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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 134
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
4-29 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
In a Chandu Minute (DiscO-T-R) [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
Forward article on Jack Benny's syne [ seandd@[removed] ]
Tales of the Texas Rangers [ "GARY SMULLEN" <tsegs@[removed]; ]
Re: Mason Adams [ Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed]; ]
Revolving on the Axis [ Wich2@[removed] ]
Seduction: 3 Tales From The Inner Sa [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
LOC tapes of OTR programs [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
Re: Mason Adams [ "Paul Adomites" <padomites@ccyberne ]
RIP Mason Adams [ seandd@[removed] ]
Chuck Schaden Coverage in Chicago [ seandd@[removed] ]
Where Jack Benny [removed] [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
Monday on XMPR's Bob Edwards Show [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:42:56 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-29 births/deaths
April 29th births
04-29-1896 - Harry McNaughton - Surbiton, England - d. 2-26-1967
actor, panelist: Higgins "It's Higgins. Sir"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
04-29-1899 - Duke Ellington - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-24-1974
bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Story of Swing"
04-29-1901 - Emperor Hirohito (Showa) - Tokyo, Japan - d. 1-7-1989
emperor: End of war speech
04-29-1903 - Frank Parker - NYC - d. 1-10-1999
singer: "A & P Gypsies"; "Jack Benny Program"; "Frank Parker Show
04-29-1903 - Richard Leibert - Bethlehem, PA - d. 10-22-1976
organist: "Dick Leibert's Musical Revue"; "Organ Rhapsody"
04-29-1904 - Russ Morgan - Scranton, PA - d. 8-8-1969
bandleader: (Music in the Morgan Manner) "Russ Morgan Orchestra"
04-29-1912 - Ian Martin - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-25-1981
actor: Horace Sutton "Young Dr. Malone"; Harry Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"
04-29-1912 - John MacVane - Portland, ME - d. 1-28-1984
newscaster: "United or Not"
04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-29-1913 - Norman Felton - London, England
producer, director: "Author's Playhouse"; "Grand Marquee"
04-29-1914 - Derek Guyler - Wallasey, Merseyside, England - d. 10-8-1999
actor: "It's That Man Again"
04-29-1915 - Donald F. Mills - Piqua, OH - d. 11-13-1999
singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
04-29-1919 - Celeste Holm - NYC
actress: "House on Q Street"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "New World
A-Coming"
04-29-1936 - Zubin Mehta - Bombay, India
conductor: New York Symphony Orchestra
April 29th deaths
05-06-1912 - Bill Quinn - NYC - d. 4-29-1994
actor: Guy Aldis "Against the Storm"; Tom Davis "When a Girl Marries"
07-01-1881 - Josef Pasternack - Czenstachown, Poland - d. 4-29-1940
conductor: "Atwater Kent Concert"; "Carnation Contented Hour"
07-24-1853 - William Gillette - Hartford, CT - d. 4-29-1937
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
08-13-1899 - Alfred Hitchcock - London, England - d. 4-29-1980
host: "Murder by Experts"; "Once Upon a Midnight"
08-16-1907 - Mae Clark - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-29-1992
actress: "Family Theatre"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-21-1911 - Anthony Boucher - Oakland, CA - d. 4-29-1968
conductor: "The NBC Symphony Orchestra"
09-06-1909 - Michael Gordon - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-29-1993
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
12-25-1893 - Belle Baker - NYC - d. 4-29-1957
actress: "The Eveready Hour"
xx-xx-1892 - Joe Laurie, Jr. - NYC - d. 4-29-1954
comedian: "Can You Top This"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:22:56 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: In a Chandu Minute (DiscO-T-R)
I got this very funny email from our pal, Derek Tague, the other
day--which actualy made me laugh out liud, as I read it: a rare
occurence! (I mean, being made to laugh out loud, while [removed])
I believe this is a clever bit of cross generational, [removed]
Somehow, I had helped cause Derek to consider what could have been the
odd hybrid, of old-time-radio--
And disco.
________
Derek Tague:
Who could forget these immortal hits?:
Don Winslow In the Navy
Funkytown Hall Tonight
I Love the Night Life of Luigi
I'm Your Boogie Man Called X
This Is Your F. B. I Will Survive
The Shadow Dancing
Ladies' Nightbeat
Doctor [removed]'s Orders
Disco Valiant Lady
Love Roller Coast-to-Coast on a Bus
More Than a Woman in White
Boogie Oogie Oogie Pringle
We Are Family Theatre
Knock on Woody Herman
On the Radio
Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
[wait a minute, those were real songs].
