IllUSTRATE:D I EST. 1975 PRE:SS No. 86 - November , 1981

SMILIN· ED MC CONNELL

THE: OLD TIME: RADIO CLUB November, 1983

Page Two THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS NoVeIDbax,_~983 CLUB ADDRESSES. Please use the cor­ rect address for the business you have in mind. Return library ma­ terials to the library addresses. CLUB DUES: Jerry Collins 56 Christen Ct. Lancaster, N'. Y. 14086 (716) 683-6199 ILLUSTRATED PRESS (letters, columns etc.) & OTHER CLUB BUSINESS. Richard Olday HV O-A1.EY 100 Harvey Drive Howdy, bubs. School has begun Lancaster ,N.Y. 14086 here at CAHS. One sad note here is ( 716) 684-1604 that one of my best members of our REFERENCE LIBRARY, OTR Club here at the school died this Pete Bellanca summer. Brandon Southwick was a THE OLD TIME RADIO CLUB 1620 Ferry Road sophomore and was hal'd:k:aped and had MEMBERSHI P INFORMATION: Grand Island, N.Y. 14072 to be taken from room to room on a (716) 773-2485 rolling bed. He loved listening to Club dues are $17.50 per yr. radio shows and watching old movies. from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31. Mem­ TAPE LIBRARY His folks even mentioned in his obit­ bers receive a tape listing, Frank Bork uary that he was a member of the club. library lists, a monthly newsletter 7 Heritage Drive I hope he meets Jack Benny and (The Illustrated Press), an Lancaster, N.Y. 14086 the gang up in the Eternal RADIOLAND. annual magazine (Memories), and (716) 683-3555 Recently I picked up a 16mm variou~ special items. Additional BACK ISSUES. All MEMORIES and IPs version of MICHAEL SHAYNE. a one hour family-members living in the same are $1.00 each, postpaid. Out of mystery drama televised in 1960. household as a regular member may print issues may be borrowed from Richard Denning plays a very undis­ join the club for $5.00 per year. the reference library. tinguished Shayne. A hatchet murderer 1he~e members have all the privi­ Chuck Seeley returns to the scene of the crime }eges of regular members but do 294 victoria Blvd. where a young couple have just moved. not receive the publications. A Kenmore, N.Y. 14217 Shayne is called in by the husband junior membership is available to when strange things begin to happen persons 15 years of age or younger * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * and the fun begins. Sounds like a who do not live in the household The Old Time Radio Club meets promising plot but Denning walks of a r~gular member. This member­ the second Monday of the month through the part as if he were still ship is$10.00 per year and includes (September through June) at 393 playing Lucy's husbRnd in MY FAVORITE all the benefits of a regular mem­ George Urban Boulevard, Cheektowaga, HUSBAND. bership. Regular membership dues New York. Anyone interested in the On to the rating game: are as follows. if you join in Jan. "Golden Age of Radio" is welcome to MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-ROUND-2 Sure, you dues are $17. 5J for the year i Feb., attend and observe or participate. can understand every word but why $17.50; March $15.00; April $14.00; Meeting starts at 7.30 p.m. bother? Mall $13.00; June $12 .00; July$! O. 00 ~ MANHUNT-2 Mediocre ZIV production of Aug., $9.00; Sept. $8.00; Oct. $7.001 15 minute mysteries. • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * MARCH OF DIMES-2 15 minute time fillers Nov. $6.00; and Dec. $5.00. The DEADLINE FOR IP #88 - December 12 numbers after your name on the for charity. . #89 - January 9 MARCH OF TIME-3 High powered news/ address label are the month and #90 - Februarll 13 year your renewal is due. Reminder dramas explaining the'big happenings notes will be sent. Your renewal * * *** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * of the week. ' MARGO OF CASTLEWOOD-l Heard audition should be sent in as soon as possi­ ADVERTISING RATES FOR MEMORIES ble to avoid missing issues. Please show. Never on air, fortunately. be certain to notify US if you 3 0 . 0 0 for a full page MARY MARLIN-l 40's sudso change vour address. 20.00 for a half page PHILIP MARLOW-2 Gerald Mohr plays a OVERSEAS MEMBERSHIPS are now avail­ i12.00 for a quarter page somewhat enemic Marlowe. Sad to say able. Annual dues are $29.50. the recent HBO Marlowe had a hell of Publications will be air mailed. SPECIAL. OTR Club members may take 50% off these rates. a lot more guts. * *"* * * * * * * * MARTIN OF THE MISTS-l Heard audition THE ILLUSTRATED.-* PRESS is the monthly show, 4/28/39. newsletter of The Old Time Radio Club Advertising Deadline - September 15th MARTIN AND LEWIS-3 This crazy two­ headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y. Con­ some did make super radio humor too. tents except where noted, are copy­ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * MARVELOUS MARGIE-l ~O's drama/comedy. 'rignt 0 1983 by the OTRC. All rie;hts PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN NAME AND ~ PERRY MASON-2 Daytime lawyer had are hereby assigned to the contr~bu­ mundane cases. tors. Editor. Richard A. Olday; ADDRESS FOR THE TAPE LIBRARY AND MASQUERADE-2 40's day timer. Assistant Editor: Jerry Collins: CLUB DUES. CANDY MATSON-4 Super fine detective Production Assistance; Arlene Olday; show. Well written. Good cast. Wish * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I could meet her. Sigh.... Published since 1975. Printed in U.S.A., Cover Design by Eileen Curtin . November. 1983 THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS Pa e Three ~ ILLUSTRATED PRESS No:y:elDher, 1983 MAXWELL HOUSE SHOWBOAT-3 A high cost musical extravaganza that once came CLUB ADDRESSES, Please use the cor­ S~. ~ddr:ss to Erie. Pa. through the Lawrence rect for the business you Seaway, maybe? hav: ~n m~nd. Return library ma­ KEN MAYNARD-2 This 15 minute serial ter~als to the library addresses. featured at least iwo stories. THE CLUB DUES, OKLAHOMA KID and TALES FROM THE Jerry Collins DIAMOND K. 56 Christen Ct. MAYOR OF THE TOWN-2 Lionel Barrymore Lancaster, N.Y. 14086 played the "grand ole politician" in (716) 683-6199 this rural comedy. Every year "THE CHRISTMAS CAROL" was featured. ILLUSTRATED PRESS (letters, columns MEET CORLISS ARCHER-3 I'm just a etc.).& OTHER CLUB BUSINESS, sucker for those airhead teenage girl R~chard Olday 100 Harvey Drive HV DALEY sit-coms. Howdy. bubs. School has begun MEET THE MEEKS-2 Collected a six Lancaster,N.Y. 14086 hour reel of the Meeks. Tough going, (716) 684-1604 here at CAHS. One sad note here is that one of my best members of our but I made it through twelve programs REFERENCE LIBRARY, OTR Club here at the school died this of 'Mortimer and Agatha. Pete Bellanca summer. Brandon Southwick was a MEET THE MENJOUS-l 40's talk and patter. 1620 Ferry Road sophomore and was hal" djpaped and had MEET THE PRESS-2 I've heard one show Grand Island. N.Y. 14072 to be taken from room to room on a from this broadcasting dinosaur which yr. (716) 773-2485 rolling bed. He loved listening to featured Mayor LaGuardia. radio shows and watching old movies. MEET MILLIE-l A My FRiend Irma ripoff. JIem­ TAPE LIBRARY Poor copy. Frank Bork His folks even mentioned in his obit­ etter uary that he was a member of the club. MEET THE MISSES-l 40's day timer. 7 Heritage Drive I hope he meets Jack Benny and MEET THE MORGANS-l syndicated drama. Lancaster, N.Y. 14086 the gang up in the Eternal RADIOLAND. Ii (716) 683-3555 * * * * * * * * * bna I Recently I picked up a 16mm !IIIe BACK ISSUES. All MEMORIES and IPs version of MICHAEL SHAYNE. a one hour Day ar: $1:00 each, postpaid. Out of mystery drama televised in 1960. ar. pr~nt ~ssues may be borrowed from Richard Denning plays a very undis­ i­ the reference library. tinguished Shayne. A hatchet murderer Chuck Seeley returns to the scene of the crime 'A 294 Victoria Blvd. where a young couple have just moved. to Kenmore, N.Y. 14217 Shayne is called in by the husband when strange things begin to happen ~er d * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * and the fun begins. Sounds like a ler­ The Old Time Radio Club meets promising plot but Denning walks udes the second Monday of the month through the part as if he were still em­ (September through June) at 393 playing Lucy's husband in MY FAVORITE es George Urban Boulevard, Cheektowaga HUSBAND. Jan. New York. Anyone interested in the' On to the rating game, eb. , "Golden Age of Radio" is welcome to MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-ROUND-2 Sure, you .00; atte~d and observe or participate. can understand every word but why 0.00; Meet~ng starts at 7.30 p.m. bother? r? .00; MANHUNT-2 Mediocre ZIV production of ~ • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 15 minute mysteries. DEADLINE FOR IP #88 - December 12 MARCH OF DIMES-2 15 minute time fillers #89 - January 9 for charity. . #90 - February 13 MARCH OF TlME-3 High powered news/ ~der dramas explaining the'big happenings 1 * * *** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * of the week. . si­ CRIME ADVERTISING RATES FOR MEMORIES MARGO OF CASTLEWOOD-l Heard audition !ase show. Never on air, fortunately. 30 . 0 0 for a full page PHOTOGRAPHER' 20.00 for a half page MARY MARLIN-l 40's sudso 9:30 P. M. il­ 12.00 for a quarter page PHILIP MARLOW-2 Gerald Mohr plays a i somewhat enemic Marlowe. Sad to say nil M,.ter, ..rl... darrl .. SPECIAL. OTR Club members may the recent HBO Marlowe had a hell of Ste.h C.hw..... •• • tlo""" take ....,.,... co._••. I, .0. I. 50% off these rates. a lot more guts. Ih .1.... yow of ...... -'1 rthly MARTIN OF THE MISTS-l Heard audition It I••, ••••rM It, PIIIn, Merrlt. Club show, 4/28/39. D••'t .111 ttl ­ on­ Advertising Deadline - September 15th' MARTIN AND LEWIS-3 This crazy two­ And Don't I.ffll' some did make super radio humor too. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ':4J--LO.ell TIt .. ;;ts MARVELOUS MARGIE-l 40's drama/comedy. 7:00--e-.ry ... bu­ PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN NAME AND PERRY MASON-2 Daytime lawyer had 7:4J--L_rry Le .. .: , " W.. ADDRESS FOR THE TAPE LIBRARY AND mundane cases. .:J~r . MASQUERADE-2 40's day timer. .:0_.._ CLUB DUES. , .:06--J••••, D.H.. CANDY MATSON-4 Super fine detective 11:0_ Ie How. shoW. Well written. Good cast. Wish * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ~ .U.S.A. Cover Design by Eileen Curtin I could meet her. Sigh.... ~

