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Date: 4/4/2005 5:37 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 106
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  last on woolrich                      [ "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed]; ]
  Old Time Writings                     [ wich2@[removed] ]
  The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show     [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
  Frizz                                 [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
  Re: Secondary characters              [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]
  Audio restoration                     [ Joseph Barth <jbarthotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: Boring to Watch                   [ "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed] ]
  Voices                                [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
  time travel/voices/This Is Your FBI   [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  paul temple                           [ "Joseph" <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
  Harry Bartell on TV                   [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
  4-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: Secondary Characters              [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
  Re: Secondary characters              [ Matthew Reed <mkr@northcountrymerca ]

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:13:05 -0400
From: "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  last on woolrich

Does anybody have Molle Mystery Theater Marijuana, the bride wore black
or I wouldn't be in your shoes?  I am asking because nothing has turned
up in any research I can do.  If you find anything could you reply to me
off list?  I also know sleep no more three o'clock exists, but don't have
that one either.  Thanks.  Kurt

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:13:59 -0400
From: wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Old Time Writings
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Dear Folks-

Still way behind here; hope this is not a repeat! Lee Munsick wrote a while
back, re: books on announcers-

I particularly like Ray Poindexter's opening reference in 'Golden Throats
and Silver Tongues':
'A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver'

That quote of course, is from a Very Old Book, among whose "better writers"
were, as Milton Berle used to say, "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."

It was originally Proverbs 25:11.

Best,
-Craig

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:14:11 -0400
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show

The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show - "The Courtship Of Elliott Lewis"
I  notice in listings Phil Harris is usually mentioned first yet on the show
it has  Alice's name first.

Hmm.

Larry Moore

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:14:44 -0400
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Frizz
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My Mom and Dad used to buy Kraft's "Frizz".They would mix it  with milk and
pour it in an ice tray and then put it in the refrigerator and let it freeze.
Then you take it out and beat it with an eggbeater and refreeze it again. I
liked it, [removed] was around 1948 or [removed] do you remember DelRich? It
was a sponsor of "Nick Carter, Master Detective" on [removed] was a product
of "Old Dutch" cleanser, if you can imagine [removed] was margarine in a
plastic style bag, with a color bud in  it. You kneaded the bag until the
white margarine turned yellow. The flavor bud was an off-color [removed]
believe it may have been the first company to do [removed] 1949, I think it
disappeared to be replaced by cubed margarine, which was already colored at
the factory. It came 4 cubes to the [removed] there was an concentrated grape
drink about the same time that came in a bottle the size of a small vanilla
extract [removed] could mix gallons of this stuff with water without adding
any [removed]
 had a great taste and then it too disappeared. I wonder if "Welch's had
anything to do with it?I'm guessing it may have been a holdover from the
armed forces fom the Second World War, just concluded a couple of years
before?I've never tasted anything like it since. I was around 8 or 9 years
old at the [removed] you ever tried either of these products?  Best Regards,
Bob Slate

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:14:52 -0400
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi friends,

	Here is this week's line-up for the week of 4-3-05 on my Olde Tyme
Radio
[removed] Featuring Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio Theatre," Big John
Matthews and Steve Urbaniak's "The Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same
Station" broadcasts, being broadcast on demand 24/7 in high quality
streaming RealAudio at [removed]

Past archived broadcasts are also available there.

We look forward to having you join us!

	Jerry

Here's this week's lineup:

SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges

MUSIC FROM HOLLYWOOD
12-3-37
Stars Hal Kemp and Alice Faye
With Bob Allen

HIT THAT BALL
Episode 1    5-19-39    "White Sox vs. Yankees Sports Writers"
Host: Stan Lomax
Panel: Jimmie Dikes, Muddy Rule and Billy Webb

VERNON CRANE'S STORYBOOK
9-17-39    "Dudley, The Most Ancient Of Autos"

PAUL WHITEMAN'S MUSICAL VARIETIES
Episode 7    2-16-36    Guest: Helen Morgan
=======================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood

