The Crazy World of Vic and Sade: 32-07-30 Rush Runs Away

32-07-30 Rush Runs Away

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

Nine year-old monster?

Rush has been bad for week - what are Vic and Sade to do?

The fact of the matter is, young Rush hasn't really been bad at all. Syndey Call is having a party; Rush was invited to go, but his friend Link (who happens to be a different color), wasn't invited.

Rush obviously doesn't want to go unless Link can go. He puts perfume on Link, hoping the smell will make a better impression.

When Rush comes home, Vic and Sade obviously don't understand what's going on and punish Rush by sending him to bed. Meanwhile, he runs away from home. This is Part One of a two-parter, in a very special episode of Vic and Sade.

SEE SOME DIALOGUE AND THE SYNOPSIS

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It seems Rush feels compassion for his friend Link and the fact that he wasn't invited to Sidney's party. There are definitely racial overtones in the script: Link is black and wasn't invited to the party being the most obvious one. Just another in the many soapy episodes of 1932. Race and class played well on radio it seems in the early days. The farther writer Paul Rhymer got away from this, the better his writing became, at least as far as Vic and Sade was concerned.

I guess it's in every boy to run away at least once, especially when they feel they haven't been treated fairly.

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Hi-de-hi-Ho-de-ho! My name is Jimbo. Shortly after finding Vic and Sade in 2010, I realized that finding the information I wanted about the show was pretty much non-existent. That's when I set out to solve that situation and do it myself.

Little did I know that in a parallel universe, Barbara Schwarz and The Friends of Vic and Sade were doing/had done the same exact thing I was doing - except very little of the info they had collected was on the internet.

Thanks to member Louie Johnson, the two materials were married and I went about adding everything they had to what I already had done. (Louie went way beyond the point of being generous in terms of sharing material)! Others have donated V&S material and I thank you.

Along the way, I was wise enough to get oceans of contributions from as many fans as possible, but especially from Lydia Crowe, (who is in the process of painstakingly taking the audio episodes and turning them into scripts -- plus she's adding commentary to go along with mine), Sarah Cole (whose Vic and Sade insight remains unparalleled) and Keith Heltsley (he frequently podcasts the show and makes his own comments). Dave (from Wisconsin) has shared his insight and expertise with us in a series of articles and his love for the show shines through them all.

The book by John Hetherington, Vic and Sade on the Radio: A Cultural History of Paul Rhymer's Daytime Series 1932-1944, is full of new material and it has opened up a whole new avenue and spectrum of previously unknown information for the Vic and Sade fan. Mr. Hetherington has provided me with lots of information and has patiently answered at least a zillion questions and for this I am very grateful.

The Vic and Sadecast (a podcast about the surviving episodes) is in full tilt. Jimbo, Dave Duckert, PQ Ribber and Shambles Constant handle that chore. There are other guests along the way - yell at Jimbo if you would like to be a part of this project.

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