July 22, 2025 • 29 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 (00:00):
Mother, Why did daddy switch to post him?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Your father says, there's no caffeine in post him, nothing
to spoil your sleep.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
And your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by instant, post them the good tasting drink that's entirely
caffeine free, and buy posts forty percent brand flakes, America's
largest selling brand flakes.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
There's something about cogwheels, levers.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Gears, and springs that holds a certain fascination for the
male species. The feminine faction, however, is not so in rapture,
especially when the aforementioned cogwheels, levers, gears, and springs are
spread all over the dining room table. And that's the
way it is with the Anderson says. We check in
on a Saturday morning at the White Frame House on Maple.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Street like this, Jim, you have a perfectly good work
bench out in the garage. Why don't you repair the
clock out there.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Margaret, I'll be through here in just a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You've been saying that for the last two hours, but I.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Can use your help here. Okay, I hand me those
tools as I need them.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Screwdriver Okay, here you are now, flyers, tweezers, forceps, scalpel.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
All right, Bud, cut it out. This is nerve wracking work.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Oh gosh, Dad, this whole thing sounds like an operation.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yes, and I'm afraid the patient isn't going to make it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Those old clocks require a special skill. When mother and
Dad had the clock, they always market.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Please, I've just about got it licked.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
See, mommy, God, what's all this jump.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
On the table, Catty. There's a genius at work.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
I see the spring here, Bud. All I have to
do is coil it up good and tight like this. Now,
as I hold the spring with the pliers, I want you, Bud,
to open the little door.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
And back of the clock. Okay, there you are. That's
it now.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I gently slipped the coiled spring inside like this.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Easy. Easy.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
No, that's what I call making time fly.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Very funny. Now, help me pick up the.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Parts, Jim.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Mister Timkins, the jeweler specializes in clocks like this.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Why don't you.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Run there in mine, I'll fix the clock.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Yes, dear dead, since you're having such a tough time
with the spring. Why don't you put that in first
and work around it?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh? Yes, I guess I could do that. Where's the spring?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
The last time I saw thought it was flying over
the bookcase and heading solid.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Here it is, daddy, I'll bring.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It here, kitten, thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Now, the important thing is to get the spring coiled
good and tight.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Heayway now, but open the back of the clock again.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Okay, all right, this is more like it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Now. I set the spring in like this, just a
little more, a little more.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Mother, guess what.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You have to bust into the house like that?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Father? Where did that spring go? It set a new record?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Dad, it landed on the mantel.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh, it was delirious.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
All of us girls went down to the train and
met Ronnie.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Ronnie Ronnie who.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Ronnie Kelso the singer. He's only the rage of the
whole country. Father, don't you keep up on.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Anything, not the important things? You mean, the.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Goon, the Troon's quiet, Junior.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
And while we were down at the depot, Ronnie's publicity
man came over and said that Ronnie wanted to invite
one of us girls to have lunch with him and
because I have a bigger collection of Ronnie's records than
the rest of the.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Girls they chose me.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Isn't that dreamy?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I'd say you were very fortunate.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Am I? Father?
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Did you hear what I said?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yes? I heard what you said, Kathy Hamming the screw Driver.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
But father, don't you understand your daughter is having lunch
with the most popular singer in the country.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Am I to assume that this is the same fellow
whose records you play all the time up in your room?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I question his popularity now.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
You're taking an old fogy attitude. What if you were
sixteen or seventeen his voice would do something to you.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
It has done something to me, and I don't like it.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
No one in this world, but no one sings like
Ronnie Kelso. There's something about him the way he sighs
when he kroons.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Yeah, he sounds like a slow leak and a tire.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Mother, can't you do something about that? Son of yours?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But that's enough.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
You should hear him.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
He pants like a Saint Bernard when he sings.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Oh, how awful?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You aren't kidding? Where's that cogwill that was here?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Here?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It is?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It's probably for me.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Hello. Oh hi, Ralph.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
No, I'm sorry, Ralph. I won't be able to see
you this afternoon. I have a very important engagement with
well with someone. No it's not him, it's Ronnie Kelso,
Well it is. I'm meeting him in front of the
Olympic Hotel at one o'clock and he's taking me to lunch.
Still there, now, Ralph, don't be like that. The only
(05:57):
reason I was attracted to Ronnie is because he reminds
me of you, the same mannerism, the same kind of personality,
and you look quite.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
A bit alike I was Ralph.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I'd see my lawyer.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Certainly, I remember, Ralph. We have a roller skating date
for this evening.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
See them?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Goodbye?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Mother? Can I wear your pearl a pel pan?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Well?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Oh please, mother, I must look my best for Ronnie,
I guess.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
So have you something to go with it?
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Let's see?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
I'll call Jannie.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Now, don't start borrowing a lot of things.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Oh, she'll be utterly thrilled to have her bracelet meet Ronnie.
