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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Maxwell House Coffee presents Good News of nineteen thirty nine.
(00:31):
The makers of Maxwell House Coffee again present to you
another full hour of sparkling.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Entertainment from the Metro Goldwyn.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Mayer Studios in hollywod Tonight you will hear Lionel Barrymore,
Charles Dickens, a Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen, Jean Lockhart,
Kathleen Lockhart and Rutherford and of course Hanny Brice with
Hanley Stafford, Frank Morgan, the songs of Tony Martin and.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The music of Meredith Wilson. Here's your host for this evening,
Robert Young.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Thank you Warren, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Meredith Wilson gets our show underway with a brand new
song from Cole Porter's current Broadway hit Leave It to Me,
the song Tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Meredith will play Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Right now, which is a good trick. If you can
do it might grow.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Ladies and gentleman with my money sign I got a remedy.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Letter Let.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Ladies and gentlemen, whenever you do, I find it not
my remedy, and I shall say tomorrow it's all going
to be friends to far you got need not fan
to far fast, say no fib Tom, say.
Speaker 8 (02:35):
You make about.
Speaker 9 (02:39):
You ain't gonna have all.
Speaker 10 (02:43):
My French and you seem like gonna.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Tom, you says up to be flansom. You start read
enough best, Tom, We open a queen.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I hear Tony Martin, the Singing Star from twentieth Century
Fox Studios, to bring us the new Ben Oakland fam
Lerner hit songs.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Everybody's laughing all right, Tony Tony Warren. Where's Tony Martin?
Speaker 11 (03:26):
I haven't seen him, Bob, are you? I guess he
hasn't shown up yet.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
No, isn't that nice? Well, ladies and gentlemen, as long
as Tony isn't here yet, Oh, it's about time he
showed up.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Gosh, Bob, I'm sorry I'm late, but it's all your fault.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah, you're right, fall sure.
Speaker 12 (03:41):
You're the one who suggested I go out to your
bel air stables and take up horseback riding.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And that's why it's your form or what happened? Well,
you're riding master out there.
Speaker 13 (03:49):
Strapped me on a horse and strapped you on a
whr Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
He got tired of picking me up.
Speaker 12 (03:53):
And you know that that big oak tree right by
the entrance of the ring. Yeah, well he told me
to ride from there to a little red flag on
the fence, and that's why I'm late.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well, I still don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 12 (04:05):
Well, the little red flag wasn't on the fence. It
was on the back of a truck going to San Diego.
I had to fly back.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, all right, Paul Reverer. Next time we'll nail the
flag on the fence.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Come on now, our listeners to a waiting for everybody's laughing.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Okay, bum meritus, little music please, I'm rotting.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Everybody's laughing. Yes, everybody's laughing.
Speaker 14 (04:38):
I all love you and.
Speaker 15 (04:43):
I.
Speaker 16 (04:43):
Everybody's laughing. Why oh the world?
Speaker 14 (04:49):
You love me and dragged about it proudably, but.
Speaker 16 (04:57):
All it's all over laughing at me.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
Love.
Speaker 16 (05:06):
People love to linger, so they can find a thing
and a pot of guy whose part was paying to
the ring. If we could not allow.
Speaker 14 (05:27):
To laugh, my bell.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Would me?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I boasted of your affection.
Speaker 16 (05:43):
I was too sure to laugh. I was too sure
of the future. But now that it's a thing of
theverybody's laughing. Yet everybody's laughing.
Speaker 14 (06:08):
They know that you and I and everybody's laughing.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Why oh the.
Speaker 14 (06:18):
World, you love me and drag a lot.
Speaker 16 (06:23):
It's probably, but seem say know it's over there, laughing
at the long People love to linger so they can
find a finger and apart. A guy heart was taken
(06:48):
to the ring. If we would not hold over the laugh,
y a bomb, every moylming.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Even if you were late, Tony, I'm sure everyone will agree.
I was worth waiting for. And now here she is,
Ladies and gentlemen, Fanny Bryce has baby snook.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Tonight. Daddy played by Hanley Stafford, is in a bad way.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He is suffering from the after effects of a banquet.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
As the scene opens, we.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Find Daddy tossing in bed in the guest room, trying
vainly to sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Listen, Oh, oh my poor Oh.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I wish I was dead.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Oh that's all I need.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
Now what are you doing out of bed?
Speaker 17 (08:04):
I can't sleep.
Speaker 18 (08:06):
You can't sleep, that's her husband.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Why can't you sleep?
Speaker 17 (08:11):
By light?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
On?
Speaker 17 (08:13):
What light outside?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
My smokes? That's not a light, it's the moon.
Speaker 17 (08:19):
Sin it off, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Now look here, sir, I.
Speaker 19 (08:23):
Beg you not to bother me tonight, especially with questions,
right cause I'm sick and I think.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I'm gonna need the doctor. The doctor, yes, now, go
back to.
Speaker 17 (08:31):
Sleep, all right?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
What is it?
Speaker 17 (08:34):
How did the moon get up there? Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't know. Nobody knows.
Speaker 20 (08:39):
It just shines, that's all.
Speaker 17 (08:41):
Who turns the light on?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
There isn't any light on the moon.
Speaker 17 (08:45):
Haunt and see a light on it?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I know, but it isn't there.
Speaker 19 (08:49):
Hm at night you see a light on the moon,
which really isn't on the moon. Instead, it's the light
in the sun, which is never here when the moon
is here.
Speaker 17 (08:58):
So I send for the doctor.
Speaker 13 (08:59):
Daddy, I've already sent for him.
Speaker 21 (09:02):
Hy because I'm sick.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Now, please leave me alone? Why because you make me nervous?
Speaker 21 (09:07):
And the doctor says I mustn't get excited and mustn't
holler the that's in may.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
No, I mustn't. You must I mustn't hollar. I mean,
I mustn't dollar.
Speaker 16 (09:18):
Please go to bed all right?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
By Yes, the lights go.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
On, nook. I just told you that that's the moon
and there isn't any light. The moon shines because it
reflects the light.
Speaker 20 (09:31):
From the sun which is shining on it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Is the sunshining?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Can I go out and play?
Speaker 15 (09:36):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Why?
Speaker 13 (09:39):
Because it's three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You said it done with shine?
Speaker 12 (09:44):
It is.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
It's shining on the moon.
Speaker 19 (09:45):
But the sun is someplace else?
Speaker 17 (09:47):
Is the moon someplace?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Now?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
No, the moon is right here, but the sun is
in China.
Speaker 17 (09:53):
Where is China?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It's nine thousand miles away.
Speaker 17 (09:57):
I wily shund be back in the morning. Hi, did
you get there?
Speaker 13 (10:01):
He doesn't get anywhere.
Speaker 15 (10:03):
We go there?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Oh look, the earth revolves down the taxis and goes
around the tar. So in the morning we all wear China.
Wasn't China's where we were? Only we both be made
in the same place.
Speaker 17 (10:19):
When need your doctor coming, daddy?
Speaker 13 (10:21):
Never mind the doctor, Please go to Sweet Spoke.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I'm not a spinning headache.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh no, don't yell.
Speaker 13 (10:31):
It drops my head like a cannon.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
What is it?
Speaker 17 (10:34):
Look at all of you?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Don't fuck here?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Those are tars.
Speaker 13 (10:41):
I don't want That's fine, go to bed.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I want one, Oh Kelby Killer.
Speaker 15 (10:47):
You can't have a tar, all right.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'll get your work. Oh that one.
Speaker 15 (10:55):
I don't want that one.
Speaker 22 (10:56):
I want that one.
Speaker 21 (10:58):
Can't have any Why.
Speaker 13 (11:01):
Because that's how you're pointing.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
To his mars.
Speaker 21 (11:03):
How did he gave?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
How did who get it?
Speaker 15 (11:07):
Mar?
Speaker 13 (11:08):
I didn't say with mars?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I said it was Mars.
Speaker 17 (11:10):
It ain't Mars, it's mine.
Speaker 14 (11:12):
Yes?
Speaker 20 (11:14):
Are you sure?
Speaker 16 (11:14):
The doctors common dolls?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Forget the doctor.
Speaker 13 (11:17):
Now, I'm telling you the name of that Pennis.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Every far up there has a name.
Speaker 17 (11:21):
Can I call that one, Jolie?
Speaker 14 (11:24):
Its name is Mars?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I wanted?
Speaker 13 (11:27):
Oh why was I born?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Hons? Please try to understand. Those tars are millions of
miles away. Nobody can reach them.
Speaker 15 (11:36):
You follow me, where are we gone?
Speaker 21 (11:39):
Nowhere? And you can't have any tars?
Speaker 14 (11:41):
Why?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Because in the first place, he's one of those tars
is many times ticking them this whole earth.
Speaker 21 (11:48):
Yes, yes, and don't ask me if doctor's coming. Now,
go to bed before I have a complete breakdown. All
I want to do is sleep, That is.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
What is it you want me to tell you?
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Was? No?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
You mean? Do you want to tell me a story?
Speaker 21 (12:12):
Mm hmm, I'll make you go too.
Speaker 19 (12:16):
Oh, here's a chance for me to give her a
taste for all right, go.
Speaker 13 (12:20):
Ahead and tell me a story.
Speaker 17 (12:22):
All right, I'll tell you Jack and the dream story.
Speaker 20 (12:26):
Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
How many?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Once upon a time there.
Speaker 17 (12:37):
Was a poor old woman who had a son named Jack,
and they miss you.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Jack.
Speaker 17 (12:47):
He was very good to him, good.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Good to Jack who was Who's mother?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Oh he gave him the cow.
Speaker 17 (13:06):
He's tell him the chilly when he's telling him.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
About time. Now you know how I feel when you
do it?
Speaker 23 (13:18):
Training, I fly.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
All right, Warren Hall, The stage is yours, Thanks Bob.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Friends.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
A short time ago, a bride and her mother in
law had an amusing experience.
Speaker 11 (13:43):
It happened over a cup of coffee.
Speaker 12 (13:44):
It went like this will take you after meal Like that,
I'm sure Jim will never be homesick for my cookie.
Speaker 17 (13:50):
Well, that's a real compliment, mother Hogan.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Peggy's a grand cook, all right, mother, I'm only sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
That sorry about what kin.
Speaker 11 (13:56):
Well, usually Peggy makes marvelous coffee. Only tonight it's different.
No flavor to it, will Jim. Yes, you'll have to
blame me, not Peggy.
Speaker 19 (14:06):
See I brought over especially a coffee that you used
to rap about, but it's turned out to be a sizzle.
Speaker 17 (14:11):
Tell me, Peggy, what kind do you use fin a
new Maxwell house? It has been much more flavor that.
Jim just won't have any other coffee.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Friends, if you've had trouble getting coffee, that's just to
your taste. Coffee that's always rich satisfying and full flavored.
