PADUCAH PLANTATION

Broadcast History:

First Show: Oct. 17, 1936 Last Show: April 10, 1937

Series Description: Country music, humor.

Cast: Irwin S. Cobb, humorist, journalist,
and famed after dinner speaker. John Mather,
Norman Field and guests.
Vocalists: Dorothy Page, Clarence Muse.
Also The Hall Johnson Negro Choir and the Four Blackbird Quartet.

Orchestra: Harry Jackson. 30m.

Paducah Plantation placed humorist Irvin S. Cobb in a fictionalized setting (it was aired from Hollywood) called White Hall Plantation, near Paducah, Ky. The humorous wisdoms of Cobb (whose stories of Old Judge Priest were minor classics of philosophical comedy) were interspersed with operatic and minstrel type melodies. He was complimented by Radio Guide for his "back porch philosophy" and the tobacco and racehorse plantation atmosphere". The impression that Cobb had "a mint julep right handy and a hound dog lazing in the shade" was offset by such guests as opera stars Marion Talley and Gertrude Niesen.

Reference: On the Air-John Dunning