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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now it's the Aldrich Family on NBC. But first, this
is Bob McKenzie. Beginning Monday, over most of these stations,
two of your favorite NBC friends will be coming to
you at a new time. The first will be Bob
Hope and his quips and comments, and by the way,
Bob's guest editor this coming week will be screen Star
and Baxter. The second will be that master of the
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easy style, Dave Garroway. Now a lot of us have
gotten into the habit of tuning in the boys, So
check your newspaper for broadcast times and listen at the
new time Monday for two of the most entertaining fifteen
minutes in radio with Bob Hope and Dave Garroway. Now
it's the Aldrich Family on NBC.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Henry, Henry Aldrich coming mother.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, if the Oldrish Family is time to scribe, let
me by.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Put a goal.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Say. The everyday existence of an average teenage boy like
Henry Aldridge is always a very complicated affair. Life is
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one crisis after another, and if the normal run of
problems isn't baffling enough, there are always adults around to
make things even more difficult. The scene opens in the
Aldridge breakfast nook and the time is morning.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Well, San, it's good to have you downstairs again.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Thank you, Alice, Good morning everybody.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Henry, don't you know you shouldn't whistle?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
We're not married.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Don't you realize father's just recovering from a virus attack.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Oh did it disturb your father?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well?
Speaker 8 (01:56):
I did feel a slight draft, Saan, I just happened
to a what if.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You've got in your hand?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
I forgot to take.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Your temperature before you came down, as.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
You're not going to take my temperature at the breakfast table.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
But dear, I really think we should I haven't had
any temperature for three days.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Father.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Is there anything I can do for you?
Speaker 7 (02:14):
No?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Mary?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Harry, Oh, she wish I forgot here?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Sam, take this scarf and pull your bathrobe collar up.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
Aris, I don't need anything more around my neck.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Can I get you anything farther?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
No?
Speaker 9 (02:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
I just wish you'd all stop actings though I were dying.
After all, I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Out of bed back.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The doctor says I can stay downstairs two hours today.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
May I have the hotcakes and sausage? Please?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Here? Dear?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Why can't I have hotcakes and sausage, because milk toast is.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Better for you.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
That's all I've had for five days.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well there, if you continue to improve, how would you
like a boiled potato for dinner?
Speaker 9 (02:53):
That is certainly something to look forward to.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
If I eat my milk toast this morning, I may
have a boiled potato tonight, Henry.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I'm sorry, Mary.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Can't you see that Father is already irritable?
Speaker 9 (03:07):
But I mean I'm miritable.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Oh, by the way, Mary, when you come home this afternoon,
will you be sure to put the vegetables on in
time for dinner?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Hope?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
But Mother, I've got to run over to the hospital
this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
The hospital.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Married, Yes, Henry.
Speaker 9 (03:18):
Any reason why Joe Graham can't come over here?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Father, he's an intern.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
He only has two hours off, and I told him
i'd meet him there instead of his coming all the
way over here.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Well, and Henry, you'll have to get the vegetables ready
when you get home from school.
Speaker 9 (03:31):
Yes, Mother, must Henry get the vegetables ready.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Oh my goodness, Sam, I don't know why you can't
peel a few potatoes and drop them in a pot.
After all, I promised to work at the Red Cross today.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
I mean I'm going to be left alone all day, Henry.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Didn't Marry ask you not to whistle?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yes, Mother, I just can't get that tune out of
my head. And father, don't you worry about a single thing.
I'll be home the minute school is out and do
anything I can to make you feel better.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
That's fine, dear.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I'll take your temperature, Henry, I don't have a temperature.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Well, then i'll keep you bundled up.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
I don't want to be bundled up.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
She whizz and I'll just peel the potatoes splendid. Hey,
hold on a sec Hey, Henry, wait a minute, I'll
walk down the hall with you.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Well, hurry up, we'll be late for biology. Have you
done your assignment for today?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I sort of glanced through at Homer.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
But that's all right. I don't have to know it.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
What do you mean you don't have to know it?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Homer?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I got miss Walkers system all figured out. They haven't
you ever noticed what she does?
Speaker 10 (04:36):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well? She always calls in us alphabetically, that's a fact.
And last time she stopped way down in the case.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Oh no, Henry, you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
She stopped with w and there's only one other person
after that before she comes to Albridge.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Are you sure about that, Homer, Sure, I'm sure. That's
why I studied last night.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Today. She's a centised to call on the a's and
the bs. Well, she whizz, let me start studying this.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Well, you haven't time to crab now, Henry.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The bell's gonna ring any minute. But once, Homer. Once
back last November, she got off to w and then
started going backwards.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Well, how do you know she's gonna do it again?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
She might, Homer, She just might.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Boy, I pity you if she.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Doesn't, though, Henry, this is the last period of the day,
and she'll make you stay after school. But Homer, I
just can't stay after school today. Why not? I have
to go right home and peel my father what I mean,
the potatoes. Well, what do you have to peel potatoes for?
Because we're going to eat them? Oh, hold on, cut
it out, Homer.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
You know what I think I better do?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Maybe why get an excuse to go home and just
skip biology? Well you tell mister Bradley. Well, I'll just
tell them frankly that I've got to put the potatoes on.
But Henry, Homer, you going on the class. I'm gonna
go into mister Bradley's office here, Henry, will I take
potatoes for an excuse? I don't know why they wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
They're perfectly legal.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Solon.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Was there someone you wanted to see, Henry?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yesked, mister Bradley, if you haven't got anything on your mind, Yes,
I yes, sir, mister Bradley, I'd like to be excused
from biology today.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
He would, What for?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, I've got to help my mother get some vegetables ready.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I see you feel vegetables are more important than biology.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Well, but I've also promised to get home and take
care of my father.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Your father is ill, yes, sir. How serious is his illness?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Well, he was running a temperature of one hundred.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And three one hundred and three.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, sir, that was about four days ago, and nobody
knew what it was when I left this morning.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
The doctor wouldn't say.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
My father wouldn't even let anybody near him with a thermometer.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Well, I'm sorry to hear that about your father. Yes, sir, Henry.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Is there any reason why your mother couldn't prepare the vegetables?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, no, mister Bradley, not under ordinary circumstances.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
But she can't today though she's.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Out working working. Your mother's out working, Henry.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yes, mister Bradley, she feels it at a time like this.
It's the least she can do.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh, I didn't know about that. Your sister Mary isn't
working though, is she well?
Speaker 9 (06:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And she help at home. Well.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The only trouble is she had to go to the
hospital this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
To the hospital, yes, sir, to the general hospital.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, I guess there's only one thing we can do
under those circumstances.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I'll write off an excuse for you.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Thank you, mister Bradley.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
This all puts quite a responsibility on you, doesn't it, Henry.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Oh, I don't mind, mister Bradley. And I'm sure my
entire family will appreciate this.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
That I remember.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Your father wasn't present at the luncheon God Monday O No,
mister Bradley, come to think of it, I don't believe
he was present last week e.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
There wasn no, sir, it was just a week ago
today he began to go under.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
And how's your mother holding up?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well? You know, mother, father keeps saying he wishes she
wouldn't try to be two places at once. She'll exhaust
herself and him too.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Here's your excuse, my boy?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Well, thanks again, mister Bradley.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And Henry. Don't you worry too much about your schoolwork
doing this?
Speaker 6 (07:48):
No, said mister Bradley. I'll try not to. Can I
get you anything else?
Speaker 10 (08:03):
Father?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
No?
Speaker 9 (08:04):
Thank you? I have my book. Here is your pillow?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
All right?
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Yes, thank you?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Here?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
If your one more blanket?
Speaker 9 (08:09):
Over here, Henri, I don't want any more blankets now.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Please let me.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Read well, just in case you do want anything, I'll
be right here now where'd I leave my knife?
Speaker 9 (08:19):
What are you doing? Peeling potatoes? Right here? Next to
my bed?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I spread a newspaper on the floor.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Father.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
Do you know what?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Father?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I saw somebody once who could take the whole skin
off of potato in one long strip.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Bother Mmm, who wasn't the sailor in the newsreel? You
had a cat too?
Speaker 10 (08:45):
A cat?
Speaker 9 (08:46):
Who who has a cat?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
The sailor?
Speaker 9 (08:50):
Henry? I'm trying to read.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Oh excuse me.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know, mister Bradley's a pretty nice guy, isn't he.
He said he missed you at the luncheon, Yes, sir,
he said, he hoped we'd all bear up.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
Under this, bear up under?
Speaker 6 (09:05):
What? Well? You in bed? Me peeling?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Father?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Do you like that intern at the hospital Mary's going
over to see this afternoon?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, Henry, I do appreciate your helping, but I would
like very much to finish this book in peace and quiet.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Oh, jeeish, I keep forgetting. Oh boy, there's the telephone.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That's your mother phoning from the Red Cross tail at
to stop and get some magazines on.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
The way home.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Hello, Henry aside you.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yes, Homer, can you come over to my house and
walk on Tobaggen?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh no, Homer, not this afternoon?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Why not? Because I've got my father on my hands, Henry.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
If we don't finish on to Bagen this month, we'll
miss all a good slunting.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Well, wait a minute, Homer, hold the line.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Father, Well, father, would you mind if Homer came over
very quietly for a little while.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
I'll be delighted if you stay downstairs.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Gee, thanks, father, Homer, you can come over here.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
George Johnson is here with me. I'll bring him along
health and also Toby Smith. Oh well, all right, Homer.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Hen Henry, what do you think happen in biology today?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
What miss Walker?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Didn't even show up. He got the flu.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
He didn't have any class.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
No, goodbye.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Well imagine that she was.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Hello, Hello, Hello, is that you Johnson? This is Bradley
up at the high school, Wes Bradley. You're on my
committee at.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
The luncheon club, aren't you committee? The sick committee?
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yes, Johnson, I got some bad news this morning. Oh
is it Sam Aldridge. He's laid up?
Speaker 8 (10:43):
Sam Aldridge is.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And just between ourselves, Johnson, it's apparently rather serious. Oh yes,
in bed with a high temperature, and his wife's out working.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
His daughter's in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You don't say so, yes, evidently from what his son said,
the family has been having a hard time just making
ends meet.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
But Bradley, I just thought Sam Londrich was pretty well fixed.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
So did I.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Probably everything's been piling up until this is what you
might call a knockout glow. Well, well, and here's what
I suggest. Why don't we send flowers to Sam and
to his daughter too? Good idea, she's at the general hospital,
I believe, Henry said.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
And will you take care of that, Johnson?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
I certainly will. Oh, only I have a better.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Suggestion, if you don't mind, Yes, Instead, of sending flowers
to Sam, why don't we send something for the whole family,
Say basket of can goods.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You don't think he'd mind.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Oh, we don't have to say all what came from
to me?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Good idea? Take care of it. We do so well.
You buy Johnson?
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Come in?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Are you bitting, mister Bradley?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You wish to see me, miss rumpod.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Mister Bradley, is there any reason why when the Board
of Education buys window shades they can't buy good window shades?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
I'm speaking of the shades in the school cafeteria. Those
that are up won't come down, and those that are
down go up.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Miss Rumford, please sit down a moment.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
Yes, mister Bradley, that is all you have on your mind.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
But mister Bradley, there are fourteen windows in the cafeteria.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I'm afraid, Miss Rumford. Some of us don't know what
trouble really is.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
But you have Venetian blinds.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Mister Bradley, that is not what I'm referring to, Miss Rumford.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Let me tell you about a student in this school.
His father, we all suppose, was one of the most
successful practicing lawyers in town.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
It now appears, however, that the man is in desperate straits.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
The last I heard he had a temperature of one
hundred and three that was still rising. And there is
a daughter in the general hospital, and his mother works out,
and the boy himself has to do all the cooking
for the entire family. And yet some of the members
of the faculty here have been jumping on the boy
for not being able to keep his mind on his studies.
Is the right while the rest of us go around
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complaining because of window shade that's down, won't go up.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Hello, Bradley's office.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Oh, this is Johnson again.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
I just had another idea.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Yes, Johnson, I've.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Been talking, but the rest of the committee, Oh, why
don't I pick you up.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I'll go over and call.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
On Sam Aldridge this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Person, good idea. He's probably all alone.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Cheer him up a little, right, and Bradley, Yes, Johnson.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Why don't I try rounding.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Up our barbershop quartet.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
We'll return to the Aldridge family in just a moment.
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mother is helping at the Red Cross and Mary is
visiting at the hospital, Henry is asked to be excused
from school early in order to go home and take
care of his father, who was recovering from a cold.
His explanations, however, have been inadvertently misleading. The scene opens
in mister Aldrich's bedroom.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Father, would you like some toast and another cup of tea?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Are you sure you don't want.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Any I do not want another cup of tea. You
have been very helpful, Henry, all afternoon. Suppose now you
take up your potatoes and your pans and your pairing knife,
than these tea things and that cake and this picture
of lemonade, and go downstairs and let me.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Have a little sleep and leave you all along.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
I won't mind one bit.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh gee, father, I don't think mother would want you
to go to sleep without someone right here to take
the responsibility.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
I won't mention it to your mother.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll find something you
can thump on the floor with, just in case you
need me. And I wonder if there's anything here in.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
This closet, he Henry, please just forget I'm even up
here here.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Father, Which would you rather have this umbrella or this
baseball bat?
Speaker 9 (15:57):
I don't care either one.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Will go ahead tell me, After all, you're the one
that's gonna have to.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Do the thumb thing.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
I said, either one.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Well, I guess the bat would make the most noise, all.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Right, didn't give me the bat?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Oh here, I'll give you both and you can make
your own choice.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Now, I'll just take this tree down.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
What was that the top of the butter dish?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, look at it's right here by your bed. Just
leave it there, yes, sir, good bye. Now oops, I'll
come back to that one too, And you needn't come
back for it.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
Just leave and if you don't look out, you're gonna
drop another et it.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
You don't have to worry about a thing.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
Father, Hey, ray, hel ray, hen ray he all rich
(16:59):
that's a five?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
And think, hey, I was please that's the telephone. Oh yes, sir,
thet's pick up. What's left of this stun or dish?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Yes, sir? Hello, Hello?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (17:12):
What number did you call?
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Please?
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Father?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
What number did you call?
Speaker 9 (17:16):
I didn't call it any number.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well, I guess you call the wrong one operator.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
It's our mistake.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Well isn't that strange?
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Listen?
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Father?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Why do you think I found downstairs?
Speaker 10 (17:27):
What?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Well, just as I went down, I happen to see
somebody running off the front porch.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
So I opened the door. There was a great big
basket of groceries.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Why did the boy leave them at the front door.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Well, I don't know. It's cann goods and oranges and
there's two chickens.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Good theparently, your mother's playing to have a real dinner
for me for a change.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
And right on top of this basket there was a car.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
What does it say?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Head up, chin up, chest up, grin, step up, fuck up,
pep up grin. Why would the grocery leave a message
like that?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Probably the price of chicken has gone up again. Will
you please pick up that broken dish?
Speaker 10 (18:07):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Yes, father, Oh imagine that.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
What's the matter.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Oh it's all right. I just cut my finger on.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
A piece of the dish.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Let me see it.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
It isn't anything.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
If it's as deep as a lotion'd better put something
on it.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Well, I guess something in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 11 (18:20):
Farthery Hey, Ray, hen Ray, Henry, Henry, Where are my slippers?
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Hello?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
May I speak with missus Aldridge?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Please?
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Missus Ulrich isn't here?
Speaker 10 (18:38):
Is this?
Speaker 9 (18:38):
Mister?
Speaker 7 (18:39):
It is?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Well?
Speaker 7 (18:40):
This is miss Rumfred, the cafeteria manager up at the
high school.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yes, mister Aldridge. Do you suppose Missus Aldridge.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
Would lack a part time position in our lunch room.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
It wouldn't pay a great deal, of course, but you'd
get her lunch free, and after all, that would help.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
Would you say that again? Very slowly?
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Please?
Speaker 10 (19:02):
Father?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Did you see the iodon at any place?
Speaker 9 (19:04):
Henry? I'm talking on the telephone.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Was that, mister?
Speaker 9 (19:07):
I'm sorry, but my son is jus hurt?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Isn't that too bad? My goodness? Troubles never come singly,
do they? Why don't I called when missus Ulriach comes
in from work and talk to her?
Speaker 10 (19:21):
Dame?
Speaker 9 (19:21):
That would probably be best?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Yes, good time?
Speaker 9 (19:23):
Goodbye?
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Did you realize you're out of bed?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Did you find the iade? Sir, come into the bathroom
with me. I just look, Father, come with me. Who
do you suppose that could be at the front door?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
I have no idea Bogle down?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Is that you downstairs?
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Homer? Yes, my down?
Speaker 7 (19:39):
You can't here to help me?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Shot.
Speaker 12 (19:43):
No, wait a minute, boy told me you don't know
a darn thing about fixing toboggans.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I sure do, Homer. When you sign the you got
a hold of Sander like this? Oh wait a minute, fellas, look,
if we're gonna make any noise, we shouldn't stay here in.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
The living room.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But Henry, we stopped hammering on the toboggan, didn't well Shore,
George only I think my father can still hear us.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Why don't we go down in the basement.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Because Homer, I have to be here when my father
calls for help. Come on, George when we finished.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
So, Sannah, we're all through, okay, Toby, she.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Whizz, I'm sorry, father.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Now keep it quiet.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Fellas football here, Toby, now to me, Homer, heap, nice catch.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
George back to me here, I am Toby boy. What
a pass here you are?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Homer.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Wait, Henry, I'm tying my shoes. Oh, she whizz, I'm sorry, Father.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Here's the rest of the string beams, Henry, gee as, George,
and we all throw here in the kitchen. Sure, Homer,
the potatoes are peel, the lettuces washed, and the string
beans are strung. Were all we put them?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Oh? Yeah, I told we would. You reach up in
that cupboard and get that big pod.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Well, I'll get a hend No, you're too short. Home
we' let's oh gee whizz.
Speaker 13 (21:26):
We're sorry, miss Slish.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Father.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Father, did you know you knocked some plaster out of
the ceiling.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
What's that?
Speaker 13 (21:36):
Goodbye?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Hello there, Henry.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
She whizzed, mister Bradley, howdy son? How do you do?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Mister j.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
You don't suppose we could step upstairs and say hello
to your father?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Could we? Why? Why did he asleep?
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
No, I guess he Isn't we go right up these
stairs here?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Yes, sir, we're right up there now, don't you ever do?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Henry?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You've got fight a load there these days, and those
shoulders of yours. Hi, Sam's places certainly run down? Did
you see that broken window?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I know?
