Word: clown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small Fry & Wild Fowl. After that, the screen was blank until 5 p.m., when NBC aired a children's hour called Playtime. An aggressively cheerful young woman, done up as a clown named Popit, ran the show (a picture tour of Italy, an object lesson in How to Make Your Beanie out of Felt, a first-rate marionette show). "Big Brother's" Small Fry Club, with movies, followed on Du Mont. Big Brother began with a pleasant animated cartoon called Cubby the Bear, ended with an inspirational short about a proper if improbable child who hung his clothes...
...have the reading done for him by a professional. There were never so many children's records to choose from. Among the new standouts: Danny Kaye's version of a children's favorite, Tubby the Tuba (Decca); a new volume in Capitol's Bozo the Clown series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah Shore's Bongo (Columbia). Older kids can hear Lionel Barrymore's reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (MGM) or shiver to Basil...
...propaganda for democracy and education (a selling point to parents) with their music. Decca's Churkendoose ("it was neither a turkey, a chicken, a duck nor a goose") with Comedian-Dancer Ray Bolger is a broad plea for racial tolerance. Capitol Records bound books inside its Bozo the Clown albums so that children could follow the narrative of Bozo's travels, get a rudimentary idea of geography. Bozo's sales: 1,000,000. Most of the companies are dead serious about their job as molders of the young mind. When a Columbia Records survey showed that...
...baying, middle-aged men cavorting through the streets. The New York Post's "Saloon Editor" Earl Wilson predicted: "New York will never tolerate the American Legion again." A World War II combat infantryman wrote a letter to the New York Daily News: "A warning to any Legion clown who approaches me: you must have paid plenty for those store teeth, Pop. . . . No sense getting them all mashed...
Columnist Billy Rose had been hearing from his indignant readers. Some of them, he confided, didn't like having such serious subjects as Palestine "discussed by a Broadway clown with breakaway suspenders and a nose that lights up. They suggested I let the Deep Thinkers do the deep thinking and confine my writings to razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz...