Classic Radio 11-25-25 - Landing at Plymouth Rock, Free Land, and Jack's Trailer Court - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now the greatest radio shows of all time, Huspense, Shadow
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
As my classic Radios Theater.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
The Great Yeldesslide zapA McGhee and Molly Dragones Guns Alone,
Raing Zoe.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine. It's your host,
Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Good evening, friend, Vionna.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Two days ahead of Thanksgiving, we have additional Thanksgiving shows
for including bud Ava'talu Costello, The Hallmark Playhouse, the New
Edgar Burghen Hour with Charlie McCarthy and Claudia. That's all
coming up here on this Tuesday, twenty fifth day of November,
three hundred and twenty ninth day of the year, thirty

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six days remaining. The last British troops left New York
City on this date. In seventeen eighty three, three months
after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the worst
deadliest tornado outbreak in US November history struck on this
Thanksgiving Day, which is what this day was. In nineteen
twenty six, twenty seven twisters of great strength reported in

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the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado on the f
four that devastated Hebrew Springs, Arkansas, fifty one debts in Arkansas,
owned seventy six deaths over four hundred injuries in all.
Woody Woodpecker first appeared in the film Knock Knock on
this date in nineteen forty Yes Who The cartoon Knock

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Knock starred Andy Panda, a long forgotten cartoon character. Storm
of the Century, a violent snowstorm paralyzed the northeastern US
and Appalachians on this date in nineteen fifty, bringing winds
up to one hundred miles an hour and sub zero temperatures. Pickens,
West Virginia recorded fifty seven inches of snow. Three hundred
and twenty three people died due to the storm was

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on the state. In nineteen sixty three, President Kennedy buried
at Arlington National Cemetery.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh God, Joe Maday, the souls of the bag fall
fine a place to play this day, and my Holy
Apa bomb.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
The body with very lovata A good dald.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Cardinal Richard Cushing at the grave side of the late President.
It was on this date in nineteen eighty Sugar Ray
Leonard regained the World Boxing Council World walterweight boxing title
in about against Roberto Duran.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Abruptly, I felt that I was weakening, a weakening, and
my body on my arms will weakened.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Duran, speaking to reporter Suan, interpretered that fight. The Ray
Leonard Roberto Duran rematch entitled The No Mos Fight. Thirty
six top musicians gathered in a notting Hill studio on
this date in nineteen eighty four and recorded band aids
Do they Know It's Christmas? Raising money for famine relief

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in Ethiopia. Attorney General Edwin Meases announced on this date
in nineteteen eighty six that profits from covert weapons sales
to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti communist Contra
rebels in Nicaragua.

Speaker 6 (04:10):
The only persons in the United States government that knew
precisely about this. The only person was Lieutenant Colonel North.
Admiral Poindexter did know that something of this nature was occurring,
but he did not look into it.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Further, I'm deeply troubled that the implementation of a policy
aimed at resolving a truly tragic situation in the Middle
East has resulted in such controversy.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
The Iran Contra affair coming to a head on this
state in nineteen eighty six. A nice storm struck the
central US on this state in nineteen ninety six, killing
twenty six people. Powerful wind storm affected Florida win Gus
over ninety miles an hour, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
It was on this date in nineteen ninety nine a

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five year old boy rescued by fishermen while floating in
an inner tube off the Florida coast.

Speaker 7 (05:00):
So the kid was holding on.

Speaker 8 (05:01):
And we thought it was somebody tied a baby opening
like a dummy to a wrap.

Speaker 9 (05:05):
That's what it looked like.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
The rescue the boy ended up setting off an international instant.
The Clinton administration ended up forcing, at gunpoint, alien to
be surrendered from his family that he had in the
US to his father in Cuba. President George W. Bush
signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security on this

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date in two thousand and two, and in two thousand
and three, the Senate gave final congressional approval to Medicare legislation,
combining a new prescription drug benefit with measures to control
costs for the Baby Boom generation reached retirement age. It
hasn't worked very well. It's better than a lot of
things in the healthcare system, but there's still huge holes.

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A police shooting outside a strip club in Queens, New
York on this date in two thousand and six resulted
in the death of Sean Bell hours before his wedding,
causing protests to spring up across the US.

Speaker 9 (06:05):
Hey, what not?

Speaker 10 (06:08):
Why are you counting at fifty fifty shots?

Speaker 11 (06:12):
A shot Sean Bell fifty times.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Two officers later indicted from manslaughter, while a third base
lesser charges. All three acquitted at trial. Passing away on
this date. In history, journalist politician Upton Sinclair, also Secretary
General UFONT, actor Jack Albertson you hear him, and a
lot of the radio shows we do, particularly I'm trying

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to remember Milton Burles Show, and of course he was
the Man in Chico and the man on television, the
very very funny Flip Wilson passing away on this date.
Vidale Castro, the Leader of Cuba, Detective Harris On, Barney Miller,
Ron Glass and passing away a year ago today, actor

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Earl Holloman Birtday include temperance advocate Carrie Nation, Pope John
the twenty third born on this date, as well baseball
Joe DiMaggio, actor Ricardo Montalbon, one of the original Lois
Slaanes in the early Superman motion pictures. Knowl Yelle also

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musician Percy Sledge and John F. Kennedy Junior, all born
on this date in history. They have all left the building.

Speaker 8 (07:29):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy.

Speaker 12 (07:30):
It is now time for the birthday announcements.

Speaker 8 (07:33):
The following people are now officially older than Dirt.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
He's now mostly a conservative commentator, but he was an
actor comedian, first being seen in Farris Bueller's Day Off
ben Stein is eighty one.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Anderson here Bueller Bueller Bueller Bueller.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Is very dry presentation, and his role of a teacher
droning on in lectures really sold. His role in Ferris
Buehler's Day Off ben Stein eighty one. Today. He won
three Emmys for Night Court John Learra Katt seventy eight

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years old today, also appearing in the reboot of the
show which just didn't work anymore. Not because the show
wasn't good, It's because its audience wasn't there anymore. Sadly,
Amy Grant Wonderful Singer sixty five today for Married with Children.

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Christina Applegate is fifty four.

Speaker 13 (08:47):
I will have you know that I have more talent
and more intelligence in my little finger than you do
in your entire.

Speaker 10 (08:54):
Body, sir.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
From the movie anchor Man, Christina Apple gave cancer survivor
and basically is no longer acting at the age of
fifty four because of the ravages of multiple sclerosis. She
does do some voice work, but really that's it. The

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Bush Twins Barbara and Jenna Bush, the daughters of George W.
Bush and Laura Bush, forty four years old today. And
from The Arrow and the Flash, Katie Cassidy is thirty nine.
Those just a few of the people celebrating the twenty
fifth day of November is their birthday. If this is
your birthday, we baked you our birthday, Kate.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
If you get it on may A and you moan
and grown and low, don't forget we told you so.

Speaker 11 (09:50):
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dot com. Up next, but Abbot and lou Costello.

Speaker 14 (11:33):
In case an enemy attack on our country, these two
numbers six forty and twelve forty may save your life.
They are your connel right frequencies. Remember six forty and
twelve forty.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
We continue now on Classic Radio Theater with wivecos with
an episode of Bud Abbot and Lou Costello and their
Thanksgiving Show from seventy seven years ago. November twenty fifth,
nineteen forty eight.

Speaker 8 (11:56):
Hey Abbitt, what time is it? It's time for the
Abancostello Show. We're on the air for ABC here in Hollywood.
Well what to wait for? Let's go with the ab
Costello Show.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yes, it's the Abbitt and Costello Show, produced and transcribed
in Hollywood. Be listening and laughing pleasure, chuckles with a
car load and music by Matty Maladay.

Speaker 8 (12:27):
Hold on you your chairs? Books? Where here they are?

Speaker 15 (12:30):
What happened?

Speaker 8 (12:30):
And Lou Costello? All right?

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Not right?

Speaker 7 (12:48):
Not right?

Speaker 16 (12:48):
All right?

Speaker 15 (12:49):
What what's up?

Speaker 8 (12:55):
What's up? What's up tonight? I'll be a party, Say
what's up tonight? What up to tell you? I took
my hand made to the football game at the Colisee
in this half years at the end of the first quarter,
I drunk, Come in and yell whose game? You may jump?
Eppis as I am. Your aunt may doesn't know much
about football, doesn't she.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (13:14):
She thinks the routing section is the front end of
a pig. She does, she does? I have it right?
Which end is right? You don't know much about football yourself,
do you? Are you kidding?

Speaker 17 (13:29):
You?

Speaker 18 (13:29):
Sure?

Speaker 8 (13:29):
See me? In college, abbot, I was a triple threat man.
I could run, kick it, pass boy, I could really
throw it in those days. You're not just here. You're
not doing so bad tonight. One time I made thirty
touchdowns in the last ten seconds of the game. Wait
a minute, Wait a minute. How could you make thirty

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touchdowns in ten seconds? I had to. My mother had
a bet on the game.

Speaker 19 (13:54):
You know.

Speaker 8 (13:54):
The quarterback would drop back, and then the left guard
tackle left them would open up a hole, and the
whole big enough you could drive a truck through. And
what did you do? I drove the truck one side,
caught a kick off and started down the field. And
we're only twenty one men between me and the colpost.
Twenty one men. Yes, even my teammates hated me. That's enough, Caste.

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I don't think you know the first thing about football.
Tell me what is an unbalanced line? Unbalanced line? Yes,
Sydney Green Street's belt for them all. I don't think
you were even at a football game this afternight? Oh
yes I was, Oh yes, I was doing a halftime
a section of the breaches where all the codes were
sitting collapsed and I dashed over. Did you run the
first aid? Yes, sir. I picked up a cute little

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blond and started carrying out when the fellow says, here,
give her to me, and I said, nothing doing, brother,
there's plenty more back there. Go get your own. I'll
get them out of it.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Well, there's a sample of a high gride nonsense. You'll
be hearing for the next half hour. But before we
get back to it, listen to this.

Speaker 20 (15:05):
Anything, because.

Speaker 8 (16:11):
Wait a minute, that's how beautiful suit you wear. To
get myself, you look like a rhapsody in brown. I
never mind that. Look where have you been all day?
Where have you been all day? Well, I'll tell you
I was help my aunt made. She refurnished the whole
house for Thanksgiving. What kind of furniture she get chairs,
tables and beds? No, no, no, no, no, I mean
what period is the furniture? Louis the fourteenth the colonial

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or late French provincial? It's early Army Circlus. Does Uncle
Mike like the furniture? Yes, especially the four post of bed.
Last night he kicked her over the end of the
he kicked the right over the end of the four
post of bed. Why in the world did you do
a thing like that?

Speaker 15 (16:53):
He dreamed.

Speaker 8 (16:54):
He was playing for Notre Dame and his team needed
the extra point. Your uncle Mike is just like you.
You're both dopes. Yeah, my uncle Mike is no dope abbit.
He happens to be a very clever inventor. He just
invented a new kind of motorcycle. And that's so fast.
Get this, This motorcycle is so fast that you can
get on it and in Los Angeles at midnight and
being kookamung at two o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Is that so?

Speaker 8 (17:19):
But there's only one thing wrong with it? What's that?
Who wants to be in kuokamong at two o'clock in
the morning. Well, that just Bruce Brus what I've always said.
Your uncle Mike is a shiftless loco. He gambles away
every cent it he gets. Oh no, he reformed of it.
He's never gonna shoot diceh to play cards again?

Speaker 13 (17:38):
Yah?

Speaker 8 (17:38):
He said that before, I know, but this time a
judge said it. There's Uncle Mike still drink as much
as every loom.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Nah.

Speaker 8 (17:46):
Now he quits when he's had enough. How can he
tell when he's had enough? Well, he sits across the
table from Matt May, and he sits there with a
big button. He starts drinking. The minute Aunt May starts
looking good to him, he knows he's had enough. Hey, Lodes,
your uncle Micaanat and May fight as much as they
used to. No, but they had an argument yesterday. She

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crowded them in the pussing and kicked them in the stomach.
Kicked them in the stomach. Yeah, but that was his fault.
He turned around. Does your uncle Mike still works of
the orange growers loose?

Speaker 9 (18:20):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (18:20):
Yes, yes, some very important man in the orange business
have it. He's the only guy that can tell a
California orange from a Florida orange. How does he do it? Well,
He cuts an orange in half, holds it over a
map of the United States, and squeezes it. If it's
a California orange, it squirts all over Florida. Look, lou, Yes,
did you have a good Thanksgiving dinner? Well, I'll tell
you as soon as I get too. Yes, I did.

(18:42):
I found it. Yes, but we didn't have any turkey.
You didn't have a turkey? Why not? By the time
I got to the butchers. All the finance companies were closed.
Do you mean to tell me that the price of
turkeys of that high? Are the prices high? Yeah? There
was one woman in a butcher shop that didn't buy anything,

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and that's weighed two pounds. Never mind that, did you
buy a turkey? I heared a butcher two bucks and
says what kind of turkey can I buy for that?
And he had me an eight an come she got,
sit on that hatshutch, your own turkey? Anything I got?
I got a duck, a dock. Your peace talk says,

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but where did you eat your Thanksgiving dinner with the
y w C A? The y w C A. Why
men aren't allowed in there? I know, but I love
to go there. It takes so many of them to
throw you out. You wanted to have Thanksgiving dinner with
a girl? Why didn't you have a Why didn't you
make a date with my wife, my wife's twin sister,
Ella Abbitt. When I sit down at the table for Thanksgiving,

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I want to see a turkey, not an old crow.
Ella's a lovely girl. If you want to make a
hit with her, why don't you buy her a box
of candy. You know she has a sweet too. I
know I've seen it. Too bad she hasn't got some more.

Speaker 9 (20:03):
To go with it.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
Gentlemen, I've got a few turkeys left over from thanks
Steven Rush. Would you like to buy one?

Speaker 21 (20:15):
What kind of.

Speaker 8 (20:16):
Turkeys have you got? I've got Texas turkeys and Vermont turkey?
How do you tell them what? The Vermont turkeys are
still wearing Hoover button. I don't think we'd be interesting.
Turkeys are too high this year. Well, then how about
buying a raffle ticket on a great big turkey for
a quarter? I'll take tore them his half of us. Thanks.
Here's your tickets for the biggest turkey in town. Hey,

(20:36):
just a minute, who who who? Who?

Speaker 13 (20:37):
Who?

Speaker 21 (20:38):
Woo?

Speaker 8 (20:38):
These aren't turkeys for tickets for a turkey. These tickets
are for the Abbot and Costello radio show. Do you
know of a bigger turkey hanging away with that Abbot?
I'll break every ball in his body? Where did he
go right through that door? He did?

