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Date: 10/27/2006 2:39 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 293
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Quiz Kids on TV                       [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
  Who's On First                        [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]
  War of the Worlds                     [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  Play BALL!                            [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Question of the day, and [removed]      [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]
  Quiz Kids info.                       [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
  What Ever Happened To Larry Haines?   [ "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed] ]
  ABBOT & COSTELLO 'WHO'S ON FIRST'     [ hoonose? <voxpop@[removed]; ]
  10-27 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Complete broadcast days other than 1  [ David Fx <df789@[removed]; ]
  The Shadow: "The Ghost on the Stair"  [ John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed]; ]
  Did War bonds pay off?                [ "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@run ]
  Tape trouble on Dimension X           [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
  Still Looking For "Stand By" Mags     [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
  Anniversary                           [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:22:02 -0400
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Quiz Kids on TV
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Yes, there was a Quiz Kids on television in the 1950's and 1960's. I seem to
recall that Jack Barry was the narrator, and possibly, Mike [removed] may be
wrong about Mike Wallace, though. It seems like he was the narrator at one
time. He did have a kids show in the 1950's on television called, "Winky Dink
and You."It was apuppet show like Shari Lewis had. Mike Wallace was all over
radio and television in the 40's and 70's, and up to the 2000's on
television, as a host or [removed] a resume he has to fall back on! Several
dealers have many Quiz Kids shows for sale if you would care to contact me
off-line.        Bob Slate

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:22:06 -0400
From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Who's On First

Tom Greenli's "new" Who's on First" in digest 291 is
hysterical.  Thanks a bunch, Tom

Anne

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:34:40 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  War of the Worlds

Here's an item from my Radio Happenings newsletter that might be of interest
to you.

Barbara

On Saturday, October 28 from 10 pm to midnight on [removed] KPCC, when [removed]
Theatre Works' The Play's the Thing airs War of the Worlds and My Favorite
Husband.  War of the Worlds by [removed] Wells, adapted by Howard Koch, stars
Leonard Nimoy, Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner and fellow cast members from the
TV series "Star Trek", who recreate the classic radio thriller that became
known as the panic broadcast when it first aired in 1938.  ALSO: My Favorite
Husband, the CBS radio series that inspired I Love Lucy, by Jess
Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr., starring Marilu Henner as
Liz Cooper (the Lucille Ball character) and Jeff Conaway, Harold Gould and
Alley Mills.

The Play's the Thing is streamed on the KPCC website ([removed]) for one
week following each broadcast so that people worldwide can hear the show.

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:35:57 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Play BALL!

Folks-

The recent question about where to  find recorded Baseball broadcasts is
answered at least partially with the words  "Ken Stockinger."

Ken hit a presentation on same out of the park last  week at FOTR.

(And I say that, not even being a major league horsehide  fan, myself!)

-Craig W.

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:36:46 -0400
From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest (E-mail)" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Question of the day, and [removed]

Hi all,

First, a thousand thanks to Martin for his response to my X Minus One
question!  I think it was the customer's definition of the story as being
about a "microbial" invasion that was throwing us all off.  I will very
happily pass off this info on.

Second, I wanted to say that I'm so glad that I wasn't the only one who
caught Monday's episode of Studio 60!  My husband and I just kept looking at
eachother as the names of OTR personalities and sketches were mentioned.  I
thought - wow - I hope that this makes everyone watching think "Yeah, I
wonder if there's any way to listen to any of that great old stuff [removed]"

And, last, but not least, my question of the [removed]

I have a customer who is looking for two episodes of "I Am An Alcoholic," a
show that was broadcast out of WFBR, Baltimore.  They are shows that Radio
Spirits has on reels (from Goldin) but, we don't have available to customers
at this point.  Are there any Digesters out there who might know how to get
copies of the November 8, 1952 episode and/or a July 1955 episode in which
Chet, Doris, and Pete tell their stories?

Karen Lerner
Radio Spirits

[removed]  Jim Burns - I will be using your "hearing dead people laugh" comment
around my office over the next week!  What a timely, funny, yet creepy point!

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:40:45 -0400
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Quiz Kids info.

Does anyone have any information on "Quiz Kids"?

