July 25, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, Is Maxwell House the best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by
more people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Maxwell House always good to the last drop. In the
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year eighteen sixty seven, a man named Christopher Schole sat
down at a typewriter in Milwaukee and pecked out that
immortal sentence, Now is the time for all good men
to come to the aid of the party. Naturally, he
wasn't thinking of Springfield at the time. But if ever
a party needed being come to the aid of, it's
the Christmas Brannigan being arranged for the country Club by
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the Andersons and their friends. And if you've never heard
a welcome ring, you ought to hear what's going on
in the living room of the white frame house on
Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
As a matter of fact, you can like this.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
She's only a bird in a gilded cage.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
A beautyful side to see.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
You may think she's happy and free but from care but.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
Eye, but wait a minute, follows? Now, what's the matter?
Speaker 8 (01:51):
How come you get to sing all the words?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Well, that's the way you're supposed to do it. Who
said so?
Speaker 7 (01:58):
My father said, so?
Speaker 8 (02:00):
You mean all we're ever gonna get to sing is.
Speaker 9 (02:05):
Let him sing it?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
Joe?
Speaker 9 (02:06):
What's the difference?
Speaker 8 (02:07):
Oh, we don't have to remember so much. I want
to sing more than hmm.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
It's monotonous, but that's how they do it on the
Jack Benny program.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Look, Joe, it's gonna be a gay nineties party, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I know?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
But and you want the singing to sound like the
gay nineties, don't you? Well sure, but why don't you
stop arguing? You weren't even living when they had the
gay nineties?
Speaker 8 (02:31):
Well, so what neither were you?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
My father was?
Speaker 9 (02:39):
He was what a dough? He didn't think he was
born yesterday? Did you no?
Speaker 8 (02:45):
But gosh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Boy, are you knave? I'm what knave that mean? Stupid?
Speaker 8 (02:56):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Well, now that we got that settled. Look but my
father told me, Wait a minute, what does your father
know about the gay nineties?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (03:05):
Where was he born?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
My father?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (03:08):
In Philadelphia.
Speaker 9 (03:10):
Okay, then shut up, let's go Bud.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Right, where were we?
Speaker 9 (03:14):
All right, let's start over.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Okay, Well, she's only a bird and.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
A killed cage, beautyful side to see.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I'm right, I'm home.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
You may think she's happy, but wait a second from what?
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Why don't we ask him again?
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
Your father? He just got home.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
He did?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Dad, Hello, Bud?
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
What are you boys up to now?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
We're rehearsing our song for the country club party?
Speaker 10 (04:02):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Would you like to hear it?
Speaker 9 (04:04):
Well, there won't be any trouble. Mister Anderson getting real good.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
Yeah, we're real hum dingers.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Methinks I detect a slight note of bitterness. Something wrong, Joe.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Mister Anderson, When you were a kid in the gay nineties,
did everybody sing.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
When I was what?
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Oh, I'm sorry, mister Anderson. When you were a child
in the gay nineties.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
That's more like it. What about when I was a
child in the.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Gay nineties, everybody's sang hmm, didn't they?
Speaker 7 (04:40):
Dad, No, I'd say it was more a boo boop
a doupe.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
In the gay nineties.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Well, we call them the gay twenties.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
And they sang boo boopa doope.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Oh, yes, practically all day long.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Wouldn't HM be a lot easier? I mean, mom said
boo boop a doope.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I'm sorry, but I didn't mean to get you all confused.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
Oh we aren't confused, are we, Freddy?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Who isn't we aren't He's only an mc guilder.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Boop boop a doop.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Does that sound like the gay nineties?
Speaker 9 (05:17):
It doesn't sound like the gay anything.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Boys, I wouldn't count too heavily on the Christmas party
if I were you, you wouldn't. Holy cow Dad. I
know you've been looking forward to it, but you see
certain things have come up and we may have to
call the whole thing off, call it all.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
But you can, mister Anderson, we've been practicing all after nerves.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Well, there isn't anything definite about it. I mean, where's
your mother, Bud.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
She's in the den with Betty Christmaster Anderson, you can't
call off the Christmas party.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Can you?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
I don't want to, Joe, but you go ahead with
your practicing and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Do you think he means it about calling it off?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I don't know. He certainly sounded like a minute didn't
eat Freddy.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
When I was a child in the gay nineties, Diamond,
Jim Anderson, that's me that.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Your father won't stand for it. And please, let's not
have any arguments.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
What won't I stand for?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh, dear, we didn't hear you come in?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Father, away, Daddy, Margaret, if you will take those pins
out of your mouth?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I'm sorry, dear. Is that better much?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Well? Lillian Russell, as I live and breathe, isn't it beautiful?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Father?
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Yes, sir, bustle and all. That's quite a dress.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Then he wants mommy to take the shoulder straps off,
all right, Kathy, Well that's what you said, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Just you wait, Margaret, We're not going to touch the
shoulder straps, Jim jumping creepers. But you've got to do
something about Kathy. She's been impossible all day. Oh I'm sorry, Kathy.
Speaker 11 (07:00):
But you have she's a disgrace to the entire family.
Speaker 12 (07:03):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You certainly are.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
What has she done now?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I haven't done anything, Daddy, honest, I haven't. Besides, he
pushed me first, Honey.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Don't you think this is something for you.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
To Well, I've got to get this hem pinned up
jim or it'll never be done.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But Betty, if you keep slouching like that, I'll never
get it even.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Pardon me, Margaret, I've had a very trying day.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And Kathy, tell your father what you did.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I didn't do anything anything much, Betty, please, I wasn't slouching.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They were playing with boats at Jimmy Woodi's and Kathy
pushed the poor child right into the bathtub with his
clothes on. Well, I should hope so, and she refuses.
