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HANS CONRIEO Publication of the Old Time Radio Club Established 1975 Number 287 February 2001 HANS CONRIEO Publication of the Old Time Radio Club Membership Information Club Officers and Librarians New member processing, $5 plus club member­ President ship of $17.50 per year from January 1 to Jerry Collins (716) 683-6199 December 31. Members receive a tape library list­ 56 Christen Ct. ing, reference library listing and a monthly newslet­ Lancaster, NY 14086 ter. Memberships are as follows: if you join January-March, $17.50; April-June, $14; JUly­ Vice President & Canadian Branch September, $10; October-December, $7. All Richard Simpson renewals should be sent in as soon as possible to 960 16 Road R.R. 3 avoid missing issues. Please be sure to notify us if Fenwick, Ontario you have a change of address. The Old Time Canada, LOS 1CO Radio Club meets the first Monday of every month at 7:30 PM during the months of September to Treasurer, Back Issues, Videos & Records June at 393 George Urban Blvd., Cheektowaga, NY Dominic Parisi (716) 884-2004 14225. The club meets informally during the 38 Ardmore PI. months of July and August at the same address. Buffalo, NY 14213 Anyone interested in the Golden Age of Radio is welcome. The Old Time Radio Club is affiliated Membership Renewals, Change of Address, with The Old Time Radio Network. Cassette Library - #2000 and YQ. Peter Bellanca (716) 773-2485 Club Mailing Address 1620 Ferry Road Old Time Radio-Club Grand Island, NY 14072 56 Christen Ct. Lancaster, NY 14086 Membership lnquires and OTR Network Related Items Richard Olday (716) 684-1604 Back issues of The Illustrated Press are $1.50 post­ 100 Harvey Dr. paid. Publications out of print may be borrowed Lancaster, NY 14086 from our Reference Library. Tape Libraries Deadline for The Illustrated Press is the --- 1st of each month prior to publication. Cassettes - #1 YQ.to 1999 Dan Marafino (716) 684-0733 The Illustrated Press is a monthly newsletter of the .19 Church Street Old Time Radio Club, headquartered in Western Lancaster, NY 14086 New York State. Contents except where noted are copyright © 2001 by the OTRC. Reel-to-Reel and Reference Library Ed Wanat, Sr. (716) 895-9690 Send all articles, letters, exchange newsletters, 393 George Urban Blvd. etc. to: The Illustrated Press Cheektowaga, NY 14225 c/o Ken Krug, Editor (716) 684-5290 49 Regal Street Depew, New York 14043 Tape Library Rates: All reels and video cassettes E-Mail address:[email protected] are $1.85 per month; audio cassettes and records are $0.85 per month. Rates include postage and Web Page Address: www2.pcom.net/robmcd handling and are payable in U.S. funds. fie8JtuaJat 2001 Publication of the Old Time Radio Club The Skelton Saga From the father he never saw, Red inherited two weapons: a stick ofgreasepaint, a pair ofclown's trousers. With them, he began to fight for what he wanted. ByPA1~INESWANSON Continued from last month Red Skelton, playing a vaudeville date in Indianapolis, got wind of stuff going on when his agents in Chicago called on Monday to say they were flying in, and his agents in New York popped in unexpectedly, the same day. This was the big break, the agents explained. All Red had to do was run over to Cincinnati and audition for the fellows who sold the soap. Red, who can be a contrary little boy, stomped his foot and said "Uh-Uh. No more auditions. I've done auditions until I'm blue in the face. They're never any good." And he went back out on stage and dunked doughnuts. Edna agreed. "If they want to see him work they can pay him for a guest shot." The poor agents, drooling at the thought of all that money just lying there, had to go back to Chicago and tell Freeman Keyes that their man Skelton didn't do auditions. Keyes raged. "Don't you think the guy's a little uppity," he said, "considering he needs the work?" He told his wife who gave him two In 1936, Red and Edna had to use "leg art" more aspirins. And more advice. "I think the boy is In their pictures to get newspaper space. right," she said. "Why shouldn't he be paid if he works? And, besides, he's much funnier than the others." In Red's film career, the weather has been more changeable. He did his first movie in 1937, playing the So Red played a guest shot on the Barn Dance, and two camp social director in "Having Wonderful Time," and weeks later was signed for his own show. as he himself says "was so bad it took me five years to get back in." In 1941, he signed the now legendary He worked for a year