Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #320
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Date: 10/5/2004 11:35 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2004 : Issue 320
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  The Man Who Came to Dinner            [ "Norman & Karen Schickedanz" <schic ]
  Jack Benny as Sheridan Whiteside      [ damyankeeinva <damyankeeinva@earthl ]
  Halloween Shows?                      [ "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@ya ]
  Helen Holden survives four hurricane  [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
  Recent radio drama ON THE AIR / futu  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Re: Fr. Coughlin                      [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  The Railsplitter speaks (?)           [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  MWOTRC Meeting this Friday            [ Michael Henry <mlhenry@[removed] ]
  Jean Shepherd                         [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
  Stars on Lux Radio Theatre            [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:16:34 -0400
From: "Norman & Karen Schickedanz" <schick@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Man Who Came to Dinner

Hello, all.

In response to Randy Story's query, there was also a Lux Radio Theatre show
of "The Man Who Came to Dinner."  It was broadcast March 27, 1950, with
Clifton Fadiman and Lucille Ball.

Norm Schickedanz
Tucson

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:09:07 -0400
From: damyankeeinva <damyankeeinva@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Benny as Sheridan Whiteside

If anyone can supply a copy of this program on cassette or CD, I am interested.

Please contact me off list.  Many thanks.

Lee Munsick         damyankeeinva@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:16:19 -0400
From: "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Halloween Shows?

With Halloween just around the corner, how about some recommendations for
Halloween OTR?

I'll start with the usual popular favorites:

LIGHTS OUT - "Chicken Heart"
QUIET PLEASE - "The Thing on the Fourble Board"
MYSTERY ON THE AIR - "The Horla"
SUSPENSE - "Three Skeleton Key"

But maybe you know about some slightly more obscure gems in the comedy or
horror genre?

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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:47:31 -0400
From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Helen Holden survives four hurricanes

In another column in the Washington Post on 10-4-04, John Kelly reports
on his success in finding "Helen Holden" in response to my original
request to him.  Within 10 days of his first column on 9-20-04 seeking
the lady who voiced "Helen Holden, Government Girl" for Mutual in the
early 40s, Kelly had tracked her down in Key West, FL where she is a
sprightly 90 years old, and just survived four hurricanes this season.

This radio performer, Nancy Ordway, provided Kelly with a recent photo
of herself, which Kelly ran in his column, next to the 1941 official
Mutual publicity photo I provided him with. She told Kelly that she
came from the stage in Washington, DC and played the role of Helen for
about a year. Mutual eventually decided she was not attractive enough
for the role and suggested she pluck her eyebrows. "I said 'hell no,' "
she recalled, and shortly after, she was replaced by Frances Brunt.

While Nancy had retained no airchecks or scripts from the show in the
60 years since she left it, certain incidents are fresh in her memory.
During one episode, she and her boyfriend were supposed to be having
dinner in a posh restaurant in a fancy hotel. When they raised their
crystal glasses for a toast, the sound effects man knocked two beer
mugs together, so instead of a dainty clink, the sound was
"clank-clunk" whereupon Nancy broke into unscripted laughter.

Nancy is now reading my book, "Private Eyelashes: Radio's Lady
Detectives", and when she finishes, I'll interview her in depth .

Jack French
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:47:59 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Recent radio drama ON THE AIR / future audio
 drama LIVE IN PERSON

Folks-

First, kudos to Listers Producer Max Schmid, Director Steve Lewis, and the
rest of the Gotham Players, for a very tight production of SAM SPADE last
night on WBAI!

Second, an invitation to a Quicksilver Radio Theater
"event": as a part of OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK, we've been asked to do a dramatic
reading of two O. Henry stories, at New York's historic "Little Church Around
The Corner."

It will NOT be our usual full-out sfx, music, etc. radio production; but I
have adapted the stories for reading by several of Quicksilver's veterans, in
a format sometimes called "Reader's Theater."

It's at 1pm this Saturday, at One East 29th St. in NYC, and it's free!

All the best,
-Craig Wichman

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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:48:17 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Fr. Coughlin

At 08:37 AM 10/4/2004, you wrote:
1930 - This was a big day for CBS. Following the orchestra broadcast
(above), Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on the
radio. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early
forties.

