Fred Allen presents a comedy hour of loosely connected sketches, opening with a news spot about the New York circus arriving at Madison Square Garden, then turning to a bumbling poet, taxi riots, and a Hollywood studio where Allen plays a movie producer. Allen's harried studio boss juggles temperamental actresses, a self-declared tough-guy actor, a dieting ingenue and a Soviet visitor eager to learn American methods. The sketches are built on rapid-fire wordplay and mistaken phrases. The series aired on CBS and NBC, and this episode dates from April 4, 1934, with Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious in the cast.

With Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Roy Atwell, Nikolai Nikolovich Masseltov.

Listen for: Roy Atwell's stumbling spring poem and Fred Allen's studio sketches

First aired on April 4, 1934 on CBS / NBC.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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