Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #152
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 5/16/2005 10:18 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 152
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  OTR fund raisers & other OTR convent  [ "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed]; ]
  what's in a name                      [ "bcockrum" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
  Dear Jose Melis                       [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
  "Aw! Relax Hal, Relaxx"               [ "Austotr" <austotr@[removed]; ]
  Shadow Waltz                          [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
  OTR RADIO STUDIO                      [ Dave Parker <dave@[removed] ]
  5-16 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Jack Benny - Fred Allen Feud          [ "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 13:41:05 -0400
From: "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR fund raisers & other OTR conventions etc
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I would like to hear of any OTR fund raisers and conventions  that are planned
for the twelve months.

Thanks,

Howard Blue

(I already know of FOTR, SPERDVAC, REPS, and the ones in Cincinnati and (Alan
Chapman's) in Brockton, MA)

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Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 17:27:32 -0400
From: "bcockrum" <rmc44@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  what's in a name

Will this Bob Bailey leave civil service to work for insurance companies?
>From the Sunday Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal, regarding the
construction of a $[removed] million house in a middle class neighborhood:

"Three weeks ago, the house had a flash fire that did an estimated $250,000
in property and content damage.

"Bob Bailey, an investigator for the Lubbock Fire Marshal's Office, said two
workers were treated for burns after some lacquer they were spraying
ignited."

bc

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Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 17:27:56 -0400
From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Dear Jose Melis

I read with sadness news of the passing of Jose Melis,
band leader for Arthur Godrey's Talent Scouts as well
as Jack Paar during his "Tonight Show" stint.  My
experience with Jose Melis was during my time as a
Student Pilot  undergoing Aerial Gunnery School at
Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas in mid 1953.

I'd see Jose at the piano fronting one of his bands at
an unremembered lounge room of a prominent hotel
casino.  Each time I visited the lounge during my
assignment time at Nellis I'd request of him a
performance of "Quiet Village," a favorite tune of
mine.  He'd always accommodate my request to the point
on subsequent nights of my showing up and he noticing
me, he 'd graciously play it during a following
set.

---
conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
Encino, CA
Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms

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Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:20:07 -0400
From: "Austotr" <austotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Aw! Relax Hal, Relaxx"

In issue #148 I mistakenly listed the url for Hals book and mentioned Jack
French's Book, Private Eyelashes in the same paragraph.

Book site?  Oh you mean [removed] surely
those orders were entirely by accident, they probably meant to order Jack
French's book Private Eyelashes [removed] hang on I better order it
first and check it out.

Go ahead, make fun of me. But as I was reading your book length posting,
three more "Aw! Relax Archie, Relaxx" book orders just came in.

I understand that as a result of my error, some people mistakenly ordered
Hals wonderful book, Relax Archie Relax!,"" when they were actually looking
for some mystery.  Please, no more emails, it was an honest mistake.  Look
on the bright side.  Hal's book is almost sold out and there will be no
further issues, I have it in writing!  So the book will become a collectors
item in years to come.  My Great Great Grandchildren may even make a profit
on it, if I don't sell it to them for too much.

Try to limit your Fosters (beer that is) to a case a day. You'll find you
won't have to go out behind the house quite so often.  :)

Ah Fosters!  The beer we love so much we export it to less discerning taste
buds :)

Its so dry here Hal that the trees chase the dogs.

Ian Grieve

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Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:22:59 -0400
From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Shadow Waltz

There are many references to The Shadow in Jack Kerouac's haunting
fantasy novel, DR. SAX (1959), set in 1930-36 Lowell, Massachusetts. The
Shadow also turns up in MILKING THE MOON: A SOUTHERNER'S STORY OF LIFE
ON THIS PLANET (Crown, 2001), the memoir of actor-author Eugene Walter,
who lived in Rome for many years, doing script translations for Fellini
and other filmmakers. The book has a fascinating passage (p88-89) about
Walter's encounter with The Shadow in post-WWII New York. Bret
Morrison's name, however, is never mentioned. As a storyteller, Walter
liked to embellish, so the exact truth is sometimes elusive in his
anecdotes.

Walter had been doing set designs for a Delaware summer theater, but a
dispute with the director prompted an early return to New York. Since he
had sublet his apartment for the summer, he had no place to stay for two
weeks. Backstage, he met a visitor who offered to help:

 >>>When he heard I was leaving and didn't have any place to stay, he
said, "Oh, come and stay with me. I've got gobs of space." He said, "My
sister lives on one floor and I live on one floor and there is another
floor." He said, "Come on for those two weeks when you are waiting. It
would be fun to have you."

Well, I arrived from the train station with a Rinso carton full of
paintbrushes and tubes of paint. I had this battered suitcase from
Mobile. And I was in these ratty summer clothes. I gave the address he'd
given me. It was Central Park West. Well, I'd never been to Central Park
West. I didn't know what that meant. We arrived at this very grand
apartment house. And this doorman - eight feet tall, with ice mantling
his summit - looked at my luggage and said, "Service entrance is on the
side street." And I went. But anyway, this guy, whom I just knew as a
friend of a friend, was the man who played the Shadow on the radio.

