August 29, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom following the life of a witty high school English teacher and her students, balancing educational chaos with clever humor. It’s beloved for its sharp writing and charm.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Darring Eve Arden. It's time once again for another comedy
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episode of Our Miss Brooks, written by al lewis Well.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Most of us have.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Our good days and our bad days, and our Miss Brooks,
who teaches English at Madison High School, is no exception
to this rule.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
They say there are days when it doesn't pay you
to get out of bed. Well, last Friday, when my
rent was due, was just such a day for my Landlady,
Missus Davis. I brought the subject up as soon as
we had started to eat breakfast. I'm terribly sorry, Missus Davis,
but I'm afraid I have some bad.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
News for you. It's about the rent.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
You mean last month's ring you haven't got it yet.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I mean this month's rand. I haven't got it again.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Square, don't worry about it here. How does that old
joke go again? There's no sense in both of us worrying.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
What I'm laughing about it. I'm broker than you are,
maybe so, Missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
But you don't owe you as much as I do.
But all hope isn't lost though. I found out this
week that I still have a chance to become head
of Madison's English Department.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Really.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
In fact, I'm supposed to have a meeting with mister
Stone of the Board of Education this morning where Connie
in the office of our beloved principle, mister Conklin.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I see, do you think mister Conklin will put in
a word for you?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
That's why I want to get there early.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I think I know the word, actually, though I'm not
too worried about mister Conklin's attitude toward my teaching ability.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Is it up to mister Stone to make the recommendation
for Madison's new headed the English Department.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yes, it is, and I understand that he won't recommend
any promotions without a personal interview. That's why I asked
Walter Denton to pick me up a little earlier this morning.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
He'll be here, Connie, and I know you'll get the position.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I hope so, missus Davis. You see, it isn't just
the honor involved. It's for cash. The promotion carries a
raise with it. Just think I'll be able to pay
you back the rent. I oh, buy some new clothes,
do my Christmas shopping, pick up a new winter coat,
maybe even put a down payment on a car.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Oh, that's wonderful, Connie. How much of the raise goes
with this job?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Two dollars a month, or maybe it's two dollars a week.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
To think of it, I might have to wait awhile
for the car.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Well, I'm very excited for you, Connie. I only wish
we could celebrate with a little more luxurious breakfast. Toast
and marmalade. Isn't very dealer. Oh, I don't know, not
much of that. I'm sorry to say. I tried to
call the market this morning, but our party line was
in use. In fact, it's almost always in you. Yes,
I know every woman named Grayson. She's always talking to
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a friend of her name, Bertha. It's so frustrating sometimes
when you want to make a call and every time
you pick up the phone someone's talking.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I know.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
They were talking about were than any importance. They just
go on and on and on and Miss Davis, you
think they get the idea though, after hearing my receiver
click computer.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Missus David, I'm no.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
They just go on chattering about nothing. Yack day, yucky day, yukita. Honestly,
sometimes I could missus.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
David, Yes, Sonny, if I the five cents for another
three minutes.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I'm sorry, dear, Yes, I got carried away. Get some
more coffee.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Thanks, I will, here's my cup. I wonder what's keeping
Walter Danzon my interview with mister Stones at nine sharp?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Really it isn't he thirty y's Connie, But if it'll
make you feel any better, why don't you give Walter.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
A ring good idea. Excuse me, believe me, Bertha.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
I'm not petty, but when Elsie pulled that stuff on
me about the tickets, I just had to open up
my yef and let her have it.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
It's the party line again, wouldn't you know it?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Just when I have to make a quick call, I'll
count ten and try again, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Eleven, twelve, even fifteen dollars? W all right.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
With that?
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Twenty bucks a couple, maloney, Oh this is awful.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Now take it easy, Connie. I'm sure Walter will get
you to school in plenty of time for your appointments.
Now I'm going to wash the dishes here. Why don't
you put your hat and coat on and be all
ready to leave?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
All right, Missus Davis. But first I'm going to try
this phone once more.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I told her, Bertha, listen, Elsie, I said, it isn't
my death, and I don't want.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
To do our full share.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
I said, we know this is a benefit of performance
and that it's.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
A good cause.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
But we weren't born yesterday.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I told that one, two, three, four.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I can't understand why Walter Denton isn't here yet, Connie.
It's almost ten minutes to nine. Too late to take
a bus.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It was too late to take the bus half an
hour ago. I'd take a cab if I had the money,
or if you had the money, have you, Missus Davis,
don't bother answering. I can tell by your face because
it only takes ten minutes to drive the school the
way Walter drives. But if he doesn't show up within
a minute or two, I'd better call mister Conkloran and
tell him I'll be a little late.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Then, when I'm all ready to forgive and forget, Bertha,
what do you think Elsie has the nerve to say
to me?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Will you please stop talking for just a minute.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Exactly, Bertha talking just a minute, she says, Will you.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Enter the front door, Tommie, I'm stacking the tea, all.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Right, missus Davis, hang on a minute.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Way of first, I think I hear my doorbell ringing.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
It's not your doorbell at ringing, it's oh, what's the use? Well,
it's about time. Oh it's Harriet Conklin. Come in, Harriet.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Thanks, miss Brooks. But what are you doing at home?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Miss Brooks?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
You should be on your way to school by now, sure,
should you, Harriet?
Speaker 8 (06:33):
I know it, But Daddy left the house early this
morning and asked me to be sure and see that
you got the school on time.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
So I call Waller Dentton and he.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
Said he picked me up.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
On his way over to school to pick you up.
But then he called back and said his card broken down,
he had to walk to school, and when he tried
to phone you all he kept getting with the busney signal.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So I took the bus over.
