The cartoon features a myriad of celebrity caricatures of the time period…a few of them are unfamiliar to me…but most of them I recognize due to one of my earlier hobbies of listening to old – time radio programs of the '30s and '40s and becoming familiar with … The show remained under the title of Town Hall Tonight from 1935 through 1939. He hosted a self-titled Fred Allen Show during 1939-1940 and then from 1940 through 1944 he was the host of Texaco Star Theater.