Classic Radio 11-24-25 - The Hardy Family visits, The Terrified Turkey, and Thanksgiving Dinner - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now the greatest radio shows of all time.

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As my classic radio Theater, the.

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine. It's your host,
Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Good Evening Friend, Savionna Tanto.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
More Thanksgiving shows on this Monday, with episodes of the
Good News of nineteen thirty nine with Robert Young from
eighty seven years ago, Sam Spade with Steve Dunn and
the Terrified Turkey Taper from nineteen fifty and points, Sublime
starring cliff Ard Kent and Mel Blanc, a Sweet Show
from nineteen forty seven. And speaking of sweet shows, we'll

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also hear from Claudia. That's what's coming up on this Monday,
twenty fourth day of November, twenty eighth day of the year,
thirty seven days left. Charles Darwin publishing The Origin Originist
Species on this date in eighteen fifty nine in Washington.
On this date in nineteen thirty two, the FBI Scientific

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Crime Detection Laboratory officially open. We know it matters. The
FBI Crime Lab. The first moonding grade against the Japanese
capital from the east on this date and by land
made by eighty eight American aircraft on this date. In
nineteen forty four, after refusing cooperation with the House on
American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the

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movie industry, the House voted three forty six to seventeen
to approve citations of contempt of Congress on this date
in nineteen forty seven against the so called Hollywood ten
Broadway Plajiji opened on this date. In nineteen fifty one,
A litt alone actress starring Audrey Hepburn was on this date.

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In nineteen sixty three, alleged assassin Lee Harvey Alliswall mortally
shot by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on the live
National Television.

Speaker 6 (02:17):
Now.

Speaker 7 (02:17):
The prisoner wearing a Mike sweater he has changed from
his T shirt, has being.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Moved out toward an armored car.

Speaker 7 (02:29):
Being let out by Captain Fritz.

Speaker 8 (02:33):
There is a prisoner.

Speaker 9 (02:35):
Do you have anything to say?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
An event?

Speaker 7 (02:39):
Yeah, there's a shot as well as a shot. I
was well, had a shot, Holy Mecca. A shot rang
out as he was leading as there was.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Car, a mass and fusion rolling and fighting as he
was being let out, and now he's saying led back.

Speaker 10 (03:08):
He was through to the ground.

Speaker 8 (03:11):
The police have the entire area blocked.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Off live national television. An alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald,
assassinated himself on this state in nineteen sixty three. Newly
sworn in President Johnson confirmed on this state. In nineteen
sixty three, the US intended to continue supporting South Vietnam,
both militarily and economically. Nineteen sixty nine, the Apollo twelve

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spacecraft splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the
second manned mission to the Moon.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
A claire beautiful few of the command module coming down
and a big patch of Claire Sky directly ahead of
the bow of the hornet. There's the module atself depending
up the spacecraft with a three parachute in the morning
sun here in mid Pacific. We couldn't ask for a

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better view. If we're lucky, we will also be close
enough to get a good picture of the slashdown, which
now is about put that under two or three minutes away.
The astronauts that just made a radio report, they say,
all is okay, All is okay. The first astronaut radio
report received aeroboard.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
Chef into the second Apollo mission to the Moon on
this date in nineteen sixty nine. Two years later, nineteen
seventy one, during a severe thunderstorm over Washington State, a
hijacker calling himself dB Cooper parachuted from a Northwest orient
Airlines plane with two hundred thousand dollars in ransom money.

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This flight attendant leader said the clube believed his threat
to blow up the plane.

Speaker 11 (04:57):
Yeah, made me feel very sure that we had a
very we are on horrifying threat.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
The fate of DV. Cooper and the whereabouts of the
money remains unknown to this day. The bone fragments of
a three point two million year old hominid discovered by
scientists in Ethiopia on this date in nineteen seventy four.
The skeleton remains nicknamed Lucy. Paleanthropologist Donald Johansson spotted the

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first piece of Lucy's skeleton.

Speaker 12 (05:30):
When you look at it as a whole, there's an
amalgam of more primitive and more derived features that had
not been seen before.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
The discovery of Lucy considered to be a turning point
in paleoanthropology. The band gave its last public performance on
this date. In nineteen seventy six, it was documented by
Martin Scorskazy in the film The Last Waltz Space Shuttle.
Endeavor lifted off on Mission STS one thirteen on this

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day eight in two thousand and two. It was the
final successful shuttle flight before the ol fated Columbia explosion.
Now it was on this date in twenty twenty one
to three men convicted of murder in the killing of
Amar Aubrey, the black man who was running through a
Georgian's subdivision in February of twenty ten when the white

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strangers chased him, trapped him on a quiet street, blasted
him with a shotgun. Loyal law professor Laurie Levinson not
surprised by the murdict.

Speaker 13 (06:35):
The defendants tried to claim that this was self defense,
but Arbury had never really threatened them, and the videos
ended up showing that they were the aggressors.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory McMichael sentenced to life
without parole. William Bryan eligible for parole after thirty years,
passing away on this DAVI in history, the Wonderful pat Marita.

Speaker 9 (07:01):
So when is a man watching something and yet is
watching nothing.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
When he watches television, so there's nothing on correctly, but
it's an illusion because with TV Land there's always something on.

Speaker 14 (07:15):
Examples the transcendent writing of Dick Van Dyk, the excellent
comedy of the Honeymooners, and Charlie's Angels.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
On TV Land, there's always something on for TV satisfaction,
Nothing on, something, nothing on.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
A promo parodying Pat Merita's Mister Miyagi character, which which
was a tremendous story. Pat Merita a comic and when
he went into apply to do this, he said, well,
you're a comic, you can't do a serious role like this,
this role in the Karate Kid said watch me, and

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they got him in. He did the show and he
did a wonderful job. Pat Maria passing on this date
twenty years ago today, Lee Harvey Oswald, as we mentioned,
assassinated on this date, actor George Raff passing away, Big
Joe Turner wonderful, singer Florence Henderson passing away, and British

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novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford passing away a year ago today.
Birthdays on this date include the twelfth President of the
United States, who is it? Figure it out. I'll tell
you in a minute. Gunfighter Bat Masterson, Yes, there really
was a Bat Masterson. Composer Scott Joplin, vice president Alvin W. Barkley,

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also writer Dale Carnegie, gangster Lucky Luciano, film producer Irwin Allen,
actor Howard Duff, William F. Buckley, and John Lindsay all
born on this date. Along with the twelfth President of
the United States. It was Zachary Taylor, all born on
this date in history. They have all left the building.

Speaker 15 (09:02):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy. It is now time for
the birthday announcements.

Speaker 16 (09:06):
The following people are now officially older than dirt.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
From head of the class, the wonderful Scottish comedian Billy
Connolly is eighty three today from Whose Line Is It
any Way? Brad Sherwood sixty one from Criminal Minds. Lola
Glaudini is fifty four.

Speaker 17 (09:24):
No fear, no remorse, quick temper, and he was smart
enough to staff the radar as an adult paranoid personality
could be our guy.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
From Criminal Minds. Lola Glaudini is fifty four from Roswell
and King Kong. Colin Hanks is forty eight, also from Roswell,
Katherine Heigel forty seven years old today.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
You want to call me doctor model, that's fine. Just
remember that while you're sitting on two hundred grand of
student loans, I'm out of debt.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
From Gray's Anatomy Katherine Heigel forty seven today, the wife
of pro wrestler Edge Or Adam Copeland. Beth Phoenix forty
five years old today, and from Modern Family, Sarah Hyland
is thirty five.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh, you don't have to tell me what he thinks.

Speaker 16 (10:14):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
I'm a huge disappointment to him. I see it on
his face every day. He asks us if he doesn't
even want me around.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
From Modern Family, Sarah Hyland, thirty five. Those just a
few other people celebrating the twenty fourth day of November
is their birthday. If this is your birthday, Happy birthday,
Happy Birthday. We get back to Thanksgiving shows now, especially

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something I know you'll really enjoy. A rare episode of
the Good News of nineteen thirty nine from this day
in nineteen thirty eight, eighty seven years ago, Robert Young
the host, and you'll hear the movie cast of Andy Hardy,
including the great people like Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone Fey, holden,

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it's gonna be a fun hour. That's all straight ahead,
and we'll get to the first half started in just
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Speaker 4 (12:18):
I met ASTHNA.

Speaker 14 (12:20):
The American Cancer Society has asked me to quit smoking,
and I'm asking you to join me.

Speaker 8 (12:25):
Don't panic. It's just for a day.

Speaker 14 (12:27):
November sixteenth, that's the day they like every smoker in
America to take a breather from cigarettes. They figure if
people can quit for a day, they might just quit
for a lifetime, a lifetime.

Speaker 8 (12:39):
Yours and mine.

Speaker 14 (12:42):
Join the Great American Smokeout November sixteenth.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
Boy, you remember those commercials. Weren't those crazy back in
the day when smoking was the standard, not the exception.

Speaker 18 (12:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
Now, good News of nineteen thirty nine, Going back eighty
seven years. November twenty fourth, nineteen thirty eight, the cast
for Andy Hardy, also Frank Morgan, Baby Snooks and host
Robert Young.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Maxwellhouse Coffee presents good News of nineteen thirty nine. The

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makers of Maxwell House Coffee are happy to present their
Thanksgiving program from the Metro Golden Mayor Studios in Hollywood.
We have with us tonight America's most popular family, the Hardys,
Lewis Stone, Nicky Rooney, c Cenia Parker and Rutherford and
pay Holden. You'll also hear Tony Martin, Fanny Brice, Hanley Stafford,

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Frank Morgan, d Wilson, and your host for this evening,
Robert Goes.

Speaker 9 (14:10):
Heladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Tonight you will hear America's number one family, the Hearties,
in an original radio playlet especially written for the day.
Why don't you call up some of your friends and
ask them to listen. I'm sure they'll thank you for
having brought them this pleasure. Thanksgiving Day, somehow always brings
us thoughts of hay rides and old fashioned barn dances.
So as long as the jitterbugs have swung everything from
the minuet to nursery rhymes, Meredith Wilson goes the one

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better by bringing swing to the square dance. Here is
his own original contribution to the holiday moved, written in
collaboration with George Sidney.

Speaker 9 (14:42):
Swing the square, m hm, you kids.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
To swing and everything in sight, and he went to
brizzy there then sing unless your right swad all right
now and we would have to swing a whole square name.

Speaker 8 (15:35):
And the cross Rachel on the chamber.

Speaker 19 (15:38):
Lady from the nod a little bit more and swing
the sway and.

Speaker 18 (15:45):
Let me swing around the faces.

Speaker 20 (15:46):
You can learn him stay, I have another faces reel
and down the set.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
All hand proun to swing together, face your warders together
around the prettiest lady.

Speaker 21 (16:03):
All join Man's promenade center, fast forward sway with squams.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Pasha backward, ladies, stay the whole grand right left and
realize down the stamina, who.

Speaker 10 (16:32):
Whoa nice swinging Meredith?

Speaker 2 (16:51):
And now here she is, Ladies and gentlemen, Fanny Bryce
is baby snoops, that played by Harry Stafford has bought
a brand new car.

Speaker 22 (17:03):
Listen, hot ziggoty, look at her shine. That's really a car, Yes, sir, hm,
gotta be more careful with this one. Oh daddy, hello, snokes, Well,
isn't she a beauty?

Speaker 23 (17:16):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (17:17):
Our new car? I traded the other one in. Why well,
we had over eighty thousand miles on it.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
I got tired of it, and so did mother. Why
because she was old and her pistons wish goss, Mommy, No,
the car, this one's the ladiest thing. It runs so
smoothly you can't feel it. It's so quiet you can't
hear it. It's got such perfect ignition you can't smell it.
And as for speed, you can't see it.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
You know it dead.

Speaker 8 (17:44):
Oh, don't be siverl hop in and we'll take a ride. IHI,
Oh look, how snokes? Keep your hands off that thing?

Speaker 24 (17:52):
What is it?

Speaker 25 (17:53):
Daddy?

Speaker 8 (17:53):
That's the gas gage?

Speaker 26 (17:55):
Light it?

Speaker 8 (17:56):
You don't light it why because it's the kind of
gas that's that. It's not a gas. Huh.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
I mean it's call gas, but it's really a liquid gas,
whereas stove gas is a gas gas. Any gas that's invisible,
it's really gas. But this gas is not gas because
you can see it's gas.

Speaker 18 (18:13):
You feel all right, daddy?

Speaker 8 (18:15):
I feel fine? Now? Why is it you can't follow.

Speaker 18 (18:17):
Me where it's gone?

Speaker 13 (18:18):
Nowhere?

Speaker 8 (18:20):
What are you yelling about?

Speaker 1 (18:22):
You yet you're gonna take me for a ry?

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Well?

Speaker 8 (18:24):
Sit back in your seat.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Al right?

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Oh look at all.

Speaker 8 (18:30):
Yes, sir, that's the dashboard. Eight million wonderful gadgets, all
work too.

Speaker 27 (18:36):
Uh huh.

Speaker 8 (18:37):
I guess your old dad knows how to pick out
a car. He s, noaks ha ha.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
Mag you go, daddy?

Speaker 18 (18:44):
Mm?

Speaker 8 (18:45):
Now where's that starter?

Speaker 4 (18:47):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (18:47):
I I guess this must be it. Nope, that's the
windshoe wiper. Oh here it is. Wait move well just
a second, hey, listen to it, home boy? What a car? Okay?

Speaker 23 (19:06):
Hang on?

Speaker 18 (19:06):
Now what's this thing for?

Speaker 26 (19:08):
Daddy?

Speaker 8 (19:09):
That's the switch for the lights?

Speaker 23 (19:11):
What lights?

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Or this car has retractable lights? That switch works the
head and tail? Hmhm sure when you pull that switch,
the head lights go back and forth. Snookes, what are
you doing?

Speaker 1 (19:20):
I want to make it Reddy's tale.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Well stop pulling it. There, you see, I almost ran
into one of the car. Why, because you're distracting me.

Speaker 8 (19:30):
I sit still and don't talk.

Speaker 10 (19:32):
All right, Noddy, what is it?

Speaker 27 (19:36):
How do you put this handle?

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Black?

Speaker 8 (19:38):
What hand? Oh, Snookes, you've broken off your a nition lock.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
I didn't do nothing.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
I've got the car ten minutes A how I have
to spend five dollars for a new ignition lock.

Speaker 8 (19:48):
Thanks to you.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
You're welcome, daddy.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
I'll you just keep your hand ship. Don't lean across
me like that. I almost hit that man crossing the streets.
I don't want to bloat a harm, all right, go ahead?

Speaker 8 (20:00):
This steel ring all right?

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Don't blow.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Mm something's wrong, that's fine. First the ignition lock falls off.
Now the horn won't work. That's marvelous. This is certainly
a wonderful car.

Speaker 27 (20:15):
You like it?

Speaker 23 (20:16):
Day?

Speaker 8 (20:17):
No, I've gotta get to a service station.

Speaker 27 (20:20):
Is now?

Speaker 2 (20:20):
What is it? That's not a clock? That's the remove
of blast trade m I think pull out that knob.

Speaker 8 (20:28):
On the front of it. Go ahead, pull it alright.
I'm afraid to look.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Don't worry day it ain't o'clock.

Speaker 23 (20:38):
Oh, thank heaven, tach the radio.

Speaker 8 (20:41):
Oh well, I'm going right back to that crooked dealer
selling me a breakaway car. Will I let him have it?

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Why am going so fast?

Speaker 16 (20:51):
Daddy?

Speaker 8 (20:52):
I wanna catch that guy before he gets away?

Speaker 13 (20:54):
How much is a car?

Speaker 22 (20:55):
Course, guy?

Speaker 4 (20:56):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (20:56):
Two dollars?

Speaker 10 (20:58):
Oh daddy?

Speaker 8 (20:59):
Call Oh that wasn't a fib I was just making
a joke. You're supposed to laugh.

Speaker 28 (21:08):
No, go so fast, saddie.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Oh, I'm surprised this rattle trap can make sixty How
do you know why? I the speedometor see it now?
It points to sixty five?

Speaker 29 (21:19):
How bout it?

Speaker 18 (21:20):
For?

Speaker 30 (21:20):
What?

Speaker 25 (21:20):
Four?

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Race?

Speaker 18 (21:23):
Race?

Speaker 7 (21:23):
That man?

Speaker 1 (21:24):
I'm a motorcycle.

Speaker 8 (21:25):
What man?

Speaker 1 (21:26):
He's right behind and he's been the corners all the way?

Speaker 18 (21:29):
What hop?

Speaker 4 (21:31):
That's all I need?

Speaker 18 (21:31):
Now listen to nukes.

Speaker 8 (21:34):
Do you hand me a ticket?

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Unless I have a good excuse, I'm gonna tell him.
H I am taking you to the hospital.

Speaker 8 (21:40):
Now you act sick? Understand why look a mind?

Speaker 27 (21:44):
Why now?

Speaker 8 (21:44):
Don't forgets all right? Buddy? Words of fire found out?
Now listen off.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Sh I was trying to make a little time, but
I wasn't going over thirty miles an hour?

Speaker 25 (21:52):
What are you laugh when that little girl because my dad.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Made a joke.

Speaker 8 (21:56):
What's a joke?

Speaker 3 (21:57):
He going ticket for a night?

Speaker 8 (21:59):
And how I paid no attention to the child?

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Officer, She doesn't us know what she's talking about. She
can see the speedometer. The speedometer is broken.

Speaker 8 (22:07):
Now what are you laughing at?

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Daddy made a jilt, and I.

Speaker 8 (22:10):
Was happy when she was born. I've been watching you, mister.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Besides speeding, you almost run.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Into another car and knocked down a pedestrian. You didn't
even blow your horn off. I blew my horn three times.

Speaker 8 (22:25):
The matter, Daddy pinched me accord.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
The horn is broken.

Speaker 8 (22:30):
I list an officer. The child is sick.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
She she doesn't know what she's saying. I'm taking to
the hospital now. It's an emergency measles.

Speaker 31 (22:37):
Aren't you sick?

Speaker 8 (22:38):
My poor little baby?

Speaker 17 (22:43):
Go?

Speaker 8 (22:44):
That's enough, brother, here's a ticket for you. Sign your
name in my book.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Oh okay, you know people like you as a minister
of the community. You better watch your stiff from now on. Hey,
stop your kid from climbing all over me. Get back
in the carnes. Come on, well, you fixed me. Fine,
wait till we get home. Now, I don't have to
go to court with his ticket. Tell me not dag
or how can I He's got my name in his.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Book, not don't marry?

Speaker 27 (23:10):
Will you read it?

Speaker 8 (23:11):
Don't matter?

Speaker 27 (23:12):
I kept his book?

Speaker 24 (23:14):
What you chok His.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Max Fellows presents Tony Martin's popular star from twenty century
Fox singing summer souvenirs.

Speaker 19 (23:40):
Love beautiful snum even.

Speaker 9 (23:45):
Of beautiful.

Speaker 28 (23:49):
Halla a canoe, and.

Speaker 24 (23:59):
We evolved that we love each other.

Speaker 28 (24:03):
We promised our hearts.

Speaker 10 (24:04):
That we'd never fall.

Speaker 9 (24:08):
But you didn't keep your promise.

Speaker 28 (24:13):
You didn't keep your crom.

Speaker 19 (24:19):
Harvest moon aform is shining cries. Memories of tune haunted
me to live. While I'm looking through my precious Summer Soon.

Speaker 32 (24:33):
Any didn't keep your ros.

Speaker 33 (24:38):
Trinkets that we won in boardwalkings, ten types that were
done in painted brains, they all speak of you, my
precious Summer soon An.

Speaker 28 (24:54):
I still have banners from the boat we border.

Speaker 9 (24:59):
When sail across the bad.

Speaker 19 (25:03):
Songs your favorite man recorded like.

Speaker 28 (25:07):
The one we can play all my one of my
skin and remember our favorite, our favorite dream my hand.

Speaker 27 (25:32):
Than you are one.

Speaker 28 (25:38):
All these memories I have heard it away, and you
didn't keep your promise.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
Thieves are on the ground.

Speaker 28 (25:52):
They're surely pross.

Speaker 8 (25:55):
Someone else has fallen for love of loss.

Speaker 28 (26:00):
And I'm clinging to.

Speaker 19 (26:03):
A beautiful summer evening, a beautiful move.

Speaker 28 (26:11):
Hooray, a canoe.

Speaker 8 (26:16):
And you.

Speaker 18 (26:18):
My pressures.

Speaker 28 (26:20):
Summer so over.

Speaker 9 (26:48):
That was grand tony. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we continue
with the presentation.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
Wait a minute, Bob, what's that siren?

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Hey, there's an ambulance stop at the stage door.

Speaker 9 (26:58):
What Frank Morgan's getting out here?

Speaker 18 (27:01):
He is?

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Now?

Speaker 9 (27:02):
Oh, Frank, you are right?

Speaker 24 (27:03):
Why I'm fine?

Speaker 9 (27:08):
Oh, it's the ambulance four.

Speaker 25 (27:10):
But didn't you hear Bob?

Speaker 9 (27:13):
Well, I heard a siren? What happened, my boy?

Speaker 34 (27:15):
You see standing before you a man spared by divine
providence from the worst disaster since the Boxer Revolution.

Speaker 9 (27:21):
We'll discuss price fighting some other time. What was the disaster?

Speaker 34 (27:25):
Well, I was driving back from Palm Springs this morning
and my custom built cabriolet, which as you know, was
originally for the King of Latvia.

Speaker 9 (27:33):
I didn't know that, Frank. How'd you get the car?

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Well?

Speaker 8 (27:36):
His majesty got.

Speaker 9 (27:37):
Behind his payments.

Speaker 25 (27:38):
The finance company said that what was the accident accident?

Speaker 34 (27:44):
Oh, yes, well, I had dismissed my chauffeur for the day,
and I was driving toward Los Angeles at a moderate
parade of speed, accompanied by a charming young lady whose
acquaintance side made at the famous.

Speaker 9 (27:55):
Spa Palm Springs.

Speaker 34 (27:57):
Yes, well, needless to say, I stopped at the very
exclusive place. They held a royal suite for me, magnificent
day corps, canopy, bed, solid gold, telephone, silk grapes, bath down.

Speaker 25 (28:08):
The hall, a class spot strictly well.

Speaker 34 (28:13):
Last night, as I was dining with some friends in
the sumptuous refectory of my hotel, I was struck by
the poisoned grace of this charming young lady.

Speaker 9 (28:22):
Was she at your table?

Speaker 34 (28:23):
No, she took care of two tables by the wall. Well,
but on her way to the kitchen she gave me
the wink.

Speaker 9 (28:31):
Look there she gave me the wink.

Speaker 34 (28:33):
What followed I did well to make a long story short.
Our acquaintance blossomed in the friendship, and after she was fired,
she consented to ride with me to Los Angeles.

Speaker 9 (28:45):
I can see now all the accident occurred.

Speaker 25 (28:47):
That's not a kind remark, young but it's the kind
of remark.

Speaker 34 (28:52):
I expect from you. My companion was an unsophisticated young lady.
In fact, she was positively demure in a primitive so away.
I was driving toward Los Angeles with her this morning,
and how far did you get?

Speaker 25 (29:07):
Stop those insinuations?

Speaker 34 (29:10):
We left the desert and were driving up Elephants Pass
when suddenly I saw careening toward me a heavy car,
obviously out of control.

Speaker 8 (29:19):
By an amazing piece of quick thinking, I was able
to meet him head on. What a crash.

Speaker 34 (29:27):
The engine on the other car flew through my windshield
and struck my fair companion in the side. Did it
hurt her No, but it broke free of my fingers.
Both cars, both cars were completely demolished. Fortunately, an ambulance
soon arrived. The doctor dressed my injuries and brought me
in and.

Speaker 9 (29:45):
Here I am, Oh what happened to the girl? She'll
get a lift.

Speaker 10 (29:49):
I it's my car that worries me.

Speaker 25 (29:52):
Eight thousand dollars worth of car completely ruined.

Speaker 9 (29:54):
Oh that's too bad, mister Morgan.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Here son, I'm from the Prince Metal Garage. We got
your car fixed up.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Here's a repair bill.

Speaker 8 (30:08):
I've been stabbed get out of here.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
A fifty seven cent collision. Now, I don't even believe
you went to Palm Springs.

Speaker 34 (30:16):
Master Roberts. Skepticism is an attribute of small minds. As
a matter of fact, I was in Palm Springs on
a secret mission. I was investigating the Mojave Desert on
behalf of the world's largest group of mining interests.

Speaker 9 (30:28):
Mining. Now, what did you expect to find in the Mahave?

Speaker 34 (30:32):
What did I expect to find? What does Amiser think
of morning, noon and night? What is the magic substance
that energizes men and women.

Speaker 8 (30:40):
All over the world? What are you and I working
and slaving?

Speaker 9 (30:43):
Bar Maxwell House coffee?

Speaker 8 (30:49):
The soul of a hucksta.

Speaker 9 (30:52):
I was looking for gold, my boy, some wildcat scheme.

Speaker 34 (30:56):
On the contrary, the six men who comprised my board
of directors of the world's greatest financial wizards, they paid
me a king's ransom to investigate the Mahave. And naturally
they never go into any enterprise unless they're certain it's
the sure thing.

Speaker 9 (31:09):
What made them think there was gold in the Mahave?

Speaker 34 (31:12):
H Well, the chairman's wife had a dream. But they're
in choosing Morgan. They chose the right man to make
the dream come true. I got out my old sluicing pans,
saddle to burrow and set off for their jails.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
And you got the audacity to stand up here and
try to make us believe you know anything about gold mining.

Speaker 9 (31:31):
Mister Morgan, Klondike.

Speaker 34 (31:33):
Morgan, sir, the smartest Sado that ever struck pay dirt.
When the world's great bonanzas have found Morgan is.

Speaker 9 (31:40):
On the ground, It's gonna take off in a minute, Folks, didn't.

Speaker 34 (31:44):
I bank the Fairbanks stock, the comstock, and grubsteak the homesteak.
The name of Morgan was synonymous with successful mining ventures.
Prospectors followed me like hawks because they know that wherever
Morgan went there was sure to be a big bomb.

Speaker 9 (31:58):
I mean a big boom. I heard you the first time.
Go onklondyke Bob.

Speaker 34 (32:06):
You haven't lived till you've known the call of the
open spaces.

Speaker 8 (32:11):
Alas will.

Speaker 34 (32:12):
I forget your virgin peaks, your tumbling rivers, your gleaming snows.
I came to your raw, hungriest stripping. I delved into
your vitals, and you rewarded me richly.

Speaker 9 (32:26):
That's the most beautiful lie I ever heard in my life.

Speaker 8 (32:29):
I think so too. No, what you Why do you
take everything I say?

Speaker 9 (32:34):
Come?

Speaker 8 (32:35):
Grano salis?

Speaker 27 (32:36):
What's that with a dosa sauce.

Speaker 34 (32:41):
I'm telling the truth, Bob. Every word I say can
be confirmed by the American Historical Society who started the
Gold Rush of forty nine, of fifty six, seventy two,
eighty eight, ninety four, one hundred and three signals off.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
What a game?

Speaker 2 (32:58):
I get out of the huddlestar dough and tell me
what you found in the Mahave.

Speaker 25 (33:01):
No, nothing that would impress you, young.

Speaker 34 (33:04):
I just happened to locate the biggest bonanza ever found
in the Western hemisphere.

Speaker 8 (33:07):
That's all.

Speaker 34 (33:08):
After two days of investigation, I found my spot and
started to dig. Three feet down I struck a beautiful nugget.

Speaker 8 (33:14):
A virgin gold.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
Continuing further, How big was the nugget?

Speaker 9 (33:18):
Pretty big?

Speaker 8 (33:19):
I continued the operation.

Speaker 9 (33:21):
With how big was the nugget? Frank, I'm big as
an orange.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Bigger When we reached the ten foot level, I was Frank,
was the nugget as big as my head?

Speaker 27 (33:30):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (33:30):
But not a stick?

Speaker 34 (33:32):
When I reached the ten foot level, I was through
the surface, fatom and by noon ife started on the quartz.

Speaker 9 (33:38):
All the pints were gone.

Speaker 35 (33:39):
Huh.

Speaker 8 (33:44):
Every day you get more like a master of ceremonies.

Speaker 9 (33:48):
Keith digging klondyke Yes.

Speaker 34 (33:50):
The quartz continued for about twenty feet, a good sign.
I was working like a madman, Sweat pouring from my face,
the muscles in my bronze back rippling as.

Speaker 8 (33:59):
I swung the pick.

Speaker 34 (34:01):
Suddenly, about four o'clock I heard the unmistakable metallic clink
as my pick struck gold.

Speaker 25 (34:06):
It was the mother load.

Speaker 34 (34:08):
I said it quickly with a crucible spirit lamp and
found my guests correct. It was pure forty eight carrot gold.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
I took una minute, but the mother load was forty
eight carrot gold. Yes, listen, sluice pan, there's no such
thing as forty eight carrod gold.

Speaker 9 (34:28):
Only high twenty.

Speaker 25 (34:29):
Four into twenty parts. Yeah, twenty four. Well, this mother
load had twins.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Besides being one of our finest young actors, many of
you were undoubtedly unaware that Mickey Rooney is also a
very talented songwriter. Mickey is very proud of his newest song,
which has just been published Keep Music on sale with
all music counters here. It is have a heart, take
it Meredith.

Speaker 27 (35:31):
They see.

Speaker 19 (35:36):
I'm not myself, says you're no longer than me.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
Don't let people say, I only give another chance to be.

Speaker 24 (36:03):
Even you go mass to last one.

Speaker 18 (36:13):
We never fought, and guess.

Speaker 19 (36:20):
Learning the being lasting long.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Nest, begin to pay great.

Speaker 32 (36:30):
Blest, begin to on that side.

Speaker 18 (36:40):
Forgive me nothing.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Oh oh grand Marinith, and congratulations makeing rone, I hope

(37:11):
you all and tells a million coffees Mackey Rooney, who
appears later just walking the stage and shook hands with
Wilson now Ted Pearson with the words every housewife.

Speaker 9 (37:21):
Have you ever had a friend drop into the kitchen
and say that?

Speaker 18 (37:23):
Then?

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Shopping, I see, m does this package of new coffee
smell good?

Speaker 36 (37:29):
I just got home.

Speaker 13 (37:30):
Sit down and I'll make you a cup.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Well, there's no denying that the aroma from a new
package of coffee smells good, Nor is there any denying
that the aroma floating around in the air is flavor
being wasted. Flavor you never get in the cup or
just a moment's thoughts supplies the answer. The coffee wasn't
packed in an airtight container. The air got in and
the flavor got out a lot of it Before she
ever bought the coffee you see, whether ground or in

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the whole bean, coffee starts to lose flavor the moment
it's roasted. If exposed to the air, and scientific tests
reveal a ground coffee packed in ordinary containers loses as
much as forty five percent that's nearly half its.

Speaker 9 (38:09):
Flavor in only nine days.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
But with Maxwell House.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
The coffee is taken fresh and fragrant from the roasting ovens,
packed in the blue supervacuum can, from which all air
is first removed. Then this can is sealed under vacuum
so no air can get in, no flavor can get out.
That's why Maxwell House comes to you not just days fresh,
but roaster fresh, with all its rich, satisfying flavor sealed in.

(38:35):
We hope you'll try the new and improved Maxwell House.
Not only has the blend been further enriched, but due
to the radiant roast process which roasts each bean evenly
all the way through, you'll get much more of the
true flavor of this superb coffee. So ask your grocer
for the new and improved Maxwell House. It comes in
the same familiar blue supervacuum can. The one way known

(38:59):
to science, you keep coffee truly fresh. Tony returns to
echo the Thanksgiving Day sentiments of our entire good newscast.
He sings, for the first time on the air, Thanks
for Everything, by Gordon and Revel from his forthcoming twentieth

(39:20):
Century Fox picture, appropriately titled thanks for everything.

Speaker 37 (39:35):
For everything, every word, every sign, every chisne for everything,
for bringing me horm and s like this, for taking.

Speaker 28 (39:51):
The spies of Gray and making them are, for taking
my care Here's away. I chip my heart to you.

Speaker 19 (40:07):
So bad for everything, every thrill in your tender caress.

Speaker 18 (40:15):
Bye to you.

Speaker 28 (40:18):
More all than I'll have horse.

Speaker 37 (40:23):
You gave me my reason to dream, than me let
me dream come true.

Speaker 28 (40:30):
And so for everything, my thank you.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
I'd like to thank you Bob for everything, and you too, Meredith.

Speaker 10 (40:45):
You've certainly been granted.

Speaker 9 (40:47):
And I'd like to thank good only you, the liar
and the boys and the girls and the band.

Speaker 8 (40:51):
Well the old Maxwell House salutes you and thanks you.
And now Here's Baby sucks.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
I thank my day, but I can't lie kim join
them and to die the book.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
I'm thankful for my little angel, and I forgive her
all of her sins. But above all, believe me I'm
thankful that I wasn't blessed with twins.

Speaker 27 (41:15):
Anything.

Speaker 28 (41:27):
You all gave me my reasons to dream. Then everything,
I am so more everything.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
My On this Thanksgiving Day, friends of Maxwell House, we

(42:08):
know face tomorrow with hope, good cheer, and confidence. So
let's all join in expressing the wish that this prospect
of better days to come be realized to the full
for each and everyone. Join us now in our pleasant
custom a cup of steaming fragrant Maxwell House coffee.

Speaker 9 (42:39):
We now pause briefly for station identification, and there's the.

Speaker 5 (42:43):
First half of Good News of nineteen thirty nine from
eighty seven years ago, November twenty and fourth, nineteen thirty eight.
When Classic Radio Theater with Wylfcocks continues, we'll hear from
the cast of the Andy Hardy movie.

Speaker 15 (43:06):
The Crusade for Freedom is a crusade for your freedom
and mind. The truth dollars people send the cruseaid for
freedom help reserve our own freedom even as they get
the truth and hope to people behind the Iron curtain.
Truth dollars help finance radio free Europe and Radio free Asia,
the most effective weapons Western democracy has for countering lies
and distortion. Send your contribution to the cruse Aid for

(43:29):
Freedom Care of your local Postmaster. That's Crusade for Freedom
Care of your local Postmaster.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
We continue now with the conclusion of the Good News
of nineteen thirty nine program from Thanksgiving Day and the
Andy Hardy movie cast.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
We continue our Good News Maxwell House program tonight, featuring
a visit with the number one family in America, the Hardys.
A few weeks ago, we presented on our program a
duet sung by Frank Morgan and Meredith Wilson. Their performance
apparently was a great success, as we have received numerous requests.

Speaker 9 (44:12):
For another of these duets. Tonight.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
They have chosen the well known classic Il fachio.

Speaker 20 (44:24):
Me soule sou la ba sola bra sl Rachi Spencer
Lanche or Lafan Ricardo.

Speaker 18 (44:46):
As a.

Speaker 24 (44:52):
Da oh my, don't you take high love? Jacky and
tape so Ah Coon up a.

Speaker 36 (45:23):
Free card, Loyland, loyl and lord.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Land.

Speaker 8 (45:43):
No, no, no, I didn't learn this.

Speaker 24 (45:45):
I've got no word what hell.

Speaker 28 (45:49):
My and prey convoys kind a few.

Speaker 18 (45:56):
As filiam.

Speaker 26 (46:00):
Oh have you lassy?

Speaker 28 (46:09):
Have you LASSI?

Speaker 11 (46:10):
Have you?

Speaker 8 (46:11):
I see?

Speaker 4 (46:12):
Have you?

Speaker 17 (46:12):
I see?

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Ladies and gentlemen, we present now is a special feature
of a Maxwell House good news program. For the first
time on any radio show, the entire cast of America's
number one screen family, the Hardys. You've all seen them
in Judge Hardy's Children, Love Finds Andre Andy Hardy Rather
and you'll all be seeing them very soon in their
new picture Off West with the Hardies. Now Here they

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are in person Us Stone as Judge Hardy, they hold
him as Missus Hardy, ce Celia Parker as Marion Hardy,

(47:19):
Anne Rutherford is Andy's regular sweetheart Polly, and young mister
Andrew Hardy Mickey Rooney. It was at the Hardys tonight
in an original radio sketch called Thanksgiving at the Hardies
written by MGM's Kerry Wilson and directed by The Hardy

(47:40):
Family director George B.

Speaker 9 (47:41):
Sits.

Speaker 8 (47:42):
The scene is the.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Hardy home in the town of Carvelle on the morning
of Thanksgiving Day. Downstairs, the house seems deserted, save for
the rattle of pots and pans from the kitchen, which
reveals that Missus Hardy is where Missus Hardy has been
on every Thanksgiving morning be low these thirty years.

Speaker 38 (48:12):
Marian Mary answered the doorbell.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Here, Mother I can't I'm not dressed. Andrew answered the door.

Speaker 13 (48:20):
Oh gee, Mary, can't you keep your shirt on?

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Ha ha A good joke, because I can't answer the doorbell.

Speaker 13 (48:25):
On a connic because I ain't got my shirt on yet.

Speaker 24 (48:28):
Dard.

Speaker 38 (48:29):
Yeah, a holiday in this family is a holiday for
everybody but me. James, James, where are you right here?

Speaker 2 (48:36):
The dead mother?

Speaker 38 (48:37):
Well, James, how do you answer that front door?

Speaker 27 (48:39):
Come ill, I'll do that.

Speaker 38 (48:40):
Okay, goodness, suppose somebody should see me looking like this?

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Oh good morning? Better not morning, Jege, morning. A young
man brought this word around first thing, just like you
told me to last night, jesge, m sit up, sit
down now, Tim Blackbird. I signed the papers last night.
Let you free for Thanksgiving day?

Speaker 9 (49:03):
Oh gee, thanks?

Speaker 2 (49:05):
As I told you, Judge, If if I get home
for Thanksgiving dinner with my mother, then she won't have
to know about my being in jail. What's your real name?

Speaker 8 (49:13):
Son?

Speaker 2 (49:14):
Ah, that's all right. I don't blame if not wanting
to tell, but remember you're still in jail. But for judging. Legally,
I'm extending the limits of the jail to include the
boundaries of Carbo County. In my own jurisdiction, but don't
leave the county. That's all.

Speaker 8 (49:29):
Nothing on earth could make me break my word with you. Judge.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
I'll be back tomorrow morning. Good luck and uh happy Thanksgiving.
I I didn't steal that order, Judge. It it's a
long story.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
Mill In due time we'll go into that run along
with it.

Speaker 13 (49:45):
Boy O, boy o, boy what a morning? Hi Dad?
Ain't it a swell day? I mean, isn't it? I mean,
excuse me, I didn't know you had cought me.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Thank you, bailiff. See you tomorrow, Tim, you bet you will.

Speaker 8 (49:55):
Jee Okay, Judge, Who's who is that?

Speaker 27 (49:58):
With a bailiff?

Speaker 8 (49:59):
Dad?

Speaker 13 (50:00):
To get arrested?

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Oh, young fella? Got lost one to find the way home?

Speaker 26 (50:05):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (50:05):
You seem quite jubilant this morning, and it.

Speaker 13 (50:08):
I'll give you three guesses why I'm a happy man today.

Speaker 9 (50:12):
It might be a due to the fact that this
is Thanksgiving.

Speaker 13 (50:15):
Oh sure, I'm crazy about Thanksgiving because it means it's
only one month till Christmas.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Ah, then you like Christmas more than Thanksgiving.

Speaker 13 (50:25):
Sure, get turkey on both days, but Christmas should get
presents too. Anyways, I'm two time in the turkey racket.

Speaker 27 (50:31):
Today.

Speaker 13 (50:31):
We're having Thanksgiving dinner at noon, So I'm having turkey here.
Then Poly Benedict's having it at six o'clock. Saw go
over there and knock off another hunk of white meat.
Then hello, ah, miss Polly Benedict, Callie the fairest flower
of Carbo. Oh, Miss Benedict, this is mister Andy Hardy
in the flesh. Dust off the royal carpet and get

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the trumpeters ready. We're in a flaming chariot. I hastened
to thy side.

Speaker 23 (51:00):
Dead.

Speaker 13 (51:01):
When you were a kid, did you ever try high
class poetic language on a woman. It's slaves them, It
positively slaves them.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Good morning, father, Good morning Andrew.

Speaker 13 (51:10):
Look Sis, you don't have to put on your Sunday
voice on account of this is only a holiday.

Speaker 7 (51:14):
Father.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Can't you make Andrew treat me with some respect.

Speaker 9 (51:17):
And mus you remember your sister's older than you are.

Speaker 13 (51:20):
Remember it, been trying to forget it all my life.
Know what you said at the drug store the other day?
She says, I want a toothbrush child's size for my
little brother, child.

Speaker 24 (51:30):
Size, little brother five.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Going over to Polly's, the scene changes to Polly Benedict's house.
Marian and Dennis, who is Polly's cousin, have usurped the
living room sofa, driving Andy and Polly to their familiar place,
the front porch. Swing.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Oh Polly, I am not indeed you are anybody that
an embarrassed girl in in front of her family.

Speaker 13 (52:01):
Oh Polly, please, just one little kiss, I said. No, Polly,
how'd you like to wake up some morning and look
out your window and find me marching up and down
in front of your house carrying a big sign that says,
Polly Benedict is unfair to romance, Polly Benedict is unfair
to love life. But you'd look funny if that ain't
just like a woman. You talk to a woman about big,

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serious issues of life and they giggle a let's take
a walk.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
No, thank you. We mustn't leave the house before dinner.

Speaker 13 (52:29):
Dinner.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Dinner will be at one thirty.

Speaker 13 (52:32):
But look, Polly, you're having dinner at six o'clock.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Oh no, we were having dinner at six o'clock. But
then you know, Grandmother's always used to having it in
the middle of the day, so we moved it.

Speaker 16 (52:41):
Up to noon.

Speaker 13 (52:42):
That's illegal. You can't do that. I gotta be home
to our Turkey dinner at noon.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
You don't want to stay and have dinner with us?

Speaker 13 (52:50):
Oh I do want to, Polly. I'd rather stay and
have dinner here with you than inherit a billion dollars.

Speaker 26 (52:55):
But I can't.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Who suggested you're having dinner with the Benedict family?

Speaker 9 (53:00):
I did?

Speaker 1 (53:01):
And why did you want to?

Speaker 13 (53:03):
Oh, don't let's go into that.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Now we will go into it. You said that your
being here to dinner with the family was well, Oh.

Speaker 39 (53:09):
Don't, Polly if it sounds also foolish here in broad daylight,
So you're afraid to hear in broad daylight which you
whispered in the moonlight walking home from the drug store
the long way home through the woods.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
If you remember, mister Hardy, whose.

Speaker 13 (53:24):
Suggestion was that it was well, it was my suggestion.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
And it was your suggestion to sit on the big
rock under the old elm tree so that you could
tell me all about this. Stop please though, this opportunity
for my parents to see that you were no longer
a boy, but we're now a man.

Speaker 16 (53:42):
Of the world.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
Oh, Bolly, And when I told you that, my mother
would be just delighted. Have you for Thanksgiving dinner?

Speaker 13 (53:49):
What did you say I, I I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
I remember you said that not all the lines and
tigers in Africa could prevent you from being at my
side on this O. What is your occasion?

Speaker 17 (54:01):
Did I.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Wasn't I nice about it? I didn't even tell you
that there aren't any tigers in Africa.

Speaker 13 (54:08):
Look, Polly, if you please won't be mad at me,
If you will please only act like a human being.
Come on, let's let's take a walk, just for ten minutes,
way too. We could take a walk through the woods
and and start to get some of those autumn leaves.
Didn't you ask me the other day to help you
pick some autumn leaves?

Speaker 1 (54:27):
I also told you that the autumn leaves I want
grew out on your father's aqueduct property. Oh but no,
out that way, there're no dark, shady spots where you
can persuade girls to sit on rocks and try and
kids them.

Speaker 13 (54:39):
Say it's Marian, Hey, what are you crying for?

Speaker 25 (54:42):
Marian?

Speaker 1 (54:43):
I'm not crying. I'm going home, and I don't want
an incorrigible infant trailing after me.

Speaker 13 (54:48):
Incorrigible infant.

Speaker 18 (54:50):
Huh?

Speaker 13 (54:50):
The way, Marian's getting me younger and younger all the time.
By next year, all be in tender gardener.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
Goodbye, mister Hardy. I trust you'll enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker 13 (55:01):
Thanksgiving? What have I got to be thankful for?

Speaker 2 (55:12):
I'll go mother?

Speaker 8 (55:15):
Oh better that for?

Speaker 2 (55:16):
What's wrong?

Speaker 8 (55:17):
That kicked Tim Blackwood just stuck up a car the
other side of the County bridge. Shut a guy, grab
this wallet and got away.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
No, I can't believe it.

Speaker 8 (55:24):
Not that boy kind of puts you in a bad light. Jedge.
Suppose it should turn out to be murdered.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Maybe I got a little too sentimental because it was Thanksgiving.
I haven't caught the boy. Sheriff mcman over in Eli County.
He's got about everybody else. Let's old Dr Willison gut shot.
That's terrible. Will you'll go back to the courthouse, cooperate
with Eli County in every way? Phone me any developments
he had?

Speaker 8 (55:44):
Nice mess? Oh, good morning, miss Mary, good morning.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Goodbye Jed, Yeah, goodbye? Oh well man, what's all this?

Speaker 11 (55:54):
Well?

Speaker 1 (55:55):
It started when Dennis did mine my dress.

Speaker 9 (55:57):
That was nice.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
He said it made me he looks simply sunning.

Speaker 39 (56:01):
And then, oh deavin, it happened.

Speaker 9 (56:05):
What happened?

Speaker 40 (56:05):
Rufe fell in so worse than that, He asked me
if I'd made the dress myself.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
It seems to me that's a compliment.

Speaker 30 (56:12):
Oh Dad, you might be the wisest judge in the world,
but you simply don't know anything about women.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
Oh maybe all right, Hannah, go on.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Well, then I said something, and then Dennis said something.
First thing, you know, I told him I never wanted
to see him again, and he said that suited him.

Speaker 38 (56:29):
Only I do want to.

Speaker 9 (56:30):
See him, and you will go to the telephone call
him up.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Oh don't you think I have any pride?

Speaker 4 (56:36):
I hope not.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
You mean you want me to humiliate myself?

Speaker 18 (56:40):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (56:41):
There's nothing wrong and humiliating yourself. There's everything wrong with pride.
If it keeps you from saying, Dennis, I told you
I didn't want to see you again, but I do.
Then Dennis will say he's dying to make up with you,
and everything will be fine.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
But won't he think I'm cheap and changeable?

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Nobody ever thinks honest cheap? Are you along upstairs and
wash your face and then call up Dennis.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Dah, you're just the grammarst father that ever lived.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Emily, If I come out in the kitchen, Am I
safe from you?

Speaker 38 (57:15):
You stay out of my kitchen. I'm coming in to
sit down and rest of it anyway, Ah, I am mother.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
I'm effects this colorfier. Ah, you look warm. Must be
hot out in that kitchen.

Speaker 38 (57:28):
I recognize the signs. James, what is it you want
to tell me?

Speaker 2 (57:32):
Well, I let a young man out of jail this
morning because he's well. I believe this story that he
wanted to see his mother. Heired to that boy just
committed a hold up and shot an esteem citizen.

Speaker 38 (57:44):
But it isn't your fault he went bed.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
It'll bring pretty heavy criticism. If I hadn't freed the boy,
he couldn't have committed a crime.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
You mean people will blame you.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Oh, some might feel I'm not competent. Besides such things,
there'll be a lot of publicity. You and the children
will bear the brunt of everything it's set against me.

Speaker 38 (58:03):
Of course we'll bear the brunt. That's what a wife
and children are for, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
I was just wondering, well, wouldn't force all a lot
of prolonged trouble if well, if I announced ours resigning
from the bench.

Speaker 38 (58:16):
But James or your court is your whole life. You
wouldn't be happy, you couldn't might be the better way, James,
Remember what happened when we were in Catalina. We didn't
lose our home, did we No? Then you were going
to resign on account of that Washington business, but you

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didn't have to, did you No. Well, then let's cross
this bridge when we come to it, and let's not
waste time talking about unimportant things. I've got some chestnut
stuffing to make, and that is important, mother.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
That is important. When a man has a wife who
tosses aside of the aspect of her husband's wreck career
to worry about turkey stuffing, that man has no reason
to fear any trouble in life. Bless your mother.

Speaker 38 (59:13):
Now you answered the telephone and forget all about courts
and laws and criminals, because you're going to carve this
turkey James Hardy.

Speaker 9 (59:21):
Eh, yes, bailiff, I don't keep me posted.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
All right?

Speaker 29 (59:28):
Anyway?

Speaker 13 (59:29):
What's the matter, Dad? I want to join the navy.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
You want to join the navy.

Speaker 13 (59:38):
I want to bury myself in the Philippines or in
a gunboat in China. Gee, Dad, modern civilization has got
me down.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Would it help any if we indulge a little man,
a man talk.

Speaker 13 (59:49):
Help you see you don't know anything about women.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
That's the second time today.

Speaker 28 (59:52):
Oh this is.

Speaker 13 (59:53):
Nineteen thirty eight. Dad, I'm afraid we don't speak the
same language.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Maybe not, but I've got a hunch that poly Benedict
speaks the same language today. Your mother spoke a good
many years ago.

Speaker 13 (01:00:07):
Why pop, Mom was never as young as Polly Benedict. No, say,
I never thought of that. You know, a guy, I
mean a kid, I mean a young fellow growing in
the man who never thinks of his mother's ever been
any younger than when he first remembers her. Oh boy,
that's fun. He just think of mom, our mom going

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to kindergarten, having had.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Some thirty years experience, young mother, Maybe I've learned a
little about women.

Speaker 13 (01:00:36):
Okay, here's the trouble, Dad, When you were young, did
you ever have a have a bad reputation?

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
Eh?

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Well, I don't exactly in what way?

Speaker 13 (01:00:45):
Well, I mean, did a woman, a woman you love
more than life, ever call you a cad?

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (01:00:51):
What cad?

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
C ad?

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
You know, in more polite phraseology, guilty of conduct. I'm
becoming a gentleman.

Speaker 27 (01:00:59):
That's it.

Speaker 13 (01:01:00):
So Polly call me a cad?

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Uh huh?

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Were you a cad?

Speaker 27 (01:01:05):
Well?

Speaker 13 (01:01:05):
When I first went to her house this morning, I
did try to kiss her in the hall in front
of Dennis, and she said I was a cad.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
Considerable truth in.

Speaker 13 (01:01:13):
That, But I didn't see Dennis was in the hall.
I just saw a chance to celebrate Thanksgiving in the
good old fashioned.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Way, and the young lady refuses to be modified.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
You couldn't convince her you had made an error.

Speaker 27 (01:01:29):
Pop.

Speaker 13 (01:01:29):
Sometimes I think you can't ever convince a woman of anything.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
It seems to me the necessary thing for you to
do is some act that'll prove your sincerity.

Speaker 13 (01:01:37):
I did already, but it didn't work. I walked all
the way down to our aqueduct property and got some
autumn leaves she wanted, and I took him to her house,
but she wouldn't see me, so I had to leave him.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
That was a nice gesture. Wait a minute, and you
were out of the aqueduct propping in of the county bridge. Yes,
you didn't see or hear anything of a hold up shooting.

Speaker 13 (01:01:55):
Hold of shooting. No, I didn't see anything but that
fella he got lost again.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
Fella, you're lost again?

Speaker 13 (01:02:01):
You know the one that was here this morning. You
said you were showing him the way home.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Andy, you saw that young man out on the ac
Rock property. Are you sure sure which way to go?

Speaker 8 (01:02:09):
He didn't.

Speaker 13 (01:02:10):
He was sitting under a tree, and I was very
polite went up and asked him if he was lost again.
He said no, And then I saw that he was
just sitting and crying.

Speaker 9 (01:02:17):
So I went on picking leave and he was still
there and you left.

Speaker 13 (01:02:21):
Of course, he's probably still there yet. Hey, what's all
the excitement.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
What time did you first see this man? How long
did you see him?

Speaker 13 (01:02:27):
Well, gee, pop, take it easy. Let's see. I left
Polly's about ten to eleven. I must have seen this
guy first about eleven o'clock. Took me pretty near an
hour to shining up the big tree and get some
of the best leaves. Hey, Dad, what are you making
such a funny face for you?

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
Stay right? Don't you moved on? Where is that telephone?

Speaker 24 (01:02:43):
Right?

Speaker 13 (01:02:43):
Here's the phone? Pop, Gee, if it had been a stake.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
Of a bit you if you just keep checking back
in your mind on what time it was you saw him.

Speaker 13 (01:02:52):
I don't have to keep checking back, guy, I know
what time it was. Say, when a man says goodbye
forever to the woman he loves, he certainly he's gonna
know what time of day it is.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Hello, Hello, bailiff, this is Judge Horny. What was the
actual moment of that hold up and shooting? Why a bailiff,
Tim Blackwood has a pair of alibi My son Andy
had him in pull side for twenty minutes before the
stick up and forty minutes afterwards, and bailiff go and
pick him up. Yes, Judge Mina Belle Andy, exactly where

(01:03:24):
was this lad.

Speaker 13 (01:03:25):
Down by the old stream bed just across the county line?

Speaker 8 (01:03:28):
You're sure of that on the other side of the
county line.

Speaker 13 (01:03:32):
Positively?

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Uh, Bailiff, you'll have to call up Eli County. That
boy is legally a runaway prisoner. They'll have to take
him in. He's on their side of the county line.

Speaker 13 (01:03:46):
See, Dad, couldn't I run down and tell his fellow
to move back across the county line, and then I
could just say somewhere on our property. That'd be the truth,
and he would be on our property all the.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Time, won't be And you'll save the day a bailiff,
you picked that boy up. He never left my property,
and I prowled him in my own jurisdiction. You'll take
him to the courthouse in this alfternoon, I personally drive
him over see his mother. Well, Andy, howdy, you've given
one young man a real Thanksgiving today.

Speaker 13 (01:04:14):
I shuck father Andrew.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Doesn't anyone answer the bell around here? Why, Polly, Polly, Andy,
I've been a very selfish girl, and I'm gonna say
what I have to say right out in front of everybody.
I was mean to quarrel with you because you wanted
to come home to your own Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Gee, Polly, that's very nice of you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Polly Polly, Why, you're simply wonderful. You've just done what
Dad wants me to do with Dennis, and I'm going
right over and do it.

Speaker 13 (01:04:43):
Take my car, Mariam, fly to your boyfriend in the
flaming chariot. Only be sure to look out for the
holiday traffic because my car ain't insured yet.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
I fly tell mother the whole dinner ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
Polly, it's too bad you can't stay and have Thanksgiving
dinner with us, But.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
I can fly to talk grandmother out of having I
didn't until six o'clock.

Speaker 8 (01:05:01):
Boy, you boy, now I know what a real day
of Thanksgiving is.

Speaker 28 (01:05:06):
James Million Andrew, why probably are.

Speaker 38 (01:05:10):
Dear with Marian at Polyums David dinner, I said another place.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Well, here we are again at a Thanksgiving dinner table,
and in accordance with a Hearday custom, we always say
grace for Thanksgiving dinner. It'll be very simple and easy
to say the conventional for what we're about to receive.
Old Lord, make us truly thankful. But I wonder if
that's enough. I wonder if we shouldn't be thankful for

(01:05:45):
the things we have as well as for those we're
going to receive. I suppose each one of us says
what he or she is thankful for. I'll start it.
I'm thankful because we live in a great, free country,
a country who's democratic government shall never perish from the earth.
Our mother, it's your there.

Speaker 38 (01:06:09):
We are happy because we're all here together, well and happy.
And we are thankful because we haven't got all the
things we want, so we can have a lot of
fun getting them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Yes, yuh marrying.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
I'm thankful because I have a father and a mother
who are the wisest and dearest of all people. To
help me grow up sensibly and to teach me to
find happiness.

Speaker 13 (01:06:32):
No, you, Andy, uh Pop, I don't know how to
say it. I can always use a lot of expensive
words when I'm talking about nothing important. But now all
I can say is that I'm awful, thankful, way down
deep in my heart for all the things that you
generally forget to be thankful for because you're used to
having them. You know, things you never appreciate until you

(01:06:53):
lose 'em.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
That my son is true American thanksgiving.

Speaker 21 (01:07:17):
My own thanks and the thanks of all our audience
for the Hardy family for visiting us tonight.

Speaker 8 (01:07:28):
Over fifty years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Today in Nashville, Tennessee, in the stately dining room of
a famous old hotel, you might have heard as you
passed the table.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
Well, I declare, I never tasted coffee as good as it.

Speaker 8 (01:07:41):
It's gram wonderfully rich.

Speaker 13 (01:07:43):
I must find out what kind it is, Oh waited,
you know.

Speaker 8 (01:07:46):
Yes, him, it's that new blend.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
As a Joel Cheek perfected, He's golding at the Magswell
House after the hotel. Today, Maxwell House is again the
name on every tongue. People everywhere delight in the smooth
the richness of this new and improved Maxwell House, and
this enthusiastic response is jewe. We believe to three things. First,

(01:08:08):
the Maxwell House blend has been even further enriched. Twelve
coffee blending experts spent eight months before they found the
way to enrich Joel Cheek's original secret blend. Second, the
radiant roast process, by roasting each bean evenly all the
way through, brings out more of the true coffee flavor.
You get no weak coffee due to under roasting, no

(01:08:31):
bitter coffee due to parching. Third, Maxwell House is vacuum packed,
fresh and fragrant from the roasting ovens in the famous
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day's fresh, but roaster fresh tomorrow. Why don't you ask
your grocer for a pound of the new Maxwell House

(01:08:52):
coffee at today's low prices. Now's the time to make
friends with this coffee that is richer, smoother, and probably
more satisfying than any you've ever before tried. Tonight in

(01:09:12):
the MGM Concert Hall, Meredith Wilson continues with the answers
to this questionnaire.

Speaker 9 (01:09:17):
If all the music in the world were suddenly.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Destroyed and you could choose just one composition to hear
again and preserve.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
What piece of music would you choose?

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Tonight's selection is the combined choice of a governor's wife
the Mason City, Iowa Lions Club, a newsboy on the
corner of Hollywood and Vine Streets in Hollywood, a stockbroker
on Wall Street, and a postman in Hannibal, Missouri. It
couldn't have been more appropriate for Thanksgiving Day.

Speaker 9 (01:09:42):
Own sweet Home.

Speaker 32 (01:10:21):
St be mang that no as my goal, as Scott speak.

Speaker 18 (01:11:40):
His name, as sweet, oh oh sweet.

Speaker 8 (01:11:58):
Swee be.

Speaker 18 (01:12:08):
As my.

Speaker 21 (01:12:12):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:12:15):
I go, my go.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
Next week, another grand good News Maxwell House Show, when
our special guest will be the comedian All America loves
to laugh at, joe E Brown, and of course our
regular gang Fanny, Bryce Hamley Stafford, Frank Morgan, Tony Martin,
and Meredith Wilson. Next week, Frank Morgan will appear in
a drama entitled The Gambler, written for radio by Patterson McNutt.

(01:13:26):
And may I remind you to put a must go
see on your list for Out West with the Heartys.

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
It's their latest MGM picture and you'll love it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
And ladies and gentlemen, may I take this moment to
wish that you and yours will enjoy many more happy
Thanksgiving days. This is Bob Young saying good night until
next Thursday. In the meantime, go to the movies and
take the family with you now until next Thursday. At

(01:14:07):
the same time, this is Ted Pearson saying good night
and good luck for Maxwell House coffee, the coffee that's
always good to the last drive, the National Broadcasting.

Speaker 5 (01:14:18):
Company, and of course show host Bob Young. You know,
and better's Robert Young. Of course this is from nineteen
thirty eight, and he was still ten years away or
more actually about almost fifteen years away from being Jim Anderson,
and father knows best about twelve years.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:14:42):
That's interesting to know, wouldn't she say? Alrighty eighty seven
years ago? November twenty fourth, nineteen thirty eight. Good news
of nineteen thirty nine. Here on Classic Radio Theater with
Wyatt Cox. Tomorrow we will have more Thanksgiving shows with
an Abbott and Costello. Thanks Thanksgiving Show, Hallmark Playhouse. From
nineteen forty eight, Martha Scott and Jack Kirkwood, in a

(01:15:06):
story called Freeland How to Be How to Celebrating Thanksgiving
on the Frontier and the new Edgar Bergen Hour with
Charlie McCarthy and crew. On Wednesday, we will have an
episode of Robert Young Father Knows Best from nineteen fifty three,
Jimmy Durranty as Arthur Treacher tries to wrap up Jimmy's Turkey,

(01:15:29):
Bibber and Molly with Uncle Dennis, and a nineteen forty
four edition of Jack Benny where they celebrate Thanksgiving at
Mary's house. We'll have a single Thanksgiving show on Thursday,
and that'll be a Casey Crime Photographer after Turkey the
Bill from nineteen forty seven. But we'll also have episodes
of suspense, Have Gun Will Travel, Yours tru lead Johnny Dollar,

(01:15:52):
and we'll also have an episode of Gun Smoke as
we celebrate the final productions of some of those shows
from Hollywood, and in fact, Gun Smoke and Have Gun
Will Travel would disappear after the shows of that date
in nineteen sixty. Alright, we all have on Friday.

Speaker 8 (01:16:12):
Edward G.

Speaker 5 (01:16:13):
Robinson is the starring in Key Largo on the Lux
Radio Theater, Howard Duff and the Adventures of Sam Spade
and a Quarter Eagle Caper and the Theater of Romance
Intermetso Western's on Saturday with Jimmy Stewart as a six shooter,
Gun Smoke and Have Gun Will Travel will make return
appearances along with Buck Benny, Yes Jack Benny from nineteen

(01:16:36):
thirty six, Out West Comedy on Sunday with the Great
Guilder Sleeve, Ozzy and Harriet, Phil Harris and Alice Fay
from nineteen forty seven, as we explore Phil's new hobby
and does he have one apart from one that involves
quirks and models and the contents the Aldridge Family from

(01:16:57):
nineteen fifty two or Henry Spot There is Sick and
a week from today we will have Lights Out in
the story of Mister Mags Grand Central Station from nineteen
forty five, Lark spur To Feeds the Soul, Doctor Kildare
from nineteen fifty Lady Donnaby's Annual visit and Dragnet and
the story of the Big Odd. That's coming up on

(01:17:19):
the week Ahead here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Coox.
Get our podcasts every day and go to Classic radiostrit
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Sam Spade Detective.

Speaker 41 (01:17:39):
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(01:18:00):
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to person international goodwill service.

Speaker 5 (01:18:09):
Yes, I know I have not been complimentary of Steve
Dunn as Sam Spade. The public wasn't very complimentary of
him either, But this is an episode from seventy five
years ago, November twenty fourth, nineteen fifty. I kind of
have to do it because it's entitled The Terrified Turkey Taper.

Speaker 4 (01:18:29):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade
Detective Sam Spey Detective There's a sweetheart.

Speaker 30 (01:18:47):
Same oh would break it death?

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
This office dress all over the floor, holes in the wall.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
I was just business going on as usual during all
occasionsf Well, what was it all about?

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
Say they tried? If they just try to pluck my
feathers and cook my.

Speaker 23 (01:19:02):
Goose and Thanksgiving too?

Speaker 4 (01:19:04):
How could they?

Speaker 18 (01:19:05):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
They were a mean lot.

Speaker 30 (01:19:07):
Are you all right?

Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
Hale and Harley? Every gibbling in place and on a
feather ruffled? Did you reminize Thanksgiving?

Speaker 18 (01:19:13):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:19:13):
It's heaven.

Speaker 28 (01:19:14):
Me.

Speaker 40 (01:19:14):
Mama had a turkey dinner, says Dressing, Crime, very sauce,
candy jams.

Speaker 4 (01:19:18):
Hard sighting, hettle, calm clean, Effie Well, I had two glasses.

Speaker 40 (01:19:23):
Everyone was there, Cousin Gerdy Dwight, missus Floss. I was
disappointed when you didn't show up there. Did you have
Thanksgiving dinner?

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
Sure at the helping hand rescue mission, where there's plenty
of free parking and never a cover charge. For further details,
consult the report, which I will presently be down to
dictate on a tasty chronicle of foul play, The Terrified
Turkey Caper.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
For NBC, William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery
and crime drama brings you the greatest private detective of
them all, in the Adventures of Sam Spade, Sam bad Oh,
you were waiting for me.

Speaker 40 (01:20:11):
Having Thanksgiving dinner at a rescue mission. My mama cooked
it perfectly.

Speaker 4 (01:20:15):
Thank your mother for me. Tell her I'll be over
to break wishbones with her tonight and to atone for
my social indifferences. Here's a little something I brought for you.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
Oh, you shouldn't have it's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:20:28):
What is it? A blunderbuss a blunder? What bus as
in step to the rear out?

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
Oh well, what does it do?

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Shoot sef It's a gun. Our founding fathers used it
in foraging for feathered food when they settle this abundant continent.

Speaker 23 (01:20:43):
And it's mine to do with what you will rage again?
And so boy, who gave it to you?

Speaker 29 (01:20:50):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:20:50):
Yes, I don't cross.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Did you meet a founding father?

Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
Don't peak? Date November twenty fourth, nineteen fifty two. Detective
Lieutenant Icy Kelsey Hamma side to tail, San Francisco Police
from Samuel Spate, license number one three seven five nine six,
subject Turkey, Dear Kelsey. This was a big week for
the cranberry pickers, the butchers, the sage makers.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
And the stomach pill people. But for private detectives it
was strictly from hunger. My office door opened only twice
a day, once to.

Speaker 4 (01:21:22):
Let me in and once to let me out. And
when on Wednesday I heard a knock on the door.
I went into a paroxysm of delight. Come in, come in,
come in.

Speaker 8 (01:21:33):
Hure woo andrea stead a rhyme.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
When I ran out of languages, I got up from
behind the desk, walked to the door and opened it.
Standing there was a small, middle aged man with a
pink bald head. His blue serge suit needed pressing, and
he was nervously fingering a strawberry birthmark under his left ear.

Speaker 23 (01:21:55):
Mister Samuel state, I am mate, May I may I
have moment?

Speaker 4 (01:22:00):
You may have several, but not in the corridor. It's
not in my lease. Oh I'll come in, good, good, good, Well.

Speaker 23 (01:22:10):
You'll have to excuse me, mister Spade. I've had so
few dealings with private detectors. I find it hard to begin.

Speaker 4 (01:22:17):
Well.

Speaker 23 (01:22:19):
Oh, perhaps I shouldn't have come at all.

Speaker 4 (01:22:22):
Goodbye. No, no, I'll wait a minute. Maybe I can
help you.

Speaker 23 (01:22:25):
When you see I. Oh, what's the use You won't
believe me? Nobody does. I'd really better.

Speaker 4 (01:22:32):
Oh no, wait, waits, I'll believe you. All I ask
is a chance. Now. Now, let's start with your name.

Speaker 23 (01:22:38):
Oh my name, yes, yes, yes, my name? To begin
with you won't believe that. But I can verify it,
Yes I can. It's on the registration book of the
old Colony hotel, in the nineteen forty three phone book,
and on my old driver's license.

Speaker 4 (01:22:54):
Well, i'll have to know it before I can verify it.

Speaker 23 (01:22:56):
Yes, yes, of course you will. It's it's Tom Wor.

Speaker 4 (01:23:02):
That's not so hard to believe.

Speaker 23 (01:23:03):
Oh, you haven't heard the rest of it. It's Tom Turkey.

Speaker 4 (01:23:12):
You see.

Speaker 23 (01:23:13):
I told you you wouldn't believe it. I'd better go.

Speaker 4 (01:23:15):
Oh now, let me be the first to believe you. Now,
mister Tom, what's your problem?

Speaker 23 (01:23:21):
Oh, dear, that's even harder to explain.

Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
Well, now that I don't believe, But take a breath
and jump into it.

Speaker 23 (01:23:30):
Breath. Yes, my name's Tom Turkey, and they're going to
kill me for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (01:23:42):
Well, I had asked for it, and I had gotten it,
and I sat back wondering who had gone to all
the trouble of playing this funny joke on it. I
was looking at my hand to see if there was
any itching powder on it where he'd shaken it. When
my phone rang, I lifted the receiver, swung around in
my swivel, and gazed out on a street. It was
Al Kouchul, calling a private eye whose reputation was shadier

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than a mushroom cellar.

Speaker 2 (01:24:06):
Hi, Speedy, Ow, I haven't seen much of you lately.
Speady and I have to get together.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
Yeah, well so long.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
Wait wait, I'll tell you why I call it. I've
had a pest in my office keeps coming back. I
think she's a turkey. Somebody wants to dress. I brushed him,
but your name came up, and I just wanted to
warn you he might be in.

Speaker 4 (01:24:23):
To see it. I'm confused now. I never knew you
to turn your back on our buck. Oh, I don't
want any of this.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
When his buttons are loose, my advice to you is
to bounce you. Well, we've never traded advice before, Kuchu.

Speaker 4 (01:24:36):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
Well, after all, we're in the same racket. If we
can't help each other, Oh sure, sure, I appreciate.

Speaker 16 (01:24:43):
It, give me a ring.

Speaker 17 (01:24:44):
We've got to get together sometimes.

Speaker 4 (01:24:45):
Yeah. When I got a pre night, will jimmy parking meter?

Speaker 6 (01:24:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 28 (01:24:48):
We eh?

Speaker 4 (01:24:50):
Oh yeah, parking yes, see letters Speedy. I turned back
to the desk, and what I saw in front of
me was an empty chair. Tom Turkey had taken wings.
I got up and walked to the window, and a
minute later I saw him come out of the building
downstairs and start to cross the street. And then I

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saw something else. A large four ton truck was tearing
down the street, picking up speed. Instinctively, I shot at
a warning, and.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
At the last second Tom Turkey scrambled from in front
of the truck and disappeared.

Speaker 4 (01:25:21):
Into the alleyway. The truck roared up the street, and
not on its side was printed in gold letters, Haines,
you'll drive it. There was nothing to say. It wasn't coincidence,
this near mishap, But somehow I found myself intrigue and
wanting to hear more of the little guy's story. He
said the old Colony hotel on the way, I stopped
at the library, found an old nineteen forty three phone

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book and looked he was listed, Thomas Turkey had said.
Out of curiosity, I rang the number. Hulluh, I wonder
if you can help me. I'm inquiring about a mister Turkey.

Speaker 38 (01:25:53):
Turkey.

Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
This ain't his number no more. I know I've done
the calls.

Speaker 40 (01:25:56):
For him for years, screwing ag Yeah, I know, I
know A woman named rabbit once, missus.

Speaker 4 (01:26:02):
Rabbit about Turkey. Could you remember what he looked like?
I don't, Hey, Manny, what Turkey looked like?

Speaker 24 (01:26:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
Yeah, small man round fifty, nice fellow.

Speaker 4 (01:26:17):
Strawberry under his left ear. Strawberry under his left ear, Madnie, Yes, yeah, strawberry.

Speaker 17 (01:26:25):
Under his left ear.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
Well, thank you, madam for your information, and thanks to Manny.

Speaker 18 (01:26:29):
Well, you're welcome.

Speaker 26 (01:26:29):
But I don't know what you're gonna do with it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
Oh, man, Turkey's dead, been dad for years.

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
Curius sir and curious sir. Right thought they had described
the man who came to my office twenty minutes ago,
and now he'd been dead for years. I continued on
to the Old Colony hotel room seventy five cents. It said,
Tom's room is one fourteen.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
Who is it?

Speaker 4 (01:26:53):
Sam Spade?

Speaker 23 (01:26:57):
Oh, come in, mister Spade. I'm sorry I ran away.
I didn't think you really believed.

Speaker 4 (01:27:04):
Well, I'm not sure I do yet. Tell me. Was
that fuck an accident? Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:27:07):
I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
No.

Speaker 23 (01:27:08):
They made three attempts before to kill me. Somebody tried
to push me in front of a train, and then
a wheelchair full of cement dropped off a building and
just missed me. And then I was shocked.

Speaker 4 (01:27:19):
Or who were they and why would they want to
kill you?

Speaker 23 (01:27:21):
I don't know. I just don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:27:23):
Look, let's tack tack tack. I dialed your old phone number,
and the people who answered said, you're dead.

Speaker 23 (01:27:29):
Oh a lot of people think I'm dead.

Speaker 8 (01:27:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:27:31):
Look, do you still want me to work for you? Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:27:33):
Yes, yes, please.

Speaker 4 (01:27:34):
Well, you'll have to tell me more than I can't.

Speaker 23 (01:27:36):
I guess i'd better tell you everything. Oh it's hard
to talk about, mister Spade. It's not easy to admit
to someone you've been a foolish man. You see, I
just turned fifty. I was quite tired of the life
I'd led, proper, dull and unfruitful except in money. My
business was wearing, and so was my wife, Henriette.

Speaker 4 (01:27:57):
This has a traditional ring.

Speaker 23 (01:27:59):
Anyway, to make it short, I decided to run away.
One day, I drove to work. I parked my car
in the middle of the Bay Bridge, where the suicide
note left it and disappeared.

Speaker 4 (01:28:08):
Where did you go? Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:28:09):
All over the world. I took a job on a boat.
I did on a boat, and then I settled in
Sant Paulo, Brazil, under another name. Now you're back. Why
Maybe I got lonely, Maybe I got wiser, Maybe maybe
I felt I paid enough for my mistakes. Let's just
say I'm back. I want to be with Henrietta.