Yours in the ether,
Derek Tague
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:32:49 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Forward article on Jack Benny's synegogue
The Forward has an article on a synegogue with an entertainment bent - the
former house of worship for Jack Benny and two of the three stooges.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:33:15 -0400
From: "GARY SMULLEN" <tsegs@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Tales of the Texas Rangers
I still remember the opening sequence of an episode of "Tales of the Texas
Rangers" where a hired killer enters the home of a young mother and child.
After the mother is dispatched by a gunshot, a baby's cry can be heard from
another room. [removed] another [removed] I haven't listened to
this show in years, but the frightening image it created in my memory was
indelible.
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:11:57 -0400
From: Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Mason Adams
Regarding the passing of Mason Adams, Jim Widner's post began [removed]
With the passing of Mason Adams, we lost another whose long fingers
stretched back into the golden age of radio.
I hope Jim Widner won't mind if I paraphrase that sentence. It wasn't his
fingers that stretched back into Radios Golden Age, it was "His Vocal
Chords". :)
Mason had a most distinctive voice, and as someone mentioned, those
melodious tones could convey "Warmth" unlike any other in the industry.
As a youngster, I had the pleasure to work with Mason on a number of radio
programs. He was as "Warm" a person as he sounded. To me, he was an icon in
OTR and I treasure having known him.
Hal(Harlan)Stone
Jughead
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:41:22 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Revolving on the Axis
From: benohmart@[removed]
...my publishing firm received a proposal from a firm in Tokyo,
Japan, inquiring about rights to publish Jack French's "Private
Eyelashes" ... If the negotiations are successful, this will be the first
book of Bear Manor Media reprinted in a foreign language.
Dear Ben-
That's very neat - and well deserved! - news.
Quicksilver's two Conan Doyle shows are available from Audiobuch, out of
Freiberg, Germany - and they've done [removed]
In English, no less!
(See you at FOTR?)
Continued good luck,
-Craig Wichman
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:44:12 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Seduction: 3 Tales From The Inner Sanctum
Jim Burns asked:
Yeah, but now I want t hear about SEDUCTION: 3 TALES FROM THE INNER
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Okay. In April 1992, CBS aired a made-for-television movie as a Sunday
night feature titled SEDUCTION: THREE TALES FROM THE INNER SANCTUM, starring
Victoria Principal, billed as "a different viewing experience." In this
trilogy of stories, supposedly based on old INNER SANCTUM radio scripts,
each had a surprise "twist" ending and rode an emotional wave through
different decades. Sadly, with the exception of a creaking door opening and
closing in the beginning and ending of the movie, the feature didn't
resemble an INNER SANCTUM radio broadcast.
The first of the three stories was "Ecstasy," in which John Terry played a
wealthy stockbroker married to Principal, thinks the spark has gone out of
their relationship and becomes obsessed with his computer (pre-internet
connection) on a chat room with a woman called "Silk and Satin." His
mysterious online romance is none other than his jealous and passionate
sister-in-law, and together they plot the murder of his wife. The New York
Daily News (April 3, 1992) reviewed: "Eventually there is a tryst, and a
kicker that will hand you the only laugh of the night."
The second drama was "Sacrifice" and looks as if it was shot through gauze.
A driven artist whose violence in his paintings is fueled by a haunting
childhood memory: He witnessed the murder of his mother when his father
found her in bed with another man. Principal plays his lover and model, who
is eager to boost his morale and see him succeed. She arranges for him to
come face-to-face with his past.
In "Temptation," Principal was an unhappy advertising executive of a radio
station during the late 1930s and early 1940s (an appropriate setting). At
work, she meets a man (again played by John Terry) who calls himself "a
professional fall guy." Lured into an affair, he is blinded by lust,
unaware that he is part of her clever plot to rid of her husband.
The movie was supposed to be the first of a series of television movies
involving Himan Brown and his INNER SANCTUM program, but both critics and
ratings flopped. No sequels or further television dramas were filmed.
Himan Brown received on-screen credit as Executive Consultant, and credited
off-screen as the author of the last segment, supposedly based on an INNER
SANCTUM episode entitled "The Two Of Us." Not surprisingly, there does not
exist any recording or script or any proof for that matter proving that
there ever was an INNER SANCTUM script entitled "The Two Of Us" and Brown
over the last few decades has been quoted of saying he never wrote a script
for any INNER SANCTUM broadcast, and that he always had a semi-staff of
script writers write the scripts.