BIG TOWN
NBC    4/5/49    Stars Ed Pawley and Fran Carlin in "The Deadly Gimmick of
the Squealing Rat"

SMILIN' ED'S BUSTER BROWN GANG
CBS    9/13/52   "Little Fox's Moose Hunt"

THE ALKA-SELTZER SHOW
10/29/53    - Daily 15-minute music show with: Curt Massey and Martha
Tilton.
========================================

THE GLOWING DIAL with Big John Matthews and Steve Urbaniak

This Week's Glowing Dial Program Schedule:

 The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show - "The Courtship Of Elliott Lewis"
originally aired September 25, 1953 on NBC
Starring: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roose, Anne
Whitfield, Walter Tetley, John Hubbard, The Sportsmen, Jacqueline Fontaine,
Bill Forman announcing.
Sponsor: RCA

The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show - "Little Alice's First Date"
originally aired October 9, 1953 on NBC
Starring: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roose, Anne
Whitfield, Walter Tetley, John Hubbard, The Sportsmen, Gil Stratton Jr.,
Bill Forman announcing.
Sponsor: RCA

The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show - "A Night With Phil Harris"
originally aired December 4, 1953 on NBC
Starring: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roose, Anne
Whitfield, Walter Tetley, John Hubbard, The Sportsmen, Bill Forman
announcing.
Sponsor: RCA

The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show - "A Trip To The Moon"
originally aired November 13, 1953 on NBC
Starring: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roose, Anne
Whitfield, Walter Tetley, John Hubbard, The Sportsmen, Bill Thompson, Ed
Kemmer, Lyn Osborne,  Bill Forman announcing.
Sponsor: RCA
====================================

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for upcoming
shows.

            Jerry Haendiges CET <Jerry@[removed]; 562-696-4387

  [removed]  The Vintage Radio Place
  Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:15:08 -0400
From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Secondary characters

 "Michael Leannah" asked:>
Is anyone able to tell me how to recognize the voice of Harry Bartell, for
instance. He's a part of so many OTR shows (Diamond, Gunsmoke, etc.) but
I'm
never sure which voice is his. Did he appear on TV or in the movies? Is
there a character he played that defines his voice in a way that I'll know
it every time I hear it?

Harry Bartell did a lot of [removed] and a few movies.

Perhaps the best way to learn to recognize a specific actor's voice is to
know what roles they played in a specific episodes.

Here are a couple of GUNSMOKE episodes that might help you recognize Harry
Bartell's voice.
(Closing cast credits given at the end of each broadcast have been verified
against the appropriate GUNSMOKE script.)
"Cain"
10/03/1952 and 02/07/1953
Plot Line:
Harry plays Cain Vestal, a guitar player dying of consumption, stops over in
Dodge on his way to Arizona.

"Blood Money"
03/27/1954 & 03/06/1960
Plot Line:
Joe Harpe saved Harry Spener's (Harry Bartell) life out on the prairie.
While Joe is staying Dodge, he becomes one of the best liked men in town.
When Harry finds out that Joe is a wanted man, he kills Joe for the reward.
Harp gets more of a reward than he planned for.

Harry Bartell and Vic Perrin
Both appears frequently on GUNSMOKE;
Harry  in approximately 182 radio episodes
 and
Vic in about 222 episodes.
They often appeared in the same episode and their voices are sometimes
confused.

Here are a few episodes in which they appeared together and the roles they
played.
(Closing cast credits given at the end of each broadcast have been verified
against the appropriate GUNSMOKE script.)

"Big Girl Lost"
12/19/1953 & 09/21/1958
Harry Bartell as Phillip Lock
Vic Perrin as Pete

"Spring Term"
06/13/1953
Vic Perrin as Shaw,
Harry Bartell as bartender
01/01/1961
Vic Perrin as Dane Shaw
Harry Bartell as the bartender

"How To Die For Nothing"
10/10/1953 & 05/10/1958
Vic Perrin as Howard Bulow
Harry Bartell as Will Jacklin

"The Guitar"
12/26/1953 & 03/02/1958
Plot Line:
When Weeb Pendle (Perrin) comes to Dodge, he is bullied by Tyler and Short
(Bartell.)

