August 11, 2025 • 28 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mother, Why did daddy switch to poster?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Your father says, there's no caffeine in post them, nothing
to spoil your sleep, And your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young,
his father A half hour visit with your neighbors. The
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means of developing strength of character, Old Ben Franklin tried
each day to do one thing that he was afraid
to do. And I guess it's not such a bad
rule at that. Perhaps it was this same basic idea
that Jim Anderson was trying to put across when certain
problems arose in the white frame house on Maple Street
the other day. The thing that undoubtedly influenced Jim's approach
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to the aforementioned problems was an anecdote he related to
Margaret after he had gotten home from work that evening
like this, So anyway, these boys were out on a
scout campus.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I'd say it was George Brubaker's son, who was so heroic.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
No, George's boy was the other kid involved. It was
Ed Garland's boy.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Oh, so they what do you do?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, I'm coming to that.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
They assumed missus Garland in the market yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Good. So these boys were out surprisingly well, Margaret, do
you want to hear you know?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That's way Cody had brought her for Christmas Mark. She
has the cutest little hat made of the same material.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, a lot of these kids were.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Father.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yes, Betty, I thought you were, Oh, hello, father, going
to come upstairs and help me rehearse for this utterly
dumb play I'm in.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh, while I was delayed, your father was telling me
about the little Garland boy.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
It was very interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
How do you know.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What happened to the Garland boy?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, he go ahead, Margaret tell her.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Well, no, that's funny. It slipped my mind. I guess
you didn't tell it very clearly, dear.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I didn't tell it at all.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Mother. I think I'd better drop out of the play.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I'll just never memorize all those lines. But never, you
can't drop off.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Now, all the plays tonight, the schools depending on you.
I know, you on upstairs and keep working on it
and I'll be up in a moment and help you.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Oh alright, I'll never learn it though.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Is that the college place she's worrying about.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yes, I'm sorry I interrupted your story, dear. Go on now,
I listen.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I promise well these boys, Oh no, mommy.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I'll be there in a minute. Cathe don't must tell well,
just keep your.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Mouth closed until I get there. You'll be alright.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Go ahead, jim, Well.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I'll tell you some other time.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
No, no, I don't want to hear it now. I'm interested.
Really well.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Briefly, the Garland boy and the Brewbaker boy got separated
from the others while they were trying to pass a
test to identifying wildlife or something, and it started to
pour down rain, and young Brewbaker slipped down the ravines,
brained his ankles, poured some ligaments, oh dear, and fell
into the stream. Young Garland couldn't swim, but he jumped
in and somehow got the Brewbaker kid on the shore.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Me, I'll be there in a minute. Angel.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He dragged him into a shell or some rocks and
gave him what first aid he could, and then fought
his way through the storm to find the others and
get help.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Heavens.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He was certainly a.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Brave little fellow.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That's real courage that Garland has right to be real
proud of that boy.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I should think so here.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
This kid was frightened at dead, but he did it anyway.
That takes real courage. Yes, sir, that's what I like
to see in a boy.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I'm mom high day.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Hold on there, But where are you going in such
a rush?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I'll explain it later, Dad, I'll be down on the base.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, just a minute. Here comes to the door. Oh,
I'm not home. Who's Beaner Brandage? Oh? You know, he's
that kid that thinks he's so tough. He just thinks
he's tough. Huh. Yeah. The only trouble is I think
so too. I'm not Bud. You're not going to let
him buffalo you?
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Well, no, I'm a Well, what I'm doing is outsmarting.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Him, out smarting him.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Yeah, I'm gonna hide out until he gets tired waiting
and goes away.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, that's probably the best thing to do. I don't
want Bud to go around fighting.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
All the time.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, I don't want him fighting all the time either,
But mother, mommy, dear.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
In a minute, Mommy, I want my news tooth out. Well,
put it out. Then I'm afraid, too afraid.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Why is everyone around here so afraid of everything? But
why are you afraid of this beanie or whatever his
name is. It's Beaner, and boy does he bean here
on the head. That's how he got his name.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I'm coming out, Mommy. This truth bothers me.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Jim, will you see what you can do with her too?
I've got to go up and help daddy.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Sure that's easy. You got a piece of string, kitten?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Will it hurt?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No? Of course not. Go get some string. Don't. But
I don't leave yet. Don't go down in the basement.
Why is he after you? That's what I want to know.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Well, I accidentally shoved him while we were playing basketball yesterday,
and he's trying to get even.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Why didn't you tell him it was just an accident.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I did, and he said accidents will happen. In fact,
you said an accident's gonna happen to you right now,
and he's been chasing me ever since.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You Better go out there and face him. Reason with him.
Reason with Beaner, sure, the only thing to do. He
reasons too hard. Now look here, he'll bot me but
I'm not going out there. But do you want me
to feel ashamed of you? Dad? Let's put it this way.
I'm trying to make you proud of me for using
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my head.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh me, Daddy has a string long enough.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Long enough. We don't need all that, Kitten. We're just
going to pull a tooth, not fly a kite.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Don't break it, daddy, use it long.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
But we don't need all this, Yes we do.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I don't want to be in the same room when
you pull my tooth.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Why didn't you get some taffy and two on it
so that'll get the tooth out of there.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I don't like taffy.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
All right, open your mouth, kitten and stand still. Why
don't you go outside and let be in a knock
it out for you? Katy, keep your mouth open. I
can't tie the string on your tooth. If you don't,
will it hurt? Of course not.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Claud Messner said he used to tie his blue teeth
to a slingshot and shoot him off.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Said he now I have it in just a second. Oh,
don't talk, Yeah, that's it. Oh. The next step is
to tie the other end of a door. Knock here,
give it to me. I'll do it. No, I don't
like it up well, you want the tooth outic, don't you?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yes, I don't want you to do it only cow.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I won't hurt you, but I think you have something
else to take care of. You better go out and
talk to young Beaner. He's not much of a talker.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I think I'll go up to my room and read, but.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Come back here. I'll be upstairs if you want me. Hm, Well,
come on, let's get that tooth out, kitten.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I think I've changed my mind. Daddy, what I'm afraid?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Now, stop using that word. You're not afraid. I'm not,
certainly not. Come on now, I won't Mommy to do it.
She's busy. Decide I can do it just as well
as she can, better even I want mommy to do it. Mommy, Mommy,
do listen, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I think you better go up and see if you
can do something with Betty. She thinks she can't go through.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
With the play. Whatever gave her that idea?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Mommy?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Angel? What is it?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Nothing, I've changed my mind.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I'm going out and pray.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Well, Waite, you can't go out with that string trailing
out of your mouth, haven't you gotten my too thought
yet I think I'll wait.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Just tomorrow, I'll be out in that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well, don't trimp over that string, Jim.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
When you talk to Betty, Yes, Betty, Jim, when you
talk to Betty, I'll be right up.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I mean, yeah, that's what I mean. For a second there,
I didn't know which one of us was.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Mother.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Well, Jim, when you go up, would you down?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I've got to stay back and tell them, just have
to get someone.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Else for the part. But Betty, the plays to there.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yes, you can't let them down, Princess.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I'll let them down worse by being in it.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm just awful, just simply simply awful, now, Princess, but
worse than awful.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, let's go in the den and have a look
at the play. Things are rarely as bad as they seem.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
It's no use, father, I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You can do anything you want to do if you
just make up your mind.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Well, my mind's made up. I can't do it. Money coming, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, maybe it's just one of those plays that's hard
to memorize. What is the play?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Oh, it's some dumb old thing called the Brideboard tulips.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I see I don't think I ever heard of that.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Who has?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Who?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Are you in it? The bride?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
No, I'm well, I'm the other woman. I guess you'd
call me. I see, I'm the bride's sister.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
She hates me.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I hate her too, And she's trying to marry this fella,
not because she loves him, but just to keep me
from getting it.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
But actually I don't want him either.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I just let her think so because I'm secretly in
love with this law student who's really in love with her?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
But who?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You get the idea?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Oh? Sure, it's very clear. Well, let's have a go
at it. Where do you start having trouble with the part?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
The trouble starts on page twenty nine?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
All right, page twenty nine. You've got it pretty well
up to there.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Huh No, that's where I first come in.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Oh I see, well, all right, you want me to
kill you?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I don't care. It's no use, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well let's see here. Elaine enters through the French doors.
Are you Elaine? Yes? George looks up from his book, startled,
all right, George, why Elayne? I thought you had gone?
All right? Gone?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
What do I say.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
All you say is I want to talk to you George.
Now that's easy.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I want to talk to you George.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
That's right, But I think you can give it a
little more feeling. Remember now you are Elaine. Now what
does this mean to her? Why does she want to
talk to George? Is it important? All right, let's start again, ready,
I guess so why Elayne? I thought you had.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Gone see there?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Father?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I can't remember a thing, Oh, Princess. My mind just
freezes up, and.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I know that's exactly what will happen to me when
I walk out on that stage.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Well, now, right, there's your problem. You're worrying about something
that will never happen. You've built this fear up in
your own mind and it has no reality at all.
