Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #27
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 1/24/2005 4:19 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 27
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  1-24 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Early TV's viability vs radio's       [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  Sam Dann                              [ Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed]; ]
  sam dann                              [ "Joseph" <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
  Valse Triste                          [ "JAMES NIXON" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
  Vincent Price show                    [ Illoman <illoman@[removed]; ]
  BBC changes                           [ "From Mike" <zines50@[removed]; ]
  carson on radio                       [ "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed]; ]
  Unsung secondary characters           [ "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:12:45 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-24 births/deaths

January 24th births

01-24-1862 - Edith Wharton - NYC - d. 8-11-1937
author: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-24-1883 - Estelle Winwood - Lee, Kent, England - d. 6-20-1984
actress: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
01-24-1902 - Walter Kiernan - New Haven, CT - d. 1-8-1978
commentator, emcee: "Sparring Partners"; "Weekend"
01-24-1909 - Ann Todd - Hartford, Cheshire, England - d. 5-6-1993
actress: Amy Foster "Those We Love"
01-24-1918 - Oral Roberts - near Ada, OK
evengelist: "Healing Waters"
01-24-1925 - Maria Tallchief - Fairfax, OK
dancer: "Image Minorities"

January 24th deaths

01-01-1908 - Bob Russell - d. 1-24-1998
singer, songwriter: Helped create " Name that Tune"
01-12-1923 - Ira Hayes - Gila River Indian Reservation, AZ - d. 1-24-1955
Iwo Jima flagraiser: "Interview programs"
01-21-1897 - J. Carrol Naish - NYC - d. 1-24-1973
actor: Luigi Basco "Life with Luigi"
03-12-1921 - Gordon MacRae - East Orange, NJ - d. 1-24-1986
singer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Railroad Hour"
03-13-1911 - L. Ron Hubbaard - Tilden, NE - d. 1-24-1986
science fiction writer: "Dimension X"
05-13-1909 - Ken Darby - Hebron, NE - d. 1-24-1992
singer, choral conductor: (The King's Men) "Fibber McGee and Molly"
06-24-1900 - Gene Austin - Gainesville, TX - d. 1-24-1972
singer: "Gene Austin"; "Joe Penner Show"; "[removed] Musical Showroom"
10-06-1897 - Jerome Cowan - NYC - d. 1-24-1972
actor: "Best Plays"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"; "Suspense"
10-19-1910 - John C. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 1-24-1936
singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"; "Bing Crosby Show"
--
Ron Sayles
Radio: Theatre of the mind
Television: Theatre of the mindless

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:33:06 -0500
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Early TV's viability vs radio's

Economics is important in the introduction of any new technology.  Assuming
that TV research had progressed steadily from 1928, it would have been all
ready to go in perhaps 1931, by which time  the average consumer was more
concerned with the source of his next meal.

M Kinsler

512 E Mulberry St. Lancaster, Ohio USA 43130 740-687-6368
[removed]~mkinsler1

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:33:56 -0500
From: Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sam Dann

Paul Evans wondered about whether writer Sam Dann might actually be a
pseudonm for John D. MacDonald, who died in 1986, and whether Dann might
have written anything beyond his radio work.

Dann was alive as recently as a few years ago. He is credited as editor
of "/Dachau 29 April 1945 -- The Rainbow Liberation Memoirs" (Texas Tech
Univ. Press, 1998; ISBN /0-89672-391-7/).

 From the jacket of the Dachau book:

/  Since World War II, Sam Dann has had a long career as a writer
  for radio, stage, and television and has taught visual and dramatic
  writing as an adjunct professor at Tisch School of the Arts, New
  York University. Also the author of two novels, /Goodbye, Karl Erich
  /and /The Third Body, /Dann lives in Connecticut.

There are pixtures of Dann, both current and wartime on [removed]
(click on "Look inside this book").

He is not currently listed on the Tisch faculty roster
([removed]), but they don't
liste adjunct faculty members, so this doesn't mean that is is not
currently teaching courses at this NYU unit.

The Library of Congress copyright database also lists "Sam Dann" or
"Samuel H. Dann" (b. 1918) as authors of the following. Possibly the
same fellow, but you can't assume there is only one Sam Dann.

"The Case of the pock-marked thumbnail." (a Nick Carter mystery orig.
pub. 1951)
"Swing hora staccato" music Abraham Ellstein, words Sam Dann. (1953)
"Danny Mendoza" book for a musical. By Sylvia Regan (Sylvia Regan
Ellstein) & Sam Dann (1954)
"The go-balloon" w & m Dick Manning, Al Stillman & Sam Dann. (1966)
"Tuscaloosa: a new musical" by Hank Beebe, Bill Heyer, and Sam Dann
(1984, an off-B'way show that ran 252 performances)
"Fly low" : a play in two acts. (1992)
"Wedding night" : a play in two acts (1993)

Art

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:33:51 -0500
From: "Joseph" <drjoewebb@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  sam dann

there is a picture of sam dann on the amazon site on the inside back flap of a boot at [removed];p=S00L#reader-page
about the book he edited called "Dachau 29 April 1945: The Rainbow Liberation Memoirs"

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:34:05 -0500
From: "JAMES NIXON" <ranger6000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Valse Triste

Valse Triste, by Jean Sibelius, was the theme for "I Love a Mystery", as
played on a menacing organ. I'm sure others will chime in with similar
information.

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:34:13 -0500
From: Illoman <illoman@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Vincent Price show

Does anyone have any information about the Vincent Price series Hall of
Horrors? I have collected the following episodes:

Vincent Price's Hall of Horrors xxxxxx - [07] Maria's Mind [removed]
Vincent Price's Hall of Horrors xxxxxx - [06] Harry Tallow'[removed]
Vincent Price's Hall of Horrors xxxxxx - [05] The Fox [removed]
Vincent Price's Hall of Horrors xxxxxx - [04] Woman in [removed]

Any info as to origin, or where i can get any missing episodes would be
great!

Thanks,
Mike

[removed]~illoman

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:04:03 -0500
From: "From Mike" <zines50@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  BBC changes

Another nail in the coffin of old-fashioned broadcasting that people might
actually want to listen to.

A flurry of complaints to the BBC World Service last week after the
broadcaster simply announced that there would be no more "light
entertainment" programs aired on World Service.

In an interview with the program "Write On", a programmer said that these
shows had been dropped because they were not "informational" .

When the interviewer suggested that shows like the long-running panel game
"Just A Minute" were still very entertaining, he replied that they might be
but they did not belong on BBC World Service.

Fortunately the programs in question are still very popular in the domestic
market and can be heard through the BBC Radio website.

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:20:05 -0500
From: "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  carson on radio

Tom Hatten says Johnny Carson never appeared on radio, only television.
In case anybody was wondering, that is what he said.  Kurt

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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:24:47 -0500
From: "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Unsung secondary characters

I've been listening to a series of Great Gildersleeve shows recently and
it's dawned on me what a wonderful character Birdie, Gildy's maid and cook,
is.

She appears only briefly in most episodes, but contributes to the story
every time. And every appearance by her is throughly enjoyable. Sometimes
she acts as Gildy's conscious and at other times like Leroy's mother. She
often sets Gildry straight when he needs it, mostly without him even knowing
it. She brightens up a scene when she enters.

And she's a wonderful cook!

I think the character is well written, and well played by Lillian Randolph.

In my opinion, Bridie is one of the best secondary characters in OTR.

Does anyone else have an opinion about other secondary OTR characters who's
contribution to the success of a show may be generally under-recognized?

Jim Yellen

And she's a wonderful cook!

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