Speaker 8 (22:28):
And plaster all over the floor?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Boy, it's only us Sam, who committing from the luncheon club?
Speaker 9 (22:37):
Whoa well?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Johnson? He bron?
Speaker 9 (22:39):
How do you happen to come over?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Just thought we'd drop in and see how you are well?
I must have stepped on a plate here on.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
The floor, didn't Henry pick that up?
Speaker 8 (22:49):
Oh that's all right, Sam?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Sleeping dogs?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Lie?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Eh?
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Well, sit down, sit down?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
No, we can't stay at a minute, Sam.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
Hey, don't step on that piece of coat. Yes, thanks
for the war, you.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Know, Sam, I can say it sincerely. You never look
so well on your life, and I feel well?
Speaker 9 (23:06):
I feel fine? Oh I was kicking up the old spirits.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You aren't worried, are you?
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Who I worried?
Speaker 8 (23:12):
We tried around up the.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Barbershop quartet for you.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
I never felt better the barbershop quartet.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Sam.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Why didn't you let us know about all this?
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I figured it was one of those things I better.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Grin and buried alone.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
It's not like him Rady, the same old Sam.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Sam.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
They say it never rains.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
But it paused, But remember this, it always shines afterwards. Yeah, well,
I suppose we'd better be going. Yes, Bradley, we probably
tired him as it is you've tired me.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Goodbye, Sam, take care of yourself.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Well, I certainly appreciate your coming over, And don't worry, Sam,
I never worried.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
By there. Johnson is a man of courage. He's still down,
Bradley beggary.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yes, you can start all over. Say let's go back
to his room for a minute. What for no reason
why I can't throw a little business as way?
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Sam?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Did you leave something?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
As soon as you get on your feet, old man
dropping to myrio office, I'd like to have a little
talk with you.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
Oh, certainly, I'd be glad to give you any help
I can.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Hello, dear. Oh, well, for goodness sake, mister Bradley again.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Mister Johnson, Well, missus Aldridge, you're looking well?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
And how is Sam feeling? Have a nice quiet.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Day, dear?
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Quiet isn't the words?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Or you're not used to being alone?
Speaker 10 (24:32):
Sam?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
How do you like my new coat?
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Oh? You bought that coat today?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Yes, dear, I.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Worked so hard I had to do something to cheer
myself up.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well, missus already it's very good looking, as it certainly is, Alice.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Where'd you get enough money to pay for it?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I charged it, but look it fun. I brought you
Sam to make up for it.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Some travel folders? I think it'll do you a world
of good, dear, if you took a trip to South.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
America, South America, South America, South America.
Speaker 9 (24:59):
Yes, Alice, how could I possibly afford it? Trip to
South America?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
And I go with you?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Not like a Bradley.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
No matter how things look, she's always the one to
joke about it.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
He h.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Mary, how do you do.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Mister Johnson, mister Bradley, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Mary?
Speaker 9 (25:14):
Father?
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Look at the lovely flowers that were sent to me
at the hospital.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Do you.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yes, and it's the strangest thing. All the cards said
was to a brave little girl. Probably Joe Graham sent
them to you as a joke.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Mary, are you home from the hospital for good?
Speaker 6 (25:29):
For good?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
How long were you there?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
About three quarters of an hour?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, isn't that five?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Why don't we all sit down? I confess I'm a
little tired.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
I have a hard day, Alice.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I wouldn't work this hard for anyone but the Red Cross.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
And this is all rich Did you say the Red Cross?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Yes, for the Warren career. It's the least anyone can do.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Yeah, you've been working.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
At the Red Cross. I certainly have.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Yeah. Well, isn't that pie? Bradley?
Speaker 8 (25:59):
I think maybe better be mother?
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Did you wanted that big basket of groceries down in
the kitchen?
Speaker 6 (26:04):
What best?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
I'm sure the store must have sent them by mistake.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Mary, supposing you give us that basket and let us
return it to the.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Store for you.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Oh, would you mind, mister Bradley. Somebody must have gotten
things confused?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Yeah, somebody must have.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Well, goodbye, Sam, bye, Alice.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I don't know what the makeup all is?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Make up? What Sam?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Mother?
Speaker 10 (26:27):
Father?
Speaker 6 (26:27):
What do you think has just been delivered.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
What a ton of coals.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And there's another poem with it.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
I didn't order any coal.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
It's from the Centerville Luncheon Club.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Sam, will you please tell me what's going on here?
Speaker 10 (26:40):
God?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Will someone please tell me why those two men acted
as though I'm dying?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
That's why I say this afternoon when I went into
mister Bradley's office, he didn't even know you'd been.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Sick, Henry when you went in there.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
What did you say to mister Bradley?
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Nothing? I just told him I had to peel the potato.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Mother, missus Rumford just arrived to help us get dinner.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Get dinner, our dinner, Yeah, said Father told her on
the phone that Henry was hurt.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Sam, what did you say to miss Rumford?
Speaker 11 (27:05):
Carless?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Before this goes any further, get me some aspirin in
a nice bag.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
In these days of world.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Crisis, when our nation and if citizen needs spiritual strength
and guidance, all of us should think about what religion
means to us and to our country more than anything else.
It is religious faith that makes our way of life
possible and worthwhile. During this month of November, people of
many faiths are joining in a great Religion in American
(27:39):
Life campaign. Wherever you are, whatever your faith may be,
you're asked to join in this campaign. Take your problems
to church this week millions leave them there.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Henry. You peel the potatoes very well, Thank you?
Speaker 10 (28:04):
Mother.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Now, who could that be?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
You're tired, aren't you? Sam?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
That is an understatement. It's been a hard day, Alice.
All I want now is a little quiet.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
Well.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
You can go to bed right after dinner, dear father.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
Yes, Henry, there are four men.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Out on the porch, and one of them has a
pitch pipe.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
The Aldridge Family is transcribed as written by Clifford Goldsmith.
Henry is played by Bobby Ellis and Homer by Jack Grimes.
Mister and Missus Aldridge are House Jamison and Catherine rot.