She refuses, mind, you to apologize, But he.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
Pushed me first.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
He pushed you into the bathtub.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Nobody pushed me, Kathy.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
And why should I apologize when he pushed me first?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Kitten, it isn't a question of who did it first.
You want to be his friend, don't you.
Speaker 11 (08:10):
Well sure, and think.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
How simple it is. You say I'm sorry, and it's
all over.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
Why shouldn't he say he's sorry first?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Because he isn't as big as you are.
Speaker 11 (08:19):
He's bigger than I am.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
I don't mean that kind of big. I mean big
in a sense of character and integrity. You're bigger that
way I am. You can be you see, kitten, If
you've made a mistake and you acknowledge it. That's being big.
If you have a very good friend and you've had
some little misunderstanding, it doesn't matter whose fault it is.
The big thing to do is to say, I'm sorry. Pal.
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Let's forget the whole thing, right, honey, Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Dear, it's still higher on this side.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
See that means your mother agrees with me.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Daddy, Yes, kitten, if I go over to apologize, will
you go with.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Me, I'll be glad to matter of fact, we'll do
it right.
Speaker 11 (09:01):
Now, and then I'll be bigger in here.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
You certainly will be. Margaret.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Go ahead, dear, I'm listening.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Kathy and I are going over to apologize.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
We're gonna be big.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's fine, dear. And Jim tell Lucille if Kathy ruined anything,
we'll be glad to pay for it.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Lucilla Hathaway, of course, what has she got to do
with Jimmy Woody. Kathy, didn't you.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
Say it was Jimmy Woody's bathtub, Daddy?
Speaker 12 (09:25):
But I pushed Brad Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Just a minute, you said, Jim No matter what she said,
it was Brad Hathaway who landed in the tub.
Speaker 11 (09:33):
Head first, the little monster seems proud of it.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Betty.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Please, I'm going.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
To apologize because I'm big, aren't I?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Daddy?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
It's certainly are. But I tell you what, kittens, right
after dinner, I'll drop you off at the Hathaway's on
my way to the club.
Speaker 12 (09:49):
I want to apologize. Now.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
You won't have the time, baby, after all, dinner is
almost ready, and dinner won't be ready.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
For another hour. Jim.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
He might get the idea and then Hugh can over
here to apologize, and then he'll be big.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Well, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 12 (10:04):
I want to be big.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
People, Dear, I've got my hands full as it is.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Can't look. Why don't you write a nice, long letter
to Bradney please?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh, dear happy Kathleen. Yes, mommy, stop that, yes mommy,
and behave yourself.
Speaker 12 (10:33):
But I want to apologize, and nobody will let me.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Of course we will. You can go down to the
Hathaways and apologize for the next hour.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
By myself, Jim. I'm not going to have that child
running around the neighborhood alone after dark.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
I didn't mean alone that he can go where her
I can't.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Father, I'm full of pins.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Well, there's no reason why Bud can't take her, is there, Bud?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Jim, it'll do.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
It's all good, honey, get that bird out of her
cage for a while. But you want me bad?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Jim? Will you please tell me one thing? Why don't
you want to go to the Hathaways.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
I did tell you I've had a very trying day,
and I'm very tired, and I'd like to take a
little nap before dinner. That's all.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You're sure?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Just a minute, Bob? Of course, I'm sure you certainly
don't think. I mean, yes, honey. It isn't as though
I I'm not a child, Margaret and I yes, Well,
if you must know, Jim Hathaway and I aren't speaking,
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of course.
Speaker 13 (11:50):
Father isn't acting like a child. Oh no, he's just
enjoying a difference of opinion.
Speaker 14 (11:58):
Well, let's do bad.
Speaker 13 (12:00):
But more often than not, we agree with our friends
about things that are important to us. For example, when
it comes to coffee, truly good coffee with a flavor
you enjoy cup after cup. Most families throughout America agree
that means Maxwell House coffee. Indeed, more families buy and
enjoy Maxwell House coffee than any other brand at any price.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
The reason, of course, is that.
Speaker 13 (12:27):
Wonderful good to the last drop flavor a flavor that
belongs to Maxwell House alone. And here's why that's true.
You see, coffee grows in many parts of the world,
and there are all kinds of grades and varieties, but
the Maxwell House people insist on the very choicest extra
flavor coffees. For example, fancy Manizales coffees are selected for
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fragrant melonness, Superb Medlins for extra richness, Choice Booker among
us coffees for fine full body. In fact, Maxwellhouse buy
more of these superb premium coffees than anyone else. Then
these wonderful extra flavor coffees are blended with traditional Maxwell
House skill in just the right proportions to create that
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one and only good to the last drop flavor. And
believe me, that flavor is so good, so downright enjoyable
cup after cup that once you've tried Maxwell House, you'll
never again be satisfied with any coffee. But Maxwell House
the one coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
There's one thing about wives and children too, for that matter,
they just don't seem to understand that the things that
happen to a husband or a father, are well. Different
arguments between children or women can be settled very easily, because,
after all, they're just foolish, little misunderstanding, aren't they. Of course,
But when there's a difference of opinion between men, well
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that's another story.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Like this, honey, he was wrong and you know it.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But you're both working for the same thing, aren't you.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
That has nothing to do with it. I was appointed
chairman of the Christmas Party committee and he had no
right to interfere.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I don't think he was trying to interfere, dear he wasn't.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Well, if it isn't interfering, I'd like to know what
you call it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I think he was trying to help.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
But nobody asked him to help. That's the point. Just
because he's the president of the club, he has no
right to think he can run things to suit himself. Jim,
the committee picked out the gay nineties theme and everybody
was very happy with it. I know, dear boy, what
right did he have to come up with a Western theme?