Let's just forget about the audience, forget that you're on
a stage, start believing that you are this character.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I just simply can't go through with it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I get off shaky Joe, Philip, Yes, you can do
it better.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Can you drive me over to Joe's just in case
Been is still out there? Oh? Bud, Now listen, Bud,
I want you to go out there. Do you want
it out? Don't you?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Hold on there one at a time. Oh me, why
did I ever take up being a father? Floor Jim,
he's surrounded with problems. Have to set a man's nerves
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on edge. And speaking of nerves, here's ed with a
calming word or two about your nerves.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Ed say, friend, how do you feel these mornings full
of zip or all tents and jittery, ready to snap
at family and friend alike?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well, you know what your trouble could be? Coffee nerves.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
That's right, coffee nerves and sleepless nights brought on with
a caffeine and coffee or tea. You see, it's a
well known scientific fact that caffeine is a drug, nerve stimulant.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And while many can handle the caffeine and.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Coffee, others And this could mean you suffers sleepless nights,
jittery nerves.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
What's the answer, Well.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
You don't have to give up enjoying a good hot
meal time drink to get rid of coffee nerves.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Just make your drink.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Post them instead, delicious instant post them because post them
is totally without caffeine.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
No wonder so many folks is.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Switched to post them. No caffeine, no coffee, nerves and
post them. Let you sleep, Get a jar of instant,
post them tomorrow and see for yourself. Drink post them
exclusively for ten days, then check out. See if you
aren't sleeping and feeling one wail of a whole lot
better you like post them delicious instant coast um.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Why is it that other people's children, according to reports,
are able to face life's problems and come smiling through
like stout little truth, while our own show a disturbing
tendency to run for cover at the first breath of
an ill wind. This is a question that's puzzling Jim
Anderson this evening, as he takes refuge in the kitchen
to discuss the problem with Margaret, like this, I can't
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understand what's happened to the kids? Honey, what have we
done wrong?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
So what makes you think we've done anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Look at Betty and Bud that he's completely terrified because
she has to appear in that play at the college tonight.
Bud afraid to go outside because some kids after him.
Even Kathy prowling around the house with a spring tied
to her tooth and afraid to let anybody touch it. Well,
do you have an ounce of courage or character anywhere
in the three of them.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Well, there are children, dear. Whatever they are is just
a reflection of you and me. I'm just as disappointed
as you are.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Oh wait, I didn't say I.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Was disappointed like mother like daughter, like father like son.
Isn't that true?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeh possibly, But let's not start condemning the children without
giving them a chance.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Well, I'm not condemning. You are the one who said that.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I simply said, we have to figure out some way
to help them. We know they have the character and courage.
We just have to show them how to use it,
that's all. Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I see, Well, I guess I didn't understand you correctly before.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
There's certainly nothing wrong with Bud, or with Betty or
Kathy either. It's not you seem to have a tendency sometimes, Honey,
to criticize the children before you really think.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Oh, well, it's my brutal disposition. I guess we have.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
To approach these things tactfully, with a lot of thought.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Oh, I agree.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
In the kitchen, Bud, I'll just give me a little time, Honey,
I'll prove to you that the kids are all right.
They have what it takes you.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Watch all right, I'll watch. Are you out of your father?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yes? And I want to talk to you, Princess. Yeah,
and you too, Bud. Yeah, just a minute. But Pathy,
where are you kitching?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I gotta be careful. I don't want to step on
the string.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, Angel, if you stepped on the string.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You're right to pull your tooth.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's why I gotta be careful. Look, you tied the
string on the tooth so you could pull it out,
didn't you. Yeah, but I'm not ready yet. That tooth
pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Ah, you could sneeze it out.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Now, let's not start an argument. I think your father
has something he wants to say.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Oh yeah, you're.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Gonna drive me over to Joe's. No, but now listen,
all three of you.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Father, would you call mister Fredericks at the college tell
him I can't.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Be in the play tonight that I betty. Please.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Ruth Clanons knows my part. She's simply dying. Would you
to me if I have to get up on that
stage tonight, I'll die, I'll utterly die. I can't remember
a single line, not a single line.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I can't walk over to Joe's. Now, wait, I don't
know what's come over you. Kids. Where's your backbone? You
can't go through life running away from your problems.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
If I go outside and bean is out there, I
won't have any life to go through.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
It's easy for you to talk father. You don't have
to get up on that stage.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, and you don't have a loose too.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I wish you children would listen to your father. We're listening,
but he doesn't understand.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Look, Princess, I've been through all these things. Take my
word for giving up. Running away, hiding your head in
the sand just makes matters worse. To get along and
make your way in this world, you have to be
able to face difficulties overcome them. I know why every
problem you meet is solved, makes you that much stronger
to face the next one. Oh oh boy, what's the matter, Bud?
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Sounds like a hard life. Life isn't easy, But believe me,
it isn't nearly as hard if you start out right
at the beginning to take the good with the bad
no matter what comes along, do your best, and above all,
face the facts. Don't run away, Okay.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I won't run away from beaner Adah boy, Bud, I'll
stay right here in the house.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Steady as kitten.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Well, honey, I can't run away from my two angel
why don't you come with me?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Nothing doing? You're gonna yank the string? Oh I wish
i'd never been born.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I wish I'd never been born.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
To me, well, I'm not giving up. Look, kids, I
have an idea. You all have. I have troubles. Oh
why don't the three of you get together and help
each other. Bud, you can help Betty learn the lines
for the play, and Betty can help Kathy. Who's gonna
help me?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
There's nothing Bud can do to help me? Father, I
can assure you of that.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I don't want anybody pulling on this string.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
It's a hard life. But stop saying that.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I wish I'd never been born, Betty.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I'm glad I was born.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Why was I born with teeth?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I don't know. I tried, Margaret. I'm going in the
den and lie down.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
What's the matter with father?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, to tell you the truth, children, I think your
father's a little disappointed. Why, mommy, because he loves you
all so much and he wants to be proud of you.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Isn't he proud of us.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Of course, he is angel.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
He knows you're all courageous and strong and able to
meet your problems, and it worries him when he sees
you acting as you are. I'm not doing your best.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Hm you think it dies?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
No, let's say no more about it. You all know
what you have to do, and you know how to
do it. From here on, it's up to you.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
We understand, mother. I'll run along at I have to
clean up this kitchen.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
See you later, Mom.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'll be upstairs, Mommy.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Oh darn father, I.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Mean the dan Princess. What do you want?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Will you help me? I'll try once more to learn
these lines?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Why sure, Princess? Give me the script start.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
On page thirty one where I come into the big scene.
