THE ALVINO REY SHOW
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Year Published: 1950s
Format: 16mm
Description: Dating to the 1950s (probably 1956-57), this short segment of the live TV program "The Alvino Rey Show" features comedian Jim Hawthorne showing how to improve a breakfast nook. Hawthorne starts a "do it yourself" project and of course, ends up causing complete chaos. The program was entirely live and, while obviously featuring many planned gags, much of it was likely ad-libbed. Announcer Harry Von Zell plays straight man here. Jim Hawthorne (November 20, 1918 – November 6, 2007) was an American radio personality and comic actor. He was a disc jockey who was a pioneer of "free form" radio. Hawthorne was born in Victor, Colorado and began his career at a Denver radio station. He eventually landed in Los Angeles, California where he worked not only in radio, but also in early television and short films. In 1950, he created, produced and starred in the Saturday night coast-to-coast radio program, The Hawthorne Thing, which was the final network radio show to originate in NBC's Hollywood Radio City. At KLAC/Channel 13 in the early 1950s, he created the first late evening talk show on television, This Is Hawthorne. An article in the LA Times reflecting on early TV described the show as "predecessor of NBC's Saturday Night Live." On KNBH/Channel 4, beginning in 1952, he did a daily five-minute weather show. In 1958, Jim traveled to KYA-San Francisco and created Voice Your Choice, which he brought to KDAY. In the early 1960s, while doing Instant Weather on KTTV/Channel 11, Hawthorne joined KFWB as assistant PD and morning DJ, and eventually became VP, National Program Manager for Crowell-Collier Broadcasting. While still at KFWB he joined Sherman Grinberg Productions as a writer, producer, narrator. He produced Jim Hawthorne's Funny World and Quicky Quiz television comedy shorts.PeriscopeFilm 702K subscribers Videos About Support Us on Patreon
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[Music] somebody ought to tell me uh ladies and gentlemen the merry widow waltz has long been an international favorite alvino ray has a very fine uh yeah so don't say it i know merry widow waltz will take its place now in never never land along with blow gabriel blow the man i love uh olola bianca my lips is crimson berries and i don't know what is coming next a flute solo or something no harry at this time it's my pleasure to introduce our guest ladies and gentlemen the one and only hawthorne tonight uh wait wait uh just a minute i i wanted to say something to you now but look look uh harry i am supposed to be on the show i have a paper signed by h.j caruso you know who he is yeah he's the greatest yes he's he is the greatest harry look here's what i want no no no your mouth is open now what i wanted to say hank is that now you well i'm confused tonight if you were to announce the man i love and out comes banjo eyes or something you it would get you the thing that bothers me you've been on the show several times yeah yes and it seems that every time you start out to do something real nice and you manage to get all messed up him yeah but uh please i'm talking now what i wanted to suggest was this if you could let me know what it is you would like to do tonight perhaps i can help you you won't get mixed up well what did you plan to do you know the do-it-yourself is going right now i what is the most important room in the breakfast nook i'll tell you it's the room i mean the home the home yes i know in their home well now breakfast nooks get all spattered with grease and they're they're torn and the kids are marking them up with crayons and stuff tonight i want to show you how to paper a breakfast nook how to paper a breakfast note yes well now you wouldn't bleed this off but that's right on my scaffold i know all about wallpapering i tell you what so that you can't get mixed up you go on over to the breakfast nook i'll stand here tell you exactly what to do and you do what i tell you and it can't fail now first of all hawthorne let's see you have everything there we should measure the wall to find out what lengths to cut the wallpaper so you go ahead look out can't seem to get it right just three feet now you know that's wrong hawthorne it can't be right just go ahead measure measure it in your own way now you need that much paper well that's one way of doing all right now we'll get the paper wait wait a minute no no hawthorne please look wait a minute we don't tear the paper hawthorne don't you have some scissors you'll have to get the scissors and cut it straight cut it straight across so it'll fit square on the ceiling that's it oh we're getting a little carried away aren't we yeah now just place the wallpaper there on the work table that's it roll it out so that you can see what you do roll it is the water cooler in your way there well move it move it over so that you won't be bothered with it watch it you get just leave the water cooler there try to get the paper rolled out on the table so we can work put a weight on one end so that it won't roll up don't put a heavy weight there this is not this is it's bent get it all put back together the best you can that's right i don't know how i get into this can you get the paper back down now are you it's a nice neat looking mess of wallpaper outside or just make it the best of now let's let's uh mix the emotion shall we the the emotion the paste mix the paste that's the ticket be sure you mix it to the right texture that hot what are you doing how far listen listen duncan hines the paste is for the paper put the paste on the paper no no you don't need [Music] you don't need all that taste there's a towel over there you better clean yourself off you're making it what is that oh somebody's been cleaning the stove with that never mind heartbarn never mind you've got the paste on the paper all right now the paper goes on the wall take the paper and put it on the wall for the paste well you'll need the paste to put the paper on the wall well have it your own way but get the paper on the wall that's lovely that is lovely and wait wait a minute you don't know you don't tack the wallpaper on the wall how far now it serves you right you do not pack the wallpaper on you're supposed to paste it off put the hammer down now use the paste put the paper on now you do hawthorn you're making a mess of this thing i don't know ladies and gentlemen this i'd give up this is not the way i would hawthorne you've knocked down the plaster i give up he is a hard man to deal with that hot bow we'll have the cleaning crew in and everything will be all right by morning now uh if i've got the right information here our next uh why don't you just guess what's going to come next because i've harry why don't you uh
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