May 2, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Henry Aldrich coming mother.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yes, it's the Aldrich family. Written by Slipper Goldsman.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
A teenage boy has always scampered across the American scene
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry, Finn Penrod text bad boy. Maybe there's
a good reason why. Maybe in a typical American boy
like Henry Ulrich, people can see someone they once were
or once new. The scene opens on the front porch
of the Aldrich Hall.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The time is late afternoon.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Gee, homie, you're just worrying over nothing. Well, Henry, that
isn't the way my father said he would have done it.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
My father will get it, Homer.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Why do you think he's taking the time to drive
water out to mister Frederick's farm if he can.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Well, boy, I certainly hope he can collect it. Homer.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He's gonna tell mister Frederick right straight to his face
how much he owses for the work we did this summer.
And your father thinks he can get it all. Sure
he can, Homer, He'll get our whole eight dollars. Well,
my father said that if a man owed him that
much for working as hard as we did, he wouldn't
go all the way out there.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
He just saw.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Him boy, Homer, your father doesn't know anything about a
thing like that.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
All he does is.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Sell Lumbercause my father is one of the best wires
in the state.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
He can talk anyone into giving him money. How I
don't know, but.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It's anc you have if you're a lawyer, and nobody
puts anything over my father.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
When he goes after a thing, he gets it, he does.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
And how you just wait until he comes back and
hands us each four dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
But father didn't I make it clear, mister Frederick, otis eight.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
Dollars, Henry, for the last time, I collected it in money,
mister Aldrich, No, Homer, not in money, As I said before,
I collected the equivalent.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Sad. What do you mean by the equivalent?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
I mean, alice that mister Frederick didn't have the cash,
so he paid it in corn.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
In what.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Corn?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Missus Aldrich?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Gee, father, not that we don't appreciate your trying, But
what Homer and I had really plan.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
And was, well, you know, money, Gee, where's mister Aldrich?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
My father said?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
For mind what your father said, Homer. There's nothing wrong
with being paid in corn. It's the ancient principle of
barter in exchange.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
It is.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Of course, it's a simple case of applied economics. You
boys will learn a great deal from this transaction.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It's taught me one thing already.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I'm glad to hear it home. The next time I
do any work, I'm getting my money in advance. Now, Homer, Sam,
how much corn did he give the.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Boys tomorrow morning?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Alice?
Speaker 7 (02:51):
He's driving his truck in with twelve bushels.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Twelve bushels of corn.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Heyes, missus Aldrich, twelve bushels.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Where in heaven name?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
You've got to keep it in the basement, mother, until
we can figure out what to do with it.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Well, that's very nice, I'm sure, mister Aldrich. How much
is it worth a bushel?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Well, I'm afraid it isn't worth a great deal right now.
But naturally, if you hold it, you will find the
price will fluctuate.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Sure, sure it will. What do you mean fluctuate? Henry,
You are dumb.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It means that tell them, will your father?
Speaker 7 (03:28):
The fluctuation reflects the cost of living. The price maybe down,
but only temporarily.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Sooner or later it'll go up.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Say what is it you're suggesting the boys do trade
in car now?
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Alice?
Speaker 7 (03:39):
It'll be a very good experience for them. They'll learn
that principles of supply and demand. This will teach them
the value of money. She whiz, Father, I know the
value of money. It's the value of corner.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I'm worrying about it.
Speaker 9 (03:51):
Well, don't worry about it, dear.
Speaker 10 (03:53):
You and Homer can corner the market with your twelve
bushels and make a killing when it goes up.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
A less for heaven's sake, I'm sorry, Sam, Please ire
and get ready for dinner.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Were you including me, Missus Aldridge.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Why no, Homer, I wasn't. However, if you feel.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
That you want to say why, I couldn't say unless
I was specially asked.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Oh in that case, dear, perhaps the next time, could.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
You start that over again, Missus Aldrich. Come on, I'll
go to the door with you.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Well, thanks for your trouble, Missus Aldrich, and thank you
for your trouble, mister Aldrich, No trouble at all, understand, Henry,
I'm not criticizing.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Well, you should have gotten my father to handle this.
No listeners, that a slur on my father. Oh gee, whiz, No.
The only thing is I don't know how he makes
a living.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Homer, twelve bushels of corner, twelve bushels of corn. I
configure that much myself. But when I go up to
the dance committee and get two tickets for the class dance,
what am I gonna hand them six bushels of corn
that hasn't even fluctuated?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Jem, there aren't any worse off than I am. I
asked eleanor Wentworth, haven't I?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Boy? I don't know how I'm gonna be able to
face Betty Newton. Listen, Homer, why don't you see.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
If your mother wouldn't be interested in buying it the can,
the whole twelve bushels.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
We could quote a reasonable price.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Sure, you want my mother to get us out of
a hole that your father got us into where.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
We aren't in any hole.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You just don't realize how valuable that corn is gonna
be when when it fluxuates, When it fluxuaits Henry?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
And which room is the class holding the meeting?
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Right there?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
In two way? Did you try the wayside market Homer, Yes.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Henry, I've been everywhere. Did you go to the neighborhood grocery?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yes? And they said the same thing everybody else did.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
No they just laughed.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Well didn't you tell them what your father said about
the price, Homer. People who are laughing aren't in the
mood to talk business.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Boy, I don't know why I want to go to
this meeting anyway.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
All they're gonna talk about is the class dance.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Did eleanor Wentworth go in? Sure?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And I'll bet the first thing they asks is have
we bought our tickets?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Quiet? Henry? Was the meeting started?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
No care?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
You've all heard the match of the last meeting.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Are there any announcements?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
A mister president?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
The chair recognizes Toby Wilson.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Although most of.
Speaker 11 (06:14):
The tickets for the dance a week from this Saturday
have been sold, there are still a few guys holding back.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Oh boy, let's not have.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Any sliders, cause let's make it one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I'm going out, Henry, No Homi, they'll see you.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
Are there any other announcements, mister President, Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Mart Let's mister President. I've been a member of.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
This class for a good many years now, and I
dash why the tickets have to cost so much, mister President,
That's what I say. Well, I think the price of
the ticket should fluctuate like the cost of living, Homer, would.