Then you'll certainly appreciate two important improvements in the new
Maxwell House. First, the remarkable radiant roast process roasts each
coffee bean through and through as even the inside as out.
It brings out all the full flavor of the superb coffee,
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so you get no bitter coffee due to parching, no
weak coffee due to under roasting. Second, the blend a
way has been found to further enrich Joel Cheek's original
famous Maxwell House blends. It's smoother, more full bodied, more
downright delicious than ever before, the wealth of cheery stimulation
in every cup. To ask your grocer tomorrow for a
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pound of this marvelous new Maxwell House coffee. It comes
in the same familiar blue super vacuum can, so it's
always roaster fresh, always good to.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
The last drop.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Meredith Wilson's arrangement of Ferdinand the Bull is still the top.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
He plays it for you now, all right, Matador Ferdinand
the boogles.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Of red when the window you He have all the costs.
Speaker 10 (16:13):
Eagles, the calling eagle, thanking the tangle, the tangle that
he never.
Speaker 24 (16:30):
Liked, Senoritas and senor so for it a Senorita and
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senor it's mepapye bo.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Think facing.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Thinkers.
Speaker 23 (17:50):
Okay, that was very good, meritith, thank you Bob.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, I know you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Well that's the way you feel about it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You can keep it, musicians.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
What's the matter now, Frank?
Speaker 13 (18:26):
Look at that band.
Speaker 15 (18:28):
Looks like a group picture of a family of cannibals.
I think that drummer has prehensile os.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
That means monkey.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
I looked it up at rehearsal.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
What happened, Frank, Well, I should have I should.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Have known better.
Speaker 15 (18:43):
I never met a saxophone player, yet it wasn't an
odd of foot bad.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
What happened a few minutes ago.
Speaker 15 (18:49):
I was walking in the car and looking for a
place to put my scripts when I noticed this saxophone
player talking to a very beautiful girl.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I might have known it would be this as soon
as I saw them.
Speaker 15 (18:59):
I'm struck by the tableau, the girl, a lovely, lissome flower,
the saxophone player at toad.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
I acted.
Speaker 15 (19:08):
I accosted a fellow frost the dollar villa into his
hand and asked him to get me a cigar.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
You got the nerve yeah, just more.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (19:15):
Well, but imagine my surprise when the fellow was gone
to find I was standing with his girl, but needs
a spray of missile soul.
Speaker 13 (19:23):
Well, being of a superstitious turn of mine, I set.
Speaker 15 (19:25):
To work, and when the saxophone player returned, he found
me busting his.
Speaker 13 (19:30):
Fair companions busting her Yes, the Chaucerrian word meaning kiss.
Speaker 15 (19:35):
Unfortunately, the musician hadn't studied Chaucer and immediately began making
a disgusting scene.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well I should think he would, then a man for
a cigar. When he comes back he finds you kissing
his girl.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I hope he got his revenge. He did, he kept
my change.
Speaker 13 (19:49):
Well, there's me right for trusting a musician in the future.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I've what's all the noise about here?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Man ruined my client.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
I'm puri server. We're broadcasting what's going on here? I
have a perfect right to come in here, and am
I addressing mismanks?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Do you have that honor?
Speaker 13 (20:05):
Mister princes Metal?
Speaker 11 (20:07):
Sir, I'm attorney Prince Metal.
Speaker 15 (20:10):
Well delighted, mister Prince Metal, it's mister young.
Speaker 16 (20:13):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
How do you do? Mister Wilson, how do you do?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
And mister Hall, how do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Well?
Speaker 15 (20:18):
Gentlemen, if you'll forgive me, I'll be running along. You'll
find the cards and the chip.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well, that's mister Morgan.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I'm here on behalf of my client, and here is
our bill of particular everything.
Speaker 13 (20:33):
You've got a bill Frank Morgan versus Fred Chunk.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
What's this?
Speaker 13 (20:42):
I don't know any stunk?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Well I do.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Frankie represents the fellow who's had your ruined last week
with a cow cutter egg tree.
Speaker 15 (20:50):
Remember, oh, don't bother me with Mondane affairs today.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
It's not Mondane. It's Thursday.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
Read the bill of particular, mister Morgan.
Speaker 15 (21:00):
Oh, that won't be necessary. Here's five dollars for the
man's hat.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
Now read the bill of particular.
Speaker 13 (21:05):
But my dear sir, I don't have to read Frank
uh we did?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah? Oh all right?
Speaker 15 (21:13):
No men, By these presents greetings to wit. Whereas Frank Morgan,
defendant did wilfully and maliciously destroy the derby of the
paintiff Fred Schunk, the said derby being valued at the
sum of ten thousand, ten.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Thousand dollars for a derby he used it on the
end of his trombone.
Speaker 13 (21:33):
Why am I constantly being persecuted by a musician?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Reads the bill of particular.
Speaker 13 (21:38):
Yeah, well, ten thousand for the hat uh. Paintiff also
claims fifty thousand.
Speaker 15 (21:43):
Damages for humiliation, fifty thousand punitive damages, and one hundred
and twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Four dollars for bethola betsola?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
What's that?
Speaker 11 (21:50):
That's my client's booth? Wants to get a new bottom
put on it?
Speaker 13 (21:57):
Why should I buy shunk a new bottom for its boat?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
There's no harm in asking.
Speaker 11 (22:10):
Read the rest of the complaints.
Speaker 15 (22:12):
All these damages are claimed by playing this because of
Defendant Morgan's action and performing the Calcutta hat trick on
December eighth, nineteen thirty eight when he put it.
Speaker 13 (22:22):
The week ruined plaint off suit.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
By putting to the account of children.
Speaker 15 (22:27):
In mister attorney, this whole thing is irrelevant, incompetent, and imfortistic.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Okay, what's that importistic?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 13 (22:36):
I just put it in to warrior, mister friends metals.
Nothing of the kind ever happened.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Oh what did happen?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Well?
Speaker 15 (22:44):
I made one simple mistake in performing the trick, That's
all You mean, well, my intention was to produce from
your client's had a sack of seeming week takes. I
possess certain magical powers, and I cut it out. Uh
oh well yeah, well I can show you exactly where
I went.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Do you mind if I bar your hat?
Speaker 13 (23:04):
Let's hold the hat.
Speaker 15 (23:06):
Now you see what I did last thirsd It was
to take the two eggs and break them.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Like, what what's.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
To take the eggs?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Break them?
Speaker 13 (23:16):
Well?
Speaker 22 (23:17):
The cases just messed off to you all missed them, bolly.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Oh, what have you got there, Warren?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Not eggs?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Why did you hear it?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Bob?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It's a limerick from one of our many Maxwell House friends.
His name is ad Ryan huts Well, come on read it, okay, listen.
There was a young man named Bellow who was always.
Speaker 11 (24:04):
Quite a good fellow.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
It superlative spouse serves a new Maxwell House.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
The coffee that.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
Ricks smooth and mellow.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
By the way, Warren, are many people spending in jingles
or limericks.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
About Maxwell House?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
They sure are, Bob, and I want to thank all
of our friends to.
Speaker 11 (24:16):
Take the trouble to write them. We really do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
And by the way, the minute hand of the clock
is pointing straight down, So pull up your chairs and
join our friendly circle in our regular Thursday evening customs.
A seeming fragrant cup of Maxwell House and the music
of Meredith Wilson. We now paused briefly quotation identification.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
K f I, Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
This is Bob Young again, continuing our good news of
nineteen thirty nine. Now Maxwellhouse takes great pleasures in bringing
you Charles dickens immortal story A Christmas Carol, as produced
by Joseph L. Mankowitz into a glorious MGM picture. And now,
ladies and gentlemen, mister Lionel Barrymore.
Speaker 20 (25:47):
Todnight, we honor Christmas and presenting an immortal story by
Charles Dickens, a story which Metro Golden Mays faithfully transcribed
into a beautiful and inspiring picture A Christmas Carol. I'm
happy tonight to be able to introduce one of America's
truly great actors, Reginald Owen, playing the role he so
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magnificently brings to the screen Ebenezer's screws with him. Jean Lockart,
a beloved actor, a great personality who so perfectly plays
Bob Cratchett, his charming wife Kathleen Lockhart who plays Missus Cratchett,
Anne Rutherford, Ronalds and Claire, with a fine cast of
players who so ably supports them and bring them to
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the screen a great picture. Now let's look back to
the London of over a century ago. As Dickens tells us,
there was once a man named Ebenezer screw who scoffed
at the idea of Christmas. Oh but he was a
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tight fisted hand at the grindstone. Was Screwed, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping,
covetous old, a hated man in a dingy little office
in London spread Needles Street, whose partner, Jacob Marley, had
died some seven years past, and whose only employee is
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Bob Cratchett.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
An abused fellow frightened of his mind. It's Christmas Eve.
Speaker 20 (27:20):
Cracket, thinking of the Christmas he's going to prepare for
his six young children, anxiously watches the clock as it
ticks past his closing time. Screwed, sharp, cold, hard old
man that he is, comes out of his office and
creeps up behind crack It, watching Screwed speak ha.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
He posts watch on the closing our cracket.
Speaker 15 (27:46):
It's huss puff the officers then close up, close up, Thank.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You, sir. Don't work over time. You might make something
of yourself you'll want all day tomorrow.
Speaker 25 (27:56):
I suppose it's quite conveniences.
Speaker 20 (27:58):
It's not convenient, and it's not fair if I were
to stop a half a crown for it to think yourself,
he'll use.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I'll be bound so only once the year's or excused
from picking a man's pocket every twenty fifth of December.
But I suppose you must have the whole day, be
here all the earlier next morning.
Speaker 11 (28:15):
Oh yes, then be off and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Humbug, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 26 (28:22):
Watch Christmas time for the time for paying bills without money,
A time for finding yourself a year older, not an
hour richer. If I could work my will, every idiot
who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips to
be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a
stake of holly for his heart.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Well, what are you waiting for? My wages?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
They fall to you today.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Can't wait to spend the me.
Speaker 13 (28:51):
There?
Speaker 27 (28:53):
Good day, bob cratchit jobs up Fred Needles Street, greeting
friends and.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Strangers alike with a jolly smile and a.
Speaker 13 (29:07):
Cheery Merry Christmas.
Speaker 20 (29:09):
Rounding a corner, he suddenly runs into a barrage of snowball,
one of these better aim than the others, knocking the
hat from bob Cratchit's head. Looking around, Bob sees a
gang of virchint scurrying away.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
He runs after them and catches them.
Speaker 13 (29:27):
I say here, now here now, I say, God, no,
we are sorry, really we are.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
I ain't over that.
