August 13, 2025 • 29 mins
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it was a difficult decision to make, Armis Brooks, who
teaches English if Madison High School, finally made it so
after six years of practically going study with Philip Boynton,
last week she finally gave the green light to other men.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, last week I gave them the green light, and
since then they've acted as though my street is under repairs. However,
I did meet a salesman named Freddie Stewart, and when
a girl is spent six years being taken to a
hot dog stand for dinner, a movie, and then a
soda fountain afterward, anything would seem like a change. So
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Wednesday night I went out with Freddy, and the evening
seemed most enjoyable. The hot dogs were delicious, the movie great,
and the double Maultas were out of this world. But
a far greater interest than my latest acquaintance was my
landlady's new heart throb. For the past two weeks, Missus
Davis had been trying to conceal her little romance, and
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I had been trying to conceal my curiosity. By breakfast
time Thursday, I could no longer bear the suspense. But
before I could ask her about it, Missus Davis posed
a question of her own.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I suppose you've been wondering where I'd been spending my
evenings in the last few weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The question did cross my mind.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, Dear, I've been going with the most wonderful man. Oh, Connie,
he's so worly, so suave, so Devin are so romantic.
Who is he, Missus Davis, Henry our butcher, our butcher. Yes,
that's the man who's been dating me, and I have
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further news for you. Now hold onto your seat, Dear,
I'm even thinking of marrying him.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Well, that's one way of being sure of the choice.
Cuts Missus Davis, you're.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Not serious, Oh, but I am. Connie. Henry Pringle seems
just right for me in every way.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
This seems incredible. Who is he? What do you know
about him? Where did you meet him?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I met him over the phone about three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
You met him over the phone.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
That's right. I was calling in my order to Schmid's
butcher's shop the way I generally do, And Henry answered it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
How did you finally meet him in person? Though, Missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, four days after that first call, Henry appeared at
our house in the afternoon with a large box tied
with a wide red ribbon.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
He brought you some flowers, No, dear.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Our pot roast for that night.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Missus Davis, you know I want you to be happy
more than anything else in the world. But you've gone
with Henry such a short time. After all, what do
you really know about him? What has he told you
about himself?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, dear, he's a bachelor, been in town a month,
and he's mister Schmidt's pardner.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
But do any of your friends know it? And why
hasn't he ever come over to the house to meet me?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, I suggested it, dear, but Henry is very bashful. However,
he was going to meet you up to the time
I told him you taught English at Madison High. That's
when he backed out.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I won't hold that against him. That's when most men
back out.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Anyway, Dear, you need him. Tonight I invited him to
dinner and I told him I'd give him his answer then.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Missus Davis, not so soon. That must be Walter to
drive me to school. Be out in a minute, Walter, Look,
missus Davis, I have to leave now, but please think
this over for at least another week, wait until you
know a little more about Henry.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Gosh, Miss Brooks, you haven't said a word since you
got in the car. It isn't my driving that's bothering you, is.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It, No, Walder, I'm worried about something else today.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about that, miss Brooks. What can
you expect when last night was the first date you
had with him?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Walter, how did you know I had a date last night?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Well, Harriet and I saw you in the balcony of
the bees You. We were sitting toward the rear, and
you were forward.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
No more than I am with mister Boynton. What do
you mean we were sitting toward the front. Well, I'm
not thinking about myself, Walter. This concerned someone else.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well, you're certainly not worried about missus Davis's romance, are you?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And you know about that too? How did you find
out about that?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I was also up in the balcony with Harriet the
night before.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You went to the same movie with Harriet two nights
in a row.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yeah, and tonight I'm going back alone and see the picture.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But the other night you saw missus Davis up there
with someone.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Boy, was she with someone? Miss Brooks? Ooh, la la old.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I can't say I care for that ooh, and even
less for those la las oh.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I didn't mean any disrespect, miss Brooks.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
But missus Davis and this old fella certainly did seem
to be enjoying each other's company.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Honestly, Harriet and I thought we'd pop the way they
were popping popcorn into each other's mouth.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, that's exactly That's exactly what's worrying me. She's thinking
seriously of popping popcorn into her friend's mouth for the
rest of her life.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
You mean, marrying the guy. But that's wonderful, miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Wonderful.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Certainly. What could be more romantic than too lonely old
people in the autumn of their lives who find the
warm glow of companionship and thus walk hand in hand
into the setting sun together.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Followed by two men from a collection agency in the
Sheriff Walker. Missus Davis has known this man for a
little over two weeks. What does she really know about him?
About his background, his finances.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
But missus Davis is a mature woman, Miss Brooks, surely
she ought to know what she's doing.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Not in this case. But since we're practically on the
school grounds, Walter, we'd better drop the subject for the
time being.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yeah, sure, Oh say, isn't that Harriet an old marblehead
Mischard Cochlin out in front of the school?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Now, Miss Brush?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Why so it is? I wonder what our principal's doing
outside school?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Well maybe he figures that gives him more room to
pounce on us.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I hardly think so. But apparently there's something terribly wrong today. Why,
Miss Brooks, he's smiling.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I wonder who he expelled?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Well, well, well, it seems bill all arriving about the
same time this morning. Good morning, Miss Brooke, Good.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Morning, sir, morning Harriet, Good morning, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
And how are you this morning, Denton?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Oh fine, sir, simply fine.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Never felt better in my life, absolutely in the pink,
oh primed and raring to go.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Never better, sir, Not in my entire life, you know.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Surre, I never will learn, will I?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Well, I better get rid of this car. I want
to drive to the back lot with me, Harriet.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh, i'd like too, older, but you know how Daddy
feels about the two of us.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Going right ahead?
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Dear.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
No, really, mister Conklin, I must protest against the constant injustice.
I'm never permitting your daughter to accompany me on so
simple a journey as to go.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
To the You did you say, go right ahead?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
I'll take that souped up flying saucer out of here
before I change.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
My mind, yes, sir, hopin Harriet, Okay, thanks, Daddy. Er.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I don't know what it is, but that boy always.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Leaves me boiling.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I can't remember when I've been in such a good humor.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I can't either, but you certainly did seem in a
fine humor this morning.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Sir, And well I might be too. We had some
very good news at our house last night. It concerns
my wife's sister, Mildred.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
You've heard me mention her, the.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Single one who comes to our house and stays for
months at a time.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I mean she's finally getting married.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
No, that's just it, she's not.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But how is that good news? Sir?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Well?
Speaker 6 (09:44):
We were suspicious of the fellow right from the beginning
from everything Mildred told us about him, he only seemed
to be interested in her for her money. He did,
so I began to do a little private investigating and
found the fellow had once been a confidence man and
had landed in jail twice. Wouldn't believe me, But luckily
when I phoned him and confronted him with the evidence,
he told me to stop worrying that he'd found a
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new sucker. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Uh, mister Complin, hadn't you ever met this man before?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
No?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
No, that was one of the things that first aroused
my suspicions. He never would come over to the house
to meet us.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I think I'm beginning to feel a little faint. How
did you know where to call?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Then? Well, that was easy. I knew his name and
how Mildred had met him, so I simply called Schmid's
butcher Shop where he works.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Mister Complin, will you excuse me for a few moments.
Why what he's going to do?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Miss Brooks?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
First, I'm going to make a quick phone call, and
then I'm going to become a vegetarian.
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Speaker 2 (12:00):
Well, I'd heard of older people arriving at the age
of indiscretion before. However, not only did my landlady arrive,
but I think she intends to spend the rest of
her life there. When I finally reached her on the
phone just before noon. The results of our conversation practically
floored me. She refused to believe a word of what
mister Conklin had said about Henry. Naturally, I had to
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discuss my problem with someone so over our lunch table
in the cafeteria. A little while later, mister Boynton was elected.
His quick, incisive mind instantly grasped the problem, and his
first crystal clear statement went right to the heart of it.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Boy I'd sure hate to be in missus Davis's place.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Oh, you'd be much too tall for Henry anyway. And yes,
it is quite a mess, isn't it, particularly since Missus
Davis is giving Henry her decision to marry him tonight.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Now let me get this straight, Miss Brooks, you say
you called Missus Davis and gave her the information mister
Conklin gave you.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes, I told her mister Conklin said that Henry was
a confidence man, had been in jail twice and had
told him he didn't care about Conklin's sister in law
anymore because he'd found another sucker.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
And exactly what was Missus Davis's reaction?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
She asked me what else was new?
Speaker 7 (13:17):
It seems incredible?
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Was that all she said?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Well, not entirely, Oh, I didn't think so. She also
said to be sure to pick up a can of
vegetable soup on the way home this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Mister Brooks, didn't you ask her why she wasn't concerned
with what you told her?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Of course I did, And Missus Davis claimed that mister
Conklin was spreading the story because he was angry that
Henry hadn't married Mildred.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Oh, then she knew about the episode.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yes, it seems that Henry had already covered himself on
that score. He told her that she might hear some
wild stories about him because he'd been seeing Mildred, and
when he met Missus Davis, he gave her up.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Gosh, then what will happen to missus Davis? Will she
learn the real truth?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
In time?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Listen again tomorrow to another thrilling episode of Margaret Face's life.
But I'm really worried, mister Boyd. There must be some
way to bring her to her senses.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
I wish I could help. Sometimes when I'm faced with
a vexing problem, I find a solution by observing how
my frogs and rabbits react under similar circumstances.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It won't work here. Very few frogs and rabbits consider
marrying confidence man.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
That isn't quite what I have.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
There were only some way to convince her that people
don't marry so hastily, at least until they've looked into
the other person's background. If anyone else were doing the
same thing, I know missus Davis would condemn it.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
Miss Brook's, wait, I think you've got something.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Well, after all these years, it's about time. Oh you
mean I've given you an idea.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
I'll say you did.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Now tell me how was your new date last night?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Next time I have a secret, I'll hire a skyrider. Well,
Freddie Stewart is a very nice chef, mister Biden, very nice.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Well, I'm glad you like him, Miss Brooks, because that's
part of my idea.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
What is your idea, Miss Biden, that you contemplate marrying him?
