****WBBM Radio Yesterday and
Today*****Broadcasting-Spec. Report The First 50 Years of NBC*****On a
Note of Triumph*****Don't Touch That Dial*****Radio Broadcasting*****The
Great Radio Heroes*****WYXIE Wonderland*****A Flick of the
Switch*****Radio Comedy*****Heavenly Days*****Can You Top This?
1945*****That's All Folks*****A Pictorial History of Radio*****Radio's
Golden Years*****Radio*****Old Time Radio Book*****Golden Years of
Broadcasting*****Suspense - Twenty Years of Thrills and Chills***** and
perhaps a few more that I have stored in places I have forgotten. Who
says I don't love old time radio. Thanks for letting me take up your
time. So long for now, Roger.
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:53:51 -0400
From: "E. Susan Stonehill" <esusie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Courses on Broadcast History
Howard Blue wrote: " I would appreciate receiving the names and colleges
of any professors
around the country who teach courses on broadcast history.
I have taught a course called "The Golden Ages of Radio & Television" at
Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. It's basically an examination
of the History of Radio from the 1920's through 1950 and TV from
1947-1959. We concentrated on Old Radio, primarily, and I tried to link
what we were learning about with their experiences in today's world. So, I
would start a leaching about on Fred Allen by challenging them to name the
first "Shock Jock" ; and comparing the impact of the Internet the
widespread ability to hear music and other events in people's own homes.
Many of the younger students had trouble "hearing" the shows and were
restless, until I brought in some scripts and they put on their own
shows. We rehearsed after class hours, and dedicated one period to each
script, for the final show. It was a success.
Susan Stonehill
(first time poster, who can't decide her 5 favorite shows, but is going on
57 for the polls.)
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:55:06 -0400
From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Origins of Gunsmoke
John Meston, the lead writer for Gunsmoke, grew up in Pueblo,
Colorado and spent some time as a working cowboy. Meston's earlier adult
Western scripts, Pagosa, first aired on Romance (09/06/1951) & later on
Escape (11/30/1952), and Wild Jack Rhett, which aired on Escape on
12/22/1950 and 02/15/1953, helped lay the groundwork for Gunsmoke. The main
character in "Pagosa," Jeff Spain, provided the model for Matt Dillon. The
Escape airing does not survive, but the Romance airing is available
Once CBS executives decided to air Gunsmoke, the script and music
were written and actors were cast; all in one week. Rex Koury wrote the main
Gunsmoke theme in 10 minutes.
Before settling on Matt Dillon as the name for the lead character,
the names Jeff Spain and Mark Dillon were suggested. The Mark Dillon name
was actually used in two unaired Gunsmoke pilots, Mark Dillon Goes to Eye
Gouge, featuring Rye Billsbury (06/01/1949) & Howard Culver (07/13/1949) as
Mark.
There is a the 1976 multi-hour radio documentary, The Story of
Gunsmoke, that features interviews with many of the people who were
associated with Gunsmoke including: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia
Ellis, Norman Macdonnell, John Meston, Sam Edwards, Harry Bartell, Virginia
Gregg, John Dehner, and Vic Perrin. It is available from several dealers
and OTR Clubs.
Stewart Wright
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:56:01 -0400
From: GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Another Opinion on 8th Grade Education
Only a few hours after I made my previous
posting on this subject I visited a friend who is a
retired university-level educator, M. A. in
philosophy, whose field had been the history of
education. I brought up the questions we had been
discussing here on the OTR list.
"I think it's generally acknowledged," she
commented, "that an 8th grade education before, say,
1915 or 1920 was superior to a high school education
today."
She pointed out that the vast majority of
upper-age children, adolescents and adults in the
'Teens and 1920s had no trouble at all reading the
title cards on silent movie screens. She added that at
least half of today's high school graduates will be in
REAL trouble if silent movies ever come back!
George Wagner
GWAGNEROLDTIMERADIO@[removed]
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:54:09 -0400
From: "cominghomemag" <cominghomemag@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: "The Wedding Party Of Mickey Mouse"
I am corresponding with a fellow who has the following request. Anyone have
any leads on this, whether it appeared on any OTR show or not?
kylistener
What I am trying to find is the song "The
Wedding Party Of Mickey Mouse. I have the original handwritten music from
1934 for a 20 piece band from the publisher who also published the sheet
music during the 30's. The outer cover is address to Irene Beasley who was a
radio star during the 30's.
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:54:46 -0400
From: OTRChris@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Turned there back on Radio
Elizabeth writes in regard to her grandparents:
However, when TV became available
here in the mid-fifties, they turned their backs on radio without a
second thought.
My grandparents would fall into this category as well. They fell into the
category
of general radio listener ([removed] the masses) who listened to radio for casual
entertainment or sports and it probably was not anything special for them.
In fact I bet they only listened to the programs with the mass appeal that we
have discussed already .They will recall all the top stars and their programs
but I bet
they never listened to any of the shows that I find interesting today such as
Lights Out , Suspense, Inner Sanctum , Sam Spade [removed] that really
depend on the listener to pay more than casual attention to get the most out
of the shows.
With Television things didn't change either for my granparents . I recall
them watching Ed Sullivan and other variety shows , some westerns and Walter
Kronkite.
Whereas I would be watching Star Trek, Outer limits , Twilight Zone, Mission
Impossible and such shows. And I would even watch these shows today in
reruns.
I watched quite a bit of TV in the late 70s like "Three's company " but
when I found radio shows I really liked I turned my back on those 70s TV
shows without a second thought.
-Chris
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