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On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/6167090/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>TV &amp; Film</category><copyright>Copyright Radio Shows of the Past!</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg</url><title>Baby Snooks</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/baby-snooks--6167090</link></image><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 15:02:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:name><itunes:email>feeds@spreaker.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="TV &amp; Film"/><itunes:category text="TV &amp; Film"><itunes:category text="Film History"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="History"/><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><podcast:guid>af21fd54-4854-5180-8d20-beff4108f13b</podcast:guid><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><item><title>Ziegfeld Follies Of The Air</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ziegfeld-follies-of-the-air--59800846</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800846</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:16:17 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800846/bsnks1936_01_26ziegfeldfolliesoftheair.mp3" length="14697072" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/ecf84989-21b0-49eb-a964-bb75add55c5f/ecf84989-21b0-49eb-a964-bb75add55c5f.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/ecf84989-21b0-49eb-a964-bb75add55c5f/ecf84989-21b0-49eb-a964-bb75add55c5f.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/ecf84989-21b0-49eb-a964-bb75add55c5f/ecf84989-21b0-49eb-a964-bb75add55c5f.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3675</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Charles Harding Blair To Arrive</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/charles-harding-blair-to-arrive--59800847</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800847</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:15:45 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800847/bsnks020charleshardingblairtoarrive.mp3" length="6187585" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1543</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Daniel In The Lions Den jimmy Stewart Intro Of baby Snooks</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/daniel-in-the-lions-den-jimmy-stewart-intro-of-baby-snooks--59800848</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800848</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:15:24 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800848/bsnks1937_12_30danielinthelionsdenjimmystewartintroofbabysnooks.mp3" length="982692" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/528244a4-690f-4a50-b631-c19f10d7b41e/528244a4-690f-4a50-b631-c19f10d7b41e.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/528244a4-690f-4a50-b631-c19f10d7b41e/528244a4-690f-4a50-b631-c19f10d7b41e.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/528244a4-690f-4a50-b631-c19f10d7b41e/528244a4-690f-4a50-b631-c19f10d7b41e.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>246</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Royal Gelatin Hour rudy Vallee Sings its Somebodys Birthday</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/royal-gelatin-hour-rudy-vallee-sings-its-somebodys-birthday--59800849</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800849</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:14:44 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800849/bsnks1937_06_17royalgelatinhourrudyvalleesingsitssomebodysbirthday.mp3" length="55438271" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/6dd6177f-5aca-4b27-963a-0edf2bbb343f/6dd6177f-5aca-4b27-963a-0edf2bbb343f.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/6dd6177f-5aca-4b27-963a-0edf2bbb343f/6dd6177f-5aca-4b27-963a-0edf2bbb343f.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/6dd6177f-5aca-4b27-963a-0edf2bbb343f/6dd6177f-5aca-4b27-963a-0edf2bbb343f.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3465</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Telling Time Shaving</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/telling-time-shaving--59800850</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800850</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:14:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800850/bsnks1938_02_17tellingtimeshaving.mp3" length="1188224" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/fe7ebdab-3e24-4107-8249-84b34c5ad326/fe7ebdab-3e24-4107-8249-84b34c5ad326.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/fe7ebdab-3e24-4107-8249-84b34c5ad326/fe7ebdab-3e24-4107-8249-84b34c5ad326.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/fe7ebdab-3e24-4107-8249-84b34c5ad326/fe7ebdab-3e24-4107-8249-84b34c5ad326.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>297</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Rehearsing  A Speech</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/rehearsing-a-speech--59800851</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800851</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:13:40 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800851/bsnks1938_03_24rehearsingaspeech.mp3" length="1388949" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/03f9fdaa-54da-4e81-9661-bb32819ed1eb/03f9fdaa-54da-4e81-9661-bb32819ed1eb.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/03f9fdaa-54da-4e81-9661-bb32819ed1eb/03f9fdaa-54da-4e81-9661-bb32819ed1eb.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/03f9fdaa-54da-4e81-9661-bb32819ed1eb/03f9fdaa-54da-4e81-9661-bb32819ed1eb.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>348</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>At The Circus</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/at-the-circus--59800852</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800852</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:12:28 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800852/bsnks1938_03_31atthecircus.mp3" length="1282996" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/f810b94e-6ca6-48b0-8d24-992a7651084d/f810b94e-6ca6-48b0-8d24-992a7651084d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/f810b94e-6ca6-48b0-8d24-992a7651084d/f810b94e-6ca6-48b0-8d24-992a7651084d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/f810b94e-6ca6-48b0-8d24-992a7651084d/f810b94e-6ca6-48b0-8d24-992a7651084d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>321</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Vitamins Hiccups</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/vitamins-hiccups--59800853</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800853</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:12:09 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800853/bsnks1938_05_05vitaminshiccups.mp3" length="1558745" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/41dd35d6-c7f9-460f-8bc0-d456ad5111cb/41dd35d6-c7f9-460f-8bc0-d456ad5111cb.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/41dd35d6-c7f9-460f-8bc0-d456ad5111cb/41dd35d6-c7f9-460f-8bc0-d456ad5111cb.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/41dd35d6-c7f9-460f-8bc0-d456ad5111cb/41dd35d6-c7f9-460f-8bc0-d456ad5111cb.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>390</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Beach House</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/beach-house--59800854</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800854</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:11:51 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800854/bsnks1938_05_19beachhouse.mp3" length="1522905" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/a40eae7f-50ab-4d44-8077-094045c7bf6c/a40eae7f-50ab-4d44-8077-094045c7bf6c.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/a40eae7f-50ab-4d44-8077-094045c7bf6c/a40eae7f-50ab-4d44-8077-094045c7bf6c.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/a40eae7f-50ab-4d44-8077-094045c7bf6c/a40eae7f-50ab-4d44-8077-094045c7bf6c.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>381</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Visiting Santa Claus</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/visiting-santa-claus--59800855</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800855</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:10:43 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800855/bsnks1938_12_22visitingsantaclaus.mp3" length="1698552" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/118a848d-585a-490a-8e9b-38a1ccebe25c/118a848d-585a-490a-8e9b-38a1ccebe25c.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/118a848d-585a-490a-8e9b-38a1ccebe25c/118a848d-585a-490a-8e9b-38a1ccebe25c.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/118a848d-585a-490a-8e9b-38a1ccebe25c/118a848d-585a-490a-8e9b-38a1ccebe25c.