Speaker 18 (20:55):
Hah?

Speaker 8 (20:55):
Then open up that door? Well, thedora is open. How
are you gonna do it? What do you want? I
just wanted to say goodbye. Castell was a shame. Thanksgiving
Day is nearly over and you didn't even get a turkey.
Someday I'll be rich. Some day I'll have plenty of money.

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And when I do, I'll get a shit on the
Chicago stockyard. You mean stock exchange, I mean stockyard when
all that meat comes in. I want to be there,
I said, I'm afraid you'll never have any money. You
don't know the value of a dollar? How can I?
Every time I learned the value of a dollar, some
guy in Washington changes it. Well, Happy Thanksgiving boy, Look, Costello,

(21:41):
it's our secretary, Bolvan, the only you look beautiful? How
about you and me stepping out.

Speaker 22 (21:46):
After the show tonight. See I'll be tied up at
home tonight.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
Good. Maybe you'll be more fun that way. I'll come
over my tie, Viola. You must be very busy. Every
time Costella ask you for a date, you're busy.

Speaker 22 (22:05):
Well, I am busy mondays. I go to gym class, Tuesdays,
I play golf. Wednesdays, I go horseback riding, and when
I have nothing on.

Speaker 23 (22:13):
I go swimming.

Speaker 8 (22:15):
Wouldn't pick a better time for it.

Speaker 22 (22:22):
On second thought, this is Thanksgiving and I'm kind of hungry.

Speaker 13 (22:25):
For a date.

Speaker 8 (22:26):
Then why not go out with me? She says she's hungry,
she's not starving.

Speaker 22 (22:33):
Now I suppose I did invite you over to my
house tonight, Costello, What would you do?

Speaker 15 (22:37):
Well?

Speaker 8 (22:37):
We played games? We play like hide and seek? Maybe
post office. Oh that's a kid's game, not the way
I play it.

Speaker 22 (22:44):
All right, Well, how do you play hide and seek?

Speaker 8 (22:50):
Well, first you come up to ten, then running hide
in the closet, and then I count up the tent
and run in a hide in the closset. It's a
lot of fun. Wait a minute, where does the fun
come in? We both run to the same classic.

Speaker 22 (23:04):
Nah, Castella, I don't think I'll invite you over. You're
too fickle.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
What do you mean?

Speaker 22 (23:09):
Well, last week after the rehearsal, you were taking a
nap and I sneaked in and you were dreaming and saying, no, Rita,
no Rita, I won't kiss you, no, no, no, So
what my name is not Rita?

Speaker 9 (23:24):
Well?

Speaker 8 (23:24):
Are you kicking about? I said no, didn't I?

Speaker 11 (23:28):
Ah?

Speaker 8 (23:29):
They always right? You are fickle. You're always flirting with girls.
Last night I saw you driving down Hollywood Boulevard and
you winked at a girl I only wink because something
got in my eye and she got in your car too.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Well.

Speaker 22 (23:44):
I'm surprised at you two arguing over girls, all.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Right, Rilla, they aren't worth it.

Speaker 8 (23:48):
Women are responsible for a lot of stupid things. Shame,
and you have it bringing your mother into this conversation,
You idiot? Why did you find yourself a girl and
getting married? Bola? You're the kind of a girl i'd
love to be married to.

Speaker 22 (24:04):
Why do you want to marry me?

Speaker 8 (24:05):
Being married to you would be wonderful. We could have
ten children. Ten children, yes, and if we like him,
the second year we could have ten more. Be Allo
would be silly to marry you. All you do is
chase girl.

Speaker 22 (24:18):
Mister rabbit is Rye Costello. I understand that you kissed
every blonde in Hollywood.

Speaker 24 (24:22):
I have not.

Speaker 22 (24:23):
Well, all right, name one blonde in Hollywood you have
n't kissed.

Speaker 8 (24:27):
I'll name two, Alan Ladd and Van Johnson, You witdiot.
Alan lad and Van Johnson wouldn't kiss you.

Speaker 15 (24:37):
They wouldn't.

Speaker 8 (24:37):
No, they wouldn't. O Ka, I'll scratch their names out
of my book. See I was right. Costella's not the
guy for you. He has no brains. He has no
looks and he has no money.

Speaker 22 (24:50):
I'm beginning to think you're right.

Speaker 8 (24:52):
Just a minute. I'll listen here, rabbit. If you don't
stop crapping me with girls, I'm gonna hide your court screw.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
No no, oh the plot second before it gets too think,
let's interrupt it for another reminder on a serious subject.

Speaker 8 (26:28):
Now, ladies and gentlemen, here's our new singer, how Winters.
Let's give how a nicetig hand nicetig hand for hell Winters.

Speaker 15 (26:45):
Bys a million, a million. Thanks to you for everything
that love could bring you broad me. Each tender love.

Speaker 25 (27:00):
Word you have to say is him the way in
memories bouquet, thanks million.

Speaker 15 (27:14):
Or I remember too the tenderness that your caresses taught me.

Speaker 26 (27:25):
You made a million dreams come true, and so I'm.

Speaker 15 (27:30):
Saying thanks a million to you. I remember too, the
tenderness that your caresses taught me.

Speaker 26 (27:52):
You made a milliion dreams far true. So I'm saying.

Speaker 21 (28:06):
For me.

Speaker 27 (28:09):
Two Castello, Costello, come over here. What are you doing

(28:30):
out there in the hall?

Speaker 8 (28:31):
Yea, I at the employees of the network. Just raffle
off a turkey. And my number was one one eight
nine six four three two six, five nine two and
and and a fella standing right next to me. He
had number one one eight nine six four three two
six five nine one. So he said to me, I'll
trade you my number one one eight nine six four

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eight sixty five nine one for your number one one
eight nine six four three six five nine two. So
so I traded my number one one eight nine six
four three two six five nine one for his number
one one three nine six four three two six five
nine two. Who won the turkey. One of the vice

(29:11):
presidents would take a number three, But I don't care, rabbit.
I don't like turkeys anyway. If all the turkeys in
the world were laid into and that's the part I

(29:32):
would get. Hell, you know, my wife is crazy about turkey. Today,
when she sat down at the table, she had a
turkey neck. Why don she were a muffler. Nobody would
notice it, no sense. What's that roll of papers under
your arm?

Speaker 7 (29:50):
Hah?

Speaker 8 (29:50):
That's a Thanksgiving play we're gonna do for the people tonight.
And I wrote it myself. What's the name of your play?
I call it The Brave Little Band of Pilgrims who
landed on Honest John's Rock Yeah, I mean that's plymouth rock.
How do you like that? Even in those days, honest
John was the only one that could get a plymouth.
Never mind that, let's get along with the player.

Speaker 16 (30:18):
Now for our hero Lou Costello's play, we take you
back to the year sixteen twenty, where we find a
brave little band of adventurers aboard the good ship Mayflower.

Speaker 8 (30:29):
The brave captain has eaten.

Speaker 16 (30:31):
Nothing but fish, nothing but fish for ninety days, but
that doesn't phase him.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
Let's listen to this fish phase hrace, mate, John Alden Costello,
where are you here? I am, Captain Miles Standish habit.
We've had We've had some pretty tough weather. How's the
ship holding up? I have a report on the Mizzen Mass.

(30:57):
What about the Mizzer Mass. It's been missing for three
days my house? There's a note stuck to that dagger. Ah,
there's mutely among the men. Read this note first, meete
John Alden Costello. The first meat is a dirty land
lover and he should drop dead. Which one of you

(31:20):
swabs wrote this? I did, sir? Give that man twenty
lashes enough box of snickers? Why not? We love with
the whole crew on bread and water. Why pamper them?
Let him meet the regular food. Captain Miles Stanish Habit

(31:40):
Me thinks you made a mistake when we left England.
I think you forgot to untie the boat from the dock.
What makes you say? What makes you say that? Just
look behind us. We're in the middle of the Atlantic
Ocean and people are still waving goodbye to us. Look,
John Olden Costello, there's land ahead. We should be proud.
The meaflower has broken all records the Atlantic crossing. Yes,

(32:01):
we beat the Queen Elizabeth by three hundred and twenty
six years. Thanks Columbus for showing us the way. He
mocked the route. That's funny. I didn't see a Burma
sheave sign all the way across. John Alden Castel, watch
where you're steering the boat. Don't worry, Captain Myles Standish Habit.
I know every reef flung this coast. There's one. Now,

(32:24):
you're widiot, that's the shaw. Quick drop the anchor. Hy
ay sir, Here she goes John Olivien Castello, what are

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you doing down there in the water? Well you asking
me for why don't you just a salmon? He just
got soaked? What are you doing down there in the water.
I forgot to let go of the anchor.

Speaker 28 (33:03):
So the little boat Mayflower made the crossing. The shore
was deserted. No Indians came down to greet them. It
was seven o'clock on a Sunday night. All the Indians
were home in their wigwoks. Listen, they're all trying to
guess the mystery. Tune on, stop the Tom Tom.

Speaker 16 (33:23):
First mate, John Alden Costello drops the gang plank and
down the runway comes the beautiful Priscilla.

Speaker 22 (33:37):
Level John Oldon Costella, honeybun, just think of it. You
and I are the first people who set foot on
this new land. This virgin territory belongs.

Speaker 8 (33:49):
To no one, Priscilla, my love? Are you sure this
land belongs to no one? Look what it says on
that rut what Los Angeles City limits? An Alton Costello, Oh,
people are sobby. We must go into the woods and
get food for our little band of pilgrims. Look over there, rabbit,
there's a field of corn. That's Indian corn. That's maze.

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You think may would mind if we take a little
What are you talking about? You just said the corn
belonged to me. I did not. I said the corn
was maize. Then it's maze corn.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
That's right.

Speaker 8 (34:21):
What's wrong with fine? And may and ask her for
some of her corn? I didn't say the corn belonged
to me. I merrily said the corn was made? How
do you like that?

Speaker 18 (34:28):
Here?

Speaker 8 (34:29):
It is the year sixteen twenty and this guy is
starting a routine Stella maize is Indian corn. The Indians
grind their own corn. Those Indians are smart. We pay
riders to grind arms. He comes in Indian. I'll be
friendly and say hello to them. How do you say
hello to an Indian?

Speaker 4 (34:46):
How?

Speaker 8 (34:47):
I asked you? First? I just told you told me what?

Speaker 7 (34:52):
How?

Speaker 8 (34:52):
If I know how, I wouldn't be asking you?

Speaker 24 (34:55):
What?

Speaker 8 (34:55):
Did you ask me?

Speaker 16 (34:56):
How?

Speaker 8 (34:57):
Now? Now you've got it? Got it? Now? I'm really
mixed up, Amede. After our scalps a look, there's a
note tied on that arrow. I'll read it. Then are
you slowly losing your hair? See? Chief, tomahawk can lose

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it all at once. Casteller, it comes in an end
of you and he has his hand raised. Say something
to him. Chief. You can go now, uh me scalp me, chief, Chief, underwear.
Why did they call you chief? Cheap underwear? Me creep
up on you, step on the side and make way

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for Big Chief. That must have been a super chief.
Watch some language, pale face, Meet him, Big Chief running water.
He looks like a big drip.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
Chief.

Speaker 8 (36:00):
Meet my friend, John Olden Pastello. Are you gay?

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Are you gay?

Speaker 8 (36:05):
Haven't we got to get better actions? Dummy? You're reading
that wrong. That's oh.

Speaker 29 (36:13):
Oh, listen, Tubby. I've got as much right to play
an Indian as you have to play John Alden.

Speaker 8 (36:19):
Oh yeah, I'll have you know that my great grandfather
goes back to Martha Washington. He does, yes, of course,
he only goes back there when George is at home.
All who cares about that? I've got troubles of my own.

Speaker 29 (36:32):
Why only this morning I was sending up some smoke
signals to my sweetheart Pocahontas, and what happened? Her father
came along and put out my fire. Well, I've got
to go now. And as we say an Indian, you father, i'mstead.

Speaker 8 (36:47):
I'm a hawk to you, and your father's busted tomahawk
to you too, John Alden Costell, I haven't the courage
to propose to the fan Forcillo. You is my friend,
must do it for me? You mean you want me
to make love to the fair Priscilla for you. Yes,
he doesn't know me very well, does he. Folks go

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into Priscilla's cabin, John Alden Costello, propose to her. Propose
to her for me. Tell her, tell her I'm a soldier.
And if she refuses me, I'll go back to the bottle.
You mean you'll go back to the battle. You go
back to what you like, and I'll go back to
what I like.

Speaker 22 (37:30):
Ah, John Alden Costello, My little bouncing, Boston baked be.

Speaker 8 (37:36):
Ah, Priscilla, my little tomato. Smother me with a ketchup
of your kisses. When I'm close to you like this,
something cold seems to spread all over me.

Speaker 7 (37:47):
It does.

Speaker 8 (37:48):
Yes, you dropped your popsicle down the back of my neck.

Speaker 22 (37:54):
Pray tell me why have you come here to propose
to you?

Speaker 8 (37:57):
For my dear friend. Miles Standish Habit, the poor broken
down guy. He couldn't come himself. He's all shocked. He's
practically falling apart. He can't even read a street a
straight line anymore. He's not ready a company care. Priscilla,

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my love. I'm not used to straight lines either, Priscilla,
my love, You couldn't go for him, could you?

Speaker 22 (38:28):
Are you proposing for him?

Speaker 21 (38:30):
Sure?

Speaker 22 (38:31):
It must be wonderful to have a true, devoted friend
like you.

Speaker 8 (38:34):
If Miles Stana Shabbitt had another friend like me, he
wouldn't need any enemies.

Speaker 22 (38:40):
Oh, why don't you speak for yourself? John Allen Costello, Honey.

Speaker 8 (38:45):
I'd love to marry you, Priscilla, but I can't. I'm
already married. We're doing a story from history, and the
history books say that John Allan was a bachelor. That
was before the historians found out about John's a the
way all it. Yeah, I'm the way.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
I'm mad man aren't going yet? Why now they want
you to hear this?