Asks Kenneth Clarke

Also, I've heard of an OTR program called "Professor Quiz", but have ye to
be able to locate any information on it

Here is a source for info. for both programs. John Dunning great reference
book "On The Air , The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio" .
I assume that most Libraries have it in their reference section. If go on
line and do a Google search "Quiz Kids" you'll get lots on Info.

The Quiz Kids were on the air from 6/28/40 until 7/5/53. The sponsor I
remember the best was Alka- Seltzer. There were others

The kids ranged in age from 6 to about 16. all had very High IQ's. The quiz
master was Joe Kelly. The programs originated from Chicago. Kelly was the MC
of the National Barn Dance.

Prof. Quiz was on the air from 5/9/36 until 7/17/48 it had several sponsors
and was heard on CBS and on ABC It moved to lots different day of the week.
I believe if a contestant answer  the question correctly the  reward was 25
silver [removed]
 Hope this helps you

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:41:05 -0400
From: "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  What Ever Happened To Larry Haines?

If Ron has ever published the birth date of Larry Haines, I have missed it.
Larry was part of a group of "gangster-mobster" actors such as Chuck
Webster, Ralph Bell, Bill Zuckert, Jackson Beck, Mandel Kramer, Berry
Kroeger, etc., to name a few.  Most of them had New York dialects. Most of
them worked not only on CBS, ABC, and NBC, but certainly had parts on the
great WOR Mutual line up of detective shows. What does anyone know of Larry
Haines?  Had he ever attended FOTR? I know all about his television soap
days, but has anyone seen him recently?

Stuart Lubin

Los Angeles

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:08:07 -0400
From: hoonose? <voxpop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  ABBOT & COSTELLO 'WHO'S ON FIRST'

someone wrote to the digest that they laugh every time they hear that
routine even tho they have heard it 100 times. ok

    well my take on it is that i think it is a wonderful piece of
writing but to me it isn't funny in the least. so taking into account
for inflation that is my 2 " worth.
chet norris

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:40:54 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-27 births/deaths

October 27th births

10-27-1890 - Bob Becker - Terryville, SD - d. 8-10-1962
commentator: "Fireside Chats About Dogs/Pet Parade"
10-27-1896 - Eric Dressler - NYC - d. 8-xx-1978
actor: "Scattergood Baines"; "Young Widdr Brown"
10-27-1898 - Kathryn Cravens - Burkett, TX - d. 8-29-1991
newscaster: "News Through a Woman's Eye"
10-27-1898 - Richard Carroll - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-11-1959
writer: "Shorty Bell"
10-27-1908 - Josephine Antoine - Boulder, CO - d. 10-30-1971
singer: "Contented Hour"
10-27-1910 - Jack Carson - Carmen, Canada - d. 1-2-1963
comedian: "Jack Carson Show"; "New Sealtest Village Store"
10-27-1911 - Leif Erickson - Alameda, CA - d. 1-29-1986
actor: Richard Rhinelander III "My Friend Irma"
10-27-1914 - Dylan Thomas - Uplands, Swansea, Wales - d. 11-9-1953
writer: "Life of the Modern Poet"; "Modern Muse"
10-27-1915 - Albert Albinger - d. 1-xx-1982
newscaster: WKWK Wheeling, West Virginia
10-27-1918 - Bill Ballance - Peoria, IL - d. 9-23-2004
talk show host: "Feminine Forum"; "Bill Ballance Show"
10-27-1918 - Teresa Wright - NYC - d. 3-6-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-27-1920 - Nanette Fabray - San Diego, CA
singer, actor: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
10-27-1924 - Ruby Dee - Cleveland, OH
actor: "Story of Ruby Valentine"; "Story Hour"
10-27-1933 - Floyd Cramer - Samti, LA - d. 12-31-1997
country pianist: "Country Music Time"; "Country Style [removed]"
10-27-1939 - John Cleese - Weston-Super-Mare, England
comedian: Basil Fawlty "Fawlty Towers"