Speaker 15 (29:32):
But just because the fellow wears a hat, you no,
that doesn't mean he can't throw a snowball.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Now. Watch, This is the way to.
Speaker 13 (29:38):
Make a real snowball.
Speaker 15 (29:40):
You take the snow with your bare hands like this,
and then you crunch it together. But God, coming down
and ring a woman, I think you can knock it off.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Right to a gift.
Speaker 13 (29:54):
Give me room study one, two three. No, it was nothing,
It was nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Time.
Speaker 11 (30:08):
And sorry must I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
It was you, no idea. It's all truly mounted, no
doubt this is your idea of a Christmas joke. I'll
get your hats.
Speaker 26 (30:17):
It's ruins, said, I told you before that I could
find a man more capable than yourself.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I need say no more. I fact it exactly.
Speaker 13 (30:30):
In my paper it says that I must have a
week notice.
Speaker 26 (30:33):
Your week's salary will recompense me for the price when
you had no This hack cast sixteen and six, and
your salary is fifteen and six.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
You owe me your skilling. Give it me.
Speaker 28 (30:46):
Yes, it's a Sadden Bob Cratchit who wins his way
homeward on Christmas.
Speaker 20 (31:00):
He's thinking of his wife and family, but most of all,
he's thinking of his youngest son, Tim, Tiny Tims. All
his brothers and sisters call him Tiny Tim, who's been
a cripple all his life. Meantime, let's follow Schools through.
Speaker 29 (31:14):
His dismal, lonely lodgings, through the barren hallways to his
upstairs bedroom, where, after carefully locking the door and drawing
the curtains, he lights a small fire and prepares for bed.
Speaker 20 (31:29):
Suddenly, from the depths of the house he hears a
clanking of chains. The noise of those chains comes closer,
closer through the stout old tangling of Scrooge's door. That
comes a shadowy figure, a figure that's wound about with
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a chain of cash boxes, hes, padlocks, ledges, and every
persons wrought and steals school food.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You wake lips and manages to speak? Who are you?
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Asn't me? Who I was?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Who were you then life?
Speaker 30 (32:09):
I was your partner, Jacob Harley Molly, But you are dead.
I've been dead these seven long Why do you tuble me?
Speaker 7 (32:21):
It is required of every man that the spirit with
him should walk abroad among his fellow men. If that
spirit does not go forth in life, it must do
so after death.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
You are bound in heavy chains.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
I wear the chains I forged in life.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
But why why?
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Because in life my spirits never walked beyond the limits
of our money changing hole.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
You are always a good man of business, Jacobs business.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
I'm kind with my business, the common welfare with my business, Charity, mercy, forbearance,
and benevolence. All these were my business. Is at this
time of year the nice supper boat to see the
one I could have topped, the suffering I could have placed,
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the hunger I could have satisfied.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
That may be true, but hear me.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
I am here to warn you that you have one
chance of escaping my faith. One chance ebene a screw,
what is it?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
You will be haunted by three spirits three spirits.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I I think I'd rather not take it.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Unless you suffer these three visitations, your faith will be
the same as mine.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Jacob, don't leave me yet, Jacob.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
Expect the first when the bell holds one, the second
on the stroke of two, the third upon the last
vibration of three.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Check up, checkop quite, check up.
Speaker 29 (33:57):
Scooge pleads in vain.
Speaker 20 (34:00):
Like a wisp of fog. The ghost lets out of
the window. Scrooge weaves towards his bed, tumbles in and
pulls the coverlet over his head. It's one minute before one.
Scooge pokes his head slowly from under the coverlet and
trembles to a sitting position and looks nervously round. Suddenly,
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his room is flooded with light. The curtains on his
bed are ripped apart. Scrooge is facing the first spirit.
Speaker 17 (34:34):
Eboneze a Scrooge, Yes, I am the ghost of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Pas.
Speaker 17 (34:40):
Arise from your bed and come with me.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
What is your business, your.
Speaker 17 (34:44):
Welfare, your reclamations. Come step up on.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
The window stairs, the window sill.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
But have no fear.
Speaker 17 (34:53):
Bear but a touch of my hand on your heart
and you shall be spaced.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Will fall will fall.
Speaker 31 (34:59):
No, we won't fall, will lie easily and gently across
the London roost, high above the chimneys.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Where where are we? Wise psy Wigs warehouse? I would
apprentice here?
Speaker 17 (35:36):
Look, look in the window.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
It's old Fezzy Wigs.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
It's old fezsy Wig alive again. But who is that
boy with him? I seem to remember his face?
Speaker 7 (35:49):
That boy is yourself?
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Listen, screwge heaven, he's a scrowge.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Do you observe the time slas you've let me work?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
You five minutes overtime?
Speaker 20 (36:04):
No more work tonight Christmas eve, Ebenezer, close up the shop?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Yes, now about tomorrow.
Speaker 20 (36:12):
It's a holiday, of course, but you're expected to spend
at least part of it with.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Me eating Christmas dinner.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 17 (36:21):
And here this is for you, a sovereign, a whole sovereign.
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 13 (36:31):
Don't try to thank me, eber, don't try the back.
Speaker 17 (36:36):
Do you remember what you have just seen?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Schoo? Yes, old Fetherwig was very kind to me, Yes
he was, but he's dead now.
Speaker 17 (36:45):
Perhaps you feel you'd like to repay his kindness to you? Well,
you have a closs bob practice old Featherwig would have
been so happy if you had shown your gratitude to
him by showing kindness to others your clock, Frins.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Business is business. I'm a good business man.
Speaker 17 (37:01):
My time goes short. I have shown you a scene
from your childhood. I have yet to show you the
black years of your life, your gradual enslavements, agreed, your ruthlessness.
You're in gratitude. No no, you're writchess for gold.
Speaker 14 (37:14):
No, no, leave me.
Speaker 13 (37:16):
I can't turn more.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I can't turn more.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
I'm here in my bed.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Yes, that's it. I was dreaming.
Speaker 14 (37:35):
You were not dreaming, Ebenezer screwed.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Who who are you? It is two o'clock. Come closer
and know me better? Yes, yes, I am the ghost
of the Christmas present. What are we going to do?
Walk in the world on this Christmas night for you
to see and hear and feel the Christmas in the
world this night? Did you say walk or fly?
Speaker 8 (37:58):
Touch my robe? This is the home of your trust,
Bob Cratchitt. Not a very large places it's for. How
could it be large? On the cowry you pay him?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Perhaps he doesn't budget his money. Well, look they're eating
their Christmas dinner.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
There's Bob Cratchett at the head of the table and
his wife and their children.
Speaker 32 (38:28):
Tell me, Perritt, why does that little boy, the one
whom they called Tim, why does he look so ill?
He's been crippled all his life, Perrot, Tell me if
Tiny Tim will live.
Speaker 18 (38:44):
If the shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child
will die. No, No, surely he will bespared with the
kind of care that money can buy.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Who can tell?
Speaker 8 (38:57):
But Bob Cretchitt has no money, not even position.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
I've heard.
Speaker 18 (39:02):
No, all this remains unaltered by the future. The next
Christmas will not find Tiny Tin here.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
But he mustn't die. This can't happen whatever.
Speaker 11 (39:14):
Surely you don't tell, But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Truth.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Tell my time with you was up.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
We must return, But.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Look inside, Bob is telling us.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Tory fort it.
Speaker 13 (39:24):
Please let me here, Bob Tory, we must go.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
But it's about a Laddin and the magic lamp. Please
let me say. I won't come with you. I'm gonna say,
don't like a pool man.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
You don't like Christmas?
Speaker 25 (39:36):
I do.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I do like Christmas. I love Christmas. I love Christmas.
Speaker 20 (39:48):
Would find himself alone alone on a bleak, windswept more
looks across the moon. Terror coming like a mist along
the ground, I told him, as a draped and hooded phantom. Slowly, silently,
this phantom approaches humbly, Scrooge blouses head.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
You you are the ghost of Christmas yet to come.
You're about to show me things that have not happened,
but will happen in the future. Is that to spirit?
You don't answer, Ghost of the future. I know you're
here to do me good. And as I hope to
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be another man from what I was, I'm ready to
accompany you. Won't you speak lead on them? I shall
follow gladly. Why? Why this is Bob Patch, It's home
(40:53):
again day? Everybody? All the children look so sad, scratching
his knitty.
Speaker 21 (41:04):
It must be getting near.
Speaker 17 (41:05):
Your father's time was particular, so he has walked so
long last.
Speaker 10 (41:10):
To leave me.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
I've known him to walk with tiny tim upon his shoulder.
Speaker 17 (41:16):
Very fast, indeed, but he was very light to carry.
Speaker 9 (41:22):
And his father loved him so that it was no trouble,
no trouble.
Speaker 17 (41:28):
Here's your father at the door.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Hello, there, my nighbors, Hello, my dear Bob.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
This chair feels good.
Speaker 15 (41:39):
I saw mister Scrooge's nephew today, you.
Speaker 25 (41:42):
Did, dear, Yes, Oh, he is a nice fellow.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
He saw I looked a trifle down, Just a trifle,
you know.
Speaker 14 (41:50):
He asked me what was wrong?
Speaker 25 (41:51):
I told him about about sim.
Speaker 7 (41:55):
He's such a sweet fellow.
Speaker 25 (41:56):
Somehow I didn't mind telling him. I'm heart sorry for it,
mister Cratchet, he said, and heartily sorry for your good
wife by the bye. How he ever knew that I
don't know you, my dear, that you were a good wife.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
It really seemed that he knew our Kim and felt
with us. I'm sure he's a good soul.
Speaker 25 (42:22):
He is, he is, And I'm sure children that when
we remember how gentle and the patient Tim was, we
shan't call among ourselves, and in doing it forget our Tim.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
I'm very happy. I am.
Speaker 33 (42:42):
Very happy for Tim, poor tiny Tim. Everyone who knew
him skilled sorrow, sorrow they would never.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
Feel for me.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
What place is that?
Speaker 3 (43:01):
It looks like a graveyard of cemetery. Everything looks so
bleak and cold, and.
Speaker 16 (43:07):
It is a graveyard.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
What are you pointing at.
Speaker 14 (43:13):
A grave?
Speaker 32 (43:15):
It says ebonez as Coold, my grave, not a flower
or a blade of grass on it.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
No, no, why do you show me this?
Speaker 34 (43:29):
If I am past or hope, I shall change my
way of living. I will tie to Greek Christmas all
the year. I will live in the past, the presence
in the future, the.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Spirit of all free shall be in my heart. I
shall never forget the lessons that they teach.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
Tell me that this will change my future.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
Tell me that this is not my end.
Speaker 17 (43:56):
Please please, please.
Speaker 6 (44:01):
Please.
