August 26, 2025 • 23 mins
Step back in time with "Jack Benny," one of the most beloved comedians in radio history. His sharp wit, endearing personality, and hilarious routines made his show a staple of American entertainment. Tune in for a hearty dose of laughter and nostalgia, perfect for fans of classic comedy and vintage radio.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The General Program starring Jack Benny with John Best and
his orchestra. The Orphinson program was okay.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Took from the picture of kidman h Oh might being
must leave forty seconds feet great white way of an agent.
We turned south a bit. Now you would approach the
most celebrated library in the world, the New York Public Library, famous.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
From coast to coast. Two Stone Lions with God as
ports on our right, the famous Stone Lions. Ladies, this
is the.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Sight of the victory of tone riders, right down to
everyone chain.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You can't stop me, lady, I'm going out to this show.
You know, the new yellow no taste playing too as before?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yes, sir, who wouldn't run after the new jello? Taste
it yourself and you'll be crazy about that rich or
full bodied fruit flavor, a flavor as refreshing as the
juicy ripe fruit itself.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That extra rich goodness is put in.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
This yellow by a brand new, exclusive process, a process
which actually blends the fruit flavor into the tiny crystals,
pulls it there for you to enjoy. Try the new
Jello and discover for yourself that it now tastes pipe
as good as ever before. Remember only Jello gives you
this new extra rich flavor. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
(01:50):
as it is impossible for me to offer you a cigar,
cigarette or a drink, I can still offer you Jack Benny's.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Right, a l l all.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
This is Jack Betty, your local correspondence coming to you
with the late news report from all over the world.
Seez all knows all, but still bets on the wrong horse.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Mary Bree. Those hot items, Okay, yeah, they are first
local news New York, New York.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
New Streamline train arrives here from California in fifty six hours,
breaking all records. New Yorkers now wearing Streamline underwear to
get to work fast.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Hey, first one gotta laugh. Tokyo, Japan.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Tokyo American baseball players, including Babe Ruth, arrive here and
play Japanese teams. The battery for Japan was Disney O'saki
and Daffy Matiyama.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
In left field was.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Hackie Wilson, and on second Sacky was Frankie Frisky all
good jazz. In the opening game, Ruth made a homer
and Japs named the town app It is called Yoka Homer.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Is that clever.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
New Orleans Louisiana Senator Juey Long organizes football team.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
He says he doesn't care how good they play, as
long as they protect his right eye.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
At banquet, New York City, November ninth, Don Vester, famous
orchestra leader, holds winning ticket on Irish Sweet State and
leaves for Ireland in the morning. November tenth, Bester finds out.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
As a cigar coupon and cancels.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
The stript to Ireland. Dublin, Ireland. November fifth, Frank Parker.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Tennersinger arrives here to live in Irish free State. November
trip Tacker finds out it's not free. Returns to America
say something praying it's a lie. November eleven.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Parker denis statement and will hear from me immediately after
this program?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Says you, says me. Election News back from Mento, California.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
What'sk's warring about?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
That's the name of talent in California?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Back Fremento, maryam re elected governor of California?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Orray for marri him? Is that Mariam Hopson?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I guess Jenny Channel, Why now for.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Our sporting section Los Angeles, California Fight News Max.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
There is here training for five reel pictures.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
When interviewed, said he is in shape for four reels
and at the out points myrna Lloyd will be ready
to meet Darbos New York.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
More fight news.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Jack Dempsey, Champion of Champions, is in training here to
open restaurants. He is in great shape, feeling fine and
rarn to cook.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Ah. What other program gives you this? Hop fight news?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Not even this program?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Quiet More football news. Scores of yesterday's games Colgate twenty two,
Lane six, Leland Stamford twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Four, Shirley Temple five.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
AT and T one hundred and ten, General Electpic nineteen,
Liberty seventeen, seventy.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Six, Cello six Stake watched delicious flavory Na What I get?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Get more football news again? Go get sing sing wins again.
Jones pass back runs.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Sixty yards per touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That if he had run that past on another occasion,
he wouldn't be with his present team. Ah. Some more
new world occasion he wouldn't be with his present team.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Some more news hot from Hollywood and from laying here, Hollywood, California.