What six years I'm going with the same man, and
when he finally does propose, it's that I marry somebody else.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
No, you don't understand. I don't mean actually contemplate marrying him.
I mean just give missus Davis the impression you're going
to marry him after only one date? Why don't you
get it, miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yes, but I'm not sure I wanted.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Well, I feel certain it'll work.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
When Missus Davis thinks that someone she cares about is
doing something hastily, she may reconsider her own position. Then
you can suggest she tests out Henry tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, since we haven't any time to lose, at least
it's worth a try.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Of course it is all right?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Then right after school, I'll dash down to the five
and ten cents.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Star, five and ten cents store. And what for?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Well, if I'm thinking of getting married, the least thing
i'm entitled to is an engagement ring entre.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
No, it's me, Missus Davis.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I know, Come in, missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Ny you're home early this afternoon. Dear, but why are
you packing?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I'm not really packing. I'm just throwing a few things
into my belief. I'll be back in a few days.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
But Connie, why didn't you tell me you're taking a trip?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, this one came up so suddenly and seemed so
insignificant it was hardly worth mentioning.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Why not, Connie, I'm getting married? Well, Connie, even an
insignificant trip like that is worth tell me about. Since
you're you're going to get married, Connie, when did you
decide to do that?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
About an hour ago during a lull in the conversation,
we're getting married this evening.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Well, I think it's simply wonderful.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Dear.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
It's what we both dreamed about all these years, that
someday mister Boyton would propose.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Oh, I'm not marrying mister Boyton.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It's Freddie Stewart, Freddy Stuart. Freddy Stewart asked you to
marry him, and you accepted certainly.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I didn't have anything else planned for this weekend, did I?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
He asked you an.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Hour ago, and you're getting married tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yes. Freddy says he doesn't believe in long engagements.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But Connie, marriage is the most important step of your life.
You'll have a whole lifetime to live together. It takes
months to get to know a man properly.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Oh, now, missus dames, I will admit, if you hadn't
gotten the idea first, I might not have accepted so readily.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Well, Connie, maybe I was wrong, Maybe we're both being
a little hasty. I'll tell you what, dear, if you
tell Freddie you want a little time to reconsider, I'll
put Henry to the acid test tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
The acid tests. I didn't mean for you to disfigure
him for life.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Since you think he's chasing me because I own this
house and have a little money, I'll prove to you, dear,
that you're wrong. How well, we'll simply reverse positions. You'll
be the owner of this house. And what's more, I'll
pretend to be your servant. If Henry still wants to
marry me, then that should convince us both of his integrities,
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shouldn't it. Well, Connie, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
What am I paying you good money for? Maggie? Get
back into the kitchen and start dinner.
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Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well, Having persuaded my land Id to cooperate with me,
I felt certain I could prove that her boyfriend was
a complete phone me. Later that evening, Missus Davis entered
the living room dressed for her new role. Oh well, Connie,
how do I look like the perfect maid? Missus Davis?
All the way from your white lace cap to your
dirty brown sneakers.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Here it's a doorly I used on the table at lunch.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And you did a swell job on that dress in
such a hurry.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
You like it. I just sowed a little lace on
an old black breast. I found the attic, but I'm
afraid I cut it a little short. My knees haven't
felt this drafty since nineteen twenty six.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Ah, this must be Henry. Now you'd better go inside
and give me a few minutes alone with him before
you announced dinner.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
All right, but you will be nice to him, Connie,
missus Davis.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
We've been all through that, and now go ahead.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Well all right, Connie.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Oh hello, you must be Henry Pringle.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Yes, my dear, Henry Pringle, and you've famous Brooks. I've
heard so much about you. Believe me, my dear, there
isn't a morning when my little sweetheart phones in a
meat order that your name doesn't come up.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I know, I go well with calves brains. Why won't
you come in, mister Pringle, Just Henry, Well, come in,
just Henry, thank you, thank you. Margaret's already told me
a good deal about the two of you.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Oh yes, yes, we're about ready to enter the sacred
state of matrimony. Where is my little girl, his Brooks.
I've brought her a little something.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Oh how nice? A box of candy. What are they caramels,
nougats or chocolate covered creams?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
They're meatballs.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
You're delicious, chocolate covered.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Meatballs brings his fiancee candy, Miss Brooks. I've always felt
it's more personal to bring one's lady love delicacies from
one's own business.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Lucky, you're not a bricklayer. Pleasure to welcome you here, Henry.
I feel as if I almost know you already.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
And I feel the same way. Margaret's told me so
much about you, how you taught school and everything.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
She told you.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I taught school.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
You're not the school teacher.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh gracious, no, that's only for people who have to
earn a living. There's the word scratch for a living.
By that, Margaret certainly has a vivid imagination. Next, I
suppose she'll be telling you she owns this house.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
She doesn't own this house.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh, now, really does a servant ever own her mistress's house.
