August 24, 2025 • 29 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):
The Jello Program starring Jack Benny, with Mary Livingston and
Phil Harrison his Orchestra. The Orchestrape is a program with
Hooray for Hollywood from Hollywood Hotel. Ofttimes, there are some
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one thing that seems to have extra pleasant associations for us.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It may be a place, it may be a song,
it may be a word.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
For instance, a letter we received just the other day
says the word Jello will always mean something special to
me because it's almost the one dessert I can remember
having as a youngster. I remember the picture of the
Jello girl on the box. I remember Jello's bright party colors.
I feel as if I'd grown up with Jello, and
it's a friend I'll never forget.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, we hope a lot of you feel that way
about Jello.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It has been America's favorite served for over forty years,
and the only changes in Jello have been to make
it even better. Jello has a deeper, richer, more satisfying
fruit taste than ever before, and jello sets more quickly
now it's quicker and easier to prepare.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
But remember, there is only one Jello.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
There's always been only one Jello, So don't accept any
substitutes for.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
The real thing.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Looked for the big red letters on the box that
always felled jello. That was hooray for Hollywood, played by
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the orchestra. Not and gentlemen, this being the first day
of daylight saving time, we bring you a man who
saves time, money, and old pieces of string, Jack Benny.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Hello, Yeah, there's a Jack Benny who also saves paper bags.
They come in mighty handy too. Well, Don, if we
were in the east now, we'd have an extra hour today,
sixty whole minutes to do with as we please. What
would you do with yours?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, Jack, if I had an extra hour, I think, God,
go on a diet.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You know, not eat anything, not eat anything for a
whole hour. Why don That would be a drastic move
for you, wouldn't it? Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
But I should do it anyway, Jack, I think I'm getting.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
A little plump, Oh, a little plump. Yes, he's getting plump. Listen, Don,
if I were a penny weighing machine and saw you
coming toward me, I'd pull up my scales and run.
You're just fat. I not only resent that with denials. Anyway,
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we were talking about daylight saving time, weren't we You know, Jack,
I forgot all about our show going on an hour earlier.
When I got up, I had to run over here
like a streak of lightning. Boy, I had to rush,
I know, Phil. And those pajamas are very becoming. I'm
glad you like them. Imagine coming to the studio in pajamas.
You didn't even bother the dress. I did too. I
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never wear the tops. Oh well, I noticed that. At
least it took time to curl your hair. I did not.
It's a mess.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Wow anyway, Wow, anyway, Just because we're on an hour
earlier today, there's no excuse for being callous.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
You know, Say Jack, why did they have daylight saving?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Cli'm in the east and I'm out here.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Well, Mary, that's all the people there can get up
an hour earlier in the morning, and then when evening comes,
they have an extra hour of sunshine. Suppose it's raining, Well,
then they have an extra hour of rain like we
have here. Quiet it never rains in California. Never.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Well.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Gee, I was telling it.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Told my uncle that this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
With uncle, the one with a wooden leg that warped. Look, Mary,
you asked me a question. I answered it, and I'll
leave me alone, say Jay, Oh fine, what is it? Kenny?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
You know I can't understand one thing about daylight saving time?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, this morning I set my watch sixty minutes ahead,
and when I came to the broadcast, I was an
hour too early.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Why was that? Well, look, Kenny, you didn't have to
set your watch ahead. That's only in the eaves. You
realize you're the only person in the whole state of
California that did it.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Was there a price for that?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yes, bemmed over What a kid, he's hopeless. Well, at
least I know rain when I see it. Yeah, never
mind that. Now, look, fellas, we have no more time
to discuss rain or daylight saving because, as I announced
last week, tonight we're going to do a very long play.
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In fact, it's a musical comedy. A musical comedy. Yes, Phil,
if you show up for rehearsal, this wouldn't be such
a shock. Feel All those rehearsals bore me more than
the show. Oh that's too bad. Now, listen, fellas, we
gotta do something to make feel happy here. Now you're
talking shut opera'll fire anyhow. Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, the
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Benny Light Opera Troupe will present, will present what we
consider a real master put. We're going to offer our
version of Walt disney sensational film and supreme achievement, Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs. Now, this will go on immediately.
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Hey Jack, I didn't see that picture with the dwarf
a dwarf. Kenny is a jockey with a long beard.
Now in our version, the minning to be a dwarf, Jack,
you don but they'll have a laugh.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He couldn't be a dwarf in an elephant act.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Well, you'll be in it anyway, don Now. In our
musical comedy version, folk as none of us look like dwarf.
We are going to call our plays snow White and
the Seven Gangsters. Mary Livingston, who was scared to death
of these gangsters, will be snow White. Now, let's see
there's also a Prince Charming, Hey Jack, can I be
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Prince Charming over my dead body? Let's see who else? Oh?
