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...Flippen, vaudeville veteran, in "Correction, Please," a quiz that fizzed mainly because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Best Busts | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Last week, after two and a half years and 1,122 performances, Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson abandoned the poultry, ice cakes, blank cartridges and other bughouse furnishings of Broadway's Hellzapoppin, turned over their parts to Jay C. Flippen and "Happy" Felton. Reason: Olsen & Johnson were off to Hollywood to make a Hellzapoppin movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...prove his point that there is a bit of minstrelsy in every man, Producer Mort Lewis (If I Had The Chance) got Cartoonist Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka} and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg as regular endmen, Actor Ezra Stone and Announcer Harry von Zell as extras, Jay C. Flippen as interlocutor. Celebrity Minstrels opened with Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, got in tune with There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, closed with Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. Sample chestnut: "Great Scott, your uncle yelled 'Down with the Irish!' at the St. Patrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Shows | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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