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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 251
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Ya pays yer dues                      [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  RE- Finding Portable CD MP3 Boombox   [ Trinapreston3@[removed] ]
  Fibber and the War                    [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
  The Front Page 1970 Broadcast         [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
  Transcription Discs                   [ Dick Fisher <w9fjl@[removed]; ]
  8-31 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:09:16 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Ya pays yer dues

Dear Bill-

In a message dated 8/30/2007 12:18:24 [removed] Eastern Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

I can't accept that virtually  EVERY show was done with uber-experienced
radio actors who dashed into the  studio at broadcast time and just sight
read every script, leaving for  another soap 15 minutes later.

I've done modern audio drama for several different directors and producers,
and have been blessed to work on recreations with numerous Vets of network era
 radio, at FOTR and elsewhere.

I think that the situation you describe was VERY rare; most directors
"covered their own (blanks)" better than that! The scenario you describe is
recipe
for a bad show; enough bad shows, and said director is out of a  job.

In some cases there was a Table Read, then a Mic Dress, before broadcast;  at
the least, a fast Cold Read to give notes (how else would a director have a
chance to direct?)

(Of course, you do hear of exceptions with overloaded stars, ala Orson
Welles or Cliff Arquette; and occasionally, actors hired another to sit in
and
take notes for them.)

Most Vets will still tell you, that good work back then happened the  same
way that it does today: by effort, not by mystical sleight-of-hand.

Best,
-Craig Wichman

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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:09:48 -0400
From: Trinapreston3@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  RE- Finding Portable CD MP3 Boombox
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I hope I am not to late in helping one of the readers in OTR Digest.  A
reader ask a cope of weeks ago about finding a portable radio that plays MP3
CDs
for a sick friend.  I found a web site that has a Coby portable MP3 cd playing
boombox for $[removed]  The website is J&[removed]  It plays audio cassettes to small
and attractive radio.  the web page to see this radio is:
_[removed]
([removed])    Coby Model
#cobyMPCD450

                              Trina,

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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:24:39 -0400
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Fibber and the War

Thanks to R R King for the info about the origin of the Fibber McGee & Molly
war-related shows.  I still think they were perhaps the only regular
entertainment show on the air who did so many shows where homefront war
efforts were the featured plot line.

Ted

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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:48:18 -0400
From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Front Page 1970 Broadcast

There was apparently a commercial radio or tv broadcast of this play by
Hecht and MacArthur in 1970, featuring Robert Ryan, George Grizzard and
others who had been appearing at that time in a stage production.  Are
any recordings available?  (There is also a record album made at that
time or earlier with a similar cast, but that's something different.)

--Martin Fass

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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:48:18 -0400
From: Dick Fisher <w9fjl@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Transcription Discs

Many thanks to the person who directed us to the December, 1938 Popular
Mechanics Magazine article on transcription disc manufacture.  I found
it most fascinating as I own a small number of these discs.

The article states that  "Lateral-cut transcriptions reproduce within
the forty to 6,500 cycle range. Vertically recorded transcriptions
extend the limit to 8,500 cycles ---"

I have always been curious as to what the "real" frequency range is that
was captured on these discs.  It seems to me in listening to violin
music on my transcription discs that the range is far above the 8,500
cycles listed.  I would guess that the disc captured at least to 15,000
cycles and maybe higher with good reproduction even at the higher range.
That is, even at the higher range the level recorded was nearly equal to
the level of the original material with very little drop off. Was the
article in error or am I?

Any audio experts out there that can answer this question?

Thanks.

Dick

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:28:18 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-31 births/deaths

August 31st births

08-31-1886 - L. Wolfe Gilbert - Odessa, Russia - d. 7-12-1970
pianist: WEAF New York City
08-31-1897 - Fredric March - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1975
actor: "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
08-31-1897 - Sidney Ellstrom - Chicago, IL - d. 7-xx-1968
actor: "Captain Midnight"; "Flying Patrol"; "Lights Out"
08-31-1898 - Jack Ward - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-26-1973
organist: "Gangbusters"; "Magnificent Montague"
08-31-1900 - Cedric Foster - Hartford, CT - d. 3-6-1975
commentator: "News and Commentary"
08-31-1900 - Larry Elliott - Washington, [removed] - d. 7-27-1957
announcer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "American Melody Hour"; "Barry
Cameron"
08-31-1903 - Arthur Godfrey - NYC - d. 3-16-1983
emcee: (The Old Redhead) "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Arthur Godfrey's
Talent Scouts"
08-31-1905 - Dory Schary - Newark, NJ - d. 7-7-1980
writer: "America Calling"; "The Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Hall of Fame"
08-31-1906 - Ruth Weston - Boston, MA - d. 11-5-1955
actor: Maude Kellogg "Life Can Be Beautiful"
08-31-1907 - Winifred Cecil - Staten Island, NY - d. 9-13-1985
singer: "Show Boat"
08-31-1908 - William Saroyan - Fresno, CA - d. 5-18-1981
writer: "Columbia Workshop"; "The Free Company"; "Biography in Sound"
08-31-1911 - Walter Paterson - Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia - d. 9-
xx-1942
actor: Reggie York "I Love A Mystery"; Nicholas Lacy "One Man's Family"
08-31-1914 - Richard Basehart - Zanesville, OH - d. 9-17-1984
actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Preview"
08-31-1916 - Daniel Schoor - NYC
correspondent, commentator: "Edward R. Murrow and the News"
08-31-1917 - Burleigh Robbins Downey, Jr. - d. 3-1-2000
news director: "You are the Jury"
08-31-1918 - Alan Jay Lerner - NYC - d. 6-14-1986
writer: "Victor Borge"; "Raleigh Room"; "Philco Hall of Fame"

August 31st deaths

01-22-1906 - Guy Savage - d. 8-31-1981
announcer: "Play Broadcast"
02-01-1895 - John Ford - Cape Elizabeth, ME - d. 8-31-1973
director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
03-19-1890 - Gayne Whitman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1958
actor, announcer: Frank Chandler "Chandu the Magician"; "Cavalcade of
America"
03-28-1913 - Lucille Fletcher - NYC - d. 8-31-2000
dramatist: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
03-29-1908 - Dennis O'Keefe - Fort Madison, IA - d. 8-31-1968
actor: Treasure Agent Larsen "T-Man"
03-30-1916 - Will Hare - Elkins, WV - d. 8-31-1997
actor: "Words at War"; "New World A' Coming"; "Mysterious Traveler"
04-20-1908 - Lionel Hampton - Louisville, KY - d. 8-31-2002
vibraphone artist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"; "Lionel Hampton and
His Orchestra"
04-28-1908 - Michael Fitzmaurice - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1967
actor: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; Dick Grosvenor
"Stella Dallas"
05-08-1914 - Carmen Matthews - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-31-1995
actor: "There Is No Light"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-27-1901 - David Stone - Savannah, GA - d. 8-31-1995
announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
xx-xx-1893 - Oscar Bradley - London, England - d. 8-31-1948
orchestra leader: "The Phil Baker Show"; "Gulf Screen Guild Theatre"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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