That's the long speech that I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
All right, now, just take it easy. Here we go,
Doctor Martin says, Elaine. You've come back and.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
You win it.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh, Charles, I couldn't go no matter what the past
has done to us.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Cruel time in which every hour has oh what's the
matter with me?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I don't be nervous, princess. Cruel time in which every
hour has been a cold wall building.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Cruel time in which every hour has been a cold
wall building to divide us, distrust like darkness.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Blinding our blinding our Oh father, I'm so worried.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I'm so frightened. I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You'll remember. You're going to go out on that stage
tonight and the lines will come to you. Believe me. Now,
let's try it again. From the beginning, honny, hitting, what happened?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I saw my chies again, and I'm by myself.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Look lak well, good for you, kitten. Are you proud
of me?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
I certainly am funny.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Lucky that I saw my.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Child, all right, father.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
From the beginning, Good now, relax, here we go, Elaine,
you've come back, Oh Charles.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I couldn't go no matter what the past has done
to us, cruel time.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
In which every hour has been has been a cold
wall billing to divide us, distrust, distrust like darkness, blinding up,
oh no, blinding our hearts to the truth, and blinding
our hearts to the truth.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
And crying vanity and vengeance.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh father, it's no use, it's no use.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
Okay, tomorrow and school okay?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But was that you? You and I got staying out? Okay? Well,
good for you, suh. I sure thought I was gonna
get it, but he was Okay. Well, I'm proud of you.
I knew you'd do it.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Hey Mom, I did it?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Hey Mom?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, Princess, I guess I'm just a boy.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Shout father. I can't go through with a plane that night.
I just can't.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Are you sure i'll die up on that stage?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I know I will? Up to you, Princess. Do you
want me to call mister Fredericks and tell him you
can't make it? What do you say, Princess?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Oh, I'll try it. Father, I'll go up and get trap.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Hm.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Well, dear, I suppose you've heard about Kathy and but yeah, great,
Now we have two down and one to go.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Where's Betty up getting dressed?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Is she gonna try to do the play?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Well? She said she was for a kid. I know
just how she feels.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Do you think she knows the part?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I hope? So she's scared the death.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, we'd better be getting ready if we're going to
be at the theater at eight thirty.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Alright, let's go. You know something, Margaret, I'm gonna lose
ten years of my life sitting in that audience tonight. Gee.
It sure's a long end mission, Mommy, where's daddy?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
He went backstage angel to talk to Betty. He'll be
right back.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Old Betty's done pretty good so far.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
This next act is the one your father's worried about me.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
When's the show gonna start again, Mommy?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
In just a few minutes. They have to change the scenery.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Pardon me, hey, excuse me? H pardon?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Oh? Did you see her?
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Dear?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yes, I saw her.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You think he's gonna be in the next act, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I hope, so, kitten. How's she doing, dad? Well, she's breathing.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Oh, poor child. Do you think she'll get through it?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I don't know, Margaret. She has the worst case of
stage fright I've ever seen in this last act coming up,
has that long speech in it.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Sh there goes the curtain. Where's Daddy's kidness?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
She comes out in a minute.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Want me to hold your hand, Dear.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Maybe I shouldn't have urged her to go through with this?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Hold your breath?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
What have I done? What have I done? And I
have no one to blame but myself, no one. Where's Betty?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
She comes in after his next guy, and you see
her in the wings?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Is she ready?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
She's there?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
What's that? Who's at the door?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Elame?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
You've come back? Here we go?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Oh, Charles, I couldn't go, no matter what the past
has done to us full times in which every hour
has been a cold wall building to divide us. This
TUF's like darkness, sliming our hearts to the proof and
finding vanity invention. Yes, Charles, I have come back to
you to believe in you, to love you.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Oh well, that's.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Dear Margaret. She did it, She did it. Holy, come
mo on? What happened to dad?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Nothing, bud, He's just a proud father.
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Speaker 3 (25:58):
Well. There have been some pretty tense around the white
frame house on Maple Street today, between Kathy's Loose Too
Beaner brandage and the play at the College Theater. The
Anderson family has earned a good night's rest. All the
junior Anderson's are in bed, and Jim and Margaret are
on the way like this. The kids really came through,
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didn't they. Honey?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I knew they would.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Oh, I did too. That was one of the biggest
thrills of my life tonight, seeing Betty walk out on
that stage and knowing she was terrified, but going right on.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I had a small lump in my throat about that time.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
One thing worries me a little, Honey. Do you suppose
Betty feels that I forced her to go through with it?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Oh? No? Look at her room.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Does she sleep, Betty? You sleep?
