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FROM MONDAY ON—
Week After Week, the Golden State Blue Monday Jamboree Brings New Laughs— New Songs, to Thousands of Regular Western Fans
FROM the first pulse-quickening strains of the opening number, to "From Monday On," there is not a dull moment in the Golden State Blue Monday Jamboree. From first to last it is a swift-moving, hilarious pageant of colorful, talented radio stars.
For more than four years, every Monday night has seen the Blue Monday Jamboree faithfully on the air, for two hours, each time with a new theme, each program full of surprises and new laughs. Although there have been many changes since
the early days of the program, the essential character has remained unchanged. And although the early spontaneity has given way to rehearsed acts to avoid lost motion, the type of comedy is still mostly of the burlesque variety — a poking of hilarious fun at anything and everything, together with pure, unadulterated nonsense.
Usually a Jamboree is built around an idea or a dedication. It may be "Detective Night," "Mother's Night," "Hawaiian Night," "Big Fete Night," or "Wild West Night."
• "Unhand her. base villion!" the brave hero cries. "Oh woe is me!" wails our fair heroine. Left to right in this stirring deep dramatic stock company scene, Cal Pearce, the father, Edna O'Keefe, the heroine, Norman Nulsen, hero, Bill Wright, the dastaraly oillian and Gene Hawes, the villian henchman.
The comedy, and the music as far as possible, are made to conform to this central theme.
The whole program is put on paper during the week. Then on Monday morning at 10 o'clock, the fun begins. All the artists and musicians, under the direction of Meredith Willson, thresh the thing out for three hours. Everything is set, with cues agreed upon. Then at three in the afternoon, the straight talking comedy acts get two or more hours of rehearsal.
Many of the comedians write their own acts each week. Doakes and Doakes, Pedro, Professor Hamburg, Reginald Cheerily, Lord Bilgewater and Simpy Fitts all write their parts. "Eb and Zeb" is written by John Eugene Hasty, the "Deep Dramatic