Speaker 10 (06:49):
Here to tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
And now we're both gonna.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Be late, and Daddy, you'll have our scout because mister
Stone is waiting to see you too.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
If that sentence doesn't win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You've been cheated.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Please, you've gotta call Daddy right away.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I've tried to Harriet, but we've got a party line
and their phone's been in use all morning.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
That's why Walter got a busy signal one. He called.
Then I'll give it another whirl.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
So we took the ticket's birth I have to roll.
Why be small for the sake of a few dollars.
If Elsie wants to be that way, that's her business.
Grace Gibble is different, even if it's work rappling off
at you a Hudson. I'd rather be opening above board
than do anything.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Else except talk.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Oh, hang on a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
We're your birtha.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
I have to put up my pot roats now. That's
like it at least once a week to night's the night.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Hang on just a minute, Please don't go away. I
could going away.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
I'll just sit and drink a cook and you get
to meet one grave.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Hi, honey.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
This way we'll keep the connection open between us. I'm
on a party line, you know, And boy, can those
people who share this phone with us shoes a breeze? Okay, Carol, Oh, sad.
Before you go, I'll give you a little tips. Have
you got any day leaves home?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, you got a lot of dai leaves home. Yeah,
let's stick him in your mouth and jump in the
stove with the pop round. Come in, it's me, mister Conklin,
Miss Brooks.
Speaker 11 (08:25):
Well, nice of you to drop in on us. Miss Brooks,
just happened to be in the neighborhood, did you.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I know I'm late, mister Conklin.
Speaker 11 (08:35):
You had a nine o'clock appointment in this office with
mister Stone.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Do you know what time it is now.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Miss Brooks, after nine thirty?
Speaker 11 (08:43):
Yes, it is after nine thirty.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It's ten forty.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Please, mister Conklin, I can explain if.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
You'll just let it's too late for explanations.
Speaker 11 (08:56):
Mister Stone has left.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
But he'll be back. Wondy he hasn't a same if
I'd have done anyone else.
Speaker 11 (09:01):
Fortunately for you, Miss Brooks, mister Stone happens to be
an extremely fair minded individual. He's leaving for the state
capital at seven o'clock this evening, but has promised to
call you on the phone between six and six thirty.
On the phone, Yes, confidentially, Miss Brooks, in spite of
the steady stream of irritance with which you pepper my
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otherwise prosaic life, my integrity forced me to recommend you
rather highly for this position.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Oh thank you, mister Conkor.
Speaker 11 (09:29):
I The important thing to mister Stone is the availability
and cooperative spirit of the person he chooses. That is,
if you are going to be head of a department,
you'll probably want to know how accessible you can make
yourself to the other teachers.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
He had a talk to mister Boynton. I mean, er,
it's very nice of you to tell me all this,
mister Conkhan.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
But if my getting this job depends on mister Stone
reaching me on the phone tonight, I'm afraid I'm still
out of the running.
Speaker 11 (09:55):
What do you mean, I'm on.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
The party line that won't quit. They're constantly using the phone.
You'll never get through to me.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Then have your party line chain call the telephone company
and tell them you want a different party line.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
What a wonderful suggestion, mister Conklin. I'll do it right
after my last morning class. I'll call the phone company
and ask for a new party line and.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
A long chord. A long cord. What for that? So
if they don't give me the new party line. I
can hang Grace and Bertha.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
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Speaker 4 (11:58):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
When lunch time rolled around, I called the telephone company
and was quite chagrined to learn that they couldn't possibly
change my party line by the same evening. So I
determined to put into effect Plan X, which decoded meant
operation I'll face the people and ask them to keep
off the line from six to six thirty. I told
Walter Denson about my scheme when I ran into him
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in the school cafeteria. I can't tell you all the details, Walter,
but it's absolutely essential that my phone is clear this evening,
and there's only one way I can accomplish it.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Will you help me now?
Speaker 9 (12:34):
As always, Miss Brooks, my sword, my heart, and my
life were dedicated to your service.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Thanks Walter. Now pick up your jacket. I can step
over that puddle of chicken broth. Sit down here a minute, Walter,
and I'll tell you what I'd like.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You to do for me. Okay, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
First of all, I looked up the address of my
party line playmate, Grace Gribble, and I found out that
it's quite a distance from my place.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Hence i'd appreciate a lift.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
Well, I'd be happy to supply the lift, Miss Brooks,
But alas my chariot is at present reposing endurance vile.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Endurance vile.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
I last up the carburetor. I need the car's being prepared,
Miss Brooks. And that's why I couldn't get you this morning.
I hope you've forgiven me for that unseeming lapse.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
What did you have for lunch today? Is Shakespeare? Burger? Look,
wal what's wrong with the car?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I broke a little wire that's attached to the carburetor.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Well, it shouldn't take too long to have another wire
put in.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
No, but when the wire broke, it got tangled up
in the fan belt and ripped it to pieces.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Then all you need is a new wire and a
fan belt, not exactly.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
You see, when the fan belt hit the fan, it
flew out of its socket.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Then you need a new fan too.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Then when the fan flew into the radiator, the water
the wardens of the distributor and ruined it and the
spark plugs.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So all we need is a new fan belt, fan
radia or distributor and spark plug in.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
A new sign by the trolley tracks around the corner.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
A new sign.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
That's what I smacked into when I busted that little wire.