Your announcer is Dick Dudley. Listen again next week, same time,
same station, for another sparkling half hour with the Aldridge Family. Annight, everybody,
(29:07):
Tony It It's the Phil Harris Alice Fay Show on
NVC
Now it's the Aldrich Family on NBC. But first, this
is Bob McKenzie. Beginning Monday, over most of these stations,
two of your favorite NBC friends will be coming to
you at a new time. The first will be Bob
Hope and his quips and comments, and by the way,
Bob's guest editor this coming week will be screen Star
and Baxter. The second will be that master of the
(00:21):
easy style, Dave Garroway. Now a lot of us have
gotten into the habit of tuning in the boys, So
check your newspaper for broadcast times and listen at the
new time Monday for two of the most entertaining fifteen
minutes in radio with Bob Hope and Dave Garroway. Now
it's the Aldrich Family on NBC.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Henry, Henry Aldrich coming mother.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, if the Oldrish Family is time to scribe, let
me by.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Put a goal.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Say. The everyday existence of an average teenage boy like
Henry Aldridge is always a very complicated affair. Life is
(01:24):
one crisis after another, and if the normal run of
problems isn't baffling enough, there are always adults around to
make things even more difficult. The scene opens in the
Aldridge breakfast nook and the time is morning.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Well, San, it's good to have you downstairs again.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Thank you, Alice, Good morning everybody.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Henry, don't you know you shouldn't whistle?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
We're not married.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Don't you realize father's just recovering from a virus attack.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Oh did it disturb your father?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well?
Speaker 8 (01:56):
I did feel a slight draft, Saan, I just happened
to a what if.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You've got in your hand?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
I forgot to take.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Your temperature before you came down, as.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
You're not going to take my temperature at the breakfast table.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
But dear, I really think we should I haven't had
any temperature for three days.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Father.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Is there anything I can do for you?
Speaker 7 (02:14):
No?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Mary?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Harry, Oh, she wish I forgot here?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Sam, take this scarf and pull your bathrobe collar up.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
Aris, I don't need anything more around my neck.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Can I get you anything farther?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
No?
Speaker 9 (02:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
I just wish you'd all stop actings though I were dying.
After all, I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Out of bed back.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The doctor says I can stay downstairs two hours today.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
May I have the hotcakes and sausage? Please?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Here? Dear?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Why can't I have hotcakes and sausage, because milk toast is.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Better for you.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
That's all I've had for five days.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well there, if you continue to improve, how would you
like a boiled potato for dinner?
Speaker 9 (02:53):
That is certainly something to look forward to.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
If I eat my milk toast this morning, I may
have a boiled potato tonight, Henry.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I'm sorry, Mary.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Can't you see that Father is already irritable?
Speaker 9 (03:07):
But I mean I'm miritable.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Oh, by the way, Mary, when you come home this afternoon,
will you be sure to put the vegetables on in
time for dinner?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Hope?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
But Mother, I've got to run over to the hospital
this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
The hospital.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Married, Yes, Henry.
Speaker 9 (03:18):
Any reason why Joe Graham can't come over here?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Father, he's an intern.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
He only has two hours off, and I told him
i'd meet him there instead of his coming all the
way over here.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Well, and Henry, you'll have to get the vegetables ready
when you get home from school.
Speaker 9 (03:31):
Yes, Mother, must Henry get the vegetables ready.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Oh my goodness, Sam, I don't know why you can't
peel a few potatoes and drop them in a pot.
After all, I promised to work at the Red Cross today.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
I mean I'm going to be left alone all day, Henry.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Didn't Marry ask you not to whistle?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yes, Mother, I just can't get that tune out of
my head. And father, don't you worry about a single thing.
I'll be home the minute school is out and do
anything I can to make you feel better.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
That's fine, dear.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I'll take your temperature, Henry, I don't have a temperature.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Well, then i'll keep you bundled up.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
I don't want to be bundled up.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
She whizz and I'll just peel the potatoes splendid. Hey,
hold on a sec Hey, Henry, wait a minute, I'll
walk down the hall with you.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Well, hurry up, we'll be late for biology. Have you
done your assignment for today?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I sort of glanced through at Homer.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
But that's all right. I don't have to know it.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
What do you mean you don't have to know it?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Homer?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I got miss Walkers system all figured out. They haven't
you ever noticed what she does?
Speaker 10 (04:36):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well? She always calls in us alphabetically, that's a fact.
And last time she stopped way down in the case.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Oh no, Henry, you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
She stopped with w and there's only one other person
after that before she comes to Albridge.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Are you sure about that, Homer, Sure, I'm sure. That's
why I studied last night.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Today. She's a centised to call on the a's and
the bs. Well, she whizz, let me start studying this.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Well, you haven't time to crab now, Henry.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The bell's gonna ring any minute. But once, Homer. Once
back last November, she got off to w and then
started going backwards.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Well, how do you know she's gonna do it again?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
She might, Homer, She just might.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Boy, I pity you if she.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Doesn't, though, Henry, this is the last period of the day,
and she'll make you stay after school. But Homer, I
just can't stay after school today. Why not? I have
to go right home and peel my father what I mean,
the potatoes. Well, what do you have to peel potatoes for?
Because we're going to eat them? Oh, hold on, cut
it out, Homer.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
You know what I think I better do?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Maybe why get an excuse to go home and just
skip biology? Well you tell mister Bradley. Well, I'll just
tell them frankly that I've got to put the potatoes on.
But Henry, Homer, you going on the class. I'm gonna
go into mister Bradley's office here, Henry, will I take
potatoes for an excuse? I don't know why they wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
They're perfectly legal.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Solon.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Was there someone you wanted to see, Henry?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yesked, mister Bradley, if you haven't got anything on your mind, Yes,
I yes, sir, mister Bradley, I'd like to be excused
from biology today.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
He would, What for?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, I've got to help my mother get some vegetables ready.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I see you feel vegetables are more important than biology.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Well, but I've also promised to get home and take
care of my father.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Your father is ill, yes, sir. How serious is his illness?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Well, he was running a temperature of one hundred.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And three one hundred and three.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, sir, that was about four days ago, and nobody
knew what it was when I left this morning.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
The doctor wouldn't say.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
My father wouldn't even let anybody near him with a thermometer.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Well, I'm sorry to hear that about your father. Yes, sir, Henry.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Is there any reason why your mother couldn't prepare the vegetables?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, no, mister Bradley, not under ordinary circumstances.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
But she can't today though she's.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Out working working. Your mother's out working, Henry.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yes, mister Bradley, she feels it at a time like this.
