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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 154
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Les Paul                              [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
  More on new Green Hornet Movie        [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
  Radio's Dog Days on Those Were The D  [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
  8-11 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  mp3 and other stuff                   [ Larry Hughes <otrfanatic@[removed] ]
  Eternal Light                         [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  mp3                                   [ Larry Hughes <otrfanatic@[removed] ]
  "The 60"                              [ George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@hotmai ]
  Jack Benny not on a stamp             [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
  Re: V-Disc documentary on BBC Radio   [ LBiel <[removed]@[removed]; ]
  re: The 60                            [ Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed]; ]
  Kearns organ                          [ Gary Konas <wurli@[removed]; ]
  Summer OTR marathon, August 15/16, 2  [ "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@[removed]; ]
  8-12 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  OTR -> TV?                            [ Herb Harrison <[removed]@yahoo. ]
  re: Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg             [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
  Joe Kearns                            [ Ken Greenwald <kgradio@[removed]; ]

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:33:35 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Les Paul

Folks;

   Les Paul, whose innovations with the electric guitar and studio technology
made him one of the most important figures in recorded music, has died,
according to a statement from his publicists. Paul was 94.

   Links to obits, as well as my own Les Paul story, are posted to the blog
at [removed] as is a pretty poor-sounding copy of a Maxwell
House Coffee Time episode with the Les Paul Trio, as discussed last week here
on the Digest.

   (While you're there, scroll down a bit to my review of the Sandisk Sansa
Fuze and help me out with suggestions for an MP3 player that will handle what
I thought were pretty simple [removed])

         Charlie

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:36:28 -0400
From: <radioaz@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  More on new Green Hornet Movie

If you go to this link, you can read about the casting of the new Hornet
Movie.  There is no mention of the radio version of this at all!

Ted

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:36:35 -0400
From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio's Dog Days on Those Were The Days

I just wanted to remind everyone that "Those Were The Days" celebrates
radio's "dog days" this Saturday (1 to 5 pm CST at [removed]) with six
Golden Age broadcasts centering around man's best friend--including The Red
Skelton Show, Suspense, and of course, The Challenge of the Yukon. The
schedule for TWTD is listed at [removed] and I hope you'll join
us!

Steve

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:36:43 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-11 births/deaths

August 11th births

08-11-1867 - Joe Weber - NYC - d. 5-10-1940
comedian: (Weber and Fields) "The Eveready Hour"; "George Jessel Show"
08-11-1868 - Edgar Norton - London, England - d. 2-6-1953
actor: "I Love A Mystery"
08-11-1891 - Helen Broderick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-25-1959
actor: (Mother of Broderick Crawford) "Shell Chateau"
08-11-1900 - Norma Shearer - Montreal, Canada - d. 6-12-1983
actor: "Everyman's Theatre"; "Louella Parsons"
08-11-1902 - Lloyd Nolan - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-27-1985
actor: Johnny Strange "Results Inc."; Martin Kane "Martin Kane,
Private Eye"
08-11-1904 - Jess Stacy - Bird's Point, MO - d. 1-5-1994
jazz piano player: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
08-11-1907 - Andrew Allan - Arbroath, Scotland - d. 1-15-1974
writer of radio plays: "Mistress Nell"
08-11-1908 - Russell Procope - d. 1-21-1981
clarinetist, saxophonist: "Duke Ellington and His Orchestra";
"Ellington at Newport"
08-11-1910 - Perfecto Barbosa - d. 8-17-1989
newscaster: KMAC San Antonio, Texas
08-11-1911 - Jerome Chodorow - NYC - d. 9-12-2004
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-11-1912 - Raphael David Blau - d. 3-31-1996
writer: "Theatre Five"
08-11-1913 - Edith Oliver - NYC - d. 2-23-1998
actor: "Crime Doctor"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
08-11-1915 - Bernard "Buddy" Arnold - NYC - d. 3-30-2004
writer: "Your Hit Parade"
08-11-1915 - Berne Surrey - d. 8-25-1992
sound effects: "Suspense (Sorry, Wrong Number)"; "Whistler"; "Sam Spade"
08-11-1915 - Jean Parker - Deer Lodge, MT - d. 11-30-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-11-1923 - Tommy Hanlon - Parkersburg, WV - d. 10-10-2003
actor: "Orson Welles Mercury Theatre"
08-11-1925 - Mike Douglas - Chicago, IL - d. 8-11-2006
singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
08-11-1928 - Arlene Dahl - Minneapolis, MN
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre". Hollywood Stars on Stage"; "Philip Morris
Playhouse"
08-11-1939 - Jack Hobbs - Shawneetown, IL
disk jockey, news director, announcer: "Time Out"

August 11th deaths

01-24-1862 - Edith Wharton - NYC - d. 8-11-1937
author: Many of her stories were adapted for radio.
04-01-1917 - "Wee" Bonnie Baker - Orange, TX - d. 8-11-1990
singer: "Your Hit Parade"
05-26-1913 - Peter Chushing - Kenley, England - d. 8-11-1994
actor: "Aliens in the Mind"
06-24-1904 - Phil Harris - Linton, IN - d. 8-11-1995
bandleader, singer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
06-29-1914 - Rafael Kubelik - Bychory, Czech Republic - d. 8-11-1996
conductor: "Musicians Off Stage"
07-14-1898 - Louise Lorimer - d. 8-11-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Short Story"
08-05-1918 - Tom Drake - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-11-1982
actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We
Hail"
08-10-1912 - Wilbur Stark - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-11-1995
producer: "Movie Matinee"; "Teen Canteen"
08-11-1925 - Mike Douglas - Chicago, IL - d. 8-11-2006
singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
09-08-1913 - Patricia Wilder - Macon, GA - d. 8-11-1995
actor: Honey Chile "Bob Hope Show"
09-08-1913 - Patricia 'Honeychile' Wilder - Macon, GA - d. 8-11-1995
actor: "Maxwell House Showboat"; "Atlantic Family"; [removed] Jive"
12-05-1907 - Reid Kilpatrick - Michigan - d. 8-11-1983
host: "Quiz of Two Cities"
12-14-1932 - George Furth - Chicago, IL - d. 8-11-2008
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
12-19-1924 - Rex Barney - Omaha, NE - d. 8-11-1997
baseball color man: "Game of the Day"

Ron

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:37:00 -0400
From: Larry Hughes <otrfanatic@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  mp3 and other stuff
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Firstly, I have been following the threads about old-time radio and MP3 with
interest and wanted to throw in my two cents' worth before the threads end.
It is great to be able to consolidate your shows onto something as small as a
hard-drive or memory card but of course, you still have to have great-sounding
source material and the sampling rate has to be high enough to make it all
worthwhile.  It's a great idea to be able to save space and not to have to lug
around or store the equivalent amount of reels.  I basically use mp3 as a way
to make my media portable; I keep most of my reels for instance because I do
not have hard-drive space to keep 1) a raw .wav file and 2) a subsequent
duplicate saved to mp3 at the same time.  I usually save the mp3 files at no
less than 128.   Check out what is seemingly the standard for many mp3
offerings of oldtime radio on a popular auction site.  Material that used
source material that needed some processing but was not equalized and then is
saved on mp3 at some of the lowest sampling rates available and then these
tiny files are jammed together so someone can advertise them as a complete run
of something or "700 oldtime radio shows" or whatever and charge only $5 or
$10 and make some money by doing volume sales.  These people (hopefully) are
not oldtime radio purists because most of us would understand that any
imperfections would be magnified by virtue of the small sampling rate and the
small size of each file (in order to cram as many on a disc as they do).
Remember, when reels came out you could also get sound that was comprised by
quarter-tracking at 1 7/8 [removed] for a massive 12 hours on one reel!  Then
there are the other problems associated with that format, such as
print-through and cross-talk.