Perrin and Bartell as Writers
Also, Vic and Harry co wrote a couple of GUNSMOKE episodes:
"Chester's Inheritance"  04/02/1961

"Father And Son"  04/23/1961

They also wrote some draft scripts that did not air.

Signing off for now,

Stewart Wright

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:15:36 -0400
From: Joseph Barth <jbarthotr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Audio restoration
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Hello,

I'm interested in hiring some freelance part-timers to perform audio
restoration on radio programs.  Please contact me privately if you would like
to discuss further.

Thank you,

Joe Barth

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:16:02 -0400
From: "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re:  Boring to Watch

I agree with Craig Wichman,

In recent years there have been a number of theater presentations in which
the actor(s) are just sitting or standing on stage, reading lines, [removed] Love
Letters, Vagina Monologues and more recently Trumbo.

This kind of theater has made it possible for a great number of actors to
take these parts on for a little [or a long] time.  I recently paid over
$50/ticket to see Brian Dennehy sit on the stage and read Dalton Trumbo's
[blacklisted screenwriter] letters.   One pays more attention to the content
IMHO.

-Irene

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:16:19 -0400
From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Voices

Michael Leannah asks a good question -- what is a signature piece that
might help one recognize a certain radio actor's voice?

I can help with two actors he listed.  Michael noted he watched a lot of
television while he was growing up.  Paul Frees voiced the character of
John Beresford Tipton, master of Silverstone, on every episode of the
long-running show, "The Millionaire, " which also  just happened to  star
Marvin Miller.

Vic Perrin was the control voice on "The Outer Limits," a famous early
science fiction program.  Remember the legendary line, "There is nothing
wrong with your television [removed] ."

Dennis Crow

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:16:40 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  time travel/voices/This Is Your FBI

I am planning a course for our local lifelong learning institute on time
travel in fact and fiction. I plan to use some old time radio  shows. " A
Gun for Dinasour" comes to mind. Any other suggetions? Any help would be
appreciated.

Another is HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE's Berkeley Square from March 3, 1949 in which
a young man is transported back in time where he falls in love.

Michael Leannah asked:

How, for instance, do you know when it's Virginia Gregg or Janette
[Jeanette] Nolan? Vic Perrin >or Harry Bartell? I read about these actors
and hear their names at the ends of shows, but don't >know which name to
put with which voice. Help!"

Virginia Gregg is absolutely wonderful in disguising her voice and can
double and triple in shows without the vast majority of listeners noticing
it is the same person. My clue to identify her voice is there is a little
catch (or something) in her voice or throat that will be there for a split
second, when I triumphantly shout, "THAT'S VIRGINIA GREGG!" Virginia is my
radio idol.

For Vic Perrin, listen to the CLYDE BEATTY SHOW. He plays the title role.

For Harry Bartell, listen to the Rathbone/Bruce SHERLOCK HOLMES shows where
Harry is the announcer and has fireside chats with Dr. Watson before each
story begins.

Joe Mackey wrote:

1945 - This is Your FBI debuted on ABC. Frank Lovejoy from We Love and
Learn had little problem finding work, as he served as narrator for This
is Your FBI for the next eight years.

That will come as a great surprise to William Woodson whose name, to me, is
synonymous with the name of the series. Lovejoy only narrated during 1945.
In 1946 and 1947 the narrator was Dean Carlton. William Woodson took over
the role in December of 1947 and remained with it until the end of the
series.