Speaker 4 (01:28:28):
Have you seen her?

Speaker 23 (01:28:29):
I checked into this hotel and wrote her a letter
saying I wasn't dead. I was back in San Francisco
and I I wanted to come back to her if
she still would have me. But I told her I
wouldn't bother her unless she wanted to see me, that
she could contact me here.

Speaker 4 (01:28:45):
That was a week ago, and you haven't heard from her.

Speaker 13 (01:28:47):
No.

Speaker 23 (01:28:47):
No, And almost right away these attempts on my life began.

Speaker 4 (01:28:51):
I see I like, what's her address?

Speaker 23 (01:28:53):
Three one one eight Monroe. Oh, she's taken her maiden
name again, Black, Henrietta Black.

Speaker 4 (01:28:59):
Come on, let's go.

Speaker 23 (01:29:00):
No, No, I'm not going to see her until she asks.

Speaker 4 (01:29:03):
Look, you're going to my apartment. Nobody will body are there.

Speaker 23 (01:29:06):
And you are going to see Henriette.

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
That's right.

Speaker 23 (01:29:09):
Oh, thank you, thank you, mister Spade. You do believe me.
I think I'm really ready to face the world again.

Speaker 4 (01:29:17):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
I deposited Tom in my apartment with instructions to open
the door for no one but me, and then I
proceeded to thirty one to eighteen Monroe in the High
Rent District. I was ushered through a comely portico by
a Japanese maid who told me to wait in a
study heavy with mahogany.

Speaker 4 (01:29:36):
In a moment, two people came in. The woman wore
a black dress, silver pendants, flat shoes, and a complexion
the color of apple meat. She was miss Henrietta Black
and or missus Tom Turkey. The man turned out to
be Leander Luce, the lady's attorney, business manager and canasta partner.

Speaker 38 (01:29:56):
You say you have something important to discuss with me,
mister Spade, I do.

Speaker 23 (01:30:00):
I hope you don't mind my asking mister.

Speaker 4 (01:30:02):
Luce to be here, not at all. Well, Missus Turkey,
I just talked to your husband Tom. Mister Spade, if
you please I say.

Speaker 38 (01:30:10):
Something a rather feeble attempt at comedy, Mister Spade.

Speaker 4 (01:30:13):
Well, I wasn't trying for the laughs. You are, Missus Turkey,
aren't you?

Speaker 18 (01:30:17):
I was?

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
You undoubtedly still are.

Speaker 38 (01:30:20):
I've expected to hear another one of these cruel jokes
about my.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Name at Thanksgiving time, mister Spade. Someone was always going
to stuff Tom, based him, dress him, slice him.

Speaker 4 (01:30:29):
This season, they're going to kill him. They are not
going to kill him.

Speaker 23 (01:30:33):
He is already dead.

Speaker 4 (01:30:34):
He's not dead, Missus Turkey, and you should know it.

Speaker 29 (01:30:38):
I should.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
Yes, he sent you a letter saying he was back
in San Francisco and wanted to see you, mister Spade.
This has gone absolutely far enough. Not quite What about
the letter?

Speaker 23 (01:30:47):
I know of no such letter I see.

Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
Well, thank you for your time. I'm sorry I bothered you.
You use bad judgment and coming in the first place. Yes,
maybe you're right. There was falsehood in this someplace, Lieutenant,
and it stuck up like a fat girl in slacks.
The only thing to do was to go back to
my apartment, get Tom Turkey in confront Missus t with

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her husband in the flesh. When I got back to
my apartment building, I spotted, in rapid succession, one an ambulance,
two a police car, and upstairs outside my half open
apartment door, I spotted three. You been expecting it? What's
going on? Kelsey?

Speaker 24 (01:31:27):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:31:27):
Serious, Sam, sirius. Who's that bullheaded man moving around the apartment.
That's McCracken, the new medical examiner, checking a stiff on
your ruck. I stepped around you, lieutenant, and pushed the
door all the way open. I saw McCracken kneeling over
the body, and a couple of men from homicide taking photos.
I moved into the room feeling nothing good. A little

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guy had given me a job, and while I was
jacking with his wife, somebody got to him, and in
my apartment where I'd stashed him. McCracken stood up and
I looked down at the body. Then I looked again.
Who he saw wasn't Tom Turkey at all. It was
the late Private Eye Al Koutchel. You are listening to

(01:32:11):
the weekly adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Spade.
You Friday fans of Sam Spade, there's mystery on Saturday

(01:32:34):
evening too. On NBC Tomorrow, the Man called X sets
out on another mission of danger and intrigue in some
far off corner of the earth. Herbert Marshall stars as
the man called X, a man without a name who
travels the world over protecting his country's interests. He lives
by his wits, and his business is danger. He is
the man called X. Tomorrow over most NBC stations for

(01:32:56):
Top Sunday Listening It's another broadcast of The Big Show
on this Sunday. Your stars include Fred Allen, Jack Carson,
Mendy Carson, ed Archie Gardner, Edwin and many many more.
And Tallula is your MC as usual this Sunday, It's
The Big Show on NBC. And now back to the

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terrified Turkey caper. Tonight's adventure with Sam Spade.

Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
While the men from homicide were taking pictures, etc. You
and I lieutenants were going round and round on the
question if I didn't kill the man found in my room,
who did? And you were sufficiently impressed with my insults
Kelsey not to hold me for the murderer. We bowed
to each other and I left, thinking back to the
truck that had almost run Turkey down. I went to

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the Haynes You drive truck rental garage.

Speaker 4 (01:33:59):
Yes, yeah, I mean, what do you want? I'm a detective.
Could you give me a list of names for everybody
who rendered the truck from you during the past few days? Sure?
He handed me a big registration book and I read
every name for the past week. For the first five
days they all seemed to be nice, normal, abnormal names.

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And then under the rentals for the day before was
the name of John Smith. John had given his address
as seventy two hundred Kearney, and I happen to know
that Kearney only goes up to twenty hundred. The dispatcher
said that Smith had returned the truck about three hours before,
and he remembered them as an ugly, heavy set and
rough voice character who looked like an ex long shoreman.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
They had already washed the truck, so the fingerprints were
all out. Stunn, Yeah, it's mister Stradger.

Speaker 4 (01:34:55):
Look, I'd like to speak with missus Turk. Miss Black
GIFs you no Black, come in? Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
This way into the dear right. And I was sure
you'd look into this affair a little more and realize
that it was just a blind alley, a hoax of
some kind. Where's miss Black? Oh, she's upstairs, lying down.
The whole affair is upset her, and she asked not
to be disturbed. I think the wisest course of action
for you, mister Spade, is just to let the matter
d up.

Speaker 4 (01:35:20):
You can't let a murder just drop, mister Lewis, the
police wouldn't hear it, Huh, murder? Who an unfronckd private
detective named al Kuchel. Well, what does this have to
do with Henrietta Black? Al Kuchell called me earlier today
and said that Tom Turkey was a crackpot, a little
man with delusions. He tried to top me off taking
his case. He sounds like a perceiving man. Well, he

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didn't perceive ending up in my apartment with a bullet
in his head. That's too bad. But I still I
left Tom Turkey in my apartment for safekeeping, and when
I returned he was gone and Kuchel was dead. Well,
that explains itself.

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
Obviously, this detective knew that Tom Turkey was.

Speaker 4 (01:35:53):
A phony and Turkey killed him. It can figure that
way and a number of other ways.

Speaker 2 (01:36:00):
Read.

Speaker 4 (01:36:00):
I have no desire to sit here trading subtleties with you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
As yet, no one has demonstrated that the real Tom
Turky actually exists alive. Now, until you do have something
more concrete and less mythological, Miss Black requests that you
do not come around opening up old wounds.

Speaker 4 (01:36:17):
You've made an eloquent point. Just tell me one thing
if I can. When did Tom Turkey disappear? I mean,
what month, what day?

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
It was, Oh, yes, nineteen forty three November, but I'm
not sure of the exact day.

Speaker 4 (01:36:30):
I think it was in the third week. Could it
have been on Thanksgiving? Very possibly? Very possibly. I returned
thoughtfully to my office and then a little rapid mental
arithmetic and came up with a number seven.

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
From November twenty third, nineteen forty three to November twenty third,
nineteen fifty was seven years to the day, and I
pondered this, what did the number seven mean to the
life or death of Tom Turkey. I had just hit
upon the answer and was crying eureka when my office
door opened unknocked, and a visitor came in unannounced. He

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was ugly, heavy set and looked like an ex long showman.

Speaker 4 (01:37:12):
I waited to see if the voice checked you. Who
shall I say? Is calling?

Speaker 6 (01:37:17):
Yeah, Captain John Smith, and here's my calling card.

Speaker 4 (01:37:22):
The first.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
The first bullet raised my shoulder and tore the padding
out of my coat. The second bullet hit the water
cooler and it crashed over water and all on.

Speaker 4 (01:37:34):
Top of me.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
Where the third bullet hit I wasn't sure at the time,
because Doc has came rushing through my head like.

Speaker 4 (01:37:39):
A freight drinker.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
When I opened my eyes again, I expected to see
Saint Peter checking my ID card. But all I saw
with the dust balls under my desk and a fly
bathing himself in a pool of water, spreading slowly over
the floor. There was blood on my hand, but it
came from a glass cut. I was in shambles, but alive.
Captain John Smith had shoved off, obviously thinking his bullets.

Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
Had done their work. Homicide, Sam Kelsey, have you found
anything more about ton Turkey? Nothing? Sam?

Speaker 6 (01:38:23):
Frankly, I'm beginning to wonder if there is.

Speaker 4 (01:38:25):
Such a gu well clever Kelsey. A few minutes ago,
a gorilla by the name believe it or not, of
Captain John Smith just tried to kill me in my office.
Go on, Sam, I find it hard to think. You
find it hard to think, period? Really, Sam, did you
get him?

Speaker 18 (01:38:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:38:41):
But my office is a wreck, and there's a whole
blasted to my wall big enough to put a basketball in.

Speaker 4 (01:38:45):
What did they use? A bazooka? I figured? Dumb dumb bullets.
Dumb dumb. That's illegal, ain't it? Kelsey? Doesn't it strike
you as significant that every attempt on Turkey's life has
been vicious, as if someone not only wanted to kill
him but also mutilate him. Yeah, yeah, that you mention it.
Somebody probably wanted to make identification difficult even dead. They
didn't want anybody to know who he was. Now listen carefully, Kelsey,

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this is real deep. Tom Turkey disappeared on Thanksgiving of
nineteen forty three. A person has to be missing seven
years before he can be legally dead and his insurance collected. Now,
if someone had Turkey insured, they could collect the day
after this Thanksgiving. If Turkey didn't show up before, you.

Speaker 6 (01:39:25):
Mean, somebody's trying to kill him for the insurance.

Speaker 4 (01:39:28):
I would say so, Kelsey, I would say so. Now
hurry up and find him. When I put down the phone,
I heard a heavy pounding. For a minute, I thought
it was in my head until I turned to face
the door, and standing there was a small pilgrim with
bandy legs in black stockings, pantaloons, white collared coat and

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still pipe hat. He wore silver buckles, and what he
was pounding on the floor was an eighteenth century bunderbuss Loujah.

Speaker 23 (01:40:01):
And they got the right place well off.

Speaker 4 (01:40:02):
Hand, I'd say so. If you're looking for Captain John Smith.
He just left Pocahontas is expected at any minute.

Speaker 6 (01:40:07):
Now, don't you go trying to confuse me. I'm too thirsty.
What's on your mind? Well, I'm looking for a fellow
named Dan. Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:40:15):
Yeah, I'm so thirsty. I forgot sam space.

Speaker 8 (01:40:19):
Yeah, that's it, that's it.

Speaker 24 (01:40:20):
That's Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:40:21):
Oh, you broke your water bottle? Huh yeah, good good?

Speaker 6 (01:40:24):
That stuff poison anyway, hallelujah, hallelujie. Hey say yeah, do
you happen to have any hard cider around fresh out? Oh,
I'm kind of thirsty. You know, any type of corn squeezes?

Speaker 4 (01:40:41):
Here? Try the stand where?

Speaker 18 (01:40:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:40:47):
Good?

Speaker 4 (01:40:47):
Huh you like that? Huh?

Speaker 6 (01:40:58):
Follow me, but before we go, you suppose we could
have a little sephard for the road.

Speaker 4 (01:41:03):
It's busy cold.

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
I gave him a little, but not too much, because
I didn't want him to lose his way. He walked
me right down Market Street so he could look in
the liquor store windows. He said it gave him a
comfortable feeling to know there was so much good in
the world. And then we turned right a few blocks
until we came to the Helping Hand Mission across Its
great front of banner promised special holiday food and comfort

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to the unfortunate, and on the street in front of
it there was a prass band sending on signals to
the fraternity that any minute the great Feast of Thanksgiving
would begin.

Speaker 4 (01:41:38):
The band members and other volunteer workers were all rest
as pilgrims. The quint couldn't see my pilgrim led me
to a dot corner of the clubroom, and sitting there unhappily,
was none other than Tom Turkey.

Speaker 23 (01:41:52):
Hello, mister, stay, Hello Tom?

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
What happened to my apartment? Why did you run away?

Speaker 8 (01:41:56):
I was afraid?

Speaker 23 (01:41:57):
Hey, you told me not to pass the door until
you came back. Well, somebody knocked on the door and
said it was you, So I opened it and two
men came in. It was one of the male kuchu, yes,
the detective. The other man was a big, ugly looking fellow,
and when they saw I was alone, they started arguing
above what Well? The detective said that now that he
brought the ugly man there, he wanted his money. The

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ugly man pulled a gun and they started to fight.
Oh dear, I slipped out the door, and when I
was halfway downstairs, I heard a shot and kept on running.

Speaker 4 (01:42:28):
Well, hal Koutchel is dead.

Speaker 23 (01:42:30):
Oh my, I thought, so this was the only place
I could think of to hide.

Speaker 27 (01:42:36):
Oh.

Speaker 23 (01:42:36):
When Henrietta finds out I've been mixed up in a murder,
she'll never take me back.

Speaker 4 (01:42:41):
Henrietta, Hey, tell me. Did your wife ever have any
insurance on you? Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:42:45):
Before I ran away, she did a fifty thousand dollar policy.
But oh that would have lapsed by now. Maybe maybe
did it have a suicide cloth in it? A suicide?

Speaker 4 (01:42:56):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (01:42:56):
Well, no, no it didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:42:59):
I remember. Yeah. Yeah, you'd like to talk to Henrietta,
wouldn't you. All right, here's your phone number. Call her
up and tell her where you are.

Speaker 23 (01:43:05):
Oh, dear, I don't think I could. I would too frightened.

Speaker 4 (01:43:09):
You've got to do something to help yourself. If you
don't by midnight, you might be a cold turkey. I'm sorry,
just slipped out.

Speaker 23 (01:43:16):
All right, I'll do it.

Speaker 4 (01:43:24):
Well. He went and made the call. When he returned,
he said that a man had answered, who said Henrietta
would come down and picked Tom up. He didn't want
to wait, but I sat on him. The pilgrim brought
us a dish of turkey. Dinner, saying he couldn't stand
food himself, and we munched a spell. In a little while,
a limousine pulled up in front of the mission with
someone in back whom I couldn't see. Let show first

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stepped out and came in inquiring for Tom Turkey. It
was Captain John Smith himself. When he saw me, a
look of shocked surprise came over. He's on the handsome
face hoping to catch him all balance. I bove at him.
It was the liveliest thing that has happened. If helping
hand miss and years and we have heard her school
money was even changing hands. When I heard the odds
starting to go against me, I realized I'd better come

(01:44:06):
up with something.

Speaker 8 (01:44:07):
He uses many and I did.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
The bandyleg Kildrum shoved just one of us, write my
hand and I swunk Smith dropped my pheasant on the wing.

Speaker 4 (01:44:17):
I looked up. The passenger from the limousine was just
coming in here. What's the meaning of this? It means,
Leander loose, that you're not going to carve Tom Turkey
up for your Thanksgiving insurance policy.

Speaker 6 (01:44:28):
Hell Loujah, hey, drumstick anyone.

Speaker 4 (01:44:44):
Period and the report warm.

Speaker 25 (01:44:46):
I don't understand.

Speaker 4 (01:44:47):
Well, it's as plain as the cranberry stain on your address,
Low says. Henrietta's business manager had her power of attorney,
and secretly he kept making the payments on Tom Turkey's
insurance policy.

Speaker 40 (01:44:58):
Oh and then he collect fire and keep the money himself.

Speaker 4 (01:45:02):
Fi Sometimes your lightning mind frightens me. I'll go type
that up. Three chimes mean good times on NBC. There's
fun and laughs with the chimes later tonight, when Ed
Gardner stars in Duffy's tavern. As usual, Duffy won't be there,
but Archie, the manager will definitely be on hand to

(01:45:23):
serve his blue plate special of grilled English Language. This Sunday,
the Big Show comes your way again. Tallula will be
your hostess, and the stars include Fred Allen, Jack Carson Edwin,
Meredith Wilson, and many many more. It's the Big Show
Sunday on NBC.

Speaker 30 (01:45:51):
Here Sam, Sam, the man who killed Alcuto and tried
to kill you with his name really.

Speaker 4 (01:45:57):
Captain Johnsmeth now withy. But we have a Thanksgiving caper
without a Captain John Smith. It wouldn't be right.

Speaker 1 (01:46:04):
Was a coincidence, wasn't he?

Speaker 35 (01:46:06):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:46:06):
If you promised not to tell any his real name
was Michael Giuseppe Yoblonsky Smith. I called him John for sure,
you're so kind? Are we going over to your mother's
for cold turkey snacks?

Speaker 17 (01:46:17):
Well?

Speaker 40 (01:46:18):
All right, but I don't think there'll be much left.

Speaker 4 (01:46:20):
Oh.

Speaker 40 (01:46:21):
You see, my cousin Gerty couldn't find a little boy,
and mother phone and said they just found him.

Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
He was inside the turkey eating his way out.

Speaker 4 (01:46:31):
Effie, Is there no way to curb that tongue of yours?

Speaker 11 (01:46:36):
Is one way?

Speaker 4 (01:46:37):
Well? Come here, good night, good night swear. The Adventures

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of Sam Spade are produced, edited, and directed by William Spear.
Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn. Loreen Tuttle is Effie.
Script for tonight's adventure by Larry Roman and John Michael Hayes.
Musical scoring by Lud Bluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrewster. Join

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us again next week, same time for another adventure with
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Speaker 5 (01:48:14):
Seventy five years ago. November twenty fourth, nineteen fifty, Sam
Spade on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. I know
not as good, but you gotta enjoy it all right
Up next we will go to Point Sublime. After we
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gonna head off with Clip, Arcuat and Melon link to
Point Sublime.