Hello Jannie, Betty. I'm sorry Jennie that the rest of
you kids can't go to day.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
But what.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Yes, I know, I can't believe it myself. There I'll
be eating luncheon across the table looking at me with
those soulful eyes. Will be Ronnie.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
What a way to get into gestion.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
But oh, Jane, mother's letting me wear her pearl lapel pan,
and I was wondering if I could borrow that new
bracelet of yours. Oh, thanks a lot. Ruth's letting me
wear that cute blouse of hers, and Doris is letting
me have her black velvet purse.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Margaret.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Yes, Jim, doesn't that daughter of ours wear anything that
belongs to her?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Gee, sugarls do this, but.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
It sounds like she's being closed to the courtesy of
the community.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Well, acts offered me your plaid skirt.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
If she lost her friends, she'd freeze to death.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
All right, Jane, and don't worry. I'll let you know
about everything that goes on.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Goodbye.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Well, I better get upstairs and start to get ready.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And yes, you haven't got much time mother, Yes, dear,
where are.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Those bobby pins you bought the other day?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
They're on my dresser.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Well, I'm glad to hear that we're contributing something to
this momentous.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Oh, with all the excitement having subsided, maybe I can
get this clock in order.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Kathy, give me that little round disc you have in
your hand this, Yes, give it to me.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
But Daddy, will you please hand it over?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Okay, I'm having enough trouble without you holding out parts
on me.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I see it should go right here. No, maybe it
slips over this little bar.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
M.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
That's funny. This disc doesn't seem to fit any place.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Maybe it's because it's a wheel off my toy airplane.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Oh, Paddy, I tried to tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
But Jim, why don't you take the clock down to
mister Timkins mother.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yes, Betty, what happened to this picture of Ronnie I have.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Hanging on my wall?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Something wrong?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
It's ruined, completely ruined.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Bod Do you know anything about it?
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Me? I never go into a stale room.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Kathy, yes, matter? Do you know anything about Ronnie's pictures?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well?
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Come on, well, Patty, Davis and I were playing darts
and we needed to target.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Chap Leen.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
You didn't why Hee's turned up nose made a peachy bullseye?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Jim, I wonder what's keeping Betty?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Don't worries she'll be home as soon as she gets
fed up with lover her boy Kelso shouldn't take long, Margaret,
Can I borrow.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Your nail file?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
My nail file, I think you'll find it in the Jim,
you aren't back to fooling with that clock again.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I thought you gave that up hours ago.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I did.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
But as I was getting ready to take it down
to the jewelers, I happen to notice something.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
See this notch on this lever here?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, well that's where the spring is supposed to be anchored,
and it'll keep it from flying out.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Uh huh, Margaret, you seem to doubt me.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
No, but I wouldn't start repairing it until I put
on Bud's catcher's mask.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
They're getting worse than the kids. Look, I've got the.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Spring all cart held up and I just set it
in place like that.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
See there, perfect, Jim, That was merely.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
The spring settling in place. Believe me, Margaret, I've solved.
All the parts are in order.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Proud of me.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I'm proud of you, dear, and I could never have
done it without your helpful words of discouragement.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Oh, Jim, I'm not that bad. Ah, here comes our
illustrious daughter.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Now, how did you make out, Betty?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Please, Father, it's not Betty from now on its bed.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Betty.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
That's what Ronnie calls me.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Oh so that's it.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
As Ronnie said, a girl of my sophistication and cosmopolitan
quality should only be known as Beth. Betty is far
to a pedestrian. How was the lunch, dear, I wouldn't know, Mother, I.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Indeed don't tell me he was that bad.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
In Ronnie's presence, material things seems so unimportant.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I'd say you were slightly taken by the gentleman.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Mother. I want you and father to be the first
to know. From now on it's Ronnie and I. Oh now, Betty,
I know you'll say I've gone off the deep end.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
You've not only gone off the deep end, you've landed
on your head.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Go ahead, Father, make fun In the first place, he's
too old for you.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
He's not old.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
He's just more mature and a little prematurely gray.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But Betty, this is only the first time you've met him,
and it was just a luncheon day.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Yes, But before the lunch was over, Ronnie was holding
my hand.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I hope he let go long enough to pick up
a check.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Jim, please, and Roddy was holding my hand. The photographer
took our picture for the whole world.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
To see, probably some publicity stunt.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Publicity stunt, father, you and your crass commercialism. That picture
was taken to record the cherished moment when the paths
of two lonely people are twined.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Margaret, is this our daughter?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Be patient, Jim.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Be patient, she says, that's right. Mother tweat me like
a child.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Betty, you've got to be kidding.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Father one doesn't care about such things. I'll get it. Hello,
bed speaking, Oh hello Ralph.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
What.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
No, I'm sorry, Ralph.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
I'll have to call off our date for tonight.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Now just a minute, young lady.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
No, Ralph, I mustn't see you tonight or ever. It
wouldn't be fair to Ronnie.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Betty, give me that phone.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Yes, I know we were supposed to go roller skating,
and the very thought of it depresses me. It's so juvenile,
so immature, Betty. If you'd like to drop my later,
I'll explain everything.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Goodbye, Betty. This silly business has gone far enough.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Ralph is a bird brain, but you did make a
date with him for tonight and you're going to keep it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I can't father.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I mustn't you get on that phone and call Ralph back.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I won't.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Don't you stamp your foot at me, young lady, you
call Ralph right this minute.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I won't. I won't. I won't.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Oh fine, now, bet you can get a sack and
help me gather up.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
The clock.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Looks like Jim's clock was really fixed this time. But
speaking of clocks, how about time out for Ed Prentice.
