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You've heard Wilbur speak about Mr. Ed. Now read what Alan Young has to say about: CHAPTER ONE Radio - the simple life! (Paul Whiteman, Tallulah Bankhead, Zero Mostel, Eddie Cantor, Jo Stafford) CHAPTER TWO HOLLYWOOD The breeding ground of character - and characters. ("Androcles and the Lion", Jim Backus, George Bernard Shaw, Victor Mature) CHAPTER THREE HOLLYWOOD PARTIES (Atwater Kent, Maggie Ettinger, "Margie", Louella Parsons, Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, George Burns, Ozzie & Harriett, Edgar Bergen, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Red Skelton) CHAPTER FOUR Hollywood Hotchpotch (Extras & Agents) CHAPTER FIVE Watch them - they're teaching you! (Peter Lorre, Clifton Webb, Jane Russell, Gower Champion, Jeannie Mahoney, Audrey Totter) CHAPTER SIX The good old days, or Have I been around that long? (Mickey Rooney, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Roddy McDowell, Jeanne Craine, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee. Red Skelton, Sonja Henie, Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby) CHAPTER SEVEN TELEVISION The box they put radio into (Fred Allen, James Gleason, Chester, Chester Clute, Wally Ford) CHAPTER EIGHT ON STAGE PLEASE! (John Charles Thomas, Ben Blue, Joe Besser) CHAPTER NINE THE TIME MACHIINE (George Pal, Tom Thumb, H.G. Welles) EPILOGUE It was easier then