Charlie Chan in Radio City

November 11, 1934 - In this early episode Jack Benny plays the
Chinese detective Charlie Chan from the film series of the same
name.


References include the record breaking streamline train,
California Governor Frank Merriam, Popeye the sailor, Babe Ruth
visiting Japan (ballplayers Dizzy Dean, Daffy Dean, Hack Wilson
and Frankie French), Senator Huey Long getting a black eye,
boxers Max Baer and Jack Dempsey, comedian Lou Holtz, the Marx
brothers (Harpo in particular), the song "Carioca", orchestras
Fred Waring and his Pensilvanians, Guy Lombardo and his Royal
Canadians, Abe Lyman's Californians, and movie stars John
Barrymore, Mirna Loy, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson,
Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins. Not to mention mention "Charlie
Chan in London".