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Strong — But Not Silent!
These two brawny he-men play all of the parts in their act themselves.
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RUB ON THE TABLE!" "By Gar, I think you fel>ws better hurry before the flapjacks she is cold!"
Clatter of dishes, roar of the cookhouse fire, and the soft twanging of a guitar, comes through the microphone. Now and then, in the background comes the sweep of the wind through pines — and the Big Woods is re-created as perfectly for the radio audience as if they could see it.
The Vermont Lumberjacks, daily feature of the National Broadcasting Company, bring the atmosphere of the outdoors and the picturesque characters of the lumber-camps to city-folk in one of the most unique programs on the air.
Laid in the New England timber section, the morning chat of Jed, Toby, Joe, Frenchy, Cockney and the other characters in the series has the racy flavor of life. Over the lumberman's flap-jacks, "soggy with maple syrup" in the words of Joe, he and his companions discuss the happenings of their daily life, and break into lumbermen's chanties now and then.
Surprising to most persons who follow this program is the discovery that all the characters in the Vermont Lumberjacks are enacted by just two artists — Ted Maxwell and Charlie Marshall, both of them stars of the NBC National Players.
The role of lumberman comes easily to Ted, as he was on the stage before he became an NBC artist, and has played every kind of part from slick villain to handsome hero, including the outdoor brand.
Charlie Marshall, big, easy-going and well over 200 pounds in weight, sounds just as he looks, and looks just as he sounds on the radio. He and Ted each possess three distinct voices, which make their portrayal of all the different characters in the Vermont Lumberjacks possible.
Ted plays Cockney, the quaint English character: Frenchy, the cook: Jed. who is "in charge of the hosses," and Toby the camp flunkey. Charlie plays Tim, the "bull of the woods." the camp-boss: Sam, the colored cook's helper: Lafe, the fiddler, and Joe, typical timber man.
Real songs of the big timber are used, as well as popular numbers for
which requests come daily from the radio audience which follows the colorful Vermont Lumberjacks. "Shanty Boy" and "The Jam on the Gerry Rod" are among the lumbermen's songs which are recognized as realistic bits of color by those who have worked in the Vermont woods. Paul Bunyan, legendary giant of the lumber-camps about whose exploits talcs are told at night around the campfire, enters into the conversation of
lumberjacks now and then, but only now and then, because Paul Bunyan belonged to the Northwest rather than to New England.
Maxwell and Marshall both have a deep, natural love for the outdoors. They have country-places on the peninsula south of San Francisco, just about a quarter of a mile apart, and they cleared all the land surrounding their two homes together, in typical lumberman style.
• Just a couple of hard-boiled boys of radio. Ted Maxwell and Charlie Marshall, being old troopers, feel more at home in their morning program. The Vermont Lumberjacks, broadcast from the San Francisco studios of NBC, when they appear in costume.