The Green Hornet movie apparently will be an amusing movie since it stars Seth
Rogen in the title role.  Also in the movie is Nicholas Cage, Edward James
Olmos and Cameron Diaz and the movie will likely be starting production in the
fall of 2009 with a release date expected of July, 2010.  Writing credit has
been been given (for characters created by George Trendle and Fran Striker).
Seth Rogen has written the screenplay and produced the movie with George
Trendle, Jr.  I'm not sure how Seth Rogen got involved with this but this
seems like his idea, along with some of the other people producing and writing
this movie.

LH

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:37:12 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Eternal Light

Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:17:55 -0400
From: "Joe" <jpostove@[removed];

"Eternal Light" was a longtime program on radio and television, which
I believe existed until the 70's on the tube.

"Eternal Light" was a weekly radio show carried by NBC and sponsored
by the Jewish Theological Seminary, which is the college which trains
Conservative rabbis in the United States.  I don't know how long it
ran, but I remember it still running around noon on Sunday (in the
Boston area) in the early 1960s.  The title was later used on
television by NBC for any program of Jewish interest.

I last saw the "Eternal Light" title used in the early 1990s for a
Sunday program about Chanukah.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:37:18 -0400
From: Larry Hughes <otrfanatic@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  mp3
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Of course I meant 44 khz and 128 kbps is the least I use for mp3.  LH

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:38:01 -0400
From: George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "The 60"

Anne wrote:

Hi There was a program about the future. The story line was that when a
person turned 60 they were eliminated.

This is the "Pebble in the Sky" episode of DIMENSION X, broadcast on 6/17/51.
It's an adaptation of an Isaac Asimov story.

It's possible the script may have been reused on one or more other programs
as well.

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:38:09 -0400
From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Benny not on a stamp

Gregory Jackson laments the absence of Jack Benny on the new "Early TV"
stamps.

I think there are two reasons:

1.  Jack peaked on radio, often finishing the season at or near number
one.  Though he was popular on TV, I don't think his program ever rated
nearly as high as it did on radio.

2.  Jack had already appeared on a postage stamp, with a 1991 Al
Hirshfeld caricature.

---Dan Hughes, [removed]

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:38:15 -0400
From: LBiel <[removed]@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: V-Disc documentary on BBC Radio

Just a slight correction to Graeme Stevenson's note about a BBC Radio 2
documentary series about V-Discs starting August 17.  AFRS, the Armed Forces
Radio Service had NOTHING to do with V-Discs.  The discs were not meant for
ANY broadcast, even by military radio.  The discs were distributed directly
to the soldiers (and a second series for the Navy/Marines) for their personal
hands-on use.  AFRS had a separate music library service for broadcasting as
well as the well-known program service, but these were completely separate
and distinct from the V-Disc program.

Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:38:31 -0400
From: Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  re: The 60

 I don't know about radio but an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
had the same story line. You don't suppose there's a possibility that the
writers adapted the idea from the radio story, hmmm? As the guy used to say,
"Mmmm - could be!"

Bob

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:38:37 -0400
From: Gary Konas <wurli@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Kearns organ

I just read something of interest. Joseph Kearns had his home built
around a Wurlitzer organ. Does anyone know if the house still stands
and if so is the organ still the centerpiece of the home?

I had the pleasure of playing this Wurlitzer once. I was only 14 at
the time so can't remember the address in Hollywood (obviously,
someone else was driving). It was certainly the centerpiece of the
home at the time. As I recall, the console was upstairs, while the
chambers were downstairs, with chutes deflecting the sound up to the
living room. Several great organists, including George Wright and Lyn
Larsen, loved its intimate sound and recorded albums on it. For the
past 21 years the organ (3 manuals, 20 ranks)  has been in the
Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield, OH. It was featured at last month's
American Theatre Organ Society convention.

