August 18, 2025 • 19 mins
Today, we feature a segment from The Big Show on November 12, 1950.
Groucho Marx hosts a version of his classic game show You Bet Your Life with some unusual couples. First up is Baby Snooks (Fanny Brice) and Daddy (Hanley Stafford), then Tallulah Bankhead and Meredith Willson.
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Groucho Marx hosts a version of his classic game show You Bet Your Life with some unusual couples. First up is Baby Snooks (Fanny Brice) and Daddy (Hanley Stafford), then Tallulah Bankhead and Meredith Willson.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Old Time Radio snack Wagon is on its summer break.
We're tuning up the snack Wagon, ordering our ingredients and
preparing to serve you up a new match of old
time radio snacks in our fifth season. In the meantime,
enjoy the second helping of some of our best season
one episodes, and we'll be back with our new season
(00:23):
on Monday, September eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hey are you Adam Graham?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The very same? And this is my old Time Radio
snack Wagon.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio snack Wagon, where we
serve up a bite sized portion of old time radio.
And now here's your snack wagon host, Adam Graham.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio snack Wagon. Today's snack
is another listener request. One of my Patreon supporters, Steve,
has been hearing promos for The Big Show on many
NBC programs that we've been featuring on the great detectives
of All Time Radio and the amazing world of radio
from the early nineteen fifties, and would like to hear
(01:12):
something from it. We can do that. The Big Show
was part of NBC's response to CBS's Talent Raids, in
which top talent from NBC was lured away to CBS,
led most notably by Jack Benny. On CBS, Benny led
a powerful CBS Sunday lineup that NBC struggled to compete with.
(01:35):
The Big Show was NBC's counterprogramming to Benny. It represented
a revival of long form variety programs which had fallen
out of favor in the forties. It offered ninety minutes
of entertainment and each episode was chalk.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Full of stars.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The show was recorded in Hollywood some weeks and in
New York others to give this series access to the
full range of available medic, musical, and dramatic talent. The
show was hosted by legendary stage actress Tallula Bankhead. The
music arranged and the orchestra was conducted by Meredith Wilson,
(02:12):
who today is best remembered for writing the musical The
Music Man. Today's snack comes from the second episode of
the series. It features Graucho Marx parodying his own show,
You Bet Your Life. You Bet Your Life was the
best remembered quiz show from radio's golden age. It began
(02:33):
airing over radio in nineteen forty seven and continued on
television until nineteen sixty one. There have been several revivals
since the series left the air, the most recent being
with Jay Leno starting in twenty twenty one. On Today's program,
two of the contestants will be Baby Snooks and Daddy.
(02:54):
There's a lot that can be said about them, and
I hope to do an episode that focuses more specifically
on them in the future. For now, we can explain
briefly that Baby Snooks was a mischievous seven year old
girl played by fifty nine year old Fanny Bryce, with
Hannley Stafford playing her daddy. The character had begun in
(03:14):
vaudeville and gained prominence through appearances on two separate Maxwell
House programs before getting her own show in nineteen forty four,
which was airing on NBC at the time that this
sketch was recorded. With that said, from November twelfth, nineteen
fifty here is Groucho Marx with You Bet Your Life,
(03:38):
Big Show Edition, You Bet.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Your Life, starring Radio's funny as Quiz Bastard. And here
he is the one and only they used to be
poor Groucho Marc.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Well, here we are ready to play You Bet Your Life,
and here's your announcer to explain the rules of the game. Well, folks,
it's very simple, simple. I've been doing it for four years.
I still don't understand it. Each couple in our contest
gets twenty dollars. Some deal unemployment insurance gives you twenty
six dollars.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Each couple can bet as much of the twenty dollars
as they like, and the amount bet is added on
to the original twenty dollars, And they can bet as
much of that as they like, which is again added
consecutively to the original amounts, which.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Have been very each time.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Depending on the amount you have better have not bet before.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
The Einstein theory is relatively easy. And here's that first couple.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Groucho A father and daughter, mister Higgins and Baby Snooks.
Meet Groucho Mark.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Well, hello, little girl. Your name is Baby Snooks. Yes,
are you a good little girl?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yes? Sir?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
And this is your father, yes, sir. Hello, Hello, mister Higgins.
I want to welcome you. Do you bet your life?
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Wait a minute, mister wass my money?