Speaker 20 (44:17):
Congratulations regular and we lock Art Kathleen Lockart Man rutherved
you were truly magnificent in the Christmas Carol. For no
story is more timely than this, when all Americans are
praying for peace, peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
And this tiny tim says God, bless us everyone.
Speaker 5 (44:45):
Thank you, mister Barrymore, and may we expend an appreciation
and thanks to Franz Waxman, who composed the original music
for our radio version and who also conducted the orchestra
for us tonight. Likewise, and orchest to Edwin L. Maron,
who directed the radio version the Christmas Carol as well
as the picture. Now, Tony Martin returns to sing one
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of the famous Victor Herbert songs from the operetta, The
Fortune Teller Tony sings Gypsy love songs.
Speaker 16 (45:17):
Floor bursts of the forest are falling for the and
the shade Dellogally's alonely Somemmer is there with a blossom space,
and you are snoble the nest in the.
Speaker 14 (45:44):
Green wootere butsides no three to and kiss you all
the violot yearn yearned.
Speaker 16 (45:53):
For your safe return, but most of all, and you,
my little gypsy, stream all the field, and.
Speaker 15 (46:26):
And you.
Speaker 16 (46:30):
Stream in the dreamland.
Speaker 7 (46:35):
Where you.
Speaker 16 (46:47):
My level shifty hard Wie level ward Laney.
Speaker 14 (47:10):
Mob no.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
Les sweet.
Speaker 16 (47:25):
W little What.
Speaker 13 (47:29):
The longa.
Speaker 16 (47:40):
How my.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Long?
Speaker 11 (48:04):
Here is another of those good news satires.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
If men want Christmas shopping as women do, Frank Morgan
and Bob Young are first in the line of Christmas
shoppers waiting for the depopment store doors.
Speaker 11 (48:14):
To open on a big pre Christmas sale.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Young, do you.
Speaker 15 (48:21):
Realize we've been standing here since seven o'clock this morning.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
My feet are.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
Killing Oh mine too. Any minute my corns will pop.
Speaker 13 (48:28):
This is worse than dollar Day at the five and ten.
Speaker 4 (48:30):
Well, I hope the sale was worthwhile.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
I did all my washing and ironing last night so
I could make it.
Speaker 13 (48:35):
Oh, this is a very reliable store.
Speaker 15 (48:37):
Last Christmas, I exchanged some of my gifts here thinks
and seven times?
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Oh Morgan, who takes care of the baby while you're
out shopping every day?
Speaker 3 (48:45):
Well, I have a little man that comes in.
Speaker 13 (48:49):
He's so good with babies.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
He was the one himself. You know.
Speaker 15 (48:52):
Once we put the baby on a scientific diet, we're
feeding him garlic.
Speaker 4 (48:57):
Now feeding the baby garlic.
Speaker 15 (49:00):
Of course when he cries during the night, we can
find him without turning on the line. Oh say, for
goodness sakes, will you stop pushing?
Speaker 3 (49:08):
Buddy? Who's pushing? I was just breathing. When I breathe easier. Oh,
this place is crowded enough without somebody. Yeah you why
Hanley Handy Sapper fort War you. I haven't seen you
since Super's Punyes, cooking school last May? And Youngsi Wosy
(49:31):
you all sing you sappie?
Speaker 4 (49:33):
How did you know?
Speaker 3 (49:34):
You know?
Speaker 4 (49:34):
You look positively radiant. You must be in love.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
I'm engaged Gwndel and said will you? And I said yes,
we were going to get married right away and move
in with her folks.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
But we can't.
Speaker 4 (49:47):
Why not her folks just moved in with Therefore?
Speaker 15 (49:50):
Oh, say boys, I think they're going to open the
doors and start the sail.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
Now, let's try to stick together. But if we do
get separated, we can all meet in the men's underwear. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Oh, they're opening the doors.
Speaker 4 (50:02):
Now, let's go, fellow.
Speaker 15 (50:08):
Who Well we made this counter anyways, let's pick out
all the good things before that mob of bulsurees beat
some suet.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
Where's the sales boy? Oh there and win You're just
look at who it is, Meredith Wilson.
Speaker 23 (50:19):
Oh, hello, boys, something I can show you.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
What are you doing behind that counter? Why I'm working here?
Speaker 19 (50:29):
Just thought i'd pick up some extra cash over the
holidays so I could buy a darling little coat I.
Speaker 13 (50:34):
Saw in the window of the store across the street.
Speaker 3 (50:36):
Oh, I know the one, Oh Wilson. You'll be an
absolute dream boat in it, I think.
Speaker 15 (50:42):
So. Maybe I'll have it fixed with a little fur collar,
you know, something to match my personality.
Speaker 13 (50:47):
I don't think they're wearing skunks this year.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
No listen here, Morgan, If I why you all like me.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Said, you're fighting to the bridge game tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (50:58):
We have our Christmas shopping to do.
Speaker 3 (51:00):
No young is right, Old Stafford.
Speaker 13 (51:03):
Look at this lovely blue tie it would be enchanting
on you just matches your eyes.
Speaker 20 (51:08):
Yes, it is nice material.
Speaker 15 (51:10):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (51:10):
Rayon?
Speaker 25 (51:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (51:12):
I can't wear rayon?
Speaker 19 (51:13):
It chased me, say, fellows, don't look now, but don't
we know that sales boy at the next cow there?
Speaker 4 (51:21):
Of course, that's Kenny Groszman's cousin, the one who just
got divorced.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
My Oh, I remember his wife?
Speaker 15 (51:31):
Now, she's I think fat woman who always wore the
red earring. From a rear view, she looked like the
back of a greyhound bus.
Speaker 3 (51:38):
Did he get alimony? Oh?
Speaker 2 (51:40):
I don't know, but I think he won the custody
of his wife, Karen.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
So here we are capping again and not getting out
of Christmas shopping.
Speaker 19 (51:47):
Done, Wilson, I'll take this little bedjacket with a mused match.
Speaker 15 (51:51):
Oh no, staff, now, not that said, Please don't take
it away from me. I fell in love with that
the minute I saw it. Oh all right, I'll take
this the robe instead. I'll savage or an angel without
a dirty face.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
Hell, Wilson, I'll.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
Take this purple polka dot sports cloud a gift for
my butcher.
Speaker 4 (52:10):
He'll love it.
Speaker 3 (52:11):
I'll have them all wrapped and be back in a
teensy little minute. Don't go away now.
Speaker 4 (52:21):
Don't you think Wilson carries his age?
Speaker 13 (52:22):
Well he should, He's had years of practice.
Speaker 19 (52:26):
I don't like to say anything, but did you men
notice his hair looks like he had to cut at
the pet show?
Speaker 13 (52:32):
Do any of you happen to know his brother Cedric?
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (52:36):
Yes, isn't he the messiest looking individual?
Speaker 23 (52:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (52:38):
He told me he's trying to get a pattern on
the bathtub. He thinks it's something huge jiggers.
Speaker 3 (52:44):
Here comes Wilson back. Well, here are your package?
Speaker 15 (52:46):
Is all done up in darling little ribbons and sandy
glass stickers.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
A man, Well, let's go boy, Oh Wilson, where's the
main wrapping department? The third floor, left between the vacuum
cleaners and the woolen nighties.
Speaker 16 (52:59):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (52:59):
This year I'm giving novelty baskets of homemade jams and jellies,
and I want to see about having them rare.
Speaker 3 (53:05):
Oh isn't that a clever Christmas idea giving food?
Speaker 14 (53:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (53:09):
Last year my cousin Egg had sent me a box
of imported Limburger cheese, and not knowing what it was,
I put it under the tree.
Speaker 4 (53:15):
What happened.
Speaker 13 (53:16):
The tree died.
Speaker 4 (53:28):
Now Warren home, Thank Bob.
Speaker 1 (53:30):
Friends, do you really know how truly rich and satisfying
the flavor of the new Maxwell House coffee? Years on
this point, mister Harold Renfrey of one hundred eighteen Kemper Avenue, Butth,
Montana wrote recently, quote, I cannot resist the temptation of
telling you the big surprise I got about ten days ago.
Speaker 11 (53:47):
I'm just a mine worker, but I liked my coffee,
and for the last twenty five years have been using what.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
I thought was the best coffee on the market, But
for the last two years it has been getting more
bitter all the time. Then, about ten days ago, my
wife bought a can of Maxwell House when I came
off shift. I knew we had found a coffee that's
different as soon as I opened the door.
Speaker 11 (54:08):
But I got my big surprise when I'd drank my
first cut. No bitterness, just the real fresh.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
Coffee, flavored unquote. Thank you mister Renfrey for your nice letters.
Speaker 11 (54:19):
Friends.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
More and more people every day are delighting in the
new Maxwell House. So if you haven't tried Maxwell House lately,
you are missing the coffee that's smoother, richer, and more
satisfying than any you probably have ever tried before. The
improvement in the new Maxwell House is due not only
to the marvelously enriched blend, but also to the radiant
roast process, which roasts each being evenly through and through,
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so there's no weak coffee due to under roasting, no
bitter coffee due to parching. A new and improved Maxwell
House comes in two grinds. The regular grind Maxwell House
is correct for the percolator or boiled methods. The drip
grind Maxwell House is correct for all drip and glass
coffee makers. Two different coffee making principles, so naturally, two
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different grimes. Tomorrow, discover for yourself how much more flavor
and more satisfaction, and what a wealth of cheery stimulation
this new Maxwell House brings. You buy a pound, or
if you have a large family, or do the more
economical two pound. Can you'll say that now more than ever,
this is the coffee good.
Speaker 4 (55:24):
To the last drop.
Speaker 5 (55:33):
Tonight, in the MGM Concert Hall, Meredith Wilson again asks
if all the music in the world were suddenly destroyed,
and you could choose just one composition to preserve and
hear again, what number would you choose. Tonight's selection is
the combined choice of a parking lot attendant, a prominent
Chicago attorney, and a golf pro in Cleveland. They have
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chosen Beethoven's Immortal Moonlight Sonatas.
Speaker 9 (56:02):
Of the Stain of Wi Da PRIs.
Speaker 5 (59:26):
And next week, Ladies and Gentlemen, a big holiday program
starring Robert Taylor, who plays the role of a daring
spy in a thrilling dramatic sketch. In addition, of course,
all the regular gangs Fanny, Bryce and Hamley Stafford, Frank Morgan,
Tony Martin, Meredith Wilson and.
Speaker 4 (59:40):
His orchestra, and Yours True. This is Bob Young saying
good night until next Thursday.
Speaker 2 (59:45):
In the meantime, go to the movie and take the
family with you.
Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
This is Warren Hall saying good night and good luck
for the makers at Maxwell House.
Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
The coffee that's always good for the last drunk.
Speaker 11 (01:00:09):
This is a national broadcasting company. This is k f I,
Los Angeles,
Maxwell House Coffee presents Good News of nineteen thirty nine.