He was immensely wealthy. He'd been doing the Shadow as long as there
was radio. Well, when I got there, it turned out that his sister had
brought a whole batch of friends in, so every room was taken, except a
wonderful private room on her floor; I took that one. There was a john
in my bedroom, but for the bath I had to go down a floor and go through
a bedroom and the dressing room of the Shadow. Because he was always
recording or broadcasting, I barely saw him except late at night when he
was finished, and we'd have drinks together when he came in. The
servants showed me how to go down and find the bath. His bedroom was two
stories high. It had a bed with sterling-silver bedposts and black
velvet curtains because he was the Shadow. And there were these two
rooms of mirrored cupboards. After I'd been there four days, I had to
open a couple of them. I had to.

It was all wigs. He had a crew cut and could go through all stages from
no hair to longer than shoulder by twilight. He could go from pale blond
to Italian black, through all the stages of Irish red, Sabine Hills red.
And there was a hairdresser permanently employed who lived in the household.

But he had said to me, "Will you paint something over my bar? I'm having
my bar remodeled. Paint something like your HAY FEVER set or whatever
you want to do." I said, "All right - that will be my thank-you note."
So I did this little mural for him over his bar, and then I moved back
to Greenwich [removed];<<

Bhob @ FUSEBOX VINTAGE NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS
@ [removed]

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Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 22:31:36 -0400
From: Dave Parker <dave@[removed];
To: OLD TIME RADIO <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR RADIO STUDIO

DOES ANYONE [removed] an "old time" radio studio is???  I'm
talking about a studio with a control room - a control console with
several faders to adjust audio levels.  With a VU meter, etc.

And of course, with a window through which the actors and director
can see one [removed] on the wall??  You bet.

I live in the SF BAY AREA and it would sure be nice to locate such a
studio hereabouts, or at least in Calif.  But my many contacts have
come up empty.

My objective is to videotape some scenes of rehearsals and
performance in the authentic environments in which shows happened in
those golden years. All this for "REMEMBERING RADIO"
the documentary on which I am well started but far from finished.

Thanks in advance.

Dave Parker

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Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 08:36:41 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-16 births/deaths

May 16th births

05-16-1882 - Mary Gordon - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 8-23-1963
actress: Mrs. Emmett "Those We Love"; Mrs. Hudson "Sherlock Holmes"
05-16-1892 - Osgood Perkins - West Newton, MA - d. 9-21-1937
stage actor: "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
05-16-1896 - Margaret Sullavan - Norfolk, VA - d. 1-1-1960
actress: "Electric Theatre"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
05-16-1905 - Henry Fonda - Grand Island, NE - d. 8-12-1982
actor: "Eyes Aloft"; "Romance"; "Suspense"
05-16-1909 - Margaret Sullivan - Norfolk VA - d. 1-1-1960
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-16-1912 - Studs Terkel - The Bronx, NY
journalist, sometimes actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Ma Perkins"
05-16-1913 - Woody Herman - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-29-1987
bandleader: (The Thundering Herd) "Wildroot Show"
05-16-1916 - Bernard Braden - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-2-1993
actor: "The Gracie Fields Show"
05-16-1919 - Liberace - West Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-4-1987
pianist, singer: "Stars for Defense"
Liberace was mistakenly listed as the 14th, 16th is the right date.

May 16th deaths

01-23-1910 - Django Reinhardt - Belgium - d. 5-16-1953
jazz artist: "Djanjo Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club France"
02-27-1913 - Irwin Shaw - NYC - d. 5-16-1984
author: "Columbia Workshop";"Studio One"; "The Gumps"
03-29-1890 - Joe Cook - Evansville, IN - d. 5-16-1959
comedian: "House Party"; "Shell Chateau"
04-04-1904 - John Brown - Hull, England - d. 5-16-1957
actor: Digby "Digger" O'Dell "Life of Riley"; Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"
06-22-1912 - June Carroll - Detroit, MI - d. 5-16-2004
composer: "New Faces of 1948"
12-09-1902 - Margaret Hamilton - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-16-1985
actress: Aunt Effie "Couple Next Door"; "The Free Company"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 08:37:26 -0400
From: "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jack Benny - Fred Allen Feud

According to what I've been able to find, the "feud" started in
the 1936/1937 time frame. However, I've been reading "Fred Allen's
Letters", and found one to Joe Kelly (a senator's aide, and a
personal friend of Allen's, if I recall correctly), dated January
19, 1934, where Allen says that he has a (weekly?) feud with Jack Benny
wrapped up in cellophane. He mentioned it in the context of material
he was coming up with for his program.

Was this actually occuring, but at a time when neither was attracting
much attention, or was it just at a lower level with not much time
being used to develop the story?

I have Fred Allen's books "Treadmill to Oblivion" and "Much Ado About
Me", but haven't read them yet, so if the answer lies in there, I'll
eventually see it.

-- Tom Kirby

[removed] I actually have two copies of "Treadmill to Oblivion", and I will
probably offer to give one away/donate it as soon as I'm sure the post
office has finished their investigation of how they were able to bend
a hardcover book almost in three! It looks to me like they slammed a
loading gate down on [removed]

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