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GarlandGrl
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MamaLion27
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Dugan
EK has entered the room.
Dugan EK
: Greetings.
Beth
Kenobi
: I know it's early but I wanted to make sure everything is situated:-)
Beth
Kenobi
: hi all
GarlandGrl
: It's fine :-D
GarlandGrl
: Hello
DIXC
has entered the room.
DIXC
: Hi!.:-)
Beth
Kenobi
: hi
MamaLion27
: Hi, everyone.
GarlandGrl
: ;-)
Beth
Kenobi
: Tonight's topics are Aussie Tours and then Free Forum about possible
ideas for getting Nelson and Jeanette out there
Beth
Kenobi
: ANd I have one vote for next week's topic to be Pre-movie era
GarlandGrl
: Ahhhh :-)
DIXC
: Opera for Nelson and Stage for Jeanette?
MamaLion27
: Yes, and also radio and concert work for Nelson.
Beth
Kenobi
: Pretty much and what they did before they got into Opera
GarlandGrl
: Ahhh :o) That could work...
DIXC
: Nelson was in 32 operas and many concerts before movies.
Kirifan2
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Kirifan2
: chat
Kirifan2
: hi everyone i made it:-)
Beth
Kenobi
: ANyway, does anyone have any tidbits on Aussie Tour?
Beth
Kenobi
: Hi:-)
Kirifan2
: O:-)
MamaLion27
: Apparently Nelson and Gale went to Australia during the early years of
the nightclub act.
GarlandGrl
: :-D
DIXC
: After the movie work
MamaLion27
: They got a tremendous welcome in Sydney.
Kirifan2
: does our friend from australia have any news?
Kirifan2
: if we did an afternoon chat on the weekeneds the folks overseas could
join
MamaLion27
: Not much as yet. Annie is looking into newsclippings.
GarlandGrl
: Should we do a poll? About that and other things... like how often we
chat... the chat program we use or would you just like to discuss that
later?
GarlandGrl
: A poll not being this second... but a machanical one ;-)
Kirifan2
: i like a dummy lost a file
Kirifan2
: i thought it was a virus and deleted it
Kirifan2
: it was for the yahoo chatrooms
Kirifan2
: applets or something
Kirifan2
: someone told me the file was a virus and it wasnt
Kirifan2
: yahoo lets folks build their own chatrooms
Kirifan2
: soooo does msn
GarlandGrl
: Ahhh... I'm not sure what to do...
Kirifan2
: they have really nice chatrooms
Kirifan2
: ill look into things for everyone
Kirifan2
: i am working on getting my java thingy back now
GarlandGrl
: Thanks though Debbie, we shall definitely look into that. I know that
yahoo's chat room for the lists don't let you copy and paste, but the
normal stable ones on Yahoo's site do.
Kirifan2
: yes
MamaLion27
: Diane and Anna gve Annie a lot of dates and leads. In the obituary
clipping from Australia that anna sent to me, it mentions that Nelson
and Gale had made five visits down under. Anna sent to me
Kirifan2
: icq has stuff too and they hog uo ones computers
MamaLion27
: Oh, this computer!
Kirifan2
: hmmmm there are online aussie sites too to chat
Kirifan2
: i know a lot of them as i like a certain diva from the different down
under as well
Kirifan2
: ill check the aussie sites
GarlandGrl
: Ahhh :-) Okie
Kirifan2
: for nelson
Kirifan2
: :-)
Kirifan2
: what happened to brave net?
GarlandGrl
: Nothing... just easier for some of the members to go on AIM.
GarlandGrl
: ;-)
GarlandGrl
: /AOL
Kirifan2
: ah this is true
GarlandGrl
: Gio started it!!
GarlandGrl
: I didn't ;-)
Kirifan2
: i have netzero
Kirifan2
: its cheap
Kirifan2
: 8-)
GarlandGrl
: Anyway... shall we go back to Nelson and Jeanette? I think we're
confusing people :-D
Kirifan2
: gio is a great fellow
Kirifan2
: yes!
Kirifan2
: did nelson do any chat shows in australia?
Kirifan2
: or talk shows has we call them
Kirifan2
: O:-)
MamaLion27
: I know he did interviews on both radio and tv down there but I have no
idea what shows.
Kirifan2
: maybe thats something we can look into too
MamaLion27
: I think that is what Annie is doing right now.
Kirifan2
: ah thats good they also have pirate video companies
Beth
Kenobi
: Was Dessert Song Filmed there?
MamaLion27
: What Desert Song?
Kirifan2
: i am nnot sure there
Beth
Kenobi
: Ok...I miss spelled that
MamaLion27
: There was no Desert Song film made in Australia that I know of..
Beth
Kenobi
: Well, I wasn't sure where it was filmed
MamaLion27
: Jessi, are you talking about the Gordon MacRae film? Because the one
with Nelson and Gale was a television special made on a sound stage.
MamaLion27
: Probably in New York.
