About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Easy Aces, Flash Gordon, List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network, Twenty Questions, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, The Goldbergs, Paul Dixon Show, The Jackie Gleason Show, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, The Adventures of Ellery Queen, NFL on DuMont, The Original Amateur Hour, The Life of Riley, Pantomime Quiz, Life Is Worth Living, This Is the Life, You Asked for It, Johnny Jupiter, The Arthur Murray Party, Dollar a Second, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Small Fry Club, A Woman to Remember, Big Town, Mary Kay and Johnny, The Morey Amsterdam Show, Author Meets the Critics, What's the Story, Faraway Hill, The Admiral Broadway Revue, Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena, The Magic Cottage, Rocky King, Inside Detective, The Adventures of Oky Doky, Cash and Carry, The Wendy Barrie Show, Life Begins at Eighty, Pick the Winner, DuMont Evening News, The Strawhatters, Window on the World, Jacqueline Susann's Open Door, Court of Current Issues, Serving Through Science, DuMont Royal Theater, With This Ring, The Al Morgan Show, The Family Genius. Excerpt: Easy Aces, a long-running American serial radio comedy (1930-1945), was trademarked by the low-keyed drollery of creator and writer Goodman Ace and his wife, Jane, as an urbane, put-upon realtor and his malaprop-prone wife. A 15-minute program, airing as often as five times a week, Easy Aces wasn't quite the ratings smash that such concurrent 15-minute serial comedies as Amos 'n' Andy, The Goldbergs or Vic and Sade were. But its unobtrusive, conversational, and clever style, and the cheerful absurdism of its storylines, built a loyal enough audience of listeners and critics alike to keep it on the air for 15 years. Goodman Ace (b. Goodman Aiskowitz, 1899-1982) was a film critic for the Journal Post in his native Kansas City. On radio station KMBC, he read comic strips t...