It is rumored that Joan Crawford is Glablams of Lambs
of l Yes It is also rumored that Glorias Wanton
will not.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Grabs labs other than thy No.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
In our Hollywood correspondent tells us that Kay Francis would
seen plans.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Lab Lradslav Lasai or Jack. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Nobody can understand?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well that the idea. If nobody can understand me, nobody
can sue me. Play Don, I know what I'm doing,
and I keep for.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Them all Winter played by Don Vester and his Yellonians say, Don,
every time I introduced one of your numbers, always your
archs to another name. I mean, what do you call
your boys anyway?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Jack? Well, for instance, there's wearing Pennsylvanians, you know, Lombardo's
Royal Canadians, Liman's Californians. I mean, you got a name
for your artist? No, Jack, I've been trying to.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Get a name.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But you see you and one of my boys, that
fellow with a mustache over there, and it comes from London.
And that first violinist with the beard, he comes from Russia.
Or the fellow with the beard that is, what's his name,
George Bernard Ginfer. There is a resemblance, yes, and then
that that corner fair where the van Dyke comes from Belgium,
and that fellow playing the French horn comes from Paris. Oh,
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you mean the fellow with the gold tee.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And yet we have a go see down at our
house is out and he.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Knows how does it smell?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What's the difference?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
As long as he chusey Mary?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Please? What's his name? Down?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
The fellow with the goateee? This is orcheval is it archevalier?
I'll bet somewhere hidden in this orchestra, Yasha.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Bunchuk old school. I know. Well anyway, Jack, I don't
know what to call my Why don't you give him
a shave and call him Bester's disgusted Yankees? And thanks Jack,
But I'll be well enough alone.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
And now that we have named Bester's archer, we will
continue with our policy of bringing you another outstanding artist.
We intended to have the four Marx brothers here tonight,
raut show, chick O, harpo and uh, what's the fourth one?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Jello? Yes, yes, but the that was Wilson's folks. There's
no doubt about Adam.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
But the Marx brothers were unable to get here. And
here's a wire I just received from Harpo, it says,
dear Jack, and he's further stays.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
So you see for yourself, folks, they meant well. But
we are not unprepared for we have with.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Us this evening that great Shakespearean actor, a man who,
of all the pause he has received in his day,
were put end to end, you could hit still hear
a pin drops.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I now take extreme.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Pleasure in presenting the outstanding exponent of Shakespearean acting, mister
Jay Barrett.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Wim Paul.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Say something, mister Wimple's something. Of course I shall say something,
but I.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Think I am an Extrobut I don't know, but we'll
soon find out. Unlike the I am a fugitian, a
student of Shakespeare, and already known Testian. Marry what's a Festian?
I don't now tell me Hamlet? What's the last thing
you played in? Ten nice in the ballroom, ten nights
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in the barrow. That's a pretty long run these days.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
And do you know that Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor?
I am an asdaw not at gigelow. Oh, I'm sorry
why I've played in every Hamlet from Mainz, California. I
have played Richard the third, Henrigee and Louis the fourteenth,
all one like sands Well. I was an actor too,
see I played new Haven the sixth, hard for the seventh,
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and Bridgeporty eighth.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Isn't that good? I think you're it's a gedian? Is
that all?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Kidd's means well, Jack looks how many is per code?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Is meansy?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
When thou art as old as this coat, thou wilt
also be mean.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Jesus lay down, ad tell.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Me Macbeth that coat that thou wearest is this per
minki ni kunkers? Well?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
It look at Evidently thou art much the need of money?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yea verily so any nay and positively say mister, what
does you? And barly means as long as HELI as
long as healthy. Get your own.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Shout that one, that one, that one's tiny, Shout that one's.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Well drought show our time is limited. Would you mind
giving you a sample?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Or what is like slave?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Anything about something in the manner of John Beatty sell
them he's a Richard ment Joseph Jepherdson.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
What has beenamog shot that I.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Haven't got a man? I got that morning? That's very
good dude, I have I will play month of you.