Spaceman's luck!
Barbara

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:17:00 -0400
From: "Joseph" <drjoewebb@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  paul temple

a set of the paul temple serials has been released on cd in the uk:

[removed]

[removed];bklist=icat,5,,7,428,francisdurbridge

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:17:06 -0400
From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Harry Bartell on TV

Is anyone able to tell me how to recognize the voice
of Harry Bartell, fo instance. He's a part of so
many OTR shows (Diamond, Gunsmoke, etc.) but I'm
never sure which voice is his. Did he appear on TV
or in the movies?

Bartell can be seen -- and heard -- in two I LOVE LUCY
episodes.  He's the headwaiter in "[removed] at Last," the
one where Lucy has a disastrous encounter with William
Holden at the Brown Derby.  He's a jewel thief who
gets entangled with Lucy in "The Great Train Robbery,"
while the Ricardos and the Mertzes are returning to
New York from Hollywood via train.  Whether or not
those are the best examples of his TV work, they're at
least pretty accessible, since LUCY always seems to be
running somewhere.

Randy

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:17:12 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-4 births/deaths

April 4th births

04-04-1889 - Dorothy Gordon - Odessa, Russia - d. 5-11-1970
moderator: "Dorothy Gordon's Youth Forum"
04-04-1894 - Ed East - NYC - d. 1-18-1952
comedian: Gwendolyn "Quality Twins"; "Sisters of the Skillet"
04-04-1895 - Arthur Murray - NYC - d. 3-3-1991
dance master: "Natural Bridge Dancing Class"
04-04-1896 - Robert Sherwood - New Rochelle, NY - d. 11-14-1955
playwright: "Free Company"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
04-04-1898 - Lee Tracy - Atlanta, GA - d. 10-18-1968
actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Detective"
04-04-1901 - Gay Seabrook - Seattle, WA - d. 4-18-1970
actress: Susabelle "Joe Penner Show"
04-04-1902 - Bernice Berwin - Bay Area, CA - d. 5-22-2002
actress: Hazel Barbour "One Man's Family"
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"
04-04-1904 - Martin Wolfson - NYC - d. 9-xx-1973
actor: Second Brother "Into the Light"
04-04-1906 - Bea Benaderet - NYC (Raised: San Francisco, CA) - d.
10-13-1968
comedienne: Gertrude Gearshift "Jack Benny Program"; Dora Foster "A
Date with Judy
04-04-1906 - John Cameron Swayze - Wichita, KS - d. 8-15-1995
host. panelist: "Monitor"; "Who Said That?"
04-04-1911 - Mitch Miller - Rochester, NY
bancleader: "Here's to Veterans"
04-04-1914 - Frances Langford - Lakeland, FL
singer, actress: Blanche Bickerson "Bickersons"; "Bob Hope Show"
04-04-1914 - Richard Coogan - Short Hills, NJ
actor: Robbie Hughes "Young Dr. Malone"; Abie Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"

04-04-1922 - Elmer Bernstein - NYC - d 8-18-2004
composer: "Coming Home"; "Memos to a New Millenium"
04-04-1932 - Anthony Perkins - NYC - d. 9-12-1992
actor: "Guest Star"; "Listening to Music with Tony Perkins"
04-04-1938 - Susan Luckey
actress: Elizabeth Barbour/Jane Barbour "One Man's Family"

April 4th deaths

03-11-1909 - Karl Tunberg - Spokane, WA - d. 4-4-1992
film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-20-1903 - Edgar Buchanan - Humansville, MO - d. 4-4-1979
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-27-1898 - Gloria Swanson - Chicago, IL - d. 4-4-1983
panelist: "Hollywood Byline"; "Suspense"
04-07-1916 - Anthony Caruso - Frankfort, IN - d. 4-4-2003
actor: "This Is Your FBI"
05-25-1916 - Ginny Simms - San Antonio, TX - d. 4-4-1994
singer: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"

06-12-1915 - Priscilla Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 4-4-1995
singer: "Fred Waring Show"
07-17-1918 - Red Sovine - Charleston, WV - d. 4-4-1980
country singer: "Country Music Time"; "Country Hoedown"
08-03-1896 - Wendell Hall - St. George, KS  - d. 4-4-1969
singer: (The Red Headed Music Maker) "Eveready Hour"; "Red Headed
Music Maker"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 07:33:25 -0400
From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Secondary Characters

"Michael Leannah" <mleannah@[removed]; enquired:

Is anyone able to tell me how to recognize the voice of Harry Bartell, for
instance. He's a part of so many OTR shows (Diamond, Gunsmoke, etc.) but I'm
never sure which voice is his. Did he appear on TV or in the movies? Is
there a character he played that defines his voice in a way that I'll know
it every time I hear it?

