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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 331
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Kryptonite                            [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Re: Christmas Programs                [ Andrew Godfrey <niteowl049@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 25 Novemb  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Christmas shows & Henry [removed]     [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
  Keeping Christmas well                [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Waterman's Gildy years                [ Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed] ]
  Back to Gildersleeve                  [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
  AFTRA/SAG OTR Show                    [ Randylarson999@[removed] ]
  radio spirits                         [ marknichols06@[removed] ]
  Mebbe, mebbe not?                     [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  11-24 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:58:50 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Kryptonite

Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:30:02 -0500
From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];

The story goes that Kryptonite was created so 'Bud' Collyer could
have two weeks off, with another actor's moans covering for him.
But this storyline only ran for a week and two days, and Collyer's
in the one surviving segment.

I thought Kryptonite was created because Superman was getting more
and more powerful and needed a nemisis.  And then Batman was brought
in because Supes needed someone more credible than Lois Lane to
rescue him from Kryptonite.

On the other hand, when I was in law school, I wrote a skit in the
Law School Show in which Superman was sued because his Kryptonian
super-dog was dissolving fire hydrants all over Metropolis.  He also
looks at Lois Lane with his X-ray vision.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:53:22 -0500
From: Andrew Godfrey <niteowl049@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Christmas Programs

Another special Christmas program was Why the Chimes Rang on Great
Gildersleeve. It can be heard on the Gildersleeve program of 49-12-14.

My personal favorite is the show previously mentioned in a post when Amos
explains the Lord's Prayer to his daughter  Arbadella with Christmas music
playing in background on Amos and Andy heard on 51-12-21 but was broadcast as
an annual Christmas show for many years and was later shown on the TV version
of Amos and Andy.

In addition the Fibber McGee and Molly program with Marian Jordan being the
voice of Teeny the little girl next door reciting the words of "Twas the
Night Before Christmas" while the Kingsmen sing along. The episodes that have
this song at the end include:

Listening To Christmas Carols 12/22/42
Looking For A Christmas Tree 12/21/43
Early Christmas Gift 12/19/44
White Christmas Tree 12/18/45
Night Before Christmas 12/24/46
Lost Keys 12/23/47
Best Christmas Decorations 12/20/49
McGee, the Postman 12/19/50
Doc's Surprise Party 12/23/52

My main way of reliving the Christmases of the past is listening to old time
radio Christmas shows from the past. You can still hear the Great
Gildersleeve worrying about what present to give Fibber McGee and trying to
make sure it he didn't spend one penny more on Fibber than what Fibber spent
on his gift.

You can hear Lum N' Abner walking on Christmas Eve on a cold night to help a
man and his wife who are down on their luck and the lady has to have a baby
in a a remote house that night. This show can be heard many times around
Christmas  and started in the 1940's. You can hear Amos on Amos and Andy
telling his daughter Arbadella about the Lord's Prayer while a Christmas
carol is being played softly in the background.

The funniest Christmas show from old time radio days was Fred Allen running a
department store in one of his earliest shows from 1932 and the highlight was
Roy Atwell delivering a pep talk to the employees. That talk is the funniest
thing I have ever heard on an old time radio program.

You can hear "A Daddy for Christmas" on Family Theater on 48-12-15 a story
about a lady and her son who lost their dad in World War II. A department
store Santa Claus and the boy's mom fall in love and get married and even
though there are some parts in the story when things go wrong it ends with
them being very happily married. You cannot listen to this story without
being wrapped up in the story emotionally.

So even though Christmas will never be like it was back in the 50's it still
can be relived through these wonderful Christmas stories that were heard on
old time radio years ago.

Andrew Godfrey

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:53:32 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 25 November to 1
 December

 From Those Were The Days --

11/25

1920 - The first play-by-play coverage of a football game was broadcast
by WTAW in College Station, TX. Texas University beat the Aggies of
Texas A&M, 7-3.

1944 - CBS presented The FBI in Peace and War for the first time. It
became one of the longest-running crime shows on radio -- lasting 14 years.

1945 - A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, [removed] Pinafore, was
broadcast on The Fred Allen Show. The spoof was titled, The Brooklyn
Pinafore. Joining actress Shirley Booth in the skit was baseball great
Leo 'The Lip' Durocher.