The witch? Where's that witch? I hired?
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Here? I am?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
She is?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
She gonna be my stepmother? Yes? And she's gonna give
you a poisoned apple, you stool pigeon. Quiet your old bat.
Now our cast is complete, They said, Oh, where's Andy here?
I am, But am I gonna see one of the dwarfs? No,
and you're gonna be a gangster, not a dwarf. Shut
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And I went out and had my legs short and
leg short, And how'd you do that? I got him
to a cheap pair of pants and went on the rain.
Now the next one that says it rains in California,
I'm gonna hit him right over the head with my umbrella.
I remember, fellas, we're all gangster, and I'm gonna be
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the roughest, toughest, meanest one of them all. Guess a
no good rat. See, wow, I'm as tough as any
of those movie gangsters, ain't I married? Yeah, you're a
regular Edward g Buttercup Row that's the same. I can
act uff, say, Jacker. We all have to be hard boiled,
of course, Don, and you ought to get into the mood. Okay,
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I'll get this. Ladies and gentlemen, you've gotta rush down
to your nearest grocer and get a package of jello.
See it comes in sixty delicious flavors. See that's telling them,
Don Brawberry Raspberry cherry, orange, lemon and lime. See that's it.
I guess they see, don now, folks. I played with
bron immediately after Kenny Baker's song what are you gonna sing? Kenny?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
One song from a figure snow like one call, Okay, Kenny,
let's have it, okay.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
One fall that.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Has possessed me, one love surrailing me through one. Fore,
I M keep thinking.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Of one ally.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
For you with a spun.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I come to you.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I got to r the door, wet ceremony, that and
nothing more.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I have no look to play, no.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Keeping a par.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Just come to tell you how sweet to me?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
One?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
I have one.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
One one only.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
For you, one.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Tenderly be ever in three.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Constantly one line that is for destiny, one line screaringly
fo one my luckey team of one line only for you.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
One song.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
There was one song from snow White, sung by Kenny Baker,
and thanks Kenny, it was certainly apropos you said it. Son.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, for our musical comedy Snow
White and the Seven Gangsters, we will present this little
fairy tale in four acts and thirty nine themes. So
take off your shoes, folks. You gotta stay in tonight.
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Here we go. The opening theme is the isolated farmhouse
Long Island, which is the hideout of the notorious Benny Gang.
As a curtain rises, Doc Benny is giving his boys
a pet talk Curtains Newsy. Now, listen, man, we got
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a big job on for tonight, the biggest thing we've
tackled since we cracked them in. We're gonna stick up
the twelfth National Bank. Do you get that? I'll call
the rolls people all here, sleepy hull dog sneezy for show.
Doc unkite happy right here, Doc feeling firing, ready to go.
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He wears he wears feather underwear.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Folks, Rumphy fight is paras fate, was gonna get caught
this time?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Oh you're too pessimistic, bash faux Oh shirt, Doc, you
know I'm here, Non, come on over here with the
rest of us. Oh you will, fine gangster. Now let's
see who else? Oh, yes, dopey, that's me, folks, And
you're a fine crook too. The way you waste your time,
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what do you mean well, I thank you out to
pick pocket yesterday and you wasted two hours on Fred Allen.
Imagine picking Alan's pocket. What did you find there. Oh oh,
he buries his money, ain't and you bashful wants the
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manor doc? I thank you. How to take a guy
for a ride and you went in separate car? Well, gee,
I didn't know him very well. That's a great excuse, Alison. Fellas,
you've been laying down on the job lately. I want
you all to be up on your toes tonight. There's
dog hunted a sleepy what's how are we going to
rob the bank tonight? About could cluck louby li like
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you always are.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
I'm a faded at job. We should have get caught
and the sutive it us for twenty years.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Oh we will ay. How do you feel about him? Happy?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Gruphie's right.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
We won't go to things so you'll never come out.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
It'll be awful, certainly. Got a brave bunch of men here.
Scared of your own shadow. I'm not scared. I'm dopey.
You said it. I remember, man. We got a big
job on a night and we gotta get some money.
There's a payment doing our machine gun, so let's all
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work together. As soon as our supply of dynamite gets here,
we'll go come in. He's a dynamite for Doc Benny
dine here. I wait a minute. Is this dynamite good
and strong? I think though I had two arms when
I started out?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Goodbye?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
All right, men, I listened carefully. We'll meet tonight at
exactly eleven o'clock in the alley right in the back
of the bank. Is that clear you, Jophie? You know
where we're gonna meet.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
If I forget, I'll ask a policeman.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
All right, but leave your girl home this time. I
remember fellas eleven o'clock in the alley behind the bank.
