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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 295
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
ratings [ Clemomine <t3exan@[removed]; ]
"Roses and Drums" [ "bhp59" <bhp59@[removed]; ]
Maybeland Revisited [ Crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow) ]
Death at birth [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
Anwers for the youger otr listeners [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
Larry Haines [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
10-29 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:42:20 -0400
From: Clemomine <t3exan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: ratings
can someone give me the site that has all the show
ratings from the 30's and 40's
has anyone bought from bookzap?
please reply off list
thanks
and best regards to all
izzo
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:42:52 -0400
From: "bhp59" <bhp59@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: "Roses and Drums"
Hi,
I am fairly new to the OTR hobby and would like some information. Could
someone please tell me something about "Roses and Drums". I see it
mentioned but can't find any info so far. Thanks in advance and I
appreciate any help that can be given.
I was just involved in a big project and have only had time to read
necessary emails for quite a spell. I have spent the last two days going
through 95 backed up list messages. It has been quite enjoyable.
Everyone needs to know; even for someone like me who probably won't ask too
many questions, but will sit on the sidelines and take in the info provided
by the group members, the amount of knowledge that is disseminated through
the group and absorbed by us readers achieves the exact goal that the group
strives for -- that is to keep the spirit of Old Time Radio alive and well
for both newer and future generations. Even if it is not always conveyed by
the written word your efforts are much appreciated and the service you
provide is priceless.
Brent
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:29:17 -0400
From: Crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow)
To: [removed]@[removed] (Old Time Radio Digest)
Subject: Maybeland Revisited
Hi, everybody! I hope by now you have established a schedule for playing
episodes of "The Cinnamon Bear." Remember, there are 26 installments
(available everywhere, including your local Borders). They should be
programmed between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Research by First
Generation Radio Archives has determined that the very first episode was
broadcast in the USA on Friday, November 26, 1937, so you will be carrying
on a tradition lasting seventy years!
I stand ready to send you, free of charge, materials that will make your
family listening experience more fun. I have a Maybeland map that your
children can color, lyrics to all eleven songs, and a copy of the sheet music
for the title song produced in 1937 by the Radio Transcription Company of
America. The words were written by Glan Heisch, with music by Don Honrath.
It is the only song from CB which has been published. I have a Portland
friend who is at present writing music for the other songs based on the
rendition performed in the show. If they become available to the general
public, and I hope they do, I will be able to send those next year.
To acquire the sheet music for the title song, a map of Maybeland, and the
lyrics for all eleven songs, all you need to do is e-mail me your postal
address. I have to send them the old-fashioned way. A few of you have
already done so and I will be placing those materials in the mail on Monday
(October 30). Remember, they are FREE. Don't even think of paying me or I
will unleash the "scissor soldiers."
I want you and your family to start a Christmas tradition with "The Cinnamon
Bear." It is the quintessence of old-time radio, with many, many familiar
vocal artists. I believe it is the finest Christmas show ever designed for
children.
If you bring Paddy O'Cinnamon into your household this year, he will be "much
obliged to you!"
Thanks.
Dennis Crow
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:32:29 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Death at birth
the original Marge was performed by
Vail's daughter, Donna Fick. Three other performers played the part when
Donna died giving birth
This is true. It was also true in the case of durable serial heroine
actress Dorothy Lowell who had performed as Our Gal Sunday since its
inception in 1937. Taking time away from the microphone to give birth in
mid 1946, Lowell temporarily relinquished her role to Vivian Smolen (who
died only a few months ago). Recalling this to me in the 1990s, Smolen said
quietly, numbly, almost apologetically: "And she ... she died." Lowell
died in childbirth. Finding no voice she preferred for the pivotal role of
Sunday, producer Anne Hummert left Smolen in although she once tried to
replace her subsequently, still not finding a worthy substitute. Smolen
remained until the serial left the air Jan. 2, 1959.
It seems to me there was at least a third actress that died in childbirth
while in a series but she doesn't come to mind. Does anybody recall? I'm
almost certain of this.
Jim Cox
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:08:59 -0400
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Anwers for the youger otr listeners
"It ought to be explained better. As the generations change out, it might be
useful to include some sort of decoding session with each recorded show to
answer many of the questions we get here, [removed]: What the heck was Blue Coal?
What exactly was a telegram, or a 'wire,' or a 'cable?' What was a
singing telegram, and why was it funny? What was a ration stamp? Why was
Fibber McGee fascinated with rubber bands during the war?"
Blue Coal answer form Google "Air Art in Ruins"
Until the advent of natural gas and oil for home heating, New England's
primary domestic fuel was anthracite coal, a hard, smokeless, clean-burning
coal that was only mined from three coalfields in eastern Pennsylvania. Many
anthracite-hauling railroads had their own coal marketing and distribution
companies.
The name "Blue Coal" was the promotional trademark of the Reading Coal
Company, a subsidiary of the Reading Railroad. The company actually sprayed
a light blue coating on random pieces of coal to identify their product. .
Telegrams, Wires are the same. You could call Western Union Or Postal
Telegraph and dictate a short message to an [removed] Phone Company
added the cost of the message to your phone bill. The message could be sent
by telegraph, over wires, to most location in the US. If you didn't have a
telephone you could go to the local Western Union office and write an
message and pay a fee for so many words. The messages were delivered by
Messengers ], on a bicycles.