Speaker 10 (06:50):
You mind explaining that, Well, if you.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Don't know, it's not gonna do any good to tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And it isn't the money. I mind, it's a principal.
Speaker 10 (07:00):
I believe the price of tickets was fully discussed.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
At the last meeting. And you're out of order?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
What do you mean I'm out of order. I wasn't
even at the last meeting.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I think we ought to have more principal all the
way around, quiet.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Water, please, orter? Are there any other announcements?
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Mister President, Betty Newton, I've made emotion that the chairman
of the dance read off the list of those boys
who haven't bought their tickets here.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The list will be right at the next meeting.
Speaker 10 (07:28):
Are there any other announcement, mister President, Yes, Shanning, I
make emotion that we postponed the.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Dance for how long?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
For about four weeks?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
All in favor signify by saying I.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Hi the President.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
I made emotion that no boy in this plass feel
allowed to bring any girl to the dance that isn't
here in the plass.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Mister President, Yes, Torving.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I object not amount to no less than confiscation of
just right.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Mister presidents and ring Alrich.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I've been listening with Bretta interest all that complaints about
this dance, and naturally it worries me. I'm not sure,
but I think I have a suggestion. We had a
good dance last year, and we had a good dance
the year before, and I guess if we're all here,
we'll have another one next year. I certainly hope we will,
because I like to dance, But gee, I don't know.
(08:27):
Sometimes I start wondering of dancing as everything in life.
How about trying something else?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Just one year?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
The evenings are nice, now they're a little chilly maybe.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
But we're gonna have a moon?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I think, why waste our time indoors just dancing?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Well?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Why you suggest? Why a sort of corn rows?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
What if I make emotion that this class show a
little originality and initiative.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And have a corn roads? I second emotion ter plays water.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
I never heard of anything so ridiculous. All I can
say is, who wants a corn rows? Are you?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Mister president over?
Speaker 8 (09:12):
You're not through dancing it?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I mean, the only trouble with having a corn roast
is where are you gonna get the corn? It's hard
to find this time of year. But if we have
enough initiative and originality to want a corn roast, that
I'm willing to personally guarantee that I will find the
car somehow.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I second that.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Emotion too, What motion, Homer? What there wasn't an emotion?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Well that I may for I sit down. Now, wait
a minute, where.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Are your principals at Homer shut?
Speaker 10 (09:46):
There has been a motion that instead of a dance
we show little originality and initiative by holding a corn roast.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
All those in favor.
Speaker 10 (09:54):
Signify by saying, I ay, yeah, the boys, it'll be
a corn rolls.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Homer.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Tell Henry Arthur, somebody wants them outside.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I'm wanted outside. Somebody wants you out in the main office.
They come on, Homer, I'm wanted the dress.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
This mean we will allthill not have fun?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Also, gee, Henry, did you steamroller that? Homer? It just
happens that I did it for the sake of the class.
You did.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Sure, I really think a corn roaster is a better
idea than a dance. And if it happens that we
have the.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Corn they need, we'll let them have it just what
they need, no more and no less.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Well, how much do you think they'll need hen about
twelve bushels, Henry. I wonder who wants you in the
front office.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Where did you come from, Eleanor?
Speaker 8 (10:45):
I just followed you all of a class meeting, and.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
I want to tell you that every girl in there
is so mad at you they're never.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Going to speak to you again.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Throw all mad at me.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
My goodness, Henry, you even invited me to go to
the class dance with you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Sure, Elinor, But let me explain to me.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
I even bought a dress for the dance, a brand
new top for the dress. Do I look nice eating
corn on the cob in taffeta?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But she was Eleor? Oh we did?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Was substitute of corn rose for the dance.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
And you can just substitute another girl.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Goodbye?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Way or wait?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Wait brown, Oh boy, come on, Henry, here comes Betty?
Speaker 8 (11:16):
You wait for me home a brown?
Speaker 12 (11:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Did you want to speak to me? Yes?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I do.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
Do you realize I can't eat sweet corn?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Why not?
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Because I got this brace on my teeth? And I've
got a word for three more months?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
She was betty Or too self conscious about it, that's right.
It's not the least bit noticeable unless you smile.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But she whiz Betty Henry dress.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Oh boy, who's that? It's your sister, Henry, Mary.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
What's she doing here in school?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
She got to complain too, Henry.
Speaker 12 (11:46):
I've been waiting for you in the main office here.
You left this morning without your lunchbox.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Oh well, thanks very much.
Speaker 12 (11:53):
And Henry, when you come home from school this afternoon,
you're to stop at the store and see if you
can get twelve years of fresh picked corn.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Corn. Yes, we've got corn, she wis.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Twelve bushels came this morning before I left the house.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
But mother says, we can't eat that, Henry, My goodness,
how did we eat it?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Why couldn't we?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
It's horse corn? It's what corn?
Speaker 13 (12:17):
Horse?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Horse? Horse?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Does that mean we can't have the corn roast? Homer?
That means if anything is going to be roasted, it'll
be us. The all Rich family will be back in
just a moment.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
The first tonight on most.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Of these same NBC stations, you can enjoy more comedy
with Theater Guild on the Air this week. Theater Guild
on the Air stars Van Heflin and Rutherford and Kenny
Delmar and George Washington. Slept here already seen on Broadway
and a hit in the movies. This Joy jes Coffin
Mosshart comedy deals with a city man who discovers the
country where running water usually means there's a brook in
(12:57):
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George Washington slept here later this evening, and finally, no
program lineup would be complete without some of the top
NBC news shows, and Sunday is no exception. For Tonight,
NBC brings you Martha Round Trees, Meet the Press. Tonight's
second News features the American Forum of the Air and
(13:17):
the discussion topic is which party is the working Man's Friend?
