Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #198
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Date: 5/14/2003 4:52 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2003 : Issue 198
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  re: Blondie's Baby Dumplin            [ Froggievilleus <froggievilleus@yaho ]
  Paul Harvey                           [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
  "Pacific Holiday"                     [ "Shawn A. Wells" <swells@[removed] ]
  Re: Peter Lorre & The Mystery Playho  [ Gerry Wright <gdwright@[removed] ]
  Paul Harvey                           [ George Kelly <gkelly1@[removed]; ]
  May 15th birthdays                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Radio Network Schedules-1926-67       [ "Tim Lones" <timl2002@[removed] ]
  Mystery Playhouse                     [ "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed]; ]
  Re: MYSTERY PLAYHOUSE                 [ SanctumOTR@[removed] ]
  Paul Harvey                           [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
  Re: White Bread                       [ Bob Scherago <rscherago@[removed]; ]
  Rinso, white bread and beer           [ "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed] ]
  1944 Democratic Political Program     [ chris chandler <chrischandler84@yah ]

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 14:45:19 -0400
From: Froggievilleus <froggievilleus@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re: Blondie's Baby Dumplin

Hi there and welcome to our OTR world.  :)

I am a big fan of the old Blondie shows.  A couple of
years ago I got the first set of movies on VHS, which
(corny as they may be) they are enjoyable to watch.  I
know that in one of the movies (sorry I cannot recall
the title offhand) Baby Dumpling announces to his
parents that he wants to go by the name of Alexander.
He was growing up and what preteen wants to be known
as Baby Dumpling?  I can't recall how he chose
Alexander, unless it was his middle name.  His first
name is Dagwood, same as his daddy's.

Elizabeth S.

PS:  Does anyone know if the Blondie movies are going
to be released (or have been) in DVD format in the
near or far future?

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:34:25 -0400
From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Paul Harvey

Nichole asks if the Paul Harvey on an I Love Lucy episode was the same
Paul Harvey who is still on the air.  Nope.  The Paul Harvey on that Lucy
episode died in 1955:
[removed],+Paul+(I)

Today's Paul Harvey is really named Paul Aurant.  His son (who writes his
pop's books) uses the real family name.
---Dan

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:34:45 -0400
From: "Shawn A. Wells" <swells@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Pacific Holiday"

Greetings! Reciently I bought a couple Australian Transcriptions of a
program titled "Pacific Holiday," and I'm wondering if anyone may have some
information on it. I would guess, from references in the show itself, that
it was produced in the late 40's - early 50's. The label reads the
following:
Produced, Recorded and Processed By Amagamated Wireless (Asia) Ltd. Sydney.
It has what looks like a postage stamp on it, that has [removed] 2/6 SYDNEY,
typed on it.

Thanks
Shawn

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:35:59 -0400
From: Gerry Wright <gdwright@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Peter Lorre & The Mystery Playhouse

Rodney submitted:

I found one episode of a program that was labeled as a Thin Man
broadcast, but was actually a show called
Mystery Playhouse, hosted by Peter Lorre.  ... [removed] can tell me
more about Mystery Playhouse?
Did the program feature Thin Man stories often?

The Mystery Playhouse, was the catchall title used by the Armed Forces
Radio Service for rebroadcasting mystery/suspense network shows. Some of
this shows I have that were rebroadcast on Mystery Playhouse are Charlie
Chan (with Sgt. X filling in for Peter Lorre, Sgt. X is actually Howard
Duff) which ends with a five minute rehearsal segment for next weeks
show "Big Town"  and the episode "Murder in the Radio Studio"; Inner
Sanctum Mysteries with a rehearsal segment for next weeks show, an
episode from "Creeps by Night"; Mr. & Mrs. North (after the Pam Solves a
Murder episode, it is announced that Ellery Queen "Adventure of the
Booby Trap" will be the show next week) and after the Wilbur Wills
episode it is announced the next episode will be "The Whistler"; and
Philo Vance.

The Mystery Playhouse with Boris Karloff, also known as "Presenting
Boris Karloff and Mystery Playhouse" or "Starring Boris Karloff" was
broadcast on Wednesdays from Sept. 21, 1949 to Dec 14, 1949 over ABC. A
TV version with identical stories were shown on Thursdays following the
radio broadcast. The TV title changed from "Starring Boris Karloff" to
"Mystery Playhouse Starring Boris Karloff" with the October 27th telecast.

Gerry Wright
ZoneZebra Productions
San Francisco

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:36:23 -0400
From: George Kelly <gkelly1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Paul Harvey

Mr. Baxter wrote,

any body know what Paul Harvey looks like? I
believe he guests stars on I Love Lucy in the pottery episode. (Where
Lucy wants to expand her abilities.) He's the art dealer at the end of
the [removed] I would think there'd only be one Paul Harvy.

I'm sure many others will respond, but there was indeed another Paul Harvey,
an actor who appeared in numerous movies as well as in the pottery episode of
I Love Lucy.

Some time ago the radio Paul Harvey appeared on our local television station
reading his commentaries.  If I remember correctly, it was a five minute show.

