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Dale's house, on the back 80, is a prosperous middle-western farm home with all possible conveniences. Gus's house, like a thousand Cass County farmhouses, is a seven-room frame structure weathered to a faded ocher with trim the color of last year's canned peas. (Like thousands of Iowa farmers, the Kuesters are patiently waiting for supplies to repaint the house and to put in a bathroom.) A mile away the world goes by on busy Highway U.S. 71 (Canadian border to Baton Rouge). That mile is a dirt road which spring thaws...
...Hooper rating: Cass Daley 18.3, nosing out Joan Davis...
...Applause. Under her husband's guidance, Cass's comedy became a staple of big time vaudeville. She wowed them with Bobby Clark in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936-37, stole the show at New York's Paramount Theater. Her earnings jumped to $750 a week. When she toured England, the London Evening Standard gave her ecstatic notices...
...appeared in five movies (Duffy's Tavern, etc.) but is not as well known to cinemaddicts as some of the coon-shouters who got to Hollywood first. But in radio, Cass has found the big money ($2,000 a week) and the big applause...
...demure curtsy, she suddenly chases the announcer, swings on the velvet curtain, howls a snatch of some unrefined ditty, walks on the side of her heels, pops her teeth and straddles the mike. Radio audiences miss much of this, but if television is just around the corner, Cass Daley's success has hardly begun...