She's your servant, Henry, Am I coming through clearly?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
But she never told me anything about that.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh well, let's go into the living room and wait
for her. Only please watch those scatter rugs.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
I simply can't believe Margaret's your servant.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Ah, here's little Maggie.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Now, dinner's serve.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Mum.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I warned you about those scatter rubs. Let me help
you out. Look what Henry brought to you, Maggie, a
box of meat balls.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Ah? Oh, Henry is shitn't bar you can say that again?
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Margaret? Is all this true? Are you really, miss Brooks servant?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Am I permitted to talk to my friend Mum?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Permission granted? But keep it within ten words, Maggie. We
don't want dinner to get cold, do we.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Well, that's right, Henry, dear Miss Brooks is my employer.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Then, all about owning this house, your little nest egg,
none of it's true.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Oh, the part about the nest egg is true.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
It is.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yes, Indeed Margaret found it in the tree and back
two weeks ago, not to hatch any day. Now. Now,
I know you both want to get started with your
dinner as soon as possible, So go right ahead into
the kitchen, Henry, and sit.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Down into the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yes, don't bump your head on the burning board that
way the sooner Maggie can serve me my dinner, the
sooner you can get at the leftovers. Well, let's have
no more talk.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Now, right, Maggie, mum's the word mummy, Henry.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Just a moment, Margaret, I am, I'm not very hungry. Frankly,
I never expected HOLLI.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Well, I'm sorry if I exaggerated a little, dear, a little.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
This isn't your house, no nest egg, you're miss Brooks servant.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
But it really doesn't make any difference, does it? As
long as we have each other.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Well, frankly, I am.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Oh, it doesn't make any difference, does it, Henry? You
said last night, regardless of what, love would find a way.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
And right now it's looking awfully hard.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Well, Margaret, to be perfectly honest, I.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Ay ya ya ya ya, I'll take it. Walter. What
are you doing here? You're not due to pick me
up for twelve hours yet?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Well, I was passing in my car, so I thought
i'd drop off some books I borrowed from you, thanks,
and buy all. Hi, missus Davis, what are you all
dressed up for going to a masquerade?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
No, Welder, I'm not going to a masquerade, no.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Masquerade, no, but you're going to a funeral.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
If you well, Gee, that's a clever costume. If I
didn't know you owned this place, i'd swear you were
the maid. Blow have I overstayed my welcome?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Already?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Its crooks on this earth by about sixteen years.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Gee, some people sure have their moods.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Well, good night.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Everyone, No, Margaret, perhaps you'll tell me the reason for
this little game you've been playing.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I'm sorry, Henry, but I wanted to find out if
you really love me, if you would love me if
I had nothing in the world.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Oh, could you doubt it for a minute, Margaret little girl?
Could you? Margaret child? Margaret baby once more?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And she won't even be born yet.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I know it now. I was a fool, Henry. Can
you forgive me? Please? Try to find it in your
heart to forgive me forever doubting you.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
It will be difficult, but you'll make it.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Believe me, Henry, I've learned my lesson. Nothing more will
ever come between us except the doorbell.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Forget it.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Good evening, Miss Brooks, am I on time, sir?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
What are you doing here this time of night? And
with a relise?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Oh, Margaret Darling, I see I am.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
In time as good? What are you doing here.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
What am I doing here?
Speaker 6 (26:47):
And who has a better right to be here than
your husband, your very.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Own husband, my husband.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Certainly aren't you going to kiss me? Sugar plud.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I am. It's certainly lucky you got here when you did. Osgoode, Davis,
osgoode Davis.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Margaret, you mean you're really married to this guy, Henry?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Of course I'm not. There's not a word of truth
in it. This man is an impostor.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
There I won't argue, but he is your husband, Henry.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
You don't believe this, do you?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
I don't know what to believe anymore? But I'm certainly
not taking any chances at a boy, not after being
mixed up like this three times before.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
What then you're not a bachelor.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
Margaret, Girl, I haven't been a bachelor since I ran
away from junior high with my French teacher.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
He said English out of scream.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
So if you'll excuse me, I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Oh dear, this is terrible, It's terrible. Then Henry really
is the sort of man you told me.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
He was Connie with a number of embellishments I had
no idea of, but I was good.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
How did you happen to come over tonight.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Well, when Poynton told me this afternoon of the tragic
mistake you were about to make, Margaret, I knew I
had to do something to prevent it, particularly when he
said you wouldn't believe a word of what I'd told,
Miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
But how did you think of this husband role, mister Conklin.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Well, that was just a shot in the dark, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Well, luckily everything worked out all right, and I believe
I have an idea how we can prevent this sort
of thing from happening again. Oh Dear, from now on,
I'll do the ordering by phone ar Miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Donnie Vard mclans Brod is producing, directed by Larry Burns
with my arthor Roldberger.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
The musical Brober.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Has Mister Conklin was played by Gail Gordon. Others in
tonight's cast were Jane Morgan, Dick Creunner, Bob Rockwell, Gloria McMillan,
and Will Wright. Be sure to be with us next
week for another comedy episode of R. Miss Brooks
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it was a difficult decision to make, Armis Brooks, who
teaches English if Madison High School, finally made it so
after six years of practically going study with Philip Boynton,
last week she finally gave the green light to other men.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, last week I gave them the green light, and
since then they've acted as though my street is under repairs. However,
I did meet a salesman named Freddie Stewart, and when
a girl is spent six years being taken to a
hot dog stand for dinner, a movie, and then a
soda fountain afterward, anything would seem like a change. So
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Wednesday night I went out with Freddy, and the evening
seemed most enjoyable. The hot dogs were delicious, the movie great,
and the double Maultas were out of this world. But
a far greater interest than my latest acquaintance was my
landlady's new heart throb. For the past two weeks, Missus
Davis had been trying to conceal her little romance, and
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I had been trying to conceal my curiosity. By breakfast
time Thursday, I could no longer bear the suspense. But
before I could ask her about it, Missus Davis posed
a question of her own.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I suppose you've been wondering where I'd been spending my
evenings in the last few weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The question did cross my mind.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, Dear, I've been going with the most wonderful man. Oh, Connie,
he's so worly, so suave, so Devin are so romantic.
