Sunday, June 30, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Everything you wanted to know about the Lone Ranger radio series
This guy is very smart about the subject. Even casual fans of the show will enjoy this:
Friday, June 28, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Molly McGee - heroine
This article, written by Jim Jordan in 1938, seems to be specifically about Molly's illness, which again - goes unnamed.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Monday, June 24, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Uh oh... TV turns my heart/I still hate that cat!
There was a time, not too long ago, that I literally hated television and everything about television.
Maybe because of my political views (I'm a news hound), maybe because America didn't seem like the America I had wanted it to be.
Really, why I hated TV is neither here nor there; the fact is, I hated it.
I still don't have a TV. I still don't want a TV.
But what I do have is YouTube. And I just discovered the other day Our Miss Brooks on old TV; and in the past I've made it well known, yes, more than once that I didn't like Our Miss Brooks on the radio.
I never thought it was important (until now) but I failed to tell you people that I had never seen an episode on the boob tube. That is until about a week ago. Now I find myself immersed in the show; perhaps more as a curiosity... Stretch Snodgrass looks like that, huh? Gale Gordon, I knew already, is much better on TV than on the radio. Connie and Mr. Boyton are a cute couple now that I can see them.
But the most important improvement is Mrs. Davis. I had imagined her much different and I didn't like the image my mind had molded. Mrs. Davis was the main stranglehold on why I really didn't like the show. Mrs. Davis, with her feeble mind and the tone of her voice was like a nail against a chalkboard to me.
But the "real Mrs. Davis" is so much better in this case, than the radio version. More importantly, there's no pesky Minerva, the cat. I really do hate that cat on radio!
The ultimate test was then to listen to a radio episode of Our Miss Brooks again. Ah, here's one I don't seem to remember. Ah, Mrs. Davis doesn't seem so bad now. Ah, I feel refreshed and overjoyed. Ah, I think I'll have a Fresca.
But I still hate that cat!
Maybe because of my political views (I'm a news hound), maybe because America didn't seem like the America I had wanted it to be.
Really, why I hated TV is neither here nor there; the fact is, I hated it.
I still don't have a TV. I still don't want a TV.
But what I do have is YouTube. And I just discovered the other day Our Miss Brooks on old TV; and in the past I've made it well known, yes, more than once that I didn't like Our Miss Brooks on the radio.
I never thought it was important (until now) but I failed to tell you people that I had never seen an episode on the boob tube. That is until about a week ago. Now I find myself immersed in the show; perhaps more as a curiosity... Stretch Snodgrass looks like that, huh? Gale Gordon, I knew already, is much better on TV than on the radio. Connie and Mr. Boyton are a cute couple now that I can see them.
But the most important improvement is Mrs. Davis. I had imagined her much different and I didn't like the image my mind had molded. Mrs. Davis was the main stranglehold on why I really didn't like the show. Mrs. Davis, with her feeble mind and the tone of her voice was like a nail against a chalkboard to me.
But the "real Mrs. Davis" is so much better in this case, than the radio version. More importantly, there's no pesky Minerva, the cat. I really do hate that cat on radio!
The ultimate test was then to listen to a radio episode of Our Miss Brooks again. Ah, here's one I don't seem to remember. Ah, Mrs. Davis doesn't seem so bad now. Ah, I feel refreshed and overjoyed. Ah, I think I'll have a Fresca.
But I still hate that cat!
Monday, June 17, 2013
Article says Marian Jordan suffered "nervous breakdown" in '38-'39
I heard it was alcoholism...
Either way, it's usually referred to only as a "sickness" in print and it's never pinpointed - this is a rare find.