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Money? What money?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I answered to beat questions and you didn't pay me
any money yet.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Isn't she cute? Why don't you shut up? Hid him?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Daddy snooks. Stop that.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I'm sorry, mister Mark. She doesn't understand the rules of
the game, and she's smarter than I thought you would.
Now tell me how long have you two been married?
M We ain't y.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You ain't no.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Eat my daddy, we ain't even engaged.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Mister Higgins, you mean this is your daughter? Yes, and
you're still speaking to your wife was now just at
dawn minutes?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You can't talk that way about my daughter.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Why not? I've got a daughter myself. Well, I really
shouldn't say I got to myself. I had a little help.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, we can't ignore our wives, can we.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
No, But I have no respec for a man who
doesn't try.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Daddy, what and down? I kind of whisper something?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
All right?
Speaker 7 (06:09):
What?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Why couldn't you think of That's when we were still
in the hall. I wasn't fasty.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
This child will obviously grow up to be another Tulula banker.
In fact, there's children like this that's giving marriage your
bad name.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
I'll go on him, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Please, Higgins, I wish you'd give you a child. But
how well, the best place to be out in the street, Well,
let's dash your head and I'd like to dash hers
if I thought I could get away with him anyway.
We're ready to play you a bet your life. Mister
Einstein has explained the rules to you, and I see
you have chosen presidents of the United States? Is your category?
(06:56):
How much of the twenty dollars will you bet on?
Your first question? Okay, a penny?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh snokes, No, we have twenty dollars to bet. We're
not going to bet a penny. Let's spend the whole
twenty twenty. Are you talking about dollars? I'm not talking
since you surely?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Oh I, then let's really big bag. Let's bet thirty gallats.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Pluck little girl, and I use the word loosely. You
only have twenty dollars? Or how can you bet thirty less?
Of course you expect to do it on credit, and frankly,
you don't look too honest. You've got a fairly ugly
little kisser. Just a minute, I resent that, Do you
deny it?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
No? I just resented it.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
And let's get back to where we are, which is
about as boring a place as I can think of. Now,
how can you bet thirty when you've only got twenty?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:55):
My daddy's got some money, haven't you, Dad, No, I
haven't saw you take fifty dollars out of mamma's slacks
this morning. And I'm going to tell mommy that.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
All right, all right, I will if she wants to
bet thirty, I'll put up the other ten. You mean
you'll pay me ten dollars of your own if she
doesn't know the answer to the question. Yes, that's a
pretty unbelievable thing to have happened. Then so was your daughter. Well, anyway,
(08:29):
here's the question for thirty dollars. What is the name
of the second president of the United States the seconds? Yes,
and I'll give you a hint. His first name was George.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
I know, George Washington.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
I'm sorry it's John Adams.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
But you told her the first name was George.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I'm sorry I was wrong. Now you owe me ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I won't pay it.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
All right, Then I'm gonna tell my me that you
took all that money. All right, all.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Right, here's the ten dollars.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
You know, this is the first time I've understood this program.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Come on, looks, let's get out of here.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
No, we won't, Daddy, I'm mad at him, and I
want to win his money. Or say I hate him?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Do you hate me? Please don't say that. It's a
set rule on radio that all quiz masters must be
known as lovable. I'll tell you what if I like you?
Do you like me?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Well?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
All right, fine, now we like each other, right right?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Let you know something.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
I like you better when I hated you.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Well, I don't really care if people hate me as
long as they think I'm lovable. Now where were we?
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Well, we want to bet you some more money. My
daddy's still got forty dollars left. Smokes, no, but I
saw you taking out a mommy's pocket.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Your mommy sounds like she's got a great pocket. Wouldn't
mind reaching in there myself sometimes? Please, mister Marks, you
should have a little respect for my wife.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I do.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
I have very little respect for her, particularly since I've
gotten a load of you too. Now let's proceed, all right.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
I want to ask you a question, and we'll bet
forty dollars books.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Oh you're going to ask me a question?
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Yes I am, and I'll bet you forty dollars.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Little does you know that I have her in my power,
for I am the master of the quiz, and soon
I shall have all her money.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Are you ready for the question, mister okay, all right,
please pronounce the word t o.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
T O two. Right, This is like taking money from
a baby.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Now pronounced t.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
W O two.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Now pronounce the second day of the week.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Second day of the week. Just a moment. This is
the one with the catch in it. She wants me
to say Tuesday, but the correct way to say it
is Tuesday. But I'm sure she always says tuesday. So
if I say tuesday, she'd say I'm wrong because it's Tuesday.