Not aware of too much non-OTR media work from our lamented, departed
listmate, but there is one signature turn he performed in radio that makes
it almost impossible to miss his voice from that point on: his stint as John
Watson's (Nigel Bruce) weekly visitor and wine enthusiast during the Petri
Wine era (1945-46) of the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

I've been with people who really know their OTR. They'll say, "That's Paul
Frees," or "That's Joseph Kearns." It's a wonderful ability. Of course, many
OTR actors change their voices, making it hard for those of us struggling to
match voices and names.

Paul Frees' voice is one I've long found easy to pick out; all those
misspent days of my youth running around the Haunted Mansion in Anaheim
listening to the characters vocalized by Mr. Frees (and his bass-voiced
co-conspirator, Thurl Ravenscroft) have left his unique cadence and tonality
seared into my memory. If you have access to any of Disney's Haunted Mansion
recordings of the 1960s, 70s and early 80s, the narrator's voice is that of
Paul Frees.

Joe Kearns is another actor whose unique delivery makes him unmistakable,
once you've identified him, as he rarely varied his delivery aside from
occasionally raising or lowering the volume thereof. The best way to get a
handle on Kearns is to listen to any of the Jack Benny programs where Jack
visits his vault (Kearns is the vault guard, Ed) or deals with the IRS
(Kearns plays the talkative agent in every pair).

How, for instance, do you know when it's Virginia Gregg or Janette Nolan?
Vic Perrin or Harry Bartell?

Virginia Gregg is easy to catch if you listen to enough of, say, the
five-a-week Johnny Dollar shows; Johnny's love interest each week is almost
invariably played by Ms. Gregg. Once you have a handle on her, any featured
female Gunsmoke character you hear but don't recognize as Gregg is very
likely to be Jeanette Nolan.

Bartell's voice is warm, jovial, almost gregarious (think of a young Ralph
Edwards?); Vic Perrin's is a bit higher than Bartell's, and far more
serious-sounding. If you recall the radio-with-pictures program "The Outer
Limits", the voice you heard introducing each program was Perrin's. On the
original "Star Trek", Perrin famously voiced almost all male-voiced
computers and telepathic projections ("Corbomite Maneuver", "The Cage"/"The
Menagerie", "The Changeling", "Mirror, Mirror", "Arena", et al).

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 07:33:51 -0400
From: Matthew Reed <mkr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Secondary characters

Michael Leannah wrote:
Is anyone able to tell me how to recognize the voice of Harry Bartell, for
instance. He's a part of so many OTR shows (Diamond, Gunsmoke, etc.) but I'm
never sure which voice is his. Did he appear on TV or in the movies? Is
there a character he played that defines his voice in a way that I'll know
it every time I hear it?

Here is one listing of Harry Bartell's TV appearances:
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The Encore Westerns channel plays two episodes of the hour-long black and
white episodes of Gunsmoke every night. Harry Bartell turns up in these
shows occasionally.

Perhaps my favorite Harry Bartell performance is in the radio Gunsmoke
episode "Doc Holliday", broadcast on 7/19/1952. Harry Bartell delivered a
superb performance of Doc Holliday as a seemingly mild, yet ruthless
gunfighter. I think that if you listen to this episode you will have a
good chance of recognizing him in the future. As far as I am concerned,
recognizing the actors when they appear is a big part of the fun of
listening.

---
Matthew Reed
mkr@[removed]

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