1960 - Radio actors were put out of work when CBS axed five serials
(soap operas) from the airwaves. We said so long to The Second Mrs.
Burton (after 14 years), Young Doctor Malone, Whispering Streets (after
8 years), Right to Happiness (after 21 years) and Ma Perkins (after 27
wonderful years.) In 1940, the high point for these radio programs,
there were as many as 45 on the air each day!

11/26

1945 - The program, Bride and Groom, debuted on the NBC Blue network. It
is estimated that 1,000 newly-wed couples were interviewed on the
program before it left the airwaves in 1950.

11/27

1930 - Broadcasting from "...the little theatre off Times Square,"
according to the shows introduction, The First Nighter was first heard.
The program, which actually originated from Chicago, then from
Hollywood, aired for 23 years and featured dramas and comedies.

11/28

1932 - Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.

11/29

1950 - "I Fly Anything", starring singer Dick Haymes in the role of
cargo pilot Dockery Crane, premiered on ABC. With a title like that, is
it any wonder the show only lasted one season? Haymes went back to
singing and did very well, thank you.

11/30

1940 - Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.

Joe

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:54:15 -0500
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Christmas shows & Henry [removed]
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  Someone asked about favorite Christmas shows.  Here is my short [removed]

  Columbia Workshop:  The day they gave babies away.  12/46.
  Quiet, Please:  Berlin 1945.  12/26/48.
  CBSRadio Mystery Theater:  Holiday visit.  12/25/80.
  --Very Private Miricle.  12/24/74.

  And, of course, the Christmas Carol in Lionel Barrymore's reading of
12/24/39.

  Another topic:  I would like to get a few more Henry Morgan shows, either
the monologs or the ABC prime time shows.  They are still a delight 60 years
later!
  Cassette or CD and will trade for anything I have.  My catalog is on the OTR
link below.

  Ted Kneebone /  1528 S. Grant Street, Aberdeen, SD  57401
  Phone: 605-226-3344 / OTR: [removed]

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:54:48 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Keeping Christmas well

suelhamilton@[removed] writes:

I'd like  something that  maybe touched a person's heart strings or brought
home  the  Christmas message in a dramatic and memorable way.

Dear  Sue-

What a great thread, and noble goal!

Well, as lifelong  fan/sometime purveyor of Mr. Dickens' CAROL (aka "the
fifth gospel"), I'd of  course recommend the classic 1939 Mercury/Campbell
Barrymore production of that.  Though the story's cut a lot for time to allow
Welles'
usual gassing on, it is  quite wonderfully performed by all hands.

Then, for a bit more  modern grit in the telling, but still with deep, deep
meaning, there are  the two DRAGNET holiday staples, THE BIG LITTLE JESUS and
THE BIG 22  RIFLE.

If you able to touch "The Origin Story", which I know might be  problematic
if you're in a public school, I believe THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD  covered
that ground.

Holiday best,
-Craig " sometime 'Scrooge' "  Wichman

products.

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:15:45 -0500
From: Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed];
To: Old Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Waterman's Gildy years

I recently wrote that in two recorded interviews, Willard Waterman said he
had portrayed Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve for nine years, from 1950-1959.
Jim Cox, who says the last broadcast on record was in 1958,  responded:

Could Waterman be taking editorial license and rounding up the portion of
1958 he broadcast to 1959?  Is that one plausible explanation?  Not sure
when those interviews were recorded but minds have been known to slip
after a while, too.

    Anything is possible. One interview was recorded in 1982; I'm not sure of
the date of the other. In both, Waterman took care to note that he and Harold
Peary had played Gildy for the same length of time -- nine years. So who
knows.

Richard Carpenter

[removed] In answer to Mr. Cox's   other question, I am not the singer. Truth be
told, I am unable to carry a tune.