So I'll say tu wrong, Tuesday wrong. Wait, wait, wait
(11:20):
a minute, I say tuesday long again.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
The second day of the week. It's Monday. Take the money, daddy.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Oh routo.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Our last contestants are an actress and an orchestra leader,
Mister Lula Bankhead and mister Meredith Wilson.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Meet Raucho, Mark.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Welcome to you a bet your life an actress, Miss
t Lula Bankhead. That's a that's a rather unusual name,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
It's one to Lulula Bankhead.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I mean the miss an attractive guy like you not married.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I am married to the filter.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Well, congratulations. May all your dressing rooms be little ones.
With running water, preferably. That's an Indian I used to know.
Are you? Are you? Are you a movie actress?
Speaker 8 (12:15):
I'm an actress of the legitimate theater, the theater of
Helen Hayes, Lynn Fontan, Katherine Cornell.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Well, we have a few great actresses in the movies too,
Livia the Havlin, Grea Garson and tell me when have
you seen as great an actress as Betty Davis? And
all about eves.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Every morning when I brush my teeth.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
What I started to ask you was what play were
you ever in?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
What play?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Why?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I have been in?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
That is?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Begay, The Little Foxes, The Green Hat, Her Cardboard Lover,
Lady of the Camellias, Reign, Private Lives.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Pretty long title of a play. Wonder it closed? Tell me,
miss Bankeett, while you're out here in Hollywood, why don't
you try going into the movies.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I have been in movies. I made a picture Life
Vote Life.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Vote with Raft.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I'm your guest. I love for LUSA.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Mister Wilson, let me get to you. You're an orchestra leader.
Just what instrument couldn't you master that made you become
an orchestra leader?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well, most all of them.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
I guess, well, where did you start your career as
an orchestra leader?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Well, I started out originally in a little town in Iowa,
Mason City, Iowa.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
To be exact, well, a lot of.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Great orchestra leaders started out in small towns. There was
Abe Lyman of Illinois, later became president. I hear that
must have been before Patrolo. Everything has been before Patrolo. Yes,
I guess so, Miss Bankare. Let's get back to that
Broadway play, the one with the long title that.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Was not one play.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Those plays represent my career in the theater, Great plays
by great playwrights who were gracious enough to make me
the star that work and to whom I toured this
country over acclaimed by the critics, tended by the public
and every town and had to pack the theater to
the rough. This is my performances except Sapupla Oklahoma.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
I had a slightly a novel pronunciation. What happened to
Miss Bankhead?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Betta Davis?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Oh tell me, Miss Bankhead, do you think I could
be an actor in the theater?
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Anyone can become an actor, I suppose, but would be
great for on Miss suffer. I had to wrestle with
every part I master. I've had to wrestle with every
most well known to man.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Is there any method by which you can learn this
acting profession?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Well, I use the Stanislavsky method. Stanislavsky A constant time, Stanislavsky.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Oh yes, good wrestler, that's Stanislavsky. How about you and
me doing a little wrestling, I mean a little scene
from something and see if I have any acting talents?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Well, what do you know?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Oh? Not much? What are you?
Speaker 8 (15:01):
What I mean is are you familiar with the lion
from any great plays?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Just some of the actresses? No, well, I know, I know.
Come up and see me sometimes.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Oh no, dear, Well, will improvise? I do this quite often.
It's great training.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
When I was set the scene in the drawing room
in London, Penelope the wife was telling Cyril, the husband,
that she has fallen out of love with him and
is leaving him for someone else.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
English drawing room, drumb Are you ready, quait Cyril?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You remember when.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
We first decided to get married, we said that should
be one of us tired the other that will tell
the other.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Quait Cyril.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
I'm telling you now, I'm tired quite I'm leaving you quite.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
This is the quietest part I ever had, Cyril.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
I have found happiness elsewhere, But you, my pet, What
will become of you?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Oh, don't worry about me, old girl. I shall probably
end at all by leaping into the Thames River.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Oh, mister Mark, it's pronounced terms with.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
That's what the stomach is.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Now, I shall leap into the Thames River.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Look, you jump in the river you like, and I'll
jump in the one aisle. Well, I'll have it this
one night.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Stuff.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Let's play your bet your life, Wilson. You can wake
up now.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
I started out in Mason City, Iowa, and I was
all ready to play your bet your life. And I
see you've chosen face names the famous movie stars. I'll
give you the last name. You supply the face name. Now,
how much are you going to bet on the face question?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
We'll bet the whole twenty Okayvens bank it press on metag.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Are you referring to his pants? Okay, for twenty dollars.
