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COMPLIMENTARY

NH Boat Museum Celebrates 10th

Season

WOLFEBORO - The New Hamp- shire Boat Museum celebrates its 10th season in Wolfeboro in 2010 and invites the pub- lic to a special pre-opening reception on Friday, May 28 from 6 to 9pm. Teaming up with the Wolfeboro 250th An- niversary, the reception will commemorate the Allen A Re- sort from the 1940s-1970s. The evening will include food, period entertainment, a cash bar, and a preview of the 2010 exhibits. Tickets are $35 per person and can be purchased by calling the Mu- seum at 569-4554. The Museum is housed in

Virginia Payne, the voice of radio’s Ma Perkins, was so young when she took on that role that an older model was hired for the first publicity photos. Payne would later wear a wig, spectacles and a matronly outfit in order to disguise her age.

OXYDOL’S OWN MA PERKINS:

HOW DAYTIME RADIO DRAMAS BECAME KNOWN AS SOAP OPERAS

by Roger Amsden

News Correspondent

If you’ve ever wondered how

those daytime radio and television serials became known as soap operas, you need look no further than Ma Perkins, most likely the longest lasting radio drama of all time.

When Ma Perkins made its ra-

dio debut on August 14, 1933, on WLW in Cincinnati it was the first ever daytime serial on network radio sponsored by a Procter & Gamble product, Oxydol. Over the years the show and the

soap became virtually synony- mous, so much so that the lead character was sometimes called Oxydol’s Own Ma Perkins and was advertised as such by Procter &

Gamble. On December 4, 1933, the show

moved to WMAQ/Chicago and joined the NBC Red network. It was destined to play for another 27 years on NBC and later on CBS for a total of 7,065 episodes. Ma Perkins paved the way for

modern soap operas and the amazing thing is that for all of

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the Allen A’s original dance hall and theater building and one of the new exhibits in 2010 depicts the history of this well-remembered family resort. This will be an event for everyone to see the Boat Museum and learn the his- tory of the Allen A. To bring back the days of

the Allen A, the evening will include period entertain- ment, with song and dance provided by professional en- tertainers from the Summer

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