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...anxious to please: his parents and his kid sister Marguerite, who had gone to Chicago from their farm in Van Meter, Iowa. Ma Feller in years gone by had often "cried her eyes out" because little Bob and his father used to spend so much time behind the barn playing ball. Last week, when the last White Sox batter had been put out, Ma Feller was in tears again, but for a different reason...
...usual its 1,200 seats had been filled and emptied by two consecutive paying audiences, no fewer than 860,013 people had given 35 to 75? to get in and watch a freestyle, catch-as-catch-can radio show on a stage representing a hayloft. Station WLS's Barn Dance is a corny five-hour jamboree, radio's longest* and oldest in continuous operation, tops in Crossley ratings in its class. Last week this program, begun a week after Station WLS first took to the air and its mainstay ever since, celebrated its 16th birthday...
...hand for the celebration was the chief character of the Barn Dance, spry, crackly-voiced, cotton-chin-whiskered Uncle Ezra (dapper little Pat Barrett, 52), who greets the audience with "Howdy, evvabuddy," warms evvabuddy's heart with his cracker-barrel philosophy. Uncle Ezra was in Hollywood, to play in Bob Burns's forthcoming Comin' 'Round the Mountain. So Widow Winnie Whipple, whose ineffectual attempts to land Uncle Ezra furnish continuity of a sort for the program, exclaimed "Hollywood my left hind foot!" and wept that he should turn out to be "nothin...
...Barn Dance goes on the air at 7 p.m. (C.S.T.), is sponsored in pieces of 15 minutes and more by Alka-Seltzer, Keystone Steel & Wire Co. (fences), Murphy Products Co. (poultry and livestock feeds), Woodmen Accident Co. (insurance), Edward Funk & Sons (hybrid seed corn...
...newspaperman, Burridge Davenal Butler, owner of The Prairie Farmer, oldest (99 years) of its kind in the U. S. Owner Butler made WLS a public servant in the Midwest. Most famed alumnus of WLS programs is Gene Autry, who once sang on the Barn Dance. So did Ruth Etting, at first for nothing and then for $5 a night. Tony Wons read poetry and streamlined Shakespeare for the station. Fibber McGee & Molly worked there before they adopted those names, as did Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden, now known as Amos 'n' Andy. For ten years...