Offering his guest panel members Secretary of Labor Marris Tobin
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Your moderator will be Theodore Grannie. Yes, that's the NBC
program schedule for the night. Just stay tuned for the
tops in radio. And now getting back to the troubles
(13:44):
of Henry Aldridge. Henry and Homer have talked the junior
class into holding a corn roast instead of a dance
in order to sell their twelve bushels of corn. While
congratulating themselves on their success, they learned that they have
in their possession not sweet corn, but horse corn. The
scene opens that afternoon in the Aldridge basement.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Understand, Henry, I'm not criticizing your father, but don't you
think you should have known this was horse corn?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Why should he have?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
After all, my father's a lawyer, not a farmer. The
hem corn is corn.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Well, listen, Henry, I've been thinking, couldn't we still sell
it to the class, even.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
If it is really just for horses?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Look, Homer, you see this front tooth? Yes, I lost
that tooth once biting into an air of horse corn.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Looks all right to me.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Sure it grew out again, But the one I had
I lost?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You did, sure?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
And do you want us to be responsible for the
whole class.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Losing their front teeth? Well?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Couldn't we soak it in butter and soften it up
a little.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And not serve it until after dark? No, homie.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Well, here we are, Henry, stuck with those twelve bushels
of horse food.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And the whole junior class is waiting for something to eat.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
Mother, Please let me fin eleanor I don't want to
hear another word about the class.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
Then, Mother, doesn't to be a dance. It's to be
a corn roast.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
And Henry Aldrich expects.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Me to go with him.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
But you're not going out and buy clothes just for
a corn roast. We bought you a lovely tap of
a dress to dance in. Oh why aren't you having
the dance?
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Henry thought it would be much more original for us
not to have one. Well, you have plenty of clothes
that are good enough to eat corn in, but nothing
that Henry hasn't seen me in before. And this is
going to be a very original occasion there.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
You can't expect me to buy your a dress for
every single occasion.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It's silly, Eleanor.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
But mother, I'll economize. I'll get something I can wear
the corn roasts and weenie roast. Oh, mother, if I
don't get a new dress, I'll just die.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I know which. Oh I'd have a hard time explaining
that to your father. Oh I'll die, all right.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Can you meet me at him for him tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (15:55):
Yes, mother, And thank you. I saw just the thing
down there I have in minds like where you are?
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Mother, I'll answer the for you. Hello, Hello, is this Eleanor? Yeah,
this is bitty I just had a great idea. What
about well, you know that corn rolls we're having? Yes, well,
my uncle has a cabin down by the lake, and
I asked him whether the whole class could meet there,
and what do you think, Eleanor? He said he'd be
very glad to let us have it, and he's sending
(16:21):
two men out there to get the whole thing cleaned
up for us. Really, yes, I think it's a very
original idea, don't you Yes, I was just telling my mother.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And what else do you think?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
What the dentist is gonna take the brace off my teeth?
He is, and a special figure just for the weekend.
That's wonderful? Am I looking forward to it?
Speaker 9 (16:42):
I should imagine. I think it's terribly exciting.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I should think you was.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
How you know it's been years since I've eaten sweet corn?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And quiet, please quiet? Why can't we have an orderly
clash meeting for a change.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
See Henry, everything's going swell. They haven't even mentioned the
corn roast, Quiet, Homer. I think they've forgotten they voted
on it.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Quiet, please quiet.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
The next item on the agenda is a report on
the corn roast.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Where is Henry Alrich oh boy, there is, mister president.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Is that all rich back in the corner?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yes, mister President, when you make a report, Well, i'd
like to.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Say a few words on that subject.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
It has come to my attention that some of the
people around here are a little upset by the carn situation.
We've always been pretty proud of the harmony in the class,
and I think would be a great mistake if we
let an innocent suggestion by me about.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Having a corn ROAs split us wide open.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
After all, we have our annual what you may call
us to have a good time, and for that reason,
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Foolish to go ahead willing nelly with a corn roast.
I take an emotion.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
No emotions been made yet, home Ran.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Then I second is when it's made.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Oh you're out of order?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
He is that so well? Just as a matter of principle,
I like.
Speaker 13 (18:09):
To know.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Opposed to a corn rose town, what are you suggesting
it's placed a dance?
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Still, we girls have a right to know where we
stand around here. After getting us worked up to the
port where we want corn, you're gonna make us dance.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Don't misunderstand me, Betty.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I think we ought to have a dance and corn
only only working together so that everybody will be satisfied
and there won't be any hard feelings. Well, why couldn't
we show a little originality and initiative and have sort.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Of a barn dance you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Only not a plain ordinary barn dance. This would be
different the decorating.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Nothing but ears of corn. Mister President. I second that motion.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Mister President may asks why we can't have corn to.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Eat instead of just corn decorations, because along this time
of the year, Toby, you take cards corn, for instance,
it's very colorful and nice to look at, while sweet
corn is liable to be tough if you don't want
to lose a tooth when you're out on a social event,
do you.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I can take care of my teas, But I say, why.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Take a chance. After all, we can eat corn any
old time. Why get into a rut?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
I think we ought to be the first class in
the history of Central High or any other school that
has the originality and initiative.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
To have a plain corn dance.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Mister President, I have the floor p.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Water honor, please.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
The chair recognizes on our wet worth.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Mister President, I like to protest. Just because the majority
in this class is composed of boys. That doesn't give
the boys any right to change their minds every ten seconds.
We girls haven't guys to know what's going to happen
to us.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
I command that ill both.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Be taken Wait a minute, eleanor I the.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
Man that'll all be taken on out having a simple
informal dance.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
An evening clothes. No, yes, no, mother, Did you hear
what happened at Henry's school today?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
No, Mary, my goodness, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
What started it, but one of the classes practically had
a riot.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
Really, I understand they had to call in six hall
monitors and the gym teacher to quiet them down.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
What was the trouble?
Speaker 12 (20:37):
I don't know, but they tell me.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
The class is in a terrible condition.
Speaker 12 (20:41):
Nobody speaking to anybody whoa because even some talk of
when they graduate they're going to have two separate commencements
for when all the girls say they won't be seen
graduating from the same platform as the boys.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Is that you, Henry?
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Yes, mother, Oh, missus Aldrich, I'm got a homer, Henry.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
How on earth did you get your shirt torn?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
My shirt?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
My shirt?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:07):
She whizz do you know who I think tore Henry? Oh, Betty?