Speaker 8 (40:21):
Well, Costello? By doing our Thanksgiving play, we didn't get
a chance to do our Sam Shovel Detective Mysteries tonight.
That's right, Abbitt. But Sam Shovel will be back next
Thursday night. Well, what is your Sam Shovel story for
next week? Well, that's one of my liveliest cases. I
call it the case of the chorus girls who want
swimming in their underwear or down to the sea and slips. Well,

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That's that's about all for the night cast, all except
telling the folks about our small gang that helps put
the show together. Our writing staff is headed by any
Foreman with Paul Connin, Pat Costello, Martin Ragaway and Leonard's Stern.
And let's not forget our capable producer Charles Vander, and
let's not forget to say good night, good night folk,
and nights everybody, pallis good night.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Lesson It's Thursday night at US five. But another great
abbat Dostellos show. Those are transcribed in Hollywood. He short
to stay John for the outstanding enter painted which follows
to off Evening on this ABC station.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
From seventy seven years ago, November twenty fifth, nineteen forty eight,
Bud appened and Lou Costello here on Classic Radio Theater
with Wyatt Cogs. Up next the Hallmark Playhouse production of
Free Land.

Speaker 30 (42:04):
Your automobile may save your life during a national emergency.
It can move you out of the target area, provide shelter, communications,
and carry supplies, keep your car in good shape at
all times.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
I wish I was better at fixing the old shows
that we have. We have a ton of these old
Hallmark Playhouses and Hallmark Hall of Fame. Some of them
are of acceptable quality, some of them are just okay.
This is one that is acceptable. This is going back
seventy seven years the Hallmark Playhouse, November twenty fifth, nineteen

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forty eight, Martha Scott and Jack Kirkwood starring in Freeland.

Speaker 31 (42:42):
Remember a Hallmark card when you carry enough to send
the very best to night from Hollywod the makers of
Hallmark Breaking Cards, bring you Miss Marcus Scott in a

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Rose Wilder Lanes, free Land on the Hallmark Playhouse.

Speaker 32 (43:12):
Each week, Hallmark will bring.

Speaker 31 (43:14):
You Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories chosen by one
of the world's best known authors, the distinguished novelist mister
James Hilton.

Speaker 33 (43:33):
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, This is James Hilton tonight
on our Wholemark Playhouse. We have a story admirably suited.
I would say to the mood of all of us tonight,
the mood of Thanksgiving. It's good to have this mood
in which we can look around us and feel, without
any smugness or self satisfaction, that we are lucky people,
and that the luck began as indeed most luck does

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through hard work and sacrifice. These are among the great
things we remember to day, and few stories could be
more appropriate than the one we present to night, a
story by Rose Wilder Lane entitled Free Land. And for
that matter, there is appropriateness also in miss Lane's having
written this fine story, since she was born in the
Dakota Territory and her mother was one of the original

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pioneers who had come out from the East in the
old homesteading days. This virile background lends an inspired quality
to the story we tell tonight, and we are additionally
privileged to have in the starring role one of Hollywood's
most charming and distinguished actresses, Miss Martha Scott. Now, frank As,
would you take over for a moment, please.

Speaker 31 (44:38):
For a Christmas greeting your friends will long remember. Make
your selections now from the complete Hallmark collection on display
at the friendly store where you buy Hallmark cards. Whatever
your taste, whatever your budget, you'll take special pride in
sending Hallmark cards. And on the back of every one
is the identifying Hallmark that says you cared enough to

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and the very bets.

Speaker 33 (45:07):
All Mark Playhouse starring Mother Scott in Rose Wilder Lane's
Free land.

Speaker 13 (45:24):
Free land. The phrase was on everyone's lips, and it
had an exciting, adventurous sound to it. One stood at evening,
looking west across the well killed, fruitful acres of Minnesota,
wondering about it, wondering about Dakota and what treasures might
be in store for those who went west to claim
that free land. One stood and wondered if David, and

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then one turned and went quietly in and shut the
door against the thought. To lose David would be to
lose all hope for the future.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
I'm a little late getting here tonight, Mary. I was
talking to my father.

Speaker 13 (45:58):
I wasn't sure you were coming.

Speaker 18 (45:59):
David.

Speaker 13 (46:00):
What's in the kettle apple butter?

Speaker 4 (46:02):
This smells good? Where are your folks?

Speaker 13 (46:05):
They went over to cousin laws.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
Murray, Uh, do you have to stay out here in
the kitchen stirring the jelly.

Speaker 13 (46:13):
Not jelly apple butter. Yes, it might stick.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
Oh well, I wanted to tell you something, but I
didn't want to tell you in front of a kettle
of apple butter.

Speaker 13 (46:22):
I think you can depend on the kettle of apple
butter not to repeat it.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
I'm going west, homesteady. Father's letting me go and he's
giving me a white foot and star, so i'll have
a good team, and he's loaning me the money to
start out on.

Speaker 13 (46:33):
Oh well, that's nice. That's very nice, David. I sure
hope you'll be very happy.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
I'm going to Yank in the Morrow to file on
the claim for fourteen dollars and a half. I'll get
me a quarter section, and I can have another quarter
section by promising to set out ten acres of trees
and culivate them for five years. I'll have three hundred
and twenty acres three hundred and twenty and then next
week I'm going out to take possession of the claim.
I thought i'd build a shandy on it and then
come back by Thanksgiving for you me. Well, of course

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you didn't think i'd go without you.

Speaker 13 (47:04):
Oh David, David, marry I.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
I'm not one of those romantic guys that know how
to make a lot of fancy speeches, but I do
love you, and I'll do my best to provide for
you and make a good home.

Speaker 13 (47:21):
If you'll marry me, David, I'll be so happy to
marry you. The apple butter is burning quick. Help me
take it off the stone burnt apple butter burnt fingers
and burning beautiful sparks of excitement deep inside of me.

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And at last the words were mind that I've been
waiting for all my life to have and to hold,
to love, and to honor, forsaking all others, so long
as we both shall live. It was Thanksgiving morning, and
the world was at a beginning. After the wedding, David

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and I got on the train. We were on our
way to a new country, new land, and a new life.
At sunset, the ride ended, and David took my arm

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and helped me across the frozen streets to the hotel.
Early the next day, David poiuld our things in a
big wagon sleigh and we started for our plane. The
strings of sleigh bells on the horses added a bright,
gay music to the morning, and it seemed to me,
as the horses raced towards the horizon, that we were
flying into the future, and the whole world belonged to us.

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But in the afternoon, a level gray cloud began to
stretch towards us, and the wind began to rise.

Speaker 8 (48:55):
There's a railroad camp down there. I hope you can
make it before the storm races.

Speaker 11 (48:59):
What you bet we do.

Speaker 8 (49:00):
Hold on, Darling, hold on.

Speaker 13 (49:13):
When the storm hits, there was no direction to it,
wins in violently from all sides, even upward and down.
The snow was blinding. The horses plodded ahead gradually. I
felt a pain of cold leaving my ears and cheeks.
The hut dubs them and slap them. It was impossible
to speak. Finally the horses stopped. David shoved me out

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of the sled.

Speaker 8 (49:35):
Hang on of a sled.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
Don't let go for a minute.

Speaker 8 (49:37):
I'm gonna cut the horses loose.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
They're like a shipherd themselves.

Speaker 8 (49:41):
Then when unload the sled and try to turn it.

Speaker 13 (49:42):
Over, keep rubbing your face with snow, David, not nearly
a bad under here.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
That's funny. I remembered my father telling me about turning
a wagon sled over once during a snow st getting
under it. I'm sure glad he told me that story.

Speaker 13 (50:03):
Soon we're going to be buried in the snow.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
We'll make out all right. Snow is warm and there's
air in it. We can live quite a while that way.
Move over so I can put my arm Rounja.

Speaker 13 (50:16):
Love me, Oh, David, I love you more than any
woman ever loved any man anywhere in the world. What
are you laughing?

Speaker 4 (50:25):
I'll bet you're the only woman anywhere in the world
that told a man that under a sled and a snowstorm.

Speaker 13 (50:30):
Somewhere down underneath all this snow and is the land
our land. Someday we'll look out through our windows and
remember this. You'll remember this snowstorm, mister beaten, I'll remember you.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
Let me help you out.

Speaker 13 (51:02):
Is the storm really over?

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Come on out from under that slat and take a look.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Yeah, there need any huhuh Peters.

Speaker 8 (51:08):
Mister Peters came off to look for you.

Speaker 34 (51:12):
Your team drifted in three nights back.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
I got him stabled, and I'm much obliged. This is
my wife, Mary. This is mister Peters, our nearest name
meet you.

Speaker 34 (51:22):
Here's Henny's nine miles northwest of here. You better stop
off at my house and get thawed out.

Speaker 13 (51:41):
It was spring before we were able to go on
to our plan. We lived with the Peters family through
that long, blustering winter, and by the time we actually
got to our land, we were a lot older and
wiser than when we started. We rode up at Sunday
fashion in great sweets of flaming color washed across the sky.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
Let me lift you out of the wagon, which is beaten.
You're going to be carried across this threshold.

Speaker 13 (52:18):
The house was twelve by twelve, with two doors, two windows,
a floor, and a sod ceiling. David had stretched unbleached
muslin neatly over the sod walls, and he built a
prairie chimney solidly anchored with wires. The room looked light
and clean.

Speaker 4 (52:35):
Do you like it?

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Like it?

Speaker 13 (52:38):
Oh, David, it's home and it's beautiful. How long are
you going to sit there over that account book? It's
late and you want to get up early.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
I'm just going over. I spent in time today thirty
dollars for a sod breaking plow, fifty two fifty for
the cow and the oats and the supplies. I had
less than two hundred dollars left of the money my
father loaned was to start out on and I haven't
broken one acre of ground yet. You and I have

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to live for sixteen months on land that gives us
nothing but grass.

Speaker 35 (53:23):
Oh.

Speaker 13 (53:24):
I have been meaning to tell you in mid November,
maybe even Thanksgiving day.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
Oh, that reminds me. I knew I had another package
for you. It's in my pocket.

Speaker 13 (53:33):
Yeah sure, David.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
Missus Peters thought you might like some silk to make
some things.

Speaker 13 (53:42):
And I was wondering how I was going to tell
you about the baby.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
Why, missus Beaten, What made you think you'd have to
tell me?

Speaker 13 (53:49):
I'm the father, you know, mister Beeton, I never once
thought of that.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
Furthermore, I told everyone in town and I was going
to be a father. Oh dam, tomorrow morning, I'm going
to start breaking our ground.

Speaker 13 (54:16):
Spring came into bud, and summer flowered. A green shimmer
was over the land, and whole stretches of meadow were
carpeted with wildflowers. The lark sounded happy in the morning,
and the land seemed warm and tender and full of promise.
But the prairie grass twined its roots into the soil
and held on stubbornly while you tried to plow it.

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The earth gritted its rocks and refused to be turned over.
The heat pressed down like a heavy weight on your shoulders,
and the wind tore and ripped at you every time
you opened the door. David was up at dawn every

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morning to work land. I'd be alone in the house
with only the prairie wind to talk to. And I'd
watch from the window for David to rest the team
so I could take him a drink.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
Darling, you don't have to come out every time I stop.

Speaker 13 (55:15):
I like to David.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
Water is brackish. Wish we could do something about it.

Speaker 13 (55:21):
Horses look worn out. You'll kill them making them plow
this soil.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
I stop all I can to let them rest.

Speaker 13 (55:27):
Sometimes I think there was just a tree. Do you
realize we haven't seen a tree since we left home.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
I'm going to plant some.

Speaker 13 (55:34):
Well, maybe it isn't good land.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Maybe no, the land's all right, just has to be conquered,
and I'm going to conquer it. Look, Simmon's coming and
it looks like the Peters wagon.

Speaker 13 (55:44):
It isn't. Nettie's with him.

Speaker 16 (55:46):
Come on.

Speaker 21 (55:52):
Day.

Speaker 34 (55:53):
We're making up a POSTI that fellow living in the
shingle roof clean who south of town was a claim jumper.
Yesterday the man arrived who the claim and the claim
jumper shut it?

Speaker 13 (56:01):
Shut him?

Speaker 4 (56:02):
Where's the man that did it?

Speaker 34 (56:03):
He lit out right after the shooting. He's got a
day's head to start. Coming along, crick as I can
saddle up, come and help me on here, all right.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
David, No, no, Mary, don't do it.

Speaker 13 (56:13):
Don't go out and track a man down in cold blood, David.

Speaker 4 (56:16):
Not you, Mary. The only justice we have out here
is but we take into our own hands. That's the
kind of a.

Speaker 7 (56:21):
Land this is.

Speaker 13 (56:21):
I hate this land. The outlaws don't murder you. The
land itself will. That's all you hear, the land, the land.
I'm sick to death of it. You die of the heat,
or you die of the cold, you die of starvation
or loneliness or insand the land. I hate the land.
It'll kill us all and then grow on top of us.

Speaker 26 (56:41):
I hate the lamb.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
Neddie. Take her up to the house. She doesn't realize it.
It's the heat and the baby coming. Take care of her, Neddie.

Speaker 10 (56:54):
I know how you feel, Mary.

Speaker 13 (56:56):
You look on their faces, the unholy fervor to try
back down and kill, and when they come back, you
know the man you've loved and honored has helped to
kill a man.

Speaker 10 (57:08):
We have to have some sort of law. It'll be
different when the country's organized.

Speaker 13 (57:13):
Sometimes I don't think I can say another week. Sometimes
I think I can't stand it.

Speaker 10 (57:18):
You'll get used to it, Mary, people get used to
things they can't stand. Look at that sky. You have
to say one thing for it. It's beautiful country.

Speaker 13 (57:32):
Only a few miles away. There's civilization and peace, and
the people in the land are neighbors and friends.

Speaker 10 (57:40):
You're going back to Minnesota to have your child, Yes,
David feels we couldn't manage here.

Speaker 21 (57:46):
That's right.

Speaker 10 (57:48):
Once the blizzards come, it might be impossible to get
out here to help you.

Speaker 13 (57:51):
It's going to be good to go home, So good
to go home.

Speaker 10 (57:55):
This is your home now, child.

Speaker 13 (57:57):
No, this is exile. Nothing can take root in this soil.

Speaker 36 (58:03):
People listible.

Speaker 31 (58:25):
In a moment, James Hilton will return to bring you
the second act of Freeland, starring Martha Scott. You know
many people say that half the fun of sending Christmas
cards is picking out just the right card for every
person on their list.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
If that's the way you feel, then how.

Speaker 31 (58:40):
Pleased you will be when you see all the Hallmark
Christmas cards now on display where you buy Hallmark cards,
so many different ones. You'll find a card for every
friend that says just what you want to say, the
way you want to say it. There are Christmas cards
with a Santa Claus so jolly you can almost hear
him chuckle, mean so real, you'll find yourself listening for

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sleigh bells, Christmas trees, and holly as fresh looking as
mountain evergreens. There are cards that express the deeper spiritual
meaning of Christmas as truly as a carol sung on
Christmas Eve. And these are only a few of the
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your taste, whatever your budget, you will find Hallmark Christmas
cards that you will be proud to send. Cards your
friends will be proud to receive, too, for when they
see the Hallmark on the back, they'll know you cared
enough to send the very best.