He has some mighty good advice for you, especially if
you haven't been in TikTok condition lately. Ed, say, friend,
how have you been feeling these days? Have you been
sort of jittery on edge? Well, it could be the
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caffeine and your coffee or tea that's been bothering you,
stealing your sleep and making you nervous. I know, because
caffeine bothered me plenty until I switched to post them,
good old instant post them. Why don't you make the
switch yourself? Believe you me postum really works.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
It ought to.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
It's absolutely caffeine free, contains no caffeine none whatsoever. So
you see, instant postum is a good hot drink you
can enjoy any time without risking coffee nerves, without losing
your sleep now. Of course, caffeine doesn't bother everybody. Lots
of folks can handle it okay. But if it troubles you,
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just make that simple, easy switch to post them. Try
post them for thirty days. Why not see if you're
not sleeping, better looking and feeling better too thanks to
instant post them. Oh and say, the kids will like
post them too, And of course you can give them
post them often because there's nothing in postum to harmon. Yes, sir,
(14:56):
post them's the drink for the whole family. Get a
jar tomorrow. Poet, songwriters romanticists in general, from the beginning
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of time have asked the question, what is this thing
called love? Up to now, no satisfactory answer has been recorded. However,
Betty Anderson alias Bett Anderson, after a two hour luncheon
date with Ronnie Kelso, the popular singer, feels she has.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Experienced the real thing.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Jim feels that it's merely a question of Ronnie itis
and should disappear about seven o'clock this evening. As for
Bud and Kathy, they just stand around the kitchen and
ask questions like this.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Mom, what's wrong with Betty?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Nothing but nothing at all, but.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
There's got to be something wrong. She looks like a
dying calf.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Well, if you must know, she thinks she's in love
with Ronnie Kelso, oh no, not that there's nothing but
a crush.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
A crush. She looks like she's been pulverized.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Never mind, Bud, let's just drop it.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Well, I go through that when I'm Betty's age.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Mommy, I imagine you will, Dear. I sure, hope not.
That's not so bad, But by the look.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
On her face, it must be awful, painful.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Someday love will come to you, Kathy, and when it does,
you'll know it. It'll be the most beautiful thing that
has ever happened to you. You'll meet a man who
you'll think is the most wonderful person in.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
All the world. I will and this man will have
the same interest that you do.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And you mean he'll like bullfos and tadpoles. Kathy, Yes, mother.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I think we can postpone our little discussion until a
later date, say about nineteen sixty.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Home on Red.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Jim the clock. It's all in one piece.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yes, it's all fixed this time. It's right. That's kidding, daddy.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Mommy says that when I'm Betty's age, I might fall
in love or have a crush.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
On a fellow. I hope not, Jim, let's not be bitter.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Believe me, Margaret, I couldn't go through this again.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well, it's going to happen to Kathy, so you might
as well accept it.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Oh maybe when Kathy's Betty's age, there'll be a vaccine
we can give her to prevent it.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Jim, have you seen Betty recently?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I saw her just before she went up to her room.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
What a sight.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
She walks around listlessly, mouth open, eyes drooping. She looks
like the ad don't let this.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Happen to you.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I just hope she comes out of it.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
She'd better come out of it if she doesn't keep
that date with Ralph like she promised.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
There's going to be some fireworks around here.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Maybe get the.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Hairbrush, Daddy, I'll get it.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Well, it's for you, bet Is.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
It Ronny Bad?
Speaker 6 (17:59):
No, it's not a Tom song.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
It's Janey.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I'll be down in a second.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Who was it, Bud Janey? She probably wants to get
all the dirt on what happened at lunch today.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Yet I think I'll sneak in and listen.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Kathy, you be careful, But what time is it?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
There? By the clock on the stove. I want to
set this clock here so you finally got it.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Fake imost certainly did, and I trust that my perseverance
and stick to itiveness will prove an object lesson to
the scorners around here.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
The time you say it was four o'clock straight up?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
All right, I'll set it for exactly four o'clock there
see there, Bud, give me the screwdriver off the dining
room table.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Jim, don't you dare take that clock apart again. I'll
settle for adding on a couple of bongs. Every time
the clock.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Strikes at midnight, it'll be four teena clark.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Manby. I wound it a little more.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It isn't ticking, Jim.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
All right, you win.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I'll take it over to the jeweler's Monday on my
way to work.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Daddy, guess what Betty is going to Cincinnati?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Now, Kitten, you're making that up?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
No really, I.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Just heard her tell Jennie on the phone. She's going
next Saturday. It's something about Ronnie Margaret.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
I did test eavesdropping, but this should be very enlightening,
very enlightening.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You kids stay here, be quiet now.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Yes, Oh you're right, Jennie. No, no, of course, uh
huh u no, no.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Very enlightening agent.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Quiet.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Well, you see, Jennie, my hands are just uh huh
of course, yes, yes, no.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I wish that Jane would shut up for a minute.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
No, I haven't told the folks yet. I want to
break it to them gently.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Father.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Oh he'll hit the ceiling and probably stay there for
three or four days. Yes, it's so hard to make
him understand. Of course, when you get up in years
like that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I'm going to damn just a minute.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
All right, Jane, keep your fingers crossed for me.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Bye.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Margaret walking as if nothing is wrong. Uh hi, bett Oh, hello, father,
what's new?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Excuse me?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I have to be getting up to my room.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
What do you hear from Cincinnati?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Father?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
You mean you overheard my conversation?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Yes, I was up on the ceiling listening in.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Bettie, what is the Cincinnati business? Please?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
I have to get up to my room.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
You stay right here, young lady. We're going to get
this straightened out once and for all.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
You won't get angry.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
There'll be no guarantee.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Well, next Saturday, Nannie's opening at the Capitol Theater in.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Cincinnati, and you're planning on being there.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Yes, I thought i'd buzz back.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Eh, you'll be buzzing, young lady. But it won't beat
to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Oh but I must.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Ronnie's counting on me. He gave me a ticket to
the theater and my presence will mean so much to
his performance.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You aren't going, and that's final. But father, cushion is over.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
I'm sorry, father, but well I'm going if.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I have to run away to do it.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Well, Margaret, this situation has to be met head.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
On head on. Seems like we've already had quite a collision.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Where did Betty say this? Ronnie was staying.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
At the Olympic Hotel. But Jim, you wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I wouldn't. Nobody's gonna leave my daughter on like this.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
But Jimmy's this ce Liberty. I doubt if you could
get in to see him.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I'll get in to see him. Don't worry. Where's my
hat over.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
There on the table. But Jim, please don't lose your heir.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Relax, Margaret, I know what I'm doing. I'll see you
in a little while.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Jim, you can't go downtown in your bedrooms, hippers.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Oh, well, where are my shoes.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Under the chair?