And then do you know where we go from there?
Where I hoe hi hoe to rob the bank? Will go?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I'll say, still go and breston heillo.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
High hi ho hi ho hi ho. Now, don't be late.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You know we gotta work christ and high ho hi
ho hi ho hi ho hi ho.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I'm sleepy, that I know, and I'm so shy. I'm
merely hurd. I oh, why don't you eat yello? Just
try a dish it sotily high.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Hole I oh high ho heigh ho to rob that
I will go.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I'll say, you'll go and brestor do fig hoh hoh
hoh high My home now don't you know he's gonna
work with a ball? The theme changes. We now take
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you to the home of Miss snow White, who lives
on Park Avenue with her cruel stepmother, missus Agatha Witch.
Oh she's a mean by They get away Park Avenue? O?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Hell?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Who?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No, she can't talk to me, and don't be calling
up here anymore?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Good by yourself?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Who is that stepmother? That was your boyfriend, Prince Johnson
a friendship?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Now listen, snow.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I don't want you to go up with him anymore.
He's just after your monk. So are you well? I
saw you first.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Now don't you dare to leave this room?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You little black?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Isn't he awful? Folk?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Shut?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Oh? Why is my stepmother so cool to me? Is
he jealous of me for chance? Or is he jealous
of me? Good? Look I have it.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
He's just arrest.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Oh where is my Prince Charming? If you would just
come and take me away, I'd.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Be so happy.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
He'll be here, folks, that must be Prince Charming.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Now her friend giafriend, come in, ah, Prince Charming.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Holla, my robs.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
My little pick in here.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Oh Prince, I'm so glad you're here. My stepmother's getting
cooler every day.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
What's a little without those making hands?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Why only this.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Morning she tried to kill me.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
She gave me a poison apple for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Oh but the loulla, that is, if I wasn't a prince,
some gentlemen, I'm not cars from my cap and.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Dunk and another thing.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
He's takes you out a real prince.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
He says, you're bogus.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Bogus, that's my brother.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I'm Burghs. But you are a real prince, aren't you.
Certainly I got a coat of arms from a boat
in the bed.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Then I don't care what she says. I love you,
my prince, and I.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Love you too, my little honeychild, Come into my arms.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Oh, if you don't take me away from here, I'd
be so happy.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Don't worry, my little sweezie cake.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Someday I'll take you to my kessel and the Tescos
when some days all someday.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Day we'll go away, day so far away.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Who in the dream comes.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
To me.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Al this pH of.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
You and see I kiss the pool?
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Saw how many a tool?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Why you're not so hard away? Come? And that was
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all I wasn't both Oh goodbye, darling. I have to go. Now,
where you going my fin?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I'm going to get her ride in the park, mat,
I'll see if my horse is outside.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I a whole silver fin. So so Prince Charming leave
the door opened, and then walks the wicked stepmother and says, no, White,
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who was that in here? Singing? None's Kevin Well he's slipping.
I know it was that Prince Charming.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
And I told you never to see.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Him a day. But I love him, stepmother, and he's
so handsome and romantic. But I don't put a stop
to hip affair. You a little fool here, half a naffle.
Don't take it, snow White, it's poisoned. Stay out of the.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Shoe, Kevi turk.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
He's like stepmother, This alcle is poison It is not.
Then why is that worm waving a red flag?
Speaker 8 (20:39):
You see?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
I'll make you etiot come here?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
No White, No, no, I'll run away from home.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
That's what I'll do all run away from home.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Stop stop no, no, I'll never see you again.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Good By, step mother, good bye.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Worm, goodbye a little throw. White runs away from home,
and two days later we find her lost in a
dense forest somewhere in Long Island. Ah, here are in
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the wood.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Look at the animals following me.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Oh see the pretty bird?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Hello bird?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Isn't that pretty canary is somewhat of a critic?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Gee? Maybe these animals just say to me, Look at
that little pussy cat with a bushy tail.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Come here, pussy, Oh min jake, get away. That was
a close one. Look at that little deer running after me.
Season's cute. Hello, dear, Hello, honey, fresh hee. I'm so
tired and hungry. Oh no, there is a farm house
over yonder.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Maybe I can get food and shelter there here I
come time house.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
All right, man, ready to rob the bank? I remember
this ain't no picnic. So everybody worked fast and be
on your guard. Say happy, where's the machine gun over
there on the stowing basket. That's great if you got
your bag filled? Grumpy yep, I.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Got a flashlight of chittnut, some dynamite of blue torch
in my night shirt.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Or we'll be home before morning. Hey, do we stop
showing that dynamite. You'll brow your brains out. So had
an he brings, I wouldn't be sure that. Well. We're
all set now Wait a minute, were sleepy hey, sleepy,
wake up for gee with bashful. What are you blushing about? Well,
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we're a sleeping smile and he must be dreaming about
a girl. Now you stay out of his dreams. Anyway,
we can do without him. Now let's go, man, and
here's my final loose bruck. While we're robbing that bank.