Speaker 33 (59:44):
And now we present the second act of Rosewilder Lane's Freeland,
starring Massa Scott's.

Speaker 13 (01:00:00):
When David came back from hunting the plane jumper, he
told me the man had escaped to Iowa, had been
arrested there, and was being held for trial. We never
mentioned it again. In October, the first blizzard stormed and
lashed at us for five full days, and as soon
as it lifted, David put me on the train from home.
You planned to put things in order and then to

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join me in time for Thanksgiving, But it was April
before another train was able to get through to that
part of the country. I went back in April with
my son and my arms.

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
He's quite a boy, isn't he?

Speaker 13 (01:00:34):
Certainly it is Mary.

Speaker 4 (01:00:37):
Did you hate her?

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Come back?

Speaker 18 (01:00:39):
No.

Speaker 13 (01:00:41):
All the way back to Minnesota, I found myself thinking,
I'm going backwards, not forward. I'm going backwards. And when
I was there, in a civilized house, with all the
things I thought i'd been missing, I suddenly found myself
missing the prairie wind. And I knew, beyond all shadow
of a doubt, that the Kotas become my home.

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
Another year or two and we'll really own something here.

Speaker 13 (01:01:19):
That spring was glorious, and down it under the grassroot,
David found soil that was dark and rich. He sewed
his fourteen and a half acres by hand, anxiously, watching
where they ever present. Wind carried them. And when the
seeds sprouted and came up in a green mist, I
stood in the doorway and wept to see it. And

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as the days passed, you could see the wheat begin
to tame the land, and the tasseled heads stretched taller
and taller. We watched it, prayed over it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
I don't like the looks of that sky.

Speaker 13 (01:01:52):
David, what are you doing up at the saur.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
It's the middle of the night out here. The stars
always quiver in the wind. You never know when the
window changed. Rain on the pollen could mean disaster.

Speaker 13 (01:02:02):
Yesterday you said it was getting too hot.

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
I know yesterday was a scorcher that could dry up
the pollen before the Colonel's form.

Speaker 13 (01:02:08):
But nothing hurt the pollen. The kernels began to form,
The fields no longer silky, were covered with the young
green heads, and the wheat was up to David's chest.
And when the wind rippled over it, it looked like
light changing on a solid service. It was there before
our eyes, large solid kernels, solid heads. Thirty six bushels

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to the acre, safe and sure, actual true, thirty.

Speaker 8 (01:02:34):
Six bushels to the acre.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
There's parts of the run forty bushels. When I'm a liar, Mary,
I tell you this is the greatest country on God's footstool.
Let the wind blow, Let the sun blaze the wheat, to.

Speaker 7 (01:02:44):
Safe, the wheat to safe.

Speaker 13 (01:02:49):
David and mister Peters, helping each other, began mowing the
wheat and tying the sheaves. There was no relief from
the heat, and the dryers cracked wide. They kept wet
claws the crowns of their hats toward our sunstrokes. They
worked day and night. They had only about six loads
left to put up. When I ran outside with the

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baby in my arms, the crashing thunder was almost deafening.
Overhead of massive black clouds was twisting and writhing with
flight as of red and green light. I saw David
and Peters running towards me, and the dark mass in
the sky coming down towards them, just like.

Speaker 23 (01:03:27):
Marry, like wall.

Speaker 7 (01:03:28):
What do we do?

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
It's gonna hit the earth any minute.

Speaker 22 (01:03:31):
We have no storm cellar.

Speaker 13 (01:03:32):
Well, we can't get down there.

Speaker 15 (01:03:33):
It's too small.

Speaker 23 (01:03:34):
It's open right on the ground already under the silly.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
It's all right. It's all over.

Speaker 13 (01:04:01):
You, all right, Mary, I think, So how about to
mister Peters, a little.

Speaker 8 (01:04:07):
Blown up but alive.

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
There's the rain. Come on, we gotta get to the house.

Speaker 13 (01:04:24):
The house was still there, although a lot of things
in it were smashed and broken, and when daylight came
we saw the wheat stacks flattened and scattered, every sheaf
sopping wet on the muddy ground. But there was a
new consciousness of existence, of being able to breathe, to

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see light again, to walk across the earth. Whatever had
been taken from us, a new appreciation of just being
alive had been given in return. And now everyone set
to work to save their fields.

Speaker 7 (01:05:00):
The water must be.

Speaker 13 (01:05:01):
Shaken from each sheep, The sheep must be set upright,
and the muddy stuble and parted so the wind could
reach the heads. We would save it, Please God, would
we save it? And then the thrashers came, and the triumph, oh,
the triumph of their coming.

Speaker 34 (01:05:16):
Dave, I've never seen grain to beat this, you haven't made, no, sir.
Taste one of these kernels, Mary, you can tell.

Speaker 13 (01:05:23):
But the taste, it has a nutty flavor, that's right.

Speaker 7 (01:05:28):
And it's got that taste.

Speaker 34 (01:05:29):
Our good earth in a number one, and it's gonna
run down near forty bushels to the acre.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
Man's got our ghost some to beat.

Speaker 8 (01:05:37):
That day.

Speaker 13 (01:05:42):
We had our first crop, money to fix the roof,
get a few pieces of equipment and some stuff. We
had a son, and soon we would have another child.
We'd put our home on the land, and we would
make that home in the land something we could be
proud of. And then we had a letter from David
spoke they were coming out.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
To visit us.

Speaker 13 (01:06:01):
David was happy about it at first, and then after
a few days very quiet.

Speaker 4 (01:06:07):
I wonder what my father will think of the place.
He never thought much of our coming out here. That's
why I wanted to pay back the money he advanced
as soon as possible. We still don't have it, Darling.

Speaker 13 (01:06:19):
I think your father will see the land just as
we see it. And so David's father and mother, who
had pioneered their land in Minnesota, looked over our pioneering
in Dakota, and they didn't say much one way or

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the other until the last night of their visit, when
we were all sitting together watching the long summer twilight
deepen into night.

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
How much would you say you were in debt, David?
In round figures? Well, they adding round figures, about nine
hundred dollars. Besides what I owe you, sir, it's a
good country. This farm's going to be worth something I
wouldn't wonder.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
Yes, you stuck it out, and now you've got something
your mother and I are proud of you and marry him.

Speaker 13 (01:07:10):
David, did you hear that?

Speaker 8 (01:07:12):
Aren't you going to tell them?

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
Jim?

Speaker 4 (01:07:13):
Don't rush me? Mother. The fact is my will's made out, David.

Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
It gives you and your sister and even share of
the property. I leave. As soon as we get home.
I'm going to send you two thousand dollars and charge
it against your share of the estate.

Speaker 13 (01:07:27):
Oh dead, well, I don't know what to say, but
we want you to have an easier time than we did.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
We are going to help you, and then in turn,
you'll help your children. That's how families survive and how
the country grows and expands.

Speaker 17 (01:07:45):
Are helping you.

Speaker 13 (01:07:47):
We are helping a little in the development of Dakota.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
And when you help your children, they have helped push
the frontier further west. You're right, son, it's good country.

Speaker 13 (01:07:58):
Long after David's father and mother gone to sleep, we
stood in the doorway, listening to the wind, savoring the warm,
sumurn summer fragrance of the land, dreaming of what lay
beyond it for our children.

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
What are you thinking about?

Speaker 13 (01:08:15):
I was thinking how wonderful it was that we got
this land.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Un So was I?

Speaker 13 (01:08:23):
Well, you better get some sleep, or we'll never be
able to get up.

Speaker 7 (01:08:26):
In the morning.

Speaker 21 (01:08:27):
Yeah, it's you're right.

Speaker 13 (01:08:30):
We closed the door, the wind whispered to us and
lulled us, and outside the land waited, And I found
myself thinking back five thanksgivings ago, five thanksgivings when both
the land and I were untried and unproved, when the
land and I were enemies, and I began to pray

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that it was tamed, now broken to our plow, ready
to work for us. I prayed that it would be
for us and.

Speaker 35 (01:09:01):
Our children as it had been for our parents and
our grandparents, that although the land had come to us free,
we had paid for it with honest labor and passed
it on to the next generation as a heritage, so
that on future Thanksgivings our children would be able to say,
let us be thankful for all the rich fruit of

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the earth and sun that we have received.

Speaker 13 (01:09:25):
Let us be thankful for a free land, a free country.

Speaker 31 (01:09:53):
In a moment, James Hilton and Martha Scott will be back.
But first, may I remind you that Christmas is exactly
one month on today. If you haven't already ordered your
Christmas cards, better not wait. Any longer to visit the
store where you buy your Hallmark cards.

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
If you prefer to.

Speaker 31 (01:10:08):
Select individual cards for each person on your list, you'll
find Hallmark cards that say just what you want to say,
the way you want to say it. And there are
Hallmark cards for imprinting with your own name, and many
boxes of assorted Christmas cards. Yes, whatever your taste, whatever
your budget, there are Hallmark cards you'll take special pride

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in sending. And when your friends receive them and look
on the back as you did, they'll see the Hallmark
and know you cared enough to send the very best.
Here again, it's James Hilton's.

Speaker 33 (01:10:43):
One of the rewards for giving a fine performance must
be the real satisfaction of knowing that it pleased so
many people. Tonight, Master Scott, you should feel very happy
you've pleased us Hallmark people very much, and I know
you've pleased millions of others around the country.

Speaker 13 (01:10:57):
Thank you, mister Hilton, and I guess you're right a
lot of satisfaction in the approval of the audience. By
the same token, your Hallmark Playhouse must have won a
lot of trends like your Hallmark cards.

Speaker 33 (01:11:08):
Well, we sincerely hope so as a matter of fact,
the Hallmark tradition is built on friendships, and we're going
to try to add to that tradition again next week
when we present Edna Ferber's great short story Old Man
Minnick starring Victor Moore, and the following week we present
Woman with the Sword starring Idelopino. The makers of Hallmark

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greeting cards and everybody at the Hallmark Playhouse join me
in the hope that you've found much to be thankful
for on this Thanksgiving Day until next Thursday. Then this
is James Hilton saying good night.

Speaker 31 (01:11:43):
Tonight's story was adapted for radio by Gene Holloway, with
music composed and conducted by Lynn Murray. Our director producer
is d Engelback. Martha Scott appeared to the courtesy of
r KO Studios, whose current releases stations West. Look for
Hallmark cards that are sold only in stores that have
been carefully selected to give you experts and friendly service.
Remember Hallmark cards when you will carry it up to

(01:12:04):
send the very best. This is Frank Goss saying good
night to you all until next week at the same time,
when James Hilton returns to present Old Man Minic by
Edna Ferber and starring Victor Moore. Let's progn kame Toy
from the Hallmark Playhouse. That's the CDF where ninety nine
million people gather every week they plumb.

Speaker 7 (01:12:21):
The broadcasting.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Seventy seven years ago, November twenty fifth, nineteen forty eight,
Hallmark Playhouse. Here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cocks
Day before Thanksgiving show. We will have more Thanksgiving shows,
including Father Knows Best. Thanksgiving Day at the Anderson's Jimmy
Duranti show from nineteen forty seven is Arthur Treacher tries

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to rapple off Jimmy's Turkey. Uncle Dennis visits Fiber McGee
and Molly and Benny spends Thanksgiving at Mary Livingston's house.
Thursday not a great Thanksgiving show. We will have a
couple of Thanksgiving shows. We'll have Claudia and the Thanksgiving Show.
We'll also have a thanks Thanksgiving episode of Casey Crime Photographer.

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But much of our time is going to be spent
on this date sixty five years ago or Thursday sixty
five years ago, as a Classic Radio left Hollywood for
New York City. Suspense was already there, and we'll have
an episode of that, but the final episode of Yours
Truly Johnny Dollars starring Bob Bailey as Bob, did not

(01:13:40):
go to New York City, and the final episodes of
Have Gone Will Travel and Yes, Have Gun Will Travel
actually did have a final episode. Gun Smoke did not,
but you'll hear the last episode of Guns Smoke all
on Thursday's Classic Radio theater We Will Have U, We'll

(01:14:01):
Go to the Movies t Largo starring Edward G. Robinson
from nineteen forty nine on the Lux Radio Theater, The
Adventures of Sam Spade starring Howard Duff, and The Quarter
Eagle Taper Theater of Romance Intermezzo from nineteen forty four.
Western's on Saturday with The six Shooter, a nineteen fifty

(01:14:22):
two episode of Gun Smoke, in nineteen fifty nine episode
of Agun Will Travel, and a nineteen thirty six episode
of Buck Benny Rides Again with Jack Benny. On Sunday,
Comedy The Great Guelder Sleeve, Ozzy and Harriet, Phil Harrison,
Alice Faye, and the Aldridge Family. Then on Monday, oh

(01:14:44):
Archiblers Lights Out the story of Mister Maggs Grand Central
Station from nineteen forty five Arc spur to Feed the
soul story of Doctor Kildare from nineteen fifty, Lady Donnaby's
Annual Visit and Dragnett the Big Odd. On two Tuesday,
we'll have another Sam Shovels story a week from today

(01:15:05):
from nineteen forty eight, George Burns and Gracie Allen and
the sponsor drops by. We'll have Jack Benny going shopping
for a couple links for Don Wilson. We got a habit,
you know, the wonderful shows that were done with Mel
Blank Jack shopping their wonderful shows. And we'll have an

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episode of the CBS Radio Workshop, a beautiful tongue in
seat cheek satire called the Day the Roof Fell in
a psychological account of the do it Yourself movement. That's
all coming up on next Tuesday's Classic Radio Theater with Wyatcos.
Now we're gonna hear from Faber McGee. No we're not.

(01:15:47):
We're gonna hear from Edgar Bergan with Charlie McCarthy in
a moment.

Speaker 37 (01:16:00):
Answers common sense. This is Howard though for this reminder,
six forty and twelve forty these are the Connor rad
frequencies during a national emergency, six forty and twelve forty
on your regular radio will be your only official means
of receiving vital information. Remember six forty and twelve forty All.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Right now on Classic Radio Theater with Wyancox, We're going
to go back seventy years November twenty fifth, nineteen fifty five,
The New Edgar Bergen Hour with Charlie McCarthy and the
guys running a Trailer Court. Yeah, the guy running the
trailer Court's name is Benny. First name Jack from Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
It's the New Edgar Burgan Hour with Charlie McCarthy. AP
if you they held the album know you Now? It's
Condon Hard and Tim Good, Brad b. Bradberg and Charlie

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McCarthy with Mortimer Third, Epy Clicker, Gary Crosby, Carol Richards,
Rain Novel, Jack Birkwood, the Mellow Man, Yours Early John Easton,
and our special guests Doctor Frederick web Hodts, World's leaving
authority on the American Indian.