Speaker 6 (22:03):
There?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I got him.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
I'm gonna set this pip squeak right if it's the
last thing I do.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Jim, I don't like him when you get all steamed
up like this and go off on a town.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Don't worry about me. I tell you I know what
I'm doing. See you later, Oh, Jim, Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You've got your shoes on the wrong feet.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Oh, don't tell me, mother, he actually went down to
the hotel.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yes, he's been gone for some time now.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Oh, this is humiliating. I suppose he went down to
try and break up our romance.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yes, and the way he stormed out of here, I
hope that's all he breaks up.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Well, I have no fears.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Anything that father says will have no effect on Ronnie
and me.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Our bond is too strong, Betty.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I only wish he's mother, bet Sorry, bet, I only
wish that you would understand that. Wait a minute, what, mother,
Your father's coming up the walk and he has someone
with him.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Oh, Mother, I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Stay here, Betty. It's better to face it now.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Step right here, Margaret, bet I'd like you to meet
someone this is glad at Kelso.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Hi, bet glad at Kelso.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
You mean you're Ronnie Kelso's wife.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
No, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Oh, thank goodness, I'm his daughter daughter, that's right.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And he'd kill me if he knew I sneaked out
of the hotel room.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
But Ronnie seemed like is he old enough to have
a daughter my age?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Is he old enough? You should see him when he
gets out of bed in the morning.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Brother, you think women.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Have beauty aids.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
He practically retreads his face. Please, I don't want to
hear anymore now. I don't think I'm being disrespectful.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Pop's really a grand guy.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
The only time he gets mad at me is when
I make him take his vitamin pills.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
All right, So he is a little older than I am,
a little Wait till I tell you what happened in Seattle.
A bunch of teenage gals were gathered on the sidewalk
and they wouldn't go away until Dad threw down a.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Lock of his hair. That's when he got burned up
at me.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I threw down his whole two.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Pay I'm not amused in the least. Don't take it
so hard, kid, so he did hold your hand at lunch.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Well then you heard about it.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Sis.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
He's held girls' hands from here to Albuquerque.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
It's all a part of the game.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Well what about the theater ticket for.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
The opening in Cincinnati?
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Hundreds of girls got tickets. That way, we're sure of
a smash opening. Remember, kid, a crooner is only.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
As good as a squeals he gets.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I'll see who it is.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
It's Ralph that I don't want to see, Ralph. I
don't want to see anybody.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Oh just a minute, Betty, you promised Ralph here.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Hey, that Ralph looks like a real dream boat, Betty,
come back.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yet, you see, I was just thinking I'm.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Gonna be stuck in town, Betty. If you don't want Ralph,
i'd you say?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Why?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Yes, gladys, I think Betty would be glad to introduce
you to Ralph.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I'll be right out, Ralph, just a minute, don't go away.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Going to keep your date, bet from now on.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
It isn't bet It's Betty, plain and simple, yes.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
And at times how simple can you get?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
For goodness sake, eat post brand plate, so good and
so good for you?
Speaker 9 (25:50):
You know that little melody reminds me of that life
is swell when you keep well. And I hope it
makes you think of a new Post forty brand flakes, because,
as it says, they're good and so good for you,
I mean that because something wonderful has happened to brand.
The new Post forty percent brand flakes have a delicious
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new flavor, a magic oven flavor that many people like
better than any other cereal. Yet they still give you
the important keep regular benefits that only a brand cereal
can offer. So tomorrow or Saturday, when you go shopping,
take home new Post forty percent brand flakes, America's largest
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selling brand flakes.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
They're so good and so good for you.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
It's later in the evening at the White Frame House
on Maple Street, and at the moment it appears that
a state of normalcy is set in.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Betty is out on her date with Ralph, but is.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
At the show, and Margaret and Jim are relaxing in
the front room. The only thing to upset the calm
is Kathy was trying to amuse herself with her toy airplane.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Like this, Daddy, what's this three point landing?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Kathy? Be careful with that airplane in here.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Oh, Jim, these are precious.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
What are you looking at?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I was just dumbing through this old album. Look at
these pictures, would you?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Let's see say they are a riot.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Who's this fellow here with his mouth open and his
eyes drooping in an expression like a dying calf.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
That's a picture of you on the day you met me.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Here she goes again. What's your take off?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Kathy? I told you not to fly that airplane.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
In here, letter.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Kathy, that plane with crash into something. It's sure as
see there it hit the clock, Kathy. If I've told
you once, I've told you, Jim, listen, well, what do
you know? It's running?
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Join us again next week and we'll be back where
father knows best. Starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson until
in Goodnight and good Luck from the makers of Post
forty percent brand Flakes, America's largest selling brand flakes, and
instant Post them the drink that's entirely caffeine free. In
our cast were Ted Donalds and his bud, Jean Vander Pyle,
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Speaker 4 (28:31):
And Mary Lee Robb. It comes in a red, white
and blue box. What is it?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Hot Post week?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
It has the picture of Roy Rogers on the package.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
What is it Hot Post Weekne?
Speaker 5 (28:43):
It's packed full of whole wheat nourishment.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
What is it Hot post weeks?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
It has a rich, delicious nut like flavor.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
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Speaker 5 (28:53):
Cooks in just three minutes another member of the famous
Post family.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
What is it Hot post Weekne?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
It's the best hots there all you ever ate?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Hi host Weet Meals.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Father nos Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Paul West and Dick Conway.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
This is Bill Foreman speaking
Speaker 5 (29:37):
To night Play Truth or Consequences on NBC
Mother, Why did daddy switch to post him?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Your father says, there's no caffeine in post him, nothing
to spoil your sleep.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
And your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by instant, post them the good tasting drink that's entirely
caffeine free, and buy posts forty percent brand flakes, America's
largest selling brand flakes.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
There's something about cogwheels, levers.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Gears, and springs that holds a certain fascination for the
male species. The feminine faction, however, is not so in rapture,
especially when the aforementioned cogwheels, levers, gears, and springs are
spread all over the dining room table. And that's the
way it is with the Anderson says. We check in
on a Saturday morning at the White Frame House on Maple.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Street like this, Jim, you have a perfectly good work
bench out in the garage. Why don't you repair the
clock out there.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Margaret, I'll be through here in just a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You've been saying that for the last two hours, but I.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Can use your help here. Okay, I hand me those
tools as I need them.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Screwdriver Okay, here you are now, flyers, tweezers, forceps, scalpel.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
All right, Bud, cut it out. This is nerve wracking work.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Oh gosh, Dad, this whole thing sounds like an operation.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yes, and I'm afraid the patient isn't going to make it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Those old clocks require a special skill. When mother and
Dad had the clock, they always market.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Please, I've just about got it licked.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
See, mommy, God, what's all this jump.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
On the table, Catty. There's a genius at work.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
I see the spring here, Bud. All I have to
do is coil it up good and tight like this. Now,
as I hold the spring with the pliers, I want you, Bud,
to open the little door.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
And back of the clock. Okay, there you are. That's
it now.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I gently slipped the coiled spring inside like this.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Easy. Easy.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
No, that's what I call making time fly.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Very funny. Now, help me pick up the.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Parts, Jim.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Mister Timkins, the jeweler specializes in clocks like this.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Why don't you.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Run there in mine, I'll fix the clock.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Yes, dear dead, since you're having such a tough time
with the spring. Why don't you put that in first
and work around it?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh? Yes, I guess I could do that. Where's the spring?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
The last time I saw thought it was flying over
the bookcase and heading solid.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Here it is, daddy, I'll bring.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It here, kitten, thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Now, the important thing is to get the spring coiled
good and tight.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Heayway now, but open the back of the clock again.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Okay, all right, this is more like it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Now. I set the spring in like this, just a
little more, a little more.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Mother, guess what.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You have to bust into the house like that?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Father? Where did that spring go? It set a new record?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Dad, it landed on the mantel.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh, it was delirious.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
All of us girls went down to the train and
met Ronnie.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Ronnie Ronnie who.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Ronnie Kelso the singer. He's only the rage of the
whole country. Father, don't you keep up on.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Anything, not the important things? You mean, the.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Goon, the Troon's quiet, Junior.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
And while we were down at the depot, Ronnie's publicity
man came over and said that Ronnie wanted to invite
one of us girls to have lunch with him and
because I have a bigger collection of Ronnie's records than
the rest of the.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Girls they chose me.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Isn't that dreamy?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I'd say you were very fortunate.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Am I? Father?
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Did you hear what I said?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yes? I heard what you said, Kathy Hamming the screw Driver.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
But father, don't you understand your daughter is having lunch
with the most popular singer in the country.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Am I to assume that this is the same fellow
whose records you play all the time up in your room?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I question his popularity now.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
You're taking an old fogy attitude. What if you were
sixteen or seventeen his voice would do something to you.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
It has done something to me, and I don't like it.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
No one in this world, but no one sings like
Ronnie Kelso. There's something about him the way he sighs
when he kroons.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Yeah, he sounds like a slow leak and a tire.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Mother, can't you do something about that? Son of yours?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But that's enough.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
You should hear him.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
He pants like a Saint Bernard when he sings.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Oh, how awful?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You aren't kidding? Where's that cogwill that was here?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Here?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It is?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It's probably for me.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Hello. Oh hi, Ralph.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
No, I'm sorry, Ralph. I won't be able to see
you this afternoon. I have a very important engagement with
well with someone. No it's not him, it's Ronnie Kelso,
Well it is. I'm meeting him in front of the
Olympic Hotel at one o'clock and he's taking me to lunch.
Still there, now, Ralph, don't be like that. The only
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reason I was attracted to Ronnie is because he reminds
me of you, the same mannerism, the same kind of personality,
and you look quite.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
A bit alike I was Ralph.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I'd see my lawyer.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Certainly, I remember, Ralph. We have a roller skating date
for this evening.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
See them?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Goodbye?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Mother? Can I wear your pearl a pel pan?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Well?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Oh please, mother, I must look my best for Ronnie,
I guess.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
So have you something to go with it?
