Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Crisco Cooking Talks clicked over New York City's WExF, it was expanded (in 1925) into a network series conducted by Home Economist Ida Bailey Allen. By 1930 P & G strongly suspected that radio was here to stay. Looking around for someone to head its radio department, company officials decided that the copy department chief might qualify. Handsome William McCreary Ramsey II turned out to be a good choice...
...summary: ab r h po a e Forte, 2b 3 0 0 3 3 0 Conlon, cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 Coppinger, 3b 4 0 1 0 1 0 Allen, lf 4 0 1 1 0 0 Wallace, p 3 1 0 1 1 0 Closky, ss 4 0 2 5 1 0 Carleton, rf 3 0 0 2 0 0 Lackey, c 3 0 0 9 3 0 Crumrine...
...little life into what could have been a plotless horror a la Abbott and Costello, the producers have added murder and mystery to provide a spine for an otherwise invertebrate cinema. When flea trainer Allen is left an inheritance of five chairs, which he sells, and then finds that one of them has a fortune tucked away inside, there begins a routine chase involving the usual fusillade of shots and usual ending . . . Fred with a fistful of greenbacks...
With a combination of a murder and gangsters for background and a fancy roster of big names in comedy for decoration, "It's in the Bag" trailing behind Fred Allen all the way, makes its audience laugh three hours but is still only a second-rate mystery-comedy...
Coming after John Coppinger and Mel Allen had flied and bounced out, Wallace's grounder to the left side seemed to end the inning, but the Tufts shortstop fired the ball into the ground, enabling the pitcher to reach second and making way for Closky's game-winning clout...