I promised the officer i'd replace the sign. What did
the sign say, Walter, safety zone? If I knew jiu jitsu,
you'd be lying across that steam table by now.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Look, I've got to get out to one forty.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Five Collier Drive today, Walder, that's where the Gribbles live.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Have you any suggestions?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (14:33):
Sure, I happen to know that mister Boynton just got
his car all fixed up. I was in the repair
shop when he paid his bill. Mister Boynton, that's right,
So oh, why don't you ask him to.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Drive you this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
This way you will not only get to your destination promptly,
but both you and mister Boynton will be in the
company of people who obviously mean much more to each
other than shows on the surface.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
So far, kill me. I love this type of boy.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Come in, well, it's miss Brooks. Come in.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Thanks, mister Barton. I'm glad I caught you before you
left for the day.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Oh, I was just tidying up the.
Speaker 12 (15:17):
Lab a bit I've had quite a job cleaning my
bunch and burner.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Oh, dirty flame.
Speaker 12 (15:27):
Something seems to be stuck here up there there it's out. Now,
what can I do for you, Miss Brooks?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You can drive me out to tile your avenue, mister Barton,
if you've got the time. You see, I'm expecting an
important call from mister Stone around six this evening, and
I've got to talk to the people who share the
party line on my telephone.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh do you know them, Miss Brooks?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Not personally, but they use the phone almost incessantly. And
mister Stone wants.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
To talk to me about my qualifications to head the
English Department.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
I just want to ask them to leave it free
between six and six thirty.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
I see, well, I'd certainly like to help you out,
Miss Brooks, but frankly, I'm on a budget.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I don't want you to buy me These people I
just want to lift to their house.
Speaker 12 (16:07):
You don't understand, Kylia Avenue is quite a way out now.
I've had to limit my gas consumption, as I told
you last night on the phone. If we go for
a ride tonights through the park, I won't be able
to use the car again until Monday.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
But this is very important, mister Boyton, I just.
Speaker 12 (16:20):
Oh is self disciplined. Miss Brooks. It isn't just the
money involved. Although I find by purchasing only three gallons
a week instead of four, I save eighty three cents
a month. When you add it up in a few years,
it comes to a pretty penny.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Believe me, mister Boyton.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Saving a pretty penny may be fun, but you can
also get a kick out of spending an occasional ugly quarter.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
If it's just a question of gas rationing, suppose I
replace whatever gas is used up?
Speaker 12 (16:53):
Please, Miss Brooks? Are you suggesting that I take money
from a woman?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
No gas?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
No, No, it's out of the question, all right, And
I'll let you pay for it.
Speaker 12 (17:04):
Well, that's not the solution either. It's a matter of
principle with me. If I throw my budget out the
window this time, I'll be tempted to do it again.
Thing like that can become habit for me, don't you see,
miss Brooks. Spending money as a disease.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Or don't make out your will yet you'll never catch.
Speaker 12 (17:18):
It, see, miss Brooks. You you make me feel as
if you think I'm cheap.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh, not at all, mister Boyton. You're a very ready
man with a budget. But don't worry about it. I'll
get out there some way. I've still got my good
right thumb and a pair of uncomfortable old.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Shoes on my aching feet.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Miss Brooks. Yes, mister Boyton, I've just been stalling. I'm
flat broke.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Welcome aboard.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
You.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
See. The truth of the.
Speaker 12 (17:51):
Matter is I spent my last six dollars getting the
car repaired, and I just haven't enough money to put
any gas in this afternoon. But I'll tell you what.
I'll borrow a couple of times. Us and one of
the other teachers. Now, don't you worry. I'll get you
out there some way.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
If I've said it once, I've heard it a thousand times.
There's no sense in both of us worrying.
Speaker 12 (18:20):
Well, here we are, Miss Brooks, one forty five Collier Avenue.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
If you don't mind, I'll.
Speaker 12 (18:24):
Wait out here in the car while you talk to
the Gribbles.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
All right, mister Boyne, I'll just be a few minutes. Yeah,
come on, Oh, yes, ma'am, mister Gribble, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I'm miss Brooks. I share the party line on your
telephone with you. There's something I'd like to speak to
you and missus Gribble about.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Oh well, come in, miss Brooks wrote down here in
the living room.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
My wife will be out in a minute. She's on
the telephone.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Naturally, I beg your pan nothing, mister Gribble. Do you
see the the reason I dropped over is to ask
a little favor. I've always tried to be a good
party line neighbor.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Oh so William's Brooks. I don't see any reason why
people on a party line should get into.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Hassles, do you. Well? I believe if you just.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Respect one another's privacy, everything.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Or work got fine.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Well a minute, we pick.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Up the receiver.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
If we hear another voice that somebody's dialing, we hang
right up.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That's fine, mister Gribble, so do I. But missus Gribble
is on the phone quite a bit, and tonight I'm
expecting a terribly important call between six and six thirty,
and I wonder if you could sort of keep off
your phone until I've talked to my party.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
I don't see why we can work something not. I'll
talk to Grace about it right now. Pardon me just
one minute.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You know how healthy is Bertha. Some people you just
can't reason. Grace.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Grace comes, I'm talking, Gud.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
I told Elsie, let's sleeping dogs lay there. Why don't
you but you think she'd listen?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Hey, Grace, we got company.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Tell Bertha you'll talk to her later on company.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Listen, Bertha, hang on, will you I'll be.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Back in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Who is it, Gud?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
It's the young lady who shares our party line. Grace.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Come on and I'll introduce you, Miss Brooks. This is
my wife, Grace. How do you do? I'll do, Miss Brooks.
I'm sorry if I disturbed your conversation.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
That's all right, Bertha, don't mind hanging on. She waits
for a half hour sometime. She's very loyal that way.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Miss Brooks wants to ask a favor Grace about telephone.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Well, I'm expecting a terribly important call tonight, missus Gribble
between six and six.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Point thirty from mister Boynton. Mister Bournon, Why no, But
how did you and that Boynton? He ain't got much
get up and go in him? Has he?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Please, missus Gribble, eye just for your ride around the
park tonight.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
The park, did you glad? Week it was the zoo.