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Let's see?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
I'll call Jannie.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Now, don't start borrowing a lot of things.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Oh, she'll be utterly thrilled to have her bracelet meet Ronnie.
Hello Jannie, Betty. I'm sorry Jennie that the rest of
you kids can't go to day.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
But what.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Yes, I know, I can't believe it myself. There I'll
be eating luncheon across the table looking at me with
those soulful eyes. Will be Ronnie.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
What a way to get into gestion.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
But oh, Jane, mother's letting me wear her pearl lapel pan,
and I was wondering if I could borrow that new
bracelet of yours. Oh, thanks a lot. Ruth's letting me
wear that cute blouse of hers, and Doris is letting
me have her black velvet purse.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Margaret.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Yes, Jim, doesn't that daughter of ours wear anything that
belongs to her?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Gee, sugarls do this, but.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
It sounds like she's being closed to the courtesy of
the community.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Well, acts offered me your plaid skirt.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
If she lost her friends, she'd freeze to death.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
All right, Jane, and don't worry. I'll let you know
about everything that goes on.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Goodbye.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Well, I better get upstairs and start to get ready.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And yes, you haven't got much time mother, Yes, dear,
where are.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Those bobby pins you bought the other day?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
They're on my dresser.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Well, I'm glad to hear that we're contributing something to
this momentous.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Oh, with all the excitement having subsided, maybe I can
get this clock in order.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Kathy, give me that little round disc you have in
your hand this, Yes, give it to me.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
But Daddy, will you please hand it over?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Okay, I'm having enough trouble without you holding out parts
on me.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I see it should go right here. No, maybe it
slips over this little bar.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
M.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
That's funny. This disc doesn't seem to fit any place.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Maybe it's because it's a wheel off my toy airplane.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Oh, Paddy, I tried to tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
But Jim, why don't you take the clock down to
mister Timkins mother.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yes, Betty, what happened to this picture of Ronnie I have.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Hanging on my wall?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Something wrong?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
It's ruined, completely ruined.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Bod Do you know anything about it?
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Me? I never go into a stale room.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Kathy, yes, matter? Do you know anything about Ronnie's pictures?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well?
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Come on, well, Patty, Davis and I were playing darts
and we needed to target.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Chap Leen.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
You didn't why Hee's turned up nose made a peachy bullseye?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Jim, I wonder what's keeping Betty?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Don't worries she'll be home as soon as she gets
fed up with lover her boy Kelso shouldn't take long, Margaret,
Can I borrow.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Your nail file?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
My nail file, I think you'll find it in the Jim,
you aren't back to fooling with that clock again.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I thought you gave that up hours ago.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I did.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
But as I was getting ready to take it down
to the jewelers, I happen to notice something.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
See this notch on this lever here?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, well that's where the spring is supposed to be anchored,
and it'll keep it from flying out.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Uh huh, Margaret, you seem to doubt me.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
No, but I wouldn't start repairing it until I put
on Bud's catcher's mask.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
They're getting worse than the kids. Look, I've got the.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Spring all cart held up and I just set it
in place like that.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
See there, perfect, Jim, That was merely.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
The spring settling in place. Believe me, Margaret, I've solved.
All the parts are in order.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Proud of me.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I'm proud of you, dear, and I could never have
done it without your helpful words of discouragement.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Oh, Jim, I'm not that bad. Ah, here comes our
illustrious daughter.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Now, how did you make out, Betty?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Please, Father, it's not Betty from now on its bed.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Betty.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
That's what Ronnie calls me.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Oh so that's it.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
As Ronnie said, a girl of my sophistication and cosmopolitan
quality should only be known as Beth. Betty is far
to a pedestrian. How was the lunch, dear, I wouldn't know, Mother, I.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Indeed don't tell me he was that bad.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
In Ronnie's presence, material things seems so unimportant.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I'd say you were slightly taken by the gentleman.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Mother. I want you and father to be the first
to know. From now on it's Ronnie and I. Oh now, Betty,
I know you'll say I've gone off the deep end.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
You've not only gone off the deep end, you've landed
on your head.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Go ahead, Father, make fun In the first place, he's
too old for you.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
He's not old.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
He's just more mature and a little prematurely gray.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But Betty, this is only the first time you've met him,
and it was just a luncheon day.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Yes, But before the lunch was over, Ronnie was holding
my hand.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I hope he let go long enough to pick up
a check.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Jim, please, and Roddy was holding my hand. The photographer
took our picture for the whole world.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
To see, probably some publicity stunt.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Publicity stunt, father, you and your crass commercialism. That picture
was taken to record the cherished moment when the paths
of two lonely people are twined.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Margaret, is this our daughter?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Be patient, Jim.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Be patient, she says, that's right. Mother tweat me like
a child.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Betty, you've got to be kidding.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Father one doesn't care about such things. I'll get it. Hello,
bed speaking, Oh hello Ralph.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
What.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
No, I'm sorry, Ralph.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
I'll have to call off our date for tonight.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Now just a minute, young lady.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
No, Ralph, I mustn't see you tonight or ever. It
wouldn't be fair to Ronnie.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Betty, give me that phone.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Yes, I know we were supposed to go roller skating,
and the very thought of it depresses me. It's so juvenile,
so immature, Betty. If you'd like to drop my later,
I'll explain everything.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Goodbye, Betty. This silly business has gone far enough.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Ralph is a bird brain, but you did make a
date with him for tonight and you're going to keep it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I can't father.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I mustn't you get on that phone and call Ralph back.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I won't.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Don't you stamp your foot at me, young lady, you
call Ralph right this minute.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I won't. I won't. I won't.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Oh fine, now, bet you can get a sack and
help me gather up.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
The clock.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Looks like Jim's clock was really fixed this time. But
speaking of clocks, how about time out for Ed Prentice.