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:13:51 -0500
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Back to Gildersleeve

I posted, on OTRD #328 , 11/20/2007, info on Willard Waterman as Gildy
Here is  what wrote:
Gildy's last full network half  hour prime time show was #551  on
06-02-54 :30:00 mi .Final show of the main series.
On 9/27/54 until 6/30/55 Gildy was on 4 nights a week ( Monday through
Thursday) with multi sponsors for 15 minutes
Then Gildy was back on 10/20/55 until 3/21/57 on Thursdays for 25
minutes with multi sponsors.
Correction #1 The last series was  for 25 minutes for Kraft Foods

Correction #2 Willard played Gildy for NINE yeas, BUT not all on radio,
he played Gildy on TV for 39 syndicated episodes, one season, and they
did 3 pilots. It did not do well because they couldn't use Walter
Tetley  (Leroy) it just wasn't the same with out him.

I went to my vault and dug out my tape of Chuck Schaden's 48 minute,
March1984, interview with Willard Waterman, and he said he did Gildy for
9 years.
I haven't heard the tape in over 23 years. Willard  started  radio in
Chicago (1935) . He described how he often appeared  in 3 different
network's soap operas in 45 minutes  in different  building  in down
town [removed] did  it by  having an elevator standing by and  a taxi
waiting for him to whisk him to the next studio that he had and elevator
waiting for him just making it by the time the opening commercial was
over. He stated that many week he averaged 40 shows a week. His hours
were 10:00 AM to 10 or 11:00 PM. In those Chicago had live radio on WGN
(Mutual), WCFL (NBC Blue), WMAQ (NBC Red),  WBBM
( CBS)  amd WIND (local) and several others He had worked at all of then.

Frank McGurn

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:15:40 -0500
From: Randylarson999@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  AFTRA/SAG OTR Show
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For those of you in the Chicagoland area (and that includes you 
Milwaukeeans!), the AFTRA/SAG Senior Players next OTR presentation will take place 
Wednesday night, November 28, 2007 at the Claudia Cassidy Theater, in the Chicago 
Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph Street (at Michigan Ave.).  The doors open at 6:30 
for this FREE show at 7:00 [removed], but please plan on arriving early as the 300 
seat theatre fills quickly.

Our talented professionals, many from the Golden Age of Radio, will perform 
two one-half hour recreations.  First up, will be an episode from Lights Out 
entitled:  "The Poltergeist."  Directed by Connie Foster, this show will thrill 
and chill you!  Next will be a rare comedy from radio's "Theater of 
Thrills"----Suspense.  In an episode directed by Parker Gronwold entitled:  "A Present 
for Benny,"  watch the Christmas cheer that results from one underworld 
character's attempt to make the holiday season less than merry for a competitor.

Come and enjoy radio drama as it used to be done and discover why the medium 
was called the theater of the imagination.

Randy Larson

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:16:31 -0500
From: marknichols06@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  radio spirits
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I just got a new Radio Spirits catalog in the mail.  I thought they were no
longer around.  Did someone buy them and keep it going?  Anyone know what
happened?

mark

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:38:35 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mebbe, mebbe not?

From: mikennancy2001@[removed]

...Conrad dubbed in "...the smell of  HORSESH*T."  ... the announcer really
inflected the word "GUNSMOKE" for  many episodes after that because Conrad
kept whispering the dirty word under  his breath while they were on the
[removed]

Mike-

Weren't all GUNSOKES transcribed? In which case, it wasn't on-air, but
during recording, and not as risky?

-Craig W.

products.

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:59:50 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-24 births/deaths