This week it's the park. Doesn't he ever take you
any place that costs money? Listen, Missus Gribble, Mister Boynan
isn't cheap. It's just that he's a school teacher too,
and well we enjoy going to the places we go
to when we go to them. English teacher should talk
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better alone. God, she's a little excited.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Listen, miss Brooks, I think you're a very considerate person.
Believe me, when you offered to chip in for the
movies last Wednesday night when boy and said he was
a little short, it was very touching. I was so
thrilled I almost.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Hung up, and I thought I was living alone.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
That reminds me. How's Missus David.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Missus Davis. That's some doctor she has.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
When she called him up with that sore throat last Monday,
it didn't take twenty minutes and he.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Was phoning his exchange from your plate. I haven't seen
Missus Davis since this morning. Missus Gribble. Tell me how
she's feeling today. Oh, she's one hundred percent better. Good
now the phone, I was all at the phone.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Oh, I better get back to Bertha. I want to
tell her how good my pot roads turned out.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
She was kidding me about it this morning, Dick the
bay leaps in my mouth, she says. But missus Gribble
about tonight, mister Gribble, I just got to have a
clear line on my phone this evening.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Well, let's be honest, miss Brooks. If you want a
clear line on your phone, ever, you better get another
party to share it with.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
But I tried, mister Gribble. The phone company said they
can't do anything about it.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Right now.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
You didn't speak to the right people. My brother Bill
works for the phone company. Bill Gribble, Yeah, talk to him,
Tell him I sent you, and you'll get a new
party line in a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Really, mister Gribble, Oh that's wonderful. But before I go,
there's something else i'd like to ask you.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yes, ma'am, if you have a.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Brother working at the telephone company, why can't you wangle
yourself a private line?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Oh, confidentially, we'll like it better.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
This.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
The party line is a great relaxation, you see, Miss Brooks,
we haven't got a television set.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Mister Gribble, you said you believe in respecting people's privacy
I do.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Did you ever hear me join one of your personal conversations?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
What time is it now, missus.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Davis seventy fifteen Camels.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I can't understand why mister Stone didn't call.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Did the phone company change a party line?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
From Madison four or five eight seven to Madison sixty
three one nine Without Grace gribble. It couldn't possibly have
been busy from six to six thirty inclusive.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Maybe mister Conklin heard from mister Stone. I'll give him
a ring.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
So I looked out the window and there was mister
Poynton in the car.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Bertha, he's a dream gripple. What are you doing on
this line?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Hello, miss brook The phone company told me i'd be
sharing the line with a new number, Madison sixty three
one nine.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Madison sixty three one nine. Well he isn't fast nice
that's Bertha's number.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Oh Grace, this is just dandy?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
What's Dandy Coney?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Instead of having Grace who's always talking to Bertha.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I now have Bertha who's always talking to Gray.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Eve Arden is our Miss Brooks returns in just a moment.
Speaker 13 (24:39):
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Speaker 13 (25:33):
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Speaker 1 (25:50):
And now, once again, here is our Miss Brooks.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Well.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I was feeling pretty low about missing mister Stone's call,
and I told mister Boynton as much when he phoned
me at eight o'clock.
Speaker 12 (26:01):
Don't worry about it, Miss Brooks. I'm sure mister Stone
will be back in town soon. You can have your
interview with him. Then I suppose you cheer up and
we'll go to a movie.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (26:09):
Oh, come on, miss Brooks. I barred enough to show
us a real nice time, but.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I don't really feel like a movie.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Please, Miss Brooks, come on, Miss Brooks. Yeah, who is that?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
That's my party line? Neighbor Bertha Bertha, mister Boynton, mister Boynton, Bertha.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Oh, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Tout more?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Mister Poyt.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I'm crazy about your voice.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I don't understand who is this?
Speaker 6 (26:41):
This?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Mister Boynton is Madison SIXS three one nine. That's right,
mister point like you a number, he's a restricted number.
We don't give him out about that movie, mister Boyton.
I'm second thought. I'll be happy to go with you,
so I please hang out. What movie did you have
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in mind? Mister Barton?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Well, any number can play.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
So why can't I go along?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Sarry Bertha?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Any number can play is only on the screen in
the balcony.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
It's strictly one to a customer.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Next week, cunning to another ar Miss Brookshaw brought you
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by Al Lewis, with music by wilbra Hatch. Mister Boynton
is played by Jeff Chandler, Mister Conklin by Gail Gordon.
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Others in the night's cast were Jane Morgan, Dick Cronnag,
Gloria McMillan, Joseph Kerns, Lucille Meredith, and sondragold.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
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Speaker 1 (28:28):
Most of our schools remain understaffed, overcrowded, handicapped by buildings
and equipment of inferior quality, and all of these conditions
undermine the morale of teachers, teachers in whose keeping rests
the future of the rising generations of American citizens. There
is a continuing shortage of teachers themselves, reflecting the fact
that educational crisis is still with us. You can help
by taking an active part yourself in parent teachers organizations
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and local educational groups. Remember, our teachers mold our nation's future,
and in that future you have a vital stake or
mystery liberally sprinkled with laughs. Listen to mister and Missus
North Tuesday evening over most of these same stations, and
be with us again next week at the same time
or another comedy episode of our Miss.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Brooks Bob Lemon speaking.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
This is a semi as for only a broadcast inst
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episode of Our Miss Brooks, written by al lewis Well.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Most of us have.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Our good days and our bad days, and our Miss Brooks,
who teaches English at Madison High School, is no exception
to this rule.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
They say there are days when it doesn't pay you
to get out of bed. Well, last Friday, when my
rent was due, was just such a day for my Landlady,
Missus Davis. I brought the subject up as soon as
we had started to eat breakfast. I'm terribly sorry, Missus Davis,
but I'm afraid I have some bad.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
News for you. It's about the rent.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
You mean last month's ring you haven't got it yet.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I mean this month's rand. I haven't got it again.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Square, don't worry about it here. How does that old
joke go again? There's no sense in both of us worrying.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
What I'm laughing about it. I'm broker than you are,
maybe so, Missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
But you don't owe you as much as I do.
