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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Gallery programs starring Jack Benny with Frank Black and
his at The officer opened the program with there's something
about the soldier. Yeah right, were there with your hotel.

(00:25):
I's the epos in the mine. Come here right here,
right well head here r with her. That was Mary
Livingston finishing the boy and he started last week. And
now I bring to you on messer of Ceremonies, Jack Benny.

(00:50):
Hello again, there's a Jack Benny, the arth caliper remember
who tell many a hour away? Throws events for the
courtsy of the past. Express you can count with the
simary post conical gazette Journal of Red good for our lives.
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Athens Greed.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Sam in Fell given five days to leave Greed. When
he asked him where he could go. The Greeks had
to work for US Paris plan France again. Elate President
has now run up on Cuba Huban President looks white
and threatens to even the core. The score is now
either New York, New York thermometer drops the four team

(01:35):
belongs here old with the Fabrican's new record here Union
Square in New York. Whether it's the call here The
Communists are now hitting each other with radiators New York,
New York, famous Green actor Clark gave him arrive here
from Hollywood during conspell twelve girls pretending with a pair
of their mouths. Far screen news Better God of a

(01:55):
also arrives here on shopping door and give his wholesale
order for a pair of hues. When asked about her
love affair with her director of Mamullian, he said no, no, no,
no no, but from the look on Mamullion's face, it
is yes, yes, yes, yes yes.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
However, that's not of our business.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
It is rumor that Frank Black will entertain these stars
run in New York and has fourst flocks preserved in
the automast ah wr creen news. Gimme Durandy, gimme Durandy.
Also heading ease, his nose is already here and Durandy
will arrive in the morning. More gonbo news Gonevo spends

(02:34):
vacation taking in all the Broadway shows. When interviewed set
he would like to see Katherine have burn in the lake.
When Halfwin was interviewed, said you'd like to see gobble
of the Hudson River. Jealousy, that's awful. Pardon me, Pardoney
Flash Park Avenue, New York, nine pm, three thousand kig

(02:54):
the loans out on price. They want the extradito. The
wives are giving their husband for car fair flat flocking,
wrong island that could be played. Ten pm, Man kill's
wife forbidding. Two no Trump without a fade or diamond
in our hands. Eleven pm. Man has acquitted and the
bridge game continues. Mud Is Connley, New Jersey plays brother

(03:19):
so called. Here the groundhog goes back in his hole,
followed by Mud All they can't take it a swamp jump,
plays of married snidings.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Then now yes married but jest flat remember new ya
go lives here with Anna knows when interview takes it
kills Now that's.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Local roots Flash NDC Studio, New York. A lawyers have
Rilla now standing on taw box addressing his Chevrolet audience,
and splices come to us from everywhere, but allders for
the new nineteen seventy four Chevrolet are literally pouring into
the factory. Clash crash. The lawyers have raw falls off
the bau box mesh. Play frat i I uh I

(04:04):
was playing black in his after playing the Euro being
throng hit without that certainty and now I don't say married.
I know that you brought a couple of suitcases up
to the studio tonight. See what's the idea? And I
say I can bring an y No, Mary, I'm not jealous.
But where are you going? Where am I going? I
did the three paste? If you in what right?

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Oh, I don't know. I to tell you if I
were you say black?

Speaker 2 (04:30):
If you were married and had a week off, where
would you go?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Uh mean, well, I don't know. I I like to
if your meat money carbo not the nice weekend? If
you had.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
You know you could make back to where would you go?

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Poking? Oh? I'd take a little job to rest, just
step as bage the audience, A little job a.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Little heights school India with the knights for the weekend.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
How about you have? Well?

Speaker 2 (04:52):
I mean, where would you go if you had.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
A week off? Oh? I take a little sails out
of the south Pool and see y'all as real perative
doing said, of course you stop at New Zealand and
then pick up a tall get hungry being on the
worker roll the certainly as coarse. And what would you
do after you got down to the south Pole? Well,
I like ice skating and honey or sure lad, And

(05:14):
then in between times you get introduced the knee action
wheels down there you know the room why there's nothing
down there but penguins. Well round money up? Any ways,
that where would you like to go for a week?

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh I haven't care particularly, you know any place I
hang my.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Hat at home for fifteen years?

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Oh you nasty individuals?

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Who? Okay?

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Who's that next to that way? Oh? I'm sorry, Mary,
it's sort of left you out of it. When I
give up, where are you going? And I'm going to
Glorid again? Or a court mary Ward down by the gulf.
See yeah, I said, well my dolt lucks listen. Yeah,
you're gonna left that out. So you're going to Parida?
I am I Oh, I know.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I didn't like that.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
When I get I say, tell me married and your
way down there? I mean, how you gonna stop a decrowner? No, Jack,
we don't go through Ohio, Oh we don't, you know? Uh,
they're just sitting down there. I've always wanted to just uh. Oh,
everybody knows the name of it. It's the what what
the city for? Well, it's the boy knows them little
so well?