That's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, Lucille explained the whole thing to me.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
She's the one.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Isn't bad enough having the president interfere. Now it's his wife.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Lucille was not interfering.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
She merely you know, she'll be running the Greens committee.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Jim, will you please listen?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Of course, go right ahead, say anything you please.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
All right, Lucille told me.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Who am I? I'm only the chairman of the committee,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
They realize that. But Lucille told.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
We spent hours discussing the best possible theme for the
Christmas party. But you don't have to pay any attention
to us. We're only the committee.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Are you quite finished?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You seem to have forgotten one thing. Lucille told.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
We discussed themes until we were blue in the face.
You know, people don't just pick out a gay nineties
theme by accident. It took a lot of very careful thought.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Jim, will you please be quiet.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
I'm not even allowed to have an opinion. I can
be pushed around by Jim and Lucille Hathaway and that's
all right. But if I try to say one word,
but one word, well, well, what what did Lucille tell you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh, we're back to that old.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Thing, Margaret. If you're going to tell me, tell me.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Now of course, Well, if Steve Brodie could jump off
a bridge, Lucille Hathaway told me, yes, thank you, to
at least a dozen winds.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Now, Look, honey, this happens to be a club run.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
They have too much trouble to be similar and less expensive.
There I said it, and I'm glad.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Margaret. You don't have to shout at me.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
No, tell me one other way I can make you listen,
be like a man.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Use lodging, Oh, fiddley d honey, profanity will get you nowhere.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Jim, I, oh, what's the use? I give up.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Look, I don't want you to think I'm being stubborn.
Of course, what right did Jim has the way have
to go over our heads and ask if the theme
of the party be changed.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He thought he was acting for the good of the club.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
This happens to be a republic, not a dictatorship. And
when one man takes it upon himself to defy the
very principles of American democracy, then it's high time that
the people stop it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What Ever, since they made you chairman of that silly committee,
you've done nothing but make speeches. Why the issue is
perfectly simple and clear, But you won't face it.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
The issue is that Jim Hathaway had no right.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
May ninety costumes are very elaborate and very expensive, and
no one is going to bother making them.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Jim Hathaway hadn't the right theme.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You just throw on some old clothes and make a
face like Affelon Cassidy tollers to it.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
May I please say something, pray, do thank you. Jim
Hathaway had no right.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Jim Hathaway had nothing to do with it, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
I was there when he came in, and if you must.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Know, the Western idea was mine.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Honey, how could you do a thing like that to me?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I'm sorry, angel, but do you realize how much work
is involved in making gay ninety costumes for five people.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
You made one for Betty and it looked beautiful.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That happens to be a new evening gown, and I
was merely shortening it.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Oh, I thought you bought her a new evening gown
with a bustle.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Bustles are back.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Well, that's the logical place for her. Last week you
said she didn't need a new evening gown.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And this week I decided she did.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Any questions, I'm all mixed up.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
The committee decided.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That Jim a Western theme is so much more informal
and practical. Everyone agrees that it's a much more sensible idea.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
They do, yes, Dear, they didn't like the gay nineties idea.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
They liked it, sweetheart, but it just isn't worth all
the effort.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
But the committee decided that the gay nineties.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Dad, the committee would have decided something else if you'd
asked a few women.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Besides, we've ordered fifty dollars worth of decorations.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Say, Dan, would you like to hear something?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Come on in, Fellas, But we're very busy right now.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
This will only take a minute, Dad, Bonnet Fellas. Yeah, God,
we changed the whole arrangement like you said. And it
sounds great, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Joe.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yeah, it's real, keen, But I just told you mine,
not fellas, and we'll do it far.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
But it's no use, Dear. We might as well hear it.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
You'll love it.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Mom. It'll take you back to your childhood in the
gay nineties.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That'll be nice.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Go ahead, Bud and get it over with you.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Bet that ready? Fellas? Okay, here we go.
Speaker 15 (19:10):
Mm hmm, she's all up bird in a yellow Oka boom.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
You see.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
What you may think.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
She's happy avery from care boom.
Speaker 15 (19:45):
She's not no jessy to.
Speaker 13 (19:50):
The boo.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Jim, What on earth I'll tell you about it late?
Go ahead, boys, you're doing fine.
Speaker 15 (20:02):
Is sad when you think got her ways live boom?
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Or you cannot made with.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Bo and her beauty was sold.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
Foreign old man's old boo doope, she's a br in argut.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Can boom boom?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That was very nice? Boys? It was very unusual.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Now, honey, the more I think about that Western idea,
is everything all.
Speaker 12 (21:11):
Right in there?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yes, dear, everything's fine.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
I heard the strangest.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
The boys were singing, Oh.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
What's the matter with her?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
But what would you and the other boys think of
a Western theme for the Christmas party?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Western?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
That's right, you know, cowboys, Indians that sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Did they sing about a burden a gilded cage?