Who is he, Missus Davis, Henry our butcher, our butcher. Yes,
that's the man who's been dating me, and I have
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further news for you. Now hold onto your seat, Dear,
I'm even thinking of marrying him.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Well, that's one way of being sure of the choice.
Cuts Missus Davis, you're.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Not serious, Oh, but I am. Connie. Henry Pringle seems
just right for me in every way.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
This seems incredible. Who is he? What do you know
about him? Where did you meet him?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I met him over the phone about three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
You met him over the phone.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
That's right. I was calling in my order to Schmid's
butcher's shop the way I generally do, And Henry answered it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
How did you finally meet him in person? Though, Missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, four days after that first call, Henry appeared at
our house in the afternoon with a large box tied
with a wide red ribbon.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
He brought you some flowers, No, dear.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Our pot roast for that night.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Missus Davis, you know I want you to be happy
more than anything else in the world. But you've gone
with Henry such a short time. After all, what do
you really know about him? What has he told you
about himself?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, dear, he's a bachelor, been in town a month,
and he's mister Schmidt's pardner.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
But do any of your friends know it? And why
hasn't he ever come over to the house to meet me?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, I suggested it, dear, but Henry is very bashful. However,
he was going to meet you up to the time
I told him you taught English at Madison High. That's
when he backed out.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I won't hold that against him. That's when most men
back out.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Anyway, Dear, you need him. Tonight I invited him to
dinner and I told him I'd give him his answer then.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Missus Davis, not so soon. That must be Walter to
drive me to school. Be out in a minute, Walter, Look,
missus Davis, I have to leave now, but please think
this over for at least another week, wait until you
know a little more about Henry.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Gosh, Miss Brooks, you haven't said a word since you
got in the car. It isn't my driving that's bothering you, is.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It, No, Walder, I'm worried about something else today.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about that, miss Brooks. What can
you expect when last night was the first date you
had with him?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Walter, how did you know I had a date last night?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Well, Harriet and I saw you in the balcony of
the bees You. We were sitting toward the rear, and
you were forward.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
No more than I am with mister Boynton. What do
you mean we were sitting toward the front. Well, I'm
not thinking about myself, Walter. This concerned someone else.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well, you're certainly not worried about missus Davis's romance, are you?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And you know about that too? How did you find
out about that?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I was also up in the balcony with Harriet the
night before.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You went to the same movie with Harriet two nights
in a row.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yeah, and tonight I'm going back alone and see the picture.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But the other night you saw missus Davis up there
with someone.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Boy, was she with someone? Miss Brooks? Ooh, la la old.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I can't say I care for that ooh, and even
less for those la las oh.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I didn't mean any disrespect, miss Brooks.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
But missus Davis and this old fella certainly did seem
to be enjoying each other's company.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Honestly, Harriet and I thought we'd pop the way they
were popping popcorn into each other's mouth.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, that's exactly That's exactly what's worrying me. She's thinking
seriously of popping popcorn into her friend's mouth for the
rest of her life.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
You mean, marrying the guy. But that's wonderful, miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Wonderful.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Certainly. What could be more romantic than too lonely old
people in the autumn of their lives who find the
warm glow of companionship and thus walk hand in hand
into the setting sun together.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Followed by two men from a collection agency in the
Sheriff Walker. Missus Davis has known this man for a
little over two weeks. What does she really know about him?
