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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 119
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Wendy Warren and the News             [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  15 minute shows                       [ "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed]; ]
  Can you spare 15 minutes?             [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
  15 Minute Shows                       [ Karen Lerner <kareneflerner@[removed] ]
  OTR for the Blind                     [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
  15 minute non serials on OTR          [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
  RE: 15 minute programs                [ "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed] ]
  Gary Filroy                           [ JJLjackson@[removed] ]
  Marvin Mueller/Miller                 [ FRANK A ABSHER <fabsher@[removed]; ]
  Milt Gross's "Nize Baby"              [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  6-23 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Well, maybe yes and maybe [removed]       [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  15 minute shows                       [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
  Fifteen Minute radio Programs         [ "Frank McGurn Jr." <[removed]@sbcg ]
  Smoke screen                          [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Two Ton Baker                         [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
  15 minute shows                       [ Ed Kindred <kindred@[removed]; ]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:02:50 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Wendy Warren and the News

Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:17:40 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

1947   Wendy Warren and the News debuted on CBS. The broadcasts
continued until 1958. ... The unique thing about this particular show,
however, was that Wendy Warren and the News did utilize a real
three minute newscast to open the show.

I seem to remember the one time I heard that show, the newscast was
at the end, and I thought it was actually delivered by "Wendy
Warren."  But I could be mistaken.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:02:58 -0400
From: "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  15 minute shows

One other 15 minute show was the 1953-56 version of Fibber McGee and
[removed] some underrate this version, From listening to some of them
now, they werent bad at [removed] regulars were Bill Thompson (Old Timer,
Walace Wimple) and Arthur Q. Bryan (Doctor Gamble)..Difference is that
radio veterans like William Conrad, Shirley Mitchell, Elvia Allman and
Parley Baer played numerous guest [removed]

Tim Lones

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:03:19 -0400
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Can you spare 15 minutes?

Jody Davis asked for a list of 15 minute radio shows. I gave my
answer, but in my haste,  may not have made it look like a reply and
now I'm getting answers directly from readers of this digest,
thinking I was the one looking for 15 minute programs.

Please go back a few issues of the digest and find where Jody wrote
the original request and direct your answers there. I'm sure Jody
will appreciate the response.

Better yet, here is Jody's email address. [ Jody Davis <baroygis@[removed]; ]

Jody Davis

Fred
Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:03:29 -0400
From: Karen Lerner <kareneflerner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  15 Minute Shows
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How [removed] the Magician, Speed Gibson of the International Secret
Police, and Hop Harrigan.

Karen Lerner
Radio Spirits

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:03:45 -0400
From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR for the Blind

A while back, Steve Jansen talked about promoting OTR in your local
communities.  Thanks for the push, Steve.  Here's what I've done:

Many communities have radio stations that require a special radio, called
an SCA (subsidiary communications authority) receiver.  The signal is
broadcast along with the signal of a regular stereo FM station, but
cannot be picked up on a regular radio.

Here in Champaign, IL, the University of Illinois NPR station also
carries the SCA station for the blind.  Much of the programming is the
daily reading of all the area newspapers, one after another.  Volunteers
come in to the station for a half-hour or an hour and record (daily or
weekly, whatever they can do) a newspaper, and each newspaper is then
aired at the same time each day.

I contacted the station (it's called the Illinois Radio Reader) and asked
if they would be interested in an OTR show.  The manager was very
excited, and now I'm doing my own show every week.  (He said he'd try to
get me a radio; I'd like to be able to listen to my own show).  He also
indicated the program may soon be syndicated to other Illinois stations
for the blind.

Basically, I do an intro with some facts about the show in general and
some specifics about the episode I'm about to play, then I play the show,
then I do an outro.  I am able to record this in my home studio and send
it to the station as an MP3 file, so I don't have to go to the radio
station.

Here's a web page I set up for the show:

[removed]

Those of you with the time and equipment may want to do something similar
if your community has a station for the blind.  And if you want any
technical help, give me a buzz.

---Dan, [removed]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:04:02 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  15 minute non serials on OTR
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       The one which comes to my mind is "Blackstone, the Magic Detective"
starring Ed Jerome.  I have 4 eps of this program in my own collection.

As always,

Kenneth Clarke

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:04:18 -0400
From: "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: 15 minute programs
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I have a small collection of tapes of Perry Mason from the early forties which
was presented in 15 minute shows well into the 1950's, maybe until 1955. It
was in serial, almost soap opera format.

