Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #413
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 10/22/2002 8:28 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2002 : Issue 413
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Jazz                              [ Ron Tilton <octave@[removed]; ]
  1931 Frankenstein series              [ Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed]; ]
  Sarah's Private Caper                 [ Ronald Staley <mrvintageradio@earth ]
  The Shadow's number-reading           [ Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed] ]
  Re: Sara's Private Caper              [ FKELLY <fkelly@[removed]; ]
  FOTR- [removed]                     [ wich2@[removed] ]
  OTR Telephone Numbers                 [ dougdouglass@[removed] ]
  McFarland Books                       [ George Aust <austhaus1@[removed] ]
  Phone Numbers and High Brow Jazz      [ George Aust <austhaus1@[removed] ]
  Howard Brenner & Music Tapes          [ "alanladdsr" <alanladdsr@[removed] ]
  PETER POTTER                          [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
  Audio of FOTR talks?                  [ "Matthew Bullis" <MatthewBullis@run ]
  Re: Bulk Tape Erasers                 [ Mark Stratton <[removed]@[removed] ]
  FOTR This Week                        [ Weisberg Mitchell D DLVA <WeisbergM ]
  Dial telephone system                 [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
  William Conrad                        [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
  Re: Struts and Frets                  [ "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed]; ]
  Media Inquiry                         [ Kubelski@[removed] ]
  Jazz show                             [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  Mary Grove                            [ pamwarren2002@[removed] ]
  Tony The tiger had a hit record in 1  [ "hughes1" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
  Re: Passing Parade                    [ "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed]; ]
  Halls of Ivy                          [ Ronald Staley <mrvintageradio@earth ]
  Mister District Attorney Log          [ Rod Gowen <rgowen@[removed] ]

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:53:19 -0400
From: Ron Tilton <octave@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Jazz

Dave Palmer wanted to know "the name of a radio program that played Jazz
music with the intros done in a high brow classical music program. The
show in question is "The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street",
which was first heard on the Blue Network on Feb. 11, 1940 and served as
a springboard for several performers, such as Dinah Shore and Zero
Mostel, who went on to become stars. The show was a combination of
satire and hot and cool jazz built around the "three B's"---
barrelhouse, boogie-woogie and the blues. It was sustained for 3 years
but picked up Woodbury Soap as its sponsor in 1943 and 1944.

Ron Tilton

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:48:14 -0400
From: Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  1931 Frankenstein series

    Does anyone know the production history of the 13-part
"Frankenstein" series from 1931?  It came out about the same time as the
famous Boris Karloff movie but I don't think it was a tie-in to that
film.  I haven't heard any credits except "starring George Edwards".
This Edwards may have been an Australian actor who did some work with
the BBC, but the voices appear to be American.  (I know it's not the
same George Edwards who did the wakeup show on WQXR for all those
years).
   I appreciate any information.  Thank you.
                                                    --Bill Jaker

"If God had intended us to be digit-dialers, He never would have
invented proper nouns."
       --Harry Golden

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:27 -0400
From: Ronald Staley <mrvintageradio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sarah's Private Caper

Yes, a number survive--nearly the entire summer series.

Sarah Byurner starred as a woman who always dreamed of capers where she was
in control.

The show had the good fortune of highlighting some of the best shows on NBC
at the time, includingt Sam Spade, Nightbeat, Dimension X etc.

S[ponsored by Wheaties, the show was funny, but in my opinion could not
have survived a full year. Sarah, who played one of the operators on Jack
Benny's radio show was a marvelous mimick, and a great comedienne, but it
took a long time before she was recognized as anything other than a
telephone operator.

Ron Staley

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:35 -0400
From: Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Shadow's number-reading

Ronald Staley <mrvintageradio@[removed]; wrote:

I believe in old radio times, there were several programs, can't recall
which ones but on these shows, the good guys would listen to phone numbers
being dialed. The racheting sound of the dial clicking and its number of
clicks gave the person listening the clue as to whom the person was calling.

