Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel
Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel ( first Beagle, Shyster & Beagle ) was a radio show with Groucho and Chico Marx. There were a total of 26 half -hour episodes aired between November 28, 1932 to May 22, 1933. The show was produced by the Standard Oil Company and the Colonial Beacon Oil to promote the common Esso products.
The first three episodes were aired under the name Beagle, Shyster & Beagle. The title was changed after a New York lawyer named Beagle threatened a libel suit.
Of the original items up on the last episode, all recordings were destroyed, but the originals of the written by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman screenplays in 1988 from a total of 21 episodes rediscovered in the archives of the Library of Congress. Based on these scenarios, the BBC began in 1990 to re-record the show with impersonators of Groucho and Chico Marx. In German, there is a radio play version with 15 episodes on the translation by Harry Rowohlt and Sven Böttcher, which was incorporated in 1989 as WDR production. The three main roles are here spoken of Harald Leipnitz ( Waldorf T. Flywheel ), Stefan Behrens ( Emanuel Ravelli ) and Corinna Genest (Miss Dimple ), in supporting roles are speakers such as Gert Hauke , Brigitte Mira, Horst Niendorf, Carolin van Bergen, Wilfried autumn and Heinz -Theo Branding to hear.
Characters and background story
The radio show played to scenes in a lawyer's office where Groucho Marx the attorney Waldorf T. Flywheel ( in the first three episodes Waldorf T. Beagle ) and Chico Marx speaks his mate Emmanuel Ravelli.
Waldorf T. Flywheel is bold, sometimes outrageous and snubbed his clients constantly sayings about their looks, their clothes, etc. The naive Emanuel Ravelli, easily recognizes its Italian heritage of the listener through his accent is fun-loving and therefore not really in his work all the more interested in women, a billiards game and the opportunity to pickpockets. The pitiable clients who get lost in the office are so often offended by default Flywheel and robbed by Ravelli before they involved the suffering from a chronic lack of money duo in further inconvenience. Miss Dimple, Flywheels secretary, is the third occurring in all sequences person, but does not particularly drawn character, but serves more as a point sensor for Flywheel and Ravelli.
The plot of the individual episodes is basically secondary. It serves the two protagonists to lead to new places ( courtroom, election rally, boxing arena, farm), you will get a new " food" for punchlines. In general it can be said that almost every second sentence in the dialogues a punch line is: the consequences derive their charm from the immense density of gags, not by a "story" in the strict sense. So all the nonsense figures series behave highly unrealistic - no client would entrust his lawyer with financial matters, after he has made half a dozen jokes at his expense. How little it mattered the authors and the substantive coherence, also shows that there always were minor inaccuracies in the scripts - a minor character could on the one hand, "Bill" and on the next page "Buck" hot. That did not bother as the figure was only conceived as a target for the sayings of Flywheel and Ravelli.
At the end of many episodes there were advertisements for the two products Esso petrol and Essolube engine oil, packed in so typical of the result word games ( " He ought to be thankful " - " Tankful I got a pretty Tankful of Esso, Which is? ! .? better than any gasoline " / " He should be grateful "-" Tankbar I know what is tankbar: Esso ")!.