James R. Belpedio
Worcester, MA

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:04:42 -0400
From: JJLjackson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Gary Filroy
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We will be celebrating the life of Gary Filroy, on  Thursday, July 9,  in
the Fred Bertelsen room, at _[removed]_
([removed]) . Gary left us on June 17, 8  [removed] Central
Time. Another bright light
has gone out but we remember his flame.  At least we know he is no longer
in pain.

If you'd like to share your memories of Gary, or tell stories about him,
please send me an email at _jjljackson@[removed]_ (mailto:jjljackson@[removed])
or _jackson1653@[removed]_ (mailto:jackson1653@[removed]) , so I can make
sure everyone  has a chance to be heard.

I'm sure this will be a very special evening that you won't want to  miss.

Joy Jackson
American Radio Theater

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:04:58 -0400
From: FRANK A ABSHER <fabsher@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Marvin Mueller/Miller
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Several years ago I came across a repository that had assembled a collection
of material about Marvin Mueller/Miller. When I made some inquiries to see if
I could gain access to any material they had about his work in St. Louis, the
refusal came very quickly.
Now I have some material they could use and would like to see if they might
be interested, but my web searches have come up empty.
Does anyone know where the collection is and how I might reach them?

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:05:25 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Milt Gross's "Nize Baby"
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Supposedly there were some radio shows based on cartoonist Milt Gross's book
"Nize Baby." Does anybody out there in the ether happen to know if any
episodes of said show survived and if anybody has them available?

Yours always in the ether,

Derek Tague

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:08:28 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-23 births/deaths

June 23rd births

06-23-1876 - Irvin S. Cobb - Paducah, KY - d. 3-10-1944
humorist: "Gulf Show"; "Paducah Plantation"
06-23-1884 - Marley R. Sherris - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-2-1956
announcer: "Midweek Hymn Sing"; "National Vespers"
06-23-1889 - Kajetan Attl - d. 2-13-1976
harpist: KPO, San Francisco, California
06-23-1894 - King Edward VIII - Richmond Park, England - d. 5-28-1972
king, ex-king, duke: Abdication Speech for the "woman" he loved
06-23-1894 - Laurie York Erskine - England - d. 11-30-1976
author: "Renfrew of the Mounted"; "Adventure Story"; "National
Children's Week"
06-23-1895 - Pick Malone - nr. Dallas, TX - d. 1-22-1962
comedian: "Show Boat"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
06-23-1907 - Eddie Pola - NYC - d. 11-3-1995
director: "Blondie"
06-23-1908 - Erik Barnouw - The Netherlands - d. 7-19-2001
radio historian/author: "A Tower of Babel"; "The Golden Web"; "The
Image Empire"
06-23-1908 - Mary Livingston - Vancouver, Canada - d. 6-30-1983
comedienne: (wife of Jack Benny) "Jack Benny Program"
06-23-1910 - Edward P. Morgan - Walla Walla, WA - d. 1-27-1993
newscaster: "News and Commentary"
06-23-1910 - Milt Hinton - Vicksburg, MS - d. 12-19-2000
jazz bassist: "Town Hall Concert"; "Monsanto Night: Benny Goodman"
06-23-1911 - Eddie Miller - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-1-1991
saxaphone: "The Bob Crosby Show"
06-23-1912 - John Milton Kennedy - Farrell, PA - d. 6-11-2006
announcer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Tidbit Revue"
06-23-1914 - Nat Hiken - Chicago, IL - d. 12-7-1968
creator, director, writer: "Magnificent Montague"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
06-23-1916 - Irene Worth - Fairbury, NE - d. 3-10-2002
actor: "Odyssey of Homer"
06-23-1917 - Norman Rose - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-12-2004
narrator: "Dimension X"
06-23-1922 - Rusty Morris - Colorado - d. 5-14-1986
actor: "Halls of Ivy"; "Mayor of the Town"; "This Is Your FBI"
06-23-1925 - Larry Blyden - Houston, TX - d. 5-6-1975
actor: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Cavalcade of America"
06-23-1929 - June Carter Cash - Maces Spring, VA - d. 5-15-2003
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
06-23-1943 - James Levine - Cincinnati, OH
conductor: "The Metropolitan Opera"
06-23-1944 - "Jolly Joe" Truszkowski - Warrior Run, PA - d. 4-23-2009
polka bandleader: WICK-AM Wilkes Barre, PA

