Radio: Brat's Birthday

Few serial characters of our time have excited such mixed emotions as Fanny Brice's Baby Snooks. Regarded by some as a loathly brat, by others as a most comical moppet, Snooks has been a mainstay of the Maxwell House Good News show since December 1937, currently attracts, with the help of Frank Morgan, the latest thing in Munchausens, an audience estimated at about 15,000,000.

Snooks first came into being at a private party in Manhattan. In the course of singing a patter song, Poor Pauline, Miss Brice lapsed into baby talk. Years later...

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