for Keyes-and Avalon seven year contract with MGM where his embroglios cigarettes-and then quit in a huff because the raise with the big shots have made trade paper headlines stipulated- in his contract was not forthcoming. "I don't every other week since he arrived on the lot. care what you do to me if you tell me," Red said, "but it hurts if you don't keep your word." A year later, Red METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER, more than any other stu­ and Keyes-by then abbreviated to "Boss"-kissed and dio in Hollywood, is boss-heavy. And at Metro, Red has made up, and have been a radio team since, for a series had himself a circus throwing his weight around. Edna of sponsors. recalls the day that she answered the phone to hear a secretary's voice proclaim, "Mr. Mayer would like to Whoever hires Red for radio must hire Keyes' speak to Mr. Skelton." "Mr. Skelton doesn't talk on the agency-Red is loyal to his friends-and nobody but telephone," she said, "but he's right here. I can relay a Keyes can give Red orders from the sponsor. That's in message. Or if Mr. Mayer wants to see Red, he'll drive the contract. And Keyes has kept his word. There is out to the studio," she added. Face to face across the even a clause in the contract which says Red can quit if desk, the Boss and the Bad Boy glowered at one anoth­ he isn't happy. "I wouldn't try to work with Red if he er. "Don't you-think it's a little early for you to be going were in a pout," Keyes explains. "There are easier ways Hollywood '?: the Boss asked. "I'm not going of earning a dollar." But there hasn't been a Hollywood," Red snapped back. "But I don't talk on the pout-about radio, at least-in ten years. telephone. That's what Edna is for." "What did you do," f}~2001 Publication of the Old Time Radio Club Mr. Mayer remarked acidly, "before Edna was It shouldn't have happened to the Army. Things started around?"..."Before Edna was around," Red replied, happening at Camp Roberts the day Junior arrived. The "nobody called me up." battery was sent into the field for maneuvers. Paired up to dig slit trenches, then camouflage them, the raw Edna had been around for a long time, taking care of recruits fell to with their bayonets in soil that was like things for a long time, and it is revealing no secret to cement. But when the whistle blew for inspection, Red say that at this time Red was taking his marriage pretty and his buddy were covered with glory. Of all the slit casually. It wasn't much fun for Edna, as a good many trenches, theirs obviously was the deepest.•Junior's red of Red's friends noticed particularly Frank Borzage who hair behind the tangled camouflage branches hardly directed Red's early pictures. Edna was young, too, and showed at all. "Great work," the Captain commended pretty, but she wasn't having any flings like Red's. She them, and he challenged the others, "watch these men remembers one night when Red came home for dinner and learn how to dig." Then he walked around in back, at 9:30, bursting with explanations. "I ran into Uncle only to find Red and his buddy walking around in their Frank and Uncle Boo at the club and they wanted to sit trench on their knees. around and hash," he said. (Uncle Frank was Mr. Borzage, and Uncle Boo is Boo Roos, Red's investment Red wasn't out of trouble during his whole army career. manager.) "Well;" said Edna quietly, "you go on in the Red limped back to the barracks one time after a twen­ study and relax. I'll try to dig you up some supper." Red ty-five mile hike to find the big barn-like structure sauntered into the study to find Uncle Boo, waiting draped with banners, "Tour of Movie Star's Home, with papers for Red to sign. He had been there for four Twenty-Five Cents." He was so pleased that that night hours, by appointment. Edna laughed, but you can't go he gave the boys a show. From that day, he did double on laughing forever, and in 1941 Edna decided to duty. A private in the field by day, the camp's Number divorce Junior, let him have his fling with no strings One morale builder at night. attached. At this point, Edna received a frantic telephone call. Red was indignant. "What you gonna tell that judge?" 4She expected the usual Sunday night wail in Junior's he demanded, "If you tell him that I made you sick, that bad-boy voice: you just wasted away, if you tell him anything like that I'll-" What Edna finally did say was, "We just didn't "You tell my mummie I'm broke and if "she doesn't get along." ..
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