But all hope isn't lost though. I found out this
week that I still have a chance to become head
of Madison's English Department.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Really.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
In fact, I'm supposed to have a meeting with mister
Stone of the Board of Education this morning where Connie
in the office of our beloved principle, mister Conklin.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I see, do you think mister Conklin will put in
a word for you?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
That's why I want to get there early.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I think I know the word, actually, though I'm not
too worried about mister Conklin's attitude toward my teaching ability.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Is it up to mister Stone to make the recommendation
for Madison's new headed the English Department.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yes, it is, and I understand that he won't recommend
any promotions without a personal interview. That's why I asked
Walter Denton to pick me up a little earlier this morning.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
He'll be here, Connie, and I know you'll get the position.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I hope so, missus Davis. You see, it isn't just
the honor involved. It's for cash. The promotion carries a
raise with it. Just think I'll be able to pay
you back the rent. I oh, buy some new clothes,
do my Christmas shopping, pick up a new winter coat,
maybe even put a down payment on a car.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Oh, that's wonderful, Connie. How much of the raise goes
with this job?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Two dollars a month, or maybe it's two dollars a week.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
To think of it, I might have to wait awhile
for the car.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Well, I'm very excited for you, Connie. I only wish
we could celebrate with a little more luxurious breakfast. Toast
and marmalade. Isn't very dealer. Oh, I don't know, not
much of that. I'm sorry to say. I tried to
call the market this morning, but our party line was
in use. In fact, it's almost always in you. Yes,
I know every woman named Grayson. She's always talking to
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a friend of her name, Bertha. It's so frustrating sometimes
when you want to make a call and every time
you pick up the phone someone's talking.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I know.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
They were talking about were than any importance. They just
go on and on and on and Miss Davis, you
think they get the idea though, after hearing my receiver
click computer.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Missus David, I'm no.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
They just go on chattering about nothing. Yack day, yucky day, yukita. Honestly,
sometimes I could missus.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
David, Yes, Sonny, if I the five cents for another
three minutes.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I'm sorry, dear, Yes, I got carried away. Get some
more coffee.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Thanks, I will, here's my cup. I wonder what's keeping
Walter Danzon my interview with mister Stones at nine sharp?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Really it isn't he thirty y's Connie, But if it'll
make you feel any better, why don't you give Walter.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
A ring good idea. Excuse me, believe me, Bertha.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
I'm not petty, but when Elsie pulled that stuff on
me about the tickets, I just had to open up
my yef and let her have it.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
It's the party line again, wouldn't you know it?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Just when I have to make a quick call, I'll
count ten and try again, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Eleven, twelve, even fifteen dollars? W all right.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
With that?
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Twenty bucks a couple, maloney, Oh this is awful.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Now take it easy, Connie. I'm sure Walter will get
you to school in plenty of time for your appointments.
Now I'm going to wash the dishes here. Why don't
you put your hat and coat on and be all
ready to leave?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
All right, Missus Davis. But first I'm going to try
this phone once more.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I told her, Bertha, listen, Elsie, I said, it isn't
my death, and I don't want.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
To do our full share.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
I said, we know this is a benefit of performance
and that it's.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
A good cause.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
But we weren't born yesterday.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I told that one, two, three, four.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I can't understand why Walter Denton isn't here yet, Connie.
It's almost ten minutes to nine. Too late to take
a bus.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It was too late to take the bus half an
hour ago. I'd take a cab if I had the money,
or if you had the money, have you, Missus Davis,
don't bother answering. I can tell by your face because
it only takes ten minutes to drive the school the
way Walter drives. But if he doesn't show up within
a minute or two, I'd better call mister Conkloran and
tell him I'll be a little late.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Then, when I'm all ready to forgive and forget, Bertha,
what do you think Elsie has the nerve to say
to me?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Will you please stop talking for just a minute.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Exactly, Bertha talking just a minute, she says, Will you.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Enter the front door, Tommie, I'm stacking the tea, all.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Right, missus Davis, hang on a minute.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Way of first, I think I hear my doorbell ringing.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
It's not your doorbell at ringing, it's oh, what's the use? Well,
it's about time. Oh it's Harriet Conklin. Come in, Harriet.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Thanks, miss Brooks. But what are you doing at home?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Miss Brooks?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
You should be on your way to school by now, sure,
should you, Harriet?
Speaker 8 (06:33):
I know it, But Daddy left the house early this
morning and asked me to be sure and see that
you got the school on time.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
So I call Waller Dentton and he.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
Said he picked me up.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
On his way over to school to pick you up.
But then he called back and said his card broken down,
he had to walk to school, and when he tried
to phone you all he kept getting with the busney signal.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So I took the bus over.
Speaker 10 (06:49):
Here to tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
And now we're both gonna.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Be late, and Daddy, you'll have our scout because mister
Stone is waiting to see you too.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
If that sentence doesn't win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You've been cheated.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Please, you've gotta call Daddy right away.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I've tried to Harriet, but we've got a party line
and their phone's been in use all morning.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
That's why Walter got a busy signal one. He called.