October 27th deaths

01-01-1900 - Xavier Cugat - Tirona, Spain - d. 10-27-1990
bandleader: (King of the Rhumba) "Camel Caravan"
01-12-1894 - Georges Carpentier - Lens, France - d. 10-27-1975
boxer: Dempsey vs. Carpentier first boxing match broadcast
03-05-1900 - Sam Hearn - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-27-1964
comedian: Schlepperman "Jack Benny Program, Glamour Manor"
03-21-1919 - Lois Collier - Salley, SC - d. 10-27-1999
actor: Carol Chandler "Dear John"
04-22-1921 - Vivian Dandridge - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-27-1991
writer: "The Beulah Show"
05-26-1910 - Larry Rhine - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-2000
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
05-29-1923 - Winifred Wolfe - d. 10-27-1981
writer: "Cloak and Dagger"
08-26-1907 - Lester Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-27-2004
bandleader: "Lester Lanin and His Orchestra"; "Here's to Veterans"
09-20-1911 - Frank De Vol - Moundsville, WV - d. 10-27-1999
conductor: "Rudy Vallee Drene Show"; "Sealtest Village Store"; "Dinah
Shore Show"
09-23-1910 - Elliott Roosevelt - NYC - d. 10-27-1990
commentary for the Mutual Network (Son of FDR) "Information Please"
09-24-1929 - Alfred Hudgins - d. 10-27-2004
disc jockey: "Blues in the Night"
10-25-1891 - Father Charles Coughlin - Hamilton, Canada - d. 10-27-1979
commentator, preacher: (The Radio Priest)
10-29-1910 - Lew Parker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-27-1972
actor: John Bickerson "The Bickersons" "Mennen Shave Time with Lew
Parker"
11-30-1914 - Charles Hawtrey - Hounslow, Middlesex, England - d.
10-27-1988
actor, comedian: Hubert Lane "Just William"
12-01-1886 - Rex Stout - Noblesville, IN - d. 10-27-1975
author: (Creator of Nero Wolfe) Debunker of Axis Propaganda "Our
Secret Weapon"
12-01-1911 - Randy Merriman - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-27-2005
actor: "Doctor [removed]"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:41:44 -0400
From: David Fx <df789@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Complete broadcast days other than 1939 & 1944
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Is anyone aware of recordings of complete broadcast days aside from the ones I
know of Sep 21, 1939 & June 6, 1944 that were recorded and are available?

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:47:05 -0400
From: John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Shadow: "The Ghost on the Stair"

In the next few days before Halloween, try to listen to The Shadow
broadcast "The Ghost on the Stair."  It's a terrific Halloween radio
show, and luckily it's commonly available.  It's been around among OTR
tape traders for over thirty years.  You'll find it out on mp3, and also
available from Radio Spirits on CD.  Wherever you find it, in whatever
format, you owe it to yourself to listen to it.

"The Ghost on the Stair" was broadcast on December 29, 1940 and told the
story of the ghost of Becky Branch.  The radio script was unique among
the other Shadow scripts.  It is one of the few in which there is no
villain.  The Shadow fights, not against a bad guy, but against a
strange ghostly situation.  It's also unique in its somewhat bittersweet
end, where instead of bringing a criminal to justice, The Shadow brings
comfort to a dying woman.  The final comment by Beauregard, the old
butler, is taken directly from the ending of Bob Hope's comedy/horror
motion picture "Ghost Breakers" which had been released to theaters only
six months earlier.  Not plagarism, I'm sure, but possibly a homage?

My own homage to this episode of The Shadow is in the form of a special
Two-Minute Shadow Mystery, written especially for Halloween.  My
mini-mystery takes place the day before the late 1940 radio broadcast,
and before that mystery was solved. Instead, we find Ralph Simeon using
the ghost legend to further his own ends.

Ralph Simeon is a character from the original radio play. He met his
untimely demise during the radio show, most fittingly as a victim of the
"ghost" that he was trying to exploit in my story.  Plantation owner
Adelle Miller and family retainer Beauregard were two other characters
also in the radio dramatization that I incorporated into my tale.

You can read my special homage, which uses a similar title "The Ghost on
the Staircase," at:

   [removed]~deshadow/[removed]

The story will be available on the above website from now through next
Thursday.  Read it and match wits with The Shadow.  Take two minutes and
see if you can solve the mystery of "The Ghost on the Staircase."