It's the least she can do.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh, I didn't know about that. Your sister Mary isn't
working though, is she well?
Speaker 9 (06:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And she help at home. Well.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The only trouble is she had to go to the
hospital this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
To the hospital, yes, sir, to the general hospital.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, I guess there's only one thing we can do
under those circumstances.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I'll write off an excuse for you.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Thank you, mister Bradley.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
This all puts quite a responsibility on you, doesn't it, Henry.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Oh, I don't mind, mister Bradley. And I'm sure my
entire family will appreciate this.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
That I remember.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Your father wasn't present at the luncheon God Monday O No,
mister Bradley, come to think of it, I don't believe
he was present last week e.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
There wasn no, sir, it was just a week ago
today he began to go under.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
And how's your mother holding up?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well? You know, mother, father keeps saying he wishes she
wouldn't try to be two places at once. She'll exhaust
herself and him too.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Here's your excuse, my boy?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Well, thanks again, mister Bradley.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And Henry. Don't you worry too much about your schoolwork
doing this?
Speaker 6 (07:48):
No, said mister Bradley. I'll try not to. Can I
get you anything else?
Speaker 10 (08:03):
Father?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
No?
Speaker 9 (08:04):
Thank you? I have my book. Here is your pillow?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
All right?
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Yes, thank you?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Here?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
If your one more blanket?
Speaker 9 (08:09):
Over here, Henri, I don't want any more blankets now.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Please let me.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Read well, just in case you do want anything, I'll
be right here now where'd I leave my knife?
Speaker 9 (08:19):
What are you doing? Peeling potatoes? Right here? Next to
my bed?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I spread a newspaper on the floor.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Father.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
Do you know what?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Father?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I saw somebody once who could take the whole skin
off of potato in one long strip.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Bother Mmm, who wasn't the sailor in the newsreel? You
had a cat too?
Speaker 10 (08:45):
A cat?
Speaker 9 (08:46):
Who who has a cat?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
The sailor?
Speaker 9 (08:50):
Henry? I'm trying to read.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Oh excuse me.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know, mister Bradley's a pretty nice guy, isn't he.
He said he missed you at the luncheon, Yes, sir,
he said, he hoped we'd all bear up.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
Under this, bear up under?
Speaker 6 (09:05):
What? Well? You in bed? Me peeling?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Father?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Do you like that intern at the hospital Mary's going
over to see this afternoon?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, Henry, I do appreciate your helping, but I would
like very much to finish this book in peace and quiet.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Oh, jeeish, I keep forgetting. Oh boy, there's the telephone.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That's your mother phoning from the Red Cross tail at
to stop and get some magazines on.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
The way home.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Hello, Henry aside you.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yes, Homer, can you come over to my house and
walk on Tobaggen?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh no, Homer, not this afternoon?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Why not? Because I've got my father on my hands, Henry.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
If we don't finish on to Bagen this month, we'll
miss all a good slunting.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Well, wait a minute, Homer, hold the line.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Father, Well, father, would you mind if Homer came over
very quietly for a little while.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
I'll be delighted if you stay downstairs.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Gee, thanks, father, Homer, you can come over here.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
George Johnson is here with me. I'll bring him along
health and also Toby Smith. Oh well, all right, Homer.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Hen Henry, what do you think happen in biology today?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
What miss Walker?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Didn't even show up. He got the flu.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
He didn't have any class.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
No, goodbye.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Well imagine that she was.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Hello, Hello, Hello, is that you Johnson? This is Bradley
up at the high school, Wes Bradley. You're on my
committee at.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
The luncheon club, aren't you committee? The sick committee?
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yes, Johnson, I got some bad news this morning. Oh
is it Sam Aldridge. He's laid up?
Speaker 8 (10:43):
Sam Aldridge is.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And just between ourselves, Johnson, it's apparently rather serious. Oh yes,
in bed with a high temperature, and his wife's out working.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
His daughter's in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You don't say so, yes, evidently from what his son said,
the family has been having a hard time just making
ends meet.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
But Bradley, I just thought Sam Londrich was pretty well fixed.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
So did I.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Probably everything's been piling up until this is what you
might call a knockout glow. Well, well, and here's what
I suggest. Why don't we send flowers to Sam and
to his daughter too? Good idea, she's at the general hospital,
I believe, Henry said.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
And will you take care of that, Johnson?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
I certainly will. Oh, only I have a better.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Suggestion, if you don't mind, Yes, Instead, of sending flowers
to Sam, why don't we send something for the whole family,
Say basket of can goods.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You don't think he'd mind.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Oh, we don't have to say all what came from
to me?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Good idea? Take care of it. We do so well.
You buy Johnson?
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Come in?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Are you bitting, mister Bradley?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You wish to see me, miss rumpod.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Mister Bradley, is there any reason why when the Board
of Education buys window shades they can't buy good window shades?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
I'm speaking of the shades in the school cafeteria. Those
that are up won't come down, and those that are
down go up.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Miss Rumford, please sit down a moment.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
Yes, mister Bradley, that is all you have on your mind.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
But mister Bradley, there are fourteen windows in the cafeteria.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I'm afraid, Miss Rumford. Some of us don't know what
trouble really is.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
But you have Venetian blinds.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Mister Bradley, that is not what I'm referring to, Miss Rumford.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Let me tell you about a student in this school.
His father, we all suppose, was one of the most
successful practicing lawyers in town.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
It now appears, however, that the man is in desperate straits.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
The last I heard he had a temperature of one
hundred and three that was still rising. And there is
a daughter in the general hospital, and his mother works out,
and the boy himself has to do all the cooking
for the entire family. And yet some of the members
of the faculty here have been jumping on the boy
for not being able to keep his mind on his studies.
Is the right while the rest of us go around
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complaining because of window shade that's down, won't go up.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Hello, Bradley's office.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Oh, this is Johnson again.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
I just had another idea.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Yes, Johnson, I've.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Been talking, but the rest of the committee, Oh, why
don't I pick you up.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I'll go over and call.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
On Sam Aldridge this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Person, good idea. He's probably all alone.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Cheer him up a little, right, and Bradley, Yes, Johnson.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Why don't I try rounding.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Up our barbershop quartet.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
We'll return to the Aldridge family in just a moment.