There's one thing that's very important than for Heaven's sake,
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don't with so while you were. Don't with so while
you were, or the cops will come. We'll have to run.
Be as quiet as a turk. You a quiet as
a mouth, but I couldn't make it rhyme. Now, come on,
boys and make no noise.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Heaven got much time.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I remember each of you.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
We know what we must do.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
You must be still. I know I will.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
On the couse your per.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Can. Why now, don't poor game? All right, man, we're
on our way. Let's go. Wait a minute, I get
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the cops.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
The cops.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'm about to give us life this time.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Why I'll handle this. I mean, you know, everybody, my
name is snow White. Why it's a girl? A girl? Yes,
a girl? What do you want? Snow White? Yeah? I
thought this was a farmhouse, aren't you all farmer. No,
we're not farmers. We're bandits. Right now, we're going out
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to rob a bank. Rob a bank. Oh, you mustn't
do that. Why not? It's naughty? Oh it is. Did
you hear that? Fellers, it's naughty. Co man. Tire up
and thrower in the cellar, throw me into crabberman.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Now wait a minute, cheap, she can't harm us, power.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Enough taking any chances. Tire up?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
But why do want you.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Nice boys want to rob a bank? Don't you want
to get into heaven? Yes, but we want to get
into the bank's perse. Now scram She's right, doc, let's
call the whole thing off.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I have in favor of it.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Yes, maybe I can get my old job back again,
your old job back?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
What did you do?
Speaker 8 (25:34):
I was a good human man in a tough neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Oh and I used to be an orchestra leader. That's
a why what were you dope?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I used to be a phrenologist?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
A phrenologist?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I don't know? That's far quick, fine bunch of gangsters
I've got. Now listen, snow White, you listen to me.
You're big, bad man. I'm gonna throw away. You're going
to stay right here.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
You're never gonna rob another back as long as you live.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
I'm will me.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
So how about you Dot nothing do him. This is
my racket and I'm gonna stick to it.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Now.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Come on, Docky Walkie, don't be a toffy w washee.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Oh, come on, Dot, don't be a betty waddy.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
All right, I'm a sappy waffy.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
But I'll do it.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Come in, snow bye.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'm so glad I've heard job and looking all.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Over for you, Tommy, I knew you, tom.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
My, little snow Ye, you'll go back down, but to
my test and little happily ever afterwards, that last, that
last day, we'll go. So Prince Charming married Little snow White,
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and Dot Benny went back to his old job peddling
fish and walk Keegan playfell.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Right, blue skies, gain you fashions, new things to eat.
These are the signs of spring.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
And here's the perfect dessert to fit the mood, called
Springtime Delight, the pricious, gayest dish you tasted in ages
and real easy to make with fruit.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Rich strawberry jello and just one cup of fresh strawberries.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Dissolve a package of strawberry jello and hot water and chill,
and so slightly thicken, sweeten one cup of.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Sliced fresh strawberries with a quarter cup of sugar. Then
add the berries to the thick and jello turn into
a mold and chill and it couldn't be easier to make.
And it's swell and an inexpensive way to take advantage
of the fresh strawberries just coming into the market. And
wait till you taste it.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
The delicious, extra rich fruit flavor of strawberry jello combined.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
With the juicy sweetness of freshberries. It's a grand springtime dessert.
So try it soon. Just be sure to make it
with genuine jello. Ask your grocer for jello.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
This is the last number of the thirtieth program in
the New Jello series. And we'll be with you again
next Sunday night at the same time. And I hope
you all liked our musical comedy version of Walt Disney's
famous picture Snow White and the Seven Dwards. Oh yeah, yes, Mary,
you know we forgot to do one of the best
songs in the pictures. Which one is that?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
The working Well number?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
You know where you hear the echo? Oh yes, well
I'll tell you what. Let's do it now, Andy, you
get down on the well and do the echo. Okay,
headed boys, I'm wisky. I wish by the one along
to find me. Fight Mary, hand me that bucket the nightfall,
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Thank the help.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Ah, there isn't a park about from Shotting. This isn't
a talking about from Shotting. This week Promadelle Rickley's.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Believe It or Our program, will I heard Tuesday night
instead of Saturday over most of these same faces.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Be sure to see your local papers for the new
time This naful broadcasting company
The Jello Program starring Jack Benny, with Mary Livingston and
Phil Harrison his Orchestra. The Orchestrape is a program with
Hooray for Hollywood from Hollywood Hotel. Ofttimes, there are some
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one thing that seems to have extra pleasant associations for us.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It may be a place, it may be a song,
it may be a word.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
For instance, a letter we received just the other day
says the word Jello will always mean something special to
me because it's almost the one dessert I can remember
having as a youngster. I remember the picture of the
Jello girl on the box. I remember Jello's bright party colors.