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The makers of Maxwell House Coffee again present to you
another full hour of sparkling.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Entertainment from the Metro Goldwyn.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Mayer Studios in hollywod Tonight you will hear Lionel Barrymore,
Charles Dickens, a Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen, Jean Lockhart,
Kathleen Lockhart and Rutherford and of course Hanny Brice with
Hanley Stafford, Frank Morgan, the songs of Tony Martin and.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The music of Meredith Wilson. Here's your host for this evening,
Robert Young.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Thank you Warren, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Meredith Wilson gets our show underway with a brand new
song from Cole Porter's current Broadway hit Leave It to Me,
the song Tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Meredith will play Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Right now, which is a good trick. If you can
do it might grow.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Ladies and gentleman with my money sign I got a remedy.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Letter Let.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Ladies and gentlemen, whenever you do, I find it not
my remedy, and I shall say tomorrow it's all going
to be friends to far you got need not fan
to far fast, say no fib Tom, say.
Speaker 8 (02:35):
You make about.
Speaker 9 (02:39):
You ain't gonna have all.
Speaker 10 (02:43):
My French and you seem like gonna.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Tom, you says up to be flansom. You start read
enough best, Tom, We open a queen.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I hear Tony Martin, the Singing Star from twentieth Century
Fox Studios, to bring us the new Ben Oakland fam
Lerner hit songs.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Everybody's laughing all right, Tony Tony Warren. Where's Tony Martin?
Speaker 11 (03:26):
I haven't seen him, Bob, are you? I guess he
hasn't shown up yet.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
No, isn't that nice? Well, ladies and gentlemen, as long
as Tony isn't here yet, Oh, it's about time he
showed up.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Gosh, Bob, I'm sorry I'm late, but it's all your fault.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah, you're right, fall sure.
Speaker 12 (03:41):
You're the one who suggested I go out to your
bel air stables and take up horseback riding.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And that's why it's your form or what happened? Well,
you're riding master out there.
Speaker 13 (03:49):
Strapped me on a horse and strapped you on a
whr Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
He got tired of picking me up.
Speaker 12 (03:53):
And you know that that big oak tree right by
the entrance of the ring. Yeah, well he told me
to ride from there to a little red flag on
the fence, and that's why I'm late.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well, I still don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 12 (04:05):
Well, the little red flag wasn't on the fence. It
was on the back of a truck going to San Diego.
I had to fly back.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, all right, Paul Reverer. Next time we'll nail the
flag on the fence.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Come on now, our listeners to a waiting for everybody's laughing.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Okay, bum meritus, little music please, I'm rotting.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Everybody's laughing. Yes, everybody's laughing.
Speaker 14 (04:38):
I all love you and.
Speaker 15 (04:43):
I.
Speaker 16 (04:43):
Everybody's laughing. Why oh the world?
Speaker 14 (04:49):
You love me and dragged about it proudably, but.
Speaker 16 (04:57):
All it's all over laughing at me.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
Love.
Speaker 16 (05:06):
People love to linger, so they can find a thing
and a pot of guy whose part was paying to
the ring. If we could not allow.
Speaker 14 (05:27):
To laugh, my bell.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Would me?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I boasted of your affection.
Speaker 16 (05:43):
I was too sure to laugh. I was too sure
of the future. But now that it's a thing of
theverybody's laughing. Yet everybody's laughing.
Speaker 14 (06:08):
They know that you and I and everybody's laughing.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Why oh the.
Speaker 14 (06:18):
World, you love me and drag a lot.
Speaker 16 (06:23):
It's probably, but seem say know it's over there, laughing
at the long People love to linger so they can
find a finger and apart. A guy heart was taken
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to the ring. If we would not hold over the laugh,
y a bomb, every moylming.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Even if you were late, Tony, I'm sure everyone will agree.
I was worth waiting for. And now here she is,
Ladies and gentlemen, Fanny Bryce has baby snook.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Tonight. Daddy played by Hanley Stafford, is in a bad way.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He is suffering from the after effects of a banquet.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
As the scene opens, we.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Find Daddy tossing in bed in the guest room, trying
vainly to sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Listen, Oh, oh my poor Oh.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I wish I was dead.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Oh that's all I need.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
Now what are you doing out of bed?
Speaker 17 (08:04):
I can't sleep.
Speaker 18 (08:06):
You can't sleep, that's her husband.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Why can't you sleep?
Speaker 17 (08:11):
By light?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
On?
Speaker 17 (08:13):
What light outside?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
My smokes? That's not a light, it's the moon.
Speaker 17 (08:19):
Sin it off, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Now look here, sir, I.
Speaker 19 (08:23):
Beg you not to bother me tonight, especially with questions,
right cause I'm sick and I think.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I'm gonna need the doctor. The doctor, yes, now, go
back to.
Speaker 17 (08:31):
Sleep, all right?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
What is it?
Speaker 17 (08:34):
How did the moon get up there? Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't know. Nobody knows.
Speaker 20 (08:39):
It just shines, that's all.
Speaker 17 (08:41):
Who turns the light on?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
There isn't any light on the moon.
Speaker 17 (08:45):
Haunt and see a light on it?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I know, but it isn't there.
Speaker 19 (08:49):
Hm at night you see a light on the moon,
which really isn't on the moon. Instead, it's the light
in the sun, which is never here when the moon
is here.
Speaker 17 (08:58):
So I send for the doctor.
Speaker 13 (08:59):
Daddy, I've already sent for him.
Speaker 21 (09:02):
Hy because I'm sick.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Now, please leave me alone? Why because you make me nervous?
Speaker 21 (09:07):
And the doctor says I mustn't get excited and mustn't
holler the that's in may.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
No, I mustn't. You must I mustn't hollar. I mean,
I mustn't dollar.
Speaker 16 (09:18):
Please go to bed all right?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
By Yes, the lights go.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
On, nook. I just told you that that's the moon
and there isn't any light. The moon shines because it
reflects the light.
Speaker 20 (09:31):
From the sun which is shining on it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Is the sunshining?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Can I go out and play?
Speaker 15 (09:36):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Why?
Speaker 13 (09:39):
Because it's three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You said it done with shine?
Speaker 12 (09:44):
It is.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
It's shining on the moon.
Speaker 19 (09:45):
But the sun is someplace else?
Speaker 17 (09:47):
Is the moon someplace?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Now?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
No, the moon is right here, but the sun is
in China.
Speaker 17 (09:53):
Where is China?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It's nine thousand miles away.
Speaker 17 (09:57):
I wily shund be back in the morning. Hi, did
you get there?
Speaker 13 (10:01):
He doesn't get anywhere.
Speaker 15 (10:03):
We go there?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Oh look, the earth revolves down the taxis and goes
around the tar. So in the morning we all wear China.
Wasn't China's where we were? Only we both be made
in the same place.
Speaker 17 (10:19):
When need your doctor coming, daddy?
Speaker 13 (10:21):
Never mind the doctor, Please go to Sweet Spoke.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I'm not a spinning headache.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh no, don't yell.
Speaker 13 (10:31):
It drops my head like a cannon.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
What is it?
Speaker 17 (10:34):
Look at all of you?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Don't fuck here?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Those are tars.
Speaker 13 (10:41):
I don't want That's fine, go to bed.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I want one, Oh Kelby Killer.
Speaker 15 (10:47):
You can't have a tar, all right.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'll get your work. Oh that one.
Speaker 15 (10:55):
I don't want that one.
Speaker 22 (10:56):
I want that one.
Speaker 21 (10:58):
Can't have any Why.
Speaker 13 (11:01):
Because that's how you're pointing.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
To his mars.
Speaker 21 (11:03):
How did he gave?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
How did who get it?
Speaker 15 (11:07):
Mar?
Speaker 13 (11:08):
I didn't say with mars?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I said it was Mars.
Speaker 17 (11:10):
It ain't Mars, it's mine.
Speaker 14 (11:12):
Yes?
Speaker 20 (11:14):
Are you sure?
Speaker 16 (11:14):
The doctors common dolls?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Forget the doctor.
Speaker 13 (11:17):
Now, I'm telling you the name of that Pennis.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Every far up there has a name.
Speaker 17 (11:21):
Can I call that one, Jolie?
Speaker 14 (11:24):
Its name is Mars?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I wanted?
Speaker 13 (11:27):
Oh why was I born?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Hons? Please try to understand. Those tars are millions of
miles away. Nobody can reach them.
Speaker 15 (11:36):
You follow me, where are we gone?
Speaker 21 (11:39):
Nowhere? And you can't have any tars?
Speaker 14 (11:41):
Why?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Because in the first place, he's one of those tars
is many times ticking them this whole earth.
Speaker 21 (11:48):
Yes, yes, and don't ask me if doctor's coming. Now,
go to bed before I have a complete breakdown. All
I want to do is sleep, That is.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
What is it you want me to tell you?
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Was? No?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
You mean? Do you want to tell me a story?
Speaker 21 (12:12):
Mm hmm, I'll make you go too.
Speaker 19 (12:16):
Oh, here's a chance for me to give her a
taste for all right, go.
Speaker 13 (12:20):
Ahead and tell me a story.
Speaker 17 (12:22):
All right, I'll tell you Jack and the dream story.
Speaker 20 (12:26):
Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
How many?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Once upon a time there.
Speaker 17 (12:37):
Was a poor old woman who had a son named Jack,
and they miss you.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Jack.
Speaker 17 (12:47):
He was very good to him, good.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Good to Jack who was Who's mother?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Oh he gave him the cow.
Speaker 17 (13:06):
He's tell him the chilly when he's telling him.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
About time. Now you know how I feel when you
do it?
Speaker 23 (13:18):
Training, I fly.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
All right, Warren Hall, The stage is yours, Thanks Bob.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Friends.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
A short time ago, a bride and her mother in
law had an amusing experience.
Speaker 11 (13:43):
It happened over a cup of coffee.
Speaker 12 (13:44):
It went like this will take you after meal Like that,
I'm sure Jim will never be homesick for my cookie.
Speaker 17 (13:50):
Well, that's a real compliment, mother Hogan.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Peggy's a grand cook, all right, mother, I'm only sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
That sorry about what kin.
Speaker 11 (13:56):
Well, usually Peggy makes marvelous coffee. Only tonight it's different.
No flavor to it, will Jim. Yes, you'll have to
blame me, not Peggy.
Speaker 19 (14:06):
See I brought over especially a coffee that you used
to rap about, but it's turned out to be a sizzle.
Speaker 17 (14:11):
Tell me, Peggy, what kind do you use fin a
new Maxwell house? It has been much more flavor that.
Jim just won't have any other coffee.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Friends, if you've had trouble getting coffee, that's just to
your taste. Coffee that's always rich satisfying and full flavored.