In the scene from Romeo and Juliet, Oh, Romeo, Romeo, where.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
For Romeo there was a Juliette line she said that,
but I've been laying off so long I forgot some city. Well,
all right, and play the part of Romeo until Julia.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I am here beneath that balcony.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Just do not see me.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Don't see plenty of dust to see you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Go ahead, God, Juliet, It's more beautiful than ever you
hear me. Mine eyes I like tenters, the noses like yours.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm years, I like tender, and.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Her teeth are like pearls.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
That about covers all of radio, I think. And you
can go now and where I'll go, which I shall return?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Mark me and mark me?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, I will.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
And now Frank Park, Anthony, our cake, Sere and Center
will sing water under the Brie.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh wait a minute, Jack, Can I say just a
word about Jello? Not right now, down, or I just
want to mention the six delicious plays now after Frank song?
Not right now? Okay't I just say that it's Frank
fruit flavor is twice as good as ever before.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Be careful down, I'll have to mark you and mark
you well, sings Frank.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Probly robbly tonight.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And that was Frank Parker singing water under the Bridge.
And our ladies and gentlemen for our feature.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Of bread what and here's the first time at all.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Leave you see on the Jello series five weeks and
fan mail already.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Well, let's see, how are we doing?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Open it marriage?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It's from Yokahoma, Yokohoma.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
I didn't know our program reaches all the way out there,
see it? That's Oklahoma. Mary, give it to me. It's
from a lady, she says, dear Jack Benny and the
six delicious flavor. She means raspberry, strawberry, cherry or no don.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Don she means Parker, Wilson.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Bester, Livingston and Benny. Anyway, it says dear Jack Benny.
I have been listening to your new series of broadcasts
and also received the photograph of you last week. After
looking at your pictures, I think you could easily play
the part of Charlie Chan.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Charlie Chan, well, he's a tournament, isn't he married? He?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Now?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I will be listening in next Sunday night and hope
you will not disappoint me whether Philly requests me.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Play at Cheynaman. You can do it direct. Why you
don't even need a makeup my thousand all right, I
will play the part of a chinaman to show you I.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Can do it, Ladies and gentlemen. Immediately after the next number,
we will present to you the outstanding mystery of the season,
which we will call Carley Cam.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
In Radio City laid on.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Question.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
That was Sina Town, my Sigina Town played by Don
Vesper and his charle maniac.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And now for our studio murder mystery or Karli Cam
in Radio City on with the plays hurtin music job.
Mhe how gloomy the studio looks tonight.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I'm afraid something's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
What's the thing?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Characters in the studios need the squeak?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm gonna get out of here.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Turn on those lights, married there's nothing to worry about
and I'll be calm talk.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
What was that? Someone has been chopping the studio between
the microphone and that's his officer. What a place to
be shot?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Good heaven that Don Wilson.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Don Wilson's not too bad.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
See he was a twelve seller, and.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
How is to do the karioka catch?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Nobody leaves a studio.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Marry call off, Charlie can He's the only one that
can solve this littlee.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Okay, I'm calling at once trader operator, give me yato,
Marry Oh try Donald foolish. Hello, by your day, Charlie, Calie.
A man has been murdered in our studio.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Come right over, triple.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You got here quick?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Charlie tanned the parasol man come in. Excuse please for
me to bring humble bodies in your studios.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Have a seat a man, don't burry the joint.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Excuse please to ask what happened here tonight? Our announcer
with John, we want justice.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Begging thousand pardons. You get justice, good announcer any place,
As my honorable ancestor would say, dead men, tell no
tales and gather no more.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Get your detective work, Charlie, and solve this mystery all right.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Nobody leaves part honorable bodies and chairs people play. This
is an outbraid, No, this mystery begging thousand pardons?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
What is your name?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
John Vesser, I'm the chests.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Honorable stickless puspicious What you're us him for why I
leave the orficer with this stick?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Ah? But if Orcer don't.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Show up, what you do with sick?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I didn't kill him much.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Tell you I didn't kill him with minion apologies. I
put handcuffs on your honorable risks gee, but he's nice.
Excuse please what you do here? But I'm one of
the comedians on this program with humble apologies. That's what
you think? All right? Then? All right, I'm one of
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the tennis thingers on this program. I hate to ask
charming kenners, but did you kill men on floor? I
should say not. I'm a lady killer with six d
and three apologies. You are a chump.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I'm a wat chump chump with one hundred and twelve apologies.
I don't get that chump chump.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What do you do when you leap over a mud bottle?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
I fall in?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Excuse please, gotta.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Get back in character? Excuse please? I think I look
round rooms. Hmm, I find gun still smoke. Yeah, there's
no smoky sign here too. Who this gun belonged to?