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
She's deep in dreams. Look pretty a princess.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
You're not angry with your old dad, are you?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I have come back to believe in you and love you.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Alwie, how do you like that? Talking in her sleep?
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Who's Asleep.
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means of developing strength of character, Old Ben Franklin tried
each day to do one thing that he was afraid
to do. And I guess it's not such a bad
rule at that. Perhaps it was this same basic idea
that Jim Anderson was trying to put across when certain
problems arose in the white frame house on Maple Street
the other day. The thing that undoubtedly influenced Jim's approach
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to the aforementioned problems was an anecdote he related to
Margaret after he had gotten home from work that evening
like this, So anyway, these boys were out on a
scout campus.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I'd say it was George Brubaker's son, who was so heroic.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
No, George's boy was the other kid involved. It was
Ed Garland's boy.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Oh, so they what do you do?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, I'm coming to that.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
They assumed missus Garland in the market yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Good. So these boys were out surprisingly well, Margaret, do
you want to hear you know?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That's way Cody had brought her for Christmas Mark. She
has the cutest little hat made of the same material.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, a lot of these kids were.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Father.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yes, Betty, I thought you were, Oh, hello, father, going
to come upstairs and help me rehearse for this utterly
dumb play I'm in.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh, while I was delayed, your father was telling me
about the little Garland boy.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
It was very interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
How do you know.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What happened to the Garland boy?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, he go ahead, Margaret tell her.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Well, no, that's funny. It slipped my mind. I guess
you didn't tell it very clearly, dear.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I didn't tell it at all.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Mother. I think I'd better drop out of the play.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I'll just never memorize all those lines. But never, you
can't drop off.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Now, all the plays tonight, the schools depending on you.
I know, you on upstairs and keep working on it
and I'll be up in a moment and help you.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Oh alright, I'll never learn it though.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Is that the college place she's worrying about.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yes, I'm sorry I interrupted your story, dear. Go on now,
I listen.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I promise well these boys, Oh no, mommy.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I'll be there in a minute. Cathe don't must tell well,
just keep your.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Mouth closed until I get there. You'll be alright.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Go ahead, jim, Well.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I'll tell you some other time.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
No, no, I don't want to hear it now. I'm interested.
Really well.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Briefly, the Garland boy and the Brewbaker boy got separated
from the others while they were trying to pass a
test to identifying wildlife or something, and it started to
pour down rain, and young Brewbaker slipped down the ravines,
brained his ankles, poured some ligaments, oh dear, and fell
into the stream. Young Garland couldn't swim, but he jumped
in and somehow got the Brewbaker kid on the shore.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Me, I'll be there in a minute. Angel.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He dragged him into a shell or some rocks and
gave him what first aid he could, and then fought
his way through the storm to find the others and
get help.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Heavens.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He was certainly a.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Brave little fellow.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That's real courage that Garland has right to be real
proud of that boy.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I should think so here.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
This kid was frightened at dead, but he did it anyway.
That takes real courage. Yes, sir, that's what I like
to see in a boy.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I'm mom high day.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Hold on there, But where are you going in such
a rush?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I'll explain it later, Dad, I'll be down on the base.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, just a minute. Here comes to the door. Oh,
I'm not home. Who's Beaner Brandage? Oh? You know, he's
that kid that thinks he's so tough. He just thinks
he's tough. Huh. Yeah. The only trouble is I think
so too. I'm not Bud. You're not going to let
him buffalo you?
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Well, no, I'm a Well, what I'm doing is outsmarting.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Him, out smarting him.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Yeah, I'm gonna hide out until he gets tired waiting
and goes away.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, that's probably the best thing to do. I don't
want Bud to go around fighting.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
All the time.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, I don't want him fighting all the time either,
But mother, mommy, dear.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
In a minute, Mommy, I want my news tooth out. Well,
put it out. Then I'm afraid, too afraid.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Why is everyone around here so afraid of everything? But
why are you afraid of this beanie or whatever his
name is. It's Beaner, and boy does he bean here
on the head. That's how he got his name.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I'm coming out, Mommy. This truth bothers me.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Jim, will you see what you can do with her too?
I've got to go up and help daddy.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Sure that's easy. You got a piece of string, kitten?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Will it hurt?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No? Of course not. Go get some string. Don't. But
I don't leave yet. Don't go down in the basement.
Why is he after you? That's what I want to know.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Well, I accidentally shoved him while we were playing basketball yesterday,
and he's trying to get even.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Why didn't you tell him it was just an accident.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I did, and he said accidents will happen. In fact,
you said an accident's gonna happen to you right now,
and he's been chasing me ever since.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You Better go out there and face him. Reason with him.