George Kelly

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:37:31 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  May 15th birthdays

If you happened to born on May 15th , you share your birthday with:

05-15-1904 - Clifton Fadiman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-20-1999
emcee: "Information Please"; "Conversation"; "RCA Magic Key"
05-15-1905 - Joseph Cotten - Petersburg, VA - d. 2-6-1994
actor: Matthew Bell "Private Files of Matthew Bell"; "Mercury Theatre on the
Air"
05-15-1909 - James Mason - Huddersfield, England - d. 7-27-1984
actor: "James and Pamela Mason Show"; "Studio One"
05-15-1918 - Eddy Arnold - Henderson, TN
singer: (Tennessee Plowboy) "Checkerboard Square"; "Eddy Arnold Show"
05-15-1918 - Joseph Wiseman - Montreal Canada
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
05-15-1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti - Pesano, Italy
singer: "Here's to Veterans"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hometown of [removed] Kaltenborn

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:37:41 -0400
From: "Tim Lones" <timl2002@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio Network Schedules-1926-67

    A poster mentioned a few digests back the book Radio Network Prime Time
Programming 1926-67 by Mitchell Shapiro (Mc Farland, 2002).. Through Stark
County (Canton, Ohio) District Library InterLibrary Loan I was able to
acquire a copy to borrow from John Carroll Univerity in Cleveland.
    The book's layout takes a bit getting used to, but the index is a great
help in following the evolution of a particular show.  The style of writing
is a bit dry, but expected in a more scholarly work. Overall the information
is presented well and gives one a nice overview of how radio was programmed.
     By the way if there is a book out there You cant find at your local
library, see about InterLibrary [removed] presume most USA libraries have some
form of it.

Tim Lones
Canton, Ohio

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:37:47 -0400
From: "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mystery Playhouse
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There's was a show that aired on ABC Radio and TV called PRESENTING BORIS
KARLOFF and MYSTERY PLAYHOUSE which ran from September 21 - December 14, 1949.
Apparently this program originally played on radio stations (on Wednesdays)
and an identical television version aired (on Thursdays).

Keep in mind there was a Summer replacement radio show that aired in July and
August of 1947 called MYSTERY IN THE AIR.  The host was Peter Lorre, the
announcer was Henry (Harry) Morgan and the show contained dramatized radio
adaptations of classic mystery stories.

Argy
(Gary Dixon)

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:47:31 -0400
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: MYSTERY PLAYHOUSE

In a message dated 5/14/03 1:11:35 PM, [removed]@[removed]
writes:

<< [removed] can tell me more about Mystery Playhouse?  Did the program
feature
Thin Man stories often? >>

***MYSTERY PLAYHOUSE was an Armed Forces Radio Service series that repackaged
a variety of edited mystery series (THE THIN MAN, INNER SANCTUM, etc.) for
military audiences, with new intros by Peter Lorre (and occasionally others).
--Anthony Tollin

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:27:19 -0400
From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
To: "OTR List" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Paul Harvey

Paul has been interviewed on Larry King Live on CNN more than once. Most
recently in January of this year as I recall. He looks like a normal person.

In Houston we hear TROTS (The Rest Of The Story) about 6:55 pm weekdays,
unless pre-empted by a ball game. I hate it when ball games pre-empt regular
radio.

Joe (not a sports fan) Salerno

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:27:57 -0400
From: Bob Scherago <rscherago@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: White Bread

Hal Stone and White Bread!

Hal remembers:

 :Another great NYC White bread was Silvercup.
(Here comes another OTR reference). Being addicted to listening
to the Lone Ranger as a child, I equated "The Great White Horse
Silver", with that great White Bread "Silvercup"."

This may be afar from OTR, but the old Silvercup bakery (I think
it's in The Bronx) is now a movie studio, where, among other
shows, "The Sopranos" and "Sex in the City" are shot.

And, yes, Hal, it was great - much better than today's Styrofoam!

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:56:31 -0400
From: "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Rinso, white bread and beer

I guess Rinso is gone for good.    I searched the web for Rinso references.
There were not many but I did find that there is a small record company
named Rinso and in fact it is named after Rinso in the 'green box.' pictures
of which are featured on their website.

I also found an image of Rinso print advertising which highlighted their
'marvelous'  ingredient solium.    I couldn't find a definition of solium on
its own.   However I did find 'Taenia solium', or 'T solium' which is the
name for pork tapeworm.  Hmmm.   In the print ad solium is called a
'sunlight' ingredient which "washes white clothes whiter than brand new" and
makes "washable colors look brighter than brand new."    Obviously their ad
agency had someone on staff who remembered a little Latin and created a
concept, and what sounded like something on our chemistry element chart.
OTR advertising was full of those incredible claims.

Now on to white bread Hal.   Like Hal I still eat white bread and most of
the others as well, but no longer the mushy kind.   His mention of the
bakery smells reminded me of a grade school trip we made to a Wonder Bread
factory in Mt. Vernon or New Rochelle, back in the late 40s.    Of course we
were all pretty much WB fans already but the topper was that we were each
given a miniature loaf of WB after the tour of the plant, which could be
converted to the size of a pea in just a couple of squeezes.