During the opening credits, the title screen also carried the notation
"Based Upon the Original INNER SANCTUM Radio Show Created by Himan Brown."
One interesting piece of trivia, which may or may not be a coincidence, is
the name of two fictional characters in the movie: both of whom had the same
last name, "Raymond."
Henry Slesar was a superb mystery writer whose short stories have been
adapted for THE TWILIGHT ZONE, tons of ALFRED HITCHCOCK TV episodes, and
many radio scripts for THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER - all of which were
adapted from previously published short stories by Slesar. The first two
segments of the INNER SANCTUM movie were supposedly based on Slesar's short
stories "Museum Piece" and "The Substitute" but the filmed segments bear
very little resemblance at all (and since Slesar never wrote for INNER
SANCTUM, only CBS RMT, I doubt the first two segments were ever adapted from
INNER SANCTUM scripts, also).
There you have it, Jim. If you want to learn more about this and other
information about INNER SANCTUM, radio, TV and movies, and mystery novels,
etc., I do recommend INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES: BEHIND THE CREAKING DOOR (OTR
Publishing, 2003). I reprinted the above from the book (not all of it but
enough to fill ya in).
Martin Grams, Jr.
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:05:45 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: LOC tapes of OTR programs
I was just wondering about what OTR programs
are on file at the Library of Congress. Are copies
available to private citizens? Is there any way that
a private citizen can order copies of these programs
through the Library of Congress, or will we just have
to wait until they decide to offer them in a collection?
There must be what amounts to a treasure trove
worth of OTR programs there. It sure would be nice if
some OTR collectors could get some access to some of
these without having to deal with all of the red tape
involving copyright infringement and such.
If anyone has any information regarding the correct
procedure, costs, and any other info, I'd be interested
to know about them. Would it even be possible to find
out what programs they have in stock?
Another OTR Fan,
Kenneth Clarke
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:00:32 -0400
From: "Paul Adomites" <padomites@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Mason Adams
Although I never worked with him myself, my creative director at Ketchum
MacLeod and Grove Advertising used to say, "When it comes to professionals,
Mason Adams was in a class by himself." For anyone who has had to deal with
cranky, bossy, "superior" "talents," that is as high a compliment as can be
paid.
Paul Adomites
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:30:12 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: RIP Mason Adams
David Hinckley of the New York Daily News notes the passing of Mason Adams in
today's column, including Mr. Adams' appearances at Friends of Old Time Radio
conventions.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
[removed]
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:33:40 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Chuck Schaden Coverage in Chicago
Even though Chuck Schaden doesn't plug Friends of Old Time Radio in Newark
when he is planning to attend, and even though he spends about half his show
every week selling his own products, which makes you wonder why he doesn't
have time to mention FOTR, and that he has a group of affiliated performers
including FOTR committee member Randy Larsen attending every year, do not let
it be said that we in Newark are not happy to see him reach his 35th year of
broadcasting and that this achievement is noted at length in the Chicago
Sun-Times today.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
[removed]
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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:55:39 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Where Jack Benny [removed]
And many other entertainment luminaries, it seems! This is a neat
article, about a temple that goes back to the vaudeville era, and of
course, the hey dey of radio. Actually, this place sounds like it might
be able to use our
help. Anyone interested should know that Congregation Ezrath Israel, is
at 339
West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036 (Phone: 212-245-6975)
"Leading a Congregation That Has a Showbiz Pedigree"
By MAX GROSS ([removed])
The Forward, April 29, 2005
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Best, Jim Burns
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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 03:04:44 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Monday on XMPR's Bob Edwards Show
Folks;
As I posted earlier on [removed] next Monday's "The Bob
Edwards Show" on XM Satellite Rado Channel 133 will focus on Mary Margaret
McBride. After a check-in with David Broder to talk politics, Bob will
interview Susan Ware on her book, "It's One O'clock and Here Is Mary Margaret
McBride: A Radio Biography."
If you're an XM subscriber, be sure to tune in to XMPR, Channel 133,
Monday at 8:00am EDT, repeated 9:00am EDT and again at 9:00pm EDT; also
available all day long at [removed] (All XM subscribers now
receive the on-line listening service as part of their standard package; if
you haven't yet, hit the website and register.)
Charlie
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