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The Big Show presented a weekly mixture of comedy, theatre, and music from such visitor superstars as Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, Danny Thomas, Groucho Marx, Fanny Brice, Bob Anticipation, Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallee, Judy Garland, and Fred Allen - the last mentioned graduating to semiregular and contributing writer status. Actually each program found the guests producing themselves by name; the introductions finished with a husky tone of voice intoning, "...and my name, dahlings, is Tallulah Bankhead". Bankhead, a famous level veteran renowned for her work in plays like The Little Foxes and The Pores and skin of Our Tooth, offered as the show's mistress of ceremonies - proving to be both an apt foil for the program's guests and a self-deprecating good sport for an countless group of "rivalry with Bette Davis" jokes. In detailing her determination for agreeing to web host a every week radio series, she advised Newsweek Mag, "I have to are in the style, dahling, to which I'm really accustomed."