Then you'll certainly appreciate two important improvements in the new
Maxwell House. First, the remarkable radiant roast process roasts each
coffee bean through and through as even the inside as out.
It brings out all the full flavor of the superb coffee,
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so you get no bitter coffee due to parching, no
weak coffee due to under roasting. Second, the blend a
way has been found to further enrich Joel Cheek's original
famous Maxwell House blends. It's smoother, more full bodied, more
downright delicious than ever before, the wealth of cheery stimulation
in every cup. To ask your grocer tomorrow for a
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pound of this marvelous new Maxwell House coffee. It comes
in the same familiar blue super vacuum can, so it's
always roaster fresh, always good to.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
The last drop.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Meredith Wilson's arrangement of Ferdinand the Bull is still the top.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
He plays it for you now, all right, Matador Ferdinand
the boogles.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Of red when the window you He have all the costs.
Speaker 10 (16:13):
Eagles, the calling eagle, thanking the tangle, the tangle that
he never.
Speaker 24 (16:30):
Liked, Senoritas and senor so for it a Senorita and
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senor it's mepapye bo.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Think facing.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Thinkers.
Speaker 23 (17:50):
Okay, that was very good, meritith, thank you Bob.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, I know you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Well that's the way you feel about it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You can keep it, musicians.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
What's the matter now, Frank?
Speaker 13 (18:26):
Look at that band.
Speaker 15 (18:28):
Looks like a group picture of a family of cannibals.
I think that drummer has prehensile os.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
That means monkey.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
I looked it up at rehearsal.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
What happened, Frank, Well, I should have I should.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Have known better.
Speaker 15 (18:43):
I never met a saxophone player, yet it wasn't an
odd of foot bad.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
What happened a few minutes ago.
Speaker 15 (18:49):
I was walking in the car and looking for a
place to put my scripts when I noticed this saxophone
player talking to a very beautiful girl.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I might have known it would be this as soon
as I saw them.
Speaker 15 (18:59):
I'm struck by the tableau, the girl, a lovely, lissome flower,
the saxophone player at toad.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
I acted.
Speaker 15 (19:08):
I accosted a fellow frost the dollar villa into his
hand and asked him to get me a cigar.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
You got the nerve yeah, just more.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (19:15):
Well, but imagine my surprise when the fellow was gone
to find I was standing with his girl, but needs
a spray of missile soul.
Speaker 13 (19:23):
Well, being of a superstitious turn of mine, I set.
Speaker 15 (19:25):
To work, and when the saxophone player returned, he found
me busting his.
Speaker 13 (19:30):
Fair companions busting her Yes, the Chaucerrian word meaning kiss.
Speaker 15 (19:35):
Unfortunately, the musician hadn't studied Chaucer and immediately began making
a disgusting scene.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well I should think he would, then a man for
a cigar. When he comes back he finds you kissing
his girl.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
I hope he got his revenge. He did, he kept
my change.
Speaker 13 (19:49):
Well, there's me right for trusting a musician in the future.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I've what's all the noise about here?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Man ruined my client.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
I'm puri server. We're broadcasting what's going on here? I
have a perfect right to come in here, and am
I addressing mismanks?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Do you have that honor?
Speaker 13 (20:05):
Mister princes Metal?
Speaker 11 (20:07):
Sir, I'm attorney Prince Metal.
Speaker 15 (20:10):
Well delighted, mister Prince Metal, it's mister young.
Speaker 16 (20:13):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
How do you do? Mister Wilson, how do you do?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
And mister Hall, how do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Well?
Speaker 15 (20:18):
Gentlemen, if you'll forgive me, I'll be running along. You'll
find the cards and the chip.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well, that's mister Morgan.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I'm here on behalf of my client, and here is
our bill of particular everything.
Speaker 13 (20:33):
You've got a bill Frank Morgan versus Fred Chunk.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
What's this?
Speaker 13 (20:42):
I don't know any stunk?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Well I do.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Frankie represents the fellow who's had your ruined last week
with a cow cutter egg tree.
Speaker 15 (20:50):
Remember, oh, don't bother me with Mondane affairs today.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
It's not Mondane. It's Thursday.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
Read the bill of particular, mister Morgan.
Speaker 15 (21:00):
Oh, that won't be necessary. Here's five dollars for the
man's hat.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
Now read the bill of particular.
Speaker 13 (21:05):
But my dear sir, I don't have to read Frank
uh we did?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah? Oh all right?
Speaker 15 (21:13):
No men, By these presents greetings to wit. Whereas Frank Morgan,
defendant did wilfully and maliciously destroy the derby of the
paintiff Fred Schunk, the said derby being valued at the
sum of ten thousand, ten.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Thousand dollars for a derby he used it on the
end of his trombone.
Speaker 13 (21:33):
Why am I constantly being persecuted by a musician?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Reads the bill of particular.
Speaker 13 (21:38):
Yeah, well, ten thousand for the hat uh. Paintiff also
claims fifty thousand.
Speaker 15 (21:43):
Damages for humiliation, fifty thousand punitive damages, and one hundred
and twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Four dollars for bethola betsola?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
What's that?
Speaker 11 (21:50):
That's my client's booth? Wants to get a new bottom
put on it?
Speaker 13 (21:57):
Why should I buy shunk a new bottom for its boat?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
There's no harm in asking.
Speaker 11 (22:10):
Read the rest of the complaints.
Speaker 15 (22:12):
All these damages are claimed by playing this because of
Defendant Morgan's action and performing the Calcutta hat trick on
December eighth, nineteen thirty eight when he put it.
Speaker 13 (22:22):
The week ruined plaint off suit.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
By putting to the account of children.
Speaker 15 (22:27):
In mister attorney, this whole thing is irrelevant, incompetent, and imfortistic.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Okay, what's that importistic?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 13 (22:36):
I just put it in to warrior, mister friends metals.
Nothing of the kind ever happened.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Oh what did happen?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Well?
Speaker 15 (22:44):
I made one simple mistake in performing the trick, That's
all You mean, well, my intention was to produce from
your client's had a sack of seeming week takes. I
possess certain magical powers, and I cut it out. Uh
oh well yeah, well I can show you exactly where
I went.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Do you mind if I bar your hat?
Speaker 13 (23:04):
Let's hold the hat.
Speaker 15 (23:06):
Now you see what I did last thirsd It was
to take the two eggs and break them.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Like, what what's.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
To take the eggs?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Break them?
Speaker 13 (23:16):
Well?
Speaker 22 (23:17):
The cases just messed off to you all missed them, bolly.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Oh, what have you got there, Warren?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Not eggs?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Why did you hear it?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Bob?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It's a limerick from one of our many Maxwell House friends.
His name is ad Ryan huts Well, come on read it, okay, listen.
There was a young man named Bellow who was always.
Speaker 11 (24:04):
Quite a good fellow.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
It superlative spouse serves a new Maxwell House.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
The coffee that.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
Ricks smooth and mellow.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
By the way, Warren, are many people spending in jingles
or limericks.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
About Maxwell House?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
They sure are, Bob, and I want to thank all
of our friends to.
Speaker 11 (24:16):
Take the trouble to write them. We really do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
And by the way, the minute hand of the clock
is pointing straight down, So pull up your chairs and
join our friendly circle in our regular Thursday evening customs.
A seeming fragrant cup of Maxwell House and the music
of Meredith Wilson. We now paused briefly quotation identification.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
K f I, Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
This is Bob Young again, continuing our good news of
nineteen thirty nine. Now Maxwellhouse takes great pleasures in bringing
you Charles dickens immortal story A Christmas Carol, as produced
by Joseph L. Mankowitz into a glorious MGM picture. And now,
ladies and gentlemen, mister Lionel Barrymore.
Speaker 20 (25:47):
Todnight, we honor Christmas and presenting an immortal story by
Charles Dickens, a story which Metro Golden Mays faithfully transcribed
into a beautiful and inspiring picture A Christmas Carol. I'm
happy tonight to be able to introduce one of America's
truly great actors, Reginald Owen, playing the role he so
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magnificently brings to the screen Ebenezer's screws with him. Jean Lockart,
a beloved actor, a great personality who so perfectly plays
Bob Cratchett, his charming wife Kathleen Lockhart who plays Missus Cratchett,
Anne Rutherford, Ronalds and Claire, with a fine cast of
players who so ably supports them and bring them to
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the screen a great picture. Now let's look back to
the London of over a century ago. As Dickens tells us,
there was once a man named Ebenezer screw who scoffed
at the idea of Christmas. Oh but he was a
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tight fisted hand at the grindstone. Was Screwed, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping,
covetous old, a hated man in a dingy little office
in London spread Needles Street, whose partner, Jacob Marley, had
died some seven years past, and whose only employee is
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Bob Cratchett.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
An abused fellow frightened of his mind. It's Christmas Eve.
Speaker 20 (27:20):
Cracket, thinking of the Christmas he's going to prepare for
his six young children, anxiously watches the clock as it
ticks past his closing time. Screwed, sharp, cold, hard old
man that he is, comes out of his office and
creeps up behind crack It, watching Screwed speak ha.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
He posts watch on the closing our cracket.
Speaker 15 (27:46):
It's huss puff the officers then close up, close up, Thank.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You, sir. Don't work over time. You might make something
of yourself you'll want all day tomorrow.
Speaker 25 (27:56):
I suppose it's quite conveniences.
Speaker 20 (27:58):
It's not convenient, and it's not fair if I were
to stop a half a crown for it to think yourself,
he'll use.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I'll be bound so only once the year's or excused
from picking a man's pocket every twenty fifth of December.
But I suppose you must have the whole day, be
here all the earlier next morning.
Speaker 11 (28:15):
Oh yes, then be off and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Humbug, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 26 (28:22):
Watch Christmas time for the time for paying bills without money,
A time for finding yourself a year older, not an
hour richer. If I could work my will, every idiot
who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips to
be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a
stake of holly for his heart.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Well, what are you waiting for? My wages?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
They fall to you today.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Can't wait to spend the me.
Speaker 13 (28:51):
There?
Speaker 27 (28:53):
Good day, bob cratchit jobs up Fred Needles Street, greeting
friends and.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Strangers alike with a jolly smile and a.
Speaker 13 (29:07):
Cheery Merry Christmas.
Speaker 20 (29:09):
Rounding a corner, he suddenly runs into a barrage of snowball,
one of these better aim than the others, knocking the
hat from bob Cratchit's head. Looking around, Bob sees a
gang of virchint scurrying away.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
He runs after them and catches them.
Speaker 13 (29:27):
I say here, now here now, I say, God, no,
we are sorry, really we are.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
I ain't over that.
Speaker 15 (29:32):
But just because the fellow wears a hat, you no,
that doesn't mean he can't throw a snowball.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Now. Watch, This is the way to.