~o~u:r November, 1983 _ I.L~Tl'ATED PRESS~. ~. THE __ u November. J 983 is still imitated today. That shoul Equity strike. Hendry decided not have been the end of its history. to continue. so the Steed character but you can't keep a good show down. ,~~!!/ took over and was joined with a new In 1971 a stage play was put partner-female-and a legend was on in England with different actors U~,~C u/~.A;A a-borning. Honor BlaCkman joined for a limited engagement. Then. in U the series as Mrs. Cathy Gale. a 1972, Sonovision Ltd. produced a beautiful widowed anthropologist series of AVENGERS stories for the • •. 2 .•• with a feeling for adventure and South African Broadcasting Company. .L~ ~0 the jUdo skills to help her stay out First broadcast in January of 1972, ~~ ~/T~q.~ of trOuble. She also had a tendency I've been unable to track down much C? (through a suggestion by MacNee) to information about it. but I keep ~'?/T~ ~ wear black leather outfits with trying. What I can talk about are leather boots. Kinky, yes, but it the 13 stories that I have tapes of caught on and shot the AVENGERS to that are in circulation among OTR IT~ the top of the ratings. The charac­ fans. The stories were presented ters developed over the course of in serialised form 15 minutes per their two seasons together and Steed's chapter and all but one of the 13 THE BEST TELEVISION SHOW dress became more and more Edwardian run 6 parts (the other is 7 parts). ~ MADE ON RADIO with the added impetus of the familiar They ran daily, Monday to Friday, The title of this article is Bowler hat and umbrella. These first and were sponsored by 'Cold Water one that few people would agree three years were never shown in the Ono' a wash powder-and'Shield for with, but in my mind, THE ftVENGERS U.S. and to my knowledge none of the sportsmen'-a deodorant soap. Pro­ was the best show on TV. It is cer­ live shows were recorded and the duced by David Gooden. the radio tainly my personal favorite (especi­ latter two years, although produced version starred Donald Monat as ally the shows that featured Diana on videotape. were erased and also John Steed and Dianne APpleby as Rigg) and it earned more money in may no longer exist. Emma Peel. The stories were all foreign TV markets than any other Honor Blackman then left the adaptations of old TV episodes, British program before or since. Its series (she went to play around with though nearly half (6 of 13) were tongue-in-cheek treatment of the another top British agent, James Tara King episodes re-written as spy formula, with superb writing and Bond, as Pussy Galore in the movie Emma Peel stories. Tony and Jay great acting made it a weekly de­ GOLDFINGER) and Steed was once more and Dennis Folbigge (who also di­ light for several years and the sub­ alon~. THE AVENGERS .was now a hit rected the series) adapted the sequent re-running of the programs show and the search for a new female stories for radio. The theme was have not lessened my erlioyment. My lead was akin to the casting of the familiar one written by Laurie love for the series was so great Scarlet O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND. Johnson for TV series. THE AVEN­ that I collected every scrap of The result (after the show was off GERS was a very visual show, and information I could about the show for a year) was Diana Rigg to play to compensate for this the radio and I naturally purchased Whatever the role of Mrs. Emma Peel. This was writers added a narrator (Hugh merChandise I could find. A large the series that finally reached our Rowe) to keep things moving. Though surprise still awaited me. however. shores. Emma Peel was similar to the narration is sometimes heavy in A few years ago, When I attended Cathy Gale as they were both beautiful, the series, it is played lightly my first "Friends of Old Time Radio" independent, and intelligent women; and much of the humor comes from convention, I found through the help able to handle themselves in a fight this source. That's about as much of one of my travellin~ companions and with a flair for fashion. But as I've been able to discover so a reel of tape contain1ng four Emma Peel was sleeker. sexier with a far in regards to details of the AVENGERS shows done for South African love for the danger and excitement radio versions history and, ad­ radio. As a collector. I had to have that her escapades with Steed got mittedly. it's somewhat sketchy. it, whether the material was of her into. There was a magic on the On the subjective side, I enjoy quality or not made no difference. screen with MacNee and Rigg that could the radio versions but, they in no This was something I was completely not have been anticipated and the way compare to the original TV unaware of, despite my devotion to series (now done on film and with series for which I have such great obtaining any material related to new theme music) not only became a love and devotion. The actors are the show. I had to have it. But, BritiSh hit, but an international surprisingly good (I expected the before I get into the radio version, one as well. We got to see them only worst when I bought that first tape) perhaps I should say something about as summer replacements at first, but and must have been chosen with the original, for the few uneducated the audience kept demanding more. great care. Monat is especially out there. The bottom fell out somewhat. however, good as Steed, presenting with his The AVENGERS first went on the when Diana Rigg left after two-and-a voice the cool exterior of the pro­ air in England in January of 1961, half years. Steed's new partner was fessional agent and the wry sense and it was a someWhat different show Tara King (played by Linda Thorson). of humor that Steed was known for. than what we're familiar with. First much younger than the others and lacking As much of the dialogue was word of all, it was a'live' program making the leather outfits. The Tara King for word. it would have been easy the thriller aspects even more diffi­ episodes were quite good, better than to ruin it, since it was socarefully cult to bring off. Secondly. the most anything else, but ~e magic written with the original performers lead role was that of Dr. David Keel between Rigg and MacNee went with her in mind. The narrator is fine and (portrayed by Ian Hendry) Who was departure and the fickle American l much of the uncredited supporting assisted by a mysterious undercover audience never really gave Thorson a casts are excellent (with a few agent known only as 'Steed' (played, chance and the series faded in 1969. clunkers. unfortunately). Some as always, by the incredible PatriCk Throughout its run, the show was stories adapt themselves better than MacNee). The series lasted only one extremely well written-clever and witty others to the radio format. but of year, ended prematurely by an actor's and frequently bizarre - and its style November, 1983 THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS Page Five ~E IL'kLcI.1U=i1ILL:IDDLJ;P1llis.s __ ~ Noyember. 1 96.3 is still imitated today. That shoul the thirteen, only one would I rate Equity strike. Hendry decided not have been the end of its history, less than good. The writing is simply to continue, so the Steed character but you can't keep a good show down. too good to mess up as long as you took over and was. joined with a new In 1971 a stage play was put stay with it, which is basically what partner-female-and a legend was on in England with different acto:s they did. a-borning. Honor Blackman joined for a limited engagement. Then, 1n The following is the list of the series as Mrs. Cathy Gale, a _1972, Sonovision Ltd. produced a AVENGERS radio shows that I have and beautiful widowed anthropologist series of AVENGERS stories for the am aware of. I know no broadcast with a feeling for adventure and South African Broadcasting Company. order so I am listing them according the judo skills to help her stay out First broadcast in January of 1972, to the original TV order. They key of trouble. She also had a tendency I've been unable to track down much is as follows, story title; original (through a suggestion by MacNee) to information about it, but I keep TV title if different; author of the wear black leather outfits with trying. What I can talk about are original story; and (in parentheses) leather boots. Kinky, yes, but it the 13 stories that I have tapes of a EP or TK with a number representing caught on and shot the AVENGERS to that are in cirCUlation among OTR whether the show was a Emma Peel or the top of the ratings. The charac­ fans. The stories were presented Tara King episode and its listing ters developed over the course of in serialised form 15 minutes per according to the book "THE AVENGERS" their two seasons together and Steed's chapter and all but one of the 13 (which I'll mention afterwards). All dress became more and more Edwardian run 6 parts (the other is 7 parts). stories are six-part serials except with the added impetus of the familiar They ran daily, Monday to Friday, for * which is in seven parts. is Bowler hat and umbrella. These first and were sponsored by 'Cold Water THE DEADLY GIFT-(Original Title, THE three years were never shown in the Ono' a wash powder-and'Shield for CYBERNAUTS)-Philip Levene (EP 3) ERS U.S. and to my knowledge none of the Sportsmen'-a deodorant soap. Pro­ DIAL A DEADLY NUMBER-Roger Marshall cer­ live shows were recorded and the duced by David Gooden, the radio (EP 10) peci­ latter two years, although produced version starred Donald Monat as THE QUICK-QUICK-SLOW DEATH-Robert ana on videotape, were erased and also John Steed and Dianne APpleby as Banks Stewart (EP 19) in may no longer exist. Emma Peel. The stories were all *THE FANTASY GAME (OT,HONEY FOR THE er Honor Blackman then left the adaptations of old TV episodes, PRINCE)-Brian Clemens (EP 26) Its series (she went to play around with though nearly half (6 of 13) were FROM VENUS WITH LOVE-Philip Levene another top British agent, James Tara King episodes re-written as (EP 27) and Bond, as Pussy Galore in the movie Emma Peel stories. Tony and Jay TRAIN OF EVENTS (OT,A FUNNY THING GOLDFINGER) and Steed was once more and Dennis Folbigge (Who also di­ HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE STATION)­ along. THE AVENGERS .was now. a hit rected the series) adapted the Bryan Sherriff (EP 39) show and the search for a new female stories for radio. The theme was THE JOKER-Brian Clemens (EP 41) lead was akin to the casting of the familiar one written by Laurie THE SUPER-SECRET CYPHER SNATCH"-Tony Scarlet O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND. Johnson for TV series. THE AVEN­ Williamson (TK 3) The result (after the show was off GERS was a very visual show, and STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE (OT, for a year) was Diana Rigg to play to compensate for this the radio LOOK (STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS the role of Mrs. Emma Peel. This was writers added a narrator (Hugh ONE) B~THERE WERE THESE TWO'FELLERS .