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The Feen-O-Lax Fun Hour

posted 8 years ago by Stevicus-2
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I always found this scene slightly amusing, although the performers' onstage antics were mainly visual with the studio audience laughing. But anyone listening on the radio wouldn't really know what was so funny. I wondered the same as Pug, whether people really liked that tommy-rot.

And the guy makes $15,000 per week in 1939, which is worth $253,419.64 today.

I can imagine this guy must have been quite a asset to Feen-O-Lax sales. Listening to his shows must have created a need for Feen-O-Lax.

[–] AureliaBuendia 8 years ago

You think that's bad, what about the sailors laughing themselves silly at the Laurel and Hardy film shown on the battleship. Were people's tastes really so unsophisticated then?

[–] waldenpond88 8 years ago

I guess the soldiers had to watch what the army/navy offered them. Before the war they might have had a more sophisticated movie taste as long as they were able to pick what they wanted to watch at the movie theater..

[–] Stevicus-2 7 years ago

I guess the soldiers had to watch what the army/navy offered them.

I recall reading in the novel where there's a description of an airbase in Greenland used as a refueling point for transatlantic flights. At the airbase, they had no real entertainment of any kind, except for a record player and one record: "In Der Fuhrer's Face" - which they played over and over again.

[–] waldenpond88 7 years ago

I will re-read the novels soon, they are absolutely gripping. WOW is a very good book adaptation!

[–] nyctc7 8 years ago

I always laugh when the announcer, doing the ad spot for Feen-O-Lax says "need a gentle push?"