Speaker 7 (21:35):
They did not?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
And how could we sing? Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Yes, sir, I think the Western theme is a very
good idea, fellas.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Let's go back to the living room. What for I've
got an idea about how we can do home on
the range with or without boots.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Yeah, I take your time, boys, there's no hurry.
Speaker 11 (21:59):
Right here.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Okay, Jim, don't you think you're being a little mean
to the boys.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
I was only kidding them, you know that.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And what was that boo boop doop business?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Oh? I didn't know they were gonna take me seriously.
They asked me how we used to sing in the
good old gay night?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, Kathy, what is it?
Speaker 12 (22:18):
Daddy?
Speaker 11 (22:19):
It's mister Hathaway and Brad.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Well.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I get all excited.
Speaker 12 (22:23):
But Brad's gonna.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
Apologize and then he'll be big Margaret.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I'll take care of it, dear, come along, Kathy.
Speaker 12 (22:29):
Mommy, don't let him apologize to me.
Speaker 11 (22:31):
I have to apologize first.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
I don't know, Jim, all right, fella, Hi, I'm not
interrupting anything. I might, of course, not come on in.
Sit down? Thank you? That was nice night, isn't it? Yes? Yes,
it's a uh where's Brad? You went into the kitchen
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for a drink? Oh? Uh? Nice night, isn't yes? Said Jim.
I guess we ought to take turns, Jim, this is getting.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
To be a habit.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Look, I just want you to know that I am
sorry about well, our little misunderstandings, so am I. It's
pretty silly, It's but I've notified the committee that we'll
follow your Gay nineties plan. Wait a minute, you had
no right to do that. Why not? I've decided you
were right and we ought to have the Western theme,
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but we can't. Why not. I've already told the committee.
You had no right to tell the committee. I'm the chairman.
Speaker 13 (23:41):
Now.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Look, Jim, Lucille went out and bought a whole gay
nineties outfit, and if you or she bought twelve of them,
you had no right going over my head. But the
Gay nineties was your idea and the Western was yours.
I'm the president, and I say, we'll have the Gay Nighties,
We'll have the Western Gay nineties. Western.
Speaker 12 (23:58):
You've got to stop them.
Speaker 14 (23:59):
It's terrible.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
What's the matter Kathy and Brand they're fighting.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
I thought Kathy wanted to apologize.
Speaker 11 (24:04):
They both do when they're fighting about it.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Well, we're going to see about that. Come on, Jim,
But don't think we're not going to have the Gay nineties.
We're going to have the Western Gay nineties. West Day nineties.
Western m.
Speaker 15 (24:22):
Oh Range were.
Speaker 14 (24:30):
The Let's have another cup of coffee.
Speaker 13 (25:03):
You know that phrase has become a traditional part of
American family life and in most families throughout America.
Speaker 14 (25:10):
The coffee that fills the cups.
Speaker 13 (25:11):
Is Maxwellhouse Coffee, chosen above all others for it's superb,
good to the last drop flavor. That's why I say
start serving our coffee to your family. There's such hearty
good cheer in every fragrant cup of Maxwell House coffee.
You'll say it has the best flavor you've ever tasted.
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Then just count all the truly good cups you get
from each pound, you'll agree that Maxwell House is to
day's coffee. Buy and remember Maxwellhouse coffee comes in three grinds, regular,
grip and pulverized, one exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Suited to the way you make coffee.
Speaker 13 (25:51):
So look for the sign of good coffee, the big
white cup, and drop on the familiar blue tin. Take
home Maxwell House, one coffee that's always good to the
last drop.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
It's some time later and the Christmas party at the
Springfield Country Club is mercifully a thing of the past.
Now it's after midnight and the Andersons are on their
way home, happy and definitely exhausted.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Like this, Well, that was quite a party, wasn't it, Yes, sir,
sure was.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
The best party we've ever had. That's what it was,
a gay nineties Western. How about a little close harmony? Honey,
mom's asleep, dan oh, Benny, she is tuned in south, Cathy, Well,
looks like we're the only live wires in the crowd.
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Let's try down by the old mill stream.
Speaker 16 (26:58):
Okay, okay, here we go down by old mill stream.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
It doesn't sound right if we both take the harmony.
Tell you what we'll do. I'll carry the melody the
first time through and you'll take the harmony. Then we'll
try it again and we'll switch parts. Okay, here we.
Speaker 17 (27:20):
Go down by the old mills.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
But but.
Speaker 17 (27:33):
Well, if that isn't oh wow, down by the old
mill stream where I fur Man.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
When you're on.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Say you were going to take the kids to see
Santa I did? Well, then how'd you find time to
make this gorgeous dessert?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yellow is easy to make.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Sure, is delicious, soul fruit rich.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Mighty easy on the grocery build too.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
That's a help with Christmas gifts to buy.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Let's have it off for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Six delicious flavors to choose from, and lots of easy,
thrifty ways to fix them up.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
That's Yello for red letter dessert. Join us again next
week when we'll be back where Father Knows Best, starring
Robert Young Is, Jim Anderson, but Roy Bargey and the
Maxwell House Orchestra in our cast, where Ted Donaldson is Bud,
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Jean Vander Pyle, Rhoda Williams, Norma Jean Nilson, Bill Johnstone,
Gil Stratton Junior, Tommy Cook, Johnny McGovern and yours truly,
Bill Foreman.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
So until next Thursday, good night and.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Good luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite
brand of coffee, Always good to the last drop. Mother
Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Ed Jane
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Mister Keen Tracer of Lost Persons brings you Mystery Tonight
on NBC
Mother, Is Maxwell House the best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by
more people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Maxwell House always good to the last drop. In the
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year eighteen sixty seven, a man named Christopher Schole sat
down at a typewriter in Milwaukee and pecked out that
immortal sentence, Now is the time for all good men
to come to the aid of the party. Naturally, he
wasn't thinking of Springfield at the time. But if ever
a party needed being come to the aid of, it's
the Christmas Brannigan being arranged for the country Club by
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the Andersons and their friends. And if you've never heard
a welcome ring, you ought to hear what's going on
in the living room of the white frame house on
Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
As a matter of fact, you can like this.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
She's only a bird in a gilded cage.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
A beautyful side to see.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
You may think she's happy and free but from care but.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
Eye, but wait a minute, follows? Now, what's the matter?