Speaker 13 (01:17:11):
And Jack Berry.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
Ladies and gentlemen. This past weekend, Edgar Bergen attached his
trailer to the back of his car, and he and
Charlie were off to Palm Springs for a glorious and
inexpensive vacation in the sun. As it turned out, it
wasn't as inexpensive as they thought. But to see what happened,
let's look in on Edgar and Charlie as they approached
Palm Springs, with Edgar behind the wheel.

Speaker 38 (01:17:52):
All in his black stinim toothy in his high button shoes.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
All right, jolly say, are you enjoying this ride?

Speaker 13 (01:18:00):
It's okay?

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
Can't you go a little faster in this thing? Well,
we're moving right along as it is. After all, we
just passed three cars. Yeah, but they were apart. Oh
I see, say you better check our trailer back there.
How does it look? Lad? It looks a little like
Elsa Maxwell doing a rumda is the US steed it up? There?
You stet on? Well, I'll take it easy. We're entering

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Palm Springs now. Oh, look over there, somebody left a
golf club lying in the sand.

Speaker 21 (01:18:27):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
That's Frank Sinatra taking a sun dab. And we better
keep our eye open for this Blue Sky's trailer village. Yeah,
you know that's the one that Jack Benny is part
owner of. Yeah, and you know he promised to give
us a very special rate. Jack did, Yes, I know

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what you're thinking.

Speaker 18 (01:18:51):
He is.

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
He is a tough man to tangle with over Monday.

Speaker 8 (01:18:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
You both throw tennis around like manhole covers. Yeah all right, no, no, no, no,
must deject Denny's trailer over there. Look at the sign
in the front free water, three electricity and also free
violin lessons. That slight extra charge. Yeah, yeah, that's the
place I'll pull in.

Speaker 8 (01:19:15):
All right, there we go.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
Ah, well, here we are shouting. Now there must be
a parking attendant. Oh, here's one coming towards us. Yet,
park your car for two bits, sir Jack, Benny Jack?
How come that you're parking cars? Oh? I'll do anything
to make about I see. Gentlemen, welcome to the Blue

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Skies trailer Village, surrounded by swaying palm trees, and you're
welcome to pick all the dates you can eat. Oh
well that's threely swell for sixty nine cents a pound.

Speaker 7 (01:19:51):
Here, Edgar, have a date.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
I hope you don't mind if I take it out
of your first pound. No, no, we'd save money by
getting out of here now and all on. Now, don't
knock my little business, Charlie, A man my age has
to start thinking about his future. Yeah, yeah, Jack, what.

Speaker 7 (01:20:07):
Is your age?

Speaker 27 (01:20:08):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
There's been a lot of kidding. Now how about settling
it once and all?

Speaker 8 (01:20:11):
Just how old are you?

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
Jack? Thirty nine? Thirty nine, thirty eight? Let's face it, Bustia,
the only way you'll ever see fifty again is on
a sterdometero. That's a nice line for a guest star. Sorry, Jack,

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but our trailer wasn't big enough to bring any writers
along you see. Well this is quite a trailer park
you've got here. Very nice. Well, I'm just running it
as a sideline. After all, who knows as a comedian,
I may not be able to go on forever. We'll
have it you already they did it to me again. Anyway, Jack,

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we're here and we'd like to check in. See I
don't know, Edgar. We have a certain and to maintain,
and your trailer is pretty old. Oh just look how
thin those tires are and you can see right through
the rubber. Oh you cannot. And I'll keep your hands
off those tires. I just stop feeling those tires. Jack,
I'm sorry, I forgot about my hang nail.

Speaker 39 (01:21:17):
Yeah, now, what will we do well.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
I also fixed tire. I'll do anything for a buck. Yeah, well,
here's the dollar. Go get a manicure. Now where can
I put that junkie?

Speaker 7 (01:21:32):
Tell you what I'll do.

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
I'll put your way down at the end, right next
to the road. Why why down there next to the road. Yeah,
your trailer will be all right there. People will think
it's just an accident. Oh, come on, Bergie, let's take
this spot here and check you in. Come on, well
now okay, now where's the desk clerk?

Speaker 40 (01:21:50):
Desk clerk?

Speaker 4 (01:21:52):
Car register?

Speaker 18 (01:21:53):
Sir?

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
You mean you I told you I'll do anything for
a buck. Yeah, now we're saving on that this way.
Now you better tell us. Now what are your rates?
Oh you'll find me very cheap. Yes, we have the
all right, he's a regular naughty pine Fred Allen. I

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threw that in myself. They had me down for another boom.

Speaker 7 (01:22:22):
That you you still have.

Speaker 1 (01:22:23):
Avoided telling us what your rates are? That is special
rates for frad Well, what would you say to nine
dollars a night?

Speaker 21 (01:22:29):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
Come now, you wouldn't charge that much to poor little
old me, would you. Certainly that's how I got to
be rich, little old me. Well, I will pay sent
over two dollars, So I guess the deal is off there.
I wait a minnment? That was that was my first off? Well,
you're crushing my carnation, all right. Eight seventy to twenty
five is as high as i'll go. This is the

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Battle of the Titans, two tighter Titans. I've never seen
you now, eight fifteen out a penny lo ridiculous, three
fifty eight twenty five, three seventy five eight eight four
dollars seven seventy five. Oh Jack, what are we arguing about?

Speaker 13 (01:23:08):
Blood?

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
That's what you get.

Speaker 40 (01:23:11):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
I don't want to quibble over a few bucks. Let's
settle for five dollars. Oh okay, that's a deal, jack.
Ladies and gentlemen. The preceding scene, starring at Garbergen and
Jack Denny, was from The Picture of Money is a
many splendor thing. I'll trade you that for them, m.

Speaker 13 (01:23:28):
It would.

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
We're all set in army.

Speaker 7 (01:23:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:32):
It ought to be fun stay here the Blue Sky's
Trailer Village, especially with you one of the owners, mister Denny.
You know you're such a popular celebrity and such a
good comedian. Oh, you're just saying that. No, No, if
I was saying it, you wouldn't come out so good.
I wonder what Don Wilson would charge to sit on him? Yeah, Jack,

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how about showing us around the place a little bit?

Speaker 16 (01:23:58):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (01:23:59):
Sure, I'll be glad all right. Now, over here is
our swimming pool. As you know, there's a twenty five
cent service charge per person who used the swimming pool.
That's fair enough, the reasonable. When there's water in it's
a dollar. If I know Bergen, he'll take it dry.

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Then there's our lovely bathroom over here. Oh so there's
the ah, No, what's the matter? I picked inside hiking leaders.

Speaker 7 (01:24:29):
Oh no, that time they didn't even give me.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
Hum Well, general, before I forget, we have another special
service here at the Blue Sky's Trailer Village. For a
very slight extra charge, you'll furnished with entertainment. What kind
of entertainment? Oh? What's the best? Really outstanding? I go
from trailer to trailer playing requests on my violin. He'll
do anything for their bucket. I may ask, how much

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does it cost not to have you play your violin?
You couldn't afford it. We just want to my ear flude. Well,
I'll show you out everyone here in the trailer park
fields about my violin playing.

Speaker 38 (01:25:20):
Hey, hey, all the trailers are pulling out.

Speaker 40 (01:25:25):
Hey stop, wait a minute, Wait.

Speaker 8 (01:25:29):
A minute, Jack, what are you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
You've stopped playing. You're putting your violin a way. I'll
do anything, even that for a buck. Right, come back,
both park your card orter, two bits right this way. Well, Charlie,

(01:25:58):
wasn't it wonderful of Jack Benny to drop you on us? Yeah?
But that business of the nding only thirty nine? Well,
we can't question it unless we have positive information. Well
I got it. Yeah, while he was in there, I
took a peek at his driving license when you did. Yeah,
what did it say? It's said for colored wagons only.

(01:26:18):
All that's ridiculous, Charlie. Hello Edgar, Hi you Charlie. Well,
it's Jerry Crosby. You know, Gary, we were just speaking
about one of your father's partners in the Blue Sky's
Trailer Village. Tell me, Gary, how do you feel about
trailer living. It's it's really a great life, Edgar. But

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as he said, recognizing a song cue when he hears one,
but not for me.

Speaker 21 (01:26:46):
And they're writing saws of love but not for me.
A lucky stars, but not for me with love to
lead the way.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
I found more clouds of braid than any old Russian
play could guarantee. Well, I was a whore to fall
and get that way.

Speaker 21 (01:27:19):
High over land and also lack a day.

Speaker 19 (01:27:24):
Although I can't dismiss the memory of her kids, I
know it's not for me.

Speaker 21 (01:27:47):
With love to lead the way.

Speaker 19 (01:27:50):
I found more clouds of braids than any old Russian
play could guarantee.

Speaker 21 (01:27:58):
I was who to all lens get that way.

Speaker 19 (01:28:04):
High land is also lack of day, although wlackhre this
means the memory of her cares.

Speaker 21 (01:28:15):
I know it's not.

Speaker 40 (01:28:19):
Me.

Speaker 15 (01:28:22):
It's not no me.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, here is where we take
care of you do it yourself fans, as we proudly
present our genius of all trades, Professor Kirkwood and his
do it Yourself Department. I think you've been going with
that bus saw. You must be down to about two fingers?
How many two fingers? I don't mind if I do

(01:29:01):
no chaser, please, Professor? What is your subject for tonight?
Tonight's subject will be how to make money at home
with my printed yourself kids. Now, just the second professor,
this money that you're going to show us how to print,
it can't be genuine. So what listens on? We're living
in the age of falsees see hair shoulders and other

(01:29:29):
things to humorous to mention, I say, pardon me, old boy,
but are you allowed to print money yourself?

Speaker 21 (01:29:37):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
Certainly? Haven't you ever heard of freedom of the press?
Just a second, I let's stop this foolishness. Kirkwood, I'm sure,
I'm positive it's against the law to print real money. Well,
that's where we play it smart. We don't print real money.
We just print counterfeit money. Kirkwood. You you should be

(01:29:59):
a sha. Don't you ever think of anything except money? Well,
sometimes I think about women. What kind of women? Women?

Speaker 7 (01:30:08):
With money?

Speaker 40 (01:30:11):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
I got a covenant, Gordon. All I can say to
you is this money alone does not bring happiness. No,
but it sure makes your unhappiness awfully present. Because I'm sorry,
I must disagree with you. There are no shortcuts to
easy money. Remember, real money doesn't grow on trees yours.

(01:30:31):
Good boy. Oh, I've made a dummy out of him?
Then I think, cookardoa, is this money you print any good? Well,
let's put it this way.

Speaker 8 (01:30:52):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (01:30:52):
It's like the Hollywood Freeway, dangerous but passable, which reminds
me Ray, I could use you. Do you think you
could pass a twenty dollar bill?

Speaker 8 (01:31:03):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:31:03):
Tell me o, boyfriend will pull over to the right cutwood.
You're not laughing. That's the way it's going to be.
Don't let him talk you into a thing. Ray, I
wouldn't touch his counterfeit money with a ten foot poll

(01:31:23):
the How about a nine foot Romanian?

Speaker 36 (01:31:25):
I'll I'll wear the.

Speaker 7 (01:31:28):
Pad mother, I've bought to night.

Speaker 1 (01:31:32):
I don't want to cool you off. Where did you
learn to print money? All this money making skill runs
in my family? Oh it does, though, Yes, my father
taught my brother how to make one hundred dollar bills
and now he's got life with father. And how about you, Kirkwood,
Have you ever been in jail? Have I ever been

(01:31:54):
in jail? I've been in stir more often than the
paddles of a mixedmaster. When you've certainly got the bowl
for it down. You're talking with that lazy Susan back there,
I'm relating how to make your own money. Oh it's

(01:32:18):
a police Kirkquit that they're probably after you. All wonderful
you're happy about it. Of course they're suppressing if they
don't come and get you once in a while and
makes you feel sort of unwanted. War Tune in next
week Books when Professor Kirkwood's topic will be how to
engineer your own jail break. Good night, ladies, gentlemen. I'm

(01:32:50):
extremely happy to be able to introduce to you once
again our outstanding vocal group, the Millowman. What are you
going to say tonight, Fellows, gilly awesin Fair for Kats
and Alan Borgan by Tea. Yes, but what are you
going to say? Gilligally often, never mind, just do it,
I'll kill There's a tiny house.

Speaker 36 (01:33:12):
There's a tiny house by a tiny stream, by a
tiny stream, where a lovely lights were, a lovely land,
had a lovely dream.

Speaker 1 (01:33:21):
And a lovely dream, and the dream came true.

Speaker 39 (01:33:28):
Unexpectedly.

Speaker 8 (01:33:30):
In kilgily Arsent, Paper.

Speaker 36 (01:33:32):
Cats and Elbogan by the Sea. She went out one day.
She went out one day where the two lips grow,
Where the two lips grow, when a handsome lad, when
a handsome lad stopped to say hello, stop to say hello.
And before she knew.

Speaker 1 (01:33:53):
Kister Tenderly in Killigis and paper Cots and Morgan by
the scene happy pair and Harry one Sunday after.

Speaker 36 (01:34:10):
They left the church and ran away to spend a
moon in a tiny house, in a tiny house by
a tiny stream, by a tiny stream, where the lovely last,
where the love had a lovely dream and a lovely dream,
and the last I heard.

Speaker 20 (01:34:33):
They still live.

Speaker 1 (01:34:34):
Hal In Galligies, paper cats in Ellenborgan.

Speaker 7 (01:34:45):
In Gaily.

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
Awesome apricats and Ellen organized se Ladies and gentlemen. Once

(01:35:13):
again we bring you one of the more popular portions
of our program, our How to Stay Young Department, And
here to let us in on her secret of eternal youth?

Speaker 7 (01:35:22):
Is that all time girl?

Speaker 1 (01:35:24):
Just back from a rejuvenation course with Ali Khan, Miss
every Clicker.

Speaker 41 (01:35:36):
Howdy, Oh, I may be falling apart, but I'm young
at heart.

Speaker 1 (01:35:43):
Man. You look lovely tonight, Miss Flinkers. Oh, yes, I
believe in growing old gracefully, yes, or better still, disgracefully.

Speaker 35 (01:35:52):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:35:53):
I think it's wonderful how you kept your youth here?
How did you know about George?

Speaker 21 (01:35:59):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:35:59):
I think.

Speaker 11 (01:36:04):
I feel what you mean.