Not mine nor my neighbors. I don't know it, ah, somebody,
honorable liar, But I keep it. I look around some more.
Hm hm package? What is in honorable package? That's my laundry.
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I take him to good job, bring him back Friday.
I got your text me washy too.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I hear noise somebody in honorable closet.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You will oblige me to come out?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Come out, please, Jackey? Who is in closet? H Julia,
I am here beside alchemy first, don of see me
a lumphung hamlet? Did you kill honorable Wilson A thousand pards? Me?
Excuse please? What you do in closet? I found up
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my first coat and forgot to get out of it.
That's glue.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
That's glue cloth closet door, please, as my honorable ancestor
would say, birds in closet worth.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Two on this program. Charlie Canned. You are uncanny. You
don't look so good either. Oh this is chilly.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Can't you find out who's killed Don Wilson?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Maybe it was suicide?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
No, no suicide, be like himself too much, Don Wilson.
Always buy honorable.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Drinks for Don Wilson. You don't never commit suicide either.
Lifelise now, honorable young lady, excuse please for two questions.
I would like and you for me to answer, I.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Killed him, didn't so ask me?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Go ahead to how No?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Did you well Wilson? I mean how well Wilson?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
You know?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Pardon my rotting accent in his an. MM, somebody knock
on honorable door? Quiet?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Please?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I see who with you?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
How your birth friends?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
MM?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Your name please? Names?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Toy Flapperman, me, Toy Schlepperman. Where are you from from? Thank?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Siner? Hello, slap hello, lives.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
With nine hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Six thousand pardons, four hundred and twenty three? What are
you doing here?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
I tend to help you solve the mystery with fifteen apologies,
three hits and no heiress, tell me?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Are you a chinaman too? What else? As my honorable
ancestor would say, when in Rome, do as Romans do,
as my.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Honorable ancestor would say, no matter where I eat, stop
sticking a linus, And as Lou Holts.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Would say, you sat at my friends?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
If you see the captive telepo, excuse please?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Can is the name? Tan?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Hell? Don't to learn me?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I'm your brother? What's plenty of apology for that joke? Hey, Charlie,
you're gonna fire on hill Wilson.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
They're gonna pull another old hair on.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Excuse please, I find not right away? One more question,
what's your honorable Wilson do in spare time? Here? An
invent to ships? You listen to six de listens to
your listens A six to listen to sip brack flaver,
rasberry strawberry.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Wait, we're gonna have ideas where he keeps playing for
honorable inventions and honorable he's paper and honorable inside cold pocket.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Excuse please with one of please, with one apology, that's
all I got lift?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Wh I got lift?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Why got lift?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I thirst?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Honorable pocket for honorable papers, un honorable Wilson, he is
not here.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
He has disappeared.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Excuse please, Honorable Wilson not here, he gone fight cool
good Heaven, Claris Wilson, worry.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Don't worry, folks.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I'm up here in heaven. But I still say that
Jomo has that expirri fruit.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Flavor and say prices the little before and as an
honorable ancestor would say, play down.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
You know how delicious fresh flats or strawberry smells. You
know the intriguing fragrance of brick ripe carries. You've enjoyed
the pot sang of fresh lemons and limes, and the
juicy ripeness of golden orange.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well that still fought. The New Yellow brings you a
flavor as delicious.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
A fragrance as delightful as the fresh white fruit itself.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You smiff at the minute you up in the.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Package and sip it again when you dissolve those powdery
crystals and warm water, and when you've killed your yellow,
the beautiful swiverling firmness, when you've taken your first exciting taste,
then you know that Yellow tastes twice as good as
ever before. It's extra rich, twice as delicious. But you'll
find this new extra rich fruit flavor only in Yellow,
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so look for the big bread letters on the box
and be sure you get the genuine Yellow. This concludes
(23:02):
our fifth program of the New Yellow series. And although
we didn't find out who.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Killed Wilson, Jack Benny is a pretty good get. However,
Wilson will be back with us next week, as he
has more than one life to give to our product.
Come on, Mary, let's go.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yes, Yeah, there's my honorable ancestors would say, I'm hungry.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'd like to saund and there's my answer, would say
I'll see you later. Good night, folks. This is the
National Broadcasting Company oooo.
Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The General Program starring Jack Benny with John Best and
his orchestra. The Orphinson program was okay.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Took from the picture of kidman h Oh might being
must leave forty seconds feet great white way of an agent.
We turned south a bit. Now you would approach the
most celebrated library in the world, the New York Public Library, famous.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
From coast to coast. Two Stone Lions with God as
ports on our right, the famous Stone Lions. Ladies, this
is the.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Sight of the victory of tone riders, right down to
everyone chain.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You can't stop me, lady, I'm going out to this show.
You know, the new yellow no taste playing too as before?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yes, sir, who wouldn't run after the new jello? Taste
it yourself and you'll be crazy about that rich or
full bodied fruit flavor, a flavor as refreshing as the
juicy ripe fruit itself.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That extra rich goodness is put in.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
This yellow by a brand new, exclusive process, a process
which actually blends the fruit flavor into the tiny crystals,
pulls it there for you to enjoy. Try the new
Jello and discover for yourself that it now tastes pipe
as good as ever before. Remember only Jello gives you
this new extra rich flavor. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
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as it is impossible for me to offer you a cigar,
cigarette or a drink, I can still offer you Jack Benny's.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Right, a l l all.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
This is Jack Betty, your local correspondence coming to you
with the late news report from all over the world.
Seez all knows all, but still bets on the wrong horse.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Mary Bree. Those hot items, Okay, yeah, they are first
local news New York, New York.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
New Streamline train arrives here from California in fifty six hours,
breaking all records. New Yorkers now wearing Streamline underwear to
get to work fast.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Hey, first one gotta laugh. Tokyo, Japan.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Tokyo American baseball players, including Babe Ruth, arrive here and
play Japanese teams. The battery for Japan was Disney O'saki
and Daffy Matiyama.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
In left field was.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Hackie Wilson, and on second Sacky was Frankie Frisky all
good jazz. In the opening game, Ruth made a homer
and Japs named the town app It is called Yoka Homer.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Is that clever.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
New Orleans Louisiana Senator Juey Long organizes football team.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
He says he doesn't care how good they play, as
long as they protect his right eye.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
At banquet, New York City, November ninth, Don Vester, famous
orchestra leader, holds winning ticket on Irish Sweet State and
leaves for Ireland in the morning. November tenth, Bester finds out.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
As a cigar coupon and cancels.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
The stript to Ireland. Dublin, Ireland. November fifth, Frank Parker.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Tennersinger arrives here to live in Irish free State. November
trip Tacker finds out it's not free. Returns to America
say something praying it's a lie. November eleven.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Parker denis statement and will hear from me immediately after
this program?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Says you, says me. Election News back from Mento, California.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
What'sk's warring about?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
That's the name of talent in California?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Back Fremento, maryam re elected governor of California?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Orray for marri him? Is that Mariam Hopson?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I guess Jenny Channel, Why now for.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Our sporting section Los Angeles, California Fight News Max.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
There is here training for five reel pictures.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
When interviewed, said he is in shape for four reels
and at the out points myrna Lloyd will be ready
to meet Darbos New York.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
More fight news.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Jack Dempsey, Champion of Champions, is in training here to
open restaurants. He is in great shape, feeling fine and
rarn to cook.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Ah. What other program gives you this? Hop fight news?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Not even this program?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Quiet More football news. Scores of yesterday's games Colgate twenty two,
Lane six, Leland Stamford twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Four, Shirley Temple five.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
AT and T one hundred and ten, General Electpic nineteen,
Liberty seventeen, seventy.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Six, Cello six Stake watched delicious flavory Na What I get?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Get more football news again? Go get sing sing wins again.
Jones pass back runs.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Sixty yards per touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That if he had run that past on another occasion,
he wouldn't be with his present team. Ah. Some more
new world occasion he wouldn't be with his present team.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Some more news hot from Hollywood and from laying here, Hollywood, California.