Speaker 8 (01:51):
How come you get to sing all the words?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Well, that's the way you're supposed to do it. Who
said so?
Speaker 7 (01:58):
My father said, so?
Speaker 8 (02:00):
You mean all we're ever gonna get to sing is.
Speaker 9 (02:05):
Let him sing it?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
Joe?
Speaker 9 (02:06):
What's the difference?
Speaker 8 (02:07):
Oh, we don't have to remember so much. I want
to sing more than hmm.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
It's monotonous, but that's how they do it on the
Jack Benny program.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Look, Joe, it's gonna be a gay nineties party, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I know?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
But and you want the singing to sound like the
gay nineties, don't you? Well sure, but why don't you
stop arguing? You weren't even living when they had the
gay nineties?
Speaker 8 (02:31):
Well, so what neither were you?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
My father was?
Speaker 9 (02:39):
He was what a dough? He didn't think he was
born yesterday? Did you no?
Speaker 8 (02:45):
But gosh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Boy, are you knave? I'm what knave that mean? Stupid?
Speaker 8 (02:56):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Well, now that we got that settled. Look but my
father told me, Wait a minute, what does your father
know about the gay nineties?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (03:05):
Where was he born?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
My father?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (03:08):
In Philadelphia.
Speaker 9 (03:10):
Okay, then shut up, let's go Bud.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Right, where were we?
Speaker 9 (03:14):
All right, let's start over.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Okay, Well, she's only a bird and.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
A killed cage, beautyful side to see.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I'm right, I'm home.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
You may think she's happy, but wait a second from what?
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Why don't we ask him again?
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
Your father? He just got home.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
He did?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Dad, Hello, Bud?
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
What are you boys up to now?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
We're rehearsing our song for the country club party?
Speaker 10 (04:02):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Would you like to hear it?
Speaker 9 (04:04):
Well, there won't be any trouble. Mister Anderson getting real good.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
Yeah, we're real hum dingers.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Methinks I detect a slight note of bitterness. Something wrong, Joe.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Mister Anderson, When you were a kid in the gay nineties,
did everybody sing.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
When I was what?
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Oh, I'm sorry, mister Anderson. When you were a child
in the gay nineties.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
That's more like it. What about when I was a
child in the.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Gay nineties, everybody's sang hmm, didn't they?
Speaker 7 (04:40):
Dad, No, I'd say it was more a boo boop
a doupe.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
In the gay nineties.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Well, we call them the gay twenties.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
And they sang boo boopa doope.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Oh, yes, practically all day long.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Wouldn't HM be a lot easier? I mean, mom said
boo boop a doope.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I'm sorry, but I didn't mean to get you all confused.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
Oh we aren't confused, are we, Freddy?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Who isn't we aren't He's only an mc guilder.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Boop boop a doop.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Does that sound like the gay nineties?
Speaker 9 (05:17):
It doesn't sound like the gay anything.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Boys, I wouldn't count too heavily on the Christmas party
if I were you, you wouldn't. Holy cow Dad. I
know you've been looking forward to it, but you see
certain things have come up and we may have to
call the whole thing off, call it all.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
But you can, mister Anderson, we've been practicing all after nerves.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Well, there isn't anything definite about it. I mean, where's
your mother, Bud.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
She's in the den with Betty Christmaster Anderson, you can't
call off the Christmas party.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Can you?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
I don't want to, Joe, but you go ahead with
your practicing and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Do you think he means it about calling it off?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I don't know. He certainly sounded like a minute didn't
eat Freddy.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
When I was a child in the gay nineties, Diamond,
Jim Anderson, that's me that.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Your father won't stand for it. And please, let's not
have any arguments.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
What won't I stand for?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh, dear, we didn't hear you come in?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Father, away, Daddy, Margaret, if you will take those pins
out of your mouth?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I'm sorry, dear. Is that better much?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Well? Lillian Russell, as I live and breathe, isn't it beautiful?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Father?
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Yes, sir, bustle and all. That's quite a dress.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Then he wants mommy to take the shoulder straps off,
all right, Kathy, Well that's what you said, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Just you wait, Margaret, We're not going to touch the
shoulder straps, Jim jumping creepers. But you've got to do
something about Kathy. She's been impossible all day. Oh I'm sorry, Kathy.
Speaker 11 (07:00):
But you have she's a disgrace to the entire family.
