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What brought Pillsburys, Crosbys and other moneyed and fun-loving local folk to hear Freddie Fisher and his boys was mainly a display of great physical activity reminiscent of the frenzied antics of the old vaudeville team of Clayton, Jackson & Durante. As in the case of "The Ex-Lax Program" and Little Nell, the Schnickelfritz numbers do not always say scat to the scatological. In all their numbers the Schnickelfritzers make faces, move from chair to chair, change hats rapidly, tumble about, make boyish gestures at one another with their instruments. In Looking For the Mocking Bird they perform an elaborate pantomime of hunting, while Fritts plays a solo on the washboard. In The Wreck of the Old 97 (see cut, p. 45) they bong bells, shuffle with their feet until black smoke pours from Freddie Fisher's tin stove pipe hat, is quenched from a jug. How the humor of these japes is to be communicated over the radio, and how it is to be toned down in the film they will make in Hollywood next November, are problems Freddie Fisher and his manager will presently have to solve. Having already turned down an offer from local station WMIN, they were signed up last week for a Manhattan engagement after they leave Hollywood.