Speaker 1 (01:36:06):
Yeah, now tell me this clinker. Nowadays they give shots
for almost everything. Are there any shots that you can
recommend that make you feel younger. Oh, yes, indeed there
are yes. After a few shots of Scott you'd be
surprised how young I lived. Now, don't tell me that
you that you indulge. You drink well, the doctor said,

(01:36:27):
for my health's sake, I should take a wee drop
before going to bed. You know, yes, yes, I see.

Speaker 10 (01:36:34):
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 (01:36:35):
Sometimes I find myself going to bed four and five
times tonight.

Speaker 7 (01:36:43):
Yes, and me I.

Speaker 13 (01:36:45):
Really sleep tight?

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Yes? All right, Right now it's time to answer some
of your mail. No good, Yeah, well, hurried up. It's
getting close to one of my bedtimes. I know. The
first letter is from Minneapolis. Yes, sir, it is, dear

(01:37:08):
miss Clinker. I am eighty years old. Would it keep
me young? If I married a twenty year old girl?
Am Sonny, it will probably kill you.

Speaker 13 (01:37:26):
He's like buying a steak.

Speaker 7 (01:37:27):
When you haven't got any teeth.

Speaker 1 (01:37:31):
All right, Nick, here's one from a listener in Cleveland.
My dear miss Clinker, I am thirty five, and I'm
going with a used car salesman. Should I marry him?

Speaker 18 (01:37:44):
Why?

Speaker 40 (01:37:44):
If you love him?

Speaker 8 (01:37:45):
What if he is used?

Speaker 23 (01:37:47):
Nor?

Speaker 16 (01:37:56):
I had a good.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
Minas in there at all, My dear miss stinker, No clinker.
What is the most important rule in staying young? Besides
lying that is.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
I would say that good health is most important. Good health.

Speaker 13 (01:38:21):
Yes, people are too run down these days.

Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
Run down, I say, Ethioga. Would you say that I
looked run down?

Speaker 13 (01:38:31):
You look a run over.

Speaker 1 (01:38:42):
You've still got one more letter to answer, dear miss thinker.
Do you ever wear a sweater to attract men? Me
wear a sweater with my figure? Oh silly boy, Well,
that would be like trying to flag down the super
chie with an empty can of stern. No right to

(01:39:02):
miss Flinker. Our time is up. But before we go,
do you have any last message? Sounds like your last one?

Speaker 14 (01:39:09):
No, I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:39:18):
I don't know what's the matter with me.

Speaker 13 (01:39:19):
You've been taking care of yourself?

Speaker 1 (01:39:21):
Yes? Do you have any last message to our audience?

Speaker 24 (01:39:25):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
All of you men out there take good care of yourself.

Speaker 13 (01:39:28):
Heaven keep you.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
I wish I could afford it. The Edgar Bergen Hour

(01:39:51):
transcribed with Tolly McCarthy Mortimer spurred, Gary Crosby, Carol Richard,
Jack Kirkwood, Leanmo Man and Raino Bull will be back
after station. I had a occasion.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
App of the New Edgar Bergen Hour seventy years ago
November twenty fifth, nineteen fifty five on Classic Radio Theater
with Wifcox's visitor webpage at Classic Radio dot stream to
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Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
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Speaker 32 (01:41:41):
Alert Today, Alive tomorrow, Plan.

Speaker 12 (01:41:45):
Now with your family for civil defense, emergency action.

Speaker 39 (01:41:48):
Someday it may save your lives.

Speaker 1 (01:41:51):
Join work and share together with others this knowledge of
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Speaker 3 (01:41:59):
Classic Radio Theater. Now the conclusion of the New Edgar
Burghen Hour with Charlie McCarthy, November twenty fifth, nineteen fifty five,
seventy years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:42:07):
Today from Hollywood, It's the New Edgar Burghan Hour with
Charlie McCarthy, Barnamu Spired, Gary Crosby, Carol Richard, Jack Cooklod
The Mellow Man, Raynoble at Yours Early John Houston I'll

(01:42:42):
never smile again. Oh like I smiled before. B doo doo.
All right, all right, that's you knock down. And why
such a sad song, Margaret. Well, i'll tell you, mister Burgundy.
I sort of got the dismals today, the dismal ell.
I'm sort of down in the hunty dunts. I see why. Oh,

(01:43:05):
I'm kind of worried, I say, worried about what I say,
worried about what? Yeah? Oh about what? Yeah? Well, I'm
worried about things back on the farm. Mostly we got
sixteen new knolls to feed now, Oh, a lot of
baby pigs or chickens. No, it's my uncle Sorgum then

(01:43:26):
Usilla and their kids and their kids. Yeah, uncle Sorghum
and his family. You know, why didn't you even move?
I had a uncle Soredom, and they're all moved in
and they're living there. Now. Well, that's how many How
many children?

Speaker 8 (01:43:41):
Do you say?

Speaker 1 (01:43:41):
Sixteen? Are you sure they're sixteen?

Speaker 26 (01:43:44):
More?

Speaker 1 (01:43:44):
Let me see. There's there's Vestibulah, twitchy narrow head, the
congus and grunion clegmyre futrid and slurp, and.

Speaker 7 (01:44:00):
And there's oil.

Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
Then there's the triplets. Triplets. Yeah, yeah, then that has gids. Yeah.
What are the triplets names? Oh, they're they're at Burton
squirt eyes. And then there's uh oil, there's the oldest sister,

(01:44:22):
you know, Groucho Graucho. The sister's name is Groucho you know,
you know they call her that because she has a
mustache and smokes cigars.

Speaker 39 (01:44:33):
All right, yes, so he goes, Yeah, well.

Speaker 1 (01:44:43):
I must make things pretty crowded around your house. Oh
they're sleeping old of the darting place in the kitchen too.

Speaker 21 (01:44:49):
Is that so?

Speaker 1 (01:44:49):
Yeah? They don't mind that little wall, except cousin Twitchy.
He ain't used to sleeping in a strange sink.

Speaker 21 (01:44:56):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:44:56):
I they made themselves at home, didn't they. Oh they
did that. They were even were my clothes?

Speaker 4 (01:45:04):
Is that so?

Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
You know? Herkimer or jerkrom There he got up this
morton and got right in don't know, best suit. Oh wow,
that is annoying you certainly is. Once more, he didn't
even give me time to get out of it. First off,
watching these people, they don't sound like very attractive relative. No,

(01:45:27):
they're sure they don't miss of the house too. I'm
actually I didn't order to realize how old dirty the
house was until a dog came in and tried to
bury a bone in the living room?

Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
Is right?

Speaker 1 (01:45:44):
Ury a bone in the living room?

Speaker 7 (01:45:46):
Yo, we got all all dirt.

Speaker 1 (01:45:48):
Now, how could they drag so much dirt into the house?
Or you know those little kids when they go to sleep,
you know what they play? They play that game, this
little dicky little market. Well that's very nice. Yeah yeah,
but they do it with real pigs over. Well, I

(01:46:11):
know it must annoy you, but remember Martin Eric, blood
is thicker than water still and that's over of course.
Then again, what isn't Yeah, I guess deal a stus. Yeah, well, relatives,
of course can be a problem. Do you know what
Hubbard said about relatives? Well, I don't care to listen

(01:46:33):
to anything that kind of language, you know. Oh no, no,
you've heard the saying, well, haven't you heard it? I
don't know. Well it was Albert Hubbard. Well that's pretty good.
Well I haven't said it yet. Oh the devil gives

(01:46:56):
us our relatives. Thank god, we can choose our friends.
What do you think of that? Well, how does it go?

Speaker 7 (01:47:07):
It just went?

Speaker 1 (01:47:09):
I must have been looking the.

Speaker 21 (01:47:10):
All the way.

Speaker 1 (01:47:11):
Yeah, how on earth are you going to get rid
of that that mob at your house.

Speaker 24 (01:47:17):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:47:18):
I don't think they're going to leave.

Speaker 39 (01:47:19):
Why do you say that?

Speaker 1 (01:47:20):
Well, I overheard Uncle Sorgum say we'll stay until he
gets wise. Until Oh I see, I'm beginning to see
the light your Yeah, would you mind turning it up
a little so I can see it too. I don't
think he's your uncle. No, no, And I don't think
they're your relatives at all. I think they are a
bunch of of impostors.

Speaker 8 (01:47:39):
Ill I do.

Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
You may be right? Yeah, how can you be so stupid? Well,
it comes easy after you reach the first plateau, I'm had.

Speaker 26 (01:47:59):
Edgar.

Speaker 1 (01:47:59):
Well, let's Carol Richard.

Speaker 24 (01:48:07):
I hope you'll excuse my coming out early Edgar.

Speaker 13 (01:48:09):
But I've been so anxious to meet Mortimer. Oh he's
really cute.

Speaker 7 (01:48:17):
Mortimer.

Speaker 1 (01:48:17):
Don't tell me you're a shrinking violet, well not exactly,
more distinctly type. Come on now, mortiemer, don't be afraid
of me. No, tee, I think you've any seen Carol.

Speaker 40 (01:48:35):
Yeah, go ahead, you see a pair of last night.

Speaker 24 (01:48:50):
And suddenly your din di You'll think nothing's wrong and
spring along boy, then snapse eyes those sides there pow
the tan the trap. You're hand in hands beneath the trees,

(01:49:14):
and soon there's music in the breeze. You're acting kind
of smug until your heart just goes wept. Those trees
that breeze their power the trap.

Speaker 26 (01:49:34):
So starry night.

Speaker 18 (01:49:37):
When you kissing make you single.

Speaker 24 (01:49:42):
He'll hold your hands and you'll hate yourself for these
single and all at once the things so nice. The
trees are throwing shoes and rice. You hurry to a sun.

Speaker 1 (01:50:01):
That just the dan and loom map.

Speaker 24 (01:50:08):
You under how it all came about.

Speaker 40 (01:50:12):
It's too late now there's no get nut.

Speaker 7 (01:50:16):
You fell in.

Speaker 22 (01:50:17):
Love, and love is the tendard trap.

Speaker 24 (01:50:24):
SNU doesn't make you see. He hold your head and
you hate yourself for being seen all all.

Speaker 13 (01:50:42):
I want to see some mass and.

Speaker 24 (01:50:45):
The folks to throw and shoes right from your hurry
to a spot that just the dun loom mat.

Speaker 40 (01:50:57):
You and never all came about.

Speaker 16 (01:51:02):
It's too late now, no getna.

Speaker 13 (01:51:06):
You fell him a love.

Speaker 1 (01:51:27):
Now it is time for our meet the People Department.
Our guest Tonight is one of the foremost ethnologists in
the United States, and his name is known the world
over as one of the outstanding authorities on the American Indian.
He holds the position of director of the Southwest Museum
in Los Angeles. Here he is Doctor Frederick Webb Hodge.

(01:51:54):
Good evening, Doctor Hodge. Now, this is a real pleasure
to have you with us tonight. And I realize it
may not exactly be good form to inquire into a
person's age. You know, Jack Vinnie seems to dislike such probing,
But I'm confessed that I'm curious about you. Is your
age a secret? Doctor? No, I'm thirty nine.

Speaker 7 (01:52:12):
Oh no, not you too.

Speaker 1 (01:52:16):
This is contagious. No, seriously, doctor Hodge. About how old
are you? Mister Bergan to tell the truth, I was
ninety one the twenty eighth of last month. Well, ninety
one years. Well, isn't that wonderful? And how did you
celebrate your birthday? My friends? Give me a party? Who

(01:52:37):
really had a grand time? Oh yeah, Doctor Hodge. As
the world's foremost authority on the American Indian, you've probably
devoted great portion of your life to the study, haven't you. There.
As a lad in Washington, DC, I became interested in
Indians and I never have outgrown that lure. It's been
most fortunate for the loved one's work. It's one of

(01:52:58):
the secrets of longevity, I believe. Yeah. Well, now, while
we're on the subject of longevity, you you certainly should
have some ideas on that. What is your thinking about? Oh,
smoking and liquor. Well, for years I've smoked a pack
and a half a day, and I enjoy an occasional drink.
But my friends have always insisted I should indulge only
in moderation if I want to live to a ripe

(01:53:20):
old age. And I your friends as chipper as you, Oh,
most of them have passed on ice. They probably didn't
take their own advice. Well, so you've given up alcoholic beverages.

Speaker 4 (01:53:35):
Then, haven't you not?

Speaker 1 (01:53:36):
Altogether? I still like a nightcap before retiring. I hope
you're not like every clinker. You don't find yourself retiring
two or three times a night. Now, Oh, no, one,
old fashion is quite enough for me. And undoubtedly you
subscribe to getting ten hours of sleeper night. I prefer
to eight hours sleep, but can get along on seven,
and I have thrived on six. When I was prepared

(01:53:57):
the Handbook of the American Indian, it was not on
usual for me to sit up during research, writing, reading
proof until two or three o'clock every morning. This lasted
for eleven years. Well, you certainly do contradict all the
rules I've ever heard laid down for long axevity. Yes, well,
maybe so. But my opinion, there's nothing more important than

(01:54:17):
leading a normal life. If I have a formula, it
can probably be summed up as happy work, happy friends,
happy family. I'm most fortunate being married to a charming,
wonderful woman. I have good friends in my life's work
has been one I love. And you mentioned that you've
been interested in Indian since you were a boy. How
did you have to make it your profession. Well, I

(01:54:38):
became Field Secretary of the Hemandway Expedition in eighteen eighty six.
That was the first organized archeological expedition into the Southwest.
And on the way, did you happen to pass Jack
Benny in a covered wagon?

Speaker 13 (01:54:53):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:54:53):
But the expedition was a great success, and after my
return to Washington, d C. In eighteen eighty nine, I
joined the Bureau of a American Ethnology of the Swiss
Land Institution. Well, now, what about the famous Hawiku expedition
that you organized? Well, under the auspice of the Museum
of the American Indian New York, we made expeditions to
excavate the Hawaku Ruin in New Mexico, which was identified

(01:55:15):
as one of the so called seven cities of Cebulazi
Indians of old I see now you conducting these excavations.
Just what do you look for? And what is the
index of the culture of the people. Is that the
things they've left behind? I suppose? Well primary in most instance. Yes, However,
the real test of the Indians culture is not always

(01:55:37):
discernible in the material things they leave. The Iroquois, for instance,
left very little, yet they had reached perhaps the highest
degree of culture than any other Indian tribes of the
North American north of Mexico. Well, in what way would
you say that did the Iroquois exceed that of other Indians? Well,

(01:55:57):
in a great variety of ways, one of which where
was the freedom enjoyed by their women? They had women's suffrage,
And bear in mind that was many, many years before
our own women were so privileged. Now that is really surprising.
Now did he air quiet women ever exercise there what
shall we call it voting rights?