About his background, his finances.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
But missus Davis is a mature woman, Miss Brooks, surely
she ought to know what she's doing.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Not in this case. But since we're practically on the
school grounds, Walter, we'd better drop the subject for the
time being.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yeah, sure, Oh say, isn't that Harriet an old marblehead
Mischard Cochlin out in front of the school?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Now, Miss Brush?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Why so it is? I wonder what our principal's doing
outside school?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Well maybe he figures that gives him more room to
pounce on us.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I hardly think so. But apparently there's something terribly wrong today. Why,
Miss Brooks, he's smiling.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I wonder who he expelled?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Well, well, well, it seems bill all arriving about the
same time this morning. Good morning, Miss Brooke, Good.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Morning, sir, morning Harriet, Good morning, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
And how are you this morning, Denton?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Oh fine, sir, simply fine.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Never felt better in my life, absolutely in the pink,
oh primed and raring to go.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Never better, sir, Not in my entire life, you know.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Surre, I never will learn, will I?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Well, I better get rid of this car. I want
to drive to the back lot with me, Harriet.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh, i'd like too, older, but you know how Daddy
feels about the two of us.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Going right ahead?
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Dear.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
No, really, mister Conklin, I must protest against the constant injustice.
I'm never permitting your daughter to accompany me on so
simple a journey as to go.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
To the You did you say, go right ahead?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
I'll take that souped up flying saucer out of here
before I change.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
My mind, yes, sir, hopin Harriet, Okay, thanks, Daddy. Er.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I don't know what it is, but that boy always.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Leaves me boiling.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I can't remember when I've been in such a good humor.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I can't either, but you certainly did seem in a
fine humor this morning.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Sir, And well I might be too. We had some
very good news at our house last night. It concerns
my wife's sister, Mildred.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
You've heard me mention her, the.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Single one who comes to our house and stays for
months at a time.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I mean she's finally getting married.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
No, that's just it, she's not.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
But how is that good news? Sir?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Well?
Speaker 6 (09:44):
We were suspicious of the fellow right from the beginning
from everything Mildred told us about him, he only seemed
to be interested in her for her money. He did,
so I began to do a little private investigating and
found the fellow had once been a confidence man and
had landed in jail twice. Wouldn't believe me, But luckily
when I phoned him and confronted him with the evidence,
he told me to stop worrying that he'd found a
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new sucker. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Uh, mister Complin, hadn't you ever met this man before?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
No?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
No, that was one of the things that first aroused
my suspicions. He never would come over to the house
to meet us.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I think I'm beginning to feel a little faint. How
did you know where to call?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Then? Well, that was easy. I knew his name and
how Mildred had met him, so I simply called Schmid's
butcher Shop where he works.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Mister Complin, will you excuse me for a few moments.
Why what he's going to do?
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Miss Brooks?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
First, I'm going to make a quick phone call, and
then I'm going to become a vegetarian.
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Speaker 2 (12:00):
Well, I'd heard of older people arriving at the age
of indiscretion before. However, not only did my landlady arrive,
but I think she intends to spend the rest of
her life there. When I finally reached her on the
phone just before noon. The results of our conversation practically
floored me. She refused to believe a word of what
mister Conklin had said about Henry. Naturally, I had to
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discuss my problem with someone so over our lunch table
in the cafeteria. A little while later, mister Boynton was elected.
His quick, incisive mind instantly grasped the problem, and his
first crystal clear statement went right to the heart of it.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Boy I'd sure hate to be in missus Davis's place.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Oh, you'd be much too tall for Henry anyway. And yes,
it is quite a mess, isn't it, particularly since Missus
Davis is giving Henry her decision to marry him tonight.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Now let me get this straight, Miss Brooks, you say
you called Missus Davis and gave her the information mister
Conklin gave you.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes, I told her mister Conklin said that Henry was
a confidence man, had been in jail twice and had
told him he didn't care about Conklin's sister in law
anymore because he'd found another sucker.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
And exactly what was Missus Davis's reaction?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
She asked me what else was new?
Speaker 7 (13:17):
It seems incredible?
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Was that all she said?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Well, not entirely, Oh, I didn't think so. She also
said to be sure to pick up a can of
vegetable soup on the way home this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Mister Brooks, didn't you ask her why she wasn't concerned
with what you told her?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Of course I did, And Missus Davis claimed that mister
Conklin was spreading the story because he was angry that
Henry hadn't married Mildred.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Oh, then she knew about the episode.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yes, it seems that Henry had already covered himself on
that score. He told her that she might hear some
wild stories about him because he'd been seeing Mildred, and
when he met Missus Davis, he gave her up.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Gosh, then what will happen to missus Davis? Will she
learn the real truth?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
In time?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Listen again tomorrow to another thrilling episode of Margaret Face's life.
But I'm really worried, mister Boyd. There must be some
way to bring her to her senses.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
I wish I could help. Sometimes when I'm faced with
a vexing problem, I find a solution by observing how
my frogs and rabbits react under similar circumstances.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It won't work here. Very few frogs and rabbits consider
marrying confidence man.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
That isn't quite what I have.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
There were only some way to convince her that people
don't marry so hastily, at least until they've looked into
the other person's background. If anyone else were doing the
same thing, I know missus Davis would condemn it.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
Miss Brook's, wait, I think you've got something.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Well, after all these years, it's about time. Oh you
mean I've given you an idea.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
I'll say you did.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Now tell me how was your new date last night?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Next time I have a secret, I'll hire a skyrider. Well,
Freddie Stewart is a very nice chef, mister Biden, very nice.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Well, I'm glad you like him, Miss Brooks, because that's
part of my idea.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
What is your idea, Miss Biden, that you contemplate marrying him?