When did she do that? Right after Natalie White slapped
his face?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Henry?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
What did she slap your face for?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I took the floor away from her. I took the
floor away from her. We had a class meeting.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Homer, you better get some of cure chrome for your face.
It's all scratched out.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
That was Madeline Miller.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yeah, my goodness, she must have long fingernails.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Not anymore, Henry. You didn't get into a fight with
any of the girls, did you, she whizz?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
No, I was a gentleman through the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I don't understand what caused the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Well, we had what you might call a close vote,
see mother, But we got it through, didn't we, Henry?
Speaker 9 (21:53):
What did you get through?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Just a little motion I made. Listen, mother, where'd you
put the corn?
Speaker 11 (21:58):
The corn?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Twelve bushels's downstairs in the basement there?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Oh no, it isn't, missus Aldrich, Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It is, Homer.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Mary. We were just down there and there wasn't even
one basket there.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well, I don't understand it.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Mother.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Did you go out at all to day? Yes? I did?
Did you lock all the doors all but the back door.
Oh boy, you think our corn's been stolen? Him?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Sure it has, Homer, Sure it has.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Dear, don't be ridiculous. No one is going to steal
twelve bushels of corn. You can't eat corn. You boys
aren't worried about.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
The corn, are you?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
We sure are? Father? Hello, sall, Oh dear, do you
know anything about the corn set?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
I certainly do.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Who took it?
Speaker 11 (22:36):
Who took it?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I did you did? After all?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I wasn't gonna let mister Frederick stick my own son
with a load of useless horse corn, No, sir, so
I just went out there and made him.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Take it back.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
You haven't got the corn anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I should say not. Did mister Fredericks give you the money?
Speaker 7 (22:52):
No potatoes?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Potatoes?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Nobody puts anything over all.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I'm Sam always.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Let me tell you, I'm a pretty sharp trade of
you know, my father, your father to thank me. It
was my own fault for not being more careful in
the first place. Father, I didn't know quite plainly I
would stand for no nonsense.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
But father's old rich.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Look, daddie, see that window in the emporium, that dress
in the center, that's exactly like the one I got
for the corn roast, only mine was blue and they
won't let you take it back. No, that's why my
mother's so mad at our class. Well, look, daddie, I
guess you're going on and this is.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
About as far as I go.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Well, i'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Goodbye.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Oh hello, mother. I wondered whether you'd be here.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Now, Eleanor are you sure you have to buy a
special out just for a barn down?
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Oh my goodness, yes, after all, I can't wear a
corn roast dressed to a corn dance, especially when the
whole dance was Henry's idea.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Henry, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Let's just wait and see if something happens. Well, we're
still stuck with the potatoes. Hoomer relaxed, take it easy,
my father says.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
That's a trouble.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
We've been taking it easy when we should have been tough.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I'm gonna make a motion. What motion?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, I don't know yet, mister President Omer Brown, I.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Had the floor first.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Nobody recognized you.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Shift down, Homer.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
As long as there is some doubt about who had
the floor first, I think we should recognize the young lady.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Yes, mister President. I'm glad to see there's a little
chivalry left in the school.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Mister President, this is a matter o Principal.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Ben ain't Notton has the floor.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
I should like to bring to your attention an article
in today's Fool paper which is the most sensible thing
I've ever read in my life. It's called in these Times.
It says in these times, James, it hardly seems fitting
in proper for students who are planning a dance to
spend their money on unnecessary decorations such as corn. If
the junior class really wants to hold a dance, it
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will be long remembered. Why don't they give a dance
without the decorations and show a little originality and initiative
by contributing that money in the formal food like potato
would be a very generous and appreciated step and would
eliminate a lot of worries. Sign a loyal plaster.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Ystal President, farmers could be potatoes because.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Of the staff of life.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
That's Brads and Toby.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
The person who wrote that article knew what he was
talking about, and we're gonna carry out his wishes.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Mister President, I make a motion that this class give
a dance, just a plain informal dance in evening dress,
but without any other decorations, and then we use the
proceeds to buy potatoes for people that are worried.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
If mister President here, Alrich, I just want to say that,
since I was the one who first suggested the corn
dance after hearing that article, I'm ashamed of myself, and
not only withdraw my suggestion, but I second Betty's motion.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Heint, Henry, who wrote that article? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well, jeez, why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I even put the paper on Betty's desk. Hey, Homer, Homer,
there's a fellow in the hall that wants to see you.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
He wants to see me. Who is it? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Somebody just told me. Come on, Homer, let's get out.
We're sitting Freddy.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'll say we are order.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
Order all load in favor of art and putting the
dance roastia potatoes instead of corn.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Please, Henry, do you see anyone out here?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
No?
Speaker 11 (26:45):
Hello, Homer, father, what are you doing here? I just
went out and had a talk with that farmer who
owed you money? You did, mister Brown, Yes, sir, and
I fixed things Hi told him he couldn't unload first
horse corn and then old potatoes that were even sprouting.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
He could do that the same Alrich, but he.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Couldn't do it to me. You mean you got our money?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Father?
Speaker 11 (27:05):
No, he didn't have any cash.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
But I made him come across with twenty five baskets
of spinach.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
For my Homer.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Not even the poor will take spinets.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Within the next twenty seconds, the fire will break out
somewhere in the United States. Yes, there are four thy
six hundred fires in America each day. By obeying a
few simple rules, we can protect ourselves from this devastating minute.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Don't smoke in bed.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Our, discard lighted cigarettes carelessly, and be careful with matches.
Remember it doesn't pay to gamble with fire.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
You can't win.
Speaker 14 (27:48):
Hello, And just one more thing, Henry isn't sure a
good owner.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
It certainly is the more I think about it. A
spinach dance a dance, and I have a brand new
yellow chastlet.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Well, couldn't you go as a slice of egg?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
The all Ridge Family is written by Clifford Goldsmith. Henry
is played by Bobby Ellis and Homer by Johnny Fiedler.
Mister and missus Aulridge, our House Jamison and Katherine Roth.