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh yeup, Mary, I'm losing my temple.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
That's your temple temper Florida.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Oh, it's a labby close. Yeah, and if you go through,
Saint Peter's very good of it. A frank black Drillatis
by the way to marry. You know, I'm going to
wait too. Uh.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Tomorrow, I'm going to Cargo to.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Visit my fifteen so that trail will be on the
same plan together five months, y'all.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
M I'm be away in Canada.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Ouh findon I was calling him smack up side down.
I'll play and I want to get back to our program.
Remember both. Last week we had Opportunity Night in which
we try to find some new talent and the result
was this bactress. So having discovered nobody, tonight we are

(07:17):
going back to our usual dramatic plays with our own
all star cast, and we'll offer for your pleasure our
version of that great screen success Little Women. If you
all remember the board Charming Daughters Amy, Beth, Megan, Joe, Well,
our own Mary Livington will play the part of Joe.
I'll our Casteine Hepburns, while I Jack Denny will play

(07:38):
the part of a millionaire's son next door say Frank
as if you let me have a few dollars, I
want to get in.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
The atmosphere of his part, you know.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
And no, well, I'll have to do some acting that
I'm and as many as you know, as many of
you know this play Little Women was written by Louisa
m Altop over fifty years ago, which gave us plenty
of time to rehearse and get our scenery together.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes, and the night is the big Knight.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
So immediately after the next number, we're a'm going to
offer our version of this famous play, which we will
call many a Pure Women. And now little Frankie Parker
is going to entertain us. Will tell you in his
own inimitable ways, the name of the little song he's
going to sing. Go ahead, Frankie, it is Glee. I'm
gonna sing the touch of your Hands from a Brita
Parker is. It's the words right out of my mouth.

(08:22):
Way Frank, Oh, Frank Parker, and offer our drammatic rafferings
small Dame, I mean many ature women.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Mary, are you ready? Less all?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Do you feel?

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Katherine Hepprin is the TV thing? I'll stop my teamings
Toplada now, oh yeah, Okay, Oh, by the way, ladies
and gentlemen, This paved play will be presented in two acts.
The opening scene is in the home of missus little
Woman and her four daughters. Kay, it's Christmas Eve, eighteen
sixty four.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
I think I'll stand in the entrance and watch the
first scene.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Curtains music, Frank.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
H Christmas, beautiful Christmas teams again and I have so
much to be thankful for, for lovely daughter.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
No, what's more can a woman ask?

Speaker 2 (09:25):
I wouldn't ask for anymore?

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Sweet old ladies, three m and my daughters are super
home from school.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
M nice kids. But then again it might be nice school.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
You know you can't go. Uh you've ever come?

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Now, my little soul?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
You game and deep about again? That's a maid? Oh well,
oh oh well, nurse and amil Christmas?

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Will my children your mama I shifted on throught you
a nice Christmas present, say, and it ain't my mother,
but it's only the fack.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I just hope you all got a lot this moment.
The people these worlds were brought up in different parts
of New York, and the naturally affects their dialect.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
You know, Oh, my darling, it's Rother deal old mother
life deal.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
But if you really, children, I brought you a nice pair.
I think, have a good time, Mama, on, don't snitch.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Mother is seventy five years old living a rice skates.
Oh well it's the fat.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Oh thank you children, our hosty. He's the person in
the morning and buy some fruit.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I don't blame her heart as I get skates.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
You know, Oh, girls, Joe didn't still in the.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
View, No, Mama, I think she's out with a handkoop
riding poltry.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
That's poetry. Yeah, he founded to him cook.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Writing poetry, pity poetry, poetry, that's all. Don think if
he's not starting corky at all.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
I saw her else. He was going talking to that
when a time who lived next door our pace is?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
That's where I saw mama Talking's that.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Rich neighbor next door.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
She's a little block from Dallas.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
I'm afraid we missed fast this fame, Oh.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
That minute, I'm missing a fist always that has pleasant
and all that?

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Why have food were the start?

Speaker 3 (11:33):
The long timers always have?

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Not a fat? That the thing.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
All to matter?

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Mama, Why are you crying?

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Haven't nothing gay but going and look to something wrong?

Speaker 1 (11:46):
No, mother. What is it? I was just thinking I only.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Have four daughters and let her tell her up wi.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
You write a little credit for that?

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Mom? You know where's that man? Peace? But me in
all the time, I don't know? Daughter? Some hour and
along it's my son, sure because just making vice Chris,
go along with you, don't go for you off. I
feel anything to my siller.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
It's part of front and it's about time.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
You will go tomorrow Christmas.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
You know that, Mamma. Then day a phone, but now
soon here the nation a mother call me a name
in Linon but not me? Could not Mom.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
I hate to complain, but I'm.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Seeing it's awful badly?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
What the mar garning?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
I don't know, Mama. I just feel like I'm gonna start.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Ah your fool there?

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Why is it you all the happening? Six?