•• ) the series that finally reached our Rowe) to keep things moving. Though Dennis Spooner (TK 11) shores. Emma Peel was similar to the narration is sometimes heavy in TOO MANY OLE'S (OT, THEY KEEP KILLING Cathy Gale as they were both beautiful the series, it is played lightly STEED)-Brian Clemens (TK 13) dio" independent, and intelligent women; , and much of the humor comes from THE MORNING AFTER-Brian Clemens help able to handle themselves in a fight this source. That's about as much (TK 18) ons and with a flair for fashion. But as I've been able to discover so LOVE ALL-Jeremy Burnham (TK 25) Emma Peel was sleeker, sexier with a far in regards to details of the GET-A-WAY-Philip Levene (TK 26) rican love for the danger and excitement radio versions history and, ad­ Well, now you know as mU:h as have that,her escapades with Steed got mittedly, it's somewhat sketchy. I do about THE AVENGERS on rad10. If, her 1nto. There was a magic on the On the subjective side, I enjoy however, you are interested in knowing screen with MacNee and Rigg that could the radio versions but, they in no more about the TVseries (radio was not not have been anticipated and the way compare to the original TV its final chapter) I can recommend a series (now done on film and with series for which I have such great couple of nice items. The best thing ne~ ~heme.music) not only became a love and devotion. The actors are is a recently published book called Br1t1sh h1t, but an international surprisingly good (I expected the "THE AVENGERS" by Dave Rogers. It one as well. We got to see them only worst when I bought that first tape) lists every episode of the original TV as summer replacements at first, but and must have been chosen with series with story capsules, behind­ the audience kept demanding more. great care. Monat is especially the-scenes information, and plenty of The bottom fell out somewhat, however good as Steed, presenting with his photographs (including one of the radio when Diana Rigg left after two-and-a ' voice the cool exterior of the pro­ duo in costume). It doesn't yet have , half years. Steed's new partner was fessional agent and the wry sense an American edition that Iknow of, but show Tara King (played by Linda Thorson), of humor that Steed was known for. numerous book dealers are carrying the rst much younger than the others and lacking As much of the dialogue was word British edition (softcover, at about king the leather outfits. The Tara King for word, it would have been easy ten bucks). Or, to a much lesser ffi- episodes were quite good, better than to ruin it, since it was socarefully degree, you can purchase the Journal most anything else, but ~e magic written with the original performers of the Western New York Popular Culture eel between Rigg and MacNee went with her in mind. The narrator is fine and Society #2, that features an a:ticle departure and the fickle American much of the uncredited supporting by this reporter on the TV ser1es, audience never really gave Thorson a casts are excellent (with a few that, I can say humbly, ain't too bad. chance and ~he series faded in 1969. clunkers, unfortunately). Some (Send me a buck and I'll make sure Throughout 1tS run, the show was stories adapt themselves better than you get one.) extremely well written-clever and witty others to the radio format, but of If anybody knows more about and frequently bizarre - and its style l'age Six _~~ ILLUSTRATED PRESS Novemb~.-12?J_ .._ THE ILLUSTRATED P THE AVENGERS radio show than is Working in the yard is much more presented here, I'd appreciate a enjoyable if you are listening to a letter with the information. (I'm Yankee baseball or Notre Dame foot­ also looking for anything on a ball game. It.is also a lot easier MODESTY BLAISE radio show by the to.ca~ry a radlo up the ladder when BBC if there's anybody out there.) palntlng the house. Earphone and Long live THE AVENGERS. walkman radios make it possible to Kean F. Crowe listen to the big galre even when c/o THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS cutting the grass. If the Buffalo 100 Harvey Drive Bills game is important enough I Lancaster, N.Y. 14086 can even borrow my son's "Ghetto -laster" and let the whole neighbor­ * * * * * * * * * !hood listen to the game. How boring those long trips • would be without a footbaTI. baseball, or basketball game to listen to. On a recent trip home after a visit _.~. =HT~nu: to the Baseball Hall of Fame I listened to parts of five different baseball games. The trip home from THA the annual radio convention is made -noE ,-oMA'f0 _.----. easier by listening to the Jets or 'n... we-HuH the Giants game up to Albany and then Things to ponder over while _ Ull:~H! c H the Bills game as we travel West. A you're waiting for a tape to rewind. always -~ return trip from the Pro Football What was "Blondie's" real Was he Hall of Fame two years ago was made first name? It waS obviously a nick­ stood more pleasant as I listened to my name but her real name was never I just a . , Boston Celtics demolish the Cleveland revealed: And how about her child plexio JERRY COLLINS Cavaliers. "Cookie"? Cookie Bumstead: Poor away. At a baseball or football game kid probably grew up to be a hippie. Why didn't "Harrington" on would I am one of those characters with an all by Once again it's time to delve earphone dangling from his ear. One "Mister District Attorney" have a leave into the days of radio's past. must be careful if your wife has come first name? For that matter why didn't the D.A. himself have a name? was ju As television grew in prominence with you to the game. The earphone T in the 1950's one of the few areas must be in the ear opposite ~ur wife. There's something suspicious going on when a high-ranking officer of of radio that did not go into rapid They just don't like to be ignored. thein my on~. decline was sports. My objective Monday night football games give the law doesn't use his name. The betwee in the third part of my series on US another opportunity to use our David Brian series doesn't count .. , after all, we all know that the real Orphan the role of sports on the radio is radio. There are many football fans tarred the study of this topic in the past that dislike Howard Cosell so much Mr. D. A. was Jay Jostyn: ---­ Why didn't Ozzie Nelson ever about twenty-five years. that they turn down the volume on A There are many reasons why their television set in order to go to work. He lived well and had In sports has maintained such a strong listen to Hank Stram's commentary on a nice house. He and his family all dressed well and seemed to want and ThEIl position on radio. the radio. Public I Sport's talk shows, interview In some cities without Major for nothing but the sonofagun was always home. He must have had an be preS! shows and call-in shows are all League teams or in areas where cable ~ ideally suited for radio. unemployment book that was three based service is non existent, minor league I don'~ The small size of the transistor teams or lesser sports like soccer or hundred pages thick. The most in­ ~ radios and earlier portable radios credible part of the whole thing as it hockey are covered on the radio. is one j has given radio many advantages over «(My family strongly disagrees with was that he was home twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to hea~ television. the descriptive word used before about ij I can remember my high school soccer... Ed.») fifty-two weeks a year, for years s days when World Series games were Well, it is time to go. Notre and years and never once did he and : still being played during the day. Dame is playing on the radio. It is Harriet ever have an argument: Not There would always be a big increase kickoff time and I haven't missed one even a harsh word: in the number of students holding How come the relationship be­ REFE' of their.games in thirty years. rary their hands to their ears to cover Untll next month, "goodnight all". tween Lamont Cranston and Margo up the ear phone that led to the Lane never raised the ire of the should! concealed radio broadcasting the * * * * * * * * * * radio censors? Their relationship list o~ big game. was ascloseasthis and the word bershil Somebody would always have a marriage was never brought up. borrow~ radio during those long bus rides Shocking.• ,really shocking.•.and month] this at a time when things were much proper; ''1. om~ from school,. Many a World TONIGHT 10:30 P.M T Serles game was Lis t ened to on those I WE . more strict than they are today. to be 1 I books J Frontier Central school buses. ! !Ill Where was Morality in Media when we How easy it is to turn on a! . needed it? rental, -adfo at work to listen to a late I ...... ,., llOIIlN•• INC. Was "Tonto" a first name or a Please • ' CAI,OX TOOtH PC.II: o.fternoon ba sebajL game. I can s t LLl, IDa ""...... CCIOOPUIIt CAPIULII last name? Leroy Tonto .. it does items. vemember my many trips to our school I have a kind of ring to it. Or how .to the ibrary to follow Hank Aaron's attempt STOP OR GO about Tonto Hickerson? Now there's materil 00 surpass Babe Ruth's homerun record. YHI COMID't' QUIZ STAHl... a na~e to reckon with: . to you, JOE E.BROWN .... 1 Il- iiiiiiiil-..- ,

Novemb~-1.2.§} LILLUSTRATED PRESS ,_ Page Seven Working in the yard is much more November, 1983 THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS a enjoyable if you are listening to a "Kato" falls into that 'm Yankee baseball or Notre Dame foot­ same catagory. Kean ball game. It is also a lot easier Kato •. sounds like the to carry a radio up the ladder when THAT name of a champion sumo painting the house. Earphone and wrestler: On the other walkman radios make it possible to hand Kato Seeley sounds listen to the big gane even when like an ex-editor of a cutting the grass. If the Buffalo • certain readio-related Bills game is important enough I newsletter. can even borrow my son's "Ghetto Why did "The Whistler" Blaster" and let the whole neighbor­ claim to know many things ood listen to the game. because he walked by How boring those long trips night? Couldn't he have learned much more by would be without a footbaI4 baseball, going out in the daytime or basketball game to listen to. when the visibility is On a recent trip home after a visit much better? The only D to the Baseball Hall of Fame I thing I've learned by listened to parts of five different walking at night is that baseball games. The trip home from you shouldn't go out the annual radio convention is made walking at night: It's easier by listening to the Jets or d~ngerous out there: the Giants game up to Albany and then Things to ponder over while How come "The First Nighter" the Bills game as we travel West. A you're waiting for a tape to rewind. always went to the theater alone? return trip from the Pro Football What was "Blondie's" real Was he antisocial or did he get Hall of Fame two years ago was made first name? It was obviously a nick­ stood up every week? Maybe he was more pleasant as I listened to my name but her real name was never just a wimpy looking guy with a com­ Boston Celtics demoliSh the Cleveland revealed: And how about her child plexion problem that kept the girls Cavaliers. "Cookie"? Cookie Bumstead: Poor away. Week after week this guy At a baseball or football game kid probably grew up to be a hippie. would attend another gala opening I am one of those characters with an Why didn't "Harrington" on "Mister District Attorney" have a all by himself and afterwards would earphone