Reason with Beaner, sure, the only thing to do. He
reasons too hard. Now look here, he'll bot me but
I'm not going out there. But do you want me
to feel ashamed of you? Dad? Let's put it this way.
I'm trying to make you proud of me for using
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my head.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh me, Daddy has a string long enough.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Long enough. We don't need all that, Kitten. We're just
going to pull a tooth, not fly a kite.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Don't break it, daddy, use it long.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
But we don't need all this, Yes we do.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I don't want to be in the same room when
you pull my tooth.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Why didn't you get some taffy and two on it
so that'll get the tooth out of there.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I don't like taffy.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
All right, open your mouth, kitten and stand still. Why
don't you go outside and let be in a knock
it out for you? Katy, keep your mouth open. I
can't tie the string on your tooth. If you don't,
will it hurt? Of course not.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Claud Messner said he used to tie his blue teeth
to a slingshot and shoot him off.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Said he now I have it in just a second. Oh,
don't talk, Yeah, that's it. Oh. The next step is
to tie the other end of a door. Knock here,
give it to me. I'll do it. No, I don't
like it up well, you want the tooth outic, don't you?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yes, I don't want you to do it only cow.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I won't hurt you, but I think you have something
else to take care of. You better go out and
talk to young Beaner. He's not much of a talker.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I think I'll go up to my room and read, but.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Come back here. I'll be upstairs if you want me. Hm, Well,
come on, let's get that tooth out, kitten.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I think I've changed my mind. Daddy, what I'm afraid?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Now, stop using that word. You're not afraid. I'm not,
certainly not. Come on now, I won't Mommy to do it.
She's busy. Decide I can do it just as well
as she can, better even I want mommy to do it. Mommy, Mommy,
do listen, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I think you better go up and see if you
can do something with Betty. She thinks she can't go through.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
With the play. Whatever gave her that idea?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Mommy?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Angel? What is it?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Nothing, I've changed my mind.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I'm going out and pray.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Well, Waite, you can't go out with that string trailing
out of your mouth, haven't you gotten my too thought
yet I think I'll wait.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Just tomorrow, I'll be out in that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well, don't trimp over that string, Jim.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
When you talk to Betty, Yes, Betty, Jim, when you
talk to Betty, I'll be right up.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I mean, yeah, that's what I mean. For a second there,
I didn't know which one of us was.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Mother.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Well, Jim, when you go up, would you down?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I've got to stay back and tell them, just have
to get someone.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Else for the part. But Betty, the plays to there.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yes, you can't let them down, Princess.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I'll let them down worse by being in it.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm just awful, just simply simply awful, now, Princess, but
worse than awful.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, let's go in the den and have a look
at the play. Things are rarely as bad as they seem.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
It's no use, father, I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You can do anything you want to do if you
just make up your mind.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Well, my mind's made up. I can't do it. Money coming, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, maybe it's just one of those plays that's hard
to memorize. What is the play?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Oh, it's some dumb old thing called the Brideboard tulips.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I see I don't think I ever heard of that.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Who has?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Who?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Are you in it? The bride?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
No, I'm well, I'm the other woman. I guess you'd
call me. I see, I'm the bride's sister.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
She hates me.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I hate her too, And she's trying to marry this fella,
not because she loves him, but just to keep me
from getting it.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
But actually I don't want him either.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I just let her think so because I'm secretly in
love with this law student who's really in love with her?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
But who?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You get the idea?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Oh? Sure, it's very clear. Well, let's have a go
at it. Where do you start having trouble with the part?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
The trouble starts on page twenty nine?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
All right, page twenty nine. You've got it pretty well
up to there.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Huh No, that's where I first come in.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Oh I see, well, all right, you want me to
kill you?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I don't care. It's no use, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well let's see here. Elaine enters through the French doors.
Are you Elaine? Yes? George looks up from his book, startled,
all right, George, why Elayne? I thought you had gone?
All right? Gone?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
What do I say.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
All you say is I want to talk to you George.
Now that's easy.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I want to talk to you George.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
That's right, But I think you can give it a
little more feeling. Remember now you are Elaine. Now what
does this mean to her? Why does she want to
talk to George? Is it important? All right, let's start again, ready,
I guess so why Elayne? I thought you had.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Gone see there?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Father?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I can't remember a thing, Oh, Princess. My mind just
freezes up, and.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I know that's exactly what will happen to me when
I walk out on that stage.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Well, now, right, there's your problem. You're worrying about something
that will never happen. You've built this fear up in
your own mind and it has no reality at all.