Speaker 3 (12:46):
You're a dead guy. I tuck out good So if
you makes a saxon, but there's a lot for God and.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Go up sairs a bed for a don't didle if
second ache our play.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Will be ruined.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
You did not did not Mama did not get good
night mother? Thee ice things from love the ice things
laid by Frank Black and his orchestra, and now for

(13:23):
the second scene of all play, and many of Joe willen.
The next scene takes place two nights later by the
old Elm play on the gut Geld State, where we
find Tom gut Gelt waiting for his sweethart Joe, with
whom he is madly in love. And the Chevrolet is
the only carnal pipe deal with in the action Wheels,
which has nothing to do with this play. I wonder

(13:49):
what's keeping Joe. The promised to meet me here by
the old Elm tree at eight of the clock. It's
after ten now, so while I'm waiting, I think I'll
go home.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
M Ah, yes, he comes now. I never have a
youngerwear out.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh well, Hello Tom, Hello Joel.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
How are you feeling fine?

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Tom? Never start that in my life. I tell my
first fem today and got sixty ten points. We got
your puem.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (14:19):
If that winter form your rod?

Speaker 1 (14:21):
If something tells something, I Joe, we're out here to
trot poetry. Let's stay here.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
About this old Elm tree.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Alright, Tom, love me? Uh huh?

Speaker 3 (14:31):
And here.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
How much udo h?

Speaker 2 (14:36):
I said, oodle?

Speaker 1 (14:41):
And you too?

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Hold that's not badly Times like these stay Joe. We've
known each other nine or fifteen years. We were brought
up together school day, sweetheart. We've always lived next jory.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
To each other. Hey, Tom, but do you know I
do it for another poems?

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Oh Joel fifteen years.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Fifteen years you help in together, rain and sign all
the time, and there on a salty weather And is
that good? Tom? I still love you, Joe. I listen
to me. For years, I've been buying your flowers, candy.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Presents, taking you at a theater.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Let's get married, Joe, and stop for all this the
camping palms its camping.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Oh, I do love you, Tom, But I'm a junior
and I have a career that I'm a stoveg work
hard for some day I'm going to York and I'll
be savors and maybe I'll come back to marry you.
I see.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
It might be bothering.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
There might be ten years, they might be twenty years,
it might be forty years.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Stop but always to Tom, and then I'll come back
to you if you still want me. I see, would
you want me at forty years? Tom? For forty years?

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Even our kay Ol won't want you?

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Oh Tom stiff hears for that all.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Always love you, and I always love you, and I
always like.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
To you, and I always wrote to you, and I
always think of you always.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
But Joel White here need this career. My father is
a millionaire.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
But I'll marry your father.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Alphant Joel, No Tom.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
The man I marry must be middle age hooligan, gmper time, musical.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
And above all economical.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh, I know you want Frank Black Black? Who's he?

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Oh he's another millionaire. That's only one man's opinion.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
So who's that?

Speaker 2 (16:23):
That's Frank Black? Now you go over there by the
old oak tree with your sister games.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Why well, the last time man I asked, will you
marry him? Nine? I have a few cup behind him,
Harry farther.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
No, Tom, I'm playing sad.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
I'm change. I think season my sister.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
He's a Frank Park.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Uh time uh huh used to do? Uh? You can't
just why come away? But you really un upon me
for never telling me come une. A lot of it
makes me the happiest plane of well w if I
need none about to learn un let's see who it is,

(17:34):
my Hi, she wouldn't have really got last where the
hose be done?

Speaker 4 (17:39):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Team going coming up to the lady. No, not miss
taf Ler, just a boy. You really should I put
a nice man so happy, you know, guys like a
school in lu.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
That's when I look to be on.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
I can see that the who s here, I know
I'm ending on more, can see rapping the lady. Yeah,
then give it a full promotion. I they look at
the alley. I know he like the news ratings pretty more.
In the lay the seed him my lord and gon
a drawer. Hear me pick up elly and the I

(18:18):
can see him think of the.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Understanding town on the place.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
See well, half was fine. I think everyone gave a
twelve bock and I woke. Let me introduce the cat pop,
play me and join me. Of course one o' fight
black Fank Copper and the long paper. I want to

(18:46):
do the lady who played a part of the Girl's
Mother and it's mad happen next million of these? It'll
break Joel while I at the there's something married h
until you know now you ever came?

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Sometimes not about it?

Speaker 1 (19:04):
And all the girls who played for three Sister say
something girls y have betwen quick systems. I said, I
going anyway, and you well, uh thiscause the last number

(19:49):
of the nineteenth program will be eleventh of February, and
you know what to be changed. After we were all
getting a quaited and the prey was going around so
nightly we find about half hour ago. Anyway, we'll be
do you again mixed unde.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Easy, na, I've got to go now my family to
her fall.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Oh certainly, well, goodbye here and I have a real
good time and come back soon. Just sick. I have
to leave town to get a kiss the night. Folks.
That's the win has come to U through the good
of you. But Shiverley Duba Company, world's largest user of automobiles,

(20:40):
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