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After master of ceremonies Jack Paar introduces himself to the audience, pianist and composer Frankie Carle plays an original jazz number with his band. Paar then jokes about the post-war housing shortage and sets up an extended e...
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"Two comedy shorts from the RKO department -- one from the Edgar Kennedy series and one from the Leon Errol series -- and a few of musical shorts from RKO pasted together with a liberal dose of Jack Paar telling some mediocre jokes and introducing the shorts as if this were all intended. Edgar Kennedy does a pretty good domestic situation comedy -- his RKO series lasted from about 1932 until his death the year this was released, 1948; Leon Errol's ran from 1933 through his death in 1951. RKO's short subject department was pretty lively through the 1950s. You may particularly enjoy, a..."
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This film's earliest documented telecast took place in Salt Lake City Monday 11 June 1956 on KUTV (Channel 2); it first aired in Altoona Tuesday 3 July 1956 on WFBG (Channel 10), in Philadelphia Wednesday 25 July 1956 on WFIL (Channel 6), in San Francisco Saturday 28 July 1956 on KPIX (Channel 5), in Columbus Sunday 2 September 1956 on WLW-C (Channel 4), in Detroit Wednesday 17 October 1956 on WJBK (Channel 2), and in Pittsburgh Monday 31 December 1956 on KDKA (Channel 2).
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After master of ceremonies Jack Paar introduces himself to the audience, pianist and composer Frankie Carle plays an original jazz number with his band. Paar then jokes about the post-war housing shortage and sets up an extended e...