Speaker 13 (29:38):
Make a real snowball.
Speaker 15 (29:40):
You take the snow with your bare hands like this,
and then you crunch it together. But God, coming down
and ring a woman, I think you can knock it off.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Right to a gift.
Speaker 13 (29:54):
Give me room study one, two three. No, it was nothing,
It was nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Time.
Speaker 11 (30:08):
And sorry must I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
It was you, no idea. It's all truly mounted, no
doubt this is your idea of a Christmas joke. I'll
get your hats.
Speaker 26 (30:17):
It's ruins, said, I told you before that I could
find a man more capable than yourself.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I need say no more. I fact it exactly.
Speaker 13 (30:30):
In my paper it says that I must have a
week notice.
Speaker 26 (30:33):
Your week's salary will recompense me for the price when
you had no This hack cast sixteen and six, and
your salary is fifteen and six.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
You owe me your skilling. Give it me.
Speaker 28 (30:46):
Yes, it's a Sadden Bob Cratchit who wins his way
homeward on Christmas.
Speaker 20 (31:00):
He's thinking of his wife and family, but most of all,
he's thinking of his youngest son, Tim, Tiny Tims. All
his brothers and sisters call him Tiny Tim, who's been
a cripple all his life. Meantime, let's follow Schools through.
Speaker 29 (31:14):
His dismal, lonely lodgings, through the barren hallways to his
upstairs bedroom, where, after carefully locking the door and drawing
the curtains, he lights a small fire and prepares for bed.
Speaker 20 (31:29):
Suddenly, from the depths of the house he hears a
clanking of chains. The noise of those chains comes closer,
closer through the stout old tangling of Scrooge's door. That
comes a shadowy figure, a figure that's wound about with
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a chain of cash boxes, hes, padlocks, ledges, and every
persons wrought and steals school food.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You wake lips and manages to speak? Who are you?
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Asn't me? Who I was?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Who were you then life?
Speaker 30 (32:09):
I was your partner, Jacob Harley Molly, But you are dead.
I've been dead these seven long Why do you tuble me?
Speaker 7 (32:21):
It is required of every man that the spirit with
him should walk abroad among his fellow men. If that
spirit does not go forth in life, it must do
so after death.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
You are bound in heavy chains.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
I wear the chains I forged in life.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
But why why?
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Because in life my spirits never walked beyond the limits
of our money changing hole.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
You are always a good man of business, Jacobs business.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
I'm kind with my business, the common welfare with my business, Charity, mercy, forbearance,
and benevolence. All these were my business. Is at this
time of year the nice supper boat to see the
one I could have topped, the suffering I could have placed,
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the hunger I could have satisfied.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
That may be true, but hear me.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
I am here to warn you that you have one
chance of escaping my faith. One chance ebene a screw,
what is it?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
You will be haunted by three spirits three spirits.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I I think I'd rather not take it.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Unless you suffer these three visitations, your faith will be
the same as mine.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Jacob, don't leave me yet, Jacob.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
Expect the first when the bell holds one, the second
on the stroke of two, the third upon the last
vibration of three.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Check up, checkop quite, check up.
Speaker 29 (33:57):
Scooge pleads in vain.
Speaker 20 (34:00):
Like a wisp of fog. The ghost lets out of
the window. Scrooge weaves towards his bed, tumbles in and
pulls the coverlet over his head. It's one minute before one.
Scooge pokes his head slowly from under the coverlet and
trembles to a sitting position and looks nervously round. Suddenly,
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his room is flooded with light. The curtains on his
bed are ripped apart. Scrooge is facing the first spirit.
Speaker 17 (34:34):
Eboneze a Scrooge, Yes, I am the ghost of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Pas.
Speaker 17 (34:40):
Arise from your bed and come with me.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
What is your business, your.
Speaker 17 (34:44):
Welfare, your reclamations. Come step up on.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
The window stairs, the window sill.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
But have no fear.
Speaker 17 (34:53):
Bear but a touch of my hand on your heart
and you shall be spaced.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Will fall will fall.
Speaker 31 (34:59):
No, we won't fall, will lie easily and gently across
the London roost, high above the chimneys.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Where where are we? Wise psy Wigs warehouse? I would
apprentice here?
Speaker 17 (35:36):
Look, look in the window.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
It's old Fezzy Wigs.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
It's old fezsy Wig alive again. But who is that
boy with him? I seem to remember his face?
Speaker 7 (35:49):
That boy is yourself?
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Listen, screwge heaven, he's a scrowge.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Do you observe the time slas you've let me work?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
You five minutes overtime?
Speaker 20 (36:04):
No more work tonight Christmas eve, Ebenezer, close up the shop?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Yes, now about tomorrow.
Speaker 20 (36:12):
It's a holiday, of course, but you're expected to spend
at least part of it with.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Me eating Christmas dinner.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 17 (36:21):
And here this is for you, a sovereign, a whole sovereign.
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 13 (36:31):
Don't try to thank me, eber, don't try the back.
Speaker 17 (36:36):
Do you remember what you have just seen?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Schoo? Yes, old Fetherwig was very kind to me, Yes
he was, but he's dead now.
Speaker 17 (36:45):
Perhaps you feel you'd like to repay his kindness to you? Well,
you have a closs bob practice old Featherwig would have
been so happy if you had shown your gratitude to
him by showing kindness to others your clock, Frins.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Business is business. I'm a good business man.
Speaker 17 (37:01):
My time goes short. I have shown you a scene
from your childhood. I have yet to show you the
black years of your life, your gradual enslavements, agreed, your ruthlessness.
You're in gratitude. No no, you're writchess for gold.
Speaker 14 (37:14):
No, no, leave me.
Speaker 13 (37:16):
I can't turn more.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I can't turn more.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
I'm here in my bed.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Yes, that's it. I was dreaming.
Speaker 14 (37:35):
You were not dreaming, Ebenezer screwed.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Who who are you? It is two o'clock. Come closer
and know me better? Yes, yes, I am the ghost
of the Christmas present. What are we going to do?
Walk in the world on this Christmas night for you
to see and hear and feel the Christmas in the
world this night? Did you say walk or fly?
Speaker 8 (37:58):
Touch my robe? This is the home of your trust,
Bob Cratchitt. Not a very large places it's for. How
could it be large? On the cowry you pay him?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Perhaps he doesn't budget his money. Well, look they're eating
their Christmas dinner.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
There's Bob Cratchett at the head of the table and
his wife and their children.
Speaker 32 (38:28):
Tell me, Perritt, why does that little boy, the one
whom they called Tim, why does he look so ill?
He's been crippled all his life, Perrot, Tell me if
Tiny Tim will live.
Speaker 18 (38:44):
If the shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child
will die. No, No, surely he will bespared with the
kind of care that money can buy.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Who can tell?
Speaker 8 (38:57):
But Bob Cretchitt has no money, not even position.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
I've heard.
Speaker 18 (39:02):
No, all this remains unaltered by the future. The next
Christmas will not find Tiny Tin here.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
But he mustn't die. This can't happen whatever.
Speaker 11 (39:14):
Surely you don't tell, But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Truth.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Tell my time with you was up.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
We must return, But.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Look inside, Bob is telling us.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Tory fort it.
Speaker 13 (39:24):
Please let me here, Bob Tory, we must go.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
But it's about a Laddin and the magic lamp. Please
let me say. I won't come with you. I'm gonna say,
don't like a pool man.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
You don't like Christmas?
Speaker 25 (39:36):
I do.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I do like Christmas. I love Christmas. I love Christmas.
Speaker 20 (39:48):
Would find himself alone alone on a bleak, windswept more
looks across the moon. Terror coming like a mist along
the ground, I told him, as a draped and hooded phantom. Slowly, silently,
this phantom approaches humbly, Scrooge blouses head.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
You you are the ghost of Christmas yet to come.
You're about to show me things that have not happened,
but will happen in the future. Is that to spirit?
You don't answer, Ghost of the future. I know you're
here to do me good. And as I hope to
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be another man from what I was, I'm ready to
accompany you. Won't you speak lead on them? I shall
follow gladly. Why? Why this is Bob Patch, It's home
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again day? Everybody? All the children look so sad, scratching
his knitty.
Speaker 21 (41:04):
It must be getting near.
Speaker 17 (41:05):
Your father's time was particular, so he has walked so
long last.
Speaker 10 (41:10):
To leave me.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
I've known him to walk with tiny tim upon his shoulder.
Speaker 17 (41:16):
Very fast, indeed, but he was very light to carry.
Speaker 9 (41:22):
And his father loved him so that it was no trouble,
no trouble.
Speaker 17 (41:28):
Here's your father at the door.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Hello, there, my nighbors, Hello, my dear Bob.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
This chair feels good.
Speaker 15 (41:39):
I saw mister Scrooge's nephew today, you.
Speaker 25 (41:42):
Did, dear, Yes, Oh, he is a nice fellow.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
He saw I looked a trifle down, Just a trifle,
you know.
Speaker 14 (41:50):
He asked me what was wrong?
Speaker 25 (41:51):
I told him about about sim.
Speaker 7 (41:55):
He's such a sweet fellow.
Speaker 25 (41:56):
Somehow I didn't mind telling him. I'm heart sorry for it,
mister Cratchet, he said, and heartily sorry for your good
wife by the bye. How he ever knew that I
don't know you, my dear, that you were a good wife.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
It really seemed that he knew our Kim and felt
with us. I'm sure he's a good soul.
Speaker 25 (42:22):
He is, he is, And I'm sure children that when
we remember how gentle and the patient Tim was, we
shan't call among ourselves, and in doing it forget our Tim.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
I'm very happy. I am.
Speaker 33 (42:42):
Very happy for Tim, poor tiny Tim. Everyone who knew
him skilled sorrow, sorrow they would never.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
Feel for me.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
What place is that?
Speaker 3 (43:01):
It looks like a graveyard of cemetery. Everything looks so
bleak and cold, and.
Speaker 16 (43:07):
It is a graveyard.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
What are you pointing at.
Speaker 14 (43:13):
A grave?
Speaker 32 (43:15):
It says ebonez as Coold, my grave, not a flower
or a blade of grass on it.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
No, no, why do you show me this?
Speaker 34 (43:29):
If I am past or hope, I shall change my
way of living. I will tie to Greek Christmas all
the year. I will live in the past, the presence
in the future, the.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Spirit of all free shall be in my heart. I
shall never forget the lessons that they teach.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
Tell me that this will change my future.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
Tell me that this is not my end.
Speaker 17 (43:56):
Please please, please.
Speaker 6 (44:01):
Please.