I [removed] technological detail.
I remember that, too, even from old TV [removed]
I have to broaden my answer to the previous question: The Shadow, being
near the phone booth, could have observed the local number being dialed, or
heard the dial-clicks that told him the number.

Herb Harrison

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:22 -0400
From: FKELLY <fkelly@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Sara's Private Caper

Dunning's 1998 On The Air says this show ran only in the summer of
1950.  It starred Sara Berner (Jack Benny's Mabel Flapsaddle and Gladys
Zybisco) as a stenographer with ambitions to be a detective. Bob Sweeney
played her hapless boyfriend.
--
Frank Kelly
Email: fkelly@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:37 -0400
From: wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  FOTR- [removed]

From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed]

For any newcomers of the Digest, be sure to come attend the Friends of Old
Time Radio Convention Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
Events are as follows:
THURSDAY
Howard Blue discusses about radio and WWII, Fred Berney will talk about
tape recording, mini discs and collecting, and both fellas know their stuff.


AND- The Mercury's ARTHUR ANDERSON directs a cast of Old Pros (and younger
ringers like myself & Bob Lynnes) in a parody re-creation by John Bell
Williams & Becky Beach: "WAR OF THE WORLDS?!". The same basic plot of the
[removed] but just wait till you hear who the Martians encounter this time!
And- it's genuinely funny!
Best,
Craig Wichman
Quicksilver Radio Theater

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:42 -0400
From: dougdouglass@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR Telephone Numbers

Mrs. Elbert Stevenson tried desparately to reach her husband at MUrray
Hill 3-0093 and Henchley Hospital at BUtterfield 7-0105. Actually, the
BUtterfield exchange digit is  8. BU 7 is BUckminster in Flatbush,
Brooklyn.

---- Doug

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:25 -0400
From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  McFarland Books

There was a thread recently about McFarland publishers and their books
and their prices.  I have seen a catalog with quite a few of them, most
of them about films but seven of them are radio books. I haven't heard
of these books and would like an opinion on them by someone who has read
them. Some seem to be bargain prices and others probably list price.

The Beginning of Broadcast Regulation in the Twentieth Century. By
Marvin R. Bensman.

Encyclopedia of American Radio 1920-1960. By Luther [removed]

Radio Live! Television Live! By Richard J. Maturi and Mary Buckingham
Maturi

On the Short Waves 1923-1945 Broadcast Listening in the Pioneer Days of
Radio.
By Jerome S. Berg

Radio Network Prime Time Programming 1926-1967. By Mitchell E Shapiro

Radio Programs 1924-1984; A Catalog of over 1800 Shows. By Vincent
Terrace

Radio Stars; An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers,
1920 through 1960. By Thomas A. Delong

Thanks in advance for whatever help you can give.

George Aust

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:30 -0400
From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Phone Numbers and High Brow Jazz

Probably the most famous phone number of all time is Pennsylvania
65000.  This was made famous by Glenn Miller's recording of the same
name in 1940. It was the phone number of the Pennsylvania Hotel in
[removed]  which was Miller's home base. (Cafe Rouge) I under stand that
they still have the same number today although the hotel is now just
called the Statler.

Dave Palmer has been racking his brain trying to think of a radio
program that played jazz music with a high brow classical musical
intro.  I think he may be thinking of the "Chamber Music Society of
Lower Basin Street". I'm too lazy to get up and go look right now, but
it seems to me that this program started in 1939 and continued thru
1941. Many of the shows featured a young and relatively unknown  singer
by the name of Dinah Shore.

George Aust

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:44 -0400
From: "alanladdsr" <alanladdsr@[removed];
To: "OTR message" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Howard Brenner & Music Tapes

Does anyone remember, or know what became of, Howard Brenner and Mar-Bren
Sound Co. in New Rochelle, NY? He got me started in collecting back in 1968.
He offered good quality tape, had a nice catalog and I purchased lots of
stuff from him and even traded for awhile. I lost track of him after he left
reels and went to cassette.

