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July, 1945
"operatic" situations. The climax of Templeton's entire Three-Ton Opera series, to my mind, came during a recent benefit that the Star Theatre Company participated in at the Metropolitan Opera house . . . when "Mel" ton, Templeton, and Jarmila Novotnaton" joined forces to sing an opera burlesque of "One Meat Ball." The white-ermined ladies and staid gentlemen of the Diamond Horsehoe waited in intense silence during the opening passages of the "opera," laughed through the uproarious musical situations, and really stood up and cheered at its conclusion. An event secured, I am sure, by the fact that yours truly was not singing at the moment. For we've had some pretty funny situations growing out of . . .
Melton and King singing duets on the commercials. The Star Theatre has a very clever set of commercial writers who weave in Bach and Boogie Woogie into the sponsor's message. Since I'm not in the operatic or even popular singing field myself, the final results of such an endeavor are confounding. Melton
has on occasion volunteered goodnaturedly to "farm me out" for "picnics, clam-bakes and afternoon wedding parties." At the conclusion of one such a song-fest recently, as we walked off-stage and away from the microphone, Jimmy remarked," Where did you get that tonsillectomy tenor?"
The Star Theatre is a show that takes a full week of planning, arranging, and rehearsing to bring you that one-half hour. To you who listen at home, that may seem hard to believe for the time passes so quickly and easily on the air. But back of every important show is the staff of producers, directors, planners, and arrangers who weigh each word, each musical note, each combination of ideas that go into radio programs to see to it that American radio brings you the best that can be fashioned. This, too, will be the background in the television that you are going to enjoy in the days ahead. So next time . . . I'll "double-back" on television once again to tell you more about the programs and the receivers that will populate tomorrow's U S. A
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Farmer Jones took his pig to town and sold it. With the money he bought a suit, a hat, a pair of shoes. Then he tucked the bundle under the seat of his wagon and said, "Giddap, Dobbin, let's get home and surprise Miranda."
On his way home he stopped at the river, took off his old clothes and threw them in and watched them sink. Then he looked under the seat for his new outfit. It was gone.
Back on the seat he climbed and said, "Giddap, Dobbin, we'll surprise her anyway."
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