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THIS piece is about Ed Wynn, you see, Ed Wynn, the gag man who recently made his debut on the radio, you see, and who talks much as this paragraph will read if you can lisp and giggle.
Ed Wynn is now a fire-chief, a new sort of life saver on the air — floundering in his insane way ahead, behind and in the middle of a fast moving program first presented over sixty stations of the NBCWEAF network on Tuesday evening, April 26th, and being repeated weekly on that evening from 9.30 to 10 o'clock (Eastern Daylight Time). The Fire-Chief program is very reveal
By Harry Parke
{With interpolations from the act)
ing. It proves that Graham McNamee is not the coach of the NBC football team; in fact, it shows that NBC has no football team. What's more, NBC is not even a college. The truth is that McNamee now is a legitimate "straight man" his first such role. For example you hear this:
Graham: Chief, what in the world have
you in that box?
Wynn: Why, wh-wh-why that's one of
the things that make this program
different. It sings with its legs . . .
Yes, Graham . . . isn't that
wonderful ... a cricket . . .
Even Don Voorhees couldn't
do that.
So: Where one singer may be a crooner, and accordingly an evil (dependent, of course, on your own interpretation), eight singers grouped cannot be eight crooners or even one
great crooner. They've quite got to be a straightaway, orthodox octette, such as the modified chorus which is flanking Wynn and McNamee on this Fire-Chief program. And good orthodoxy in these days is news.
J. HERE is a band, naturally .. . Don Voorhees' band, come to radio from "Rain or Shine," "Americana," several editions of "Vanities" and other Broadway successes. Voorhees was raised, in part, on large doses of Bach, and Bach, be it known, is no light musical diet. In fact, Voorhees, taking it as a child, probably has had a surfeit of it, so that now regardless of what McNamee calls for and what Wynn says he's going to get there is no telling what Voorhees is going to serve.
Perhaps for the first time in your experience you enjoy listening to the sales talk. Wynn gives it dramatic interest.
Graham: Listen, Chief, there's a wonderful new gasoline on the market . . .
Wynn: No, you don't say . . . well, well!
Graham: Texas Fire-Chief gas. Fill up your tank with this gas, start from New York in the morning and you'll be in the middle of the Grand Canon by midnight.
Wynn: Wouldn't that be terrible! I'd hate to pull up in the middle of the
After the broadcast was over Ed Wynn the Fire Chief sat down and wondered if people laughed.