Speaker 42 (01:49:00):
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Speaker 5 (01:49:35):
Clip Parkhat used to be Charlie Weaver on the Old
Jack par Show, but he did a lot of acting
in radio for years. We'll hear him along with Mel Blank,
and of course we all know who el Mel Blank
is wonderful impressionist Great Boys artist. He in a program
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Speaker 4 (01:50:00):
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Speaker 9 (01:50:05):
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Speaker 8 (01:50:06):
John Hancock?

Speaker 9 (01:50:07):
What's the program? White Sublime? Point Sublime presented.

Speaker 4 (01:50:16):
By the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Ry Clipmark
Hendon mel Blank. Point Sublime is written and produced by
Robert L.

Speaker 18 (01:50:24):
Wren.

Speaker 4 (01:50:32):
In to just a moment, We'll bring you the human
story of a fellow named Ben Willis. But first meet
your John Hancock ancient friends.

Speaker 2 (01:50:40):
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you love that you just wanted to tack up but
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Speaker 4 (01:50:50):
You'd like to feel.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
Sure that your family will be protected. We'll be able
to continue that comfortable existence right through the years.

Speaker 4 (01:50:56):
Isn't that right?

Speaker 2 (01:50:58):
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can plan soundly for the protection of your family's future.
You see, the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, with
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insurance payments, and the cost is surprisingly small. Just talk
to your local John Hancock agent about it.

Speaker 9 (01:51:36):
You'll find him glad to help.

Speaker 4 (01:51:43):
And now for the human story of a fellow named
Ben Willis. It is tomorrow morning. It points of BlimE, Tuesday,
two days before Thanksgiving. Ben Willet has been doing a
thriving free holiday business that is store right now, he's
sorting through his morning mail, which was just delivered.

Speaker 27 (01:52:05):
Well open this patry here looks like a book. You
don't understand why I don't get a letter from sharing
about Sammy's song. Well it is a book, poetry head
Malon's Anthology of American Poetry. He will yeah money, Please
get back in the store room and start those cranberry.

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Lots of people be coming in the day to buy them.

Speaker 31 (01:52:29):
That's when I came to tell you I'm all through
with a cranber. The cranber, those little web fas and
now I mean me and mixing the sacond in and
ain't man nuts don't put in too many of those
expensive paper shell pecans now, so I won't.

Speaker 27 (01:52:46):
I'm filling in with plenty of Brazilian Brazilian Philbrits.

Speaker 24 (01:52:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 31 (01:52:53):
Say, did you get a letter from Sammy up in
San Francisco at the Veterans Hospital?

Speaker 27 (01:52:58):
And no I thought I would by now, Moon you
get back to work.

Speaker 31 (01:53:01):
Yes, yes, that's all I ever do.

Speaker 5 (01:53:03):
Beat work, work works for Ev.

Speaker 27 (01:53:06):
Darling can get away at poetry. I guess I can
try a little shot over here waiting the book picked
me out one and then let me see. Well look
who's coming? Old Patrick mulaney.

Speaker 1 (01:53:17):
How are you intended in this?

Speaker 24 (01:53:18):
Patrick?

Speaker 8 (01:53:19):
For dead before pestibbons?

Speaker 27 (01:53:20):
Oh fine, Patrick, how's everything over to Shamrock Cafe?

Speaker 30 (01:53:23):
Fine?

Speaker 43 (01:53:24):
Fine, fine there, give me a package of roads.

Speaker 27 (01:53:26):
Will we leave rosemle He says, yeah, right here, rodmar leaves.
He's got charge it, Yeah, charge it? Say why helln't
your turkey dinner Thursday? Patrick?

Speaker 43 (01:53:35):
I suppose I'll be hitting at feeling stool my cafe
with the transients to drop in.

Speaker 26 (01:53:40):
Oh yeah, you having Louis dinning in the company in
Miss Devlin hanover.

Speaker 27 (01:53:44):
Yeah, me and Hi mcbarbe and invited Avery's house to
Thanksgiving dinner? How old romantic to tree him?

Speaker 28 (01:53:52):
Hell of I don't see you before minute?

Speaker 43 (01:53:54):
Blessens time with this tank givens same to you Patrick, bye?

Speaker 27 (01:53:59):
Oh Pat hate to see folks alone in holiday times.
Well now I'll try once again to get a look
at my book.

Speaker 29 (01:54:06):
Here.

Speaker 27 (01:54:07):
Let's just poem here, prayer for a very new angel,
my Violet Alan's story, very new angel. This must be
about the cute little baby that he's been taking care
of their cottage this week? And ask see what it's about?
God be Leinia her first night there, the first night there? Hey,

(01:54:31):
what happened to this baby they're writing about? She must do?

Speaker 28 (01:54:35):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (01:54:36):
What is it? Money?

Speaker 26 (01:54:37):
He is he?

Speaker 24 (01:54:38):
Haze?

Speaker 31 (01:54:38):
Not kind of wormy?

Speaker 35 (01:54:40):
Is he?

Speaker 27 (01:54:40):
They're not so good? Well throw him out?

Speaker 31 (01:54:42):
Is is?

Speaker 8 (01:54:43):
Well?

Speaker 27 (01:54:43):
If they're no good, throw them out, get rid of them,
throw them out.

Speaker 26 (01:54:47):
Yes, I just did.

Speaker 27 (01:54:51):
Get back to working then when you're out heights?

Speaker 29 (01:54:54):
Not where was I?

Speaker 1 (01:54:55):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (01:54:55):
Yeah, I'm a poem poem. I always left the life
out in the hall. Who she is this morning?

Speaker 28 (01:55:03):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (01:55:03):
Hello?

Speaker 26 (01:55:04):
Have you honey?

Speaker 27 (01:55:05):
Howe?

Speaker 4 (01:55:07):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (01:55:07):
I'm okay? HOWI how are you any?

Speaker 2 (01:55:09):
Baby?

Speaker 30 (01:55:09):
Believe me?

Speaker 26 (01:55:10):
I don't see like Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Oh,
I've just been down to the trailer camp trying to
talk a little sense to that food tindle some girl.

Speaker 27 (01:55:19):
Oh say, who's a Chricatti taking care of the baby?
Mandis that came over?

Speaker 2 (01:55:23):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (01:55:23):
How is little Penny this morning?

Speaker 26 (01:55:25):
That's a lockhearts and buy around seven. He's trying a
new medicine. Now, Oh god, almost fuck up?

Speaker 18 (01:55:31):
What hi?

Speaker 17 (01:55:31):
I was in the telegraph offic a few minutes ago.

Speaker 27 (01:55:33):
Please still ask me to bring you this telegram telegram?

Speaker 8 (01:55:36):
We hear that?

Speaker 27 (01:55:37):
Oh thanks?

Speaker 26 (01:55:38):
Maybe it's from Shelly about Sam. It's a veteran costader.

Speaker 35 (01:55:42):
It is.

Speaker 27 (01:55:45):
What they says. Doctors bleaves Sam's eyes almost ready for operation.
Oh gool may operate Thursday. Sam wonders if you can
be with him during the operation. Don't let Sam's father
know we've asked you. You might be hurt. He makes
Sam nervous. Love share. Well, if he wants me there,

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I'll be there on Thursday.

Speaker 26 (01:56:08):
That's Thanksgiving day.

Speaker 27 (01:56:09):
Oh yeah, I miss my old fashioned family style dinner
with you.

Speaker 43 (01:56:12):
Every I've kind of planned on us three sitting around
the table together.

Speaker 27 (01:56:16):
Yeah, but if.

Speaker 26 (01:56:16):
Sammy wants to man when would you leave for San
Francisco tomorrow?

Speaker 27 (01:56:20):
I guess well you will have.

Speaker 26 (01:56:22):
Thanksgiving dinner and you'll have it at my house and
we'll all be together like this plan.

Speaker 27 (01:56:26):
Oh but how you've got my turkey here and your.

Speaker 26 (01:56:28):
Refrigerator get it out for me right now, Dan.

Speaker 27 (01:56:31):
What are you talking about? If mister rose.

Speaker 26 (01:56:33):
Felt could change Thanksgiving day, Evelyn, planover can too.

Speaker 27 (01:56:37):
Yeah, well, we'll.

Speaker 26 (01:56:39):
Celebrate our Thanksgiving today this afternoon.

Speaker 27 (01:56:42):
Well, how can you ever get things organized here?

Speaker 26 (01:56:44):
How are your help? We'll have dinner at four thirty.
It's all settled.

Speaker 31 (01:56:48):
Get me that turkey then, yeah, sure, Hey, Alli, even
you're a wonderful Just stop the plaver and open that
refrigerator door, ma'am.

Speaker 27 (01:56:57):
Oh brother, what a bird this is.

Speaker 26 (01:57:00):
Maybe we shouldn't be celebrated your room with that little
baby there stick.

Speaker 27 (01:57:05):
Oh, Penny's in the bathroom. We won't disturb it. No,
you said, dark Lockhart gave the baby some new medicine.
If she doesn't react by this, Affen mean he was, then.

Speaker 26 (01:57:12):
The doctor will probably take her up to the hospital
in Vernon.

Speaker 27 (01:57:15):
Oh no, did you tell her mother yet?

Speaker 26 (01:57:18):
I said, I've just come from that trailer camp. Nothing
seems to make any difference to that fool woman. What
happens to a baby?

Speaker 27 (01:57:25):
She burns me up?

Speaker 26 (01:57:26):
Then you've got to go down and try to talk
to her.

Speaker 27 (01:57:29):
But I hardly know the girl. What could I say?

Speaker 26 (01:57:31):
Press honored that maybe your baby seriously ill?

Speaker 23 (01:57:34):
Dream?

Speaker 27 (01:57:35):
Well, i'll get down there sometime to day.

Speaker 26 (01:57:37):
Come Howard, carry the birds. We've got to get right
over to my cottage and get to work.

Speaker 27 (01:57:41):
Yes, every Oh, wait there, and Saul's coming in good morning.

Speaker 18 (01:57:45):
Earn over, mister mcriar.

Speaker 17 (01:57:48):
Then that turkey mama picked out a week to go
to one.

Speaker 35 (01:57:51):
You're holding for us?

Speaker 8 (01:57:51):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (01:57:52):
Yeah, you wanna take it down?

Speaker 35 (01:57:53):
No, you better try to sell it or better give
it to somebody. Saw there's something mamma says this morning
she won't feel like cooking a big dinner Thanksgiving for
just the two of us. We hope this year Sammy
would be with us.

Speaker 26 (01:58:05):
Oh, I know how disappointed you are, mister Willid just
got a telegram?

Speaker 24 (01:58:09):
Are we.

Speaker 27 (01:58:11):
From Sharon?

Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
What's that?

Speaker 37 (01:58:13):
Well?

Speaker 27 (01:58:14):
The doctors think Sam's eyes are okay. Now for the operation.

Speaker 29 (01:58:19):
Oh think they're operating Thursday, operating.

Speaker 35 (01:58:23):
Then I should go right up to San Francisco.

Speaker 27 (01:58:24):
And people say, well here, and if I were you,
I'd stay here and let the doctors and share them.
Do I mean you might get excited?

Speaker 9 (01:58:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 17 (01:58:35):
I might get excited and be in the way and
upset Sam.

Speaker 4 (01:58:38):
Here.

Speaker 35 (01:58:40):
I'll stay home, maybe even doing harm at the wrong time.

Speaker 4 (01:58:44):
I will stay home and wait, then, aren't.

Speaker 26 (01:58:47):
You leaving for San Francisco tomorrow? You order some Christmas
stuff for the stilly.

Speaker 12 (01:58:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, buying trip, buying trip.

Speaker 27 (01:58:54):
I'll try to get a minute to drop over the
hospital and see how Sam to San Francisco?

Speaker 4 (01:58:58):
Yeah, you see Sammy?

Speaker 17 (01:58:59):
You hu The world's moving so fast, things tuting so
sudden time.

Speaker 35 (01:59:05):
Then you give the turkey to somebody who wouldn't tap one.

Speaker 4 (01:59:08):
Huh.

Speaker 27 (01:59:08):
Well, I'll check around there. Are you sure you don't
want it?

Speaker 30 (01:59:11):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:59:11):
No, no. Thursday, I'll take my mind and not a
arrived the two of us.

Speaker 35 (01:59:14):
Maybe we'll go to bun and pretend and maybe through
a movie. Yeah, I'm gonna maybe he'll be together Thanksgiving Day.

Speaker 12 (01:59:21):
The world is moving so fast, you know.

Speaker 27 (01:59:25):
Howie, you big blabber mouth telling about the telegram from Sharon.

Speaker 26 (01:59:29):
I didn't know both of you. We're got through all
their trends to have their son home for Thanksgiving. Well,
they won't be alone or come back.

Speaker 9 (01:59:40):
I want to talk for you.

Speaker 35 (01:59:42):
We didn't want to talk to an.

Speaker 26 (01:59:44):
I'm having Thanksgiving dinner today at my cottage because then
it's going out of town. I want you and Sarah
to join it.

Speaker 4 (01:59:50):
Miss will be glad.

Speaker 35 (01:59:53):
No, no, no, no, thank you. We couldn't well not
we want you, you really.

Speaker 26 (01:59:59):
Want He just forces it, mister Willet, mister McBrien will
be there.

Speaker 17 (02:00:03):
Oh, missus tennover. If I can tell mom about an
invitation to dinner, it will.

Speaker 8 (02:00:07):
Help so much.

Speaker 35 (02:00:07):
I Oh, and there's just one thing I hate to ask. Well,
what I know, mam. Mama's mama when she makes up
her mind to something, Well, oh.

Speaker 27 (02:00:19):
No, what's worried your So when we.

Speaker 17 (02:00:21):
Realized last night we would be alone Peter Thanksgiving dinner,
Mama said we should bring up Sammy's.

Speaker 35 (02:00:26):
Chair to the table with her many chair. Yeah, the
one where he would have said, oh don't last mits tannover.
You see, Mama is mama.

Speaker 26 (02:00:35):
Will Sarah can have an empty chair at my tables?
Will make her happy?

Speaker 18 (02:00:39):
She could, of course.

Speaker 35 (02:00:43):
Oh you you're such a current woman. Miss over. I'll go, sir,
I'll let you know.

Speaker 17 (02:00:48):
She won't say yes right away. I'll let you know
yes later today.

Speaker 18 (02:00:51):
Is that all right?

Speaker 4 (02:00:52):
Of course?

Speaker 35 (02:00:53):
Goodbye, goodbye. I'll go right home and tell Mama everything.

Speaker 27 (02:00:56):
Mama, Oh, you invited in his life?

Speaker 24 (02:00:59):
Yes, I did.

Speaker 26 (02:01:00):
Swell are they cooman?

Speaker 31 (02:01:02):
You let me know later?

Speaker 24 (02:01:03):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (02:01:03):
Then, now I'm getting excited. I'm we're to have people,
a lot of people sit down to my Thanksgiving table.
See where's mooney? Right here?

Speaker 27 (02:01:13):
Your mooney, you've been he's dropping again, and.

Speaker 31 (02:01:16):
I just happened to be listening at the key hole.

Speaker 26 (02:01:19):
Mooney, you're coming to my house for a big Thanksgiving
dinner this afternoon.

Speaker 27 (02:01:23):
I am.

Speaker 31 (02:01:26):
Hey, I'll be there, Otie. I'll get all dressed up nice.

Speaker 26 (02:01:30):
To him in miss ham Yah, don't worry about that.

Speaker 27 (02:01:32):
Oh sure I will.

Speaker 31 (02:01:33):
It is the first time I was ever invited out
to day the Thanksgiving dinner at somebody's house. Say, I'll
wear mymi new sweater with a plea deep purple and
green stripes.

Speaker 26 (02:01:44):
Yeah yeah, wear that? Yeah sure, Stop being so excited,
kill man, Oh dear, it's every late. I simply must
get home, come dollie. And then don't forget to go
down and see that Nancy Kindleton.

Speaker 27 (02:01:57):
Hey, yeah, yeah, I will.

Speaker 31 (02:01:59):
Al gosh, I was just kidding a minute ago, kidding
about what why I didn't want Misshammer with an or.
I don't have anything really good to dress up in
for her Thanksgiving party today?

Speaker 27 (02:02:13):
You will about that new sweater with the purple and
green stripes.

Speaker 23 (02:02:16):
I don't have any I was just him and making
that up.

Speaker 27 (02:02:20):
Hey, you're just about my size?

Speaker 23 (02:02:24):
Sure what you mean?

Speaker 27 (02:02:26):
If you want to get dressed up real nifty, I'll
let you wear my Chark striped suit, the one you
like so much.

Speaker 26 (02:02:31):
You will?

Speaker 13 (02:02:32):
Yeah, honest too?

Speaker 31 (02:02:34):
How I look just like like a man of distinction.
Everybody sure is good to me.

Speaker 27 (02:02:41):
But you're listen to me, young man. When you sit
down at that dining table this afternoon, you gotta remember
one thing. You gotta be awful careful.

Speaker 13 (02:02:48):
How you eat, eat?

Speaker 8 (02:02:50):
Oh, I get it.

Speaker 26 (02:02:52):
Don't still gravy on your vest I get it.

Speaker 27 (02:03:01):
Do it take so little to make some folks happy?
Oh dear, I dread going down to talk to that
Pendlton girl. I don't know what to say to old
woman who's practically deserted her own baby maybe I better
take her a box of candy or something, you know. Oh, Web, Tyler,
come on in. What can I do for you?

Speaker 9 (02:03:20):
Web shirkint of tobacco?

Speaker 4 (02:03:21):
Ben my regular friend?

Speaker 27 (02:03:22):
No you said it? Son, hand at tobacco. Her brother Tyler,
the pipe smoking Tyler, not to be confused with the
typical new Tyler.

Speaker 31 (02:03:29):
Pretty good, pretty.

Speaker 27 (02:03:31):
Good, I got it off, real good. Yeah, hey, well,
thank you?

Speaker 8 (02:03:36):
Say.

Speaker 27 (02:03:36):
How's Helen?

Speaker 2 (02:03:37):
Just wonderful?

Speaker 27 (02:03:38):
I don't see around town much lately.

Speaker 2 (02:03:40):
Well, she's thicking pretty close to home. Helen's a little
uncomfortable these days.

Speaker 27 (02:03:44):
Oh yeah, well, one thing even be happy about. Helen
will want her baby.

Speaker 2 (02:03:49):
Well, certainly, Why would you make a remark like that, Ben.