What six years I'm going with the same man, and
when he finally does propose, it's that I marry somebody else.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
No, you don't understand. I don't mean actually contemplate marrying him.
I mean just give missus Davis the impression you're going
to marry him after only one date? Why don't you
get it, miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yes, but I'm not sure I wanted.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Well, I feel certain it'll work.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
When Missus Davis thinks that someone she cares about is
doing something hastily, she may reconsider her own position. Then
you can suggest she tests out Henry tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, since we haven't any time to lose, at least
it's worth a try.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Of course it is all right?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Then right after school, I'll dash down to the five
and ten cents.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Star, five and ten cents store. And what for?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Well, if I'm thinking of getting married, the least thing
i'm entitled to is an engagement ring entre.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
No, it's me, Missus Davis.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I know, Come in, missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Ny you're home early this afternoon. Dear, but why are
you packing?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I'm not really packing. I'm just throwing a few things
into my belief. I'll be back in a few days.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
But Connie, why didn't you tell me you're taking a trip?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, this one came up so suddenly and seemed so
insignificant it was hardly worth mentioning.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Why not, Connie, I'm getting married? Well, Connie, even an
insignificant trip like that is worth tell me about. Since
you're you're going to get married, Connie, when did you
decide to do that?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
About an hour ago during a lull in the conversation,
we're getting married this evening.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Well, I think it's simply wonderful.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Dear.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
It's what we both dreamed about all these years, that
someday mister Boyton would propose.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Oh, I'm not marrying mister Boyton.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It's Freddie Stewart, Freddy Stuart. Freddy Stewart asked you to
marry him, and you accepted certainly.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I didn't have anything else planned for this weekend, did I?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
He asked you an.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Hour ago, and you're getting married tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yes. Freddy says he doesn't believe in long engagements.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But Connie, marriage is the most important step of your life.
You'll have a whole lifetime to live together. It takes
months to get to know a man properly.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Oh, now, missus dames, I will admit, if you hadn't
gotten the idea first, I might not have accepted so readily.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Well, Connie, maybe I was wrong, Maybe we're both being
a little hasty. I'll tell you what, dear, if you
tell Freddie you want a little time to reconsider, I'll
put Henry to the acid test tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
The acid tests. I didn't mean for you to disfigure
him for life.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Since you think he's chasing me because I own this
house and have a little money, I'll prove to you, dear,
that you're wrong. How well, we'll simply reverse positions. You'll
be the owner of this house. And what's more, I'll
pretend to be your servant. If Henry still wants to
marry me, then that should convince us both of his integrities,
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shouldn't it. Well, Connie, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
What am I paying you good money for? Maggie? Get
back into the kitchen and start dinner.
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Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well, Having persuaded my land Id to cooperate with me,
I felt certain I could prove that her boyfriend was
a complete phone me. Later that evening, Missus Davis entered
the living room dressed for her new role. Oh well, Connie,
how do I look like the perfect maid? Missus Davis?
All the way from your white lace cap to your
dirty brown sneakers.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Here it's a doorly I used on the table at lunch.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And you did a swell job on that dress in
such a hurry.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
You like it. I just sowed a little lace on
an old black breast. I found the attic, but I'm
afraid I cut it a little short. My knees haven't
felt this drafty since nineteen twenty six.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Ah, this must be Henry. Now you'd better go inside
and give me a few minutes alone with him before
you announced dinner.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
All right, but you will be nice to him, Connie,
missus Davis.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
We've been all through that, and now go ahead.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Well all right, Connie.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Oh hello, you must be Henry Pringle.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Yes, my dear, Henry Pringle, and you've famous Brooks. I've
heard so much about you. Believe me, my dear, there
isn't a morning when my little sweetheart phones in a
meat order that your name doesn't come up.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I know, I go well with calves brains. Why won't
you come in, mister Pringle, Just Henry, Well, come in,
just Henry, thank you, thank you. Margaret's already told me
a good deal about the two of you.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Oh yes, yes, we're about ready to enter the sacred
state of matrimony. Where is my little girl, his Brooks.
I've brought her a little something.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Oh how nice? A box of candy. What are they caramels,
nougats or chocolate covered creams?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
They're meatballs.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
You're delicious, chocolate covered.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Meatballs brings his fiancee candy, Miss Brooks. I've always felt
it's more personal to bring one's lady love delicacies from
one's own business.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Lucky, you're not a bricklayer. Pleasure to welcome you here, Henry.
I feel as if I almost know you already.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
And I feel the same way. Margaret's told me so
much about you, how you taught school and everything.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
She told you.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I taught school.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
You're not the school teacher.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh gracious, no, that's only for people who have to
earn a living. There's the word scratch for a living.
By that, Margaret certainly has a vivid imagination. Next, I
suppose she'll be telling you she owns this house.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
She doesn't own this house.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh, now, really does a servant ever own her mistress's house.