dangling from his ear. One leave all by himself. Could be he m~st first name? For that matter why be careful if your wife has come was just a cheapskate: wlth you. to the game, The earphone didn't the D.A. himself have a name? There are more ••• many more but ~e There's something suspicious going must an tho; ea: opposite :pur wife. ~he one.tha~ i~ really outstanding They Just don.t llke to be ignored. on when a high-ranking officer of the law doesn't use his name. The ln my mlnd lS Just what is going on Monday nlght football games give between Daddy Warbucks and Little us ~nother opportunity to use our David Brian series doesn't count ... Orphan Annie? That man should be radlo. There are many football fans after all, we all know that the real Mr. D. A. was Jay Jostyn: ---­ tarred and feathered: The less said that dislike Howard Cosell so much about this sordid situation, the better. that they turn down the volume on Why didn't Ozzie Nelson ever go to work. He lived well and had An honest-to-gosh, legit item.... their television set in order to In the tradition of Star Wars ng listen to Hank Stram's commentary on a nice house. He and his family all dressed well and seemed to want and The Empire Strikes Back, National the radio. Public Radio will, in the near future In some cities without Major for nothing but the sonofagun was always home. He must have had an be presenting a multi-part series ' League teams or in areas where cable based on the hit movie"War Games". service is non existent, minor league unemployment book that was three hundred pages thick. The most in­ I don't know when it will be aired teams or lesser sports like soccer or as it is in production now, but his hockey are covered on the radio credible part of the whole thing was that he was home twenty-four is one I'm really looking forward (((My family strongly disagrees'with to hearing. When I hear any more the descriptive word used before hours a day, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year, for years about it, I'll let you know. soccer... Ed. ))) See ya next time: Well, it is time to go. Notre and years and never once did he and Harriet ever have an argument: Not D~me is p~aying on the radio. It is * * * * * * * * * * klCkof~ tlme an~ I haven't missed one even a harsh word: of thelr.games ln thirty years. How come the relationship be­ REFERENCE LIBRARY, A reference lib­ Untll next month, "goodnight all". tween Lamont Cranston and Margo rary exists for members. Members Lane never raised the ire of the s~ould have received a library * * * * * * * * * * radio censors? Their relationship llSt of materials with their mem­ was ascloseasthis and the word bership. Only two items can be marriage was never brought up. borrowed at one time, for a one Shocking.•• really shocking.••and month period. Please use the proper designations for materials TONIGHT 14):30 P.M. this at a time when things were much ose more strict than they are today. to be borrowed. When ordering Where was Morality in Media when we books inClude $2.00 to cover i WEHR needed it? rental, postage, and packaging. l "IlION & lOUtHS, INC. Was "Tonto" a first name or a Please include $l.OOfor other items. If you wish to contribute till" .... y~":/~':"=~ last name? Leroy Tonto .. it does 001 have a kind of ring to it. Or how 'to th~ library the OTRC will copy tempt I STOP OR GO about Tonto Hickerson? Now there's materlals and return the originals cord. 1M1 COMIDY QUIZ: rrAlliNG a na~e to reckon with: : to you. See address on page 2. JOE E.BROWN ~

?R~55 rage Eight THE- ILLUSTRATED------r November, 1983 N Ie K • I letters • COPYRIGHT. STREET & SMITH 9 a I d s. I CHAPTER XIII BROTH OF DEAT!:! Nick were 0 I During the silence that followed adequa -olrnotebook ! the announcement of the gunman that gas co I:e he had another bottle of nitro­ means glycerine, and was about to throw it, the en "First I would like to personally Nick Carter backed sloWly down the ing th • thank fellow members James Albert cellar stairs. not de and Gary Filroy for their recent I Now he was back in the cellar, that t: donation to the club library. back out of the line of bullets. The N THE SOUND OF DETECTION I would like to propose that detective's mind worked furiously. struck Francis M. Nevins, Jr. & the club sponsor some sort of con­ The cops were checkmated, Nick knew poster Ray Stanich(Brownstone test to encourage other members to So were he and Chick. If they of dra Books) donate to the club. How about a one rushed the crooks, if they even dared chairs~' years free membership for the member to fire at them, the gang in desper­ of the This is the second effort by ation might explode the nitroglycerine. Nevins in behalf of Ellery Queen in who donates the most shows to the A club over a three month period? How No matter, how far away the deadly ~ich the literary career of the little bottle was thrown, there was had an family Queen is traced from 1929 about if each member would donate Graves~ one reel to the club library? With a good chance of its raining debris mattre~ until the death of its two creators. back on the crooks and killing one One of the unique features of a positive response all members of built ~ the club would benefit. of them. But they might be desperate this ficitional sluth is that the enough--probably were--to take this bed. ~ recording author and the detective Let us not forget those members it off i of the club who strictly collect chance. are the same. This established an Nick hurried across the cellar, He author identification. As an ill­ on cassette. They could also have standif some sort of contest. Or perhaps got up inside the house. On the holdi~ ustration, who wrote Philo Vance? ground floor he passed the household Frederic Dannay and Manford B. they would each donate a cassette? with dlj There is no reason why our club group. He paid no attention to them. Lee created the pseudonym of E',lery Chick was holding the back door, Nl Queen to enter a contest sponsored cannot have the best library in the toward i country." he knew. The crooks could not get by McClures' magazine in 1929. The out that way. They could not rush ticking Roman Hat Mystery won the contest. * * * * * * * * * * the cops by going around the side had on.li The development of the charac­ TAPESPONDENTS-Send in your wants and of the house. to let; ter of Ellery is traced from that we'll run them here for at least two Nick went on upstairs. He got use thEl of a stuffed shirt to that which months. into a bedroom, evidently the bed­ Nil might be called "one of the boys." I am looking for recordings of room of Thomas Gravesend. This was gang d~ The authors always played fair with some early programs to copy, including: the room that would overlook the time ou the reader and gave all the clues Uncle Ezra, Hobby Lobby, crooks' hiding place out on the lawn, not warj necessary to solve the mystery. A Guy Hedlund Theatre, Ben Bernie, behind the little hill. than th challenge was provided for the Renfro Valley Barn Dance, Bobby Benson, Carefully, Nick Carter slid a He reader to fathom out the mystery. Buck Rogers, Bradley Kincaid, National window up, looked out. It was too thro~h1 This "Challange to the Reader" is Barndance. dark outside to see the crooks. But too wJ.d, what got Ellery Queen into radio in Ed. F. Lawlor they were now without cover, if Nick of the I April, 1939 at the huge price of 5 Pauline Street Carter wanted to fire. down to' $25.00 a script. Hugh Marlow and Carteret, New Jersey 07008 But he didn't dare do that. He that wa: Santos ortega played Ellery and his go 'throj Tapesponsents is a free service would have to destroy all the gang father, Inspector Queen. in one blow, and that seemed impossible Nil The authors show the off again, to all members. please send your his armi ads to the Illustrated Press. He backed out of the window, on again career of Ellery Queen as looked down. The house was very old, back. 1 traced on radio and, if you will * * * * * * * * * * * built of stone, before the Revolution. took tn pardon the expression, T.V., also It had been designed, Nick Carter He included the contributions of Holly­ TAPE LIBRARY RATES: 2400' reel­ thought wryly, to resist attacks loops oj wood to this saga. During World War $1.50 per month; 1800' reel-$1.25 from Indians. Therefore there were floor. II the program was used by government per month; 1200' reel-$l.oO per no sloping roofs up which the crooks on top ~ as a propaganda medium. Asummary of month; cassette and records-~.50 could crawl, and also no sloping Ni~ most of the radio plots, and the per month. Postage must be in ­ roofs down which Nick Carter could mat tresi dates of original airing is given. cluded with all orders and here go, sneak up on the gang. the be11 A very detailed covering of Ellery are the rates: For the USA and the mat1 APo-60¢ for one reel, 35¢ for They were about twenty feet he would Queen's career make this book valu­ " out from the house. Desperately able to Ellery Queen fans in general each additional reel; 35¢ for ·1· other a~ and to Old Time Radio members in each cassette and record. For Nick Carter's eyes searched in the the edgE particular. Canada: $1.35 for one reel, 85¢ dark through the room that had been could ne for each additional reel; 85¢ Thomas Gravesend's. When his car Nic * * * * * * * for each cassette and record. was destroyed that morning, Nick had slipped' 'All tapes to Canada are mailed lost a good deal of his equipment. tied ont first class. He had no hand grenades with him, to lie 0 no gas bombs. hand on