Gary

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:40:03 -0400
From: "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@[removed];
To: "oldtime radio digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Summer OTR marathon, August 15/16, 2009
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Dear old-Time-Radio Fans,
I want to invite you to drop by: [removed] and join us in The
Fred Bertelsen Old-Time-Radio Room from 12 noon to midnightEDT on Saturday and
Sunday August 15/16.
We begin with larry Gassman who will present us with three hours of great
summer theme OTR.  On Sunday evening at 9 pm EDT we shall conclude with john
Gassman who will end the Marathon with his programs.
If you want to know more about the marathon either write me at
boacosta@[removed] or go into The Bertelsen Room and look at our browser.
We are giving a lot of great prizes away and look forward to many fans
dropping by.
Robert Acosta

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:40:15 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-12 births/deaths

August 12th births

08-12-1881 - Cecil B. DeMille - Ashfield, MA - d. 1-21-1959
host: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-12-1887 - Gus Van - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-12-1968
comedian: (Van and Schenck) "Eveready Hour"; "Sinclair Wiener Minstrels"
08-12-1888 - Eric Snowden - England - d. 6-27-1979
actor: John H. Watson "Sherlock Holmes"; Alvin "Parties at Pickfair"
08-12-1892 - Alfred Lunt - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-3-1977
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Treasury
Star Parade"
08-12-1893 - Howard Smith - Attleboro, MA - d. 1-10-1968
actor: Will Brown "Aldrich Family"; Jack Galloway "Jane Arden"
08-12-1895 - Carol DeAngelo - Rome, Italy - d. 1-3-1962
actor, director: "We Love and Learn"; "The Jack Benny Program"
08-12-1897 - Bob Emery - Abington, MA - d. 7-18-1982
host: "The Small Fry Club"; "This Wonderful World"
08-12-1898 - Oscar Homolka - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-27-1978
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-12-1904 - Kay Campbell - d. 5-27-1985
actor: Evey Perkins Fitz "Ma Perkins"
08-12-1907 - Joe Besser - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-1-1988
comedian: ("No so faaaast! . . . oh, you craaaaze you!) "Jack Benny
Program"
08-12-1909 - Nat Asherton - NYC - d. 1-4-1987
composer/pianist: Leo Reisman Orchestra, Lester Lanin Orchestra
08-12-1911 - Dr. Olan Downes - West Roxbury, MA - d. 12-26-2001
musicologist: "Texaco Metropolitan Opera"; "New York Philharmonic"
08-12-1911 - Jane Wyatt - Campgaw, NJ - d. 10-20-2006
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Great Plays"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
08-12-1912 - Sam Fuller - Worcester, MA - d. 10-30-1997
producer, director: "The Aldrich Family"; "The Jack Carson Show"
08-12-1914 - Guy Sorel - d. 4-5-1994
actor: Larry Noble "Backstage Wife"
08-12-1916 - Dorothy Allen - Oakland, CA - d. 4-25-1996
singer: "Bob Crosby Show"; "Shep Fields Orchestra"
08-12-1917 - Ebba Haslund - Seattle, WA - d. 7-10-2009
writer: "Himmelsk Dilemma"
08-12-1919 - Peter Luke - St. Albans, England - d. 1-23-1995
writer: "The Other Side of the Hill"
08-12-1921 - Marjorie Reynolds - Buhl, ID - d. 2-1-1997
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Silver Theatre"
08-12-1926 - John Derek - Hollywood, CA - d. 5-22-1998
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-12-1927 - Porter Wagoner - West Plains, MO - d. 10-28-2007
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
08-12-1929 - Buck Owens - Sherman, TX - d. 3-25-2006
singer: "Here's to Veterans"
08-12-1929 - Nancy Flannery - Bawler, South Australia
writer: "Martina's Guinea Pigs"