Just a little correction. Coughlin had already been on radio since 1926. He
was heard over WJR, Detroit, WMAQ, Chicago and WLW, Cincinnati until his
national exposure in 1930 over CBS. That was when he really became a known
name and power  force. But he had been "preaching" on radio for some time
prior to that, he wasn't "first heard on the radio" in 1930.

Jim Widner
jwidner@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:48:38 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Railsplitter speaks (?)

My Fellow Americans-

I think I've asked this before, but "once more into the [removed])
(Lincoln loved The [removed]).

Henry Hull - actor: Honest Abe "Abraham Lincoln<

HELP ME OUT HERE! I love Lincoln, and admire Hull's acting; and, as he was
birthed in Kaintuck like Abe, I'm dying to hear proof of this!

Are we talking series, or guest shot? In either case, does anyone have copies
of same to trade?

"For someone who likes this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing I'd
like!" (Another Lincoln qoute.)

Best,
Craig "QUICKSILVER's 'Good Friday, 1865'" Wichman

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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:20:40 -0400
From: Michael Henry <mlhenry@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  MWOTRC Meeting this Friday

How well do you know your OTR? This month will be your chance to find
out. MEtropolitan Washington Old Time Radio Club member Fred Berney is
going to host a special quiz show. Everyone can take part and you'll
even have a chance to win a prize. Questions will cover such areas as
who played what actor or what show? Who was the sponsor of a show? Can
you identify a program from it's opening thyme?

Everyone should have a lot of fun and many will leave with valuable
prizes. This is a meeting that you don't want to miss.

The Metropolitan Washington Old  Time Radio Club meeting will take place
Friday October 8 at 7:30pm at the Trinity Episcopal Church  2217
Columbia Pike in Arlington, Virginia. Parking is available in the
parking garage across the street.

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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:57:18 -0400
From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jean Shepherd

A few stray random notes:

Question: Henry Blair and Tommy Bernard portrayed David and Ricky Nelson
until David and Ricky began portraying themselves in 1949. It's
remarkable how almost every OZZIE AND HARRIET web page refers to Blair
and Bernard as "professional actors" instead of mentioning their names.
Credits indicate that Blair and Bernard had a number of film and TV
roles until the mid-1950s, but what did they do in later years?

The website of Applause Books gives 15 January 2005 as the publication
date of EXCELSIOR, YOU FATHEAD! THE ART AND ENIGMA OF JEAN SHEPHERD:
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The author, Eugene B. Bergmann, has been the senior exhibit designer of
the American Museum of Natural History for the past 34 years. The
480-page book organizes Shepherd's radio transcripts into a
"biographical framework." Bergmann has a very detailed description of
the book's format at [removed]

The introduction to Stephen King's last short story collection,
EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL (2002) has a fascinating three pages about his
Maine radio stations and his idea to write a radio drama, a sort of
modern-day version of WAR OF THE WORLDS using rock music. He intended to
use his own stations for his radio play production and then syndicate
the result: "So what happened? I couldn't do it, that's what happened. I
tried and I tried, and everything I wrote came out sounding like
narration. Not a play, the sort of thing that you see unspooling in your
mind (those old enough to remember such radio programs as SUSPENSE and
GUNSMOKE will know what I mean), but something more like a book on tape.
I'm sure we still could have gone the syndication route and made some
money, but I knew the play would not be a success. It was boring. It
would cheat the listener. It was busted, and I didn't know how to fix
it. Writing radio plays, it seems to me, is a lost art. We have lost the
ability to see with our ears, although we had it once. I remember
listening to some radio Foley guy tapping a hollow block of wood with
his [removed] and seeing Matt Dillon walking to the bar of the Long
Branch Saloon in his dusty boots, clear as day. No more. Those days are
gone."

Bhob @ CLASSIC NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS @
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 14:24:22 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Stars on Lux Radio Theatre

     Some of the stars I remember who appeared on the
Lux Radio Theatre were: William Powell, Myrna Loy,
Gene Tierney, Alan Ladd, Don Ameche, Dick Powell,
Gloria Swanson, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, James
Mason (I believe), Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
and James Cagney.  These are just a few of the ones I
can remember.  I'm sure there many others.  I also
wonder which one of the stars who appeared on Lux Radio
Theatre made the most appearances.  [removed]

Another OTR Fan,

Kenneth Clarke

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