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COPYRIGHT, STREET & SMITH go I d a guns Oct. 1933 CHAPl'ER XIII Gas, however, would not work, BROTH OF DEAT!! NiCk Carter figured. The crooks were out in the open air, where no I During the silence that followed ! adequate concentration of poison the announcement of the gunman that gas could have been effected. Some he had another bottle of nitro­ means must be found for paralyzing glycerine, and was about to throw it, the entire gang with one blow hold­ "First I would like to personally Nick Carter backed slowly down the ing the~ still so that they c~uld thank fellow members James Albert cellar stairs. not delJ.ver the death-dealing blow Now he was back in the cellar, and Gary Filroy for their recent I that t~e nitroglycerine gave them. donation to the club library. back out of the line of bullets. The NJ.ck crouched down on the floor, I would like to propose that detective's mind worked furiously. struck a match. There was a big four­ r. & the club sponsor some sort of con­ The cops were checkmated, Nick knew poster bed in the room, a tall ~hest ne test to encourage other members to So were he and Chick. If they of drawers, some other furniture-­ donate to the club. How about a one rush~d the crooks, if they even dared chairs and things like that. None years free membership for the member to.fJ.re.at them, the gang in desper­ by atJ.on mJ.ght explode the nitroglycerine. of them seemed to provide a weapon. en in who donates the most shows to the And then, suddenly, Nick Carter club over a three month period? How No matter- how far away the deadly had an inspiration. He ran over to I about if each member would donate little bottle was thrown, there was ~9 a good chance of its raining debris Gravesend's bed, strained at the rtcrs , one reel to the club library? With ma~tress. .It was a hugh affair, a positive response all members of back on the crooks and killing one ! of of them. But they might be desperate bUJ.lt especJ.ally for this old-fashioned ~he the club would benefit. ~ed. Nick Carter had trouble getting Let us not forget those members enough--probably were--to take this ~ive chance. J.t off the bed. I an of the club who strictly collect He heaved it into the air on cassette. They could also have Nick hurried across the cellar, stan?ing one end of it on the floor ui­ some sort of contest. Or perhaps got up inside the house. On the arm~ ~e? ground floor he passed the household holdJ.ng it up with his powerful -d B. they would each donate a cassette? with difficulty. There is no reason why our club group. He paid no attention to them. .Lery Chick was holding the back door, Nick worked the mattress over Ired cannot have the best library in the t?wa~d the window. Moments were country ." he knew. The crooks could not get ,The out that way. They could not rush tJ.ckJ.ng by rapidly now. The crooks rst , * * * * * * * * * * the cops by going around the side had only given the polic e five minutes irac­ TAPESPONDENTS-Send in your wants and of the house. to let them go free, or they would tat we'll run them here for at least two Nick went on upstairs. He got use the nitroglycerine. lh months. into a bedroom, evidently the bed­ Nick kn~w, however, that the IS. n I am looking for recordings of room of Thomas Gravesend. This was g~ng downstaJ.rs would stretch that with some early programs to copy, including: the room that would overlook the tJ.me out as long as possible, would res Uncle Ezra, Hobby Lobby, crooks' hiding place out on the lawn not want to commit suicide any more A Guy Hedlund Theatre, Ben Bernie, behind the little hill. ' than the cops would want to die. Renfro Valley Barn Dance, Bobby Benson, CarefUlly, Nick carter slid a He could not get the mattress 'yo Buck Rogers, Bradley Kincaid, National window up, looked out. It was too through the window. It was too tall is Barndance. dark outside to see the crooks. But too wide, Nick got hold of the top , a in Ed. F. Lawlor they were now without cover, if Nick of the big bolster, and pulled it f 5 Pauline street Carter wanted to fire. down to the foot. Even doubled up rid Carteret, New Jersey 07008 But he didn't dare do that. He that way, the mattress would not his go through. Tapesponsents is a free service ~ould have to destroy all the gang J.n one blow, and that seemed impossible . Nick carter stood up, stretched gain, to all members. please send your hJ.s arms, flexed the muscles of his ads to the Illustrated Press. He backed out of the window, : as lo?ked down. The house was very old, back. What he intended to do now 1 * *** * **** * * buJ.lt of stone, before the Revolution. took tremendous strenght. so It had been designed, Nick Carter He slipped the belt out of the plly­ TAPE LIBRARY RATES: 2400' reel­ thought wryly, to resist attacks loops of his trouser, laid it on the Ii War $1·50 per month; 1800' reel-$1.25 from Indians. Therefore there were floor. Then he flopped the mattress rnment per month; 1200' reel-$l.oO er no sloping roofs up which the crooks on top of it. ry of month, cassette and records-i. 50 could crawl, and also no sloping Nick slid one hand under the e per month. Postage must be in ­ roofs down which Nick Carter could mattress, and got hold of one end of en. cluded with all orders and here the belt. Then he flung himself on are the rates: For the USA and go, sneak up on the gang. the mattress, lying lengthWise as ery They were about twenty feet alu­ APo-60¢ for one reel, )5¢ for he would, had he been in bed. 'His each additional reel; 35¢ for o~t from the house. Desperately other arm barely managed to get under heral NJ.ck Carter's eyes searched in the n each cassette and record. For the edge of the big bolster. It Canada: $1.35 for one reel 85¢ dark through the room that had been could not reach the belt. for each additional reel; 85¢ Thomas Gravesend's. When his car . Nick Carter stood up again for eacn cassette and record was destroyed that morning, Nick had s~J.pped off his necktie. This he 'A~l tapes to Canada are mail~d lost a good deal of his equipment. tJ.ed onto the belt. Now he was able fJ.rst class. He had no hand grenades with him, to lie on the mattress and get one no gas bombs. hand on each end of the improvised rope. ~vember, 1 83 THE ILLUSTRATED P Page Ten THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS November l2§~ The mattress became like a had t, Desperately, every muscle Behind his mattress Nick Carter thing alive. It bucked and pitched, feet straining, Nick got to his feet felt as safe as though he had been it writhed around on the ground. H again. The mattress came up with behind a bullet-proof shield. The Nick Carter opened his mouth and side him. vagaries of projectiles were an yelled, yelled for help, unashamedly. finge Now he started to pull in on old story to Nick Carter. Ke knew "Come on, you cops," he off t the rope that he had made, hand how a man could take a heavy police bawled. "I've got'em penned up: throw over hand, easily, cautiously. The service revolver, aim it at a half- Come--fast:" N mattress began to double lengthwise unfolded bolt of drug-store cotton, He heard some one scraJIble out man t1 around Nick Carter. Standing next and fire. The cotton would not even of the cellar steps, come running away. to him on the floor, it iowered a fall over. The bullet would not toward him. It was Chick, he knew. cautio' good foot over Nick Carter's head. penetrate more than halfway into the His able assistant was the first that i He worked the rope in toward mass. man to realize that Nick Carter had on the him. After a while, he got the There was no chance of a bullet solved the situation. a fif mattress so far doubled lengthwise coming through the mattress and hitting Then the cops came running. blown that he could take a loop in the Nick Carter. He knew, as he stumbled Nick lay on the mattress, his gun a mira necktie, run the belt through it. over the rocky ground, that the gang- in his hand now. The mattress still had no Now he put one knee against sters must see him coming, a strange, pitched under him. landed the big bolster, and strained, like terrifying white shape in the dark. He pul.Led out his pistol. It certai a man cinching a horse. The mattress What they would make of him he didn't was too dark to see. His flashlight Ni was doubled up now, not crosswise, know. But Nick only hoped that if was broken. I caught but lengthwise. In this shape it they threw the nitroglycerine, they The cops' flashlight 1 it up The ma would go through the window. would throw it at him. the scene. Nick saw a head pro- prepar But the force exerted by the He remembered a story he had jecting out from under one edge of his ow huge bolster to straighten itself read somewhere--about the war, a the mattress. He smacked at it with wrist j' out again threatened to break the true story--about a tremendously his pistol. not th necktie at any moment. The belt, powerful bit of high explosive shell Another man wriggled free, and the dy Nick Carter knew, would hold. that had landed in a dugout with a one end of the mattress dipped down, In He took his long bundle--it delayed fuse on it, and about a almost throwing Nick off. Some one go of ~ was seven feet long and about two soldier who had thrown him self on ran across the lawn. made a i feet square--to the wi~dow, thrust the shell, body bent over. The high "Tv e got the soup:" the man of nit~ one end through. Gett1ng at the exrlosive had gone off as the bawled. "1'11 throw it:" groaned other end, he pushed. The mattress man cradled the projectile to his But a fusillade of police Q~ worked its way out, and fell to stomach. No one else in the dugout bullets cut the man down. The little bottle the ground. had been injured--the liquid had not glass bottle slipped from his fingers out wi! As it landed, Nick Carte~ heard even spilled out of the coffee cups fell to the grass. coLor-It a tiny report .. He kne~ what 1~ from which the men had been drinking Nick bounded off the mattress. It wo~ was--the break1ng of ~1S neckt~e. their supper at the time of the ex- The cops landed on it, slugging into tl He went to the w1~dow aga1n plosion. But the man who had landed right and left with their nightsticks, electrJ and peered down. At f1rst he could on the explosive had been blown to their guns. Shots rang out behind Sol see nothing in the dark ground bits. Nick Carter, but he ran across the strugg~ below. Then t~e moon came out from Nick grinned, If anything was grass. . over. j behind a stray1ng cloud for a going to be blown to bits, it would In the dark he saw a whLte face, Bet moment, and Nick Carter saw the be the mattress. a white hand, a black body. The sound q brow of the hill behind which the He hurried forward. His feet black body was moving. He realized away. 1 gangsters were hidi~. But almost told him that he was climbing up- that it was the man who had been ordereq directly under the w1ndow he saw a ward, that he was coming very near shot down .. As he fell, th~ cops had The CO) white blot that must be the mattress to the brow of the hill. turned the1r flashed off hi.m, pr-Lsone he had just thrown out: Then, suddenly, a pistol shot Nick reached in his pocket, Th~ Nick Carter got h1s feet up broke the almost ominous silence of found a paper of matches. He struck Nick ~ onthe sill, crouched there. This, the night. Something thudded into one of these, allowed all the other the faa was a desperate chance he was tak1ng. the mattress. The thing wriggled matches to catch fire from the spark. Nick's' It was too far to the ground for against Nick Carter's face. The paper flared up, burning Nick's "It Nick to jump and take the. chance of His muscles were aChing from hand. He threw it away from him, cop sai landing on a stone,.of b~1ng thrown holding the mattress up. But the high into the air. "An sprawling, of break1ng h1s shoulde:, bullet did not come through. Nick's It lit up the locale of the asked. or worse, his neck. But ~e held h1s shield was a good one. wriggling mass for just a moment, Mulliga: breath sharply~ and then Jumped. . He put more speed into his feet. and Nick saw that the man who had "Th All the t1me that ~e was fal11ng-- It was hard walking. for his toes, been cut down by the cops' bullets "GrowlEli it seemed like an et~rn1ty--he was his ankles, would bump into the was not dead. He was crawling toward ain't ~ afraid that he had m1st~ken the mattres~. the bottle of nitroglycerine. The "I white blotch for someth1ng else. Then suddenly, he found himself little glass container shone mali- averred Then he knees hit the ground--he walking downhill for a half a foot, ciously not ten inches from the The' was thrown forward, on the mattress. and he knew that he was on the brow crawling man's hand. they're He was safe. of the hill. Nick sprang through the air, Federal Instantly Nick had bounded to Nick threw himself forward on his gun ready. The man must have pinched his feet. Again his arms stretched top of the mattress. There was a heard him coming, for with a super- "So' out, got hold o~ each edge of the muffled cry, a shriek, a sound that human effort the dying gangster "Yel mattress. He d1d not ~ry to fold might have been a gun going off under lurched forward. His fingers closed "This g1 the big bolster this. t1m~, but c~rry- the mattress. But no roaring boom around the white glass. this is. ing it in front of h1m 11ke a ~h1eld, resounded. Nick's heels nearly 2nded on the he knew he hurried onward toward the h111. bottle, on the man's hand. Nick ** .. ------..