I feel as if I'd grown up with Jello, and
it's a friend I'll never forget.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, we hope a lot of you feel that way
about Jello.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It has been America's favorite served for over forty years,
and the only changes in Jello have been to make
it even better. Jello has a deeper, richer, more satisfying
fruit taste than ever before, and jello sets more quickly
now it's quicker and easier to prepare.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
But remember, there is only one Jello.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
There's always been only one Jello, So don't accept any
substitutes for.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
The real thing.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Looked for the big red letters on the box that
always felled jello. That was hooray for Hollywood, played by
(01:59):
the orchestra. Not and gentlemen, this being the first day
of daylight saving time, we bring you a man who
saves time, money, and old pieces of string, Jack Benny.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Hello, Yeah, there's a Jack Benny who also saves paper bags.
They come in mighty handy too. Well, Don, if we
were in the east now, we'd have an extra hour today,
sixty whole minutes to do with as we please. What
would you do with yours?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, Jack, if I had an extra hour, I think, God,
go on a diet.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You know, not eat anything, not eat anything for a
whole hour. Why don That would be a drastic move
for you, wouldn't it? Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
But I should do it anyway, Jack, I think I'm getting.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
A little plump, Oh, a little plump. Yes, he's getting plump. Listen, Don,
if I were a penny weighing machine and saw you
coming toward me, I'd pull up my scales and run.
You're just fat. I not only resent that with denials. Anyway,
(03:05):
we were talking about daylight saving time, weren't we You know, Jack,
I forgot all about our show going on an hour earlier.
When I got up, I had to run over here
like a streak of lightning. Boy, I had to rush,
I know, Phil. And those pajamas are very becoming. I'm
glad you like them. Imagine coming to the studio in pajamas.
You didn't even bother the dress. I did too. I
(03:25):
never wear the tops. Oh well, I noticed that. At
least it took time to curl your hair. I did not.
It's a mess.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Wow anyway, Wow, anyway, Just because we're on an hour
earlier today, there's no excuse for being callous.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
You know, Say Jack, why did they have daylight saving?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Cli'm in the east and I'm out here.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Well, Mary, that's all the people there can get up
an hour earlier in the morning, and then when evening comes,
they have an extra hour of sunshine. Suppose it's raining, Well,
then they have an extra hour of rain like we
have here. Quiet it never rains in California. Never.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Well.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Gee, I was telling it.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Told my uncle that this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
With uncle, the one with a wooden leg that warped. Look, Mary,
you asked me a question. I answered it, and I'll
leave me alone, say Jay, Oh fine, what is it? Kenny?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
You know I can't understand one thing about daylight saving time?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, this morning I set my watch sixty minutes ahead,
and when I came to the broadcast, I was an
hour too early.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Why was that? Well, look, Kenny, you didn't have to
set your watch ahead. That's only in the eaves. You
realize you're the only person in the whole state of
California that did it.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Was there a price for that?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yes, bemmed over What a kid, he's hopeless. Well, at
least I know rain when I see it. Yeah, never
mind that. Now, look, fellas, we have no more time
to discuss rain or daylight saving because, as I announced
last week, tonight we're going to do a very long play.
(05:30):
In fact, it's a musical comedy. A musical comedy. Yes, Phil,
if you show up for rehearsal, this wouldn't be such
a shock. Feel All those rehearsals bore me more than
the show. Oh that's too bad. Now, listen, fellas, we
gotta do something to make feel happy here. Now you're
talking shut opera'll fire anyhow. Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, the
(05:58):
Benny Light Opera Troupe will present, will present what we
consider a real master put. We're going to offer our
version of Walt disney sensational film and supreme achievement, Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs. Now, this will go on immediately.
(06:22):
Hey Jack, I didn't see that picture with the dwarf
a dwarf. Kenny is a jockey with a long beard.
Now in our version, the minning to be a dwarf, Jack,
you don but they'll have a laugh.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He couldn't be a dwarf in an elephant act.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Well, you'll be in it anyway, don Now. In our
musical comedy version, folk as none of us look like dwarf.
We are going to call our plays snow White and
the Seven Gangsters. Mary Livingston, who was scared to death
of these gangsters, will be snow White. Now, let's see
there's also a Prince Charming, Hey Jack, can I be
(07:03):
Prince Charming over my dead body? Let's see who else? Oh?