MamaLion27
: Iwas in error. Nelson and Gale made four trips down under and were
planning their fifth .
Dugan EK
: While Eileen Melville and Iris Parker visited me this past week, I
made them copies of the 1930 Desert Song with John Boles and the 1930
short film The Red Shadow with Alexander Gray. Both seemed to have stock
footage of the desert
Beth
Kenobi
: I was talking about Nelson and Gale
Dugan EK
: used in Son of the Shiek which I also showed them and gave them a copy
of. (The Shiek being the precursor of Romberg's Desert Song stage
operetta.)
MamaLion27
: How often the studios re-hashed the same footage, too.
DIXC
: The NEAS had a Winter 1995 26 page Journal about their Night Club act,
but no specific about their act in Australia.
DIXC
: In it is a beautiful letter from Gale about Nelson which is
outstanding.
MamaLion27
: Kiner's book makes several specific references to trips to Australia,
I think. I must look up thses past NEAS journals.
MamaLion27
: I only joined last year.
MamaLion27
: In 1963 they were in Sydney and Melbourne again and were seen on
several televison shows.
Beth
Kenobi
: I wonder if they have sites for these old shows that might have the
interviews or something
Dugan EK
: If anyone wanted to do an article about their Australian tours, I'd
post it on my website with full credit.
MamaLion27
: Again, that is what Annie is looking up.
Beth
Kenobi
: If I could get the information, I would do it, but I have none
MamaLion27
: No, that is difficult from here, But with resources locally, Annie can
probably do a lot better.
MamaLion27
: We can work with her information and go from there.
MamaLion27
: But perhaps we better get to the other things everyone wanted to talk
about..!
Beth
Kenobi
: Does anyone have any ideas on projects we could do that could get
Nelson out there to teh general public?
DIXC
: Wear his T-shirts and they will ask about him. They can be bought
where I bought two.
Dugan EK
: I personally favor giving film programs at local schools and community
centers -- educate the kids in their heritage of great musical films.
MamaLion27
: I wonder if I could get some of the local stations here to do
something in March on the anniversary of his death?
DIXC
: Our Junior college has had non-credit courses about them
MamaLion27
: Great idea, Eleanor.
Dugan EK
: How great -- the courses!
Dugan EK
: I used to do programs, lugging around 16mm cans of film. It's so easy
now with video and big-screen projectors.
Dugan EK
: Of course, other musicals should be mixed in -- 42nd St., Shirley
Temple, etc.
Dugan EK
: for the little kids -- can be more sophisticated for college kids.
MamaLion27
: But I find many schools have no room in their schedule for music at
all these days. Budget!
MamaLion27
: Even free programs!
Dugan EK
: They'd have to be free -- And it couldn't be considered part of a
music program. More like babysitting or free lunch or after school film
program.
Dugan EK
: Candy-coat the message.
DIXC
: Or a program for seniors.
MamaLion27
: Yes. Can we do some homework on these kind of things and find out what
would work?
DIXC
: In a senior meeting
Dugan EK
: Yes, I know several people who do 1930s musicals for seniors at senior
centers. Anita McCreery here in SF area and a guy in NYC.
Dugan EK
: Of course, today's seniors weren't born yet in the 1930s -- it isn't a
nostalgia thing.
DIXC
: One was done in Del Web senior center in Palm Springs, CA
MamaLion27
: I will check out our senior center.
Dugan EK
: I think Anita did once a month -- and guy in NYC does every week.
Thanks to video projectors, a wide variety can be offered.
Dugan EK
: I've even done programs at two mental hospitals! (No rude comments,
please!)
DIXC
: Some are couples imitating their work on stage , live
MamaLion27
: Since i once worked in a mental hospital, I know how much that was
appreciated.
DIXC
: Good singers , like the Lyric Opera here did "New Moon"
Dugan EK
: Yes -- a captive audience, admittedly, but it was amazing how they
quieted down and got into the films.
GarlandGrl
: You shouldn't do things like that, Miss Eleanor... it temps people and
I'm one that wouldn't do that. ;-)
Beth
Kenobi
: My Dad was trying to get commerical tapes to take to a retirement home
GarlandGrl
: *tempts, too
GarlandGrl
: :-D
Dugan EK
: On the topic of New Moon, I played my precious Wolf Trap video for my
UK visitors and discovered that in the past 6 months the tape had
deteriorated so it was almost unplayable. I am desolate! It was stored
in a cool, dark place as
Dugan EK
: always.
DIXC
: Will have to leave. Had a good time. THANKS. Bye:-)
GarlandGrl
: Bye Dick!
MamaLion27
: Your dad, Jessi, knows how many tapes I have available!
Beth
Kenobi
: I know
Beth
Kenobi
: Bye everyone
DIXC
has left the room.
Beth
Kenobi
: I'll be sending teh transcripts now since it is now 9
MamaLion27
: Bye all.
Kirifan2
: bye everyone
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