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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 150
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Walden Hughes Old Time Radio Weekend [ BryanH362@[removed] ]
5-13 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Monica Zetterlund has left the build [ "Marcus Antonsson" <[removed] ]
More on name matches [ "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed] ]
Re: OTR Evening in Pa. [ "Paul Adomites" <padomites@ccyberne ]
Jack Benny in New York [ dougdouglass@[removed] ]
Seattle Mystery Guest [ HRRMIKES@[removed] ]
Seattle Convention Hotel [ HRRMIKES@[removed] ]
re: copyright confusion [ Mark Hanna <mmmwh@[removed]; ]
Louisville OTR Club meeting this Sun [ [removed]@[removed] ]
Submarine surgery [ Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed]; ]
navy pharmacist mate dies: inspired [ BH <radiobill@[removed]; ]
Jim Jewell [ JayHick@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:56:59 -0400
From: BryanH362@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Walden Hughes Old Time Radio Weekend Show
Heard on YesterdayUSA Friiday , Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 pm PDT .
Live streaming via [removed] .
Friday May 13th, 2005
A) Frank Bresee's two part special with Brett Morrison (The Shadow)
B) Norman Corwin interview .
C) Replay of On A Note of Triumph from 60 years ago on the same date of
5-13-45
D) Two Kraft Music Hall with Al Jolson
E) Assorted Old Time Radio show like: Family Theater
Saturday May 14th, 2005
A) Walden is running a series called "The Golden Age of Radio with Dick
Bertel and Ed Corcoran" . Show #4: This week, Dick and Ed interview Peg
Lynch &
Margaret Hamilton
B) Walden will interview Jordan Young about his book "Spike Jones - Off The
Record". C
C) Archive interview with Dale Evans
D) Old time radio shows:
Two Bing Crosby shows
Sealtest Variety Theater
Richard Diamond
Nero Wolfe
Information Please
Quiz Kids
Sunday May 15th, 2005:
A) Ms. Laura Leff presents a Jack Benny show from 5/6/45
B) Dr. Michael Biel .
C) Jack French interview with Ivan Curly
D) Old time radio shows:
Phil Harris and Alice Faye
Our Miss Brooks
Lux Radio Theater - from 1952
Fibber McGee and Molly - 3/14/50
The Great Gildersleeve from - 3/15/50
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:57:08 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-13 births/deaths
May 13th births
05-13-1842 - Arthur Sullivan - London, England - d. 11-22-1900
composer: (Gilbert and Sullivan) "The Railroad Hour"
05-13-1902 - David Broekman - Leiden, The Netherlands- d. 4-1-1958
conductor: "Mobil Magazine"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
05-13-1907 - Daphne du Maurier - London, England - d. 4-19-1989
author: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Matinee Theatre"; "Romance"; "Escape"
05-13-1909 - Ken Darby - Hebron, NE - d. 1-24-1992
singer, choral conductor: (The King's Men) "Fibber McGee and Molly"
05-13-1911 - Maxine Sullivan - Homestead, PA - d. 4-7-1987
vocalist: "Night Life"
05-13-1912 - Helen Craig - San Antonio, TX - d. 7-20-1986
actress: "Crime Does Not Pay"
05-13-1914 - Joe Louis (The Brown Bomber) - Lafayette, AL - d. 4-12-1981
heavyweight boxing champ: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Fred Allen Show";
"Freedom's People"
May 13th deaths
02-27-1902 - Gene Sarazen - Harrison, NY - d. 5-13-1999
golf legend: "Tops in Sports"
05-30-1896 - Whispering Jack Smith - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-13-1950
singer: "Whispering Jack Smith"
12-23-1924 - Floyd Kalber - Omaha, NE - d. 5-13-2004
news correspondent: NBC; News Anchor for WMAQ and WLS in Chicago
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:05:10 -0400
From: "Marcus Antonsson" <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Monica Zetterlund has left the building
Monica Zetterlund has left the building Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer,
actor, show artist and much more, was killed yesterday (May 12) in a fire in
her home in Stockholm. She was 68. With failing health she left show
business some years ago. She was a very popular artist, not only in Sweden,
but also in Europe and the USA where she recorded and appeared
on television (In Steve Allen's show for example). Of course she also
appeared on radio in many countries. Her best album (according to herselfand
many others) is "Waltz for Debby" which she made in 1964 with Bill Evans'
trio. She also published her autobiography in the early 90's. She'll be very
missed here in Sweden, and I'm sure also abroad. Sad regards from Sweden:
Marcus Antonsson
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:27:11 -0400
From: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: More on name matches
In digest #149, Art Chimes wrote:
The March 29, 1959, episode of YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
was "The Jimmy Carter Matter." I would suspect there were others.
Another example of this that springs immediately to mind is also probably one
of the more infamous in the OTR community: Rodney Dangerfield.
-chris holm
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:30:00 -0400
From: "Paul Adomites" <padomites@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: OTR Evening in Pa.