Speaker 8 (01:56:15):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:56:15):
Indeed, the men could not even go to war without
permission of the women. I'd be a good way to
eliminate war. By the time the women get through talking
it over, the crisis will be over.

Speaker 21 (01:56:27):
All.

Speaker 1 (01:56:28):
They could just send the women, doctor Hodge, You are
now director of the Southwest Museum here in our city,
isn't there right? Not exactly. I have been director of
the museum for twenty three years, but at the close
of January I took a sabbatical leave, I see, to
sort of rest up a little bit of well, of
course not. I took the leave and not to vote

(01:56:48):
by full time, to research for the Department of Justice
Indian Claims Commission. In other words, as my mother used
to say, it's like stopping work to haul timber. In
other words, you busier than ever now. Oh yes, we
are endeavoring to suddenly apache Indians suit against the United
States government for land said to have been taken from them,

(01:57:10):
thus involving large parts of the Southwest, and to run
into many millions of dollars. Sounds like a very important job. Well,
doctor had I want to thank you for being our
guest tonight. A man like you, who is ninety one
years young is certainly an inspiration to the rest of us.
And you miss a bergen, and it's getting a little late,
so if you'd like, I'll drive you home after the show.
Oh there's no hurry to get home. Let's have a nightcap.

Speaker 7 (01:57:35):
Well, let's live it up.

Speaker 1 (01:57:36):
And thank you again, doctor Hie, and thank you ladies
and gentlemen. Gary Crosby returns to sing. All at once
you love her, you start.

Speaker 21 (01:58:01):
To lie her cigarettes and all the world you love.

Speaker 1 (01:58:12):
Word you scarcely time, you scarcely.

Speaker 7 (01:58:20):
Man, all the worse you love?

Speaker 20 (01:58:26):
You heard.

Speaker 18 (01:58:29):
You like her?

Speaker 7 (01:58:32):
Do you tell so?

Speaker 21 (01:58:36):
She makes? You're wise and cleanse.

Speaker 1 (01:58:43):
You kissed good night.

Speaker 7 (01:58:47):
And then you know.

Speaker 21 (01:58:50):
You kiss good night feb You wonder where your heart
can gold? The lens you.

Speaker 1 (01:59:13):
Use to use, the hard a lion, bigger a cigarette.

Speaker 21 (01:59:22):
All in world you love.

Speaker 19 (01:59:29):
You have scarcely talked, Yes, you scarcely man, all in
woe you love?

Speaker 7 (01:59:43):
You like her?

Speaker 21 (01:59:46):
You tell her so, she thanks, You're wise?

Speaker 19 (01:59:57):
You kiss good night, You kiss good night, and then
you know, and then you know you care's good night.

Speaker 21 (02:00:10):
Do you wonderful your heart can go.

Speaker 40 (02:00:17):
As you know?

Speaker 1 (02:00:23):
And all that, ladies, gunman, Once again it is time

(02:00:48):
for our weekly excursion into the realm of culture. Mind,
our forum of intellectual titans bring their great wisdom and
perception to bear on the ever continuing scholastic debates whither literature?
Here they are Edgar Bergan at his end table. Thank you,

(02:01:11):
and good evening battle. Hi you kid, crazy man reading
Professor Kirkwood, Professor Noble And well if it isn't Martina Posner, Well,
if it isn't, the stort played a dirty trick on
the mother.

Speaker 8 (02:01:28):
He'll be enough.

Speaker 1 (02:01:29):
That's exactly what we perm said on this all. Yeah, gentlemen,
our subject for tonight is whether literature? Now just time
to discussion? Would you like to define the meaning of literature?
I say, you, chaps, Look, I should be quite good
on this subject. Really, you know I was born in
a library. No, no, you were actually born in a library.

(02:01:50):
Oh yes, yes, how is that possible?

Speaker 31 (02:01:52):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:01:53):
Mother kept trying to tell that, but the librarian kept saying, shy,
say your parents were smart than I brought you back
after two weeks. I did know, boy, After all, I
did have to be renewed. You know, there's a North
American van leaving for the Grand Canyon. Why don't you

(02:02:16):
get on it? Or better yet, get under it.

Speaker 8 (02:02:21):
That will do.

Speaker 1 (02:02:23):
Professor Kirkwood, what would you say is your favorite book?
Well it used to be Louis over on Third Street.
But the copscrabbed head. No no, oh too bad. Yeah
he was on the way of being Bookie of the month. Yeah,
bookie of the month. Yes, that was a loser. Pessa Kirkwood,

(02:02:46):
your education is sadly lacking. Oh you hurt me, boy,
I'll have you know.

Speaker 7 (02:02:52):
I went to school and I.

Speaker 39 (02:02:53):
Really enjoyed that day.

Speaker 1 (02:02:57):
I mean you only went to school one day, supposed
to go back. Let's continue now, Professor SNRD, who is
your favorite author? Well, I oh, I think i'd say, oh,
pand oh gosh, I oh, I know it all a
little more name. Uh it's more No, no that is

(02:03:21):
my name. No, no, no, no, he's dead to mercy here.
Oh when the beginning did not come, I asked you
who is your favorite author?

Speaker 18 (02:03:37):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:03:37):
Oh for Godfrey?

Speaker 7 (02:03:38):
No, no, that's three.

Speaker 1 (02:03:44):
Yeah, I hear he isn't around anymore. He just fired himself.

Speaker 7 (02:03:48):
All you gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (02:03:55):
Now, I'd like to get one sense of ale answer
from this panel. If I'm not being too optimistic, if
there's a noble. Do you know Dickens works?

Speaker 7 (02:04:03):
Oh, but I'm glad he got the job.

Speaker 1 (02:04:11):
I'm referring to Charles Dickens. Oh, ho, Sally Dickens, of course, yes,
how silly of me is Oh? His books have always
occupied an important position in our house?

Speaker 8 (02:04:19):
Is that all?

Speaker 1 (02:04:20):
Yes? Yes, see we have a table with one short leg. Yeah,
this is hard to believe. Haven't you read any of
Dickens's famous classics? You know you might enjoy Little Women? Oh,
I have enjoyed quite a few of them. Because when
we're still on the subject of literature, and I think

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I change it for the better. This is awful. Our
modern writers have been compared unfavorably with the great fifteenth
and sixteenth century authors such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Bacon.

Speaker 7 (02:04:58):
Now more of it work, you awful? Guard all that.

Speaker 1 (02:05:15):
You will?

Speaker 21 (02:05:17):
Well what do you think?

Speaker 1 (02:05:18):
I wasn't thinking?

Speaker 24 (02:05:19):
Not?

Speaker 8 (02:05:20):
How would you cot there?

Speaker 1 (02:05:21):
The modern ones with Shakespeare, Chaucer and Bacon. Well, I'll
have some, you'll have some.

Speaker 21 (02:05:28):
That's some.

Speaker 15 (02:05:28):
What some about Bacon?

Speaker 1 (02:05:29):
No, I'm speaking of Francis Bacon. Oh the mule, No nothing,
this is Bacon, the man. Oh, call me out. I
ain't no cannon ball. I shouldn't that, gentlemen, this is
a discussion on literature. Certainly you have read some books.

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I just read that book about a Bad Day.

Speaker 7 (02:05:58):
Yeah, about a.

Speaker 1 (02:06:00):
Bad das Pandana. Yeah, you know, The Naked and the Dead.
Yeah yeah, I say, did any of you chat to
read that new English bestseller The Typewriter Murder Mystery? Or
Who Shifted Lady Chamblay's Carriage? My favorite is one of

(02:06:26):
those Mother Goose stories, you know, like little Boy Blue
Can Blow Your Nose.

Speaker 39 (02:06:31):
No better man than I am.

Speaker 1 (02:06:38):
I say, that's the book I'm waiting for. Just between
our thoughts is the new Kinsey Report. Yeah, oh yes,
This one's on the love Life of the mashed Potato.
The Love Life of the Mashed Potato. Yes, so, boy,
you'll be surprised at what goes on under that gravy.

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I gotta take a look. Sometimes we are here, I
repeat again, to discuss the basic difference between modern and
classical literature, and there are many of them. Mortimer, would
you like to illustrate? I say, would you like to illustrate?

Speaker 13 (02:07:14):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:07:14):
I feel are I maintain that we're taking this subject
too lightly? Now you know that Socrates what he said
about the importance of literature. No, I don't think I
was listening. Now he said it before you were born.

Speaker 7 (02:07:36):
Well, I know I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (02:07:40):
For your information, Socrates lived many years ago in old Greece.
I say he must have been a rancid old ray.
You're not trying to keep this on a level feel
at all. I just can't cope with this abysmal ignorance
being shown here tonight, this monumental illiteracy, the crash, superficiality,

(02:08:02):
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Enjoy you Philip Morris, the gentle cigarette. And now here
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half a loaf is better than no. Rest of all
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the same time night at Aberger Show with Jack Kirkwood,
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in Hollywood by Sam Pears, stripped by Fire Rose Hill
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Speaker 3 (02:11:43):
Not a bad fifty five minute show at all. Edgar Bergen,
the New Edgar Bergen Hour coming from seventy years ago.
November twenty fifth, nineteen fifty five. You're on Classic radio
theater with Wyatt talks. Let's check in with Claudie and Day.
But next.

Speaker 12 (02:12:06):
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or some other catastrophe. Here's something important to remember. It
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the phone, leave the line clear for safety of your
own life and the lives of others.

Speaker 3 (02:12:34):
Now we go back seventy eight years November twenty fifth,
nineteen forty seven, with more issues with the new apartment
of Claudia and David.

Speaker 30 (02:12:45):
Your Coca Cola butler presents Claudia Claudia based on the
original stories by Rose Franklin, 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 21 (02:13:13):
Have a coke.

Speaker 32 (02:13:21):
And now, Claudia, David your home.

Speaker 11 (02:13:33):
How wonderful you said, five o'clock and five o'clock it is.

Speaker 9 (02:13:37):
I broke my neck and make it everything better?

Speaker 11 (02:13:39):
Be ready, Everything is ready. Fritz is coming to help
with the bags. They're all in the bunch in the
living room.

Speaker 9 (02:13:44):
Well, how does it feel to be moving into your
own apartment, missus Norton?

Speaker 11 (02:13:47):
Marvelous, most marvelous thing it ever happened to me, most
next to getting married, of course.

Speaker 9 (02:13:53):
So now we gather up our small caravan, and in
the dimming light of afternoon, we take leave of the
beautiful land of apartment two eve. Turning our face to
the sunset, we say goodbye to the natives. Goodbye bye, goodbye, bye, goodbye.

Speaker 11 (02:14:14):
I was up in the apartment this afternoon and the
sun was coming in, and oh it looked.

Speaker 9 (02:14:19):
Beautiful, beautiful and empty. I looked empty.

Speaker 11 (02:14:22):
It was full of painters, buckets and brushes and ladders
and canvases, and stop.

Speaker 8 (02:14:27):
Is that all?

Speaker 9 (02:14:28):
Didn't the beds come?

Speaker 11 (02:14:30):
The mattresses in the box springs came. Of course, we
have our chair, so we're practically set. We can move
right in. Oh. Yes, pots and pans arrived too.

Speaker 9 (02:14:37):
How the painting look I loved the colors we picked.

Speaker 11 (02:14:41):
It's hard to tell her. It was wet, and the
colors underneath kept peeking through.

Speaker 18 (02:14:44):
There were two painters, tall.

Speaker 11 (02:14:45):
One and a short one.

Speaker 9 (02:14:46):
Were they almost finished?

Speaker 11 (02:14:48):
They didn't look almost finished to me, but they promised
they would be by five. I think I'll call mama.

Speaker 13 (02:14:54):
What for?

Speaker 9 (02:14:55):
Why don't you ask her to come and watch for herself.

Speaker 11 (02:14:57):
She offered, but I said no. She'd wanted to do
all the work of unpacking and putting away, and she
get all tired up.

Speaker 8 (02:15:03):
Who have it?

Speaker 11 (02:15:04):
Come over later tonight when it's all set.

Speaker 9 (02:15:06):
That's all right.

Speaker 11 (02:15:07):
Wonder where Fritz is.

Speaker 9 (02:15:09):
He'll be along.

Speaker 11 (02:15:10):
Oh, the new tenants coming in his fixed I'll be
lifeed here.

Speaker 9 (02:15:14):
He's only a man's what's the matter with that?

Speaker 11 (02:15:17):
I mean, he's not married. I don't see how a
man lives in an apartment not married.

Speaker 9 (02:15:21):
Lots of men do poor things.

Speaker 11 (02:15:24):
He suppose I have to live somewhere though. Hello, Mama,
we're all set to go any minutes. You know it's
clean here.

Speaker 18 (02:15:30):
You saw it.

Speaker 11 (02:15:31):
How could I mess it up in an hour?

Speaker 18 (02:15:33):
This movie?

Speaker 11 (02:15:34):
Come over later. We'll call you from upstairs when we're in.
Give her my love, David says, give you his love. Oh,
there's Fritz. Now, goodbye and be good. You answered, and
I'll go put on my hat and coat.

Speaker 9 (02:15:47):
You don't need to, you're just moving upstairs to the
twelfth floor. Remember, Oh, Fritz, all ready for you.

Speaker 17 (02:15:55):
Asked mister Norton.

Speaker 11 (02:15:56):
I I don't know how to tell you, Hello, Fritz,
We're right on schedule.

Speaker 17 (02:16:00):
Missus Norton. The painters they are not finished.

Speaker 11 (02:16:02):
They are, but they promised, David, they promised.

Speaker 9 (02:16:05):
Now what happened for it?

Speaker 11 (02:16:06):
I was up there this afternoon? They said they one
had to go home, Oh, go home in the middle
of the afternoon, the tall one, of the short one.
The short one, Oh, the short one, he was the
only good one.

Speaker 9 (02:16:17):
How much did they get done?

Speaker 8 (02:16:18):
For it?

Speaker 17 (02:16:18):
Had the bedroom oilmos, the living room oilmos, the kitchen
and the hall.

Speaker 11 (02:16:24):
That's about as much as they've done this afternoon, is
any of it? Dry?

Speaker 17 (02:16:28):
Hall is wet and step leaders and pins over? But
always hippens, especially these days. What can you do?

Speaker 9 (02:16:34):
Have people do something they haven't been able to so far.

Speaker 17 (02:16:37):
And they promised they finished.

Speaker 11 (02:16:39):
To missus better. I'm not gonna live with two painters,
but I guess we might as well get started upstairs,
of course where else.