It is rumored that Joan Crawford is Glablams of Lambs
of l Yes It is also rumored that Glorias Wanton
will not.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Grabs labs other than thy No.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
In our Hollywood correspondent tells us that Kay Francis would
seen plans.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Lab Lradslav Lasai or Jack. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Nobody can understand?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well that the idea. If nobody can understand me, nobody
can sue me. Play Don, I know what I'm doing,
and I keep for.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Them all Winter played by Don Vester and his Yellonians say, Don,
every time I introduced one of your numbers, always your
archs to another name. I mean, what do you call
your boys anyway?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Jack? Well, for instance, there's wearing Pennsylvanians, you know, Lombardo's
Royal Canadians, Liman's Californians. I mean, you got a name
for your artist? No, Jack, I've been trying to.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Get a name.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But you see you and one of my boys, that
fellow with a mustache over there, and it comes from London.
And that first violinist with the beard, he comes from Russia.
Or the fellow with the beard that is, what's his name,
George Bernard Ginfer. There is a resemblance, yes, and then
that that corner fair where the van Dyke comes from Belgium,
and that fellow playing the French horn comes from Paris. Oh,
(06:35):
you mean the fellow with the gold tee.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And yet we have a go see down at our
house is out and he.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Knows how does it smell?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What's the difference?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
As long as he chusey Mary?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Please? What's his name? Down?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
The fellow with the goateee? This is orcheval is it archevalier?
I'll bet somewhere hidden in this orchestra, Yasha.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Bunchuk old school. I know. Well anyway, Jack, I don't
know what to call my Why don't you give him
a shave and call him Bester's disgusted Yankees? And thanks Jack,
But I'll be well enough alone.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
And now that we have named Bester's archer, we will
continue with our policy of bringing you another outstanding artist.
We intended to have the four Marx brothers here tonight,
raut show, chick O, harpo and uh, what's the fourth one?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Jello? Yes, yes, but the that was Wilson's folks. There's
no doubt about Adam.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
But the Marx brothers were unable to get here. And
here's a wire I just received from Harpo, it says,
dear Jack, and he's further stays.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
So you see for yourself, folks, they meant well. But
we are not unprepared for we have with.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Us this evening that great Shakespearean actor, a man who,
of all the pause he has received in his day,
were put end to end, you could hit still hear
a pin drops.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I now take extreme.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Pleasure in presenting the outstanding exponent of Shakespearean acting, mister
Jay Barrett.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Wim Paul.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Say something, mister Wimple's something. Of course I shall say something,
but I.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Think I am an Extrobut I don't know, but we'll
soon find out. Unlike the I am a fugitian, a
student of Shakespeare, and already known Testian. Marry what's a Festian?
I don't now tell me Hamlet? What's the last thing
you played in? Ten nice in the ballroom, ten nights
(08:32):
in the barrow. That's a pretty long run these days.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
And do you know that Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor?
I am an asdaw not at gigelow. Oh, I'm sorry
why I've played in every Hamlet from Mainz, California. I
have played Richard the third, Henrigee and Louis the fourteenth,
all one like sands Well. I was an actor too,
see I played new Haven the sixth, hard for the seventh,
(08:55):
and Bridgeporty eighth.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Isn't that good? I think you're it's a gedian? Is
that all?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Kidd's means well, Jack looks how many is per code?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Is meansy?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
When thou art as old as this coat, thou wilt
also be mean.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Jesus lay down, ad tell.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Me Macbeth that coat that thou wearest is this per
minki ni kunkers? Well?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
It look at Evidently thou art much the need of money?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yea verily so any nay and positively say mister, what
does you? And barly means as long as HELI as
long as healthy. Get your own.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Shout that one, that one, that one's tiny, Shout that one's.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Well drought show our time is limited. Would you mind
giving you a sample?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Or what is like slave?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Anything about something in the manner of John Beatty sell
them he's a Richard ment Joseph Jepherdson.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
What has beenamog shot that I.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Haven't got a man? I got that morning? That's very
good dude, I have I will play month of you.
In the scene from Romeo and Juliet, Oh, Romeo, Romeo, where.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
For Romeo there was a Juliette line she said that,
but I've been laying off so long I forgot some city. Well,
all right, and play the part of Romeo until Julia.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I am here beneath that balcony.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Just do not see me.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Don't see plenty of dust to see you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Go ahead, God, Juliet, It's more beautiful than ever you
hear me. Mine eyes I like tenters, the noses like yours.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm years, I like tender, and.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Her teeth are like pearls.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
That about covers all of radio, I think. And you
can go now and where I'll go, which I shall return?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Mark me and mark me?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, I will.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
And now Frank Park, Anthony, our cake, Sere and Center
will sing water under the Brie.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh wait a minute, Jack, Can I say just a
word about Jello? Not right now, down, or I just
want to mention the six delicious plays now after Frank song?