I have 1200 and 1800 foot reels (33/4) of various bands and musical groups:
Blue Barron, Kay Kyser, Dick Jurgens, Ozzie Nelson, Fats Waller, Dinah
Washington, Ink Spots, Sammy Kaye, Ray Noble (71/2) Spike Jones, Johnny
Long, Vera Lynn, Roberta Sherwood, Rex Allen, Bob Wills, Billie Holiday.
These are tapes of their recordings, they were purchased tapes, not home
done, mostly from Radio Reruns in Washington State (Now Nostalgia) and are
in nice sound. From the same source are reels of "Top Hits" from the 30's,
40's, 50's. I am trying to find time to transfer them to cassette. Once I do
that I'd be happy to give the tapes to anybody, just for the postage.
I refuse to throw them in the dumpster!! If someone wants to dub them off
for me on cassette or CD, I'll pay the postage and costs of tape or CD.
Anyone interested?
Don Frey
Lawrence, Kansas

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:50 -0400
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  PETER POTTER

Harry mentions filling in for the 'improbably' named Peter Potter.  His
claim to fame was the very popular Juke Box Jury -- "Will it be a hit, or
a miss?"

      [removed]
      A DATE WITH SINATRA

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:18 -0400
From: "Matthew Bullis" <MatthewBullis@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Audio of FOTR talks?

Hello, just wondering if there will be someone taping the talks given at the
FOTR convention? I'm out in Phoenix, so I won't have a chance to get there,
but I was really interested in most of these workshops. If anyone will be
taping, could there be a site to put the audio up on, or could it be traded?
Thanks a lot.
Matthew

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:47 -0400
From: Mark Stratton <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Bulk Tape Erasers

From: CHET <voxpop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  BULK TAPE ERASERS

HI
i need to find a GOOD bulk tape eraser for audio [removed] one from radio
shack i returned this [removed] know of a store that handles that sort
of thing?

I did a quick Google search of "Bulk Eraser" and turned up several nifty
   sites, including this one

[removed]

which tells you a little bit about them, and where to purchase them.

This page has directions on how to build one yourself (kind of nifty,
[removed])
[removed]

further searching should reveal more places to buy one.  I hope this helps.

Mark Stratton

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:29:40 -0400
From: Weisberg Mitchell D DLVA <WeisbergMD@[removed];
To: "Old-Time Radio Newsletter (E-mail)" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  FOTR This Week

I am looking forward to seeing old and new friends this week at FOTR in NJ.

For those who can come, I have a couple of very entertaining panel
interviews all set to go -
Friday with Beverly Garland; Saturday with Hal Stone.  Lots of laughs and
interesting stories!!!

See you!

Mitchell Weisberg

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:48:27 -0400
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Dial telephone system

I am happy to report that my town, Aberdeen, SD, was the first city in the
US to have dial telephone service.  Our local Dakota Prairie Museum has an
exhibit showing the old equipment and background information on the system.
The man who got the system operational was John [removed] Zietlow.  There is
another city in Iowa that had an early dial system.  The museum director,
Sue Gates, is sending me more information on this.

Ted Kneebone/1528 S. Grant [removed], SD 57401/605-226-3344
OTR: [removed]

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:24:24 -0400
From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  William Conrad

Any William Conrad experts?  I have a small book of photographs called
WATERSEDGE, Santa Barbara, by William B. Conrad.  The book is dedicated
to Hope, and inscribed to Frankie Fowler, Christmas 1949.

Is this the OTR William Conrad, or somebody else?  Did our Bill dabble in
still photography?  Was his middle initial B, did he know a woman named
Hope, who is Frankie Fowler?

Thanks for any help,

---Dan

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:33:40 -0400
From: "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Struts and Frets

Thank you Harry for the latest (and longest) edition of your fine
newsletter!  You covered a lot of ground in this one, as did the old Warner
lot when you worked at KFWB.

Of that lot, Harry wrote:
Going to work at KFWB in the early 1940s was like checking in at a ghost
town. The studios were located on the old Warner Brothers motion picture
lot at the corner of Sunset and Bronson in Hollywood and besides the
building housing the radio studio and one or two others used as warehouses
there was a collection of silent stages.

