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Commission-by-the-Sea, the Maxwell solmion for the problem that haunts riidio people: how to avoid stomach ulcers.
PERHAPS, some midnight, a little leprechaun will leap onto your bedpost and whisper beguilingly, "How would you like to spend the Perfect Weekend at that Perfect Place known as Shangri-la?"
If you should ever be on the receiving end of such an invitation, just shoo the little fellow away. Tell him you'd much rather wait for an invitation to that Perfect Place out on Long Island owned by Bob and Jessica Maxwell.
Bob's Little Acre puts Shangri-la to shame. By rights, the place should be named Joie de Vivre — because the joy of living is truly experienced when you're out there. Instead, the Maxwells have another name for it — they've dubbed it Commission-bythe-Sea. Reason? Back in 1943 Robert Maxwell, who is one of radio's busiest producers, happened to do a particular bang-up job on a series of important assignments and was rewarded with a particularly fat commission, said sum being immediately spent on the deed for that Perfect Place.
So wonderful is their waterside home that every weekend, fifty-two weekends each year, the Max
wells renounce Radio Row and traipse the hundredodd miles out there just as fast as their umpteencylinder Buick convertible can get them — all of which adds up to roughly ten thousand, four hundred miles of traipsing each year.
In town, Bob and Jessica approach their complex radio chores much in the manner of two expert marksmen in a shooting gallery. Monday through Friday their gunsights are fixed on an endless procession of fast-moving clay pigeons: — the directing, by Jessica, of Adventure Parade and Hop Harrigan, and the production, by Bob, of Adventure Parade, Hop Harrigan, House of Mystery and Superman, w^ith other programs in preparation.
All four shows are heard over the Mutual Network and all are aimed at juvenile ears. What's more, all are regarded as top-quality listening, not only by the younger set but by many important educational groups. The House of Mystery series, for instance, is a program that debunks the supernatural and has been awarded First Prize by the Institute For Education By Radio of Ohio State University as the best
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