Not right now? Okay't I just say that it's Frank
fruit flavor is twice as good as ever before.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Be careful down, I'll have to mark you and mark
you well, sings Frank.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Probly robbly tonight.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And that was Frank Parker singing water under the Bridge.
And our ladies and gentlemen for our feature.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Of bread what and here's the first time at all.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Leave you see on the Jello series five weeks and
fan mail already.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Well, let's see, how are we doing?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Open it marriage?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It's from Yokahoma, Yokohoma.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
I didn't know our program reaches all the way out there,
see it? That's Oklahoma. Mary, give it to me. It's
from a lady, she says, dear Jack Benny and the
six delicious flavor. She means raspberry, strawberry, cherry or no don.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Don she means Parker, Wilson.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Bester, Livingston and Benny. Anyway, it says dear Jack Benny.
I have been listening to your new series of broadcasts
and also received the photograph of you last week. After
looking at your pictures, I think you could easily play
the part of Charlie Chan.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Charlie Chan, well, he's a tournament, isn't he married? He?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Now?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I will be listening in next Sunday night and hope
you will not disappoint me whether Philly requests me.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Play at Cheynaman. You can do it direct. Why you
don't even need a makeup my thousand all right, I
will play the part of a chinaman to show you I.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Can do it, Ladies and gentlemen. Immediately after the next number,
we will present to you the outstanding mystery of the season,
which we will call Carley Cam.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
In Radio City laid on.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Question.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
That was Sina Town, my Sigina Town played by Don
Vesper and his charle maniac.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And now for our studio murder mystery or Karli Cam
in Radio City on with the plays hurtin music job.
Mhe how gloomy the studio looks tonight.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I'm afraid something's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
What's the thing?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Characters in the studios need the squeak?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm gonna get out of here.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Turn on those lights, married there's nothing to worry about
and I'll be calm talk.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
What was that? Someone has been chopping the studio between
the microphone and that's his officer. What a place to
be shot?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Good heaven that Don Wilson.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Don Wilson's not too bad.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
See he was a twelve seller, and.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
How is to do the karioka catch?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Nobody leaves a studio.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Marry call off, Charlie can He's the only one that
can solve this littlee.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Okay, I'm calling at once trader operator, give me yato,
Marry Oh try Donald foolish. Hello, by your day, Charlie, Calie.
A man has been murdered in our studio.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Come right over, triple.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You got here quick?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Charlie tanned the parasol man come in. Excuse please for
me to bring humble bodies in your studios.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Have a seat a man, don't burry the joint.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Excuse please to ask what happened here tonight? Our announcer
with John, we want justice.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Begging thousand pardons. You get justice, good announcer any place,
As my honorable ancestor would say, dead men, tell no
tales and gather no more.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Get your detective work, Charlie, and solve this mystery all right.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Nobody leaves part honorable bodies and chairs people play. This
is an outbraid, No, this mystery begging thousand pardons?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
What is your name?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
John Vesser, I'm the chests.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Honorable stickless puspicious What you're us him for why I
leave the orficer with this stick?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Ah? But if Orcer don't.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Show up, what you do with sick?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I didn't kill him much.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Tell you I didn't kill him with minion apologies. I
put handcuffs on your honorable risks gee, but he's nice.
Excuse please what you do here? But I'm one of
the comedians on this program with humble apologies. That's what
you think? All right? Then? All right, I'm one of
(16:30):
the tennis thingers on this program. I hate to ask
charming kenners, but did you kill men on floor? I
should say not. I'm a lady killer with six d
and three apologies. You are a chump.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I'm a wat chump chump with one hundred and twelve apologies.
I don't get that chump chump.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What do you do when you leap over a mud bottle?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
I fall in?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Excuse please, gotta.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Get back in character? Excuse please? I think I look
round rooms. Hmm, I find gun still smoke. Yeah, there's
no smoky sign here too. Who this gun belonged to?