November 24th births

11-24-1877 - Alben Barkley - Lowes, KY - d. 4-30-1956
[removed] vice president: "Information Please"
11-24-1884 - Jack Jones - Merthyr Tydfil, Wales - d. 5-7-1970
author of radio scripts
11-24-1888 - Cathleen Nesbitt - Belfast, Northern Ireland - d. 8-2-1982
actor: "Philco Radio Playhouse"
11-24-1888 - Dale Carnegie - Maryville, MO - d. 11-1-1955
author, lecturer: "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
11-24-1891 - Ben Gross - Birmingham, AL - d. 8-13-1979
wrote newspaper column critiquing radio
11-24-1896 - Alice Remsen - London, England - d. unknown
actor/singer: "The Musical Story Lady"; "The Palmolive Hour"
11-24-1900 - Ireene Wicker - Quincy, IL - d. 11-17-1987
actor: (The Singing Lady) Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"; Eileen Moran
"Today's Children"
11-24-1903 - Bernard Lenrow - Binghamton, NY - d. 10-9-1963
actor: Geoffrey Barnes "Molle Mystery Theatre"
11-24-1904 - Pegeen Fitzgerald - Norcatur, KS - d. 1-30-1989
host: "The Fitzgeralds"
11-24-1905 - Harry Barris - NYC - d. 12-13-1962
singer (member of The Rhythm Boys) "Paul Whiteman Presents"
11-24-1905 - Vee Lawnhurst - NYC - d. unknown
pianist, singer: "The Van Huesen Program"
11-24-1906 - Don McLaughlin - Webster, IA - d. 5-28-1986
actor: David Harding "Counterspy"; "Jim Brent "Road of Life";
Chaplain Jim "Chaplain Jim"
11-24-1906 - Willard P. Farnum - Mankato, MN - d. 3-29-1994
actor: Harold Teen "Harold Teen"; John Adams "Woman in White"
11-24-1908 - Worth Kramer - d. 7-19-1998
director: "Wings Over Jordan"
11-24-1911 - Kirby Grant - Butte, MO - d. 10-30-1985
singer, actor: "Gatewood to Hollywood"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
11-24-1912 - Garson Kanin - Rochester, NY - d. 3-13-1999
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-24-1912 - Teddy Wilson - Austin, TX - d. 7-31-1986
jazz pianist: "Benny Goodman and His Orchestra"; "Saturday Night
Swing Club"
11-24-1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland - d. 7-17-2005
actor: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Ford Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
11-24-1918 - Lee Bonnell (Terry Belmont) - Royal Center, IN - d.
5-12-1986
actor: (Husband of Gale Storm) "Gateway to Hollywood"
11-24-1918 - Tom Fouts (Captain Stubby) - d. 5-24-2004
humorist: "National Barn Dance"; "Is Anybody Home?"
11-24-1927 - Eileen Barton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-27-2006
singer: "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Eileen Barton Show"; "MGM Musical
Comedy Theatre"

November 24th deaths

01-17-1914 - Howard Marion-Crawford - England - d. 11-24-1969
actor: Sherlock Holmes "BBC Home Theatre"
02-13-1905 - Fred Jeske - Ferguson, MO - d. 11-24-1957
actor: Uncle Remus "Uncle Remus"
02-16-1909 - Jeffrey Lynn - Auburn, MA - d. 11-24-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hallmark Playhouse:' "MGM Theatre of the
Air"
02-26-1916 - Dick Dunham - NYC - d. 11-24-1989
announcer: "Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters"
03-10-1909 - Bob Taplinger - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-24-1975
head of publicity CBS: Credited with idea of Gracie Allen"s lost brother
04-06-1921 - Arnold Marquis - Dortmund, Germany - d. 11-24-1990
producer, writer: "Pacific Story"; "Unlimited Horizons"
04-23-1921 - Warren Spahn - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-2003
hall of fame pitcher: "Tops in Sports"
05-06-1908 - Parkyakarkus (Harry Einstein) - Boston, MA - d. 11-24-1958
comedian: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Al Jolson Show"; "Meet Me at Parkys"
06-02-1879 - Florence Edney - London, England - d. 11-24-1950
actor: Aunt Maizie "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
06-06-1906 - Asher Sizemore - Manchester, KY - d. 11-24-1975
singer with son Jimmie: "Grand Old Opry"
06-08-1907 - Craig McDonnell - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-1956
actor: Dinty Moore "Bringing Up Father"; Jolly Rogers "Valiant Lady"
07-11-1888 - Dr. Lyman Bryson - Valentine, NE - d. 11-24-1959
moderator: "American School of the Air"; "Invitation to Learning";
"People's Platform"
08-02-1902 - Guy Repp - d. 11-24-1986
actor: Dr. Abernathy "County Seat"; Benito Mussoline "Our Secret Weapon"
09-26-1895 - George Raft - NYC - d. 11-24-1980
actor: Rocky Jordan "Rocky Jordan"
12-23-1893 - Anne O'Neal - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-24-1971
actor: Cynthia Veryberry "Grapevine Rancho"
12-24-1895 - Ruth Chatterton - NYC - d. 11-24-1961
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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