What really got me about Hal's message was his request for mayonnaise on a
corned beef sandwich.   You don't have to be Jewish to know that you never
put mayonnaise on corned beef or pastrami.   You just had to be a savvy New
Yorker with good taste.  Too much time on the road, Hal?   The first thing I
noticed when I came out to California in 1958 was that they put mayonnaise
on everything.   I ordered a sausage sandwich at a pizza place and it came
with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise.   I then knew I was in a strange new
world.

Recently I was listening to a couple of episodes of 'Boston Blackie' and
heard advertisements for 'Champagne Velvet' beer which was a brand I didn't
recall.   Checking it out on the net I discovered that CV is again being
produced by the Terre Haute Brewing Co in Indiana which reopened on a modest
scale in November 2000 as a museum and tap room, featuring CV beer, and
using the original 1901 Pilsner formula which was patented in 1902.    I
visited the Pilsner Brewery in the Czech Republic last summer on the way to
Prague, [just in time for the flood.!]   'Velvet' is a type of beer very
popular in the Czech Republic.  The champagne part was probably added for
the US variety which was advertised as "sparkling as champagne, and smooth
as velvet".  In its heyday in the 40s and 50s the original Terre Haute
Brewing Co had 900 employees but was closed down in 1958.

Irene

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:46:34 -0400
From: chris chandler <chrischandler84@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  1944 Democratic Political Program

Just listened for the first time to the famous 11/7/44
election-eve Democratic National Committee broadcast
in which stars, civilians, and FDR himself made their
case for the President's re-election--and I must say
it was a rather jarring affair.  I've never seen this
program discussed here, so I thought I might mention
it.

It's tame enough by modern standards, indeed even
precisely mirrors some verrrry recent campaign themes:
 a subplot about mean Governor Dewey depriving
overseas servicemen of their (likely Democratic) votes
sounds quite like the Republicans in 2000 complaining
that the mean Florida Democrats were trying to keep
the (likely Republican) military absentee ballots from
being counted.

In any event, Humphrey Bogart emcees, Judy Garland is
primary vocalizer, and many other movie stars (though,
tellingly, no big radio personalities save Gertrude
Berg) chip in brief comments.  Incredibly, two network
news commentators even appear--John Geunther and CBS's
Quentin Reynolds, whose rah-rah D-Day "news"
commentaries suddenly make alot more sense after
listening to this.  Primary themes of the program:
Dewey and the Republicans are out to rig the election,
lose the war, and rob Americans of their civil
liberties.  You can imagine how all this might sound
set to music--even Garland has trouble selling the
songs, if not the message.

Couple points:  I suppose it's somewhat comforting to
know liberal Hollywood hysteria isn't a recent
creation (high spot here:  a ditty called "Free and
Equal Blues", which pays musical tribute to Josef
Stalin), but I wonder how in the world some of these
personalities were allowed to participate in an
undertaking of this sort.  George Raft saying "I'm for
Roosevelt!" is unobjectionable enough, until you put
it in the larger context of what is basically an
hour-long attack ad.  In the modern day, neither
Warner Brothers nor NBC has enough control over Martin
Sheen to tell him to shut his trap, but I would have
thought back in the '40s, MGM, for example, would have
been WAAAAAY too iron-fisted and cautious to allow
somebody like Judy Garland onto an undertaking like
this.  And how a news organization could possibly
allow an employee onto a show like this just boggles
the mind.  (I'm presuming Quentin Reynolds still
worked for CBS in November, as he had in June; even if
not, the man lost all credibility as a reporter the
instant he opened his mouth on a paid political
program).

And of Bogart was the Susan Sarandon of his day,
taking his political activism to greater heights three
years later with an arguably useless trip to
Washington on behalf of the Hollywood Ten.  I thought
about, and realized I don't know:  did this type of
stuff harm his career in the late '40s?  He continued
appearances on radio programs like Jack Benny, "Lux"
and others, and of course he and Lauren Bacall had the
syndicated "Bold Venture" in 1951.  Was that because
his movie career had faded?  And if it had, did his
broadcast political activities have anything to do
with it?

It's also very interesting to see how little the two
political parties' core stances have changed over the
years:  Republicans = lower taxes, less bureacracy;
Democrats = social justice, equality through
governmental aid if necessary, etc.  The main
difference is apparently that the Dems, in the
half-century since this 1944 broadcast, gradually
ceded what we now call the wartime 'national security'
issue to the GOP.  It may be what saved FDR in
'[removed] turned out the next day to be a remarkably
close race.

I remember reading years ago this broadcast caused
such a stir a couple of networks--the very next day--
changed their rules so it could 'never happen again'.
Is this so?  On what grounds?  In political circles,
the program may well have been judged a spectacular
success--I have a 1952 "Switch To Stevenson" opus that
is almost identical in tone (movie stars, civilians,
harsh charges linking Eisenhower to McCarthy--one
civilian even compares Ike to Hitler!); only
difference: the '52 stanza was distributed
individually to local stations, instead of getting the
network airing the Dems had in 1944.

chris

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