What's his face name? His last name is Rain Claude, right,
claud Rains.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Exactly what I was going to say. I bet you
took the word right out of my mouth.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Okay, you now have forty dollars. How much will you bet?
Forty for forty dollars? Our last name was Palma Lily.
That's right, that's right, Leey Palmer.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Exactly what I was going to say, as sweet you
see you beat me, took, I just did.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
And how much will you bet? Now you have eighty dollars?
I bet you eighty dollars? All right, for eighty dollars.
His last name is Cliff Montgomery, correct Montgomery, Cliff. You
now have one hundred and sixty dollars.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I was about to say that, mister Wilson, you're too
quick for me.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
All right, you take the next one. Let's bet the
whole thing, all right, well, all.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Right, now for three hundred and twenty dollars. The movie
actor whose last name is Stuart what's his face name?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I know, James.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
I'm sorry you lose its Thames, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well. I have to say that I wish they'd found
a way to work the secret word, which is probably
one of you bet your life's most recognizable features. And
that said, I think this was definitely humorous, and the
interesting matchup between Marks and Baby Snucks is quite something
(18:03):
to hear. The Big Show would air for two seasons
and produce more than fifty episodes, all of which are
with us in at least partial form. The nice thing
about The Big Show is that while each episode represents
a massive chunk of time, there are so many ways
to slice off truly interesting pieces and offer them up
(18:25):
as old time radio snacks. Next week we'll be serving
another snack from The Big Show, and I doubt that
will be our last visit to this remarkable, star studded series.
It's time for me to close up the Old Snackwagon,
but don't worry. We'll be back with another serving of
old time radio goodness before you know it. If you
want to enjoy some of our longer form podcasts, you
(18:47):
can feast away at my website at Great Detectives dot net.
Your emails are also welcome at Adam at snackwagon dot net.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
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Your host is Adam Graham. Sound production is by Ryn's
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(19:17):
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been the old time radio Snackwagon.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Until next time. Goodbye,
The Old Time Radio snack Wagon is on its summer break.
We're tuning up the snack Wagon, ordering our ingredients and
preparing to serve you up a new match of old
time radio snacks in our fifth season. In the meantime,
enjoy the second helping of some of our best season
one episodes, and we'll be back with our new season
(00:23):
on Monday, September eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hey are you Adam Graham?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The very same? And this is my old Time Radio
snack Wagon.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio snack Wagon, where we
serve up a bite sized portion of old time radio.
And now here's your snack wagon host, Adam Graham.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio snack Wagon. Today's snack
is another listener request. One of my Patreon supporters, Steve,
has been hearing promos for The Big Show on many
NBC programs that we've been featuring on the great detectives
of All Time Radio and the amazing world of radio
from the early nineteen fifties, and would like to hear
(01:12):
something from it. We can do that. The Big Show
was part of NBC's response to CBS's Talent Raids, in
which top talent from NBC was lured away to CBS,
led most notably by Jack Benny. On CBS, Benny led
a powerful CBS Sunday lineup that NBC struggled to compete with.
(01:35):
The Big Show was NBC's counterprogramming to Benny. It represented
a revival of long form variety programs which had fallen
out of favor in the forties. It offered ninety minutes
of entertainment and each episode was chalk.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Full of stars.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The show was recorded in Hollywood some weeks and in
New York others to give this series access to the
full range of available medic, musical, and dramatic talent. The
show was hosted by legendary stage actress Tallula Bankhead. The
music arranged and the orchestra was conducted by Meredith Wilson,
(02:12):
who today is best remembered for writing the musical The
Music Man. Today's snack comes from the second episode of
the series. It features Graucho Marx parodying his own show,
You Bet Your Life. You Bet Your Life was the
best remembered quiz show from radio's golden age. It began
(02:33):
airing over radio in nineteen forty seven and continued on
television until nineteen sixty one. There have been several revivals
since the series left the air, the most recent being
with Jay Leno starting in twenty twenty one. On Today's program,
two of the contestants will be Baby Snooks and Daddy.