The witch? Where's that witch? I hired?
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Here? I am?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
She is?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
She gonna be my stepmother? Yes? And she's gonna give
you a poisoned apple, you stool pigeon. Quiet your old bat.
Now our cast is complete, They said, Oh, where's Andy here?
I am, But am I gonna see one of the dwarfs? No,
and you're gonna be a gangster, not a dwarf. Shut
(07:38):
And I went out and had my legs short and
leg short, And how'd you do that? I got him
to a cheap pair of pants and went on the rain.
Now the next one that says it rains in California,
I'm gonna hit him right over the head with my umbrella.
I remember, fellas, we're all gangster, and I'm gonna be
(08:03):
the roughest, toughest, meanest one of them all. Guess a
no good rat. See, wow, I'm as tough as any
of those movie gangsters, ain't I married? Yeah, you're a
regular Edward g Buttercup Row that's the same. I can
act uff, say, Jacker. We all have to be hard boiled,
of course, Don, and you ought to get into the mood. Okay,
(08:24):
I'll get this. Ladies and gentlemen, you've gotta rush down
to your nearest grocer and get a package of jello.
See it comes in sixty delicious flavors. See that's telling them,
Don Brawberry Raspberry cherry, orange, lemon and lime. See that's it.
I guess they see, don now, folks. I played with
bron immediately after Kenny Baker's song what are you gonna sing? Kenny?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
One song from a figure snow like one call, Okay, Kenny,
let's have it, okay.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
One fall that.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Has possessed me, one love surrailing me through one. Fore,
I M keep thinking.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Of one ally.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
For you with a spun.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I come to you.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I got to r the door, wet ceremony, that and
nothing more.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I have no look to play, no.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Keeping a par.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Just come to tell you how sweet to me?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
One?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
I have one.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
One one only.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
For you, one.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Tenderly be ever in three.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Constantly one line that is for destiny, one line screaringly
fo one my luckey team of one line only for you.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
One song.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
There was one song from snow White, sung by Kenny Baker,
and thanks Kenny, it was certainly apropos you said it. Son.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, for our musical comedy Snow
White and the Seven Gangsters, we will present this little
fairy tale in four acts and thirty nine themes. So
take off your shoes, folks. You gotta stay in tonight.
(11:56):
Here we go. The opening theme is the isolated farmhouse
Long Island, which is the hideout of the notorious Benny Gang.
As a curtain rises, Doc Benny is giving his boys
a pet talk Curtains Newsy. Now, listen, man, we got
(12:18):
a big job on for tonight, the biggest thing we've
tackled since we cracked them in. We're gonna stick up
the twelfth National Bank. Do you get that? I'll call
the rolls people all here, sleepy hull dog sneezy for show.
Doc unkite happy right here, Doc feeling firing, ready to go.
(12:42):
He wears he wears feather underwear.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Folks, Rumphy fight is paras fate, was gonna get caught
this time?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Oh you're too pessimistic, bash faux Oh shirt, Doc, you
know I'm here, Non, come on over here with the
rest of us. Oh you will, fine gangster. Now let's
see who else? Oh, yes, dopey, that's me, folks, And
you're a fine crook too. The way you waste your time,
(13:12):
what do you mean well, I thank you out to
pick pocket yesterday and you wasted two hours on Fred Allen.
Imagine picking Alan's pocket. What did you find there. Oh oh,
he buries his money, ain't and you bashful wants the
(13:33):
manor doc? I thank you. How to take a guy
for a ride and you went in separate car? Well, gee,
I didn't know him very well. That's a great excuse, Alison. Fellas,
you've been laying down on the job lately. I want
you all to be up on your toes tonight. There's
dog hunted a sleepy what's how are we going to
rob the bank tonight? About could cluck louby li like
(13:57):
you always are.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
I'm a faded at job. We should have get caught
and the sutive it us for twenty years.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Oh we will ay. How do you feel about him? Happy?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Gruphie's right.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
We won't go to things so you'll never come out.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
It'll be awful, certainly. Got a brave bunch of men here.
Scared of your own shadow. I'm not scared. I'm dopey.
You said it. I remember, man. We got a big
job on a night and we gotta get some money.
There's a payment doing our machine gun, so let's all
(14:31):
work together. As soon as our supply of dynamite gets here,
we'll go come in. He's a dynamite for Doc Benny
dine here. I wait a minute. Is this dynamite good
and strong? I think though I had two arms when
I started out?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Goodbye?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
All right, men, I listened carefully. We'll meet tonight at
exactly eleven o'clock in the alley right in the back
of the bank. Is that clear you, Jophie? You know
where we're gonna meet.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
If I forget, I'll ask a policeman.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
All right, but leave your girl home this time. I
remember fellas eleven o'clock in the alley behind the bank.