August 12th deaths

01-06-1913 - Loretta Young - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 8-12-2000
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Four Star Playhouse"
01-26-1919 - Jan Bart - Poland - d. 8-12-1971
traveled with Major Bowes for 7 years, had his own radio show
02-08-1904 - Charles Sears - Hoopeston, IL - d. 8-12-1987
tenor: "National Barn Dance"; "Musical Memories"
03-13-1873 - Nellie Revell - Springfield, IL - d. 8-12-1958
commentator: "Neighbor Nell"; "Meet the Artist"
04-13-1932 - Jack Danon - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-12-1996
singer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"
04-20-1900 - Reed Kennedy - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-12-1952
vocalist: "Gulf Headliners"; "The Song Shop"
05-16-1905 - Henry Fonda - Grand Island, NE - d. 8-12-1982
actor: "Eyes Aloft"; "Romance"; "Suspense"
05-28-1912 - Tom Scott - d. 8-12-1961
folk singer, writer: "American School of the Air"; "Golden Gate
Quartet Sings"
06-06-1875 - Thomas Mann - Lubeck, Germany - d. 8-12-1955
writer: Had works adapted for "Treasury Star Parade"
06-18-1917 - Ross Elliott - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-12-1999
actor: "Mercury Theatre"
07-06-1925 - Merv Griffin - San Mateo, CA - d. 8-12-2007
singer: "San Francisco Sketchbook/Merv Griffin Show"
08-20-1918 - Henry Leff - NYC - d. 8-12-2007
actor: Ray Mallard "Candy Matson, YU2-8209"
08-25-1896 - Dick Ryan - Connecticut - d. 8-12-1969
actor: "The Nebbs"
09-05-1912 - John Cage - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-12-1992
composer: "The Columbia Workshop"
09-09-1927 - "Mary" Olive Major - Santa Barbara County, CA - d.
8-12-1998
vocalist: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
09-25-1894 - John Howard Lawson - NYC - d. 8-12-1977
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-01-1905 - Wallace Magill - d. 8-12-1973
producer, director: "The Telephone Hour"
10-27-1896 - Eric Dressler - NYC - d. 8-12-1978
actor: "Scattergood Baines"; "Young Widdr Brown"

Ron

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:40:25 -0400
From: Herb Harrison <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR -> TV?

As a young kid, I experienced the transition from listening to exciting
stories on the radio, such as Gangbusters, FBI, Mr. Keen, etc. (much of which
I did not understand) - to early TV shows such as Boston Blackie, Harbor
Patrol, Your Show of Shows, etc. (which, because I was older & the pictures
helped, I understood better).
Having lived through a number of other (relatively minor) technological
transitions, I've been wondering about the BIG change from "radio as king of
the mass entertainment universe" to the popular upstart, television.
- What was the prevailing opinion among radio actors & production people?
-- Did they figure that TV was just a passing fad, too expensive to produce;
& with sets too expensive for most people to buy when they already had radios?
-- Did some/all radio actors feel defensive about the new medium, worried
that they might not "make it" in front of a camera, instead of relying on
their "voice acting" alone for their living?
-- Or were some of them anxious to work in both mediums for extra pay;
conversely, since some actors played multiple characters in different radio
shows in a given week, did they worry that they would be "typecast by the TV
camera" & lose work if TV became more popular than OTR?
-- Did B-movie & bit players who had limited success in OTR shows welcome the
advent of TV as a visual medium, since it gave them more shots at success -
because they were more good-looking than many other OTR actors, and the major
film stars boycotted the new medium?

Well, enough for [removed] anybody remember?

Just curious,
Herb

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:40:49 -0400
From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re: Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg

I was fortunate enough to talk for a few minutes with Aviva Kempner prior to
the Chicago premiere of "Yoo Hoo Mrs. Goldberg." The interview aired during
last week's "Those Were The Days" and interested parties can hear it by
visiting [removed] before next Monday night (the interview
start about 80 minutes into the show). It's a fascinating film and one that,
as we might have known, transcends ethnic boundaries.

As for Elizabeth McLeod, keep your eyes open for her in the Autumn issue of
Nostalgia [removed]

Best wishes,
Steve Darnall

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:41:29 -0400
From: Ken Greenwald <kgradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Joe Kearns

 Ron Sayles wrote:

I just read something of interest. Joseph Kearns had his home built
around a Wurlitzer organ. Does anyone know if the house still stands
and if so is the organ still the centerpiece of the home?

It was well known among the radio acting community that Joe Kearns was a
exceptionally fine player of the Wurlitzer organ.
Lurene Tuttle often rehearsed at Kearns home when both appeared on such shows
as Suspense. He would often play for Lurene as well as other guests who
visited him.

When Kearns died, the Wurlitzer was removed, I believe to a church somewhere
in Los Angeles where it is still in use.
Kearns house still stands.

Ken Greenwald

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