Speaker 27 (02:03:52):
Well, weeb, I got a very unpleasant task ahead of me.
Phil Pendleton's wife.

Speaker 2 (02:03:57):
Pendleton don't believe I know.

Speaker 27 (02:04:00):
They've been living down there at the Trader camp the
last three months, and he's working on the big construction
job up at Vernon are Well. Their little baby got
sick about a week ago, and everyone and him ever
took it in to help out. Now the mother won't
come to see the child.

Speaker 2 (02:04:14):
Oh fine, Yeah, that youngster's got a pretty drab future
ahead of him.

Speaker 29 (02:04:17):
Well, it's a herb cute little baby girl, Kenny, he's pretty.

Speaker 4 (02:04:22):
Sick too, well, Thank heavens.

Speaker 2 (02:04:24):
The woman who deserts her child is rare. Most mothers
I know show their affection for their family by making
the home a pleasant place to live in.

Speaker 27 (02:04:31):
Well, something must be troubling this girl, I just can't believe.

Speaker 2 (02:04:34):
And the good father shows his affection for his family
by providing for that home, working hard to give his
family whatever he can earn.

Speaker 4 (02:04:42):
And you know, there's another thing that any father.

Speaker 35 (02:04:44):
Needs to ask himself.

Speaker 2 (02:04:46):
If he weren't there to provide for his loved ones
and his wife had to go to work, what would
happen to his children?

Speaker 8 (02:04:54):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:04:54):
If a man ever considered this deeply important question, here's
something to remember.

Speaker 27 (02:04:58):
Who's that with?

Speaker 4 (02:05:00):
Well, Ben, you know, in almost every.

Speaker 2 (02:05:01):
Community there's a friend a man can really count on
to help him prepare right now for any such emergency.
A John Hancock agent. He's always plaid to show a
man how to plan a simple life insurance program to
protect his loved one should the emergency arrive.

Speaker 27 (02:05:17):
Well, Webb, suppose a man buys life insurance for the
protection of his family, and he doesn't well, no serious
emergency ever comes up.

Speaker 2 (02:05:25):
Ben, Did you ever see the day when you couldn't
use an extra dollar you'd put away?

Speaker 31 (02:05:30):
Never have?

Speaker 2 (02:05:30):
If a family doesn't have to use the life insurance moneyway,
there are many other ways that can come in mighty
handy later on.

Speaker 4 (02:05:37):
You know, it's easier than.

Speaker 2 (02:05:38):
Many people realize to manage a life insurance policy of
the kind I'm talking about and still fit it into
a regular budget. Yeah, no, sir, I'm not kidding when
I say a John Hancock agent can help a man
plan a safer tomorrow for himself and his loved one.

Speaker 27 (02:05:53):
Web, I think that every man should mean me, mister Willing.
Oh what is it now? Mooney?

Speaker 18 (02:05:58):
What?

Speaker 24 (02:05:58):
What?

Speaker 27 (02:05:59):
Hell?

Speaker 31 (02:05:59):
Hello is Tyler?

Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
Are your mooney?

Speaker 4 (02:06:01):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (02:06:01):
Fine, say mister Willis. I just went back to my room.
Lif Do you try and find a nice shirt I
could wear to the the dinner party when I have
on your suit?

Speaker 27 (02:06:09):
N what about it?

Speaker 18 (02:06:10):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (02:06:10):
If the situation is terrible, you should see my shirts
if the laundry sent them back with all different buttons
sewed on them.

Speaker 27 (02:06:18):
Yeah, well you're lucky.

Speaker 26 (02:06:20):
I'm lucky.

Speaker 27 (02:06:21):
Yeah, you should see the last batch of shirts I
got back from the laundry. He sent back my buttons
with different shirts sewed on them. Oh well, don't worry, kid,
we'll get you all dress up real fancy.

Speaker 28 (02:06:33):
Oh what a day.

Speaker 9 (02:06:54):
Now, Part two of Point Sublime.

Speaker 4 (02:06:56):
It's mid afternoon. Only because he promised. Ben Willet has
gone on down to the trailer camp to see Nancy Pendleton,
the young mother of the baby Evelyn Hanover has been
caring for.

Speaker 8 (02:07:06):
Ben has just entered the cramped.

Speaker 4 (02:07:07):
Quarters of the trailer.

Speaker 27 (02:07:10):
Do you mind if I close the door?

Speaker 30 (02:07:12):
Well, yeah, I stip and sit here at the table,
hoss it on the bed.

Speaker 27 (02:07:17):
Thanks. Here, I brought you some candy in a little
book of poetry. Why oh, I don't know. I thought
you might like him here.

Speaker 30 (02:07:27):
Thanks, Yes, I haven't gotten around the much poetry lady.

Speaker 27 (02:07:33):
Uh say, what's the matter with you and Nancy?

Speaker 17 (02:07:37):
Nothing?

Speaker 34 (02:07:38):
The matter with me?

Speaker 27 (02:07:39):
Well, well, we don't know each other very well. Maybe
you don't want to talk.

Speaker 30 (02:07:46):
I don't know. Maybe I've been thinking too much lately.
I'm sure in a rock.

Speaker 27 (02:07:52):
Well we all get in rush.

Speaker 30 (02:07:54):
I'm in a bad one. Maybe I've decided that. Well
I'm still young and got a few good looks.

Speaker 34 (02:07:58):
I want to change some of the things.

Speaker 30 (02:08:00):
About my life.

Speaker 27 (02:08:01):
Well, changes aren't always easy, especially when you got such
sober responsibilities as a husband and a baby.

Speaker 1 (02:08:08):
Baby's getting good care, yeah, by somebody else.

Speaker 30 (02:08:13):
Oh, I know what you think? Do you think I
know good as a mother?

Speaker 26 (02:08:19):
Or maybe I'm not?

Speaker 38 (02:08:21):
Maybe I I never wanted a baby.

Speaker 27 (02:08:24):
You're not very convincing, manc I don't think you mean
a word you're seeing.

Speaker 30 (02:08:28):
Well I do, and still left. I've had plenty of
time to think. So I'm gonna wash the slate clean
as car. When Still comes back today, I'm gonna.

Speaker 27 (02:08:37):
Tell him your husband coming back today?

Speaker 30 (02:08:39):
He sent word last night, stops close down for a week. Oh,
I'll tell him what I'm leaving. Oh fine, can anybody
see my side of it?

Speaker 27 (02:08:53):
You're the mother of a baby?

Speaker 1 (02:08:55):
Oh baby I got left? Were then not much money
to take care of it or me?

Speaker 30 (02:08:58):
And still just something lave. Oh, it's wonderful to have
a man's independence.

Speaker 26 (02:09:04):
Well, I'm through.

Speaker 27 (02:09:06):
I uh, I guess Penny must be pretty sick in
this penalty.

Speaker 9 (02:09:13):
It makes just so sure.

Speaker 27 (02:09:14):
While you've been doing all your grand thinking, do you
ever think what it'll be like not to have your baby?
It'll be all right, what if Penny die?

Speaker 2 (02:09:27):
If she isn't that sick?

Speaker 18 (02:09:30):
Is she?

Speaker 27 (02:09:31):
You haven't bothered this year for three days? What do
you care?

Speaker 30 (02:09:36):
I don't care.

Speaker 27 (02:09:39):
I brought your book, Nancy. I turned down a page
here to a certain poem here reading what is in
this one right here?

Speaker 13 (02:09:55):
A prayer for a very new angel?

Speaker 23 (02:09:58):
What's that mean?

Speaker 29 (02:10:00):
I don't want you, I said, read it out loud.

Speaker 27 (02:10:03):
I want to know you read it, oh well?

Speaker 30 (02:10:08):
A prayer for a very new angel, God be leanient.
Her first night there, the crib she slept in was
so near my bed, Her blue and white wool blanket
was so soft, her pillow hollowed so to fit her head.

Speaker 27 (02:10:30):
I don't want to read this, read it, I said.

Speaker 30 (02:10:36):
Teach me that she'll not want small wombs or me
when she has you and Heaven's immensity. I always left
the light out in the hall. I hope to make
her fearless in the dark. And yet she was so small,

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one little light, not in the room, scarcely massive hark No, No,
she seldom cried. God not too far for her to see.

Speaker 38 (02:11:20):
This first night.

Speaker 30 (02:11:23):
Light a star.

Speaker 27 (02:11:26):
Gone, Nancy.

Speaker 30 (02:11:29):
And in the morning, when she first woke up, I
always kissed her on her left cheek where the dimple was.
And oh, I wet the brush.

Speaker 27 (02:11:43):
It made it.

Speaker 30 (02:11:44):
Easier to curl her hair. Just just to morrow morning. God,
I pray when she wakes up, do things for her
my way.

Speaker 27 (02:12:08):
Yeah, I knew all the time you didn't care los
my baby. Dear Doc Lockhard gave her some new kind
of medicine this morning. If it doesn't work, we'll have
to take Penny to the hospital up in Vernon.

Speaker 31 (02:12:21):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:12:24):
I tried so hard not to let any of you know.

Speaker 4 (02:12:27):
But why, Nancy, Why because my baby so much better
off funding is?

Speaker 27 (02:12:32):
Oh, that's it.

Speaker 1 (02:12:34):
It seems almost as if she has a real loan.

Speaker 27 (02:12:37):
You thought we'd keeper if you pretended. Oh that's all I.

Speaker 30 (02:12:42):
Got things worked up?

Speaker 27 (02:12:44):
What was Phillip?

Speaker 29 (02:12:46):
You didn't mean what you said about leaving him.

Speaker 4 (02:12:47):
Did you.

Speaker 6 (02:12:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:12:51):
I must be a little crazy.

Speaker 27 (02:12:53):
Well, honey, everybody's a little crazy these days. Have a
solid talk with your husband when he gets here. I
will you can straighten it all out.

Speaker 26 (02:13:03):
Who I want to go and see my baby, mister.

Speaker 27 (02:13:06):
Will, sure you do. I'll drive you right up to
Miss Hanovers now. Oh and by the way, we're celebrating
Thanksgiving a little early today, Miss hanovers. Lots of folks,
and we'll have two more chairs there for you and Phil. Yeah,
thank you.

Speaker 26 (02:13:35):
Hey, look, I.

Speaker 23 (02:13:36):
Sure we'll be well.

Speaker 31 (02:13:42):
You won't have to dry that one.

Speaker 25 (02:13:45):
I'm never known.

Speaker 8 (02:13:47):
Things are sure begin to smell good.

Speaker 31 (02:13:48):
Eleen, Hey, you're sure gonna have a mom for dinner?

Speaker 26 (02:13:51):
How many fourteen? Including dependents?

Speaker 27 (02:13:54):
Missus Fenton's still in there with a baby.

Speaker 26 (02:13:56):
Yes, I just don't know, but that Ben Willet has
a way of.

Speaker 27 (02:13:59):
Giving to people.

Speaker 26 (02:14:00):
Oh he's wonderful. Yeah, oh yeah, I'll get it.

Speaker 31 (02:14:04):
He's Patrick Malony here.

Speaker 28 (02:14:07):
Hello, giving two days earlier.

Speaker 26 (02:14:10):
Quiet tactic coime onians. What are all the packages?

Speaker 43 (02:14:13):
Some decorations for the table, paper, mashi horn of plenty,
some candles, fruit that you might like him. Ben told
me that you were having folks for dinner.

Speaker 17 (02:14:23):
Well goodbye, No, wait a minute, you have dinner with
us too?

Speaker 27 (02:14:29):
Forty I accept it's worked.

Speaker 43 (02:14:33):
Thanks for the invite.

Speaker 27 (02:14:34):
Good friend.

Speaker 26 (02:14:37):
Patrick thinks he pulled a fast one on me.

Speaker 31 (02:14:39):
Oh it's a quarter to four. I got a dash
back to the store and put on mister Willis. He
put on my new suit. I gotta get pressed up
putty for the party. Hey, I'll be a regular boat
bob be bro.

Speaker 26 (02:14:52):
Just like an esquire.

Speaker 40 (02:15:00):
Miss Willis.

Speaker 30 (02:15:01):
I just talked to my husband on the phone.

Speaker 1 (02:15:02):
He'll come here for dinner with us.

Speaker 27 (02:15:04):
Oh did he ask about the baby, Penny?

Speaker 24 (02:15:06):
Yes?

Speaker 30 (02:15:06):
Yes, and as you well, for the first time and
months you ask about me.

Speaker 27 (02:15:11):
I guess you love Nancy.

Speaker 30 (02:15:14):
You know everything else.

Speaker 27 (02:15:18):
Again?

Speaker 31 (02:15:22):
Tell me come in thanksgiving to this household, many good people.

Speaker 26 (02:15:27):
Take you the stone bag.

Speaker 27 (02:15:28):
Yeah here, how's your signe to day's air?

Speaker 6 (02:15:30):
And I side's feeling bitter ever since I've been here only.

Speaker 29 (02:15:33):
Two You're just in time.

Speaker 26 (02:15:35):
But he's come on into the table, everybody, Turkey's ready.

Speaker 17 (02:15:38):
We were late because Mama had such a time with
the kid.

Speaker 31 (02:15:43):
Come on, folks in the dining room, Patrick, Nancy, everysing
the table, beautiful candle.

Speaker 35 (02:15:50):
I have some decoration in the center, piled up with
fruit and nuts and.

Speaker 8 (02:15:54):
The harm of plenty here.

Speaker 31 (02:15:56):
Now there's gonna be plenty for everybody.

Speaker 27 (02:15:57):
But we don't want to waste anything. Remember a food
condition in Europe. Everybody eat what's on his plan.

Speaker 26 (02:16:04):
Let's all sit down. You find places any basket, missus,
Saul and you sit here, Aaron, you sit beside, takes
the chair.

Speaker 27 (02:16:12):
On missus Saul's right.

Speaker 29 (02:16:14):
You didn't forget.

Speaker 26 (02:16:16):
Remember there will be one empty chair at our table.
Everybody see.

Speaker 32 (02:16:26):
You.

Speaker 26 (02:16:27):
And then then you sit at the head.

Speaker 31 (02:16:29):
Of the table and car, okay, will I carve here?

Speaker 26 (02:16:34):
There's a turkey runner.

Speaker 31 (02:16:35):
Yeah, yeah, it's already bring it in mooning.

Speaker 26 (02:16:49):
Now thin will car But before we start, I want
us to all.

Speaker 23 (02:16:54):
Bow our heads and think, bless the soul Lord for
these gifts which we are about to receive, and die
a bounty christ hid.

Speaker 27 (02:17:05):
Omen, miss hanover, Might I just be adding a word
to that? Yes, it's a little prayer. Rabbi Burns one said,
some here, maiden kind of eat and some would eat
who want it? But we ha made and we can eat.
So let the Lord be thanked. Omen, mister s would

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you elactivate something me?

Speaker 17 (02:17:29):
Well, I can't express my thoughts so good and English?
Could I say it in Himbrew?

Speaker 35 (02:17:35):
Of course?

Speaker 17 (02:17:35):
Thank you, Repo and coolhola mean mode man shamtocan story
in the outside Sapris of Vino Shaoshamaim Michabot, Yeah in
soho in Michal and Chalvo.

Speaker 35 (02:17:55):
This gay in the cold.

Speaker 4 (02:17:57):
Hoy a long o me.

Speaker 29 (02:18:00):
And go take care of Evelyn.

Speaker 8 (02:18:03):
Please.

Speaker 27 (02:18:03):
I got a kind of little modern Thanksgiving prayers, kind
of for Americans in nineteen forty seven.

Speaker 26 (02:18:09):
Please say it?

Speaker 29 (02:18:10):
Then, all right?

Speaker 27 (02:18:12):
Thank the Old Lord for daily bread, for homes unbombed
above our heads. We thank thee for the right to
live and breathe free men. And when at the end
of day.

Speaker 29 (02:18:30):
We turn onto our beds to rest in quiet peace,
we thank thee Lord.

Speaker 26 (02:18:40):
My baby didn't hear you coming in?

Speaker 9 (02:18:44):
I have brought our baby into this here.

Speaker 8 (02:18:46):
First Thanksgiving turkey?

Speaker 27 (02:18:47):
Yeah is he honey?

Speaker 4 (02:18:51):
Oh no?

Speaker 9 (02:18:53):
See doctor got her well?

Speaker 8 (02:18:55):
And the doctor gets to sit down in his empty charrier.

Speaker 24 (02:18:58):
Chare what a baby?

Speaker 35 (02:19:01):
The first Thanksgiving mine? Remember?

Speaker 4 (02:19:04):
Stand? Yeah? Maybe hid down? Doctor? With the baby.

Speaker 24 (02:19:13):
Here we are like a chalk.

Speaker 27 (02:19:18):
Hey, wonder we eat? Can I stab the bird?

Speaker 18 (02:19:21):
Now?

Speaker 35 (02:19:24):
It's a wonderful Thanksgiving?

Speaker 27 (02:19:26):
Is this Mama?

Speaker 4 (02:19:33):
This program will transcribed.

Speaker 2 (02:19:35):
This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.

Speaker 5 (02:19:39):
Sweet Little Soap opera show Points Sublime ran from nineteen
forty to nineteen forty eight on several networks. Let's head
out and see what's going on with Claudie and David
as we'll wrap up this Monday edition of Classic Radio
Theater with Wyattos.

Speaker 44 (02:20:02):
Whenever you drive the car, there is always an unseen,
unwelcome passenger with you.

Speaker 4 (02:20:07):
That passenger is danger, the danger of a traffic accident.

Speaker 44 (02:20:12):
Unfortunately, every person seems to have the absurd notion that
he bears a charmed life, that no traffic accident can
happen to him. But it can, and too often it does.
So when you're behind that wheel, don't take chances. Obey
all traffic rules. Drive safely for life, your life and
the lives of us.

Speaker 5 (02:20:32):
All right, we'll wrap up this program of Classic Radio Theater.
This podcast ends with Claudia, seventy eight years ago, November
twenty fourth, nineteen forty seven. Time to give Shakespeare a bath.

Speaker 12 (02:20:46):
Your Coca Cola Butler presents Claudia. Claudia based on the
original stories by Rose Franken, brought to you transcribed Monday
through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca cola.

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Relax and while you're listening, refresh yourself.

Speaker 4 (02:21:13):
Have a coke.

Speaker 11 (02:21:21):
And now Claudia, well, I'm through packing this trunck, and
that takes care of all the packing.

Speaker 16 (02:21:40):
Good where's the evening paper?

Speaker 18 (02:21:42):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (02:21:42):
Someplace?

