To the grille!

The year of 1942 was the first time the comic show of "The Tremendous Court" (La Tremenda Corte) was broadcasted in Cuba.

 

Tres Patines 

It has a white humor sense, and also is enhanced with the usage of game-words, sometimes in a bad spoken english. The main characters were the galician Rudesindo Caldeiro y Escobiña (played by Adolfo Otero), Luz María Nananina (played by Mimí Cal), the judge (played by Aníbal de Mar) and José Candelario Tres Patines (played by Leopoldo Fernández).

Nananina

Sometimes, other characters were needed; but the main was Tres Patines, who was a rogue that always was looking for the way to take advantage of his friends and neighbors. Because of that, they always ended in the court to solve the issues. Always Tres Patines was paying a fine or was sentenced to jail; in every chapter, but in only one, he won, it was the chapter were he was a box fighter and Rudesindo was his manager.

Rudesindo

When the characters were introduced, each one had a personal phrase to say they were at the court, and the phrase of Tres Patinas was "To the grille!", because it was the way how the prisioners presence was requested in Cuba. Obviously Tres Patines already knew he would lose; but he tried (just in case) to confuse the judge.

El juez

The show was very successful, and it is still broadcasted in many countries of the world; but sadly, the people that has the copyright have forgotten about it and the quality has been in decay, because the only way to listen to it is copying it from the radio, which had a quality from the middle of the 1900s. This makes a little difficult to understand some scripts, and also the slang of Cuba isn't used everywhere.

As a tribute to this show, I invite to go To the grille! the artists, so they can talk about their art by themselves, and we could put a human face to their work.