Then I'll give it another whirl.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
So we took the ticket's birth I have to roll.
Why be small for the sake of a few dollars.
If Elsie wants to be that way, that's her business.
Grace Gibble is different, even if it's work rappling off
at you a Hudson. I'd rather be opening above board
than do anything.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Else except talk.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Oh, hang on a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
We're your birtha.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
I have to put up my pot roats now. That's
like it at least once a week to night's the night.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Hang on just a minute, Please don't go away. I
could going away.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
I'll just sit and drink a cook and you get
to meet one grave.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Hi, honey.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
This way we'll keep the connection open between us. I'm
on a party line, you know, And boy, can those
people who share this phone with us shoes a breeze? Okay, Carol, Oh, sad.
Before you go, I'll give you a little tips. Have
you got any day leaves home?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, you got a lot of dai leaves home. Yeah,
let's stick him in your mouth and jump in the
stove with the pop round. Come in, it's me, mister Conklin,
Miss Brooks.
Speaker 11 (08:25):
Well, nice of you to drop in on us. Miss Brooks,
just happened to be in the neighborhood, did you.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I know I'm late, mister Conklin.
Speaker 11 (08:35):
You had a nine o'clock appointment in this office with
mister Stone.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Do you know what time it is now.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Miss Brooks, after nine thirty?
Speaker 11 (08:43):
Yes, it is after nine thirty.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It's ten forty.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Please, mister Conklin, I can explain if.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
You'll just let it's too late for explanations.
Speaker 11 (08:56):
Mister Stone has left.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
But he'll be back. Wondy he hasn't a same if
I'd have done anyone else.
Speaker 11 (09:01):
Fortunately for you, Miss Brooks, mister Stone happens to be
an extremely fair minded individual. He's leaving for the state
capital at seven o'clock this evening, but has promised to
call you on the phone between six and six thirty.
On the phone, Yes, confidentially, Miss Brooks, in spite of
the steady stream of irritance with which you pepper my
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otherwise prosaic life, my integrity forced me to recommend you
rather highly for this position.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Oh thank you, mister Conkor.
Speaker 11 (09:29):
I The important thing to mister Stone is the availability
and cooperative spirit of the person he chooses. That is,
if you are going to be head of a department,
you'll probably want to know how accessible you can make
yourself to the other teachers.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
He had a talk to mister Boynton. I mean, er,
it's very nice of you to tell me all this,
mister Conkhan.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
But if my getting this job depends on mister Stone
reaching me on the phone tonight, I'm afraid I'm still
out of the running.
Speaker 11 (09:55):
What do you mean, I'm on.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
The party line that won't quit. They're constantly using the phone.
You'll never get through to me.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Then have your party line chain call the telephone company
and tell them you want a different party line.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
What a wonderful suggestion, mister Conklin. I'll do it right
after my last morning class. I'll call the phone company
and ask for a new party line and.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
A long chord. A long cord. What for that? So
if they don't give me the new party line. I
can hang Grace and Bertha.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden will continue in just
a moment.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
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Speaker 4 (11:58):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
When lunch time rolled around, I called the telephone company
and was quite chagrined to learn that they couldn't possibly
change my party line by the same evening. So I
determined to put into effect Plan X, which decoded meant
operation I'll face the people and ask them to keep
off the line from six to six thirty. I told
Walter Denson about my scheme when I ran into him
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in the school cafeteria. I can't tell you all the details, Walter,
but it's absolutely essential that my phone is clear this evening,
and there's only one way I can accomplish it.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Will you help me now?
Speaker 9 (12:34):
As always, Miss Brooks, my sword, my heart, and my
life were dedicated to your service.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Thanks Walter. Now pick up your jacket. I can step
over that puddle of chicken broth. Sit down here a minute, Walter,
and I'll tell you what I'd like.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You to do for me. Okay, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
First of all, I looked up the address of my
party line playmate, Grace Gribble, and I found out that
it's quite a distance from my place.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Hence i'd appreciate a lift.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
Well, I'd be happy to supply the lift, Miss Brooks,
But alas my chariot is at present reposing endurance vile.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Endurance vile.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
I last up the carburetor. I need the car's being prepared,
Miss Brooks. And that's why I couldn't get you this morning.
I hope you've forgiven me for that unseeming lapse.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
What did you have for lunch today? Is Shakespeare? Burger? Look,
wal what's wrong with the car?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I broke a little wire that's attached to the carburetor.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Well, it shouldn't take too long to have another wire
put in.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
No, but when the wire broke, it got tangled up
in the fan belt and ripped it to pieces.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Then all you need is a new wire and a
fan belt, not exactly.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
You see, when the fan belt hit the fan, it
flew out of its socket.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Then you need a new fan too.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Then when the fan flew into the radiator, the water
the wardens of the distributor and ruined it and the
spark plugs.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So all we need is a new fan belt, fan
radia or distributor and spark plug in.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
A new sign by the trolley tracks around the corner.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
A new sign.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
That's what I smacked into when I busted that little wire.
I promised the officer i'd replace the sign. What did
the sign say, Walter, safety zone? If I knew jiu jitsu,
you'd be lying across that steam table by now.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Look, I've got to get out to one forty.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Five Collier Drive today, Walder, that's where the Gribbles live.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Have you any suggestions?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (14:33):
Sure, I happen to know that mister Boynton just got
his car all fixed up. I was in the repair
shop when he paid his bill. Mister Boynton, that's right,
So oh, why don't you ask him to.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Drive you this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
This way you will not only get to your destination promptly,
but both you and mister Boynton will be in the
company of people who obviously mean much more to each
other than shows on the surface.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
So far, kill me. I love this type of boy.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Come in, well, it's miss Brooks. Come in.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Thanks, mister Barton. I'm glad I caught you before you
left for the day.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Oh, I was just tidying up the.