(02:54):
There's a lot that can be said about them, and
I hope to do an episode that focuses more specifically
on them in the future. For now, we can explain
briefly that Baby Snooks was a mischievous seven year old
girl played by fifty nine year old Fanny Bryce, with
Hannley Stafford playing her daddy. The character had begun in
(03:14):
vaudeville and gained prominence through appearances on two separate Maxwell
House programs before getting her own show in nineteen forty four,
which was airing on NBC at the time that this
sketch was recorded. With that said, from November twelfth, nineteen
fifty here is Groucho Marx with You Bet Your Life,
(03:38):
Big Show Edition, You Bet.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Your Life, starring Radio's funny as Quiz Bastard. And here
he is the one and only they used to be
poor Groucho Marc.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Well, here we are ready to play You Bet Your Life,
and here's your announcer to explain the rules of the game. Well, folks,
it's very simple, simple. I've been doing it for four years.
I still don't understand it. Each couple in our contest
gets twenty dollars. Some deal unemployment insurance gives you twenty
six dollars.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Each couple can bet as much of the twenty dollars
as they like, and the amount bet is added on
to the original twenty dollars, And they can bet as
much of that as they like, which is again added
consecutively to the original amounts, which.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Have been very each time.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Depending on the amount you have better have not bet before.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
The Einstein theory is relatively easy. And here's that first couple.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Groucho A father and daughter, mister Higgins and Baby Snooks.
Meet Groucho Mark.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Well, hello, little girl. Your name is Baby Snooks. Yes,
are you a good little girl?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yes? Sir?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
And this is your father, yes, sir. Hello, Hello, mister Higgins.
I want to welcome you. Do you bet your life?
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Wait a minute, mister wass my money?
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Money? What money?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I answered to beat questions and you didn't pay me
any money yet.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Isn't she cute? Why don't you shut up? Hid him?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Daddy snooks. Stop that.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I'm sorry, mister Mark. She doesn't understand the rules of
the game, and she's smarter than I thought you would.
Now tell me how long have you two been married?
M We ain't y.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You ain't no.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Eat my daddy, we ain't even engaged.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Mister Higgins, you mean this is your daughter? Yes, and
you're still speaking to your wife was now just at
dawn minutes?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You can't talk that way about my daughter.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Why not? I've got a daughter myself. Well, I really
shouldn't say I got to myself. I had a little help.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, we can't ignore our wives, can we.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
No, But I have no respec for a man who
doesn't try.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Daddy, what and down? I kind of whisper something?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
All right?
Speaker 7 (06:09):
What?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Why couldn't you think of That's when we were still
in the hall. I wasn't fasty.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
This child will obviously grow up to be another Tulula banker.
In fact, there's children like this that's giving marriage your
bad name.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
I'll go on him, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Please, Higgins, I wish you'd give you a child. But
how well, the best place to be out in the street, Well,
let's dash your head and I'd like to dash hers
if I thought I could get away with him anyway.
We're ready to play you a bet your life. Mister
Einstein has explained the rules to you, and I see
you have chosen presidents of the United States? Is your category?
(06:56):
How much of the twenty dollars will you bet on?
Your first question? Okay, a penny?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh snokes, No, we have twenty dollars to bet. We're
not going to bet a penny. Let's spend the whole
twenty twenty. Are you talking about dollars? I'm not talking
since you surely?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Oh I, then let's really big bag. Let's bet thirty gallats.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Pluck little girl, and I use the word loosely. You
only have twenty dollars? Or how can you bet thirty less?
Of course you expect to do it on credit, and frankly,
you don't look too honest. You've got a fairly ugly
little kisser. Just a minute, I resent that, Do you
deny it?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
No? I just resented it.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
And let's get back to where we are, which is
about as boring a place as I can think of. Now,
how can you bet thirty when you've only got twenty?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:55):
My daddy's got some money, haven't you, Dad, No, I
haven't saw you take fifty dollars out of mamma's slacks
this morning. And I'm going to tell mommy that.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
All right, all right, I will if she wants to
bet thirty, I'll put up the other ten. You mean
you'll pay me ten dollars of your own if she
doesn't know the answer to the question. Yes, that's a
pretty unbelievable thing to have happened. Then so was your daughter. Well, anyway,
(08:29):
here's the question for thirty dollars. What is the name
of the second president of the United States the seconds? Yes,
and I'll give you a hint. His first name was George.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
I know, George Washington.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
I'm sorry it's John Adams.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
But you told her the first name was George.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I'm sorry I was wrong. Now you owe me ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I won't pay it.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
All right, Then I'm gonna tell my me that you
took all that money. All right, all.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Right, here's the ten dollars.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
You know, this is the first time I've understood this program.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Come on, looks, let's get out of here.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
No, we won't, Daddy, I'm mad at him, and I
want to win his money. Or say I hate him?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Do you hate me? Please don't say that. It's a
set rule on radio that all quiz masters must be
known as lovable. I'll tell you what if I like you?