Speaker 20 (44:17):
Congratulations regular and we lock Art Kathleen Lockart Man rutherved
you were truly magnificent in the Christmas Carol. For no
story is more timely than this, when all Americans are
praying for peace, peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
And this tiny tim says God, bless us everyone.
Speaker 5 (44:45):
Thank you, mister Barrymore, and may we expend an appreciation
and thanks to Franz Waxman, who composed the original music
for our radio version and who also conducted the orchestra
for us tonight. Likewise, and orchest to Edwin L. Maron,
who directed the radio version the Christmas Carol as well
as the picture. Now, Tony Martin returns to sing one
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of the famous Victor Herbert songs from the operetta, The
Fortune Teller Tony sings Gypsy love songs.
Speaker 16 (45:17):
Floor bursts of the forest are falling for the and
the shade Dellogally's alonely Somemmer is there with a blossom space,
and you are snoble the nest in the.
Speaker 14 (45:44):
Green wootere butsides no three to and kiss you all
the violot yearn yearned.
Speaker 16 (45:53):
For your safe return, but most of all, and you,
my little gypsy, stream all the field, and.
Speaker 15 (46:26):
And you.
Speaker 16 (46:30):
Stream in the dreamland.
Speaker 7 (46:35):
Where you.
Speaker 16 (46:47):
My level shifty hard Wie level ward Laney.
Speaker 14 (47:10):
Mob no.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
Les sweet.
Speaker 16 (47:25):
W little What.
Speaker 13 (47:29):
The longa.
Speaker 16 (47:40):
How my.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Long?
Speaker 11 (48:04):
Here is another of those good news satires.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
If men want Christmas shopping as women do, Frank Morgan
and Bob Young are first in the line of Christmas
shoppers waiting for the depopment store doors.
Speaker 11 (48:14):
To open on a big pre Christmas sale.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Young, do you.
Speaker 15 (48:21):
Realize we've been standing here since seven o'clock this morning.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
My feet are.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
Killing Oh mine too. Any minute my corns will pop.
Speaker 13 (48:28):
This is worse than dollar Day at the five and ten.
Speaker 4 (48:30):
Well, I hope the sale was worthwhile.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
I did all my washing and ironing last night so
I could make it.
Speaker 13 (48:35):
Oh, this is a very reliable store.
Speaker 15 (48:37):
Last Christmas, I exchanged some of my gifts here thinks
and seven times?
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Oh Morgan, who takes care of the baby while you're
out shopping every day?
Speaker 3 (48:45):
Well, I have a little man that comes in.
Speaker 13 (48:49):
He's so good with babies.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
He was the one himself. You know.
Speaker 15 (48:52):
Once we put the baby on a scientific diet, we're
feeding him garlic.
Speaker 4 (48:57):
Now feeding the baby garlic.
Speaker 15 (49:00):
Of course when he cries during the night, we can
find him without turning on the line. Oh say, for
goodness sakes, will you stop pushing?
Speaker 3 (49:08):
Buddy? Who's pushing? I was just breathing. When I breathe easier. Oh,
this place is crowded enough without somebody. Yeah you why
Hanley Handy Sapper fort War you. I haven't seen you
since Super's Punyes, cooking school last May? And Youngsi Wosy
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you all sing you sappie?
Speaker 4 (49:33):
How did you know?
Speaker 3 (49:34):
You know?
Speaker 4 (49:34):
You look positively radiant. You must be in love.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
I'm engaged Gwndel and said will you? And I said yes,
we were going to get married right away and move
in with her folks.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
But we can't.
Speaker 4 (49:47):
Why not her folks just moved in with Therefore?
Speaker 15 (49:50):
Oh, say boys, I think they're going to open the
doors and start the sail.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
Now, let's try to stick together. But if we do
get separated, we can all meet in the men's underwear. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Oh, they're opening the doors.
Speaker 4 (50:02):
Now, let's go, fellow.
Speaker 15 (50:08):
Who Well we made this counter anyways, let's pick out
all the good things before that mob of bulsurees beat
some suet.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
Where's the sales boy? Oh there and win You're just
look at who it is, Meredith Wilson.
Speaker 23 (50:19):
Oh, hello, boys, something I can show you.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
What are you doing behind that counter? Why I'm working here?
Speaker 19 (50:29):
Just thought i'd pick up some extra cash over the
holidays so I could buy a darling little coat I.
Speaker 13 (50:34):
Saw in the window of the store across the street.
Speaker 3 (50:36):
Oh, I know the one, Oh Wilson. You'll be an
absolute dream boat in it, I think.
Speaker 15 (50:42):
So. Maybe I'll have it fixed with a little fur collar,
you know, something to match my personality.
Speaker 13 (50:47):
I don't think they're wearing skunks this year.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
No listen here, Morgan, If I why you all like me.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Said, you're fighting to the bridge game tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (50:58):
We have our Christmas shopping to do.
Speaker 3 (51:00):
No young is right, Old Stafford.
Speaker 13 (51:03):
Look at this lovely blue tie it would be enchanting
on you just matches your eyes.
Speaker 20 (51:08):
Yes, it is nice material.
Speaker 15 (51:10):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (51:10):
Rayon?
Speaker 25 (51:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (51:12):
I can't wear rayon?
Speaker 19 (51:13):
It chased me, say, fellows, don't look now, but don't
we know that sales boy at the next cow there?
Speaker 4 (51:21):
Of course, that's Kenny Groszman's cousin, the one who just
got divorced.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
My Oh, I remember his wife?
Speaker 15 (51:31):
Now, she's I think fat woman who always wore the
red earring. From a rear view, she looked like the
back of a greyhound bus.
Speaker 3 (51:38):
Did he get alimony? Oh?
Speaker 2 (51:40):
I don't know, but I think he won the custody
of his wife, Karen.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
So here we are capping again and not getting out
of Christmas shopping.
Speaker 19 (51:47):
Done, Wilson, I'll take this little bedjacket with a mused match.
Speaker 15 (51:51):
Oh no, staff, now, not that said, Please don't take
it away from me. I fell in love with that
the minute I saw it. Oh all right, I'll take
this the robe instead. I'll savage or an angel without
a dirty face.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
Hell, Wilson, I'll.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
Take this purple polka dot sports cloud a gift for
my butcher.
Speaker 4 (52:10):
He'll love it.
Speaker 3 (52:11):
I'll have them all wrapped and be back in a
teensy little minute. Don't go away now.
Speaker 4 (52:21):
Don't you think Wilson carries his age?
Speaker 13 (52:22):
Well he should, He's had years of practice.
Speaker 19 (52:26):
I don't like to say anything, but did you men
notice his hair looks like he had to cut at
the pet show?
Speaker 13 (52:32):
Do any of you happen to know his brother Cedric?
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (52:36):
Yes, isn't he the messiest looking individual?
Speaker 23 (52:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (52:38):
He told me he's trying to get a pattern on
the bathtub. He thinks it's something huge jiggers.
Speaker 3 (52:44):
Here comes Wilson back. Well, here are your package?
Speaker 15 (52:46):
Is all done up in darling little ribbons and sandy
glass stickers.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
A man, Well, let's go boy, Oh Wilson, where's the
main wrapping department? The third floor, left between the vacuum
cleaners and the woolen nighties.
Speaker 16 (52:59):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (52:59):
This year I'm giving novelty baskets of homemade jams and jellies,
and I want to see about having them rare.
Speaker 3 (53:05):
Oh isn't that a clever Christmas idea giving food?
Speaker 14 (53:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (53:09):
Last year my cousin Egg had sent me a box
of imported Limburger cheese, and not knowing what it was,
I put it under the tree.
Speaker 4 (53:15):
What happened.
Speaker 13 (53:16):
The tree died.
Speaker 4 (53:28):
Now Warren home, Thank Bob.
Speaker 1 (53:30):
Friends, do you really know how truly rich and satisfying
the flavor of the new Maxwell House coffee? Years on
this point, mister Harold Renfrey of one hundred eighteen Kemper Avenue, Butth,
Montana wrote recently, quote, I cannot resist the temptation of
telling you the big surprise I got about ten days ago.
Speaker 11 (53:47):
I'm just a mine worker, but I liked my coffee,
and for the last twenty five years have been using what.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
I thought was the best coffee on the market, But
for the last two years it has been getting more
bitter all the time. Then, about ten days ago, my
wife bought a can of Maxwell House when I came
off shift. I knew we had found a coffee that's
different as soon as I opened the door.
Speaker 11 (54:08):
But I got my big surprise when I'd drank my
first cut. No bitterness, just the real fresh.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
Coffee, flavored unquote. Thank you mister Renfrey for your nice letters.
Speaker 11 (54:19):
Friends.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
More and more people every day are delighting in the
new Maxwell House. So if you haven't tried Maxwell House lately,
you are missing the coffee that's smoother, richer, and more
satisfying than any you probably have ever tried before. The
improvement in the new Maxwell House is due not only
to the marvelously enriched blend, but also to the radiant
roast process, which roasts each being evenly through and through,
(54:43):
so there's no weak coffee due to under roasting, no
bitter coffee due to parching. A new and improved Maxwell
House comes in two grinds. The regular grind Maxwell House
is correct for the percolator or boiled methods. The drip
grind Maxwell House is correct for all drip and glass
coffee makers. Two different coffee making principles, so naturally, two
(55:04):
different grimes. Tomorrow, discover for yourself how much more flavor
and more satisfaction, and what a wealth of cheery stimulation
this new Maxwell House brings. You buy a pound, or
if you have a large family, or do the more
economical two pound. Can you'll say that now more than ever,
this is the coffee good.
Speaker 4 (55:24):
To the last drop.
Speaker 5 (55:33):
Tonight, in the MGM Concert Hall, Meredith Wilson again asks
if all the music in the world were suddenly destroyed,
and you could choose just one composition to preserve and
hear again, what number would you choose. Tonight's selection is
the combined choice of a parking lot attendant, a prominent
Chicago attorney, and a golf pro in Cleveland. They have
(55:53):
chosen Beethoven's Immortal Moonlight Sonatas.
Speaker 9 (56:02):
Of the Stain of Wi Da PRIs.
Speaker 5 (59:26):
And next week, Ladies and Gentlemen, a big holiday program
starring Robert Taylor, who plays the role of a daring
spy in a thrilling dramatic sketch. In addition, of course,
all the regular gangs Fanny, Bryce and Hamley Stafford, Frank Morgan,
Tony Martin, Meredith Wilson and.
Speaker 4 (59:40):
His orchestra, and Yours True. This is Bob Young saying
good night until next Thursday.
Speaker 2 (59:45):
In the meantime, go to the movie and take the
family with you.
Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
This is Warren Hall saying good night and good luck
for the makers at Maxwell House.
Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
The coffee that's always good for the last drunk.
Speaker 11 (01:00:09):
This is a national broadcasting company. This is k f I,
Los Angeles,
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