He has some mighty good advice for you, especially if
you haven't been in TikTok condition lately. Ed, say, friend,
how have you been feeling these days? Have you been
sort of jittery on edge? Well, it could be the
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caffeine and your coffee or tea that's been bothering you,
stealing your sleep and making you nervous. I know, because
caffeine bothered me plenty until I switched to post them,
good old instant post them. Why don't you make the
switch yourself? Believe you me postum really works.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
It ought to.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
It's absolutely caffeine free, contains no caffeine none whatsoever. So
you see, instant postum is a good hot drink you
can enjoy any time without risking coffee nerves, without losing
your sleep now. Of course, caffeine doesn't bother everybody. Lots
of folks can handle it okay. But if it troubles you,
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just make that simple, easy switch to post them. Try
post them for thirty days. Why not see if you're
not sleeping, better looking and feeling better too thanks to
instant post them. Oh and say, the kids will like
post them too, And of course you can give them
post them often because there's nothing in postum to harmon. Yes, sir,
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post them's the drink for the whole family. Get a
jar tomorrow. Poet, songwriters romanticists in general, from the beginning
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of time have asked the question, what is this thing
called love? Up to now, no satisfactory answer has been recorded. However,
Betty Anderson alias Bett Anderson, after a two hour luncheon
date with Ronnie Kelso, the popular singer, feels she has.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Experienced the real thing.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Jim feels that it's merely a question of Ronnie itis
and should disappear about seven o'clock this evening. As for
Bud and Kathy, they just stand around the kitchen and
ask questions like this.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Mom, what's wrong with Betty?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Nothing but nothing at all, but.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
There's got to be something wrong. She looks like a
dying calf.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Well, if you must know, she thinks she's in love
with Ronnie Kelso, oh no, not that there's nothing but
a crush.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
A crush. She looks like she's been pulverized.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Never mind, Bud, let's just drop it.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Well, I go through that when I'm Betty's age.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Mommy, I imagine you will, Dear. I sure, hope not.
That's not so bad, But by the look.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
On her face, it must be awful, painful.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Someday love will come to you, Kathy, and when it does,
you'll know it. It'll be the most beautiful thing that
has ever happened to you. You'll meet a man who
you'll think is the most wonderful person in.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
All the world. I will and this man will have
the same interest that you do.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And you mean he'll like bullfos and tadpoles. Kathy, Yes, mother.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I think we can postpone our little discussion until a
later date, say about nineteen sixty.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Home on Red.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Jim the clock. It's all in one piece.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yes, it's all fixed this time. It's right. That's kidding, daddy.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Mommy says that when I'm Betty's age, I might fall
in love or have a crush.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
On a fellow. I hope not, Jim, let's not be bitter.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Believe me, Margaret, I couldn't go through this again.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well, it's going to happen to Kathy, so you might
as well accept it.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Oh maybe when Kathy's Betty's age, there'll be a vaccine
we can give her to prevent it.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Jim, have you seen Betty recently?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I saw her just before she went up to her room.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
What a sight.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
She walks around listlessly, mouth open, eyes drooping. She looks
like the ad don't let this.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Happen to you.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I just hope she comes out of it.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
She'd better come out of it if she doesn't keep
that date with Ralph like she promised.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
There's going to be some fireworks around here.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Maybe get the.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Hairbrush, Daddy, I'll get it.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Well, it's for you, bet Is.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
It Ronny Bad?
Speaker 6 (17:59):
No, it's not a Tom song.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
It's Janey.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I'll be down in a second.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Who was it, Bud Janey? She probably wants to get
all the dirt on what happened at lunch today.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Yet I think I'll sneak in and listen.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Kathy, you be careful, But what time is it?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
There? By the clock on the stove. I want to
set this clock here so you finally got it.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Fake imost certainly did, and I trust that my perseverance
and stick to itiveness will prove an object lesson to
the scorners around here.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
The time you say it was four o'clock straight up?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
All right, I'll set it for exactly four o'clock there
see there, Bud, give me the screwdriver off the dining
room table.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Jim, don't you dare take that clock apart again. I'll
settle for adding on a couple of bongs. Every time
the clock.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Strikes at midnight, it'll be four teena clark.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Manby. I wound it a little more.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It isn't ticking, Jim.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
All right, you win.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I'll take it over to the jeweler's Monday on my
way to work.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Daddy, guess what Betty is going to Cincinnati?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Now, Kitten, you're making that up?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
No really, I.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Just heard her tell Jennie on the phone. She's going
next Saturday. It's something about Ronnie Margaret.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
I did test eavesdropping, but this should be very enlightening,
very enlightening.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You kids stay here, be quiet now.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Yes, Oh you're right, Jennie. No, no, of course, uh
huh u no, no.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Very enlightening agent.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Quiet.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Well, you see, Jennie, my hands are just uh huh
of course, yes, yes, no.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I wish that Jane would shut up for a minute.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
No, I haven't told the folks yet. I want to
break it to them gently.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Father.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Oh he'll hit the ceiling and probably stay there for
three or four days. Yes, it's so hard to make
him understand. Of course, when you get up in years
like that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I'm going to damn just a minute.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
All right, Jane, keep your fingers crossed for me.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Bye.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Margaret walking as if nothing is wrong. Uh hi, bett Oh, hello, father,
what's new?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Excuse me?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I have to be getting up to my room.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
What do you hear from Cincinnati?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Father?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
You mean you overheard my conversation?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Yes, I was up on the ceiling listening in.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Bettie, what is the Cincinnati business? Please?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
I have to get up to my room.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
You stay right here, young lady. We're going to get
this straightened out once and for all.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
You won't get angry.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
There'll be no guarantee.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Well, next Saturday, Nannie's opening at the Capitol Theater in.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Cincinnati, and you're planning on being there.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Yes, I thought i'd buzz back.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Eh, you'll be buzzing, young lady. But it won't beat
to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Oh but I must.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Ronnie's counting on me. He gave me a ticket to
the theater and my presence will mean so much to
his performance.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You aren't going, and that's final. But father, cushion is over.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
I'm sorry, father, but well I'm going if.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I have to run away to do it.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Well, Margaret, this situation has to be met head.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
On head on. Seems like we've already had quite a collision.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Where did Betty say this? Ronnie was staying.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
At the Olympic Hotel. But Jim, you wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I wouldn't. Nobody's gonna leave my daughter on like this.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
But Jimmy's this ce Liberty. I doubt if you could
get in to see him.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I'll get in to see him. Don't worry. Where's my
hat over.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
There on the table. But Jim, please don't lose your heir.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Relax, Margaret, I know what I'm doing. I'll see you
in a little while.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Jim, you can't go downtown in your bedrooms, hippers.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Oh, well, where are my shoes.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Under the chair?
