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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2009 : Issue 31
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: Quiet, Please shows [ illoman@[removed] ]
FDR House and Library [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
The Homefront Program [ Photogtravel@[removed] ]
2-10 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
KHJ studio address in 1930s/More Cha [ "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@sbcglob ]
Superman Collyer [ Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed]; ]
[removed] - and yet [removed] [ Wich2@[removed] ]
Re:Chandu [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
Re: "New Shadows" [ Bob <hrkeller@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:06:54 -0500
From: illoman@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Quiet, Please shows
Martin wrote:
To my knowledge, the Museum of TV & Radio has three non-circulating episodes.
Two in New York City and one in Los Angeles. The Broadcasting archive at
College Park in Maryland on the Univerity of Maryland campus has all the
scripts to the "lost" episodes.
Martin, any chance of getting copies of these shows to put *in* circulation?
I know it takes an act of God in dealing with the Library of Congress but is
the Museums you mentioned as stringent?
It's an absolute crime that these shows aren't available.
Thanks,
Mike
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:41:47 -0500
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: FDR House and Library
As fate would have it, "She Who Must Be Obeyed" , and my Mother-In-Law, and
I were at the FDR library and house last Sunday. The library has an exhibit
on the Depression which has a room to sort of give an impression of the
environment in 1933. There were wooden chairs which were fastened to the
floor,
a period sink, pealing paint, and of course a radio. It played the first
fireside chat that he gave although I don't know whether it was the complete
one. What was impressive about the display and presentation was not the
radio
but the letters. The library had reproductions of many of the letters that
were sent to FDR after the "chat". The passion of hope (do I dare use that
now?) was quite evident and touching.
I believe that it is difficult now for many to understand what it was like
to grow up without any safety net and when they found that there was someone
who could make them feel that there was help on the way to embrace someone
like FDR.
I was born in 1940 on a homestead and lived in a real log cabin which my
father had build. The understanding of what it is to be poor was ingrained
in my thinking. And it is easy for me to understand the feeling of the people
who needed something, anything to feel that the future could be brighter.
These feelings were evident in the letters sent to FDR after the chat.
The visit to the FDR house demonstrated the ineptness of the Park
Service in showing of the house. If there would be any place that should
have
guides who were sensitive to individuals with ambulatory problems you would
expect it to be the case at the FDR house. It was not so. There was no
wheel
chair evident for my 84 y/o mother-in-law. And, in the cold it was a bit of
a
trek from the visitor center to the house. There was no easy access to the
front and no encouragement to use the ramp that was far to the side. The
ramps
were not shoveled. The fact is, the ramp, I don't believe, was there at the
time of FDR as he didn't want to give any hint that he was completely unable
to walk.
The guide was also a font of MISinformation. She said that there were 2
of the talks that were done from the house. That may be true. But she also
said that there were 28 talks. Someone detailed here that there were 30.
Also she said that polio has been eradicated world wide. This showed her
glaring ignorance of the disease and its presence in the modern society. The
fact is there have been cases in the US because the Sabin is a live
attenuated
virus and can be communicated to people who are immunocompromised.
The house itself is dark and she said not to take any pictures. The
reason given as "Homeland Security". The reason for the house being dark
was to
protect the artifacts. My wife is a former history museum director. She as
well as I am well aware of methods to protect the artifacts - like UV
filters on the windows? If dark is necessary to protect artifacts we would
need
night goggles to view the Natural History Museum in NY.
In short, the Park Service has failed to manage the house properly.
Anyone who has difficulty seeing would not be able to see in the house and
anyone with ambulatory problems cannot see the second floor. And this was
in a
house that celebrates a president who was disabled.
Bit the library is well worth the visit and the exhibits are well done.
For those who are interested in how FDR worked to keep his disability
secret I would suggest the book
"FDR's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive
Disability-And the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from the Public (Hardcover)
by Hugh
Gregory Gallagher (Author) ". It reads well and talks extensively about
polio and FDR's impact on the history of the disease.
Larry Moore
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 22:52:37 -0500
From: Photogtravel@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Homefront Program
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First off I want to thank everyone who contributes to Old Time Radio
Digest, I have learned many things I never knew about OTR. I grew up
listening to the radio shows of the 40's and 50's. I actually studied radio
and TV
announcing at college. Unfortunately after school the only jobs available
were
at mostly FM stations out in the middle of no ware along with very low
wages.