--~----I liqvember. 1983 THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS Page Eleven ILLUSTRATED PRESS _November.~l The mattress became like a had to twist himself before his Behind his mattress Nick Carter thing alive. It bucked and pitched, feet had ever touched the ground. t felt as safe as though he had been it writhed around on the ground. He dropped sprawling right be­ lth behind a bullet-proof shield. The Nick Carter opened his mouth and side the dying man. The gangster's vagaries of projectiles were an yelled, yelled for help, unashamedly. fingers had raised the glass bottle on old story to Nick Carter. Ke knew "Come on, you cops, n he off the ground. He was trying to 1 how a man could take a heavy police bawled. "I've got'em penned up: throw it. The service revolver, aim it at a half­ c oma-vt'ast t " Nick tried to grab at it. The scr~le ~wise unfolded bolt of drug-store cotton, He heard some one out man turned over on his back, rolled next and fire. The cotton would not even of the cellar steps, come running away. Nick got to his knees, posed a fall over. The bullet would not toward him. It was Chick, he knew. cautiously for a moment. He knew aad . penetrate more than halfway into the His able assistant was the first that if that thrown bottle landed ard mass. man to realize that Nick Carter had on the grass again they would have e There was no chance of a bullet solved the situation. a fifty-fifty chance of not being .ise coming through the mattress and hitting Then the cops came running. blown up. It had been somewhat of Nick Carter. He knew, as he stumbled Nick lay on the mattress. his gun a miracle that the nitroglycerine ~~. over the rocky ground, that the gang­ in his hand now. The mattress still had not gone off before. If it at sters must see him coming, a strange, pitched under him. landed on a pebble, it was almost . like terrifying white shape in the dark. He pulled out his pistol. It certain to explode . ~ttress What they would make of him he didn't was too dark to see. His flashlight Nick's hand jerked forward, il- s e , know. But Nick only hoped that if was broken. caught at the dying man's wrist. I it they threw the nitroglycerine, they The cops' flashlight lit up The man jerked his fingers back, would throw it at him. the scene. Nick saw a head pro­ prepared to dash the bottle into ~he He remembered a story he had jecting out from under one edge of his own teeth. Nick twisted on the ~lf read somewhere--about the war, a the mattress. He smacked at it with wrist that he held, twisted the skin, ~he true story--about a tremendously his pistol. not the whole arm. Spasmodically, ,..t, powerful bit of high explosive shell Another man wriggled free, and the dying gangster's fingers opened. one end of the mattress dipped down, Instantly Nick Carter had let o that had landed in a dugout with a delayed fuse on it, and about a almost throwing Nick off. Some one go of the wrist. His hand shot out, 5.-~\ soldier who had thrown him self on ran across the lawn. made a soft cradle for the bottle ust the shell, body bent over. The high "I've got the soup:" the man of nitroglycerine. The gangster exrlosive had gone off as the bawled. "I'll throw it:" groaned, lay still. , ~ess man cradled the projectile to his But a fusillade of police Quickly Nick Carter put the p stomach. No one else in the dugout bullets cut the man down. The little bottle to his lips, jerked the cork had been injured--the liquid had not glass bottle slipped from his fingers out with his teeth. He poured the I fell to the grass. 1 1 1-'d ~heard even spilled out of the coffee cups Nick bounded off the mattress. co or ess ~qu~ out onto the grass. from which the men had been drinking It would be safe there--would soak leo their supper at the time of the ex­ The cops landed on it, slugging into the ground. It would take an ~n plosion. But the man who had landed right and left with their nightsticks, electric spark to shoot it off now. pould on the explosive had been blown to their guns. Shots rang out behind Some cop had heard Nick Carter's Nick Carter, but he ran across the struggle, had seen him. He hurried I bits. i from Nick grinned, If anything was grass. over. going to be blown to bits, it would In the dark he saw a white face, Behind Nick, the fighting, the ~ a White hand, a black body. The sound of blOWS, of shots, had died be the mattress. black body was moving. He realized away. Instead, there was the ~he He hurried forward. His feet most told him that he was climbing up­ that it was the man who had been ordered confusion of a round-up. law a ward, that he was coming very near shot down. As he fell, the cops had The cops were hand-cuffing their ~tress to the brow of the hill. turned their flashed off him. prisoners together, lining them up. Then, suddenly, a pistol shot Nick reached in his pocket, The State trooper who joined broke the almost ominous silence of found a paper of matches. He struck Nick Carter used a flashlight on the night. Something thudded into one of these, allowed all the other the face of the man who lay dead at the mattress. The thing wriggled matches to catch fire from the spark. Nick's feet. The paper flared up, burning Nick's "It's Growler Mulligan," the against Nick Carter's face. His muscles were aching from hand. He threw it away from him, cop said, half absent-mindedly. holding the mattress up. But the high into the air. "Another Mulligan?" Nick Carter bullet did not come through. Nick's It lit up the locale of the asked. "Say, how many of these wriggling mass for just a moment, Mulligan boys are there?" shield was a good one. . . He put more speed into his feet. and Nick saw that the man who had "Three," the cop told him. all~ng-'- It was hard walking, for his toes, been cut down by the cops' bullets "Growler, Salami, and Jack. Jack was not dead. He was craWling toward ain't got no nickname." was his ankles, would bump into the the bottle of nitroglycerine. The "I never heard of him," Nick mattresli1. little glass container shone mali­ averred. Then suddenly, he found himself ciously not ten inches from the The cop nodded. "You wouldn't-­ e walking downhill for a half a foot, ress. craWling man's hand. they're a local crew. Jack's in the and he knew that he was on the brow Nick sprang through the air, Federal penitentiary now, though-­ of the hill. to his gun ready. The man must have pinched for evading the income tax." Nick threw himself forward on heard him coming, for with a super­ "So?" Nick Carter Asked. ched top of the mattress. There was a he human effort the dying gangster "Yeah," the cop said slOWly. muffled cry, a shriek, a sound that lurched forward. His fingers closed "This guy Gravesend, whose house Id might have been a gun going off under carry­ around the white glass. this is--he turned Jack in. something the mattress. But no roaring boom Nick's heels nearly lmded on the he knew about Jack's bank account." hield, ; resounded. 11. bottle, on the man's hand. Nick *** CONTINUED NEXT MONTH *** ovember. 1983 THE ILLUSTRATED BI The Saginaw NEIt'S SUNDAY, OCTOBER ~m~'- .An·. F_ ou;:t~~ctln.: " radio pragram Town wants t

•••MaY:': 9.15 MOURNe 'Lone Ranger' fro feafur;ng,-­ .- . By Booth News Service I His wile, Lela, 82. continues to live in the lamily home. OXFORD - Astride his fiery, "She slUl walks a minimum 01 ,,~. horse. Silver. the Lone Ranger one two miles a day. rain or shine, day will ride into lbe vtllage park I' aDoW or sleet," said Bob Beemer. here, where the duo o( radio (ame Throughout his career his lalber GOOD NmiS - BAD NmiS will stand watch over the masked, relerred to Oxlord as his "home­ First the bad news, higher soUPS ~RCHI~' man's adopted home town. town," he recalled. material and printing costs have That, at least, ISthe dream 01 a Bob Beemer is an admitted Lone made it necessary to increase our group 01 townslolk who are seek­ Ranger Ian. He recalls enjoying ing to raise $60,000to buUd a stat­ the program as an g.year~ld. but dues to $17.50 annually effective , ue to pay homage to lbis quiet, not Im6wing the daring and re­ immediately. This action will enable, Oakland County village'S most sourcelul masked rider was his us to retain our present pUblication , lamous resident. lather. frequency. It was during Superbowl XVI' "He used a projected voice lor NOw the good news. thanks to lestivitles lbat local olllcials de- I lbe part that I didn't recognize. I .ided lbey w,re tired 01 being knew he was on radio, he was a the generosity of Fran stricker Jr. knownas the Gravel Capital 01 the , trained prolessional actor. II and radio Station WEER in Buffalo. World, as It wasldentilled on road- I knew) he did olber lblngs, too ­ New York. the OTRC is able to offer side signs at the edges 01town. was a singer, read poetry and did the Covered Wagon Days radio program Today, those signs have been re­ newscasts. Eventually, that pro­ to all who join or renew their mem­ Z/18/.31 placed with ones reading "Oxlord, jected voice became his nonnal Home 01 Brace Beemer, Radio I voice.", bership in our club (see special l.one Ranger." Brace Beemer became a legend offer below. Covered Wagon Days : During the lootball weekend wilb lbat booming voice. Not was a series originally broadcast celebration, plans also were an- I many adults will have lorgotten over WEER in 1930. It was one of NEW TIME! Bounced to enlarge the vtllage' lbe lamlliar strains 01 the WUliam those programs that was re-written park and begtn downtown redevel, Tell Overture and lben the lU>­ 1 , c/pment.It wu lime, all agreed, to nouncer saying: to include the character of the Lone g.,tthe town mOVing. "A fiery horse with the speedof Ranger. Non-members may order copies; "eAlUWE_IB : A Lone Ranger Memorial com­ lighl, a cloud of dust and a helll'ly 1 of this program on quality cassette \l1illee waslormed to plan a lund· 'HI-yo,SiJver,'TheLoneRangerl. 