Speaker 6 (22:03):
There?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
I got him.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
I'm gonna set this pip squeak right if it's the
last thing I do.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Jim, I don't like him when you get all steamed
up like this and go off on a town.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Don't worry about me. I tell you I know what
I'm doing. See you later, Oh, Jim, Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You've got your shoes on the wrong feet.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Oh, don't tell me, mother, he actually went down to
the hotel.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yes, he's been gone for some time now.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Oh, this is humiliating. I suppose he went down to
try and break up our romance.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yes, and the way he stormed out of here, I
hope that's all he breaks up.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Well, I have no fears.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Anything that father says will have no effect on Ronnie
and me.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Our bond is too strong, Betty.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I only wish he's mother, bet Sorry, bet, I only
wish that you would understand that. Wait a minute, what, mother,
Your father's coming up the walk and he has someone
with him.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Oh, Mother, I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Stay here, Betty. It's better to face it now.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Step right here, Margaret, bet I'd like you to meet
someone this is glad at Kelso.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Hi, bet glad at Kelso.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
You mean you're Ronnie Kelso's wife.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
No, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Oh, thank goodness, I'm his daughter daughter, that's right.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And he'd kill me if he knew I sneaked out
of the hotel room.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
But Ronnie seemed like is he old enough to have
a daughter my age?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Is he old enough? You should see him when he
gets out of bed in the morning.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Brother, you think women.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Have beauty aids.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
He practically retreads his face. Please, I don't want to
hear anymore now. I don't think I'm being disrespectful.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Pop's really a grand guy.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
The only time he gets mad at me is when
I make him take his vitamin pills.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
All right, So he is a little older than I am,
a little Wait till I tell you what happened in Seattle.
A bunch of teenage gals were gathered on the sidewalk
and they wouldn't go away until Dad threw down a.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Lock of his hair. That's when he got burned up
at me.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I threw down his whole two.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Pay I'm not amused in the least. Don't take it
so hard, kid, so he did hold your hand at lunch.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Well then you heard about it.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Sis.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
He's held girls' hands from here to Albuquerque.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
It's all a part of the game.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Well what about the theater ticket for.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
The opening in Cincinnati?
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Hundreds of girls got tickets. That way, we're sure of
a smash opening. Remember, kid, a crooner is only.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
As good as a squeals he gets.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I'll see who it is.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
It's Ralph that I don't want to see, Ralph. I
don't want to see anybody.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Oh just a minute, Betty, you promised Ralph here.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Hey, that Ralph looks like a real dream boat, Betty,
come back.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yet, you see, I was just thinking I'm.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Gonna be stuck in town, Betty. If you don't want Ralph,
i'd you say?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Why?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Yes, gladys, I think Betty would be glad to introduce
you to Ralph.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I'll be right out, Ralph, just a minute, don't go away.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Going to keep your date, bet from now on.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
It isn't bet It's Betty, plain and simple, yes.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
And at times how simple can you get?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
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Speaker 4 (26:34):
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Speaker 5 (26:47):
It's later in the evening at the White Frame House
on Maple Street, and at the moment it appears that
a state of normalcy is set in.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Betty is out on her date with Ralph, but is.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
At the show, and Margaret and Jim are relaxing in
the front room. The only thing to upset the calm
is Kathy was trying to amuse herself with her toy airplane.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Like this, Daddy, what's this three point landing?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Kathy? Be careful with that airplane in here.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Oh, Jim, these are precious.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
What are you looking at?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I was just dumbing through this old album. Look at
these pictures, would you?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Let's see say they are a riot.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Who's this fellow here with his mouth open and his
eyes drooping in an expression like a dying calf.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
That's a picture of you on the day you met me.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Here she goes again. What's your take off?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Kathy? I told you not to fly that airplane.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
In here, letter.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Kathy, that plane with crash into something. It's sure as
see there it hit the clock, Kathy. If I've told
you once, I've told you, Jim, listen, well, what do
you know? It's running?
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