Speaker 12 (07:03):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You certainly are.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
What has she done now?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I haven't done anything, Daddy, honest, I haven't. Besides, he
pushed me first, Honey.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Don't you think this is something for you.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
To Well, I've got to get this hem pinned up
jim or it'll never be done.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But Betty, if you keep slouching like that, I'll never
get it even.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Pardon me, Margaret, I've had a very trying day.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And Kathy, tell your father what you did.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I didn't do anything anything much, Betty, please, I wasn't slouching.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They were playing with boats at Jimmy Woodi's and Kathy
pushed the poor child right into the bathtub with his
clothes on. Well, I should hope so, and she refuses.
She refuses, mind, you to apologize, But he.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
Pushed me first.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
He pushed you into the bathtub.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Nobody pushed me, Kathy.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
And why should I apologize when he pushed me first?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Kitten, it isn't a question of who did it first.
You want to be his friend, don't you.
Speaker 11 (08:10):
Well sure, and think.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
How simple it is. You say I'm sorry, and it's
all over.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
Why shouldn't he say he's sorry first?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Because he isn't as big as you are.
Speaker 11 (08:19):
He's bigger than I am.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
I don't mean that kind of big. I mean big
in a sense of character and integrity. You're bigger that
way I am. You can be you see, kitten, If
you've made a mistake and you acknowledge it. That's being big.
If you have a very good friend and you've had
some little misunderstanding, it doesn't matter whose fault it is.
The big thing to do is to say, I'm sorry. Pal.
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Let's forget the whole thing, right, honey, Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Dear, it's still higher on this side.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
See that means your mother agrees with me.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Daddy, Yes, kitten, if I go over to apologize, will
you go with.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Me, I'll be glad to matter of fact, we'll do
it right.
Speaker 11 (09:01):
Now, and then I'll be bigger in here.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
You certainly will be. Margaret.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Go ahead, dear, I'm listening.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Kathy and I are going over to apologize.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
We're gonna be big.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's fine, dear. And Jim tell Lucille if Kathy ruined anything,
we'll be glad to pay for it.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Lucilla Hathaway, of course, what has she got to do
with Jimmy Woody. Kathy, didn't you.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
Say it was Jimmy Woody's bathtub, Daddy?
Speaker 12 (09:25):
But I pushed Brad Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Just a minute, you said, Jim No matter what she said,
it was Brad Hathaway who landed in the tub.
Speaker 11 (09:33):
Head first, the little monster seems proud of it.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Betty.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Please, I'm going.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
To apologize because I'm big, aren't I?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Daddy?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
It's certainly are. But I tell you what, kittens, right
after dinner, I'll drop you off at the Hathaway's on
my way to the club.
Speaker 12 (09:49):
I want to apologize. Now.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
You won't have the time, baby, after all, dinner is
almost ready, and dinner won't be ready.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
For another hour. Jim.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
He might get the idea and then Hugh can over
here to apologize, and then he'll be big.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Well, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 12 (10:04):
I want to be big.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
People, Dear, I've got my hands full as it is.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Can't look. Why don't you write a nice, long letter
to Bradney please?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh, dear happy Kathleen. Yes, mommy, stop that, yes mommy,
and behave yourself.
Speaker 12 (10:33):
But I want to apologize, and nobody will let me.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Of course we will. You can go down to the
Hathaways and apologize for the next hour.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
By myself, Jim. I'm not going to have that child
running around the neighborhood alone after dark.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
I didn't mean alone that he can go where her
I can't.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Father, I'm full of pins.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Well, there's no reason why Bud can't take her, is there, Bud?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Jim, it'll do.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
It's all good, honey, get that bird out of her
cage for a while. But you want me bad?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Jim? Will you please tell me one thing? Why don't
you want to go to the Hathaways.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
I did tell you I've had a very trying day,
and I'm very tired, and I'd like to take a
little nap before dinner. That's all.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You're sure?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Just a minute, Bob? Of course, I'm sure you certainly
don't think. I mean, yes, honey. It isn't as though
I I'm not a child, Margaret and I yes, Well,
if you must know, Jim Hathaway and I aren't speaking,
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of course.
Speaker 13 (11:50):
Father isn't acting like a child. Oh no, he's just
enjoying a difference of opinion.
Speaker 14 (11:58):
Well, let's do bad.
Speaker 13 (12:00):
But more often than not, we agree with our friends
about things that are important to us. For example, when
it comes to coffee, truly good coffee with a flavor
you enjoy cup after cup. Most families throughout America agree
that means Maxwell House coffee. Indeed, more families buy and
enjoy Maxwell House coffee than any other brand at any price.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
The reason, of course, is that.
Speaker 13 (12:27):
Wonderful good to the last drop flavor a flavor that
belongs to Maxwell House alone. And here's why that's true.
You see, coffee grows in many parts of the world,
and there are all kinds of grades and varieties, but
the Maxwell House people insist on the very choicest extra
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more of these superb premium coffees than anyone else. Then
these wonderful extra flavor coffees are blended with traditional Maxwell
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believe me, that flavor is so good, so downright enjoyable
cup after cup that once you've tried Maxwell House, you'll
never again be satisfied with any coffee. But Maxwell House
the one coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
There's one thing about wives and children too, for that matter,
they just don't seem to understand that the things that
happen to a husband or a father, are well. Different
arguments between children or women can be settled very easily, because,
after all, they're just foolish, little misunderstanding, aren't they. Of course,
But when there's a difference of opinion between men, well
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that's another story.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Like this, honey, he was wrong and you know it.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But you're both working for the same thing, aren't you.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
That has nothing to do with it. I was appointed
chairman of the Christmas Party committee and he had no
right to interfere.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I don't think he was trying to interfere, dear he wasn't.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Well, if it isn't interfering, I'd like to know what
you call it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I think he was trying to help.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
But nobody asked him to help. That's the point. Just
because he's the president of the club, he has no
right to think he can run things to suit himself. Jim,
the committee picked out the gay nineties theme and everybody
was very happy with it. I know, dear boy, what
right did he have to come up with a Western theme?
