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FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY JOIN “PARADE OF STARS”

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By Old Time Radio Shows

FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY JOIN “PARADE OF STARS”
ADD OF GREATEST ARRAY OF TOP RADIO ENTERTAINMENT EVER HEARD IN SOUTH FLORIDA; OPEN TUESDAY
Mrs. Uppington, Wally Wimple, Harlow Wilcox, Included In Cast
The WIOD-NBC “Parade of Stars” is just about complete—FibberMcGee and Molly are back!
The famed comedy team, long at the top of any list of America’s favorite entertainers, have returned to Wistful Vista for another season of homey, hilarious fun.
STARS RETURN—Fibber McGee and Molly open another great radio season Tuesday night in their old familiar spot at 9:30 p. m. preceding the Bob Hope program.
They’ll be heard every Tuesday night in their familiar spot at 9:30 p. m. beginning this week. With them will be their program “regulars.” Including Mrs. Abigail Uppington, Mayor LaTrivia, Wallace Wimple, Old Timer, and Nick De Populous.
Announcer Harlow Wilcox resumes his duties in the show for the sponsor, while Billy Mills and his orchestra and the King’s Men quartet operate the musical department of the show.
This is Fibber and Molly’s eighth season on the air. Seven years ago they made their first broadcast in New York but it wasn’t too good, according to the man who should know, Don Quinn, the McGees’ script writer.
“At the end of the first year” confesses Quinn, “it was just a punk show. The characters were too broad. The continuity wasn’t good. In fact the whole thing was bad radio. All three of us—Jim, Marian (Fibber and Molly), and I—were ready to give up.”
But they streamlined the program and it began to pay off. Fibber changed from a preposterous liar to the neighborhood blowhard. Mrs. Uppington lost her comic-strip manner and became simply the society leader of Wistful Vista. Molly became more sympathetic and lovable. And that’s where the show stands today.
Every poll of radio listening shows Fibber and Molly among the top five.
Since the program started, in 1935, the various character parts have been taken by Bill Thompson who does Horatio K. Boomer, Nick, Old Timer, and Wimple—as well as others they are called for. As versatile as they come, Bill has played more than twenty-eight foreign character parts as well as various American accents.
Mayor LaTrivia is played by Gale Gordon. Mrs. Uppington by Isabel Randolph, and the little girl who regularly plagues Fibber is done by Molly McGee herself.
BALL AND CHAIN—The marital tribulations of Wallace Wimple are oft recounted on the Fibber McGee and Molly show. Part is taken by Bill Thompson who also does several other characters on the program.
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