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visiting at the hospital, Henry is asked to be excused
from school early in order to go home and take
care of his father, who was recovering from a cold.
His explanations, however, have been inadvertently misleading. The scene opens
in mister Aldrich's bedroom.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Father, would you like some toast and another cup of tea?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Are you sure you don't want.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Any I do not want another cup of tea. You
have been very helpful, Henry, all afternoon. Suppose now you
take up your potatoes and your pans and your pairing knife,
than these tea things and that cake and this picture
of lemonade, and go downstairs and let me.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Have a little sleep and leave you all along.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
I won't mind one bit.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh gee, father, I don't think mother would want you
to go to sleep without someone right here to take
the responsibility.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
I won't mention it to your mother.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll find something you
can thump on the floor with, just in case you
need me. And I wonder if there's anything here in.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
This closet, he Henry, please just forget I'm even up
here here.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Father, Which would you rather have this umbrella or this
baseball bat?
Speaker 9 (15:57):
I don't care either one.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Will go ahead tell me, After all, you're the one
that's gonna have to.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Do the thumb thing.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
I said, either one.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Well, I guess the bat would make the most noise, all.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Right, didn't give me the bat?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Oh here, I'll give you both and you can make
your own choice.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Now, I'll just take this tree down.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
What was that the top of the butter dish?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, look at it's right here by your bed. Just
leave it there, yes, sir, good bye. Now oops, I'll
come back to that one too, And you needn't come
back for it.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
Just leave and if you don't look out, you're gonna
drop another et it.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
You don't have to worry about a thing.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
Father, Hey, ray, hel ray, hen ray he all rich
(16:59):
that's a five?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
And think, hey, I was please that's the telephone. Oh yes, sir,
thet's pick up. What's left of this stun or dish?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Yes, sir? Hello, Hello?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (17:12):
What number did you call?
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Please?
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Father?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
What number did you call?
Speaker 9 (17:16):
I didn't call it any number.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well, I guess you call the wrong one operator.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
It's our mistake.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Well isn't that strange?
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Listen?
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Father?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Why do you think I found downstairs?
Speaker 10 (17:27):
What?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Well, just as I went down, I happen to see
somebody running off the front porch.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
So I opened the door. There was a great big
basket of groceries.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Why did the boy leave them at the front door.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Well, I don't know. It's cann goods and oranges and
there's two chickens.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Good theparently, your mother's playing to have a real dinner
for me for a change.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
And right on top of this basket there was a car.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
What does it say?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Head up, chin up, chest up, grin, step up, fuck up,
pep up grin. Why would the grocery leave a message
like that?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Probably the price of chicken has gone up again. Will
you please pick up that broken dish?
Speaker 10 (18:07):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Yes, father, Oh imagine that.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
What's the matter.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Oh it's all right. I just cut my finger on.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
A piece of the dish.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Let me see it.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
It isn't anything.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
If it's as deep as a lotion'd better put something
on it.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Well, I guess something in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 11 (18:20):
Farthery Hey, Ray, hen Ray, Henry, Henry, Where are my slippers?
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Hello?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
May I speak with missus Aldridge?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Please?
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Missus Ulrich isn't here?
Speaker 10 (18:38):
Is this?
Speaker 9 (18:38):
Mister?
Speaker 7 (18:39):
It is?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Well?
Speaker 7 (18:40):
This is miss Rumfred, the cafeteria manager up at the
high school.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yes, mister Aldridge. Do you suppose Missus Aldridge.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
Would lack a part time position in our lunch room.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
It wouldn't pay a great deal, of course, but you'd
get her lunch free, and after all, that would help.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
Would you say that again? Very slowly?
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Please?
Speaker 10 (19:02):
Father?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Did you see the iodon at any place?
Speaker 9 (19:04):
Henry? I'm talking on the telephone.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Was that, mister?
Speaker 9 (19:07):
I'm sorry, but my son is jus hurt?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Isn't that too bad? My goodness? Troubles never come singly,
do they? Why don't I called when missus Ulriach comes
in from work and talk to her?
Speaker 10 (19:21):
Dame?
Speaker 9 (19:21):
That would probably be best?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Yes, good time?
Speaker 9 (19:23):
Goodbye?
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Did you realize you're out of bed?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Did you find the iade? Sir, come into the bathroom
with me. I just look, Father, come with me. Who
do you suppose that could be at the front door?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
I have no idea Bogle down?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Is that you downstairs?
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Homer? Yes, my down?
Speaker 7 (19:39):
You can't here to help me?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Shot.
Speaker 12 (19:43):
No, wait a minute, boy told me you don't know
a darn thing about fixing toboggans.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I sure do, Homer. When you sign the you got
a hold of Sander like this? Oh wait a minute, fellas, look,
if we're gonna make any noise, we shouldn't stay here in.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
The living room.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But Henry, we stopped hammering on the toboggan, didn't well Shore,
George only I think my father can still hear us.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Why don't we go down in the basement.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Because Homer, I have to be here when my father
calls for help. Come on, George when we finished.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
So, Sannah, we're all through, okay, Toby, she.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Whizz, I'm sorry, father.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Now keep it quiet.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Fellas football here, Toby, now to me, Homer, heap, nice catch.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
George back to me here, I am Toby boy. What
a pass here you are?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Homer.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Wait, Henry, I'm tying my shoes. Oh, she whizz, I'm sorry, Father.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Here's the rest of the string beams, Henry, gee as, George,
and we all throw here in the kitchen. Sure, Homer,
the potatoes are peel, the lettuces washed, and the string
beans are strung. Were all we put them?
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Oh? Yeah, I told we would. You reach up in
that cupboard and get that big pod.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Well, I'll get a hend No, you're too short. Home
we' let's oh gee whizz.
Speaker 13 (21:26):
We're sorry, miss Slish.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Father.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Father, did you know you knocked some plaster out of
the ceiling.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
What's that?
Speaker 13 (21:36):
Goodbye?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Hello there, Henry.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
She whizzed, mister Bradley, howdy son? How do you do?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Mister j.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
You don't suppose we could step upstairs and say hello
to your father?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Could we? Why? Why did he asleep?
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
No, I guess he Isn't we go right up these
stairs here?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Yes, sir, we're right up there now, don't you ever do?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Henry?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You've got fight a load there these days, and those
shoulders of yours. Hi, Sam's places certainly run down? Did
you see that broken window?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I know?