Speaker 12 (15:17):
Lab a bit I've had quite a job cleaning my
bunch and burner.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Oh, dirty flame.
Speaker 12 (15:27):
Something seems to be stuck here up there there it's out. Now,
what can I do for you, Miss Brooks?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You can drive me out to tile your avenue, mister Barton,
if you've got the time. You see, I'm expecting an
important call from mister Stone around six this evening, and
I've got to talk to the people who share the
party line on my telephone.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh do you know them, Miss Brooks?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Not personally, but they use the phone almost incessantly. And
mister Stone wants.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
To talk to me about my qualifications to head the
English Department.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
I just want to ask them to leave it free
between six and six thirty.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
I see, well, I'd certainly like to help you out,
Miss Brooks, but frankly, I'm on a budget.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I don't want you to buy me These people I
just want to lift to their house.
Speaker 12 (16:07):
You don't understand, Kylia Avenue is quite a way out now.
I've had to limit my gas consumption, as I told
you last night on the phone. If we go for
a ride tonights through the park, I won't be able
to use the car again until Monday.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
But this is very important, mister Boyton, I just.
Speaker 12 (16:20):
Oh is self disciplined. Miss Brooks. It isn't just the
money involved. Although I find by purchasing only three gallons
a week instead of four, I save eighty three cents
a month. When you add it up in a few years,
it comes to a pretty penny.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Believe me, mister Boyton.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Saving a pretty penny may be fun, but you can
also get a kick out of spending an occasional ugly quarter.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
If it's just a question of gas rationing, suppose I
replace whatever gas is used up?
Speaker 12 (16:53):
Please, Miss Brooks? Are you suggesting that I take money
from a woman?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
No gas?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
No, No, it's out of the question, all right, And
I'll let you pay for it.
Speaker 12 (17:04):
Well, that's not the solution either. It's a matter of
principle with me. If I throw my budget out the
window this time, I'll be tempted to do it again.
Thing like that can become habit for me, don't you see,
miss Brooks. Spending money as a disease.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Or don't make out your will yet you'll never catch.
Speaker 12 (17:18):
It, see, miss Brooks. You you make me feel as
if you think I'm cheap.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh, not at all, mister Boyton. You're a very ready
man with a budget. But don't worry about it. I'll
get out there some way. I've still got my good
right thumb and a pair of uncomfortable old.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Shoes on my aching feet.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Miss Brooks. Yes, mister Boyton, I've just been stalling. I'm
flat broke.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Welcome aboard.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
You.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
See. The truth of the.
Speaker 12 (17:51):
Matter is I spent my last six dollars getting the
car repaired, and I just haven't enough money to put
any gas in this afternoon. But I'll tell you what.
I'll borrow a couple of times. Us and one of
the other teachers. Now, don't you worry. I'll get you
out there some way.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
If I've said it once, I've heard it a thousand times.
There's no sense in both of us worrying.
Speaker 12 (18:20):
Well, here we are, Miss Brooks, one forty five Collier Avenue.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
If you don't mind, I'll.
Speaker 12 (18:24):
Wait out here in the car while you talk to
the Gribbles.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
All right, mister Boyne, I'll just be a few minutes. Yeah,
come on, Oh, yes, ma'am, mister Gribble, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I'm miss Brooks. I share the party line on your
telephone with you. There's something I'd like to speak to
you and missus Gribble about.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Oh well, come in, miss Brooks wrote down here in
the living room.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
My wife will be out in a minute. She's on
the telephone.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Naturally, I beg your pan nothing, mister Gribble. Do you
see the the reason I dropped over is to ask
a little favor. I've always tried to be a good
party line neighbor.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Oh so William's Brooks. I don't see any reason why
people on a party line should get into.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Hassles, do you. Well? I believe if you just.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Respect one another's privacy, everything.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Or work got fine.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Well a minute, we pick.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Up the receiver.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
If we hear another voice that somebody's dialing, we hang
right up.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That's fine, mister Gribble, so do I. But missus Gribble
is on the phone quite a bit, and tonight I'm
expecting a terribly important call between six and six thirty,
and I wonder if you could sort of keep off
your phone until I've talked to my party.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
I don't see why we can work something not. I'll
talk to Grace about it right now. Pardon me just
one minute.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You know how healthy is Bertha. Some people you just
can't reason. Grace.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Grace comes, I'm talking, Gud.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
I told Elsie, let's sleeping dogs lay there. Why don't
you but you think she'd listen?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Hey, Grace, we got company.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Tell Bertha you'll talk to her later on company.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Listen, Bertha, hang on, will you I'll be.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Back in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Who is it, Gud?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
It's the young lady who shares our party line. Grace.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Come on and I'll introduce you, Miss Brooks. This is
my wife, Grace. How do you do? I'll do, Miss Brooks.
I'm sorry if I disturbed your conversation.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
That's all right, Bertha, don't mind hanging on. She waits
for a half hour sometime. She's very loyal that way.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Miss Brooks wants to ask a favor Grace about telephone.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Well, I'm expecting a terribly important call tonight, missus Gribble
between six and six.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Point thirty from mister Boynton. Mister Bournon, Why no, But
how did you and that Boynton? He ain't got much
get up and go in him? Has he?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Please, missus Gribble, eye just for your ride around the
park tonight.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
The park, did you glad? Week it was the zoo.