John

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:47:25 -0400
From: "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Did War bonds pay off?

Hello, since I'm too young, being only 28, the programs dealing with war
efforts are a little hard to understand. My friend, who is about my dad's
age, says there was no income tax back then, so I'm wondering about these
war bonds. Did they eventually pay off, and did the government having to pay
all this money, increase the national deficit? Did the purchasing of the war
bonds really buy supplies such as rifles and amunition? In my way of
thinking, why couldn't the government just print more money? I know these
questions may sound silly to those who lived through it, but I have neither
the history, nor the experience, to understand the time quite like I want
to. They have very moving messages at the end of several Fibber and Molly
and Gildersleeve programs, and I assume many others, and I'd like to get a
sense of the times, since this particular subject wasn't covered in any of
my history books, and I have no relatives who are still around from that
time period.
Thanks a lot for your input, and for expanding on a subject which is
confusing to us younger listeners.
Matthew

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:48:40 -0400
From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Tape trouble on Dimension X

I'm reminded of the true story of the first uses of audio tape on
Dimension X.
Recording onto audio tape was quite new in 1950, since it only began
its life in 1947/1948.
NBC decided that it was all right to record the Dimension X shows
onto tape. The first show
consisted of two Ray Bradbury stories, "There Will Come Soft Rains,"
and "Zero Hour."
The cast and crew were assembled, rehearsals went smoothly and then,
the recording of
the two stories. All went well. The tapes came out perfect with only
minor editing. "There Will
Come Soft Rains" had an enormous amount of sound effects in it and,
with all the rehearsals
done, everything turned out surprisingly well. The cast and crew were
quite proud of what they had done,
considering that Dimension X was a  brand new show, and Science
Fiction at that -- something
not often done on radio.
The audio engineer packaged up the final 10 1/2 inch reel of tape and
stored it in the control room
for broadcast later that week. However, little was known about the
properties of tape when the show
was produced, and the engineer had placed the finished tape on a
shelf next to a control room transformer.
You guessed it! The tape was partially erased by the transformers
magnetic field. When the tape was
checked, all hell broke loose. Amidst much hair-pulling the cast, the
crew and the sound effects were
all brought together to re-do the entire broadcast on tape. This they
did. Wasn't as simple as the first time.
Had some problems and had to redo some of the show, but it was
finally done. This time the engineer
did NOT place the finished broadcast tape on the shelf next to the
transformer. He leaned it up against
one of the large speaker cabinets in the control room.
Uh huh! You guessed it again. The tape was ruined by the speakers
magnetic field!
The entire first show had to be done a third time! I'm  quite sure
someone had to pay dearly for these
blunders.
Bear in mind that engineers who handled tape back in 1950 really knew
little about the medium. They
were splicing the tape by hand, using scissors and scotch tape used
for mending. Special tape for tape
editing didn't exist at that time AND most engineers knew little
about the problems of magnetic fields
affecting recording tape. It is also important to understand that
control rooms filled with all sorts of
broadcast equipment are simply glutted with magnetic fields!
After that experience with Dimension X you can be sure the engineers
at NBC (and, for that matter,
at the other networks) would never allow broadcast tapes to be stored
in any area that wasn't safe!
Ken Greenwald

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:17:35 -0400
From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Still Looking For "Stand By" Mags

Hi. am still looking for the following issues of WLS's magazine "Stand By:"

All 1938: April 2, 9, 16 and 30th. June 18th.

Then I'll have 'em all!

Pls reply offlist and thanks.

Bill Knowlton: udmacon@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:37:01 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Anniversary

The anniversary of, without a doubt, the most famous radio program of
all-time is approaching. "The War of the Worlds." Just how famous? In
October of 2002 my wife and I went to Japan to visit her sister. It
was the first time that I had met the family. We were feeling each
other out, with my wife doing the translating. She mentioned to our
grand-nephew that my hobby is old-time radio. Our nephew had heard of
just one American radio program, you guessed it, "The War of the
Worlds." He went on and asked some very intelligent questions about
the program. I got the distinct impression that sometime in his
education he had studied the program. To have this program known in
such a diverse culture as Japan does indeed make it famous. World
Famous.

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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