Your announcer is Dick Dudley. Listen to Guy next week,
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same time, same station for another sparkling half hour with
the Alridge family.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Good Night, everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
This is NBC, the National broadcasting Company.
Henry Aldrich coming mother.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yes, it's the Aldrich family. Written by Slipper Goldsman.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
A teenage boy has always scampered across the American scene
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry, Finn Penrod text bad boy. Maybe there's
a good reason why. Maybe in a typical American boy
like Henry Ulrich, people can see someone they once were
or once new. The scene opens on the front porch
of the Aldrich Hall.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The time is late afternoon.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Gee, homie, you're just worrying over nothing. Well, Henry, that
isn't the way my father said he would have done it.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
My father will get it, Homer.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Why do you think he's taking the time to drive
water out to mister Frederick's farm if he can.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Well, boy, I certainly hope he can collect it. Homer.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He's gonna tell mister Frederick right straight to his face
how much he owses for the work we did this summer.
And your father thinks he can get it all. Sure
he can, Homer, He'll get our whole eight dollars. Well,
my father said that if a man owed him that
much for working as hard as we did, he wouldn't
go all the way out there.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
He just saw.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Him boy, Homer, your father doesn't know anything about a
thing like that.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
All he does is.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Sell Lumbercause my father is one of the best wires
in the state.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
He can talk anyone into giving him money. How I
don't know, but.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It's anc you have if you're a lawyer, and nobody
puts anything over my father.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
When he goes after a thing, he gets it, he does.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
And how you just wait until he comes back and
hands us each four dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
But father didn't I make it clear, mister Frederick, otis eight.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
Dollars, Henry, for the last time, I collected it in money,
mister Aldrich, No, Homer, not in money, As I said before,
I collected the equivalent.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Sad. What do you mean by the equivalent?
Speaker 7 (02:06):
I mean, alice that mister Frederick didn't have the cash,
so he paid it in corn.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
In what.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Corn?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Missus Aldrich?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Gee, father, not that we don't appreciate your trying, But
what Homer and I had really plan.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
And was, well, you know, money, Gee, where's mister Aldrich?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
My father said?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
For mind what your father said, Homer. There's nothing wrong
with being paid in corn. It's the ancient principle of
barter in exchange.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
It is.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Of course, it's a simple case of applied economics. You
boys will learn a great deal from this transaction.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It's taught me one thing already.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I'm glad to hear it home. The next time I
do any work, I'm getting my money in advance. Now, Homer, Sam,
how much corn did he give the.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Boys tomorrow morning?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Alice?
Speaker 7 (02:51):
He's driving his truck in with twelve bushels.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Twelve bushels of corn.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Heyes, missus Aldrich, twelve bushels.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Where in heaven name?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
You've got to keep it in the basement, mother, until
we can figure out what to do with it.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Well, that's very nice, I'm sure, mister Aldrich. How much
is it worth a bushel?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Well, I'm afraid it isn't worth a great deal right now.
But naturally, if you hold it, you will find the
price will fluctuate.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Sure, sure it will. What do you mean fluctuate? Henry,
You are dumb.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It means that tell them, will your father?
Speaker 7 (03:28):
The fluctuation reflects the cost of living. The price maybe down,
but only temporarily.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Sooner or later it'll go up.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Say what is it you're suggesting the boys do trade
in car now?
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Alice?
Speaker 7 (03:39):
It'll be a very good experience for them. They'll learn
that principles of supply and demand. This will teach them
the value of money. She whiz, Father, I know the
value of money. It's the value of corner.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I'm worrying about it.
Speaker 9 (03:51):
Well, don't worry about it, dear.
Speaker 10 (03:53):
You and Homer can corner the market with your twelve
bushels and make a killing when it goes up.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
A less for heaven's sake, I'm sorry, Sam, Please ire
and get ready for dinner.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Were you including me, Missus Aldridge.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Why no, Homer, I wasn't. However, if you feel.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
That you want to say why, I couldn't say unless
I was specially asked.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Oh in that case, dear, perhaps the next time, could.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
You start that over again, Missus Aldrich. Come on, I'll
go to the door with you.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Well, thanks for your trouble, Missus Aldrich, and thank you
for your trouble, mister Aldrich, No trouble at all, understand, Henry,
I'm not criticizing.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Well, you should have gotten my father to handle this.
No listeners, that a slur on my father. Oh gee, whiz, No.
The only thing is I don't know how he makes
a living.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Homer, twelve bushels of corner, twelve bushels of corn. I
configure that much myself. But when I go up to
the dance committee and get two tickets for the class dance,
what am I gonna hand them six bushels of corn
that hasn't even fluctuated?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Jem, there aren't any worse off than I am. I
asked eleanor Wentworth, haven't I?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Boy? I don't know how I'm gonna be able to
face Betty Newton. Listen, Homer, why don't you see.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
If your mother wouldn't be interested in buying it the can,
the whole twelve bushels.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
We could quote a reasonable price.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Sure, you want my mother to get us out of
a hole that your father got us into where.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
We aren't in any hole.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You just don't realize how valuable that corn is gonna
be when when it fluxuates, When it fluxuaits Henry?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
And which room is the class holding the meeting?
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Right there?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
In two way? Did you try the wayside market Homer, Yes.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Henry, I've been everywhere. Did you go to the neighborhood grocery?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yes? And they said the same thing everybody else did.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
No they just laughed.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Well didn't you tell them what your father said about
the price, Homer. People who are laughing aren't in the
mood to talk business.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Boy, I don't know why I want to go to
this meeting anyway.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
All they're gonna talk about is the class dance.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Did eleanor Wentworth go in? Sure?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And I'll bet the first thing they asks is have
we bought our tickets?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Quiet? Henry? Was the meeting started?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
No care?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
You've all heard the match of the last meeting.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Are there any announcements?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
A mister president?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
The chair recognizes Toby Wilson.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Although most of.
