Radio varieties (Sept 1940-June 1941)

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Here we see Film Star Charlie Ruggles with Publisher Amon Carter in white hat. Bob Hope, Pepsodent's ether salesman, speaks his part while the slightly baldish gent on the left looking on is Samuel Goldwyn. RADIO VARIETIES — NOVEMBER weeks ahead. The entire reception crew of Ideal dignataries were on hand to greet the three airplanes and their platinumplated contents. Texas Rangers sat astride their steeds with alertness while the mayor and his company hung on to their steeds for dear life and hoped for the best. Did the movie kings and queens follow the police escort straight into the waiting sport mcdel luxury liners? Did the flicker heroes and heroines escape via the Airport's Administration Building and its side door? Absolutely not! Gary Cooper, Walter Brennon, Bob Hope, Bruce Cabot, Doris Davenport, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Arnold, Lillian Bond, etc., headed by Producer Samuel Goldwyn, were corralled by "Jessie James" Parker Willson and his merry bond of Light Crust "outlaws" and steered for the Doughboys bus. From this point the airport broadcast originated and was carried by Station KGKO, 5,000 watt little brother to WBAP, it's Fort Worth Star-Telegram 50,000 watt big brother. Along about noon-time of this same September day, the most eventfull in Fort Worth's visiting celebrity history, Amon Carter, genial Star-Telegram publisher, dined the notables at the fashionable and exclusive Fort Worth Club. It was an invitation affair with few invitations. Only the "really somebodys" passed through the Club's sacred precincts. When 12:30 p. m. rolled around and the guests had filled their illustrous tummies, up popped — not Yehudi — but a whole crew of Yehudi's in the form of Willson and his Doughboys. In less time than it takes to run down another pedestrian Gary Cooper and his crowd were speaking their bits for the Light Crust audience from the Texas caprock in the Lone Star State's Panhandle to the Gulf's silvery sands. Some folks murmured: "Such crustl" Master of Ceremonies Willson never missed a word of the script as he cast this aside: "Yes ladies, it's good old Light Crustl" Page 17