‘Saturday Scrapbook’

Press, 14 November 1981, Page 13

‘Saturday Scrapbook’

Radio fans still remember the marvellous characterisation and clever dialogue on “Easy Aces,” a witty, urbane domestic comedy classic created and written and performed by Goodman Ace along with his wife Jane. At 9 o’clock there is another episode of “Easy Aces” in “Saturday Scrapbook,” which starts at 7.30 on National tonight. The Aces were a vaudeville pair who played a prosperous wnite couple living in upper-class Manhattan, he a successful adman

and she the housewife whose sole worries amounted to getting her friends into the country club, finding a suitable husband for one of them, tricking her husband into buying a mink coat, and keeping her ■ maid happy. Such a role might well be considered demeaning today, but then, the many “dumb dame” characters on stage and radio were never questioned. Social issues were non-existent in “Easy Aces,” but what it lacked here was more than made up for by

consistent character humour focusing on the exposure of human foibles. Graeme Thomson returns to his well worn chair as host of “Saturday Scrapbook” this week. He brings with him a large bunch of listeners’ requests and as always he will be joined at 8 o’clock by Philip Liner for a sequence of old time dance music.

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