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Title:Warming Up A Studio Audience
Air Date:September-22-1940
Plot:span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">+ Blue Network. Sustaining. Warming up a studio audience: Harry Von Zell tells how it's done. Sidney Anthony (of Stamford, Connecticut) tells what he did with the $1000 he won on, "Pot Of Gold." Jane West, writer of and performer on the soap opera, "The O'Neills," tells a story about one of the program's listeners. Donald Dane, an animal imitator, tells how he impersonated a killer ape on, "The Shadow." Oddities in radio: Doug Storer tells how Bob Ripley planned a Christmas interview a with man whose real name was Santa Claus. E. L. Bragdon (radio editor of The New York Sun) answers questions from listeners: How can a listener can hear "The Aldrich Family" twice in one night? What is ad-libbing? The story behind the story behind the mike: Captain Tim Healy (of "Tim Healy's Stamp Club") tells the story. Graham McNamee (host), Gene Hamilton (announcer), Harry Von Zell, Sidney Anthony, Jane West, Donald Dane, Doug Storer, E. L. Bragdon, Tim Healy. 
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