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>425</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>At The Doctors</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/at-the-doctors--59800856</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800856</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:10:10 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800856/bsnks1938_06_09atthedoctors.mp3" length="1349770" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>339</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Aunt Sophie Having A Baby</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/aunt-sophie-having-a-baby--59800857</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800857</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:09:52 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800857/bsnks1938_09_22auntsophiehavingababy.mp3" length="1508695" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>378</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Daddys Boss Comes To Dinner</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/daddys-boss-comes-to-dinner--59800858</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800858</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:09:21 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800858/bsnks1939_01_29daddysbosscomestodinnerakabosscomestodinner.mp3" length="699865" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>352</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Violet Ray</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/violet-ray--59800859</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800859</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:08:53 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800859/bsnks1939_06_08violetray.mp3" length="1715004" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>431</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Living By Dyeing</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/living-by-dyeing--59800860</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800860</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:08:37 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800860/bsnks1939_06_15livingbydyeing.mp3" length="11968652" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>750</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Gone Fishing</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/gone-fishing--59800861</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800861</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:08:20 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800861/bsnks1939_06_01gonefishing.mp3" length="1692552" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>426</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Hugh What</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/hugh-what--59800863</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800863</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:07:34 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800863/bsnks1939_05_25hughwhat.mp3" length="6847484" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>429</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>A New Baby Brother</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-new-baby-brother--59800864</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800864</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:07:18 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800864/bsnks1939_07_29anewbabybrotherakajealousy.mp3" length="6562247" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>411</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Max Has Good News Pt2</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/max-has-good-news-pt2--59800865</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800865</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:06:49 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800865/bsnks1939_12_21maxhsgoodnewsof1940pt2.mp3" length="3828739" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1823</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Daddys An Elk</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/daddys-an-elk--59800866</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800866</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:06:20 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800866/bsnks1939_01_22daddysanelk.mp3" length="6699713" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>419</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Bungling Burglars</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/bungling-burglars--59800867</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800867</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:06:05 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800867/bsnks1940_01_04bunglingburglars.mp3" length="8357436" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>524</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Male Secretary</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/male-secretary--59800868</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800868</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:05:50 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800868/bsnks1940_01_11malesecretary.mp3" length="7773229" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>487</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Max Has Good News</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/max-has-good-news--59800869</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800869</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:05:34 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800869/bsnks1939_12_28maxhsgoodnewsof1940wizardofozstars.mp3" length="1801346" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>113</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Shetland Pony</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/shetland-pony--59800870</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800870</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:04:57 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800870/bsnks1940_01_25shetlandpony.mp3" length="5236831" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>655</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Chemical Catastrophe</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/chemical-catastrophe--59800871</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800871</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:04:42 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800871/bsnks1940_01_18chemicalcatastrophe.mp3" length="4206771" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>526</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Anatomy Of A Robot</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/anatomy-of-a-robot--59800872</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800872</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:04:29 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800872/bsnks1940_02_08anatomyofarobot.mp3" length="3609089" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>452</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Missing Dollar</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/missing-dollar--59800873</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800873</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:04:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800873/bsnks1940_02_22missingdollar.mp3" length="1993736" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>501</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Family Tree</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/family-tree--59800874</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800874</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:03:53 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800874/bsnks1940_02_01familytree.mp3" length="5724799" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>716</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Tax Returns</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/tax-returns--59800875</link><description><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59800875</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 19:03:31 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59800875/bsnks1940_02_15taxreturns.mp3" length="3687456" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, The Newlyweds, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, <i>The Newlyweds</i>, about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started to do Baby Snooks, I really was a baby, because when I think about Baby Snooks it's really the way I was when I was a kid. On stage, I made Snooks a caricature of Baby Peggy." Early on, Brice's character was sometimes called "Babykins." <br /><br />By 1934 she was wearing her baby costume while appearing on Broadway in the <i>Follies</i> show. On February 29, 1936, Brice was scheduled to appear on the <i>Ziegfeld Follies of the Air</i>, written and directed by Philip Rapp in 1935–37. Rapp and his writing partner David Freedman searched the closest bookcase, opened a public domain collection of sketches by Robert Jones Burdette, <i>Chimes From a Jester’s Bells</i> (1897), and adapted a humorous piece about a kid and his uncle, changing the boy to a girl named Snooks.<br /><br /> Rapp continued to write the radio sketches when Brice played Snooks on the <i>Good News Show</i> the following year. In 1940, she became a regular character on <i>Maxwell House Coffee Time</i>, sharing the spotlight with actor Frank Morgan, who sometimes did a crossover into the Snooks sketches.Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.In 1944, the character was given her own show, and during the 1940s, it became one of the nation's favorite radio situation comedies, with a variety of sponsors (Post Cereals, Sanka, Spic-n-Span, Jell-O) being touted by a half-dozen announcers—John Conte, Tobe Reed, Harlow Willcox, Dick Joy, Don Wilson and Ken Wilson.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>461</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e1e47b604f94332640eed922ababd63b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