June 23rd deaths

01-28-1880 - Mary Boland - Detroit, MI - d. 6-23-1965
03-25-1897 - John Laurie - Dumfries, Scotland - d. 6-23-1980
actor: James Fraser "Dad's Army"
04-30-1925 - Corinne Calvert - Paris, France - d. 6-23-2001
actor: "Martin and Lewis Show"
05-17-1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan - Boyle, Ireland - d. 6-23-1998
actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"; "Family Theatre"
06-12-1914 - Sydna Scott - Chicago, IL - d. 6-23-1996
actor: "Luke Slaughter of Tombstone"
06-21-1880 - Mary Young - d. 6-23-1971
actor: Lily "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"
07-07-1907 - Elton Britt - Marshall, AR - d. 6-23-1972
singer: "Tennessee Jed"
08-13-1886 - Aurania Rouverol - Utah - d. 6-23-1955
author: "Andy Hardy"
08-18-1893 - Benjamin Abrams - Rumania - d. 6-23-1967
co-founder of Emerson radio
08-28-1891 - Stanley Andrews - Chicago, IL - d. 6-23-1969
actor: Daddy Warbucks "Little Orphan Annie"
09-07-1905 - Ivy Maude Baker Priest - Kimberly, UT - d. 6-23-1975
treasurer of the united states: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
09-26-1893 - Fay Holden - Birmingham, England - d. 6-23-1973
actor: Mrs. Hardy "The Hardy Family"
09-29-1895 - Colonel Roscoe Turner - d. 6-23-1970
host, narrator: "Sky Blazers"
10-06-1925 - Shana Alexander - NYC - d. 6-23-2005
writer and commentary
10-17-1917 - Sumner Locke Elliott - Sydney, Australia - d. 6-23-1991
writer: "Jezebel's Daughter"
11-16-1895 - Michael Arlen - Rustchuk, Bulgaria - d. 6-23-1956
creator: "The Falcon"

Ron

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:09:38 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Well, maybe yes and maybe [removed]

Dear Larry-

 From: lawrence albert _albertlarry@[removed]_

As  a long time member of AFTRA, AFRA in the old days

Well, I'm post-AFRA. But AFTRA is my Parent Union; and with few AFTRA
actors of my age, I can say that that door was opened to me by a Radio  Drama
gig.

Acting is a skill just like any other and no not
everybody can do  the same job with the same ability (animal sounds).

Amen, fraternal brother.

you want the best
get a professional. Get someone who takes the  craft of acting seriously get
the union member

But here, with great respect, I disagree. Union membership is  conclusive
proof neither of seriousness of artistic intent, nor certainly,  of ability.
I'm sure we both know Union members who are, frankly, not at the top  of our
craft; and non-members (by destiny, or by choice) who are.

Best,
-Craig Wichman
(AFTRA/SAG/AEA)

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:17:41 -0400
From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  15 minute shows

Hello,

A few that come to mind that are self-contained in one episode are:

Front Page Drama (1933 to about 1955)
Sgt. Preston of the Yukon (1938-1947)
Guess What (1937 syndicated)

I didn't see those previously mentioned, so I thought I would add them.
Front Page Drama did have a few multipart shows, but the vast majority
were self-contained.  I think Mr. and Mrs. North was also a 15 minute
serial in the 1950's.  There were many public service programs as well,
such as:

Guest Star
Treasury Star Parade
Navy Star Time
Here's to Veterans
the March of Dimes and American Red Cross shows, which sometimes
condensed 30 minute shows down to 15 minutes, such as Bob Hope, Jack
Benny, etc.

If we want to drift a little, there are all kinds of records we could
mention, like the 10 minute Lone Ranger commercial records and some
others for children done by various people.  Likewise, if we want to
broaden our list to 20 minute shows, we have Theater Five (1964-65) and
the Crosby show from 1960-61.  We could also count some of the later
Suspense and Gunsmoke shows which are circulating with missing or
incomplete commercials.

There's also the 1950's Crosby show on CBS that was in fact 15 minutes,
plus Bob and Ray.  For more public service shows, there's Greatest
Sports Thrill, Play Ball, the Adventures of Babe Ruth, and an AFRS show
called the Sports Answer Man.  To the best of my knowledge, none of the
shows listed here are serials.

Sorry if a digester beat me to these already, but I don't recall most of
those being mentioned and many are a bit obscure, so I thought I would
throw in my two cents.