That's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, Lucille explained the whole thing to me.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
She's the one.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Isn't bad enough having the president interfere. Now it's his wife.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Lucille was not interfering.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
She merely you know, she'll be running the Greens committee.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Jim, will you please listen?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Of course, go right ahead, say anything you please.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
All right, Lucille told me.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Who am I? I'm only the chairman of the committee,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
They realize that. But Lucille told.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
We spent hours discussing the best possible theme for the
Christmas party. But you don't have to pay any attention
to us. We're only the committee.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Are you quite finished?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You seem to have forgotten one thing. Lucille told.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
We discussed themes until we were blue in the face.
You know, people don't just pick out a gay nineties
theme by accident. It took a lot of very careful thought.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Jim, will you please be quiet.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
I'm not even allowed to have an opinion. I can
be pushed around by Jim and Lucille Hathaway and that's
all right. But if I try to say one word,
but one word, well, well, what what did Lucille tell you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh, we're back to that old.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Thing, Margaret. If you're going to tell me, tell me.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Now of course, Well, if Steve Brodie could jump off
a bridge, Lucille Hathaway told me, yes, thank you, to
at least a dozen winds.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Now, Look, honey, this happens to be a club run.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
They have too much trouble to be similar and less expensive.
There I said it, and I'm glad.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Margaret. You don't have to shout at me.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
No, tell me one other way I can make you listen,
be like a man.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Use lodging, Oh, fiddley d honey, profanity will get you nowhere.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Jim, I, oh, what's the use? I give up.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Look, I don't want you to think I'm being stubborn.
Of course, what right did Jim has the way have
to go over our heads and ask if the theme
of the party be changed.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He thought he was acting for the good of the club.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
This happens to be a republic, not a dictatorship. And
when one man takes it upon himself to defy the
very principles of American democracy, then it's high time that
the people stop it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What Ever, since they made you chairman of that silly committee,
you've done nothing but make speeches. Why the issue is
perfectly simple and clear, But you won't face it.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
The issue is that Jim Hathaway had no right.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
May ninety costumes are very elaborate and very expensive, and
no one is going to bother making them.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Jim Hathaway hadn't the right theme.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You just throw on some old clothes and make a
face like Affelon Cassidy tollers to it.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
May I please say something, pray, do thank you. Jim
Hathaway had no right.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Jim Hathaway had nothing to do with it, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
I was there when he came in, and if you must.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Know, the Western idea was mine.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Honey, how could you do a thing like that to me?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I'm sorry, angel, but do you realize how much work
is involved in making gay ninety costumes for five people.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
You made one for Betty and it looked beautiful.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That happens to be a new evening gown, and I
was merely shortening it.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Oh, I thought you bought her a new evening gown
with a bustle.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Bustles are back.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Well, that's the logical place for her. Last week you
said she didn't need a new evening gown.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And this week I decided she did.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Any questions, I'm all mixed up.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
The committee decided.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That Jim a Western theme is so much more informal
and practical. Everyone agrees that it's a much more sensible idea.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
They do, yes, Dear, they didn't like the gay nineties idea.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
They liked it, sweetheart, but it just isn't worth all
the effort.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
But the committee decided that the gay nineties.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Dad, the committee would have decided something else if you'd
asked a few women.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Besides, we've ordered fifty dollars worth of decorations.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Say, Dan, would you like to hear something?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Come on in, Fellas, But we're very busy right now.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
This will only take a minute, Dad, Bonnet Fellas. Yeah, God,
we changed the whole arrangement like you said. And it
sounds great, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Joe.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yeah, it's real, keen, But I just told you mine,
not fellas, and we'll do it far.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
But it's no use, Dear. We might as well hear it.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
You'll love it.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Mom. It'll take you back to your childhood in the
gay nineties.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That'll be nice.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Go ahead, Bud and get it over with you.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Bet that ready? Fellas? Okay, here we go.
Speaker 15 (19:10):
Mm hmm, she's all up bird in a yellow Oka boom.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
You see.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
What you may think.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
She's happy avery from care boom.
Speaker 15 (19:45):
She's not no jessy to.
Speaker 13 (19:50):
The boo.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Jim, What on earth I'll tell you about it late?
Go ahead, boys, you're doing fine.
Speaker 15 (20:02):
Is sad when you think got her ways live boom?
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Or you cannot made with.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Bo and her beauty was sold.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
Foreign old man's old boo doope, she's a br in argut.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Can boom boom?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That was very nice? Boys? It was very unusual.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Now, honey, the more I think about that Western idea,
is everything all.
Speaker 12 (21:11):
Right in there?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yes, dear, everything's fine.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
I heard the strangest.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
The boys were singing, Oh.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
What's the matter with her?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
But what would you and the other boys think of
a Western theme for the Christmas party?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Western?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
That's right, you know, cowboys, Indians that sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Did they sing about a burden a gilded cage?
Speaker 7 (21:35):
They did not?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
And how could we sing? Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Yes, sir, I think the Western theme is a very
good idea, fellas.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Let's go back to the living room. What for I've
got an idea about how we can do home on
the range with or without boots.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Yeah, I take your time, boys, there's no hurry.
