Jack Bennys Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume Two August 1 October 26 1932 1st Edition Jack Benny by Jack Benny, Harry Conn 9781629338446, 1629338443 instant download after payment.

These Canada Dry scripts from August through October 1932 show Jack Benny and scriptwriter Harry Conn continuing to craft a personality-based radio variety program, drawing on Benny’s vaudeville style and exploring new constructions of comedy characters and situations. Experimenting as the program progressed from week to week, Benny and Conn developed quirky-yet-likeable identities for the major performers — orchestra leader, vocalist, and band members, although the constantly changing announcer put a limit on how much they could involve him. The cast bounced jokes, reactions and bad puns off each other. The newest addition, young fan Mary Livingstone from Plainfield New Jersey, began to fit in with the established group.

Among the new and noteworthy elements we will find in this 13-week/26-episode chapter of the Jack Benny radio saga are:

Nickel Back on the Bottle becomes a nationally popular catch phrase

Mary’s first Labor Day poem is declaimed on September 5

Jack’s in-show monologues continue to showcase crazy events that can’t be seen by radio audiences, such as Japanese tumbling acrobats, a flea circus, a rodeo, and athletic events at the Summer Olympics being held out in Los Angeles

Jack’s alter-ego “Jake” makes perhaps his only appearance on October 5

The show’s first parody of a popular film, Grand Hotel on October 10 is a huge success

Prince the mathematically-adept dog appears on October 12; he will make a return appearance in December 1950’s Dreer Poosen radio episode. Jack’s Lucky Strike-era writers were happy to delve into these earliest scripts for inspiration, many years later

Jack and Mary profess their love for one another on October 17 and 19

In a rare political comedy sketch, Jack provides running commentary on a prize fight between Battling Herbert Hoover and Fighting Franklin Roosevelt on October 19