Ahh, but there was another enterprise housed on the grounds at the time, one
dear to the hearts of many OTR fans.  The WB lot extended an entire block of
Sunset, from Bronson to Van Ness.  Had you proceeded south on Van Ness
toward Fernwood, to the southeast corner of the property, you would have
come across: the Leon Schlesigner Studios, home of the Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies.  Presumably you would have encountered some present and
future colleagues supplying voices for the cartoons.

The entrance to the building can be clearly seen in the 1940 Porky Pig
classic "You Ought to be in Pictures."  When I first came to [removed] in 1982,
the door and windows had been boarded shut but they still existed.  I looked
in vain for some tell-tale paint bleed-through that might reveal the
structure's import to the casual wabbit-lover.  No such luck, and by the
time I'd left eleven years later, the door and windows had been plastered
over, as if they'd never existed.  Today it's just a solid wall of an old
building for an old studio.  You can no longer see where Blanc and Bryan,
not to mention Freleng, Avery, Jones and Clampett, stepped inside to earn
their bread and cheese and immortality of the pen-and-ink variety.

Michael

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:34:11 -0400
From: Kubelski@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Media Inquiry

A reporter for Entrepreneur Magazine is putting together an article on people
who have founded a business based on their hobby.  I know many dealers in OTR
got started this way, and I wonder if any would like to be interviewed for
this article?

Please contact me privately at kubelski@[removed] if you are interested in
speaking with this reporter and I will attempt to arrange it.  The reporter
is looking for "name, age and type of business," in response and I'd add that
you'll want to let me know how long you've been a formal business as well.

Thank you,

Sean Dougherty
Kubelski@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:45:10 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jazz show

Dave Palmer wrote:

I have been racking my brain,...trying to remember the name of a radio
program that played Jazz music

That's THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LOWER BASIN STREET. A really neat show!

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:48:42 -0400
From: pamwarren2002@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mary Grove

We are continuing our search for the L. Ron Hubbard radio broadcasts and ran
across the name of an OTR performer, Mary Grove. We have been unable to find
anything about her except she was on the radio in 1950 and/or 51.

Does anybody have any information on Mary Grove?

You can put it on the list or email us directly.
pamwarren2002@[removed]

Thanks,
Pam and Trevor
L. Ron Hubbard's Public Relations Office

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:01:13 -0400
From: "hughes1" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Tony The tiger had a hit record in 1954

Did you know that Tony the tiger had a hit record in 1954?  Actually I have
an 1990 interview in my collection that Rosemary Clooney told that the same
gentleman who was Tony The Tiger was also the guy on her record of This Old
House.  Take care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:01:57 -0400
From: "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Passing Parade

Fred asked:
Does anyone know of the first Passing Parade film was three stories,
withthe first being UNCLAIMED MILLIONS?
I have a log of all 72 films and the only one on the log that has no title
is number 1.

  In case this hasn't been answered yet, Fred, here you are:
_Passing Parade #1_, from October 15, 1938, is comprised of -

_The Marriage Industy_, the story of mail-order marriage.
_Unclaimed Millions_, showing money left indefinitely in
   bank accounts.
_Autobiography of a Car_, a car's life from factory to scrap-pile.
  In a rearranged order, from: Leonard Maltin's _Selected Short Subjects,
well worth interlibrary loaning, and buying, for its details on all the
shorts of this and other series, from Charley Chase to Thelma Todd to Pete
Smith to Robert Benchley and more.

Jan Willis
(1983 revised edition, Da Capo Press)

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:01:35 -0400
From: Ronald Staley <mrvintageradio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Halls of Ivy

Is it possible to trace the source of the Halls of Ivy to make genuine
cds rather than MP3s of same.

mp3 is not a good preservation medium.

let me know.

ron staley

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:19:57 -0400
From: Rod Gowen <rgowen@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mister District Attorney Log

Hello fellow digesters,

I have been looking for a log of the "Mr. District Attorney" show
without much luck.

Maybe someone here can point me in the right direction?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

Rod Gowen

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