Speaker 8 (22:28):
And plaster all over the floor?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Boy, it's only us Sam, who committing from the luncheon club?
Speaker 9 (22:37):
Whoa well?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Johnson? He bron?
Speaker 9 (22:39):
How do you happen to come over?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Just thought we'd drop in and see how you are well?
I must have stepped on a plate here on.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
The floor, didn't Henry pick that up?
Speaker 8 (22:49):
Oh that's all right, Sam?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Sleeping dogs?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Lie?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Eh?
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Well, sit down, sit down?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
No, we can't stay at a minute, Sam.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
Hey, don't step on that piece of coat. Yes, thanks
for the war, you.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Know, Sam, I can say it sincerely. You never look
so well on your life, and I feel well?
Speaker 9 (23:06):
I feel fine? Oh I was kicking up the old spirits.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You aren't worried, are you?
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Who I worried?
Speaker 8 (23:12):
We tried around up the.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Barbershop quartet for you.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
I never felt better the barbershop quartet.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Sam.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Why didn't you let us know about all this?
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I figured it was one of those things I better.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Grin and buried alone.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
It's not like him Rady, the same old Sam.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Sam.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
They say it never rains.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
But it paused, But remember this, it always shines afterwards. Yeah, well,
I suppose we'd better be going. Yes, Bradley, we probably
tired him as it is you've tired me.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Goodbye, Sam, take care of yourself.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Well, I certainly appreciate your coming over, And don't worry, Sam,
I never worried.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
By there. Johnson is a man of courage. He's still down,
Bradley beggary.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yes, you can start all over. Say let's go back
to his room for a minute. What for no reason
why I can't throw a little business as way?
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Sam?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Did you leave something?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
As soon as you get on your feet, old man
dropping to myrio office, I'd like to have a little
talk with you.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
Oh, certainly, I'd be glad to give you any help
I can.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Hello, dear. Oh, well, for goodness sake, mister Bradley again.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Mister Johnson, Well, missus Aldridge, you're looking well?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
And how is Sam feeling? Have a nice quiet.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Day, dear?
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Quiet isn't the words?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Or you're not used to being alone?
Speaker 10 (24:32):
Sam?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
How do you like my new coat?
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Oh? You bought that coat today?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Yes, dear, I.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Worked so hard I had to do something to cheer
myself up.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well, missus already it's very good looking, as it certainly is, Alice.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Where'd you get enough money to pay for it?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I charged it, but look it fun. I brought you
Sam to make up for it.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Some travel folders? I think it'll do you a world
of good, dear, if you took a trip to South.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
America, South America, South America, South America.
Speaker 9 (24:59):
Yes, Alice, how could I possibly afford it? Trip to
South America?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
And I go with you?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Not like a Bradley.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
No matter how things look, she's always the one to
joke about it.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
He h.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Mary, how do you do.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Mister Johnson, mister Bradley, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Mary?
Speaker 9 (25:14):
Father?
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Look at the lovely flowers that were sent to me
at the hospital.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Do you.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yes, and it's the strangest thing. All the cards said
was to a brave little girl. Probably Joe Graham sent
them to you as a joke.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Mary, are you home from the hospital for good?
Speaker 6 (25:29):
For good?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
How long were you there?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
About three quarters of an hour?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, isn't that five?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Why don't we all sit down? I confess I'm a
little tired.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
I have a hard day, Alice.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I wouldn't work this hard for anyone but the Red Cross.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
And this is all rich Did you say the Red Cross?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Yes, for the Warren career. It's the least anyone can do.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Yeah, you've been working.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
At the Red Cross. I certainly have.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Yeah. Well, isn't that pie? Bradley?
Speaker 8 (25:59):
I think maybe better be mother?
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Did you wanted that big basket of groceries down in
the kitchen?
Speaker 6 (26:04):
What best?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
I'm sure the store must have sent them by mistake.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Mary, supposing you give us that basket and let us
return it to the.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Store for you.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Oh, would you mind, mister Bradley. Somebody must have gotten
things confused?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Yeah, somebody must have.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Well, goodbye, Sam, bye, Alice.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I don't know what the makeup all is?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Make up? What Sam?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Mother?
Speaker 10 (26:27):
Father?
Speaker 6 (26:27):
What do you think has just been delivered.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
What a ton of coals.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And there's another poem with it.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
I didn't order any coal.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
It's from the Centerville Luncheon Club.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Sam, will you please tell me what's going on here?
Speaker 10 (26:40):
God?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Will someone please tell me why those two men acted
as though I'm dying?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
That's why I say this afternoon when I went into
mister Bradley's office, he didn't even know you'd been.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Sick, Henry when you went in there.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
What did you say to mister Bradley?
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Nothing? I just told him I had to peel the potato.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Mother, missus Rumford just arrived to help us get dinner.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Get dinner, our dinner, Yeah, said Father told her on
the phone that Henry was hurt.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Sam, what did you say to miss Rumford?
Speaker 11 (27:05):
Carless?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Before this goes any further, get me some aspirin in
a nice bag.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
In these days of world.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Crisis, when our nation and if citizen needs spiritual strength
and guidance, all of us should think about what religion
means to us and to our country more than anything else.
It is religious faith that makes our way of life
possible and worthwhile. During this month of November, people of
many faiths are joining in a great Religion in American
(27:39):
Life campaign. Wherever you are, whatever your faith may be,
you're asked to join in this campaign. Take your problems
to church this week millions leave them there.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Henry. You peel the potatoes very well, Thank you?
Speaker 10 (28:04):
Mother.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Now, who could that be?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
You're tired, aren't you? Sam?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
That is an understatement. It's been a hard day, Alice.
All I want now is a little quiet.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
Well.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
You can go to bed right after dinner, dear father.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
Yes, Henry, there are four men.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Out on the porch, and one of them has a
pitch pipe.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
The Aldridge Family is transcribed as written by Clifford Goldsmith.
Henry is played by Bobby Ellis and Homer by Jack Grimes.
Mister and Missus Aldridge are House Jamison and Catherine rot.
Your announcer is Dick Dudley. Listen again next week, same time,
same station, for another sparkling half hour with the Aldridge Family. Annight, everybody,
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