Folks --
One week from tonight, at 8 [removed], the Barrow Civic Theatre in Franklin, Pa.
will host an evening of OTR. We'll be doing a Lone Ranger, a Captain
Midnight, a Boston Blackie and an Abbott and Costello. It's a fundraiser for
the theater. Cost is $7 at the door. Email me if you want to know more.
(Like where Franklin is.)
If nothing else, you'll get to hear my Fred Foy.
Paul Adomites
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:30:21 -0400
From: dougdouglass@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jack Benny in New York
The church Michael Gwynne referred to is St. Malachy's (The Actors'
Chapel) at 239 West 49 Street.
The Hell's Kitchen Association lists the neighborhood boundaries as
34th-59th Streets from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River.
Here's the link to the Tenement Museum Michael mentioned ...
[removed]
Doug Douglass
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 16:47:52 -0400
From: HRRMIKES@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Seattle Mystery Guest
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In the home stretch toward the June 24-25 dates for our REPS Radio Showcase,
we have invited on more well known guest. We will know on May 20 if this
person can come, and feel it is very likely. A really great program is
taking
shape. Details at [removed]
Mike Sprague
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 16:48:04 -0400
From: HRRMIKES@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Seattle Convention Hotel
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The Radio Enthusiast of Puget Sound have just learned that the convention
hotel is almost full. If anyone planning to come has not reserved a
discounted
room, you should.
Mike Sprague
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 16:53:03 -0400
From: Mark Hanna <mmmwh@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: copyright confusion
Within a few days, they discovered that CBS had never copyrighted the
show, nor had any of the writers or production staff."
The thing is, the law of the time required that the
work be "published" for copyright protection as
opposed to current copyright law which only requires
"fixation". "Publication" had a very specific
meaning, the publication had to be sold to the general
public without any restriction. As radio shows like
this were not "published" (broadcasting is not
considered "publication"), radio works that were never
formally registered for copyright are considered
unpublished works under law and still eligible for
copyright protection. This used to be a common law
protection, but new law protects unpublished work
under federal copyright law.
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:45:11 -0400
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Louisville OTR Club meeting this Sunday
The monthly meeting of the Kentuckiana Radio Addicts will be Sunday May 15th,
at
9:30 am at Dillon's Steakhouse 2101 S Hurstbourne Parkway Louisville, Ky.
nothing formal, just a group of folks talking about old radio memories, etc.
Refreshments will be served ($5 is collected at each meeting to defray those
costs)
If you are in driving distance, Please join us for more information, please
call
me @ 502-451-0071
Thanks
Ed Ginsburg
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 21:49:41 -0400
From: Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Submarine surgery
Howard Blue mentioned the recent death of a World War II pharmacist's
mate who performed an emergency appendectomy aboard a submarine using
makeshift instruments.
September 11, 1942. The boat was the Seadragon. The location was 120
feet under the surface of the Pacific. The patient was Darrell Rector.
The submariner-medic-surgeon was Wheeler B. "Johnny" Lipes, who died in
April at age 84. Adam Bernstein wrote in the Washington Post on April
19, "Lipes, who retired as a lieutenant commander, was a 22-year-old
high school dropout at the time of his surgical feat in 1942. The Lipes
legend was chronicled in a Pulitzer Prize-winning news account, provided
a surge of morale during a period of desperately bad news from the
Pacific and helped inspire a wartime action film starring Cary Grant."
And, as Howard recalled, a Cavalcade episode entitled "Pharmacist's
Mate, First Class" (May 24, 1943). Wheeler Lipes was interviewed at the
conclusion of the program.
The Cary Grant film was "Destination Tokyo," which included a
fictionalized version of the emergency surgery. George Weller of /Chicago
Daily News won a 1943 Pulitzer Prize for his account of the [removed]
Darrell Rector survived the operation but, in a cruel irony, was killed
two years later while serving on the submarine Tang, when a torpedo
circled back and hit the boat.
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 23:33:48 -0400
From: BH <radiobill@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: navy pharmacist mate dies: inspired film &,
radio show
From: "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed];
Wheeler Lipes, the Navy pharmacist's mate who performed a successful an
emergency appendectomy using makeshift instruments in a sub 120 feet below
the Pacific Ocean has died. Snipes used bent spoons for retractors and
alcohol from torpedoes for sterilization. He and an assistant wore pajamas
instead of operating room gowns.
I just the other day checked out the DVD from the library, "Destination
Tokyo" starring Cary Grant which portrayed this event. I wondered if
such an event ever took place. In the movie, the sub was on a secrete
recon mission and the operation took place as the sub sat on the bottom
of Tokyo bay. The pharmacist's mate was called 'Pills'.
Bill H.
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Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 09:32:24 -0400
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jim Jewell
can anyone help Joe.
I've been doing research on a true radio pioneer, Jim Jewell and one of his
works, 'The Silver Eagle.' A late entry in the radio adventure series venue,
but a show, I feel is one of OTR's best kept secrets. Would you know a
website
where I may find information on Mr. Jewell? Perhaps, you know of a person,
who may have worked with him, or was friendly with him?
I would greatly appreciate any and all help.
Joe Martelle
<Joemartelle@[removed];
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