Having worked as a photographer for a good salary, I went back to
photography. I copied a program that was on the net until a couple of weeks
ago
and missed the last two episodes and would be grateful if some can point me
to a site where I can download the last two episodes. The programs were
repeats of broadcast from WNEW, with announcer William B. Williams. The
programs
were The Homefront repeats from the late 30's and 40's. The two I need are #
7
Liberation and # 8 Victory
Ross In San Diego
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 22:52:45 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 2-10 births/deaths
February 10th births
02-10-1868 - William Allen White - Emporia, KS - d. 1-31-1944
writer: "American Forum of the Air"; "University of Chicago Round Table"
02-10-1892 - Alan Hale, Sr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 1-22-1950
actor:"Lux Radio Theatre"
02-10-1893 - Bill Tilden - Germantown, PA - d. 6-4-1953
tennis player: "Information Please"
02-10-1893 - Jimmy Durante - NYC - d. 1-29-1980
comedian: (Da Schnozz) Claudius 'Brainy' Bowers "Jumbo Fire Chief
Program"
02-10-1897 - Judith Anderson - Adelaide, Australia - d. 1-3-1992
actor: Royal Gelatin Hour"
02-10-1899 - Dolph Gobel - Regensburg, Germany - d. 8-xx-1970
organist: "Ethel and Albert"; "Doplh Goebel Trio"
02-10-1900 - Lou Breese - d. 1-11-1969
bandleader: "Invitation to the Fair"
02-10-1902 - Jose Cortes - d. 1-21-1996
fiddle: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
02-10-1902 - Stella Adler - NYC - d. 12-21-1992
acting teacher: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
02-10-1903 - Lewis Allan - NYC - d. 10-30-1986
writer for theatre, radio, television and films
02-10-1905 - Chick Webb - d. 6-16-1939
bandleader: "Chick Webb and His Orhestra"
02-10-1906 - Lon Chaney, Jr. - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory - d.
7-12-1973
actor: "Pursuit of Happiness"
02-10-1910 - Joyce Grenfell - London, England - d. 11-30-1979
writer, actor: "How"; "A Note with Music"; "We Beg to Differ"
02-10-1913 - James Monks - NYC - d. 10-2-1994
actor: Jim Brandon "The Avenger" I. A. Moto "Mr. I. A. Moto"
02-10-1914 - Larry Adler - Baltimore, MD - d. 8-6-2001
harmonica player: "Forecast"
02-10-1922 - Neva Patterson - Nevada, IA
actor: "Cavalcade of America"
02-10-1927 - Leontyne Price - Laurel, MS
singer: "Metropolitan Opera"
02-10-1929 - Jerry Goldsmith - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-21-2004
composer, conductor: "Frontier Gentleman"; "Romance"
02-10-1930 - Robert Wagner - Detroit, MI
panelist: "Juke Box Jury"; "Suspense"
February 10th deaths
01-11-1870 - Alice Hegan Rice - Shelbyville, KY - d. 2-10-1942
writer: "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" based on her novel
01-11-1910 - Richard Kendrick - Vermillion, SD - d. 2-10-1987
actor: Bill Baker "Portia Faces Life"
02-07-1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder - Pepin, WI - d. 2-10-1957
author: some her works adapted for radio
02-22-1912 - Buddy Tate - Sherman, TX - d. 2-10-2001
jazz saxphonist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
05-02-1902 - Brian Aherne - King's Norton, England - d. 2-10-1986
actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"
06-16-1899 - Frank X. Capano - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-10-1956
singer and program director
06-19-1910 - Virginia Payne - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-10-1977
actor: Ma Perkins "Ma Perkins"; Kerry Carter "Carters of Elm Street"
06-25-1886 - Edna Wheeler Ballard - d. 2-10-1971
harpist: WBBM Chicago, Illinois
09-06-1899 - Billy Rose - NYC - d. 2-10-1966
creator-stager: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
09-30-1916 - Wendell Noble - Mesa, AZ - d. 2-10-1988
singer, actor: "Bride and Groom"; "Listener's Digest"
10-17-1915 - Arthur Miller - NYC - d. 2-10-2005
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "The Doctor Fights"
12-19-1900 - George T. Bird - Fayette, OH - d. 2-10-1979
trumpeter, arranger: Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Ron
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 22:53:03 -0500
From: "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: KHJ studio address in 1930s/More Chandu info.
Hi! I've been trying to follow the recent discussions about the original
"Chandu the Magician" program from the early-1930s and the new book about
the show. I forgot who it was, but somebody wrote that they were told the
KHJ studios were on Melrose when Chandu was first aired. That is not
correct. Between 1928 or 1929 and December 1, 1940, KHJ's offices and
studios were located inside the Don Lee Cadillac Building, or above the car
showroom, at 1076 West 7th Street in Los Angeles, at the corner of 7th and
Bixel.
(KHJ moved to the old NBC studio site at 5515 Melrose from Dec. 1, 1940
until moving to
1313 N. Vine Street in Hollywood on July 1, 1948. KHJ moved back to 5515
Melrose December 22, 1961.)