Speaker 11 (06:14):
The tickets for the dance a week from this Saturday
have been sold, there are still a few guys holding back.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Oh boy, let's not have.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Any sliders, cause let's make it one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I'm going out, Henry, No Homi, they'll see you.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
Are there any other announcements, mister President, Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Mart Let's mister President. I've been a member of.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
This class for a good many years now, and I
dash why the tickets have to cost so much, mister President,
That's what I say. Well, I think the price of
the ticket should fluctuate like the cost of living, Homer, would.
Speaker 10 (06:50):
You mind explaining that, Well, if you.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Don't know, it's not gonna do any good to tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And it isn't the money. I mind, it's a principal.
Speaker 10 (07:00):
I believe the price of tickets was fully discussed.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
At the last meeting. And you're out of order?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
What do you mean I'm out of order. I wasn't
even at the last meeting.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I think we ought to have more principal all the
way around, quiet.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Water, please, orter? Are there any other announcements?
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Mister President, Betty Newton, I've made emotion that the chairman
of the dance read off the list of those boys
who haven't bought their tickets here.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The list will be right at the next meeting.
Speaker 10 (07:28):
Are there any other announcement, mister President, Yes, Shanning, I
make emotion that we postponed the.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Dance for how long?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
For about four weeks?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
All in favor signify by saying I.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Hi the President.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
I made emotion that no boy in this plass feel
allowed to bring any girl to the dance that isn't
here in the plass.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Mister President, Yes, Torving.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I object not amount to no less than confiscation of
just right.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Mister presidents and ring Alrich.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I've been listening with Bretta interest all that complaints about
this dance, and naturally it worries me. I'm not sure,
but I think I have a suggestion. We had a
good dance last year, and we had a good dance
the year before, and I guess if we're all here,
we'll have another one next year. I certainly hope we will,
because I like to dance, But gee, I don't know.
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Sometimes I start wondering of dancing as everything in life.
How about trying something else?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Just one year?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
The evenings are nice, now they're a little chilly maybe.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
But we're gonna have a moon?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I think, why waste our time indoors just dancing?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Well?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Why you suggest? Why a sort of corn rows?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
What if I make emotion that this class show a
little originality and initiative.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And have a corn roads? I second emotion ter plays water.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
I never heard of anything so ridiculous. All I can
say is, who wants a corn rows? Are you?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Mister president over?
Speaker 8 (09:12):
You're not through dancing it?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I mean, the only trouble with having a corn roast
is where are you gonna get the corn? It's hard
to find this time of year. But if we have
enough initiative and originality to want a corn roast, that
I'm willing to personally guarantee that I will find the
car somehow.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I second that.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Emotion too, What motion, Homer? What there wasn't an emotion?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Well that I may for I sit down. Now, wait
a minute, where.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Are your principals at Homer shut?
Speaker 10 (09:46):
There has been a motion that instead of a dance
we show little originality and initiative by holding a corn roast.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
All those in favor.
Speaker 10 (09:54):
Signify by saying, I ay, yeah, the boys, it'll be
a corn rolls.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Homer.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Tell Henry Arthur, somebody wants them outside.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I'm wanted outside. Somebody wants you out in the main office.
They come on, Homer, I'm wanted the dress.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
This mean we will allthill not have fun?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Also, gee, Henry, did you steamroller that? Homer? It just
happens that I did it for the sake of the class.
You did.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Sure, I really think a corn roaster is a better
idea than a dance. And if it happens that we
have the.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Corn they need, we'll let them have it just what
they need, no more and no less.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Well, how much do you think they'll need hen about
twelve bushels, Henry. I wonder who wants you in the
front office.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Where did you come from, Eleanor?
Speaker 8 (10:45):
I just followed you all of a class meeting, and.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
I want to tell you that every girl in there
is so mad at you they're never.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Going to speak to you again.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Throw all mad at me.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
My goodness, Henry, you even invited me to go to
the class dance with you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Sure, Elinor, But let me explain to me.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
I even bought a dress for the dance, a brand
new top for the dress. Do I look nice eating
corn on the cob in taffeta?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But she was Eleor? Oh we did?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Was substitute of corn rose for the dance.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
And you can just substitute another girl.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Goodbye?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Way or wait?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Wait brown, Oh boy, come on, Henry, here comes Betty?
Speaker 8 (11:16):
You wait for me home a brown?
Speaker 12 (11:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Did you want to speak to me? Yes?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I do.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
Do you realize I can't eat sweet corn?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Why not?
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Because I got this brace on my teeth? And I've
got a word for three more months?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
She was betty Or too self conscious about it, that's right.
It's not the least bit noticeable unless you smile.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But she whiz Betty Henry dress.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Oh boy, who's that? It's your sister, Henry, Mary.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
What's she doing here in school?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
She got to complain too, Henry.
Speaker 12 (11:46):
I've been waiting for you in the main office here.
You left this morning without your lunchbox.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Oh well, thanks very much.
Speaker 12 (11:53):
And Henry, when you come home from school this afternoon,
you're to stop at the store and see if you
can get twelve years of fresh picked corn.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Corn. Yes, we've got corn, she wis.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Twelve bushels came this morning before I left the house.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
But mother says, we can't eat that, Henry, My goodness,
how did we eat it?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Why couldn't we?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
It's horse corn? It's what corn?
Speaker 13 (12:17):
Horse?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Horse? Horse?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Does that mean we can't have the corn roast? Homer?
That means if anything is going to be roasted, it'll
be us. The all Rich family will be back in
just a moment.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
The first tonight on most.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
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program lineup would be complete without some of the top
NBC news shows, and Sunday is no exception. For Tonight,
NBC brings you Martha Round Trees, Meet the Press. Tonight's
second News features the American Forum of the Air and
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the discussion topic is which party is the working Man's Friend?
Offering his guest panel members Secretary of Labor Marris Tobin
and Fred Hartley, co author The Taft Hartley Labor Act.
