That Laugh Tells You ‘G’ Day’s Here Again (Great Gildersleeve)

That Laugh Tells You ‘G’ Day’s Here Again

THE Great Gildersleeve, the big man with the basso profundo laugh, is coming back to the air today at 5:30 p. m. over WMAQ-NBC. And his faithful followers will be happy-or will they? – to learn he is fully recovered from the near romance with Window Ransome. Under present plans, she will not even be on the show this year. Gildy’s life, however, will still be very much taken up with the schemes of nephew Leroy and the affairs of nice Marjorie.

The break with Window Ransome came shortly before the program went off the air for the summer. When husband Beauregard returned to save Throckmorton P. from the bonds of matrimony.

It was two seasons ago that Gildy and his crew took to radio on their own, causing more than a mild furor in one of America’s oldest families, the proud and ancient clan of Gildersleeve. This clan. whose founders built the American fleet that helped defeat the British in 1812 and whose fame has depended on its important lawyers, ministers and educators, objected to having Hal Peary use the name Gildersleeve.

Martha Boswell Gildersleeve of Peekskill, N. Y., was so upset show wrote begging Peary to change his name. One member went so far as to threaten suit. For the most part, though, the clan welcomed the radio character. Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve of Barnard college hasn’t minded at all having a funny man namesake, except that occasionally her press clippings come to her via California, where they first have gone by mistake to Peary. Clifford Gildersleeve, the president of the Chamber of Commerce in Cleveland, Ohio, enjoyed the new notoriety.

Almost every morning’s mail brings Peary word of some of the Gildersleeves doings. Be it complaints, misdirected bills or letters of praise and thanks it’s good publicity for Peary.

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