A Cable or Cablegram was similar except cables were sent to Europe using
the big Cable under the ocean. Also sent to Ships at sea.
Ration Stamps In 1942 during WWII many foods, gasoline and meat were being
used to feed and our service personal. The government was concerned that
people would horde large supplies. The government issued books of stamps for
each item rationed. for example Coffee, meat, cheese, sugar,and shoes.
EXAPLE : a pound of hamburger was 50 cents and 10 red meat stamps Each
member of a family had a ration book.
Gasoline had ration stamps too. You had stamps that allowed 4 gallons a
week is you had an "A" card. it was required that you display a decal on the
wind shield of your car There were "A" , "B" & "C" classifications. B
owners got more gas because the were employed in industries making things
like War Planes
Rubber Bands .All Rubber was very scarce due to the Japanese occuping the
areas in the [removed] the rubber tree were located, shutting off our
supply.
Sorry to be so long windsed.
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:53:36 -0400
From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Larry Haines
I interviewed Larry Haines about seven years ago via phone. He was living in
Florida. As I recall, he and Art Carney were childhood friends and worked
together on the wartime radio show, "The Man Behind the Gun."
Someone mentioned that Larry is/was of Russian ancestry -- more likely his
family was Jewish, though they may well have come from Russia ([removed] the odds
are that if they were Russian Jews from the Pale of Settlement, they spoke
little Russian. The lives of the Jews of Tsarist Russia were relatively
little impacted by Russian culture compared to the impact of Yiddish culture
-- the literature, religion, music etc.)
Howard Blue
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:15:49 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 10-29 births/deaths
October 29th births
10-29-1873 - Walter C. Kelly - Mineville, NY - d. 1-6-1939
actor: (The Virginia Judge) "The Eveready Hour"
10-29-1891 - Fanny Brice - NYC - d. 5-29-1951
comedienne: Baby Snooks Higgins, "Baby Snooks"
10-29-1894 - Jack Pearl - NYC - d. 12-25-1982
comedian: Baron Munchausen "Baron and the Bee, Jack and Cliff, Jack
Pearl Show"
10-29-1897 - Hope Emerson - Hawarden, IA - d. 4-24-1960
actor: Henrietta Topper "Advs. of Topper"; Elsie the Cow "Happy Island"
10-29-1901 - Akim Tamiroff - Baku, Russia - d. 9-17-1972
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-29-1902 - Lillian Lee - d. 5-xx-1987
actor: "Jack Kirkwood Show"; "Fibber McGee and Molly"
10-29-1905 - Herbert Lateau - d. 3-xx-1984
producer: "The National Farm and Home Hour"
10-29-1908 - Robert K. Adams - d. 2-13-1981
actor: "Dr. Susan"; Hilltop House"; Your Family and Mine"
10-29-1909 - Virginia Clark - Peoria, IL
actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"
10-29-1910 - Lew Parker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-27-1972
actor: John Bickerson "The Bickersons" "Mennen Shave Time with Lew
Parker"
10-29-1916 - Hadda Brooks - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-21-2002
pianist: "Jubilee"
10-29-1921 - Ed Kemmer - Reading, PA - d. 11-9-2004
actor: Buzz Corey "Space Patrol"
10-29-1925 - Geraldine Brooks - NYC - d. 6-19-1977
actor: "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Voice of the Army"
10-29-1925 - Robert Hardy - Cheltenham, England
actor, writer: "The Leopard and the Lillies"
10-29-1933 - Douglas Cameron - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
presenter: "Today"; "double act"
October 29th deaths
02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - Missouri - d. 10-29-1979
announcer: "House Party"; "You Bet Your Life"
03-12-1905 - Milton Merlin - California - d. 10-29-1996
writer: "The Halls of Ivy"; "The Man Called X"; "Presenting Charles
Boyer"
04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
operatic tenor: "Gala Performance"
05-16-1913 - Woody Herman - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-29-1987
bandleader: (The Thundering Herd) "Wildroot Show"
06-07-1897 - Mann Holiner - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-29-1958
producer, director: "Baby Snooks Show"; "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Jubilee"
06-14-1908 - John Scott Trotter - Charlotte, NC - d. 10-29-1975
conductor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
07-04-1885 - Louis B. Mayer - Minsk, Byelorussia, Russian Empire - d.
10-29-1957
film executive: "Good News of 1938/39"; "Songs By Sinatra"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
07-06-1894 - Myra Marsh - Maine - d. 10-29-1964
actor: Dora Foster "A Date with Judy"; Mother "My Friend Irma"
07-29-1924 - Lloyd Bochner - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-29-2005
actor: "The Chase"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
08-20-1908 - Al Lopez - Tampa, FL - d. 10-29-2005
baseball hall of fame: "Greatest Sports Thrills"; "Tops In Sports"
12-14-1912 - Morey Amsterdam - Chicago, IL - d. 10-29-1996
comedian: "Morey Amsterdan Show"
xx-xx-1896 - Billy Artzt - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-29-1949
orchestra leader: "Blondie"; "Myrt and Marge"; "Shirley Temple Time"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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