Let's just forget about the audience, forget that you're on
a stage, start believing that you are this character.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I just simply can't go through with it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I get off shaky Joe, Philip, Yes, you can do
it better.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Can you drive me over to Joe's just in case
Been is still out there? Oh? Bud, Now listen, Bud,
I want you to go out there. Do you want
it out? Don't you?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Hold on there one at a time. Oh me, why
did I ever take up being a father? Floor Jim,
he's surrounded with problems. Have to set a man's nerves
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Speaker 7 (12:03):
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Speaker 3 (12:27):
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Speaker 7 (12:29):
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Speaker 3 (12:35):
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Speaker 3 (13:30):
Why is it that other people's children, according to reports,
are able to face life's problems and come smiling through
like stout little truth, while our own show a disturbing
tendency to run for cover at the first breath of
an ill wind. This is a question that's puzzling Jim
Anderson this evening, as he takes refuge in the kitchen
to discuss the problem with Margaret, like this, I can't
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understand what's happened to the kids? Honey, what have we
done wrong?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
So what makes you think we've done anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Look at Betty and Bud that he's completely terrified because
she has to appear in that play at the college tonight.
Bud afraid to go outside because some kids after him.
Even Kathy prowling around the house with a spring tied
to her tooth and afraid to let anybody touch it. Well,
do you have an ounce of courage or character anywhere
in the three of them.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Well, there are children, dear. Whatever they are is just
a reflection of you and me. I'm just as disappointed
as you are.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Oh wait, I didn't say I.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Was disappointed like mother like daughter, like father like son.
Isn't that true?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeh possibly, But let's not start condemning the children without
giving them a chance.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Well, I'm not condemning. You are the one who said that.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I simply said, we have to figure out some way
to help them. We know they have the character and courage.
We just have to show them how to use it,
that's all. Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I see, Well, I guess I didn't understand you correctly before.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
There's certainly nothing wrong with Bud, or with Betty or
Kathy either. It's not you seem to have a tendency sometimes, Honey,
to criticize the children before you really think.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Oh, well, it's my brutal disposition. I guess we have.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
To approach these things tactfully, with a lot of thought.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Oh, I agree.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
In the kitchen, Bud, I'll just give me a little time, Honey,
I'll prove to you that the kids are all right.
They have what it takes you.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Watch all right, I'll watch. Are you out of your father?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yes? And I want to talk to you, Princess. Yeah,
and you too, Bud. Yeah, just a minute. But Pathy,
where are you kitching?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I gotta be careful. I don't want to step on
the string.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, Angel, if you stepped on the string.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You're right to pull your tooth.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's why I gotta be careful. Look, you tied the
string on the tooth so you could pull it out,
didn't you. Yeah, but I'm not ready yet. That tooth
pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Ah, you could sneeze it out.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Now, let's not start an argument. I think your father
has something he wants to say.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Oh yeah, you're.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Gonna drive me over to Joe's. No, but now listen,
all three of you.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Father, would you call mister Fredericks at the college tell
him I can't.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Be in the play tonight that I betty. Please.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Ruth Clanons knows my part. She's simply dying. Would you
to me if I have to get up on that
stage tonight, I'll die, I'll utterly die. I can't remember
a single line, not a single line.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I can't walk over to Joe's. Now, wait, I don't
know what's come over you. Kids. Where's your backbone? You
can't go through life running away from your problems.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
If I go outside and bean is out there, I
won't have any life to go through.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
It's easy for you to talk father. You don't have
to get up on that stage.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, and you don't have a loose too.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I wish you children would listen to your father. We're listening,
but he doesn't understand.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Look, Princess, I've been through all these things. Take my
word for giving up. Running away, hiding your head in
the sand just makes matters worse. To get along and
make your way in this world, you have to be
able to face difficulties overcome them. I know why every
problem you meet is solved, makes you that much stronger
to face the next one. Oh oh boy, what's the matter, Bud?
(17:12):
Sounds like a hard life. Life isn't easy, But believe me,
it isn't nearly as hard if you start out right
at the beginning to take the good with the bad
no matter what comes along, do your best, and above all,
face the facts. Don't run away, Okay.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I won't run away from beaner Adah boy, Bud, I'll
stay right here in the house.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Steady as kitten.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Well, honey, I can't run away from my two angel
why don't you come with me?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Nothing doing? You're gonna yank the string? Oh I wish
i'd never been born.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I wish I'd never been born.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
To me, well, I'm not giving up. Look, kids, I
have an idea. You all have. I have troubles. Oh
why don't the three of you get together and help
each other. Bud, you can help Betty learn the lines
for the play, and Betty can help Kathy. Who's gonna
help me?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
There's nothing Bud can do to help me? Father, I
can assure you of that.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I don't want anybody pulling on this string.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
It's a hard life. But stop saying that.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I wish I'd never been born, Betty.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I'm glad I was born.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Why was I born with teeth?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I don't know. I tried, Margaret. I'm going in the
den and lie down.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
What's the matter with father?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, to tell you the truth, children, I think your
father's a little disappointed. Why, mommy, because he loves you
all so much and he wants to be proud of you.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Isn't he proud of us.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Of course, he is angel.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
He knows you're all courageous and strong and able to
meet your problems, and it worries him when he sees
you acting as you are. I'm not doing your best.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Hm you think it dies?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
No, let's say no more about it. You all know
what you have to do, and you know how to
do it. From here on, it's up to you.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
We understand, mother. I'll run along at I have to
clean up this kitchen.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
See you later, Mom.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'll be upstairs, Mommy.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Oh darn father, I.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Mean the dan Princess. What do you want?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Will you help me? I'll try once more to learn
these lines?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Why sure, Princess? Give me the script start.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
On page thirty one where I come into the big scene.