Your moderator will be Theodore Grannie. Yes, that's the NBC
program schedule for the night. Just stay tuned for the
tops in radio. And now getting back to the troubles
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of Henry Aldridge. Henry and Homer have talked the junior
class into holding a corn roast instead of a dance
in order to sell their twelve bushels of corn. While
congratulating themselves on their success, they learned that they have
in their possession not sweet corn, but horse corn. The
scene opens that afternoon in the Aldridge basement.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Understand, Henry, I'm not criticizing your father, but don't you
think you should have known this was horse corn?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Why should he have?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
After all, my father's a lawyer, not a farmer. The
hem corn is corn.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Well, listen, Henry, I've been thinking, couldn't we still sell
it to the class, even.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
If it is really just for horses?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Look, Homer, you see this front tooth? Yes, I lost
that tooth once biting into an air of horse corn.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Looks all right to me.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Sure it grew out again, But the one I had
I lost?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You did, sure?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
And do you want us to be responsible for the
whole class.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Losing their front teeth? Well?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Couldn't we soak it in butter and soften it up
a little.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And not serve it until after dark? No, homie.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Well, here we are, Henry, stuck with those twelve bushels
of horse food.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And the whole junior class is waiting for something to eat.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
Mother, Please let me fin eleanor I don't want to
hear another word about the class.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
Then, Mother, doesn't to be a dance. It's to be
a corn roast.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
And Henry Aldrich expects.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Me to go with him.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
But you're not going out and buy clothes just for
a corn roast. We bought you a lovely tap of
a dress to dance in. Oh why aren't you having
the dance?
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Henry thought it would be much more original for us
not to have one. Well, you have plenty of clothes
that are good enough to eat corn in, but nothing
that Henry hasn't seen me in before. And this is
going to be a very original occasion there.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
You can't expect me to buy your a dress for
every single occasion.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It's silly, Eleanor.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
But mother, I'll economize. I'll get something I can wear
the corn roasts and weenie roast. Oh, mother, if I
don't get a new dress, I'll just die.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I know which. Oh I'd have a hard time explaining
that to your father. Oh I'll die, all right.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Can you meet me at him for him tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (15:55):
Yes, mother, And thank you. I saw just the thing
down there I have in minds like where you are?
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Mother, I'll answer the for you. Hello, Hello, is this Eleanor? Yeah,
this is bitty I just had a great idea. What
about well, you know that corn rolls we're having? Yes, well,
my uncle has a cabin down by the lake, and
I asked him whether the whole class could meet there,
and what do you think, Eleanor? He said he'd be
very glad to let us have it, and he's sending
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two men out there to get the whole thing cleaned
up for us. Really, yes, I think it's a very
original idea, don't you Yes, I was just telling my mother.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And what else do you think?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
What the dentist is gonna take the brace off my teeth?
He is, and a special figure just for the weekend.
That's wonderful? Am I looking forward to it?
Speaker 9 (16:42):
I should imagine. I think it's terribly exciting.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I should think you was.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
How you know it's been years since I've eaten sweet corn?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And quiet, please quiet? Why can't we have an orderly
clash meeting for a change.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
See Henry, everything's going swell. They haven't even mentioned the
corn roast, Quiet, Homer. I think they've forgotten they voted
on it.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Quiet, please quiet.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
The next item on the agenda is a report on
the corn roast.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Where is Henry Alrich oh boy, there is, mister president.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Is that all rich back in the corner?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yes, mister President, when you make a report, Well, i'd
like to.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Say a few words on that subject.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
It has come to my attention that some of the
people around here are a little upset by the carn situation.
We've always been pretty proud of the harmony in the class,
and I think would be a great mistake if we
let an innocent suggestion by me about.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Having a corn ROAs split us wide open.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
After all, we have our annual what you may call
us to have a good time, and for that reason,
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Foolish to go ahead willing nelly with a corn roast.
I take an emotion.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
No emotions been made yet, home Ran.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Then I second is when it's made.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Oh you're out of order?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
He is that so well? Just as a matter of principle,
I like.
Speaker 13 (18:09):
To know.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Opposed to a corn rose town, what are you suggesting
it's placed a dance?
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Still, we girls have a right to know where we
stand around here. After getting us worked up to the
port where we want corn, you're gonna make us dance.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Don't misunderstand me, Betty.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I think we ought to have a dance and corn
only only working together so that everybody will be satisfied
and there won't be any hard feelings. Well, why couldn't
we show a little originality and initiative and have sort.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Of a barn dance you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Only not a plain ordinary barn dance. This would be
different the decorating.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Nothing but ears of corn. Mister President. I second that motion.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Mister President may asks why we can't have corn to.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Eat instead of just corn decorations, because along this time
of the year, Toby, you take cards corn, for instance,
it's very colorful and nice to look at, while sweet
corn is liable to be tough if you don't want
to lose a tooth when you're out on a social event,
do you.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I can take care of my teas, But I say, why.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Take a chance. After all, we can eat corn any
old time. Why get into a rut?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
I think we ought to be the first class in
the history of Central High or any other school that
has the originality and initiative.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
To have a plain corn dance.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Mister President, I have the floor p.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Water honor, please.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
The chair recognizes on our wet worth.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Mister President, I like to protest. Just because the majority
in this class is composed of boys. That doesn't give
the boys any right to change their minds every ten seconds.
We girls haven't guys to know what's going to happen
to us.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
I command that ill both.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Be taken Wait a minute, eleanor I the.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
Man that'll all be taken on out having a simple
informal dance.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
An evening clothes. No, yes, no, mother, Did you hear
what happened at Henry's school today?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
No, Mary, my goodness, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
What started it, but one of the classes practically had
a riot.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
Really, I understand they had to call in six hall
monitors and the gym teacher to quiet them down.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
What was the trouble?
Speaker 12 (20:37):
I don't know, but they tell me.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
The class is in a terrible condition.
Speaker 12 (20:41):
Nobody speaking to anybody whoa because even some talk of
when they graduate they're going to have two separate commencements
for when all the girls say they won't be seen
graduating from the same platform as the boys.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Is that you, Henry?
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Yes, mother, Oh, missus Aldrich, I'm got a homer, Henry.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
How on earth did you get your shirt torn?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
My shirt?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
My shirt?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:07):
She whizz do you know who I think tore Henry? Oh, Betty?
When did she do that? Right after Natalie White slapped
his face?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Henry?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
What did she slap your face for?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I took the floor away from her. I took the
floor away from her. We had a class meeting.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Homer, you better get some of cure chrome for your face.