Also, while doing some research about 10 or so years ago on how radio
covered the March 10, 1933 Long Beach earthquake, I found in the Santa Ana
Daily Register (now the Orange County Register), that a small local station
in Santa Ana, KREG-1500 kilocycles, which was running only 100-watts of
power, had also been broadcasting Chandu the Magician. The program aired in
March of 1933 over KREG twice-a-day, from 12:00 noon to 12:15 [removed] and from
6:45 to 7:00 [removed] If I understand correctly, KHJ was still airing the same
Chandu program? Santa Ana is about 40 miles south of [removed], and the Orange
County area was mostly rural and agricultural at the time. Santa Ana's
population was 30,000 then, with about 118,000 in Orange County. Today,
Santa Ana has over 300,000 residents and more than 3-million people live in
Orange County.
An article from March 11, 1933 went into detail about how KREG got back on
the air 45 minutes after the strong 5:55 pm quake, but aftershocks ended up
breaking $300 in spare transmitter tubes, which took the station off the air
again at 10:30 that night. The paper reported, "Despite the confusion, KREG
continued to present its program as scheduled, and radio listeners were
permitted their customary "huddle" with Chandu between news flashes,
broadcast as received from the Register news office." KREG at the time was
inside the Register newspaper building at 3rd and Sycamore Streets in Santa
Ana. KREG was for many years, the only radio station between Los Angeles and
San Diego. I'm sure folks in the Santa Ana area could hear KHJ, but KREG's
signal had limited coverage and likely couldn't be heard in every section of
Orange County in 1933. (This AM station, which went on the air in
late-1926, became KVOE in 1936, then KWIZ from 1954 to 1998. The station,
now at 1480-AM in Santa Ana, became KVNR on June 1, 1998, and broadcasts in
Vietnamese.)
Jim Hilliker
Monterey, CA
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 22:53:34 -0500
From: Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Superman Collyer
from Joe Mackey's Week in Radio History:
1940 Mutual presented the first broadcast of Superman. The identity of
the man from planet Krypton was unknown to listeners for six years. The
secret eventually leaked out that Superman's voice was actually that of
Bud Collyer.
When I was a little kid (I was born in 1939) my favorite show was
"The Adventures of Superman". I believed then and still feel now when I
listen to recordings of the program that the most thrilling moment in radio
drama came when Clark Kent would say: "This looks like a job ... FOR
SUPERMAN." No sound effects, no music sting, just Bud Collyer dropping
Kent's voice into a deeper register.
And as that little kid sitting on the floor next to our RCA Victor, I
recognized the voice as belonging to Bud Collyer. I also don't remember any
secret leaking out anywhere that I would have caught it. It's true that the
actor who played the Man of Steel was supposed to be anonymous, but Bud
Collyer was on the radio all the time and it didn't take x-ray vision or the
ability to leap tall buildings at a single bound to realize it was him. It
also didn't matter -- he was simply Superman.
I wonder if any of my contemporaries shared that realization.
-- Bill Jaker
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 22:54:28 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: [removed] - and yet [removed]
Dear Folks-
With thanks again for your kind words in the past, those of you who take a
pinch of Modern Audio Drama with your Old Time Radio are invited to write me
off-list for details of a show honoring Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday this
week:
GOOD FRIDAY, 1865: LINCOLN'S LAST DAY
Described by our friend Arthur Anderson as, A pleasure (The) best radio
in some time (And the) subject matter, among the most dramatic.
Best,
-Craig Wichman
Quicksilver Radio Theater
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:10:34 -0500
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:Chandu
Michael Ogden writes:
"Concerning the question of the last broadcast date for the original Chandu
series, I suggest that newspapers might be a help after all. Assuming
that all
the following information which I have is accurate, what we have is
this: KHJ
was the first Los Angeles area station to run Chandu, starting on Tuesday,
August 11, 1931. "
I have a newspaper clipping that is dated August 4, 1931 and states:
"Gayne Whitman as Chandu, the Magician, is to be presented over KHJ
tonight. Richard Creedon, the publicist, says this offering will be 'the
first of a new daily mystery - romance - magic dramatic [removed]"
So it appears it was one week earlier than Michael mentions.
Jim Widner
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:14:15 -0500
From: Bob <hrkeller@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: "New Shadows"
I'm glad you mentioned this - I was very pleased t hear these episodes, and I
was delighted by the quality.
Even factoring in some of the electronic mojo the RS techs may have applied
to the digital files, these sounded as though they might have come from
almost pristine master discs. This got me wondering (and hoping) that there
were more "unknown" eps out there, hidden away in collections (or forgotten
in corporate advertising files). Radio Spirits gets two thumbs up from this
Shadow fan.
Now, how about some "new" Green Hornets?
Bob Keller, Waukesha Wisc.
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