Speaker 28 (02:21:43):
Ron say?

Speaker 3 (02:21:44):
That trunk certainly looks as if it had eating a
big dinner. Oh that reminds me, David. If you haven't
got anything to do, you can come help me.

Speaker 18 (02:21:51):
In the kitchen.

Speaker 16 (02:21:52):
I thought as much. No peace for the weary, you
mean the wicked.

Speaker 3 (02:21:55):
Come on, Shakespeare, you can help me too, care for
you're stepping on him. Now hand me the ladder, will you.
I want to see what's on the top shelf of
the cupboard.

Speaker 16 (02:22:04):
Nothing up there, you can't reach it. Now, where's my paper?

Speaker 27 (02:22:08):
And better?

Speaker 3 (02:22:08):
Just look to make sure I may have hidden something away.

Speaker 16 (02:22:11):
I'll do it. You'll only fall down and break in
little pieces. Move if I had the wings of an angel.
Work jar preserves coming down.

Speaker 3 (02:22:22):
Oh wonderful, it's brand new.

Speaker 1 (02:22:23):
We'll take you with us.

Speaker 16 (02:22:25):
He's a half a jar of honey coming down, David.

Speaker 3 (02:22:27):
Don't throw it the little come over the spill ladder's
tipping David.

Speaker 16 (02:22:33):
Out of my way, out out of jumping you all right, certainly,
I'm all right. Didn't you see my parachute open?

Speaker 3 (02:22:42):
I'll never ask you to help me again as long
as I live good.

Speaker 16 (02:22:45):
How's a step.

Speaker 10 (02:22:46):
Ladder one leg crack.

Speaker 16 (02:22:47):
You see, it wasn't safe. And don't ever let me
catch you climbing up on anything that's not safe.

Speaker 3 (02:22:52):
I climbed up on that step ladder a hundred times.
It's safe enough for me. I'm light as a feather
and I have a wonderful sense of balance.

Speaker 2 (02:23:00):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (02:23:00):
What do we do in this job?

Speaker 4 (02:23:01):
Honey?

Speaker 3 (02:23:02):
Now we've got it.

Speaker 16 (02:23:03):
Uh, put it in that crake with the rest of
the preserves. If you insist on keeping it.

Speaker 3 (02:23:06):
I insist on keeping it. I just don't want to
throw it away, and I don't want to take it
with us. You're making sense, Yes, I am perfect sense.

Speaker 45 (02:23:15):
I don't want to throw it away because I don't
believe in throwing things away. And I don't want to
take it with.

Speaker 16 (02:23:20):
Us because I know, I know we're moving with everything new.

Speaker 3 (02:23:23):
Because it will open and it will spill.

Speaker 27 (02:23:26):
No, I know.

Speaker 3 (02:23:28):
I'll put it here on the table and give it.

Speaker 16 (02:23:29):
To Mama in the morning. Mama will be delighted. Well,
that's all for the kitchen, isn't it looks like it?

Speaker 3 (02:23:35):
David? Now, could you take that hat box on the
shelf in the hall closet?

Speaker 16 (02:23:38):
Can't we do it in the morning.

Speaker 3 (02:23:40):
I'd rather finish up everything tonight. Then I can sleep
without a conscience.

Speaker 16 (02:23:44):
Any sacrifice is worth that.

Speaker 3 (02:23:47):
Take a look at it and see if you find
mama's umbrella while you're there.

Speaker 16 (02:23:50):
What would it be doing up here?

Speaker 3 (02:23:52):
I don't know where do your umbrellas go when you
can't find them?

Speaker 1 (02:23:55):
You see anything?

Speaker 27 (02:23:57):
Just dark?

Speaker 16 (02:23:58):
Get me some matches there?

Speaker 3 (02:24:00):
What was that?

Speaker 16 (02:24:01):
I didn't hear anything up here.

Speaker 3 (02:24:03):
I better go to the kitchen and see.

Speaker 16 (02:24:04):
I'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (02:24:06):
Uh, no umbrella, Oh Shakespeare, look what you did? And
look at you. Don't fry to me for sympathy.

Speaker 24 (02:24:14):
Oh wadal.

Speaker 16 (02:24:15):
David sees waddle. David sees what he was in the
honey jar. He must think he's a bear.

Speaker 3 (02:24:20):
He looks lovely basted in honey.

Speaker 16 (02:24:22):
Don't you think he can't get away with me? Shakespeare?
Get he's rubbing honey on your get away.

Speaker 3 (02:24:26):
Scat scat cats, scatty's sticking.

Speaker 18 (02:24:28):
To the floor.

Speaker 16 (02:24:29):
I always thought he was a clinging vine.

Speaker 3 (02:24:32):
You're a mess. Go away, nobody wants you take Come here.
I'll give you a.

Speaker 16 (02:24:37):
Bath, Darling. Kittens don't take baths.

Speaker 3 (02:24:39):
This one is going to have to We can't have
him running around like this. It's like living with a
piece of fly paper.

Speaker 16 (02:24:45):
Oh that's not a bad idea. Let's hang him on
the chandelier.

Speaker 18 (02:24:48):
We have no.

Speaker 3 (02:24:49):
Chandeliers, so we'll give him a bath instead.

Speaker 16 (02:24:52):
I repeat, kittens don't take baths. They watched themselves.

Speaker 3 (02:24:55):
Maybe they don't take baths, but they get bathed. I
read it in a book.

Speaker 4 (02:24:59):
What book?

Speaker 16 (02:25:00):
I forget all the cats I've ever known. Nick licked
themselves clean. He taking me a year, and let it
take him a here and keep him busy and out
of trouble.

Speaker 40 (02:25:09):
We can't move.

Speaker 18 (02:25:09):
Upstairs with him like this.

Speaker 3 (02:25:10):
Tomorrow you're getting all the paint and mess everything up.

Speaker 16 (02:25:13):
You're getting all of the paint anyway.

Speaker 3 (02:25:15):
Besides, he'll feel awful. Everything else is gonna be so
nice and clean and new. He'll get a context moving
in like an old jar of honey on his back.

Speaker 16 (02:25:24):
Fine, something old, something new, something borrowed, something rides not
for cats.

Speaker 3 (02:25:30):
Shakespeare, Come here, David.

Speaker 1 (02:25:32):
Don't let him go in the living room.

Speaker 16 (02:25:34):
Catch you, you catch him. I'm not going to touch him.

Speaker 38 (02:25:36):
Oh you're a great help.

Speaker 3 (02:25:38):
Hey, come back here, you David.

Speaker 1 (02:25:40):
Run the water in the sink.

Speaker 16 (02:25:42):
Throw him in the bathtub. Cat swim. I saw a
picture of one swimming the other day.

Speaker 3 (02:25:46):
Here I come s down to tide.

Speaker 16 (02:25:49):
Want me to get your shower cap or bath salt.

Speaker 28 (02:25:53):
All right now?

Speaker 18 (02:25:54):
In you go?

Speaker 16 (02:25:55):
Oh, he loves it. He's a real water baby.

Speaker 3 (02:25:58):
He does take your scrapp he does get soap in
your eyes, an't.

Speaker 16 (02:26:07):
You that's a boy Shakespeare. Don't let her make a
sishy out of you. Stand up for your right that
if you say another word to him. I'm just giving
him a little moral support.

Speaker 3 (02:26:15):
Take please, we're almost pity. Please hold hill to take
my hair out of my eyes. I can't see what
I'm doing.

Speaker 16 (02:26:23):
He looks like a drowned rat, and so to you.

Speaker 3 (02:26:27):
Scratching, you're getting water all over me.

Speaker 16 (02:26:30):
He certainly loves this. You'll have to give him a
bath every Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (02:26:34):
I've got him all soaked up. Here's a fuss. Please,
I just can't let go the hotter cold and hurry.
He's slipping out of my hair.

Speaker 16 (02:26:42):
He ought to end up with a cold shower like
I do, or you'll catch cold.

Speaker 8 (02:26:46):
I wouldn't dream of it.

Speaker 3 (02:26:47):
Make it warm. He's just a kitten dating.

Speaker 16 (02:26:50):
Let him become a man man much too yacht. You
know what you're doing. Of course, you're holding him back,
keeping him a baby, baby longer than he wants to be.

Speaker 3 (02:27:00):
Four weeks, so stop rushing it, all right, right, make.

Speaker 16 (02:27:03):
A sissy out of him, don't give him his long
pants to laughter. All the other boys on the block
have gotten there.

Speaker 3 (02:27:12):
Turn on the water now.

Speaker 16 (02:27:13):
Alright, he's all yours, but your baby, Oh see, he's
enjoying it.

Speaker 45 (02:27:17):
He's not funny anymore.

Speaker 16 (02:27:19):
He doesn't wanna swallow a mouthful of soap. Here, you, fellow,
I have me to tall.

Speaker 3 (02:27:24):
I'll ripe him up in and get him all nice
and warm.

Speaker 23 (02:27:27):
Go in the living room.

Speaker 3 (02:27:28):
It's warmer in their baby.

Speaker 16 (02:27:29):
I am exhausted.

Speaker 24 (02:27:30):
We you're exhausted.

Speaker 16 (02:27:32):
I repeat, I'm exhausted. And if you and that cat
don't mind, I'd still like to have a look at
the evening paper.

Speaker 3 (02:27:38):
Oh right ahead. We don't need to be entertained, do we, Shakespeare? Now, kiddy,
you just sit down here and we'll get you all
nice and dry.

Speaker 23 (02:27:45):
Oh, it's just sweet little kitty, sweet.

Speaker 3 (02:27:48):
Mine, my sweet David.

Speaker 27 (02:27:52):
Mm.

Speaker 16 (02:27:53):
He's purring now, he's growling, growling. I have no further
interest in him. Any cat who allows himself to be
given a bath is not for me? That must be Mama.

Speaker 3 (02:28:04):
Want me to answer, No, I'll go you watch Shakespeare.
Now you sit there and be still. You know you'll
kid see he understands.

Speaker 16 (02:28:12):
M He says yes to everything, just to cats.

Speaker 24 (02:28:15):
For milk coat.

Speaker 3 (02:28:16):
Mama, yup, we're all through packing. Say how would you
like half a tomato? Well, you're very ungrateful. Guess what.
We just gave Shakespeare a bath.

Speaker 1 (02:28:27):
We had to.

Speaker 3 (02:28:28):
He fell into a jar of honey. No, he loved it,
Not the honey, the bath, of course he loved it.
Say why don't you come over in the morning, Mama,
about nine o'clock. That'll be fine.

Speaker 16 (02:28:41):
Bye.

Speaker 30 (02:28:43):
That was Mama.

Speaker 16 (02:28:45):
Well David, David, where are you looking for the first
section of the paper? Have you seen it?

Speaker 3 (02:28:51):
How many times y'all have to tell you?

Speaker 18 (02:28:53):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:28:54):
Say if you got a little pocket comb I could
use on Shakespeare?

Speaker 16 (02:28:57):
No, I have not used your own.

Speaker 4 (02:28:59):
Cone.

Speaker 16 (02:29:00):
You come here, shake spear.

Speaker 3 (02:29:03):
Where'd you go?

Speaker 28 (02:29:05):
David?

Speaker 3 (02:29:06):
He's not on the chair where I left him.

Speaker 16 (02:29:07):
What's the difference? He's around here, unblaze.

Speaker 3 (02:29:09):
The catch is dead a cold running around all wet.
Shakespeare comes back here? You you you catch you see
him in here?

Speaker 16 (02:29:17):
Do you he heard you say you were going to
comb him.

Speaker 1 (02:29:20):
He's not on top of any.

Speaker 45 (02:29:21):
Of the furniture, he pushy pushy puts.

Speaker 3 (02:29:23):
You must be in the bedroom.

Speaker 16 (02:29:27):
While you're under the bed when you look for the paper, David, Look.

Speaker 3 (02:29:31):
Under the radiators in the hall, he often sits under
the console.

Speaker 16 (02:29:35):
No, no, what, no, Cat, he isn't in here.

Speaker 3 (02:29:40):
Where on earth could he have gone?

Speaker 16 (02:29:42):
Look in the sack. Maybe he's taking another bath.

Speaker 3 (02:29:44):
Oh, don't don't like baths. He kitty kit Oh maybe
he's under the stove, David. He's sure he's not.

Speaker 16 (02:29:52):
In the living room, not unless he opened that trunk
and pulled the top down after him.

Speaker 3 (02:29:56):
Have we got a flashlight?

Speaker 16 (02:29:58):
It's packed.

Speaker 3 (02:29:58):
It's not in the kitchen. The only other place must
be under the breakfront in the dining room. Give me
some matches.

Speaker 16 (02:30:05):
What are you going to do? Take a look, I'll
do it. You'll set the house on fire.

Speaker 3 (02:30:10):
And I think you can see under it. You have
to pull it away from the wall.

Speaker 16 (02:30:14):
Well, well, I guess I'm stronger than I thought I was.

Speaker 9 (02:30:18):
Shakespeare under there, Yeah, cat's in.

Speaker 3 (02:30:21):
I'll light a match for you.

Speaker 16 (02:30:23):
Hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute, I've got something.
He mm, no, your mother's umbrella.

Speaker 45 (02:30:30):
No, yes, Well, if MoMA's umbrella can get under the breakfront,
you can imagine where Shakespeare's got will.

Speaker 3 (02:30:37):
Never find him. Oh, David, why didn't you watch and
the way I asked you to?

Speaker 16 (02:30:41):
I am not a cat sitter.

Speaker 1 (02:30:43):
Think you could have jumped.

Speaker 18 (02:30:44):
Out of the window.

Speaker 4 (02:30:45):
What window?

Speaker 3 (02:30:46):
Noticed a little window opening? The pantrys just opened a
few inches of me.

Speaker 16 (02:30:49):
You wouldn't, I he's just a kitten.

Speaker 3 (02:30:53):
Do you see anything?

Speaker 24 (02:30:54):
Only the fire escape and it picks black out.

Speaker 3 (02:30:58):
I'm sure you wouldn't have gone down there, would he?
He loves it here with us.

Speaker 16 (02:31:02):
Old bath and all. Come on, come on, let's let's
go to bed.

Speaker 3 (02:31:07):
I'd be a lot happier if I knew where he was.

Speaker 16 (02:31:09):
Oh, he's probably in a closet or under some piece
of furniture where we can't see him. He'll come out
in the morning when he's hungry.

Speaker 9 (02:31:16):
I wish I were sure.

Speaker 16 (02:31:18):
Well, I am sure, and I am turning out the
light and I am turning into bed. Come on, darling,
turn around and come along.

Speaker 3 (02:31:35):
Say now, who do you think that is?

Speaker 18 (02:31:36):
That?

Speaker 24 (02:31:36):
This are.

Speaker 3 (02:31:37):
We're practically in bed.

Speaker 16 (02:31:38):
Look, darling, Shakespeare is too small to ring the buzzer himself.

Speaker 8 (02:31:43):
I'm already there, missus Norton.

Speaker 16 (02:31:48):
I'm sorry to disturb you, but you're not disturbing his Fritt.

Speaker 2 (02:31:52):
I find you a kitten on the street first, I said,
right off, that is missus Norton's kitten, Shakespeare.

Speaker 3 (02:31:56):
Shakespeare on the street.

Speaker 2 (02:31:58):
I find him fighting in the alley of with a
great big cattle.

Speaker 16 (02:32:01):
Shakespeare fight, yeah, yeah, let me take him, Fritz.

Speaker 8 (02:32:04):
Oh, you get dirty if he's not fight key, But
I just.

Speaker 3 (02:32:06):
Gave him a bat.

Speaker 16 (02:32:07):
You've never suspected now.

Speaker 3 (02:32:09):
It's Shakespeare, but you'd hardly know him.

Speaker 16 (02:32:14):
It's him, all right.

Speaker 8 (02:32:15):
I said it couldn't be, but Birtha said she was sure.

Speaker 9 (02:32:18):
In first of us.

Speaker 16 (02:32:18):
Right, he must have gone out the window. Now that's
some catat for Oh look at.

Speaker 45 (02:32:24):
You, all filthy and black, camere you nice business running away,
and Fritz, we could never thank you for.

Speaker 11 (02:32:31):
Bringing him back.

Speaker 16 (02:32:32):
Good night, Fritz, Thanks love.

Speaker 3 (02:32:34):
Shakespeare's say thank you to Fritz.

Speaker 16 (02:32:35):
Not go on good night.

Speaker 3 (02:32:39):
David the rascal.

Speaker 16 (02:32:40):
They look look he's missing a big patch of hair
where Yeah, they're behind his left ear. It's his battle scar.

Speaker 3 (02:32:48):
I better get the eye down.

Speaker 16 (02:32:49):
Oh, leave him alone. He's proud of it. He looks spears.
He isn't a mama baby anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:32:56):
One little evening out and look at him, Oh, look
at him with you.

Speaker 16 (02:33:01):
He sure is proud of himself.

Speaker 3 (02:33:03):
His tail is sticking straight up in the air.

Speaker 16 (02:33:05):
Like a flag, his battle flag of freedom. This is
like a man strutting around Claudia. Claudia, I hope you
realize what this means, what Shakespeare'll stands for, No more pampering,
no surreen. He jumped out of that window.

Speaker 3 (02:33:22):
A child, and he's come back a man.

Speaker 12 (02:33:37):
This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William
Brown Maloney, What are you planning for your club meeting snack?
Whether it's a salty salvad or a sandwich, a sweetcake

(02:33:59):
or cookie, there's one thing that will go with it perfectly,
and that's frosty, delicious Coca cola. And you won't have
to leave your guests to get coke either. Just reach
into the refrigerator, fill a tray with bottles and bring
them in. That's easy hospitality everyone appreciates at any hour.

Speaker 2 (02:34:29):
Every day.

Speaker 12 (02:34:30):
Monday, through Friday. Claudia comes to you, transcribed with the
best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca cola.
So listen again tomorrow at the same time. And now
this is Joe King saying or revoir. And remember, whoever
you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be, when

(02:34:51):
you think of refreshment, think of coca cola or ice cold.
Coca cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes.

Speaker 5 (02:35:27):
Seventy eight years ago, November twenty fourth, nineteen forty seven,
Claudia here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cogs. Have
a great Monday. We'll be back on Tuesday with more
stuff with Avant and Costello, a Hallmark Playhouse, a couple
in the Dakota Territory and their trials and tribulations, Martha

(02:35:48):
Scott and Jack Kirkwood, and the new Edgar Bergen Hour
with Charlie McCarthy and Claudia. That'll all be coming up
on the Morrow's Classic Radio Theater. We'll see you then,
have a great day. I'm wyat Cox.

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