1 for only $5.00 postage paid from the raising campaign lor lbe statue "With his faithful Indian com. I OTRC,lOO Harvey Drive. Lancaster. DAI.L" during 1983, !be 50th anniversary panion, Tonlo (played by John 91 the popular Detrolt~riginated Todd throughout the Ille 01 the se- j New York 14086. radio program. . ries) the daring and resourcefUl See you next month ... Have A TUESDAYS, 8 to 8:30 P.M. EST. : Althoughthe InItial Lone Ranger masked rider of the plains led the HapPY Thanksgiving: ~roadcast was aired on WXYZonI f/ghl for law and order in the early Ian. 30, 1933, the IlIlb and most weslern Un/tedSlales. ******** BEGINNING SEPT. 27 renowned "voice" was the late ' "Nowhere in the pages of hisll>­ OTRC Brace Beemer, who made his IIrst ry can one find a grealer champi­ special' offer lull-time radio appearance as the on of justice. Return w/th us now inaslled man April 9, 1941, a role I' to those thrill/nil days of yester'­ JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP lieplayed lor 17 years. year. From oul of the past come BY FEBRUARV-l, 1984 & RECEIVE A WRUN -:Prior to lbat, as the slatlon's the thundering hoofbeats 01 the FREE QUALITY CASSETTE OF THE PILOT general manager and chiel an­ greal horse, Silver. The Lone PROGRAM FOR THE LONE RANGER RADIO PATRICE MUIlSEL eeuncer, he had filled in as lbe' Rangerr/desagaln'" ""ne Ranger on !be air. ' And then Beemer's booming SERIES (NOT THE ORIGIN) ORIGINALLY LED liARD WARREll .; And, aecordlng to his son, Ilol!, voice ... WRITTEN OVER 50 YEARS AGO, THIS Male Cuna an Oxlord realdent, businessman Pride/Silver died in the Spring PROGRAM WAS RE-ENACTED & BROADCAST ~ civic leader, "He was the IIrst 01 1966 at age 29. according to Bob LIVE OVER RADIO STATION WEBR IN Sellte••er 27 -.,d ooIy Lone Ranger who ever Beemer. BUFFALO FROM THE LONE RANGER CON­ made penonal appearances. None, . Brace Beemer's three sons 01lbe others could ride!" I 'Iearned their lessons well. They VENTION IN ARCADE. Nmi YORK ON RISE STEVEIIS On July 30, 1943, on Belle Isle, also are excellent astride horses. JUNE 25. 1983· Detour 4 his lalber made the first public Bob's two brothers are J. D., a DUES $17.50/ YEAR appearanee as lbe radio hero, aC'1 prolessional horseman in German­ *OVERSEAS $29.50/YEAR cording to Bob Beemer. "The sta­ town, Md., and Richard, an attor­ YEHUDI MENUNIII lion rented a horse, Hero. lrom a ney in Farmington. J.D. also I~ *EVERYTHING SENT BY AIR MAIL well-known animal trainer in the lollowed in his lalber's looaleps, Detl.er 11 Detroit area, Carl Romig, lor the I appearing in rodeos and various * * * * * * * * * event." he recalled. televisionshows. r------,I 111110 MARTIIII From 1943on, Brace Beemer, an , Asked why his lalber dido'tlol. ON THI AIR TONIGHT Detour 18 expert horseman, rode his own' low the Lone Ranger into the MATTIS ....very ....W.Y' _.hl .. stallion. Silver's Pride - called, world 01 television, Bob Beemer Pride by the lamllY,Silver by the says, "He didn't like TV. He 7:00 P. M. Dr. FRAIIK BLACK millions 01 Lone Ranger lans who thought It Ithe show) was.the McDANf£L ___STATION--­ grew up to lbe call "Come on, cheapest series ever made lor TV. COldntlr Silver. Let's go, big leila. HI·y,o, They used stock shots ... he was Acad....., Award' .. WIBX Silver, away!" a trained professional actor." Sho'_an • Brace Beemer moved his lam­ He says he also thinks his lather .I _ _ a_DleAM OiL co. .r~g'" 10 )'OU by PIlUINTID n .I....;::::::;.:::::.;.;.;~,;.,. Sho'U wlft 0,." __ Uy,and Pride/SUver, lrom lbe De­ ligured he was too old and "not too trctt area to a 24C)-acre lann on realistic"lorthepart. your heart a. I West Drahner Road In 1943. He A Grosse Polnle and Delray died here at age 62 in 1965 aller Beach, Fla .. SCUlptor, Frank having done more than 2,000 Varga, has been commissioned by 18EU1M II/Z.o/ifl J/z7jl.fY broadcasts belore lbe show lelllbe ,the Lone Ranger Memorial COIJI­ air 5ep1.l4, 1954. November, 1983 THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS Page Thirteen m The Saginaw NEWS SUNDAY, OCTOBER2,1983 Town wants to honor 'Lone Ranger' from radio days By Boom News Service \ His wife, Leta, 82, continues to mlttee to create a '!II-scale statue live in tile family home. of Brace Beemer "" a rearlDg OXFORD - Astride his llery. "She still walks a minimum of ho"",. horse, Silver, the Lone Ranger one two miles a day, rain or shine, In the meantime, Val'lla has day will ride Into the Village park I' 6IIOW or sleet," said Bob Beemer. made a I&-inch-tall replica of the here, where the dUO of radio fame, ThroUghout his career his father statue, which Is a uy to the lund­ will stand watch over the masked referred to Oxford as his "home­ raising campalllD. ~ man's adopted home town. town," he recalled. A 47-pound solid bronze original That, at least, is the dream of a Bob Beemer Is an admitted Lone of the miniature was aucttoned by ~~r .... ""''*''''',.,..... " group of townafolk who are seek­ Ranger fan. He recalls enJOyIng the committee at a public sIIowlng ing to raise $60,000 to build a stat­ the program as an 8-year-<>ld, but May I at tile Oxford High Scbool. Ilve : .,... 1lIII ,,( ue to pay homage to this qUiet . i enable: WBBII·, Oakland County village's most not knowlOg the daring and re­ Successful bidder for '1,300 was ""j':,ifi sourceful masked rider was his Oxford Co-op Elevator. !cation __N.C~:,tJIj, lamous resident. , It was during Superbowl XVI father. fn addition the committee com­ "He used a prol~ted voice for mlsaloned a ilmlted edltton of 500 I festivities that local olllcials de- I I to the part that I dldn t recognlze. I cold cast replicas Which are being ...... ,...... ,:.... eided they w,.re tired of being knew he was on radio, he was a ir Jr. ~~. known as the Gravel Capital of the , trained professional actor. (I sold to fans. The price tag for each a Lo , ... ",orld, as it was identified on read- I knew) he did other things, too ­ is $150,which IDcl\ldela numbered ~ffer lide signs at the edges of town. was a singer, read poetry and dtd certificate. fI'0gram Today, those signs have been re­ newscasts. Eventuaily, that pro­ According to Bob Beem~, Lone , mem­ placed with ones reading "OXford, lected voice became his normal Ranger fans are legion. Among Home of Brace Beemer, Radio i voice." '. ardent collectors of Lone R.... tal Lone Ranger." Brace Beemer became a legend memorabilia are two Pennsylva­ ~ys : During the football weekend with that booming voice. Not nla residents, Jim Rosch, who haa last celebration, plana also were an-I many adults will have forgotten the major collectton, and Lee Fel­ I of NEW TIME! Bounced to enlarge the village' the familiar strains of the William beinger, who has authored a book park and begin downtown redevel· Teil Overture and then the an­ about Lone Ranger memorabilia." itten . QIlment.It was time, all agreed, to fe Lone neuneersaying: In (act, he said, there was a get the town moving. "A Ilery hOnJe with the speed 01 large gathering of collectors in t copies i "GAIIIIE_IB : A Lone Ranger /'tIemorial ceei­ light, a cloud 01dust and a hearty June. isette tbittee was formed to plan a lund· 'Hi-yo; Silver,'TheLoneRangerl. They were attending dedication fom the raising campaign for the statue "With his laithlul Indian com­ ceremonies of a memorial library ,ter, during 1983, the 50th anniversary pan/on, Tonto (played by John to the late Fran Striker near Buf. BALL" ~ the popular Detrolt-<>rlglnated Todd through~ut the life of the Ie­ falo, N.Y. Striker, creator of the radio program. , rles) the danng, and resource::; . Lone Ranger who authored the ' ~e A EST. : Although the initial Lone Ranger TUESDAYS, 8 to 8:30 P. M. ~roadcast masked rider 01 the pla/na led scripts had donated property to a was aired on WXYZ on I light lor law and order In the early church' there, and the church es­ ,Ian. 30, 1933, the llltb and most western United States. . tablished a camp for children on renowned "voice" was the late BEGINNING SEPT. 27 "Nowhere 1ft the pages 01hlst... the grounds. The ceremonies were Brace Beemer, who made his llrst ry can. on~ lind a greater champl· broadcast locally In Buffalo. lull-time radio appearance as the on 01Juatlee. Return with us now ~IP masked man April 9, 1941, a role I' to those thrilling days 01 yester­ lieplayed for 17years. year. From out 01 the past come " Prior to that, as the station's the thundering hoofbeats 01 the WRUN general manager and chief an- 'I LOT great hOnJe, Silver. The Lone DIO PATRICE MUISEL nouncer, he had fUied ID aa the Rangerridesagainl" LLY J,oneRanger on the air. , And then Beemer's booming LEOIARB WARREI -:And, according to hla son, Bo~, voice... S Mal. C.na an Oxford resident, businessman Pride/Silver died in the Spring AST andcivic leader, "He was tbe Orst of 1966 at age 29, according to Bob i S.pt8.~.r 27 ilnd only Lone Ranger who ever Beemer. WALTE'R, O'KnfE ~N- inade personal appearances. None I - Brace Beemer's three sons 1>1:ANE JAN IS of the otherscould ride!" "learned their lessons well. They RISE STEVEIS " On July 30, 1943, on Belle Isle, also are excellent astride horses. 1£1) -MUSING OctlHr 4 his father made the first pubtlc Bob's two brothers are J. D., a GLEN GR.lt.Y ANV 11111 appearance as the radio hero, ac-\ proCessional horsemao in German­ CoUA LOMA BANV cording to Bob Beemer. "The sta­ town, Md., and Richard, an auer­ I 0 ~ ~~ ONTHI NEW I YEHUDI MElUHII lion rented a horse, Hero, from a ney in Farmington. J.D. also ,/0/'; Octo~.r 11 well-known animal trainer In the (ollowed In his father's fooateps, ·1 Detroit area, Carl Romig, for the I appearing in rodeos and various event." he recalled. television shows. CAMEL Ilia MARTI II From 1943 on, Brace Beemer, an , Asked why his lather dido't fol­ expert horseman, rode his own; low the Lone Ranger into the CA'R~VAN Oct. 18 stallion, Sliver's Pride - called world of television, Bob Beemer Pride by the family, Silver by the says, "He didn't like TV. He EWllY TUISDAV "Nil Dr. FRANK BLACK millions of Lone Ranger (ans who thought it (the sIIow) waa, the grew up to the call "Come on, cheapest series ever made for TV. .... 11IURS»AY1..•.. _ Silver. Let's go, big fella. Hl-y,o, C••d.ctlr They used stock sIIots ... he was ~ Silver, away!" a trained professional actor." aooeaCl..-&.. .10'. ".. Brace Beemer moved his fam­ He says he also thinks his father OYEIl COAST-TO-COAST ' ..a.OTlD n • _ ily, and Pride/Sliver, from the De­ figured he was too old and "not too WAK-COWMBh\ NITWOIUC • troit area to a 246-acre (arm on realistic" (or the part. West Drahner Road in 1943. He A Grosse Pointe and Delray died here at age 62 in 1965 alter Beach, Fla., SCUlptor, Frank having done more than 2,000 Varga. has been commissioned by broadcasts before the show left the . the Lone Ranger Memorial Com­ air Sept. 14,1954. page22urt een THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS November, 1981 .J'l0vember, 1983 THE llLUSTRAT Cronkite says radio is failing stressed that radio retained a special place among ,~~l.J/ NEWORLEANS lUPI) - Retired CBSanchorman the media because people carry it with them, Walter Cronkite says the radio industry, lor all its "Radio is a medium in its own right," said high technology. is giving the public titillating head' Cronkite, who started his journalism career at the CJr~~C~/"'~ unes instead ot the news it needs. University 01Texas station KTUTin the early 1930s, 'V ' Cronkite said that despite the huge advances made "It's radio lhat people carry with them. driving U /.