Speaker 17 (02:16:48):
But you can't go upstairs to move in, now, why not?

Speaker 11 (02:16:51):
We won't touch anything. And if the kitchen's finished, we
can put all the bags in there.

Speaker 9 (02:16:55):
But Darling, they smell of painters terrible.

Speaker 17 (02:16:58):
Oh I know in the heat is open the windows.
They must all be closed.

Speaker 9 (02:17:02):
I must they be so the paint won't get all
sooty before it's dry.

Speaker 11 (02:17:06):
Oh well, we just have to smother, that's all. It's
not the way I expected to move.

Speaker 17 (02:17:11):
But it can't be helped, mister Norton.

Speaker 21 (02:17:13):
I think that.

Speaker 9 (02:17:14):
I don't think so either, Claudia. We cannot move into
that apartment tonight.

Speaker 11 (02:17:19):
I don't mind a little paint and stuff, and it's
really I don't.

Speaker 21 (02:17:21):
Well I do.

Speaker 9 (02:17:22):
Besides, the painters come in early. All these boxes and
bags and beds will be in the way. We're not
moving tonight. That's impossible, impossible or not.

Speaker 11 (02:17:31):
We'll have do. We can't stay here, can we free?

Speaker 17 (02:17:34):
The new tenant coied even to be here at six?
I'm so sorry, missus Norton.

Speaker 11 (02:17:39):
Oh, it's not your fault, Fritz.

Speaker 9 (02:17:40):
And don't give it a second thought, Fritz. We'll be
out of here long before six.

Speaker 17 (02:17:43):
Well you leave the bags, mister Norton. Now we put
them downstairs into storage.

Speaker 9 (02:17:47):
Fine, they'll be right here in the living room and
I come back up.

Speaker 11 (02:17:51):
Well, good bye, fridz bye Fred.

Speaker 9 (02:17:56):
Well now what, No, Darling, it's not that tretched.

Speaker 1 (02:17:59):
I know.

Speaker 11 (02:18:00):
Oh, it isn't tragedy. I don't mind too much. Really,
I guess we can't always have everything.

Speaker 9 (02:18:04):
Just the way we want. Now, what a hotel? Would
you like to stay at?

Speaker 36 (02:18:08):
Hotel?

Speaker 11 (02:18:09):
Can you move into a hotel just like that?

Speaker 9 (02:18:11):
Why not? That's what hotels are for.

Speaker 11 (02:18:14):
We're not from out of town.

Speaker 9 (02:18:15):
I'll feel funny, you will feel wonderful. We'll have dinner downstairs,
get a room that overlooks the park, have breakfast sent up.
You'll never want to leave, Darling.

Speaker 13 (02:18:25):
It's so expensive.

Speaker 9 (02:18:26):
It's not so bad. Besides, there's no choice. There isn't none.

Speaker 11 (02:18:31):
Well, we'll be kind of exciting, like another honeymoon, A
short one, short but sweet. Oh I wish I hadn't
packed my best night.

Speaker 9 (02:18:38):
Guy, I'll buy you another one on the way.

Speaker 11 (02:18:40):
And apparent of slippers and the lacy neglationis.

Speaker 9 (02:18:42):
Anything you want? This is your night, missus Naughton. We're celebrate,
not moving.

Speaker 22 (02:18:46):
It's a day.

Speaker 11 (02:18:47):
Quick call a hotel, David.

Speaker 9 (02:18:49):
All right, now, let's see. I'll call the Goram.

Speaker 18 (02:18:52):
The Goram, David.

Speaker 11 (02:18:53):
You don't have to lose your head.

Speaker 9 (02:18:55):
The Goram.

Speaker 39 (02:18:55):
It is for my wife.

Speaker 9 (02:18:57):
The best I know the number of some of our
uh best out of town clients go there. Hello, uh
room clerk, please, uh thanks, I'll hold on, David.

Speaker 11 (02:19:09):
I just thought if something. You can't get rooms in hotels.

Speaker 9 (02:19:12):
These days, just a roomor you can always get one
room and.

Speaker 11 (02:19:15):
A bath, and I hope you're right.

Speaker 9 (02:19:18):
Oh hell, hell hello, I'd uh like to make a
reservation for a room and uh bath for tonight. What's that?

Speaker 21 (02:19:27):
No?

Speaker 9 (02:19:28):
Not for a week from tonight? For tonight? Oh no,
I don't care to send my bags and wait in
the lobby.

Speaker 4 (02:19:37):
Thank you?

Speaker 9 (02:19:38):
Uh say, uh, can you suggest any other hotel that
might be able to take us in? I can't. Eh,
it's as bad as that. Well goodbye, no room, he says.
People are sitting up in the lobby. Oh well, here,
give me that book. I have an idea.

Speaker 11 (02:19:56):
Try and sound as if you're from out of town.
Maybe down'll hill.

Speaker 9 (02:19:59):
Any show part of the country to sound distinguished. It's
a big order. The Slater here we are. I should
have called the Slater in the first place. They've got
thousands of rooms and they pride themselves on their hospitality.

Speaker 11 (02:20:12):
David is getting to be almost six o'clock.

Speaker 8 (02:20:15):
Don't rush me.

Speaker 9 (02:20:17):
M Hello Slater hotel. Uh, kind of connect me with
the room clerk.

Speaker 36 (02:20:25):
Please.

Speaker 9 (02:20:26):
I desire to make a reservation for my wife and
myself with a bath.

Speaker 32 (02:20:30):
Please.

Speaker 4 (02:20:31):
It's working, it's working.

Speaker 13 (02:20:33):
Will you be able to keep it up all.

Speaker 9 (02:20:34):
Night till we get in that room?

Speaker 32 (02:20:36):
I will.

Speaker 21 (02:20:38):
Hello?

Speaker 32 (02:20:39):
Oh hello?

Speaker 9 (02:20:41):
This year is mister Norton, a mister gaylord Ravenald Norton.
I desire to make a room reservation for myself and
my wife with a bath, but this year evening? Please
it what's that you say that? Well, sir, it's either
tonight or it's never. Is this Northern hospitality? Well you
come down south, son, up, I'll come down son. Certainly

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you have one room in that big hotel. Not until
a week from.

Speaker 32 (02:21:08):
Next isyre.

Speaker 9 (02:21:10):
No, I don't want a room a week from next Thursday.
I want it tonight. Oh, you'll take a reservation my name,
Send it to Claghorn, Son, Send her to Claghorns.

Speaker 11 (02:21:22):
What's the matter with this, David? Doesn't anybody love us?

Speaker 9 (02:21:25):
They love us all right. They want us to sleep
on a park bench.

Speaker 11 (02:21:28):
Might be nice, but a little cold for southern gentleman
and his bride.

Speaker 9 (02:21:32):
Give me that book. I'll get us a.

Speaker 8 (02:21:34):
Room or hope.

Speaker 11 (02:21:35):
Listen, you know it. There's just no room anywhere. That's
short notice.

Speaker 9 (02:21:39):
What do other people do?

Speaker 11 (02:21:40):
Stay with relatives?

Speaker 9 (02:21:41):
We haven't got any relatives.

Speaker 11 (02:21:43):
We've got out Louise.

Speaker 9 (02:21:44):
No, I'm not going to Aunt Louise.

Speaker 11 (02:21:46):
Either, am I?

Speaker 8 (02:21:48):
Why not?

Speaker 11 (02:21:49):
Mama?

Speaker 21 (02:21:49):
Mama?

Speaker 9 (02:21:50):
What does she have to do with this everything?

Speaker 11 (02:21:52):
She's gotten rid of the extra bed and is getting
the self a coveroared, So we can't stay there with her?

Speaker 21 (02:21:56):
All right?

Speaker 9 (02:21:57):
Then we can't stay with her, but we'll go to
Aunt Louise.

Speaker 11 (02:22:01):
Baby, listen to me. We will go to Mama's and
send Mama to Aunt Louise's.

Speaker 9 (02:22:05):
Why should mother have to stay at Aunt Louisa's If
I don't want now, you leave this to me.

Speaker 11 (02:22:10):
Mama won't mind. I know it. As a matter of fact,
you'll probably enjoy it. Mama.

Speaker 18 (02:22:26):
You home, No, I'm out, that's good, sore. We where
are you in your new apartment? Because we came to
visit you a fine time to visit?

Speaker 9 (02:22:35):
Oh we thought so that's why we're visiting.

Speaker 11 (02:22:37):
Well, aren't you gonna ask us to sit down?

Speaker 18 (02:22:39):
Sit down?

Speaker 13 (02:22:39):
Sit down?

Speaker 9 (02:22:40):
I'm sitting down.

Speaker 18 (02:22:41):
Well, now that we're all sitting down, Claudia, what are
you and David and Cat doing here?

Speaker 25 (02:22:46):
We just told you visiting.

Speaker 18 (02:22:48):
If you too, don't stop acting like nincome poops, I'll
send you back to your apartment. You should be there anyway.

Speaker 11 (02:22:54):
You're very hospitable.

Speaker 18 (02:22:56):
What's the matter? Don't you like it?

Speaker 9 (02:22:58):
We like it better here.

Speaker 18 (02:23:00):
Well, don't feel as if you have to sit around
and talk to me? Run along. I can help you all.
Come over later.

Speaker 13 (02:23:06):
We won't be there.

Speaker 18 (02:23:07):
You won't know. Oh, going out this evening, Yes.

Speaker 9 (02:23:11):
We thought we'd go out after all. Just because we've
got an apartment doesn't mean we have to stay in it.

Speaker 18 (02:23:15):
Like two birds in the cave YouTube, birds belong in
the cave. I mean you better hurry.

Speaker 11 (02:23:20):
You'll be late.

Speaker 18 (02:23:21):
I will.

Speaker 11 (02:23:21):
You will late to dinner? You're going out to dinner?

Speaker 36 (02:23:24):
I am?

Speaker 9 (02:23:25):
You am?

Speaker 18 (02:23:26):
My dinner is in the stove. Thank you already for me?

Speaker 21 (02:23:29):
Good?

Speaker 9 (02:23:30):
Then Claudia won't have to cook.

Speaker 11 (02:23:31):
I get your hair.

Speaker 18 (02:23:32):
I don't want my hair.

Speaker 9 (02:23:33):
You'd better word mother. You don't want to catch cold?

Speaker 18 (02:23:36):
David? Where am I going to to catch cold? Mm?

Speaker 9 (02:23:38):
On your way to Aunt Louisa's you're having dinner with her.

Speaker 18 (02:23:41):
Of course dinner, and spend the night all the night too.
I see, does Aunt Louisa by any chance know it?

Speaker 11 (02:23:49):
Certainly she knows that I and find it.

Speaker 18 (02:23:50):
Thank you very much. Now what is this all about?

Speaker 11 (02:23:54):
Still doesn't understanding?

Speaker 9 (02:23:55):
Very slow witted your mother explain to her, we are
orphans in the night, Mama. If you do not open
up your big heart to us, we will have to
sleep on a park bench.

Speaker 11 (02:24:04):
Painters like the apartment so much they decided to stand
another day.

Speaker 18 (02:24:07):
You're out of one apartment and not in the other.

Speaker 9 (02:24:09):
See she's not so slow in a day, It just
takes little time.

Speaker 18 (02:24:12):
You've decided to come home to your poor old mother's
doorstep and.

Speaker 9 (02:24:15):
Then send our poor old mother over to Aunt Louisa's doorstep.

Speaker 18 (02:24:18):
And what's the matter with your going there?

Speaker 11 (02:24:20):
Aunt Louisa has asthma, and we have Shakespeare.

Speaker 9 (02:24:23):
And there's not a hotel in New York that'll have us.

Speaker 11 (02:24:25):
I wish we could invite you to stay with us here,
but we haven't got the room.

Speaker 18 (02:24:29):
I wouldn't spend another night with you two for a
million dollars, David, give her a million dollars.

Speaker 9 (02:24:33):
Have you got a blank check.

Speaker 21 (02:24:34):
Mother.

Speaker 11 (02:24:35):
You better hurry. Mom, it's getting late. Remember you're invited
for dinner.

Speaker 9 (02:24:39):
And we're invited for dinner tomorrow.

Speaker 15 (02:24:40):
Night serves you.

Speaker 11 (02:24:42):
Right, Oh the ingratitude.

Speaker 18 (02:24:44):
Here's your hat, cord you stop missing My hair looks.

Speaker 9 (02:24:47):
Nice over one eye. Not your hair, your hat.

Speaker 11 (02:24:49):
Here's your coat.

Speaker 9 (02:24:50):
Put your chin up, mother, I'll button it.

Speaker 8 (02:24:53):
In your coat.

Speaker 18 (02:24:54):
Get away from me.

Speaker 11 (02:24:56):
We're only trying to hell.

Speaker 18 (02:24:57):
I'm going. I can't get away fast, Mama.

Speaker 11 (02:25:01):
Call us when you get there. You don't feel as
if we'd driven you out?

Speaker 18 (02:25:06):
Oh no, why should I feel?

Speaker 15 (02:25:07):
Laugh?

Speaker 22 (02:25:08):
Well, you just might.

Speaker 11 (02:25:10):
Good night, Mama. Don't cross the streets and the lights
are green and oh mama, what, No, I've got an idea.
Why don't you come over here for breakfast in the morning.

Speaker 9 (02:25:20):
Yes, don't stand on formality.

Speaker 11 (02:25:22):
Just drop in, mama, as if the place belonged to you.

Speaker 30 (02:25:35):
This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William
Brown Maloney. Unless you're so busy that you can't get
out of the house, you'll certainly do a large part
of your Thanksgiving marketing today to avoid the last minute

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rush when you're buying the food and fixings. Don't forget
to ask for that case of coca cola, which plays
such a large part in all Gala days. And remember
you can shop refreshed if you take time to stop
at that familiar red cooler or a delicious ice cold coke.
H Every day, Monday through Friday, Claudia comes to you,

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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 au revoir. And remember,
whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be,
when you think of refreshment, think of coca cola or

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ice cold. Coca Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes.

Speaker 3 (02:27:20):
Seventy eight years ago, November twenty fifth, nineteen forty seven,
Claudia here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cogs. Thanks
for making us a part of your Tuesday. We'll join
you again tomorrow for more Classic Radio Theater with some
fun shows including Jimmy Duranty, Arthur Treacher trying to sell

(02:27:42):
us Turkey Father Knows Best, just an ordinary Thanksgiving at
the Anderson House, Bibber and Molly Jack Benny as they
have their dinner over at Mary Livingston's house, and another
episode of Claudia. Thanks for being with us here, We'll
see tomorrow. For more classic radio you Theater, I'm Wyatt Cox.

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