Speaker 11 (21:59):
Right here.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Okay, Jim, don't you think you're being a little mean
to the boys.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
I was only kidding them, you know that.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And what was that boo boop doop business?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Oh? I didn't know they were gonna take me seriously.
They asked me how we used to sing in the
good old gay night?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, Kathy, what is it?
Speaker 12 (22:18):
Daddy?
Speaker 11 (22:19):
It's mister Hathaway and Brad.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Well.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I get all excited.
Speaker 12 (22:23):
But Brad's gonna.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
Apologize and then he'll be big Margaret.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I'll take care of it, dear, come along, Kathy.
Speaker 12 (22:29):
Mommy, don't let him apologize to me.
Speaker 11 (22:31):
I have to apologize first.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
I don't know, Jim, all right, fella, Hi, I'm not
interrupting anything. I might, of course, not come on in.
Sit down? Thank you? That was nice night, isn't it? Yes? Yes,
it's a uh where's Brad? You went into the kitchen
(22:55):
for a drink? Oh? Uh? Nice night, isn't yes? Said Jim.
I guess we ought to take turns, Jim, this is getting.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
To be a habit.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Look, I just want you to know that I am
sorry about well, our little misunderstandings, so am I. It's
pretty silly, It's but I've notified the committee that we'll
follow your Gay nineties plan. Wait a minute, you had
no right to do that. Why not? I've decided you
were right and we ought to have the Western theme,
(23:35):
but we can't. Why not. I've already told the committee.
You had no right to tell the committee. I'm the chairman.
Speaker 13 (23:41):
Now.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Look, Jim, Lucille went out and bought a whole gay
nineties outfit, and if you or she bought twelve of them,
you had no right going over my head. But the
Gay nineties was your idea and the Western was yours.
I'm the president, and I say, we'll have the Gay Nighties,
We'll have the Western Gay nineties. Western.
Speaker 12 (23:58):
You've got to stop them.
Speaker 14 (23:59):
It's terrible.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
What's the matter Kathy and Brand they're fighting.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
I thought Kathy wanted to apologize.
Speaker 11 (24:04):
They both do when they're fighting about it.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Well, we're going to see about that. Come on, Jim,
But don't think we're not going to have the Gay nineties.
We're going to have the Western Gay nineties. West Day nineties.
Western m.
Speaker 15 (24:22):
Oh Range were.
Speaker 14 (24:30):
The Let's have another cup of coffee.
Speaker 13 (25:03):
You know that phrase has become a traditional part of
American family life and in most families throughout America.
Speaker 14 (25:10):
The coffee that fills the cups.
Speaker 13 (25:11):
Is Maxwellhouse Coffee, chosen above all others for it's superb,
good to the last drop flavor. That's why I say
start serving our coffee to your family. There's such hearty
good cheer in every fragrant cup of Maxwell House coffee.
You'll say it has the best flavor you've ever tasted.
(25:32):
Then just count all the truly good cups you get
from each pound, you'll agree that Maxwell House is to
day's coffee. Buy and remember Maxwellhouse coffee comes in three grinds, regular,
grip and pulverized, one exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Suited to the way you make coffee.
Speaker 13 (25:51):
So look for the sign of good coffee, the big
white cup, and drop on the familiar blue tin. Take
home Maxwell House, one coffee that's always good to the
last drop.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
It's some time later and the Christmas party at the
Springfield Country Club is mercifully a thing of the past.
Now it's after midnight and the Andersons are on their
way home, happy and definitely exhausted.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Like this, Well, that was quite a party, wasn't it, Yes, sir,
sure was.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
The best party we've ever had. That's what it was,
a gay nineties Western. How about a little close harmony? Honey,
mom's asleep, dan oh, Benny, she is tuned in south, Cathy, Well,
looks like we're the only live wires in the crowd.
(26:55):
Let's try down by the old mill stream.
Speaker 16 (26:58):
Okay, okay, here we go down by old mill stream.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
It doesn't sound right if we both take the harmony.
Tell you what we'll do. I'll carry the melody the
first time through and you'll take the harmony. Then we'll
try it again and we'll switch parts. Okay, here we.
Speaker 17 (27:20):
Go down by the old mills.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
But but.
Speaker 17 (27:33):
Well, if that isn't oh wow, down by the old
mill stream where I fur Man.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
When you're on.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Say you were going to take the kids to see
Santa I did? Well, then how'd you find time to
make this gorgeous dessert?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yellow is easy to make.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Sure, is delicious, soul fruit rich.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Mighty easy on the grocery build too.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
That's a help with Christmas gifts to buy.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Let's have it off for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Six delicious flavors to choose from, and lots of easy,
thrifty ways to fix them up.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
That's Yello for red letter dessert. Join us again next
week when we'll be back where Father Knows Best, starring
Robert Young Is, Jim Anderson, but Roy Bargey and the
Maxwell House Orchestra in our cast, where Ted Donaldson is Bud,
(28:47):
Jean Vander Pyle, Rhoda Williams, Norma Jean Nilson, Bill Johnstone,
Gil Stratton Junior, Tommy Cook, Johnny McGovern and yours truly,
Bill Foreman.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
So until next Thursday, good night and.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Good luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite
brand of coffee, Always good to the last drop. Mother
Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Ed Jane
Speaker 4 (29:19):
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