She's your servant, Henry, Am I coming through clearly?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
But she never told me anything about that.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh well, let's go into the living room and wait
for her. Only please watch those scatter rugs.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
I simply can't believe Margaret's your servant.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Ah, here's little Maggie.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Now, dinner's serve.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Mum.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I warned you about those scatter rubs. Let me help
you out. Look what Henry brought to you, Maggie, a
box of meat balls.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Ah? Oh, Henry is shitn't bar you can say that again?
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Margaret? Is all this true? Are you really, miss Brooks servant?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Am I permitted to talk to my friend Mum?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Permission granted? But keep it within ten words, Maggie. We
don't want dinner to get cold, do we.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Well, that's right, Henry, dear Miss Brooks is my employer.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Then, all about owning this house, your little nest egg,
none of it's true.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Oh, the part about the nest egg is true.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
It is.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yes, Indeed Margaret found it in the tree and back
two weeks ago, not to hatch any day. Now. Now,
I know you both want to get started with your
dinner as soon as possible, So go right ahead into
the kitchen, Henry, and sit.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Down into the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yes, don't bump your head on the burning board that
way the sooner Maggie can serve me my dinner, the
sooner you can get at the leftovers. Well, let's have
no more talk.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Now, right, Maggie, mum's the word mummy, Henry.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Just a moment, Margaret, I am, I'm not very hungry. Frankly,
I never expected HOLLI.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Well, I'm sorry if I exaggerated a little, dear, a little.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
This isn't your house, no nest egg, you're miss Brooks servant.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
But it really doesn't make any difference, does it? As
long as we have each other.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Well, frankly, I am.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Oh, it doesn't make any difference, does it, Henry? You
said last night, regardless of what, love would find a way.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
And right now it's looking awfully hard.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Well, Margaret, to be perfectly honest, I.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Ay ya ya ya ya, I'll take it. Walter. What
are you doing here? You're not due to pick me
up for twelve hours yet?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Well, I was passing in my car, so I thought
i'd drop off some books I borrowed from you, thanks,
and buy all. Hi, missus Davis, what are you all
dressed up for going to a masquerade?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
No, Welder, I'm not going to a masquerade, no.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Masquerade, no, but you're going to a funeral.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
If you well, Gee, that's a clever costume. If I
didn't know you owned this place, i'd swear you were
the maid. Blow have I overstayed my welcome?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Already?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Its crooks on this earth by about sixteen years.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Gee, some people sure have their moods.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Well, good night.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Everyone, No, Margaret, perhaps you'll tell me the reason for
this little game you've been playing.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I'm sorry, Henry, but I wanted to find out if
you really love me, if you would love me if
I had nothing in the world.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Oh, could you doubt it for a minute, Margaret little girl?
Could you? Margaret child? Margaret baby once more?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And she won't even be born yet.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I know it now. I was a fool, Henry. Can
you forgive me? Please? Try to find it in your
heart to forgive me forever doubting you.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
It will be difficult, but you'll make it.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Believe me, Henry, I've learned my lesson. Nothing more will
ever come between us except the doorbell.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Forget it.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Good evening, Miss Brooks, am I on time, sir?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
What are you doing here this time of night? And
with a relise?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Oh, Margaret Darling, I see I am.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
In time as good? What are you doing here.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
What am I doing here?
Speaker 6 (26:47):
And who has a better right to be here than
your husband, your very.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Own husband, my husband.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Certainly aren't you going to kiss me? Sugar plud.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I am. It's certainly lucky you got here when you did. Osgoode, Davis,
osgoode Davis.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Margaret, you mean you're really married to this guy, Henry?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Of course I'm not. There's not a word of truth
in it. This man is an impostor.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
There I won't argue, but he is your husband, Henry.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
You don't believe this, do you?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
I don't know what to believe anymore? But I'm certainly
not taking any chances at a boy, not after being
mixed up like this three times before.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
What then you're not a bachelor.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
Margaret, Girl, I haven't been a bachelor since I ran
away from junior high with my French teacher.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
He said English out of scream.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
So if you'll excuse me, I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Oh dear, this is terrible, It's terrible. Then Henry really
is the sort of man you told me.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
He was Connie with a number of embellishments I had
no idea of, but I was good.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
How did you happen to come over tonight.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Well, when Poynton told me this afternoon of the tragic
mistake you were about to make, Margaret, I knew I
had to do something to prevent it, particularly when he
said you wouldn't believe a word of what I'd told,
Miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
But how did you think of this husband role, mister Conklin.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Well, that was just a shot in the dark, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Well, luckily everything worked out all right, and I believe
I have an idea how we can prevent this sort
of thing from happening again. Oh Dear, from now on,
I'll do the ordering by phone ar Miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Donnie Vard mclans Brod is producing, directed by Larry Burns
with my arthor Roldberger.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
The musical Brober.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Has Mister Conklin was played by Gail Gordon. Others in
tonight's cast were Jane Morgan, Dick Creunner, Bob Rockwell, Gloria McMillan,
and Will Wright. Be sure to be with us next
week for another comedy episode of R. Miss Brooks
Speaker 4 (29:18):
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