It's all scratched out.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
That was Madeline Miller.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yeah, my goodness, she must have long fingernails.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Not anymore, Henry. You didn't get into a fight with
any of the girls, did you, she whizz?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
No, I was a gentleman through the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I don't understand what caused the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Well, we had what you might call a close vote,
see mother, But we got it through, didn't we, Henry?
Speaker 9 (21:53):
What did you get through?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Just a little motion I made. Listen, mother, where'd you
put the corn?
Speaker 11 (21:58):
The corn?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Twelve bushels's downstairs in the basement there?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Oh no, it isn't, missus Aldrich, Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It is, Homer.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Mary. We were just down there and there wasn't even
one basket there.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well, I don't understand it.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Mother.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Did you go out at all to day? Yes? I did?
Did you lock all the doors all but the back door.
Oh boy, you think our corn's been stolen? Him?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Sure it has, Homer, Sure it has.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Dear, don't be ridiculous. No one is going to steal
twelve bushels of corn. You can't eat corn. You boys
aren't worried about.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
The corn, are you?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
We sure are? Father? Hello, sall, Oh dear, do you
know anything about the corn set?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
I certainly do.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Who took it?
Speaker 11 (22:36):
Who took it?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I did you did? After all?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I wasn't gonna let mister Frederick stick my own son
with a load of useless horse corn, No, sir, so
I just went out there and made him.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Take it back.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
You haven't got the corn anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I should say not. Did mister Fredericks give you the money?
Speaker 7 (22:52):
No potatoes?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Potatoes?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Nobody puts anything over all.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I'm Sam always.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Let me tell you, I'm a pretty sharp trade of
you know, my father, your father to thank me. It
was my own fault for not being more careful in
the first place. Father, I didn't know quite plainly I
would stand for no nonsense.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
But father's old rich.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Look, daddie, see that window in the emporium, that dress
in the center, that's exactly like the one I got
for the corn roast, only mine was blue and they
won't let you take it back. No, that's why my
mother's so mad at our class. Well, look, daddie, I
guess you're going on and this is.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
About as far as I go.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Well, i'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Goodbye.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Oh hello, mother. I wondered whether you'd be here.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Now, Eleanor are you sure you have to buy a
special out just for a barn down?
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Oh my goodness, yes, after all, I can't wear a
corn roast dressed to a corn dance, especially when the
whole dance was Henry's idea.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Henry, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Let's just wait and see if something happens. Well, we're
still stuck with the potatoes. Hoomer relaxed, take it easy,
my father says.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
That's a trouble.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
We've been taking it easy when we should have been tough.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I'm gonna make a motion. What motion?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, I don't know yet, mister President Omer Brown, I.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Had the floor first.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Nobody recognized you.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Shift down, Homer.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
As long as there is some doubt about who had
the floor first, I think we should recognize the young lady.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Yes, mister President. I'm glad to see there's a little
chivalry left in the school.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Mister President, this is a matter o Principal.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Ben ain't Notton has the floor.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
I should like to bring to your attention an article
in today's Fool paper which is the most sensible thing
I've ever read in my life. It's called in these Times.
It says in these times, James, it hardly seems fitting
in proper for students who are planning a dance to
spend their money on unnecessary decorations such as corn. If
the junior class really wants to hold a dance, it
(25:10):
will be long remembered. Why don't they give a dance
without the decorations and show a little originality and initiative
by contributing that money in the formal food like potato
would be a very generous and appreciated step and would
eliminate a lot of worries. Sign a loyal plaster.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Ystal President, farmers could be potatoes because.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Of the staff of life.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
That's Brads and Toby.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
The person who wrote that article knew what he was
talking about, and we're gonna carry out his wishes.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Mister President, I make a motion that this class give
a dance, just a plain informal dance in evening dress,
but without any other decorations, and then we use the
proceeds to buy potatoes for people that are worried.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
If mister President here, Alrich, I just want to say that,
since I was the one who first suggested the corn
dance after hearing that article, I'm ashamed of myself, and
not only withdraw my suggestion, but I second Betty's motion.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Heint, Henry, who wrote that article? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well, jeez, why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I even put the paper on Betty's desk. Hey, Homer, Homer,
there's a fellow in the hall that wants to see you.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
He wants to see me. Who is it? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Somebody just told me. Come on, Homer, let's get out.
We're sitting Freddy.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'll say we are order.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
Order all load in favor of art and putting the
dance roastia potatoes instead of corn.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
Please, Henry, do you see anyone out here?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
No?
Speaker 11 (26:45):
Hello, Homer, father, what are you doing here? I just
went out and had a talk with that farmer who
owed you money? You did, mister Brown, Yes, sir, and
I fixed things Hi told him he couldn't unload first
horse corn and then old potatoes that were even sprouting.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
He could do that the same Alrich, but he.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Couldn't do it to me. You mean you got our money?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Father?
Speaker 11 (27:05):
No, he didn't have any cash.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
But I made him come across with twenty five baskets
of spinach.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
For my Homer.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Not even the poor will take spinets.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Within the next twenty seconds, the fire will break out
somewhere in the United States. Yes, there are four thy
six hundred fires in America each day. By obeying a
few simple rules, we can protect ourselves from this devastating minute.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Don't smoke in bed.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Our, discard lighted cigarettes carelessly, and be careful with matches.
Remember it doesn't pay to gamble with fire.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
You can't win.
Speaker 14 (27:48):
Hello, And just one more thing, Henry isn't sure a
good owner.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
It certainly is the more I think about it. A
spinach dance a dance, and I have a brand new
yellow chastlet.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Well, couldn't you go as a slice of egg?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
The all Ridge Family is written by Clifford Goldsmith. Henry
is played by Bobby Ellis and Homer by Johnny Fiedler.
Mister and missus Aulridge, our House Jamison and Katherine Roth.
Your announcer is Dick Dudley. Listen to Guy next week,
(28:54):
same time, same station for another sparkling half hour with
the Alridge family.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Good Night, everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
This is NBC, the National broadcasting Company.
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