This week it's the park. Doesn't he ever take you
any place that costs money? Listen, Missus Gribble, Mister Boynan
isn't cheap. It's just that he's a school teacher too,
and well we enjoy going to the places we go
to when we go to them. English teacher should talk
(21:17):
better alone. God, she's a little excited.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Listen, miss Brooks, I think you're a very considerate person.
Believe me, when you offered to chip in for the
movies last Wednesday night when boy and said he was
a little short, it was very touching. I was so
thrilled I almost.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Hung up, and I thought I was living alone.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
That reminds me. How's Missus David.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Missus Davis. That's some doctor she has.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
When she called him up with that sore throat last Monday,
it didn't take twenty minutes and he.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Was phoning his exchange from your plate. I haven't seen
Missus Davis since this morning. Missus Gribble. Tell me how
she's feeling today. Oh, she's one hundred percent better. Good
now the phone, I was all at the phone.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Oh, I better get back to Bertha. I want to
tell her how good my pot roads turned out.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
She was kidding me about it this morning, Dick the
bay leaps in my mouth, she says. But missus Gribble
about tonight, mister Gribble, I just got to have a
clear line on my phone this evening.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Well, let's be honest, miss Brooks. If you want a
clear line on your phone, ever, you better get another
party to share it with.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
But I tried, mister Gribble. The phone company said they
can't do anything about it.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Right now.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
You didn't speak to the right people. My brother Bill
works for the phone company. Bill Gribble, Yeah, talk to him,
Tell him I sent you, and you'll get a new
party line in a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Really, mister Gribble, Oh that's wonderful. But before I go,
there's something else i'd like to ask you.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yes, ma'am, if you have a.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Brother working at the telephone company, why can't you wangle
yourself a private line?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Oh, confidentially, we'll like it better.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
This.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
The party line is a great relaxation, you see, Miss Brooks,
we haven't got a television set.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Mister Gribble, you said you believe in respecting people's privacy
I do.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Did you ever hear me join one of your personal conversations?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
What time is it now, missus.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Davis seventy fifteen Camels.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I can't understand why mister Stone didn't call.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Did the phone company change a party line?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
From Madison four or five eight seven to Madison sixty
three one nine Without Grace gribble. It couldn't possibly have
been busy from six to six thirty inclusive.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Maybe mister Conklin heard from mister Stone. I'll give him
a ring.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
So I looked out the window and there was mister
Poynton in the car.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Bertha, he's a dream gripple. What are you doing on
this line?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Hello, miss brook The phone company told me i'd be
sharing the line with a new number, Madison sixty three
one nine.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Madison sixty three one nine. Well he isn't fast nice
that's Bertha's number.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Oh Grace, this is just dandy?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
What's Dandy Coney?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Instead of having Grace who's always talking to Bertha.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I now have Bertha who's always talking to Gray.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Eve Arden is our Miss Brooks returns in just a moment.
Speaker 13 (24:39):
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Speaker 4 (24:44):
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Speaker 1 (24:48):
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Speaker 13 (25:33):
Dream Girl, Dream Girl, Beautiful luster cream Girl. You owe
your crowning glory too, a luster cream shampoo.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
And now, once again, here is our Miss Brooks.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Well.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I was feeling pretty low about missing mister Stone's call,
and I told mister Boynton as much when he phoned
me at eight o'clock.
Speaker 12 (26:01):
Don't worry about it, Miss Brooks. I'm sure mister Stone
will be back in town soon. You can have your
interview with him. Then I suppose you cheer up and
we'll go to a movie.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (26:09):
Oh, come on, miss Brooks. I barred enough to show
us a real nice time, but.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I don't really feel like a movie.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Please, Miss Brooks, come on, Miss Brooks. Yeah, who is that?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
That's my party line? Neighbor Bertha Bertha, mister Boynton, mister Boynton, Bertha.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Oh, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Tout more?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Mister Poyt.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I'm crazy about your voice.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I don't understand who is this?
Speaker 6 (26:41):
This?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Mister Boynton is Madison SIXS three one nine. That's right,
mister point like you a number, he's a restricted number.
We don't give him out about that movie, mister Boyton.
I'm second thought. I'll be happy to go with you,
so I please hang out. What movie did you have
(27:03):
in mind? Mister Barton?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Well, any number can play.
Speaker 7 (27:06):
So why can't I go along?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Sarry Bertha?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Any number can play is only on the screen in
the balcony.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
It's strictly one to a customer.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Next week, cunning to another ar Miss Brookshaw brought you
by Lust of Cream sample for soft, glamorous caressible hair
and Colgate Dantel cream to clean your breath while you
clean your teeth and help stop tooth decay. R Miss
Brooks starring Eve Arden, is produced by Larry Burns, directed
by Al Lewis, with music by wilbra Hatch. Mister Boynton
is played by Jeff Chandler, Mister Conklin by Gail Gordon.
(27:44):
Others in the night's cast were Jane Morgan, Dick Cronnag,
Gloria McMillan, Joseph Kerns, Lucille Meredith, and sondragold.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Man.
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Speaker 1 (28:28):
Most of our schools remain understaffed, overcrowded, handicapped by buildings
and equipment of inferior quality, and all of these conditions
undermine the morale of teachers, teachers in whose keeping rests
the future of the rising generations of American citizens. There
is a continuing shortage of teachers themselves, reflecting the fact
that educational crisis is still with us. You can help
by taking an active part yourself in parent teachers organizations
(28:50):
and local educational groups. Remember, our teachers mold our nation's future,
and in that future you have a vital stake or
mystery liberally sprinkled with laughs. Listen to mister and Missus
North Tuesday evening over most of these same stations, and
be with us again next week at the same time
or another comedy episode of our Miss.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Brooks Bob Lemon speaking.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
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