>-" in communications, the public Is actually getting less down the highway. silting at lheir desks, trout­ • abo and less information. lisbing. More than any other medium, it is radio • • "It's as dangerous and simple a lact as this: the • whe people use to stay in louch. It's radio that is there ~ '?CiJ how democracy cannot live with a population so short or when disaster strikes." £h~/T~q-~ tntormatjen," he said, "There is a point heyond Alter praising the medium itself, however, .L 0 Sta which stories cannot be _compressed without distor­ Cronkite launched into his rebuke. accusing radio 01 , as lion, and news people are being asked to put live driving many newspapers out of business in recent i pounds of news in a one-pound package. years. then tailing to lill the gap. ~~~/~~~ "You can't do that wltbout serious damage, It "We've driven newspapers out of business, left would almost he hetter if we didn·ttry to do the news most of our cities with a single newspaper," he said. at all," "We have a responsibility in radio and television to . Cronkite was in New Orleans to accept the 1983 take the place of those newspapers we have reduced By: Aron Way, 11th Grade Golden Radio Award from the National Radio Broad­ or dr~ven out, and we're not doing that job.t' casters Association. In his keynote address. he OTRC Of Corry H.S. The effect of the play, War of ~ ...... ,.. V ¥. -..- V' ¥ ~ ..,.. ¥--'¥ ¥ the Worlds, on the citizens of the United States on that October night the were phenomenal, pro The Saginaw NEWS MONDAY. OCTOBER 3.1983 It is almost impossible to be­ pIa 1WELCOME lieve that the entire country was in in BAal an uproar about the "annihilation of man TONIGHT. ...; the world by Martian machines that wea Hollywood no fun, so ,'~ landed somewhene in New Jersey:", /,.;- '$lo~ • which was a very well put together ;~~:, .p-,(* ..... radio play by Orson Wells on the of radio's Fidler retiring CBS radio network. Even only bit parts in silent films. he War, of the Worlds was so very show, HOLLYWOOD lUPI> - Jimmie realistic in every minute detail Fidler. whose radio shows and signed on as a studio press agent. ".AW THE' syndicated columns gave him an $N~d that the people of America believed audience of more than 50 million Fidler was married stx times ...," every word of it. The actors in the and dated such screen stars as ,••..".\,- ! Americans in the 1930sand '40S, is play along with all of the carefully retiring because he says Holly­ Ava Gardner. Jean Harlow, Gin­ ger Rogers and Fay Wray, engineered sound effects that accom­ wood's glamour days are over. panied them stood to make the play Fidler, 85, one of radio's hrst Fidler was doing celebrity inter­ even more believable to the public. views for a radio show called Along with all of these other gossip columnists who is still "Hollywood On The Air" when one heard on more than 165 slations ~ I things the fact that the better part night. the bandleader walked orr f:j:J.j nationwide, said he will end his 51· of the population missed all of the year radio career next month "be­ the show a minute early - "a ~t disastrous thing," he said. be­ disclaimers at the beginning of the cause it's just fun anymore." cause listeners would switch the l tragic play because The Charlie "These days 'they take three station. tj McCarthy Show was on an opposing girls off a luncheon counter and radio network made things even worse. make them angels and stars over­ "So I volunteered to do short Most of the people in the United night." he told Showtime's Bill items about the stars - pieces I Harris In an interview being aired could end anywhere along the line, States turned to War of the Worlds on the cable channel this week, and we started using that as a only after there was an opera singer "I'm reporting on people') don't salety to end the show," on the Charlie McCarthy Show. And even knowor care about. when the people did tune in, they At the height 01 his popularity, found themselves caught up in the "Today, they don't glamorize Fidler's show was heard on 486 middle of the "news breaks" in the the stars - they undress them. I radio stations and he earned $4,000 music which gave all of the details can't name a dozen stars I enjoy a week. talking about these days. If there on "the landing of 0.11 en machines". were still glamour and glory ­ And when the peopled tuned aro'md and nice people - in Hollywood, Fidler lives with his wife of 21 years. Kay, in Westlake Village. fRANK the radio dial to try and catch more I'd stay on the air." about 45 miles west of Los Ange­ lA,ORGAN news on the incident, and there les. He plans to devote time to ~'idler came lo Hollywood Irom ~ wasn't any, they just figured that writing a book about the stars he ". ,1 CBS had the scoop on"the landing of Memphis, Tenn., in 1921 to pursue :1 an acting career. Arter landing knew. ~11~ these mysterious machines from the 'I plant of Mars." That great Ihow GIG'" ..... JohI"'" " Then, when they heard that these ,,.. Conte 01 Maier of <:.tNMon'" ••e ,;" alien machines advancing into New r/.;;r;1(, 1J)Jw : Hanl.y Siafford •• "Daclcly".ee. • sJ7W 3:00 P, I, ., Frank Tours-and hll otcheIIrcII . York, .they panicked, and went scream­ •\ ing out into the streets looking for ! • A. I. BRIDEANDti protection against all of the alien t DON MeNIILL'S WGY 8 P. M. invaders that never existed. except : BREAKFAST GROOI • in the mind of H. G. Wells, and then , CLUB JOHN NELSON:I brought to life by Orson Wells. The impact of this play was, and still .'. is, to me hard to believe, because 11USTRATED PRE~S~S~ __ . November, 1981 .Jlovember, 1983 THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS Pa e Fifteen some people actually contemplated sradio is failing suicide with the idea that they s~ial would rather kill themselves than mman stressed that radio retained a place among I~e media because people carry il wII~ I~em,,, . be taken prisoner by the Martians 'all ils "Radio is a medium in its ?wn fight. said or be killed by the "heatray" of ghead­ Cronkite. who started his journal.lsm career at the the Martian invaders. Universily ofTexas station KTUT In the early 1930s. s made One of the few good things "II's radio tnat people carry wII~ them. driving , about this play is the fact that Ingless down tne highway, suttng al their desks. trout- I lisbing. More Iban any other medium, It IS radio when it was over we realized just ,is: the people use 10 slay in touch, II's radto that ts there I how much the people of the United Bborl of '. when disasler strikes." ., ! States relied on the medium known beyond Aller praising the medium Itselt, nowever, : I dlslor· as radio. Cronkile launchedIntohis rebuke. accusmg radioof I l live In my opinion, I do not believe IlU driving many newspapers out of busmess In recent years, then tailing 10(i11I~e gap. . that is is possible in any way, shape, ",ge. II bUSi.~ess. l~n form or manner for any medium on benews "We've driven newspapers out of most of ourcitieswith a singlenewspaper, he.said. Earth, be it radio, television or "We nave a responsibillly in radio and televtsron to lbe 1983 newsp per, to even come close to lake the place ot those newspapers we ~a~,e reduced By: Aron Way, 11th Grade ~Broad· reinacting anything even minutely ordrivenout, andwe're notdomgthatJob. OTRC Of Corry H.S. less, he resembling the horror felt by a The effect of the play, War of natio on that October night. au:¥'" ¥J. "Nt ¥ . .,. V the Worlds, on the citizens of the The closest thing to War of United States on that October night the Worlds so far was a television -.-;.----:1 were phenomenal. program about terrorist who were It is almost impossible to be­ planning to detonate a nuclear bobm :1983 lieve that the entire country was in in a large metropolis if their de­ WElCOME 'At:J(1 an uproar about the "annihilation of mands of dissarming all of the nuclear TONIGHT...:')' the world by Martian machines that weapons were not met. But the '0,50 landed somewhene in New Jersey:", effect of this dramatization was Which was a very well put together "ruined", in my opinion, by dozens radio play by Orson Wells on the of disclaimers throughout the movie. riring CBS radio network. EVen without the disclaimers, the **, ",' War'.of the Worlds was so very show could not have been close to '" silenl rums, he IAW~ realistic in every m1nute detail THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: ildiopress agent. that the people of America believed aarried six times S,~!!!~"I every word of it. The actors in the * * * * * * * * * • screen stars as play along with all of the carefully ~ean Harlow, Gin­ engineered sound effects that accom­ "ayWray. panied them stood to make the play lingcelebrily inter­ even more believable to the public. tadi. show called Along with all of these other ;TheAir" whenone things the fact that the better part ader wal.ked 0(( of the population missed all of the ute early - "a ~e disclaimers at the beginning of the E" said, be­ tragic play because The Charlie f would switch the McCarthy Show was on an oppos1ng I radio network made things even worse. 10 do short Most of the people in the United stars - pieces I states turned to War of the Worlds along the line. only after there was an opera singer ~using that as a w on the Charlie McCarthy Show. And Fsbo ." when the people did tune in, they of his popularily. found themselves caught up in the was heard on 486 middle of the "newsbreaks" in the ~ndhe earned 54.000 music whtch--..gave all of the details on "the landin~n machines". And when the peopled tU:necr~ the radio dial to try and catch m~ news on the incident, and there wasn't any, they just figured that CBS had the scoop on"the landing of these my.sterious machines from the plant of Mars." Then, when they heard that these alien machines advancing into New MR. CHAMELEON ,~--* : I York, .they panicked, and went.scream­ 3:00 P.I. •,I ing out into the streets 100k1ng.for 8:00. P. M. protection against all of the a11en BRIDE AND :1 I 1"hNe pen... 110.. I.tr••, ••tl .. WIY 8 P. M.· invaders that never existed, except for .••rder I. '"lite bt,.. WHe .... IROOI t in the mind of H. G. Wells, and then ... C...••. CII.rocler .ctor rI S...so••hrs. JOHN NILSON ill brought to life by Orson Wells. The impact of this play was, and still is, to me ha.rd to believe, because ! I 1 'I

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