Not mine nor my neighbors. I don't know it, ah, somebody,
honorable liar, But I keep it. I look around some more.
Hm hm package? What is in honorable package? That's my laundry.
(17:18):
I take him to good job, bring him back Friday.
I got your text me washy too.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I hear noise somebody in honorable closet.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You will oblige me to come out?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Come out, please, Jackey? Who is in closet? H Julia,
I am here beside alchemy first, don of see me
a lumphung hamlet? Did you kill honorable Wilson A thousand pards? Me?
Excuse please? What you do in closet? I found up
(17:55):
my first coat and forgot to get out of it.
That's glue.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
That's glue cloth closet door, please, as my honorable ancestor
would say, birds in closet worth.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Two on this program. Charlie Canned. You are uncanny. You
don't look so good either. Oh this is chilly.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Can't you find out who's killed Don Wilson?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Maybe it was suicide?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
No, no suicide, be like himself too much, Don Wilson.
Always buy honorable.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Drinks for Don Wilson. You don't never commit suicide either.
Lifelise now, honorable young lady, excuse please for two questions.
I would like and you for me to answer, I.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Killed him, didn't so ask me?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Go ahead to how No?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Did you well Wilson? I mean how well Wilson?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
You know?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Pardon my rotting accent in his an. MM, somebody knock
on honorable door? Quiet?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Please?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I see who with you?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
How your birth friends?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
MM?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Your name please? Names?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Toy Flapperman, me, Toy Schlepperman. Where are you from from? Thank?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Siner? Hello, slap hello, lives.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
With nine hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Six thousand pardons, four hundred and twenty three? What are
you doing here?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
I tend to help you solve the mystery with fifteen apologies,
three hits and no heiress, tell me?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Are you a chinaman too? What else? As my honorable
ancestor would say, when in Rome, do as Romans do,
as my.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Honorable ancestor would say, no matter where I eat, stop
sticking a linus, And as Lou Holts.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Would say, you sat at my friends?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
If you see the captive telepo, excuse please?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Can is the name? Tan?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Hell? Don't to learn me?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I'm your brother? What's plenty of apology for that joke? Hey, Charlie,
you're gonna fire on hill Wilson.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
They're gonna pull another old hair on.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Excuse please, I find not right away? One more question,
what's your honorable Wilson do in spare time? Here? An
invent to ships? You listen to six de listens to
your listens A six to listen to sip brack flaver,
rasberry strawberry.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Wait, we're gonna have ideas where he keeps playing for
honorable inventions and honorable he's paper and honorable inside cold pocket.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Excuse please with one of please, with one apology, that's
all I got lift?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Wh I got lift?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Why got lift?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I thirst?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Honorable pocket for honorable papers, un honorable Wilson, he is
not here.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
He has disappeared.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Excuse please, Honorable Wilson not here, he gone fight cool
good Heaven, Claris Wilson, worry.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Don't worry, folks.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I'm up here in heaven. But I still say that
Jomo has that expirri fruit.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Flavor and say prices the little before and as an
honorable ancestor would say, play down.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
You know how delicious fresh flats or strawberry smells. You
know the intriguing fragrance of brick ripe carries. You've enjoyed
the pot sang of fresh lemons and limes, and the
juicy ripeness of golden orange.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well that still fought. The New Yellow brings you a
flavor as delicious.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
A fragrance as delightful as the fresh white fruit itself.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You smiff at the minute you up in the.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Package and sip it again when you dissolve those powdery
crystals and warm water, and when you've killed your yellow,
the beautiful swiverling firmness, when you've taken your first exciting taste,
then you know that Yellow tastes twice as good as
ever before. It's extra rich, twice as delicious. But you'll
find this new extra rich fruit flavor only in Yellow,
(22:22):
so look for the big bread letters on the box
and be sure you get the genuine Yellow. This concludes
(23:02):
our fifth program of the New Yellow series. And although
we didn't find out who.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Killed Wilson, Jack Benny is a pretty good get. However,
Wilson will be back with us next week, as he
has more than one life to give to our product.
Come on, Mary, let's go.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yes, Yeah, there's my honorable ancestors would say, I'm hungry.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'd like to saund and there's my answer, would say
I'll see you later. Good night, folks. This is the
National Broadcasting Company oooo.
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