Do you like me?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Well?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
All right, fine, now we like each other, right right?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Let you know something.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
I like you better when I hated you.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Well, I don't really care if people hate me as
long as they think I'm lovable. Now where were we?
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Well, we want to bet you some more money. My
daddy's still got forty dollars left. Smokes, no, but I
saw you taking out a mommy's pocket.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Your mommy sounds like she's got a great pocket. Wouldn't
mind reaching in there myself sometimes? Please, mister Marks, you
should have a little respect for my wife.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I do.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
I have very little respect for her, particularly since I've
gotten a load of you too. Now let's proceed, all right.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
I want to ask you a question, and we'll bet
forty dollars books.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Oh you're going to ask me a question?
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Yes I am, and I'll bet you forty dollars.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Little does you know that I have her in my power,
for I am the master of the quiz, and soon
I shall have all her money.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Are you ready for the question, mister okay, all right,
please pronounce the word t o.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
T O two. Right, This is like taking money from
a baby.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Now pronounced t.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
W O two.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Now pronounce the second day of the week.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Second day of the week. Just a moment. This is
the one with the catch in it. She wants me
to say Tuesday, but the correct way to say it
is Tuesday. But I'm sure she always says tuesday. So
if I say tuesday, she'd say I'm wrong because it's Tuesday.
So I'll say tu wrong, Tuesday wrong. Wait, wait, wait
(11:20):
a minute, I say tuesday long again.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
The second day of the week. It's Monday. Take the money, daddy.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Oh routo.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Our last contestants are an actress and an orchestra leader,
Mister Lula Bankhead and mister Meredith Wilson.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Meet Raucho, Mark.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Welcome to you a bet your life an actress, Miss
t Lula Bankhead. That's a that's a rather unusual name,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
It's one to Lulula Bankhead.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I mean the miss an attractive guy like you not married.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I am married to the filter.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Well, congratulations. May all your dressing rooms be little ones.
With running water, preferably. That's an Indian I used to know.
Are you? Are you? Are you a movie actress?
Speaker 8 (12:15):
I'm an actress of the legitimate theater, the theater of
Helen Hayes, Lynn Fontan, Katherine Cornell.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Well, we have a few great actresses in the movies too,
Livia the Havlin, Grea Garson and tell me when have
you seen as great an actress as Betty Davis? And
all about eves.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Every morning when I brush my teeth.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
What I started to ask you was what play were
you ever in?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
What play?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Why?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I have been in?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
That is?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Begay, The Little Foxes, The Green Hat, Her Cardboard Lover,
Lady of the Camellias, Reign, Private Lives.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Pretty long title of a play. Wonder it closed? Tell me,
miss Bankeett, while you're out here in Hollywood, why don't
you try going into the movies.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I have been in movies. I made a picture Life
Vote Life.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Vote with Raft.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I'm your guest. I love for LUSA.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Mister Wilson, let me get to you. You're an orchestra leader.
Just what instrument couldn't you master that made you become
an orchestra leader?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well, most all of them.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
I guess, well, where did you start your career as
an orchestra leader?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Well, I started out originally in a little town in Iowa,
Mason City, Iowa.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
To be exact, well, a lot of.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Great orchestra leaders started out in small towns. There was
Abe Lyman of Illinois, later became president. I hear that
must have been before Patrolo. Everything has been before Patrolo. Yes,
I guess so, Miss Bankare. Let's get back to that
Broadway play, the one with the long title that.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Was not one play.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Those plays represent my career in the theater, Great plays
by great playwrights who were gracious enough to make me
the star that work and to whom I toured this
country over acclaimed by the critics, tended by the public
and every town and had to pack the theater to
the rough. This is my performances except Sapupla Oklahoma.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
I had a slightly a novel pronunciation. What happened to
Miss Bankhead?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Betta Davis?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Oh tell me, Miss Bankhead, do you think I could
be an actor in the theater?