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:18:01 -0400
From: "Frank McGurn Jr." <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Fifteen Minute radio Programs
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I'm on an OTR educational mission. I'm trying to discover as many shows as
possible that were 15 minutes in length.
Jody Davis
There are probably hundreds of 15 minute radio shows that were on the
air. some examples are: Amos and Andy  (until 1948), Bill Stern's
"Colgate Sports Newsreel", "The Treasury Star Parade", "I Love a
Mystery', "The Family Doctor', "The Green Valley Line". to name a [removed]

Most news programs were 15 minutes so the half hour may have filled with
a musical programs. At 10:00PM in Chicago was news so to fill the half
hour we had a live musical program, Janette Davis And the Kings Men for
15 minutes or Smiling Jack [removed] something sinilar.

All the Kids shows Orphan Annie, Jack Armstrong, Captain Midnightt, Don
Winslow of the Navy all were i5 minutes.

All the Soaps were fifteen minutes also.

I wold suggest that if Jody Davis could  a coy of Jay Hickerson's "The
Ultimate History of Network Radio Programing & Guide To all Circulating
Shows". Jay shows the length of most of  the programs, and there are a
whole bunch that are 15 minutes.
Hope this helps.
Fank McGurn

Frank McGurn

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:18:10 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Smoke screen

There's a news piece in Time magazine this week titled "A Brief History of
Cigarette Advertising."  It's emblazoned with an illustration of "Call for
Philip Morris" Johnny (Roventini) who touts "America's Finest Cigarette,"
thanks to discoveries by "a distinguished group of doctors."  My attempt is
not to debate the pros and cons of that but to cite another fact in the text
below the ad.

Tracing the history of cigarette marketing in America, it begins with a 1789
ad for snuff promoted in a New York newspaper by P. Lorillard.  Next came
cigarette packs with trading cards featuring celebrities and athletes in the
19th century.  Finally, TV shows are cited, in the 1940s and 1950s, in which
catchy slogans were introduced.

What?  No mention of radio?  No Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra?  No Jack Benny
Program?  No Your Hit Parade?  No Big Story?  No Arthur Godfrey Time?  No
Chesterfield Supper Club?  No Old Gold Hour with Crosby and Whiteman?  No
Raleigh-Kool Program with Tommy Dorsey?  No Raleigh Cigarette Program with
Red Skelton?  No People Are Funny?  No Blondie?  No Camel Caravan?  No My
Friend Irma?  Egads, and legions more are also missing in action!  Are we to
assume that the co-authors (Scott Olstad and Randy James) were -- like their
counterparts at obituary desks on newspapers, magazines and internet forums
everywhere -- born since radio and simply don't have the drive or ability to
get it all?

These two birds acknowledge near the article's end that TV and radio ads
were banned in 1971.  In their minds, is that limited to "spot advertising"?
Cigarette-sponsored radio series were long gone.  The point is:  had Benny
and Burns & Allen and Skelton and Crosby and the others not been kept on
radio by cigarette-makers, we might not have had I've Got a Secret and Two
for the Money and legions of other shows to "watch" later on, thanks to
their sponsors' triumphant decades in the aural medium.

But few give credit where it is due.  Cigarette advertising, in one sense,
MADE radio.  Of the 24 leading American companies profiled in extensive
depth in "Sold on Radio:  Advertisers in the Golden Age of Broadcasting"
([removed]), I discovered
that one-fourth (six) are tobacco firms.  Their corporate tales are
absorbing, particularly as they relate to their many contributions to radio.
While I'm not advocating their products, a whole lot of what went on the air
was paid for by that handful of enterprises.

Too bad Messrs. Olstad and James aren't acquainted with the facts.  By
skipping the mention of any radio series, they overlooked a generous portion
of critical mass for a comprehensive report.

Jim Cox

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:19:23 -0400
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Two Ton Baker
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Hi Gang,

Among the Fifteen-Minute programs I used to listen to was "Two Ton Baker,
the
Music Maker".   His actual name was Dick Baker.  He played the piano and
sang
songs, many of which he composed himself.   Although his program originated
in
Chicago, I think it was carried by syndication to other stations.   I was
able to find
a couple ETs, so I know that some transcriptions were made for possible
syndiaction.

Anyhow, this was a daily fifteen minute broadcast which I enjoyed hearing
just about
every day, and now via the copies of the ETs in my collection.

Happy Taping  --   Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois and Alma Arkansas

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:19:32 -0400
From: Ed Kindred <kindred@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  15 minute shows
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Sky King was a  15 minute show before they started alternating with Jack
Armstrong in the 30 minute format.
I believe Tennessee Jed also was a 15 minute show.
Ed Kindred

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