Radio: The Aces Move

Laughcasters Goodman and Jane Ace picked up a copy of Variety last month and got a surprise. They learned that their sponsor (Anacin Tablets) would move them this week from the Blue Network to CBS. To any other radio headliners such a surprise would have been unbelievable, but not for them. For the casual Aces, who, for twelve years, have led merry, muddled fictional lives as The Easy Aces, it was quite natural.

They took it lightly as they take their whole program—even its scripting, which Ace does himself. Unlike Fred Allen (who overmodestly says Goodman Ace is America's greatest wit), Goodman...

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