And then do you know where we go from there?
Where I hoe hi hoe to rob the bank? Will go?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I'll say, still go and breston heillo.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
High hi ho hi ho hi ho. Now, don't be late.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You know we gotta work christ and high ho hi
ho hi ho hi ho hi ho.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I'm sleepy, that I know, and I'm so shy. I'm
merely hurd. I oh, why don't you eat yello? Just
try a dish it sotily high.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Hole I oh high ho heigh ho to rob that
I will go.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I'll say, you'll go and brestor do fig hoh hoh
hoh high My home now don't you know he's gonna
work with a ball? The theme changes. We now take
(16:21):
you to the home of Miss snow White, who lives
on Park Avenue with her cruel stepmother, missus Agatha Witch.
Oh she's a mean by They get away Park Avenue? O?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Hell?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Who?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No, she can't talk to me, and don't be calling
up here anymore?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Good by yourself?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Who is that stepmother? That was your boyfriend, Prince Johnson
a friendship?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Now listen, snow.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I don't want you to go up with him anymore.
He's just after your monk. So are you well? I
saw you first.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Now don't you dare to leave this room?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You little black?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Isn't he awful? Folk?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Shut?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Oh? Why is my stepmother so cool to me? Is
he jealous of me for chance? Or is he jealous
of me? Good? Look I have it.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
He's just arrest.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Oh where is my Prince Charming? If you would just
come and take me away, I'd.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Be so happy.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
He'll be here, folks, that must be Prince Charming.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Now her friend giafriend, come in, ah, Prince Charming.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Holla, my robs.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
My little pick in here.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Oh Prince, I'm so glad you're here. My stepmother's getting
cooler every day.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
What's a little without those making hands?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Why only this.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Morning she tried to kill me.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
She gave me a poison apple for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Oh but the loulla, that is, if I wasn't a prince,
some gentlemen, I'm not cars from my cap and.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Dunk and another thing.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
He's takes you out a real prince.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
He says, you're bogus.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Bogus, that's my brother.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I'm Burghs. But you are a real prince, aren't you.
Certainly I got a coat of arms from a boat
in the bed.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Then I don't care what she says. I love you,
my prince, and I.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Love you too, my little honeychild, Come into my arms.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Oh, if you don't take me away from here, I'd
be so happy.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Don't worry, my little sweezie cake.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Someday I'll take you to my kessel and the Tescos
when some days all someday.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Day we'll go away, day so far away.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Who in the dream comes.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
To me.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Al this pH of.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
You and see I kiss the pool?
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Saw how many a tool?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Why you're not so hard away? Come? And that was
(19:39):
all I wasn't both Oh goodbye, darling. I have to go. Now,
where you going my fin?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I'm going to get her ride in the park, mat,
I'll see if my horse is outside.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I a whole silver fin. So so Prince Charming leave
the door opened, and then walks the wicked stepmother and says, no, White,
(20:09):
who was that in here? Singing? None's Kevin Well he's slipping.
I know it was that Prince Charming.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
And I told you never to see.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Him a day. But I love him, stepmother, and he's
so handsome and romantic. But I don't put a stop
to hip affair. You a little fool here, half a naffle.
Don't take it, snow White, it's poisoned. Stay out of the.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Shoe, Kevi turk.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
He's like stepmother, This alcle is poison It is not.
Then why is that worm waving a red flag?
Speaker 8 (20:39):
You see?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
I'll make you etiot come here?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
No White, No, no, I'll run away from home.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
That's what I'll do all run away from home.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Stop stop no, no, I'll never see you again.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Good By, step mother, good bye.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Worm, goodbye a little throw. White runs away from home,
and two days later we find her lost in a
dense forest somewhere in Long Island. Ah, here are in
(21:19):
the wood.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Look at the animals following me.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Oh see the pretty bird?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Hello bird?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Isn't that pretty canary is somewhat of a critic?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Gee? Maybe these animals just say to me, Look at
that little pussy cat with a bushy tail.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Come here, pussy, Oh min jake, get away. That was
a close one. Look at that little deer running after me.
Season's cute. Hello, dear, Hello, honey, fresh hee. I'm so
tired and hungry. Oh no, there is a farm house
over yonder.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Maybe I can get food and shelter there here I
come time house.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
All right, man, ready to rob the bank? I remember
this ain't no picnic. So everybody worked fast and be
on your guard. Say happy, where's the machine gun over
there on the stowing basket. That's great if you got
your bag filled? Grumpy yep, I.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Got a flashlight of chittnut, some dynamite of blue torch
in my night shirt.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Or we'll be home before morning. Hey, do we stop
showing that dynamite. You'll brow your brains out. So had
an he brings, I wouldn't be sure that. Well. We're
all set now Wait a minute, were sleepy hey, sleepy,
wake up for gee with bashful. What are you blushing about? Well,
(23:19):
we're a sleeping smile and he must be dreaming about
a girl. Now you stay out of his dreams. Anyway,
we can do without him. Now let's go, man, and
here's my final loose bruck. While we're robbing that bank.