That's the long speech that I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
All right, now, just take it easy. Here we go,
Doctor Martin says, Elaine. You've come back and.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
You win it.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh, Charles, I couldn't go no matter what the past
has done to us.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Cruel time in which every hour has oh what's the
matter with me?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I don't be nervous, princess. Cruel time in which every
hour has been a cold wall building.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Cruel time in which every hour has been a cold
wall building to divide us, distrust like darkness.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Blinding our blinding our Oh father, I'm so worried.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I'm so frightened. I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You'll remember. You're going to go out on that stage
tonight and the lines will come to you. Believe me. Now,
let's try it again. From the beginning, honny, hitting, what happened?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I saw my chies again, and I'm by myself.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Look lak well, good for you, kitten. Are you proud
of me?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
I certainly am funny.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Lucky that I saw my.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Child, all right, father.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
From the beginning, Good now, relax, here we go, Elaine,
you've come back, Oh Charles.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I couldn't go no matter what the past has done
to us, cruel time.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
In which every hour has been has been a cold
wall billing to divide us, distrust, distrust like darkness, blinding up,
oh no, blinding our hearts to the truth, and blinding
our hearts to the truth.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
And crying vanity and vengeance.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh father, it's no use, it's no use.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
Okay, tomorrow and school okay?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But was that you? You and I got staying out? Okay? Well,
good for you, suh. I sure thought I was gonna
get it, but he was Okay. Well, I'm proud of you.
I knew you'd do it.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Hey Mom, I did it?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Hey Mom?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, Princess, I guess I'm just a boy.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Shout father. I can't go through with a plane that night.
I just can't.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Are you sure i'll die up on that stage?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I know I will? Up to you, Princess. Do you
want me to call mister Fredericks and tell him you
can't make it? What do you say, Princess?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Oh, I'll try it. Father, I'll go up and get trap.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Hm.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Well, dear, I suppose you've heard about Kathy and but yeah, great,
Now we have two down and one to go.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Where's Betty up getting dressed?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Is she gonna try to do the play?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Well? She said she was for a kid. I know
just how she feels.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Do you think she knows the part?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I hope? So she's scared the death.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, we'd better be getting ready if we're going to
be at the theater at eight thirty.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Alright, let's go. You know something, Margaret, I'm gonna lose
ten years of my life sitting in that audience tonight. Gee.
It sure's a long end mission, Mommy, where's daddy?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
He went backstage angel to talk to Betty. He'll be
right back.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Old Betty's done pretty good so far.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
This next act is the one your father's worried about me.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
When's the show gonna start again, Mommy?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
In just a few minutes. They have to change the scenery.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Pardon me, hey, excuse me? H pardon?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Oh? Did you see her?
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Dear?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yes, I saw her.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You think he's gonna be in the next act, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I hope, so, kitten. How's she doing, dad? Well, she's breathing.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Oh, poor child. Do you think she'll get through it?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I don't know, Margaret. She has the worst case of
stage fright I've ever seen in this last act coming up,
has that long speech in it.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Sh there goes the curtain. Where's Daddy's kidness?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
She comes out in a minute.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Want me to hold your hand, Dear.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Maybe I shouldn't have urged her to go through with this?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Hold your breath?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
What have I done? What have I done? And I
have no one to blame but myself, no one. Where's Betty?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
She comes in after his next guy, and you see
her in the wings?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Is she ready?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
She's there?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
What's that? Who's at the door?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Elame?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
You've come back? Here we go?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Oh, Charles, I couldn't go, no matter what the past
has done to us full times in which every hour
has been a cold wall building to divide us. This
TUF's like darkness, sliming our hearts to the proof and
finding vanity invention. Yes, Charles, I have come back to
you to believe in you, to love you.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Oh well, that's.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Dear Margaret. She did it, She did it. Holy, come
mo on? What happened to dad?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Nothing, bud, He's just a proud father.
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Speaker 3 (25:58):
Well. There have been some pretty tense around the white
frame house on Maple Street today, between Kathy's Loose Too
Beaner brandage and the play at the College Theater. The
Anderson family has earned a good night's rest. All the
junior Anderson's are in bed, and Jim and Margaret are
on the way like this. The kids really came through,
(26:20):
didn't they. Honey?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I knew they would.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Oh, I did too. That was one of the biggest
thrills of my life tonight, seeing Betty walk out on
that stage and knowing she was terrified, but going right on.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I had a small lump in my throat about that time.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
One thing worries me a little, Honey. Do you suppose
Betty feels that I forced her to go through with it?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Oh? No? Look at her room.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Does she sleep, Betty? You sleep?
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
She's deep in dreams. Look pretty a princess.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
You're not angry with your old dad, are you?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I have come back to believe in you and love you.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Alwie, how do you like that? Talking in her sleep?
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Who's Asleep.
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