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Anyone can become an actor, I suppose, but would be
great for on Miss suffer. I had to wrestle with
every part I master. I've had to wrestle with every
most well known to man.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Is there any method by which you can learn this
acting profession?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Well, I use the Stanislavsky method. Stanislavsky A constant time, Stanislavsky.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Oh yes, good wrestler, that's Stanislavsky. How about you and
me doing a little wrestling, I mean a little scene
from something and see if I have any acting talents?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Well, what do you know?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Oh? Not much? What are you?
Speaker 8 (15:01):
What I mean is are you familiar with the lion
from any great plays?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Just some of the actresses? No, well, I know, I know.
Come up and see me sometimes.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Oh no, dear, Well, will improvise? I do this quite often.
It's great training.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
When I was set the scene in the drawing room
in London, Penelope the wife was telling Cyril, the husband,
that she has fallen out of love with him and
is leaving him for someone else.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
English drawing room, drumb Are you ready, quait Cyril?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You remember when.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
We first decided to get married, we said that should
be one of us tired the other that will tell
the other.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Quait Cyril.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
I'm telling you now, I'm tired quite I'm leaving you quite.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
This is the quietest part I ever had, Cyril.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
I have found happiness elsewhere, But you, my pet, What
will become of you?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Oh, don't worry about me, old girl. I shall probably
end at all by leaping into the Thames River.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Oh, mister Mark, it's pronounced terms with.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
That's what the stomach is.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Now, I shall leap into the Thames River.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Look, you jump in the river you like, and I'll
jump in the one aisle. Well, I'll have it this
one night.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Stuff.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Let's play your bet your life, Wilson. You can wake
up now.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
I started out in Mason City, Iowa, and I was
all ready to play your bet your life. And I
see you've chosen face names the famous movie stars. I'll
give you the last name. You supply the face name. Now,
how much are you going to bet on the face question?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
We'll bet the whole twenty Okayvens bank it press on metag.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Are you referring to his pants? Okay, for twenty dollars.
What's his face name? His last name is Rain Claude, right,
claud Rains.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Exactly what I was going to say. I bet you
took the word right out of my mouth.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Okay, you now have forty dollars. How much will you bet?
Forty for forty dollars? Our last name was Palma Lily.
That's right, that's right, Leey Palmer.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Exactly what I was going to say, as sweet you
see you beat me, took, I just did.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
And how much will you bet? Now you have eighty dollars?
I bet you eighty dollars? All right, for eighty dollars.
His last name is Cliff Montgomery, correct Montgomery, Cliff. You
now have one hundred and sixty dollars.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I was about to say that, mister Wilson, you're too
quick for me.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
All right, you take the next one. Let's bet the
whole thing, all right, well, all.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Right, now for three hundred and twenty dollars. The movie
actor whose last name is Stuart what's his face name?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I know, James.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
I'm sorry you lose its Thames, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well. I have to say that I wish they'd found
a way to work the secret word, which is probably
one of you bet your life's most recognizable features. And
that said, I think this was definitely humorous, and the
interesting matchup between Marks and Baby Snucks is quite something
(18:03):
to hear. The Big Show would air for two seasons
and produce more than fifty episodes, all of which are
with us in at least partial form. The nice thing
about The Big Show is that while each episode represents
a massive chunk of time, there are so many ways
to slice off truly interesting pieces and offer them up
(18:25):
as old time radio snacks. Next week we'll be serving
another snack from The Big Show, and I doubt that
will be our last visit to this remarkable, star studded series.
It's time for me to close up the Old Snackwagon,
but don't worry. We'll be back with another serving of
old time radio goodness before you know it. If you
want to enjoy some of our longer form podcasts, you
(18:47):
can feast away at my website at Great Detectives dot net.
Your emails are also welcome at Adam at snackwagon dot net.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
The Old Time Radio snack Wagon comes to you from Idaho.
Your host is Adam Graham. Sound production is by Ryn's
Media LLC. You can listen to past episodes of the
Old Time Radio Snackwagon, as well as connect on social
media at our website at Snackwagon dot net. Email suggestions
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Speaker 1 (19:35):
Until next time. Goodbye,
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