There's one thing that's very important than for Heaven's sake,
(23:39):
don't with so while you were. Don't with so while
you were, or the cops will come. We'll have to run.
Be as quiet as a turk. You a quiet as
a mouth, but I couldn't make it rhyme. Now, come on,
boys and make no noise.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Heaven got much time.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I remember each of you.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
We know what we must do.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
You must be still. I know I will.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
On the couse your per.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Can. Why now, don't poor game? All right, man, we're
on our way. Let's go. Wait a minute, I get
(24:32):
the cops.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
The cops.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'm about to give us life this time.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Why I'll handle this. I mean, you know, everybody, my
name is snow White. Why it's a girl? A girl? Yes,
a girl? What do you want? Snow White? Yeah? I
thought this was a farmhouse, aren't you all farmer. No,
we're not farmers. We're bandits. Right now, we're going out
(24:59):
to rob a bank. Rob a bank. Oh, you mustn't
do that. Why not? It's naughty? Oh it is. Did
you hear that? Fellers, it's naughty. Co man. Tire up
and thrower in the cellar, throw me into crabberman.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Now wait a minute, cheap, she can't harm us, power.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Enough taking any chances. Tire up?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
But why do want you.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Nice boys want to rob a bank? Don't you want
to get into heaven? Yes, but we want to get
into the bank's perse. Now scram She's right, doc, let's
call the whole thing off.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I have in favor of it.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Yes, maybe I can get my old job back again,
your old job back?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
What did you do?
Speaker 8 (25:34):
I was a good human man in a tough neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Oh and I used to be an orchestra leader. That's
a why what were you dope?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I used to be a phrenologist?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
A phrenologist?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I don't know? That's far quick, fine bunch of gangsters
I've got. Now listen, snow White, you listen to me.
You're big, bad man. I'm gonna throw away. You're going
to stay right here.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
You're never gonna rob another back as long as you live.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
I'm will me.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
So how about you Dot nothing do him. This is
my racket and I'm gonna stick to it.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Now.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Come on, Docky Walkie, don't be a toffy w washee.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Oh, come on, Dot, don't be a betty waddy.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
All right, I'm a sappy waffy.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
But I'll do it.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Come in, snow bye.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'm so glad I've heard job and looking all.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Over for you, Tommy, I knew you, tom.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
My, little snow Ye, you'll go back down, but to
my test and little happily ever afterwards, that last, that
last day, we'll go. So Prince Charming married Little snow White,
(27:22):
and Dot Benny went back to his old job peddling
fish and walk Keegan playfell.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Right, blue skies, gain you fashions, new things to eat.
These are the signs of spring.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
And here's the perfect dessert to fit the mood, called
Springtime Delight, the pricious, gayest dish you tasted in ages
and real easy to make with fruit.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Rich strawberry jello and just one cup of fresh strawberries.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Dissolve a package of strawberry jello and hot water and chill,
and so slightly thicken, sweeten one cup of.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Sliced fresh strawberries with a quarter cup of sugar. Then
add the berries to the thick and jello turn into
a mold and chill and it couldn't be easier to make.
And it's swell and an inexpensive way to take advantage
of the fresh strawberries just coming into the market. And
wait till you taste it.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
The delicious, extra rich fruit flavor of strawberry jello combined.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
With the juicy sweetness of freshberries. It's a grand springtime dessert.
So try it soon. Just be sure to make it
with genuine jello. Ask your grocer for jello.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
This is the last number of the thirtieth program in
the New Jello series. And we'll be with you again
next Sunday night at the same time. And I hope
you all liked our musical comedy version of Walt Disney's
famous picture Snow White and the Seven Dwards. Oh yeah, yes, Mary,
you know we forgot to do one of the best
songs in the pictures. Which one is that?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
The working Well number?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
You know where you hear the echo? Oh yes, well
I'll tell you what. Let's do it now, Andy, you
get down on the well and do the echo. Okay,
headed boys, I'm wisky. I wish by the one along
to find me. Fight Mary, hand me that bucket the nightfall,
(29:15):
Thank the help.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Ah, there isn't a park about from Shotting. This isn't
a talking about from Shotting. This week Promadelle Rickley's.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Believe It or Our program, will I heard Tuesday night
instead of Saturday over most of these same faces.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Be sure to see your local papers for the new
time This naful broadcasting company
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